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Furries & Omegaverse: Why Are They So Popular?
In this episode, we dive deep into the world of furries, examining statistics, incidents, and stereotypes surrounding the furry community. We discuss a chlorine gas leak at a furry convention, the financial aspect of fursuits, and societal perceptions of furries. We also explore the growing trend of Omegaverse fiction, its appeal, and its comparison to the furry fandom. The discussion delves into anthropological aspects, psychological perspectives, and the intersection with other subcultures. The episode addresses parental concerns, societal norms, and the evolving nature of digital communities.
Speaker: [00:00:00] You're too late. Our spread has already begun. The planet will fall, just like every other before it. I understand, you were a human once. But you were once called
Speaker 2: DON'T YOU SAY THAT NAME! DON'T YOU SAY IT! I'm Strong Fang now! First in my name! My power knows no bounds! I can even almost blow myself! Watch.
Malcolm Collins: Hello, Simone. Today, we are going to do a deep dive into furries because recently I came across some, some furries statistics on furries that dramatically changed my conception of the phenomenon.
Speaker 8: The Chicago Tribune, 19 people were hospitalized at a furry convention in Illinois after what's being called an intentional leak of chlorine gas. What's a furry convention? Did I get that wrong? Oh gosh. Okay. Officials were called when I spoke. [00:01:00] Strong overflorines. What? Spread them.
Speaker 12: I think they had to evacuate the building and everything. Set the hotel guests, along with convention attendees, into the cold night. Many still dressed in their furry, furry costumes. We have a lot of costumers out here with big, fluffy costumes that'll keep people warm. So at this point, we're not at all worried.
Speaker 10: So we've been pulling people into a, like, a cuddle to like warm this baby. Thank you. And giving her our jackets and blankets. Yes. We just told Mika what the convention was about. She's Costumes kept everybody warm was the good news. The hotel was contaminated. Where you going? Hey! Guests came back and died at 4 a.
Speaker 12: m. Please still come back. The matter is a criminal case. Could you check? Could you check on me? Because he's just okay. She's over there somewhere.
Malcolm Collins: Okay. We talked about them before in like super early episodes, but I'm really glad to be coming back to it, especially after how much fun we [00:02:00] had doing the weird subcultures episode focused on which is steal people's fear. Check out that episode because now there's a new fear that pronatalists are stealing people's penises in Africa.
And, and some people might be like, why would I engage in sort of what they may see as weird fetish territory, right? Like, why is it important to understand this stuff as our society increasingly descends into more. You could say moral degeneracy and there are a number of reasons probably the biggest is if you have kids
Stuff like this is going to have a very different role in their life than it had in your life because what furries fundamentally represent for a lot of people is the idea that they can portray a different and pseudonymous personality and build relationships around the pseudonymous personality The problem being is that fursuits cost 10, [00:03:00] 000.
Well, like, you know, I'd say like, what does it say here? Between two and 10, 000. So furries are funnily pretty loaded. The ones who like get super into it. And this is
Simone Collins: something that came up at last year's natal con that when we were talking about, well, what segments of the population are otherwise socially isolated, but really incompetent.
Aside from autists, cause everyone had realized that the conference was
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