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I am sorry if this comes off as offensive to anyone, I'm not trying to be.
I don't get furries.
I also don't have to completely understand their ins and outs and complexities to know they're people who are worthy of respect for being other living people. (or non-people if they identify as non-people? Again I don't understand them as much as I probably should).
Regardless, shout out to all the furries out there who struggle with things I can't even imagine.
I’m cool with roleplaying as an animal person, wearing a costume, the fetish aspect, whatever. Live your life.
I just don’t understand why they’ve all standardized to using the same terrible art style. It doesn’t look like a human, an animal, or even a sonic character (which I assume is the root), but a fourth thing. You can tell a furry by how they draw a normal human because of how deep set the habits are. Is there any other group as exclusively committed to an art style?
If I spent that kind of money on a wolf costume I’d at least want it to vaguely look like a wolf.
Edit: If you think these don’t heavily share a style (as compared to anthropomorphic characters from non-furry animated series, for example) then I don’t know what to tell you.
That just isn't true. There are as many art styles in furry as there are outside of it. If you're talking about popular artists that's something different. But if you take one look around an artists alley you'll see more that's different than the same.
Not trying to be offensive but I seriously doubt there are “as many art styles” in the furry scene vs the entirety of art that isn’t furry…
Fair enough, it's kinda unknowable, maybe you can see furry as a subset of art movements and stuff in general. Point is, there's much more diversity than you might see on the surface. But it's hard for me to offer you something concrete because I'm speaking from my experience browsing many different social media sites and imageboards. Creatives are much more likely to be furries, or maybe it's the other way around, but the point is that the heart of the fandom is self-expression and art style is part of that, meaning there's a staggering diversity if you look under the surface.
A few random posts from artists I like that I think are doing something unique (I am not the most experimental person, but I have seen a LOT of furry art) https://bsky.app/profile/rosphix.bsky.social/post/3lk7mj3o3q22g https://bsky.app/profile/deceased-bunny.bsky.social/post/3lsm26gxui22k https://bsky.app/profile/acidicfundip.bsky.social/post/3lmx7v5nwtk2l https://bsky.app/profile/puppyywife.bsky.social/post/3lomgyjcfa22m https://bsky.app/profile/devilcandy.net/post/3loog7fqzec2a
(These are not specifically explicit, but many of the artists galleries may be)
That was just outta my bsky follows, I couldn't possibly claim to know every good artists or accurately represent the range of style with a list of links, but you get the idea. I'm biased just because of the type of art I like, anthro stuff is more my jam so.