Classifying Furfags - The 5 Type System

We'll see.
I didn't necessarily mean "their fursona" was a cat, simply a fondness thereof.

 

I can almost guarantee the top two will be fox and wolf.

So anyways, I think some surveys have been done like this, but they were a lot more specified to a certain demographic and open to anyone to respond to, stuff like that.
i.e. not very accurate.

It'd be interesting, I've always wished some professional psychologists would be assed to do some kind of real, major study on furries someday.

 

Almost balanced between male and female (55% male?)
Mostly bisexual
Indie music, alternative maybe?
CATS
no fursuiting

Nope.avi

There are going to be more males than 55%, unless you ask on a social networking site.
Why would furries like indie music more than non-furries, I don't even. If I had to guess the most popular genre I'd say metal.
WOLVES
Some fursuiting. It's less common than people think, but it still happens.

As for which websites, the only ones I know are porn sites. Which we can use, but we need more variety than that.

It'd be interesting, I've always wished some professional psychologists would be assed to do some kind of real, major study on furries someday.

Yeah, and it sucks that none of us are psychologists or statisticians. I believe our purpose here is "for shits."

 

I would like to see real studies as well, but, outside of the interwebs, the whole concept of "furry" is rather uncommon.
In 7th or 8th grade, in fact, I remember CNN Student News interviewing a furry (they called him a furry, even), not knowing how widespread furryism was elsewhere. He was a skinny, 30-something year old man, claiming "his animal" to be a snow leopard. He wore a snow leopard fursuit, and his room was adorned with posters and sketches and stuffed animals, all of which displayed "his animal."
I can't be assed to find the clip, but it's on iTunes for free, guaranteed.

 

A TYPICAL FURRY IN ITS NATURAL HABITAT

While we're talking about furries, I want to ask: how many furries on this website did not find the Mimigas very special? They could have been dwarves and I'd feel the same way about them.

 

My predictions:
More male than female
Primarily bisexual
Hell if I know music
Gonna guess wolves foxes too.
Low on the fursuiting

Basically the same as Fab's.

As for CNN, I'm sure I don't need to say this, but you can't trust mainstream media to properly represent a lesser-known subculture. Or a popular subculture, for that matter. Rating whores.

Honestly, I wasn't a furry back when I first played Cave Story, nor did I even know what a furry was. I like 'em more now, though I don't really know if it's because A) They're cute 'n fluffy and goddammit I'm a pansy a big softspot for cute n' fluffy, or B) they just happen to be in a game I'm particularly fond of.

 

or statisticians.

I'll have my degree shortly

 

Mimigas are cute and furry and my interest ends there.
I dunno, they don't seem very "furry-esque" to me, I guess.
It's hard to explain. But not very special, just cute.
like most furries

 

http://furrysociology.net/index.htm

Ah, I've found some previous ones.
This site has a page featuring its own survey, as well as several links to previous/other surveys. Some interesting findings; The surveys seem to indicate a predominantly male population (70-85% or something?). The primary survey isn't really comprehensive but some of the ones under Other Studies (example, "Ultimate Furry Survey") go further in-depth. The "State of the Fandom" link is a pretty good article, and it's been written interestingly enough to be readable.

 

Furfags should get their arms chopped off.

 

You have posted something to that effect like five times already

Would you also like to add that your power level is over 9000 and you're chargin' your lazor to shoop' da whoop the furries so you can take over all their base? I think that might might make the joke even more fresh and innovative.

 

Furfags should get their arms chopped off.

You mean chop their PAWS off OLOLOLOL?
^Please kiddies, never talk like this.

 

Interesting fact: furry puns have never been endearing, and is in fact part of the reason no one likes furries.
Perhaps that will give them paws for thought.

 

So nobody found those surveys I linked interesting at all?

I personally thought incidence of fursuiting would be way less than the reported 21.1%

 

surveys

interesting

Well I suppose, if you're into that sort of thing...

 

I feel that the classification should be on a continuum.
Comma.


Nox, I haven't looked at the surveys yet, but that stat is ridiculous.

 

I already know more than I really want to about furries. Only thing that made me raise an eyebrow was there being a lot more straight guys than gay ones because pretty much every other male furry I've seen has been terrified of boobs.

 

So nobody found those surveys I linked interesting at all?

I personally thought incidence of fursuiting would be way less than the reported 21.1%

I actually thought the surveys quite interesting.
It's plagued by that single-language thing though. Of course most people said they live in North America. It was an English-only survey, and (if I understand this correctly) focused on English fursuiting, while anywhere that speaks another language would be much more comfortable using that language. Which rules out most of Europe. So we get a rough demographic of English-speakers. Plus, cultural differences exist. I doubt that a Japanese furry is going to identify as one, as anthro art is more mainstream. I'm actually certain I'm wrong somewhere in this criticism, but whatever. It would have been interesting to see the continent demographics compared to one purely of english speakers in the world, to see rough english-speaker to english-speaking-furry ratios. Then we could see which continents tend to breed more furries per capita or something. I was not surprised at the demographics of age, as compared to Rust's survey. Is plushophile the same as fursuiting?

See? See the rant? This is why I don't talk about things.

 

I actually thought the surveys quite interesting.
It's plagued by that single-language thing though. Of course most people said they live in North America. It was an English-only survey, and (if I understand this correctly) focused on English fursuiting, while anywhere that speaks another language would be much more comfortable using that language. Which rules out most of Europe. So we get a rough demographic of English-speakers. Plus, cultural differences exist. I doubt that a Japanese furry is going to identify as one, as anthro art is more mainstream. I'm actually certain I'm wrong somewhere in this criticism, but whatever. It would have been interesting to see the continent demographics compared to one purely of english speakers in the world, to see rough english-speaker to english-speaking-furry ratios. Then we could see which continents tend to breed more furries per capita or something. I was not surprised at the demographics of age, as compared to Rust's survey. Is plushophile the same as fursuiting?

See? See the rant? This is why I don't talk about things.

Yeah, there is of course some bias with the surveys. It's pretty much impossible not to have some kind of bias.. If you narrow your focus and call it a survey of english-speaking furries then it's technically more accurate. But this all gets into the ridiculousness of statistics in general and how easy it is to fudge them, accidentally or on purpose.

And to answer your question, I think plushophile is more along the lines of being attracted to stuffed animals (plushies) like such

Spoiler

 

Because a stuffed animal will never say no.