Internet Subculture Series: Furries, Why Cartoon Animals Get Sexualized, and Furry Coded Celebrities
🕑 Added 2024-08-08 21:00:05 +0000 UTCThis episode was a BLAST! Today we dove into the Furry Fandom online, how it came to be, the misconceptions and truth of furries, my experience at the Furry convention, why and how cartoon animals (especially female ones) are so sexualized, a furry conspiracy theory, and celebrities that are furry adjacent (to me, at least haha).
Also check out this article to see just how much animators sexualize female cartoon animals over male ones, once you see it, you can't unsee it! https://www.boredpanda.com/male-and-female-animals-in-animated-movies/
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agatha prado
I’m not a furry but Diego the bobcat from Ice Age is kinda hot
Lauren
Shannon please I beg you I need to hear your take on the It Ends With Us drama
Giuliette
This was so fun to listen to 🤩
Pink Plastique
LOVED this deep dive- this topic is so fascinating! I’ve been wondering for quite some time now, just how Furries and Bronies became such a strong culture. Especially Bronies. I’m so curious as to why that spoke to so many men and how it got such a massive subculture. It’s really cool to see men embracing MLP like that. Can’t wait for that episode!
Aimee
My friend is a detective and went undercover at a furry convention to catch sex offenders traveling outside their probation guidelines. Apparently a lot of sex offenders attend these things 😬
Andrea Paliani
I live in Grand Rapids Michigan and it is in fact true that public schools are dealing with furry culture. Meowing, barking, hissing at teachers, using litter boxes on the bathrooms, etc. it’s TRUE
Sophie Cowie
An old coworker of mine used to do video work of the balloon popping stuff and also.. sitting on cakes 🎂
Ginny
When I was in high school in the early 10s we had a group of kids that wore tails, collars, and ear headbands and they would hang out in the corner beneath the stairs all laying on top of each other! This was in a smallish town in northern Colorado
Elizabeth Nunez
Oml shannon PLS do an episode on the balloon thing. It was referenced on Bobs Burgers, AND it regularly comes up in reality dating shows. Love island and the bachelor franchise regularly do it. Yes its fun but is there smth more to it??? lets taaaalk
Skylar Little
Our brains are LINKED!!! Lmao furry culture has been a hot topic in my friend group lately. I can’t wait to listen!!!