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“Gay Furry Hackers” Claim Credit for Hacking Heritage Foundation Over Project 2025
(theintercept.com)
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They're kinda like anime fans, but their self-insert characters are all animal people.
The subculture traces back to a series of room parties at scifi conventions in the 80's, but didn't grow into its own until the internet got more common.
Wait, this is news to me. My understanding was that it began as effectively a kink with its associated community. Like, I think I recall it being pretty much strictly sexual in every way I heard of it for a long time. And then lately I see that it's more broad than that - the most clear example I have is when my kiddo's friend recently named it as one of the cliched "kid archetypes" at their high school, e.g. jock/goth/furry/etc. Maybe it was just never specifically sexual or maybe it's been through some evolutions.
I guess nerd had to be retired after every human under 50 started spending the majority of their time looking at an internet connected device.
It's always been more broad than that, the sexual aspects are just a lot more apparent than they are in the wider culture.
Talk to the staff at a convention hotel sometime and they'll tell you that the kinkiest group they serve are Dentists. They might look more professional at first, but they've got disposable income and nothing else to live for, so their room parties get wild.
That's interesting and I hadn't realized. It's not surprising, I guess, we people tend to latch onto the salacious bits (see the joke about "if you build 100 bridges do they call you Johnny the bridge builder?..."). And frankly "people like to dress up as animals and LARP as them" (and apologies if that's overly reductive to someone) just isn't all that interesting lol, like any other hobby I don't happen to be into.
Bit about the dentists makes perfect sense, haha. Bet the lawyers are about the same.
Def started as a 100 percent sexual thing but there's non sexual subgroups now a days. I believe Fredrick knulson has a into the rabbit hole documentary about it. If he doesn't, he's still worth a watch his videos are great.
Brother, you get a bunch of nerds into any subculture and it'll turn sexual fast. I'm sure there were plenty of spock eared sex parties.
Case in point: