What politics?
We don't talk about that crap here

Sounds like mythology of ancient Egypt

Ah yes... those fabled old days when those notably non-political old furs like J__ G____ were major players.

wut

I really miss the <blink> tag. It would have been so good for putting SATIRE under posts.

I spent part of a night listening to  rabbi-tom and  marmelmm talking about the early fandom and conventions past.

There has always been drama.

It’s a nerd fandom staple!

So much nerd drama, aaaaaaa *peers at the Whovian fandom* AAAAAAA *flee*

Yes but it wasnt as spiteful or as nasty like on twitter with the cancel mob

just my personal opinion here, but the reason IMNSHO (in my not so humble opinion) that twatter is so toxic is no one gets punched in the face for being a douche canoe...

Usually the troublemakers dont attend cons or if they do they hide in their posse

I don't have a posse, but I've been attacked FREQUENTLY by people who do have them.
personally I'm a fan of "If you wouldn't say that to my face, don't say it online"

so when I call some twatwaffle a 'Cock Biting Fucktard' Yes I would say that to their faces.

Far too often, people are quick to judge quick to anger, but slow to understand.

*knods knods* people have been judging me my entire life, so I get that
I'm not exactly slow to understand, but I do need a moment to wrap my head around a new concept.
I'm Fairly slow to anger, but when I DO get angry, I do NOT cool off quickly.

I'm just stating my opinion here, I'm not mad at anyone... except that person that asked a question that I tried to answer, but they have me blocked... I'd never even SEEN them before and they have me Blocked. (No Names Mentioned)

cancel mob? lol

Y'all never tangled with burned furs, clearly

do I even want to know?

Gah, I still remember the war between the burned and frozen furs... What I totally miss, though, was when a line of furries (probably otters) were parading around the con, holding up a cup high in the air and calling out "FIIIIISH!!!" ^.^

I learned what the "burned furs" were, but who are "frozen furs"?

https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Freezing_Furs it's been a while :p

I love that 'grandpa' is a standard fox, and the kid is a.. oddly coloured I-don't-know-what. :}

Trends change! Just like fashion.

"The good ol days"
Do you really mean you miss the days you were oblivious to things?

You said it yourself, and personally I agree

Furries For Bob Dole, now those were some crazy motherfuckers.

Even 21 years ago when I first discovered the Transformation niche... Yeah. Flame war. Flame war never changes.

Every time someone tries to claim there were 'no politics' at a certain time or place they were either too young to notice them or weren't affected directly by them.

Best way to put this kind of mindset, I find, is: They don't miss when things were better, they miss when they knew less. That cartoon/game/movie you say was better? You just didn't know as much about everything around it. You were a kid, you just thought "wow, cool thing!" but now you can't just see it that way.
They don't miss the thing, they miss their younger self.
(Or they are just bigots, either or)

Is that the real reason people crave the 90s?

I wanna go back to the 70's

no celphones, no internet, 12 channels of TV, rabbitears instead of cable, and old school bullying
IF I knew back then what I know now... I would have gotten into a LOT more fist fights

Yeah, well, look up 'Burned Furs'.

Aha! Where the heck do the Kits these days get these silly ideas? (Off the Internet, of course!)

Well some of this might actually be that they weren't in nearly as deep as they are now. It felt like the people I talked with in the past, we could talk about anything and pretty much no problem. But feels like something changed within the last several years, that now you can't even talk about star wars without someone jumping down your throat. But thats just a theory. And everyone just lost the game.

People's skin in general seems to have gotten a lot thinner, regardless of political or social views. Or even outside of stuff like that - gamers will fly off the handle if things literally aren't perfect, people will rip movies to shreds over slight plot holes... it's exhausting.

I think the whole reason they do it is so they can go on a power trip, since they lack any real, discernable power themselves.

You're probably right. Also echo chambers where any dissenting opinion is chased out or silenced.

That too.

just realized they are wearing suits... and they don't just have happy dead glassy eyes....

Oh yes, politics and drama have always existed in the fandom so I dunno where those people got that from, I can think of many situations from 2004 to 2006 that had lots of juicy drama.

Though, I do have to mention that often times people also use this as an excuse to then insert said drama & politics into everywhere even where it doesn't belong. To put this in simple terms: Someone taking their pants of in a strip-club is expected but I'd advice against doing it in church. :P

I also agree with Triskavanski here, compared to what I remember from 'ye olde days' people have gotten more malicious and pettier than in the years before; in the past there would be drama, yeah but people would talk about it for a week or two and afterwards it would've mostly died down or the people in question would've patched things up. Nowadays, all it takes is for an answer or a sentence to be taken out of context and you're branded forever or put on a list somewhere... so yeah, it has gotten out of hand.

nostalgia isn't what it used to be, kid...

There was a lot more open zoophillia and Nazi uniforms. So I mean if that was your thing yeah I can see it being kind of a bummer now.

Eeeeyup.

This cute...and bizarre and so true xD

In the future we will don our heads and never remove them. Will it be some sort of magical super fabric that does it? Or will we realize that if we never remove it we cease to notice the stink?

Well there will be more diseases that come along. Eventually everyone will make a fursuit head to keep themselves protected and comfortable.

The future is now.

Seeing someone nostalgic for the good old, drama and politics free days of....2012 aged me five years.

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The amount of comments that mentioned the Burned Furs though...

Welcome to the 90s Furry Fandom! Please select your content:

-70 variations of the same pin-up of a busty woman in Looney-Tunes style
-Libertarian Webcomic
-The rough, early days of digital coloring
-Worse Libertarian Webcomic
-Gay slice of life comic
-Endless forum arguments about the fandom being too sexual (aka visibly gay)
-Pretending that chick from Yu Yu Yakusho counts as furry

Are those comics better days and orginal life?
And that slice of life comic could be...millions. Is it the one with the homophobia arc or the one with the homophobia arc much later?

Obamna 😢👿
Soda 🥶🔥🔥

People who do this I find tend to be either of two types
1. A person who has done a shitty thing, has been rightfully called out and is upset that everyone is now treating them accordingly
2. Literal phobics or alt/nazi furs who are being thrown out.