CatgirlChilis

the flood of AI dreck has produced some incredible results when you search google images for "human size comparison to wolf"

ah, I meant to make this post the other day, but seeing as my birthday is coming up next week, if anyone's in a position to throw a couple bucks my way, i'd be greatly appreciative! 🤗🤗🤗

https://paypal.me/violetsaretrans

hey uhh my birthday's come and gone but being honest i could still really use the help

"we're going to moderate better i promise" is all well and good, and i do think it comes from an honest attempt to do better, but i gotta say it's kinda cold comfort now that we're several harassment-induced minor exoduses deep this year.

not to be the most cynical bitch alive or anything . but the fact that this lesson was not learned from any of the previous situations (including The Other Time Racists Dogpiled Renkon, Like, Less Than Two Months Ago) doesn't really paint a flattering picture. taken in the best faith possible, this is still pretty major incompetence and a clear failure to properly investigate situations they have support tickets for.

moving forward it seems they understand that this is a workload that is entirely impossible to shoulder on one person without them spontaneously combusting, but "volunteer moderator" is a dangerous badge to be potentially handing out, in particular when the new policy is literally presented as "get off my website, asshole". it's also sort of a hornet's nest of ethical concerns but like. we're already so far past the pale of that as it is.

i dunno. i hope that things meaningfully improve and the website becomes less hostile, but it feels a little late imo .

If I can gush about something I like real quick: sometimes online I stumble on a thing that I'm not sure if it has a name or not, but I've been calling it a post-fursona.

okay so like, to me the most important part of furryism is representing yourself with a cute little guy. I love seeing how people represent themselves. Animals are a really easy place to start from, they have a lot of cultural baggage and symbolism in them that you can lean into or out of, play with or subvert, but they're actually not the most important part of it to me so I love when I see someone who definitely wants to represent themselves with a little guy but doesn't really care about the animal part of a fursona, and instead of just giving up is decides they wanna be a cute stylized little knight or wizard or ghost or wispy shadow person or robot or whatever else. I think that's so creative and cool.