My experience with furries is weird. But in a good way somehow.
I used to played Roblox alot before, and I still play it today, but less (I'm more on Roblox Studio now). One day forsome reason the algorithm recommended me "infectious smile", a PvP infection game where the infected could only smile and know "true happiness", and some more lore.
I loved the game, and ofc all of the internet algorithm started strategying on that.
Got recommended Kaiju Paradise a bit later (another PvP infection game), and guess what ? I loved it too !
I played a LOT on this game, even joined the discord server. The community was welcoming, it was really nice to play and they even made me like role-play (which I'd always despised). Really a good game that I'll recommend to everyone.
The catch ? Well the infected this time was called "gootraxians", but they were basically furries, and even some well know furries sometimes (like protogen). But I didn't really know what a furry was ! I got a vague definition of "cat ears, tail and bad connotation", and that's it...
Then it happened, Google algorithm somehow found out about my Roblox's preferences, and I got recommended on YouTube a let's play of the game "Changed" (if you know this game you know where this is going). I'd watched alot of let's play when I was little, so I was kinda nostalgic and watched it entirely. And WOW, this game that was claimed an "horror game" by the video, but I nearly cried at the end. Yep, I loved it, and I check steam to try it out.
And from there, everything went downhill.
The game was 10 bucks... Well, it wasn't free, sooo I'll have to bring it up to my mom, or find another way. But then I noticed that the average reviews were really low. Intrigued, I checked those reviews to see what's wrong :
"...bro I'm not a furry that was a bet ! ..."
"...too much suggestive scenes why ? ..."
"...this game had a lot of ayo scenes..."
"...really hate this game, it's for furries..."
"...those game over scenes are really disgusting..."
Huh ??!?
Re-checked the video, those guys were right. Suddenly my pov changed (ironic) in a really dark way. Maybe I was too innocent to think about that or smt, but now everything makes sense. I started understanding the concept of furries here, and why Kaiju Paradise says in this description that "this game isn't associated with any other game". The gameplay was clearly inspired by Changed, but there didn't wanted to be associated with them.
(Part 1)