My *new* art account and the actual reason why I left Buzzly.

If you wanna see:

-- fan and original characters 

-- fan art, including concept art for my AUs

-- writing prompts and sneak peaks of future fanfic ideas

Then just click here!

Looking back at when I first brought up my dissatisfaction with Buzzly here, I didn't really say why, apart from the people there being very unfriendly. I'm going to try my best not to get overly political about this, but nowadays with the way creative communities tend to be, that's kind of hard to do. That's the reason why I was so reluctant to say anything initially. 

In terms of atmosphere, Buzzly feels less like an art site and more like Reddit or Tumblr Jr. In other words, there's a lot of weird people who hold extremist views there. I'm not coming at this from an angle of "Well they're bad because they don't believe what my party believes!" I don't like extremists of any stripe period. 

The worst person I know of is an individual whose said stuff like not liking furries is transphobic (???) and thought Zootopia 2 should revolve around police brutality. Since when did furries become exclusively trans? And is this person saying you have to be a trans person in order to be a furry? Worst of all was the time when someone posted about the death of FurAffinity founder Dragoneer. Someone in the comments asked (and this is paraphrased on my part) "Wasn't Dragoneer into explicit material involving children?" Well, same individual who wants a family movie to tackle police brutality went off on the person who asked that.

I looked into the matter myself. I didn't see anything pointing to the guy being into cp, but he did have a history of defending not just kid diddlers, but zoophiles as well (before someone goes "What's your source for that? 'Trust me bro?'", there's a certain website I checked because they're very good at documenting stuff there. I'm not going to name it here however because it's very infamous). 

Yo, why are you so hot about someone asking the right questions about this Dragoneer guy? Yes, I believe people should be fully judged by the company they keep. You don't like it? Quit hanging around shady people then.

That's one of the reasons why I feel like furries have a real problem with empathy. They want empathy and understanding for themselves of course, but extending that to other people? Unless they're fellow furries, fat chance of that happening. This is a repeated pattern I've seen with the majority of furries I've encountered before. I've said before here that I have issues with furries. At this point I'm just gonna come on out and say that I honestly don't care for them. Are there nice, chill furries out there? Yes, I've encountered a few here and there before. But the fandom overall has some major issues going on that most seem unwilling to talk about. They try to act friendly and caring at times, but generally are very self-involved, rude, manipulative, sexist, and have this constant victimhood mindset. You can see this very same subject being discussed here. Keep an eye out for the gentleman who shares an incredibly messed-up story about a young family member of his who became involved with furry fandom. 

Another common thread I've noticed is that if you have something to say about furries that isn't purely cooing praise, you are automatically dismissed out of hand as being a liar. And if somebody in the furry fandom commits a crime (which often includes crimes against children/or animals), these same kinds of people will say stuff like "Oh no, this is gonna make the fandom look bad!"/"Hey, don't judge all furries because of this person!"

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I think a normal human response to hearing about sexual crimes against kids/or animals or what have you would be something like "Hey, that's terrible. I'm sorry [the victims] had to go through something like that." Or "People shouldn't treat animals that way. These people do not represent the fandom in any way, shape, or form." 

No. Instead it's the poor pitiful furries out there who deserve your sympathy, attention, and understanding. Not the victims of their crimes. 

Absolutely sociopathic behavior.

But that's all the Dragoneer defender (we'll just call them DD because why not?) does, run around Buzzly acting like a redditor. Someone posted a picture of a forest once, and DD left a comment under it trashing (American, presumably) right-wingers. I don't consider most of my views conservative, but it's like "What does any of that have to even do with anything?" You didn't say a single word about the picture. Why can't you just appreciate someone's artwork instead of hijacking it with your political views? These types of people have zero concept of "time and place". DD once bragged about staying indoors all the time and not having any IRL friends. Very obviously cope. It just reminded me of the Wojak meme where the person is wearing the smug face mask while you can see tears streaming down their cheeks. 

But that's what Buzzly turned out to be all about. There are other people on that site who are like that as well, but DD was the absolute worst. If I did happen to see people interacting with each other, 80% of it was devoted to whining about A.I. The rest was western politics. I understand the problems and controversies revolving around A.I., but there's actual art created by human hands that nobody there really seems very interested in. They just wanted to be buttmad about everything. The handful of chill people there aren't enough to save the site in my eyes.

TL;DR: was on art site where nobody actually cared about art. Wild stuff.