UPDATE: can’t help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals
UPDATE: can’t help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals
I think you’ll need to be a little clearer about what you think the distinction is here. What is “animal roleplay” to you? Where are you seeing it being done?
Imma guess, like most things it seems, they always have been, we just see it more thanks to the internet.
This is an interesting point and makes me wonder: are there historical accounts of furries in history? I guess you could count things like werewolf stories, maybe, but that seems like a stretch…? I get the feeling I’m describing an existing field of study and hope there’s something to read about it?
Egyptians and native Americans dressed up as animals… Or maybe I’m very uneducated and this racist.
But does that count as “furry?” I guess? If so, then yeah, tons of furries throughout time. I don’t know enough about it. I guess I’m realizing I presume that furry is a sexual thing, which I think is probably incorrect? I don’t even know enough to be asking about it. I can recall plenty of examples of people looking back at historical figures and being like, “yep, definitely gay,” but I can’t recall any examples of, “yep, total furry.” That’s all I’m trying to say. I presume they must be out there.
Lots, this kind of thing goes back deep into pre-history. I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the oldest known sculpture is of a furry and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. Lots of gods and creatures of myth are human/animal hybrids of various sorts, or straight up animal spirits.
True. I feel like there must be a book out there. Because I’m secretly hoping for like…Socrates admitting he dressed as a hung fox or whatever (JUST AN EXAMPLE).
No. When i was growing up, never saw this ever and the internet was still around. This is something else
Dunno how old you are, but we got internet when I was about ten years old and lemme tell you it’s always been there.
Fredryk phox disagrees
There are photos of my grandparents dressing up as animals for carnival back when they were living under communist rule so before the Internet. I found them when I was clearing out their house bc they moved to a retirement home. And I think if my ancestors had the ability to make photos of everything they were doing I bet someone already did the same thing before them. And since festivities like carnival also come with an easy atmosphere and quite some alcohol consumption I would not be suprised if they also did some roleplaying if they were already wearing the costumes why not.
The Internet now just brings these communities together and makes them more visible I’d say
Um, no idea what you mean. 👉👈😅
The oldest known sculpture is of a furry, and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. We’ve been imagining what it’s like to not be human for as long as we’ve been human. Nothing weird about it unless people want to make it weird.
So a sculpture depicting a feline standing on it’s hind legs which they do when reaching up a tree is a furry to you?
Did you actually look at the image of the sculpture? It’s not reaching up. It’s just standing.
How about you all answer the question
Wild cats are known to stand for better perspectives when hunting, although rarely caught thats why that sculpture which by the way surely isn’t 40,000 is depicting the rare event. It’s not a furry lol
You have yet to present a particularly well-formed question for me to answer. You still haven’t even clarified your original post’s question, what exactly do you mean by people “role playing as animals?”
it seems like a huuuuge stretch to call either of those “furry art”.
Given that OP has ended with a complete lack of clarity in what his question actually means, I see no further point in discussing details like this.
Because the internet is full of furries. Which isn’t a bad thing it’s just people are judgemental as fuck and think being a furries is childish.
That’s not explaining why they are doing it
Because they can is a perfectly adequate reason.
Probably because humanity has become so pathetic. /S
I don’t think humanity is pathetic. What makes you say that?
[gestures broadly at everything]
It’s true, humans fighting humans just to reclaim borders from some point in the history. A country cheers on autocratic behavior of their leader. The planet itself is dying because humanity consumes more resources to than it can restore. The universe would do us a favor if the heat death happens sooner than prognosed.
Are you not an animal? Be you vegetable or mineral?
Appropriate answer: Escapism.
Lemmy answer: people want to fuck animals.
Where are ppl doing that?
Where?
Are you spending lots of time in VR chat roleplay servers?
I’m going to guess that it’s because most animals spend their days eating, sleeping, and fucking. Some of them don’t even “raise” their kids. They don’t have the same responsibilities that humans do. Animals are assumed to be innocent. It’s an idealized life.
I guess frogs are protesting against ICE. Hope this helps
People who have a fetish for domestication or infantilization usually have a desire to relinquish control in a controlled environment.
Sometimes I roleplay as an adult human animal.
