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Why are some many people role playing as animals?

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Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨moonluna@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨nostupidquestions@lemmy.world⁩

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  • HubertManne@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Are they? Im partial to elven or half elven druids.

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    UPDATE: can't help but to notice not ONE of you have answered the question you just keep telling me about furries. I want an answer to why so many people are role playing as aninals

    I think you'll need to be a little clearer about what you think the distinction is here. What is "animal roleplay" to you? Where are you seeing it being done?

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  • chosensilence@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    …? you mean us furries? why are there so many furries? lol

    if so, the human fascination with animals is ancient. over time we began attributing human traits to their behaviors and started connecting to them on personal and spiritual levels. then when we started making art we depicting those anthropomorphic animals on cave walls.

    furries simply inhabit a persona (fursona) to express themselves behind the security of the confidence being that character gives them. a lot of us feel like our fursona is an ideal representation of ourselves. it helps us connect to our own personhood, strangely.

    it’s also fun and can be sexy if ya want.

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    • stinerman@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      I think it is interesting that relatively recently it became possible for furries to wear suits that allow them to express themselves in this matter. How many people throughout human history wished to be able to do this, but couldn’t because the “technology” simply wasn’t there.

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  • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re not talking about furries, then you’re gonna need to use more words to ask your question. Who is role playing animals, under what circumstances. Are you talking about a game? Are you making political commentary? Street Theater? Help us help you.

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    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      OH, are they maybe talking about all of the inflatable animal costumes worn by protesters in the US? There’ve been a lot of pictures of that recently due to the No Kings protest over the weekend.

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      • SaltSong@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Possible. I’d hardly call that role playing, but I could see it.

        OP should take the chance to clear that up for us.

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Imma guess, like most things it seems, they always have been, we just see it more thanks to the internet.

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is an interesting point and makes me wonder: are there historical accounts of furries in history? I guess you could count things like werewolf stories, maybe, but that seems like a stretch…? I get the feeling I’m describing an existing field of study and hope there’s something to read about it?

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      • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Egyptians and native Americans dressed up as animals… Or maybe I’m very uneducated and this racist.

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      • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lots, this kind of thing goes back deep into pre-history. I mentioned in another comment in this thread that the oldest known sculpture is of a furry and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. Lots of gods and creatures of myth are human/animal hybrids of various sorts, or straight up animal spirits.

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    • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No. When i was growing up, never saw this ever and the internet was still around. This is something else

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      • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Dunno how old you are, but we got internet when I was about ten years old and lemme tell you it’s always been there.

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      • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There's been furry content on the Internet since before the World Wide Web was invented.

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      • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Fredryk phox disagrees

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  • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Um, no idea what you mean. 👉👈😅

    The oldest known sculpture is of a furry, and the oldest known cave painted art is furry art. We've been imagining what it's like to not be human for as long as we've been human. Nothing weird about it unless people want to make it weird.

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    • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So a sculpture depicting a feline standing on it’s hind legs which they do when reaching up a tree is a furry to you?

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      • FaceDeer@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Did you actually look at the image of the sculpture? It's not reaching up. It's just standing.

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  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m a squirrel… no further questions

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    • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Being savvy enough to be on the Internet must mean you have a helluva nut collection!

      You buy special nuts from around the globe?

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      • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sure, I “buy” them

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  • magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m going to guess that it’s because most animals spend their days eating, sleeping, and fucking. Some of them don’t even “raise” their kids. They don’t have the same responsibilities that humans do. Animals are assumed to be innocent. It’s an idealized life.

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  • toomanypancakes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you spending lots of time in VR chat roleplay servers?

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because the internet is full of furries. Which isn’t a bad thing it’s just people are judgemental as fuck and think being a furries is childish.

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    • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s not explaining why they are doing it

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      • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Because they can is a perfectly adequate reason.

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      • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Because we find it enjoyable; what more reason does anyone need to engage in an activity?

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  • WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably because humanity has become so pathetic. /S

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    • moonluna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think humanity is pathetic. What makes you say that?

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      • dbx12@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        It’s true, humans fighting humans just to reclaim borders from some point in the history. A country cheers on autocratic behavior of their leader. The planet itself is dying because humanity consumes more resources to than it can restore. The universe would do us a favor if the heat death happens sooner than prognosed.

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      • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        [gestures broadly at everything]

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  • remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean, most role playing will be as other humans, and we are animals. So that explains most.

    After that I feel it’s mostly mammals. I guess it’s easier the more similar the animal?

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  • kip@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one on the internet. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches

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  • loomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I guess frogs are protesting against ICE. Hope this helps

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  • Satellaview@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It lets you view modern life from outside.

    Which of the things we do every day are truly necessary? When you remove something or add another, what happens to the greater shape of society? What do our relationships to each other look like without cars, without jobs, without money? What might take their place?

    What does it mean to be sentient? What does it mean to be human? What’s the shape of the gap between those two things?

    I find it philosophically entertaining.

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  • Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Where?

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