One thing that is going on in furry is allot of people look up to popular furries such as Majira Strawberry, Telephone, Omnom Nomnomnom, etc. Which is good. Furries like these individuals have put in the hard work and earn their place as high profile furries. They have earned all the followers they have amassed.
But what worries me is how high of a pedestal some followers put popular furries on. They think they can do no wrong that somehow popular furries are flawless, infallible, perfect in every way. Allot of followers subject popular furries to much higher standards than someone like me who flies under the radar as compared to the big names out there. So, God forbid, a popular furry is found out to be as imperfect as the rest of us, Holy shit balls being flung across the pig pen, Batman! Massive drama that shakes the furry fandom to its core ensues The hate mobs come out in full force. Its a Hurricane Katrina of torches and pitch forks, and rotten tomatoes that comes down like sledge hammers raining down from the sky on the disgraced popular furry that the poor unfortunate soul has only two choices, leave the fandom and shut off the internet permanently or commit suicide. Unfortunately in my years in the fandom I have seen both outcomes too many times for my liking.
Maybe there is rime and reason as to why popular furries are subjected to higher standards than normal everyday schmucks like me. A popular furry has a much louder voice and has more sway in what direction the fandom as a whole goes in rather its for the better and for the worse. Their are allot of people that see many of the popular furries as role models to go by. Therefore if a popular furry is a nefarious individual doing not so good things, well through their actions they are telling other furries that its okay to be douche bags doing douchie things as well. I get that.
In fact I appreciate what comes with fame so much, that if by some alignment of the planets and stars and by the blessed sex orgy of the Greek gods, I were to become a high profile popular furry, (I don't know if I want that weight on my little chipmunk shoulders, to be honest) I suppose I would need to work on my demeanor, improve how I conduct myself due to the fact that their would be a shit ton of followers looking to up to me and the heavier influence I would have on the fandom at large that comes with being well known. It would be a matter of responsibility of living and leading by example. So what I do reflects well on the fandom, and makes sure that if one or more of my followers turns into the King of Assholia, it would not be because of anything I said or did.
But the thing is popular furries are human beings too. They may try as hard as they can to live up to the increased responsibilities that come with being well known. But they too make mistakes. They have shortcomings in their character. They have their good days and not so good days. They are just like you and me, folks....NOT perfect angels. So in putting these people on such lofty levels of deification, you are unwittingly dehumanizing popular furries. You are putting them in a gilded cage to where they are too afraid to be themselves out of fear of what happened to the likes of Kero Wolf, RC Fox, Zaush, etc, should they too fall from grace.
That in mind its perfectly understandable why the likes of Tavimunk stick their tongue out at the whole notion of being a so called "Popufur". Based on what I have seen happened to popular furries during my tenure in this fandom so far, there is a big weight the size of Donald Trump's mouth baring down on a well known furry's shoulders. Its because a popular furry is only one accusation, one slip up, one wrong word spoken away from being witch hunted into oblivion by those that see popular furries as their idea of perfection instead of the actual human beings they are.
Bottom line folks, treat everybody as the human beings they are regardless if they are some small fry like me or a big name furry that holds sway over the fandom. Its really not right to see people's lives destroyed over mistakes real or even perceived. Its just not right.
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06 Feb 2019 08:51 CET
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