yeah. the thing about our modern democrazy is that ten screamers can drown out a hundred normal people. our society has lost all sense of decency, respect, and shame, or at least a good portion (>10%) of it has.
--- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, "jmhcustomart2004" <a_change_of_plans@...> wrote:
>
> I can agree that the fandom does seem to have attracted a larger-than-usual number of oddballs over the past 10 years or so. As Rick stated, everything's probably relevant.
>
> I think some of this recent stuff is why I've been working on changing my style and art direction. The fandom used to have a lot of interesting sci-fi stories and shit like that. Now it's nothing but video-game-playing-bi-curious-college-roomates-fucking-pokemon-while-having-emotional-outbursts bullshit. I don't want to be associated with any of that crap, and that's why I think I'm changing my work. Guilty by association and all that (something I want to avoid).
>
> There are still good folks in the fandom, but most of them tend to be the old-timers, before all the high-schoolers jumped from the anime bandwagon onto the furry flotilla. Look around; you'll find some decent folks who aren't nutjobs and still retain a pretty good grip on reality. They just tend to stick to the shadows these days and likely aren't as vocal as the screaming mimis are.
>
> --JMH
>
>
> --- In SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com, Rick Pikul <chakatfirepaw@> wrote:
> >
> > On Thursday 24 December 2009 02:27, fgdg54gff wrote:
> > > Also, what happened to the furry fandom? It use to be a cute and a
> > > beautiful thing, then it somehow got overrun with freaks. I know there are
> > > still normal furries out there, and normal artist that draw normal art, but
> > > it seems to have been drowned out by all the freaks.
> >
> > While the absolute number of relative oddballs has gone up, that's only
> > because the total population has grown by even more. Look at FA, the vast
> > majority of the content is quite normal and not even mature content. Sure
> > there's a lot more of the strange stuff than there was back when Avatar and
> > abp(e)f were the only online sources, there's also more stuff posted in a day
> > now than there was in a week then.
> >
> > If your worry is that 'the freaks are taking over the fandom', relax: It
> > isn't happening and the closest it even did come to happening was well over a
> > decade ago. If your worry is that 'the freaks aren't hiding themselves in
> > the closet', get over yourself: The people who rant about the existence of
> > sub-groups they don't like have done far more damage to the fandom than
> > the 'freaks' ever could.
> >
> > --
> > Chakat Firepaw - Inventor & Scientist (Mad)
> >
>
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