Modern furries vs O.G. furries. We were happier, too.

Me who prefers being a human

Nothing wrong with that, though in our defense, it's not that we necessarily wanted to be anything but human. It was more like playing Dungeons and Dragons, or any MMORPG. Just making a character and doing stuff while interacting with others who're into the same thing.

It wasn't an "identity" like they have nowadays.

Oooohh! Ok ok.. NORMAL RP THO RIGHT? None of that.. shit

I meant it was a similar concept. When it comes to the roleplay you're thinking of, most of us didn't do any roleplay of any kind. We just made characters because we like anthro animals and got art of our characters doing things we liked.

There wasn't much actual roleplay, whether clean or NSFW. It was more like two Harry Potter fans getting a street artist to draw them as wizards, then every time a new movie came out, they'd have themselves drawn doing something related to said movie.

Ok :) 👍

Shower though :
Technically the 2 sided biological gender are specific to alot of species, but not all. That means that some species have more biological gender or none.
So, that mean that if you make an OC that isn't human or even a known species, you can make it biologically genderless, and it would be correct.

Yeah, we didn't care for that kind of technical crap. None of that stuff mattered. Sure there were a few hermaphroditic characters, but for the most part our characters were original and unique just from being ours. That's why you'd have 50,000 grey wolves and 30,000 red foxes with very few traits that stood out to anyone besides ourselves and our friends, just like in real life.

Furries in recent history have been taught to do two things: overthink stuff and try to be unique. Neither of those were the point. The point was to be yourself with an animal you liked and just have fun. You don't need to be overly-flamboyant to be yourself. You do plenty in real life just by wearing a band t-shirt and playing games with your friends.

That's explains alot of what I see nowadays.
And yeah ik we've all into lego figurines fight with omega powers but now I prefer simple character with a logical backstory psychology-wise (doesn't mean NOT fantasy tho >:)

And they're so much of my OCs that are just similar to me in another universe, like I wanted to test myself into some rough conditions and epic fights and thought choices an-
Wait what was I talking about again ?

You don't even need to have a psychological backstory... or any kind of backstory.
You could literally just say you like medieval stuff and swords, so you made your favorite animal into a medieval blacksmith or a knight.

Many characters were just an animal we liked doing things that we enjoyed. That's it.

A bit out of subject but funni

honestly, most everyone should have a backstory, and no one puts pride shit on their fursona 💀

You dislike that peolple want their sonas to have hair styles? pronouns? wdyem by multiple genders, they're all m/f/h. Horns? What do you have against horns? haha. And new/unnatural species/hybrid being 'bad' is just not a valid statement. Idk where you've been for the last 15 years but none of that shit is 'new' plus I know many young furs w/ naturally colored fursonas 😅

Please don't respond with a 5 paragrah essay. Theres no need to argue the basic structure of fursona making or critsize ANYONE for their prefered species or 'add-ons' to their fursona. It's all in good fun and you're kind of ruiuning it.

P.S. please stop blabbing about o.g, furries because we know you guys only cared about yiff and things even worse.

If you don't want me to respond with an essay, why argue with another essay?

You say "most everyone SHOULD." I'm saying "they DON'T NEED to."

The basis of my argument was that you and other furries today believe you need to overcomplicate things, and even believe you need to find every way to represent yourself and show how unique you are, when in reality, you don't need to. I'm saying that we never cared because it wasn't about representation or standing out. It was about fun, hence why you'd have a group of dudes named Mike who had a plain red fox as their fursona playing Smash Bros. at a furry convention. Nowadays, I don't see people bonding like that, and the ratio of natural pelts compared to flamboyant ones, as well as extra features like horns and wings, appears to be similar to the ratio of mature art to clean art: 99 to 1.

Also if we only cared about yiff and things, the fandom would be much, much larger because we would not have left. Must I refer back to the argument where I literally counted pieces on e621 (which you shouldn't have been on in the first place)?

The smart win my good sir, most always. That's all I have to say

Smart people read. You repeatedly refused to.
And you say you're in college at only 14 years old because you're "smort."

Uh I read most recently I've been reading Mark trains adventures of Tom Sawyer

You mean *Twain
If you're willing to read a book, why do you repeatedly refuse to read a couple of paragraphs when someone's talking to you?