So I recently came out of a very deep depression. Hopefully, I'll be mostly better from now on, as its been a good 4ish months without an episode. What put me in that depression was the separation from myself from all of my friends after I moved to another state for school.

The misconception that so many people make about extroverts is that we're always happy. Like, our desire to go out and make friends somehow means we're better off. Problems occur when you're like me and have a stomach-turning fear of abandonment and loneliness. The issue was that I had become very comfortable with my old friends, and in ways a bit further than most people are used to.

A few of us were pretty odd, in that we were very comfortable being naked around one another. We openly talked about sex, watched porn together, even going as far as fooling around together on a pretty regular basis. We weren't romantically involved though.

After moving, I had a lot of issues adjusting to not having them around, and suddenly I found it very difficult to make new friends. I wanted new best friends and I wanted them immediately. Naturally, it just doesn't work that way, so I shut down. Probably the worst thing that could have happened.

Luckily, I've come through and have made some new friends, albeit no where near the level of "comfort" I had with the old ones.

Given that I prefer drawn/animated porn over the regular kind,I figured I'd try to come here to try and feel connected to other people in that way again. Obviously not in the same way as before, but just through conversation about the stuff thats near impossible to talk about with just anyone you meet in person.

So I figured I'd ask you guys why you come here. What makes you come to e621? And more importantly, why would you respond to such a weird forum topic?

The growing inactivity of WildCritters is what made me come here. What made me respond to this thread? Boredom I suppose.

SirBrownBear said:
The growing inactivity of WildCritters is what made me come here. What made me respond to this thread? Boredom I suppose.

Well I hope that in some degree, your boredom was relieved.

I came here because there was porn, then stayed because there was good art, porn or not.
^{I also enjoy the fact that there's a very much functional tagging system and a blacklist so that I can avoid content I don't like}

As for replying here? Well, you asked a question, so here's the answer.

Furrin_Gok said:
I came here because there was porn, then stayed because there was good art, porn or not.
^{I also enjoy the fact that there's a very much functional tagging system and a blacklist so that I can avoid content I don't like}

As for replying here? Well, you asked a question, so here's the answer.

I agree that the tagging system here is great. It also benefits from a pretty involved userbase.

I come here for the hoes and bitches

I replied to your thread because I am, Rusty, the ultimate badass

came for the porn

stayed for the tag arguments

Wanna Yiff?

I found this site because I was a clopper back than. I stayed because I started loving this site beacuse of it's great tagging system and people, and now I upload pics reguraly to help the site grow.

I answered your question because I like answering questions and because, I haven't got a friend whom can I talk about my porn.

Originally came here for the porn, but now I stay mostly for the forum.

Since you got kinda psychological, I suppose now might be a good time for me to explain my own psychological issues. Like you, I'm an extravert. Very socially-oriented person. I used to proclaim myself to be an introvert, and there is a hesitation I have nowadays to opening up, but that's mainly due to some nasty shit I went through in my childhood thanks to my narcissistic step-father who is also an introvert in public but very open to his family. The man loved to brag to my mother and me about how popular and great and god-like he was, and because he had to be the center of attention he was livid whenever I started making friends on my own without his approval. So he treated me like crap throughout my childhood years and well into my adult years.

I'm also, unfortunately, socially awkward. Some have claimed it's because I'm hard-wired to be awkward, but given the young age at which my parents divorced and at which my mother married the asshole she's married to now, I honestly have to wonder if it's not because of some of the shit he did to me early on. But either way, my being socially awkward didn't help me in making friends. I got picked on in and out of school, and of course my parents sent me contradictory messages about how to deal with the problem ("fight them" one day, "ignore them" the next - good god people, why can't you make up your minds?).

So anyway, I basically adjusted by becoming a hermit and limiting pretty much my entire social life to the Internet (and I have two-way conversations with myself, because I need that sense of another person being in the room with me and that's the only way I can do it anymore). I'm always depressed because I am a naturally social person but I feel like I have to keep to myself so that some monstrous specter of parental "discipline" from my childhood doesn't come into my life and wreak havoc on me. So I go on the Internet in hopes that I'll be able to find some stimulating conversation, maybe meet people, without having to worry about meeting them in real life and having to deal with the very PTSD-like symptoms I go through when that happens.

Anyway, it's a shitty situation, but at least it gives me some way of being social. Like I said I'm a naturally social person and I want to open up, but because I wasn't allowed to as a kid and was actively and severely punished for doing so, being social in real life just causes me too much grief anymore.

InannaEloah said:
Originally came here for the porn, but now I stay mostly for the forum.

Since you got kinda psychological, I suppose now might be a good time for me to explain my own psychological issues. Like you, I'm an extravert. Very socially-oriented person. I used to proclaim myself to be an introvert, and there is a hesitation I have nowadays to opening up, but that's mainly due to some nasty shit I went through in my childhood thanks to my narcissistic step-father who is also an introvert in public but very open to his family. The man loved to brag to my mother and me about how popular and great and god-like he was, and because he had to be the center of attention he was livid whenever I started making friends on my own without his approval. So he treated me like crap throughout my childhood years and well into my adult years.

I'm also, unfortunately, socially awkward. Some have claimed it's because I'm hard-wired to be awkward, but given the young age at which my parents divorced and at which my mother married the asshole she's married to now, I honestly have to wonder if it's not because of some of the shit he did to me early on. But either way, my being socially awkward didn't help me in making friends. I got picked on in and out of school, and of course my parents sent me contradictory messages about how to deal with the problem ("fight them" one day, "ignore them" the next - good god people, why can't you make up your minds?).

So anyway, I basically adjusted by becoming a hermit and limiting pretty much my entire social life to the Internet (and I have two-way conversations with myself, because I need that sense of another person being in the room with me and that's the only way I can do it anymore). I'm always depressed because I am a naturally social person but I feel like I have to keep to myself so that some monstrous specter of parental "discipline" from my childhood doesn't come into my life and wreak havoc on me. So I go on the Internet in hopes that I'll be able to find some stimulating conversation, maybe meet people, without having to worry about meeting them in real life and having to deal with the very PTSD-like symptoms I go through when that happens.

Anyway, it's a shitty situation, but at least it gives me some way of being social. Like I said I'm a naturally social person and I want to open up, but because I wasn't allowed to as a kid and was actively and severely punished for doing so, being social in real life just causes me too much grief anymore.

Well that sucks. Controlling people are the worst.

I had a friend in high school who had an overly critical, egotistical bastard of a step-dad. Which sucked because she was a perfectionist at everything so it just made things tougher on her. According to her, she got more relaxed about making mistakes after having the right people "push themselves into her life".

I can only hope something similar happens to you. Thanks for opening up like that.

Hexdragon said:
I found this site because I was a clopper back than. I stayed because I started loving this site beacuse of it's great tagging system and people, and now I upload pics reguraly to help the site grow.

I answered your question because I like answering questions and because, I haven't got a friend whom can I talk about my porn.

I'm learning that this site has a pretty exceptional community compared to others.

Expected cringe and good porn

Found cringe and good porn

Was not disappointed

I came here because it wasn't all porn. Also, this is the closest thing I have to any sense of validation, and I wanted to make sure I could at least be a part of something.

I'm here because it's easy to feel better about myself around you guys

TL;DR
But um, good 4 chu?

I came here for furry art, both clean and adult.

I stayed because of the tagging system, the blacklist feature, and because this place has a pretty good community for the most part.

I responded because why not?

Was asked if I wanted to be staff. Said "sure, why not" and made an account. Been here since.

porn, art in general (generally rather good art), preferring non-human creatures over humans, enjoy helping out from time to time and...i don't get out much (no real desire to) so the majority of my time goes to any of a few things: video games, anime/movies/etc., browsing the internet, and sometimes using this 20lb. dumbbell i have.

i rather like keeping to myself in my room. if i want to be social theres the internet.

that and Dmail here makes for a nice alternative for chat seeing as i don't have (nor can i get) discord and whoever i'm talking to doesn't have or want to use skype.

edit: well, more time may go to ps4 gaming soon enough. i bet gamefly might be wondering why i've kept these 2 games out for over a month now. though given the time of year maybe not. (long as they keep getting their monthly payments, right?)

to observe

Well, I came here because of the SHEER AMOUNT OF PORN good artworks that I can reference because I want to be an artist in the future. Why respond you ask? Trust me there's even more weirder stuff here on e6.

Illumiknotty said:
to observe

:V

I mainly come to this website to fit in. See, there's not a lot of furries here in Nevada, and certainly not any that are as intelligent. My only two ways of socializing with people like me are by moving to another state, or coming here.

If anyone says that I could just go to FurAffinity, I'm going to lash you 1,000,000 times with a wet noodle.

Edit: I wasn't trying to sound cocky. I meant as smart as you guys.

I'm here for the porn. Hoped I could fit in.

hsauq said:
Considering the content that most often gets uploaded here and your lack of sexuality, I find this kind of surprising. Not to mention your low tolerance for nonsensical conflicts...

Why? I think it makes perfect sense, less time spent fapping more time spent working.

I came here for the porn, bad ass community, and great tagging system as well as an awesome friendly user-interface :3

And as you said it easy to be your self here

I came here to post butts. Now I'm stuck here.

Of all the currently available furry sites, e621's probably the most active one that's not overly saturated with dumb drama (in my experience, anyway). That might be because I'm not as involved here as I was elsewhere, or because the most common means of interaction is well moderated, but either way, I appreciate the change of pace.

And I don't know if it's just the season, but you community-focused types are getting me all sappy. Hope it's been a good year for you fuzzbutts. <3

hsauq said:
An asexual that really hates babysitting rule breakers gets more work done by moderating a website where mostly porn gets uploaded and users frequently break the rules?

An asexual who is pretty good at what she does, which is babysitting rulebreakers and screening new users to weed out those who shouldn't be here. Someone who uses a blacklist to avoid seeing all the crap she doesn't want to see and doesn't do anything with the post queue.

Wow, how awful.

My "low tolerance for nonsensical conflicts" is also known as "willingness to uphold the site Code of Conduct when necessary" but whatever works for you.

Calcutta said:
Of all the currently available furry sites, e621's probably the most active one that's not overly saturated with dumb drama (in my experience, anyway). That might be because I'm not as involved here as I was elsewhere, or because the most common means of interaction is well moderated, but either way, I appreciate the change of pace.

And I don't know if it's just the season, but you community-focused types are getting me all sappy. Hope it's been a good year for you fuzzbutts. <3

Being someone who tried to start unnecessary drama and almost got perma-banned for it, I can confirm this.

hsauq said:
...I get the feeling that some users ... read way too much into them, often assuming the worst.

This happens quite a bit.

Faux-Pa said:
Being someone who tried to start unnecessary drama and almost got perma-banned for it, I can confirm this.

Even so, you've decided to stick with the place. Gotta be something redeeming about it!

BlueDingo said:

hsauq said:
...I get the feeling that some users ... read way too much into them, often assuming the worst.

This happens quite a bit.

Poe's law sure is inconvenient.

Well, where else would you see some drawn feral doggies gettin' shagged?
And the tagging system is at least better than other sites, so the blacklist is kind of effective and let's me skip at least 50% of what I don't want to see.

Calcutta said:
Poe's law sure is inconvenient.

Sometimes it's not even that. Some people try to read between the lines when there's nothing between the lines to read. Some people take things the wrong way entirely and lash out. Some people take figurative speech literally and vice-versa. Some people can't interpret sarcasm or jokes. Some people will isolate a single word from your post and yell at you for using that specific word without taking the rest of the post into account for context (Saying "tranny" will start drama even if the conversation is about car transmission systems, which are sometimes called trannies).

The main reason I don't say cunt or bastard anywhere near as often here as I do IRL is because most people outside of Australia can't tell when it's being used positively or neutrally. They take it as negative or offensive no matter what. Same with dysphemisms.

BlueDingo said:

Kinda disappointing that we don't give others the benefit of the doubt a little more often, or at least stop making assumptions when inflection and intent aren't clear. I'm in no position to preach though. And really? I don't know that I've ever seen someone go so far out of their way to instigate something over word usage (that didn't also later admit to doing so as a joke). Hopefully I never do.

And that's just depressing. I can't imagine talking with my Aussie friends without cursing; it'd sound so stilted. I mean, you can usually tell when they want to insult you, because they'll spice it up (e.g. you absolute shitcunt, you mouth-breathing fuckwit, get bent you festering bellend), but I guess any bad word used in relation to others is too bad.

hsauq said:
I can't help but feel that you misinterpreted my posts as an attack rather than genuine curiosity about what made e621 appealing to you in the first place. DelurC's response to what I said made no sense. They seemed to be fixated solely on the fact that I referred to you as an asexual, so I clarified.

I shouldn't have done so, though. I know I'm not the best at making my points clear, but I get the feeling that some users just skim over my comments or read way too much into them, often assuming the worst, and any post I make to make myself more clear seems to be counterproductive, like this one probably will be.

Less of an attack and more just just an eyeroll. I get this kind of thing a lot more than you might imagine. I'm here because I like to help out websites. I don't care for the material so I just blacklist -rating:s and call it a day.

Anything longer than a couple lines and you lose the attention of most people. :V

I came here because this site had consistently the best overall artwork, is organized extremely well, and has a dedicated community of members that take the work both seriously, and hilariously at the same time. That said, they be some funny muthafuckahs.

infinitewolf said:
I came here because this site had consistently the best overall artwork, is organized extremely well, and has a dedicated community of members that take the work both seriously, and hilariously at the same time. That said, they be some funny muthafuckahs.

I think that might have been what made me stay initially. There were a few comment threads that had me laughing my ass off.

Sneaks around and gets inspiration for porn art at 3:00 am in bed with the door locked and an eye out for my parents.

I believe I found this site when I was looking at images for litten and scrolled down too far, finding the link. Back then I had no idea what furries were, but finding the site definetly influenced me in that regard.

Also I'm still single being as I haven't found the right person yet. *sighs*

I really hope when I find them they'll either be open to furries or are one.

*evily rubs hands together*

I had a very good friend show me some of the art work he has had done and posted here. I'm wanting to do the same. I have some ideas for some characters but don't really know any artists to help me out. Just wondering where to start.

I am here to be a dick but not too much of a dick

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ExcessEmptiness said:
1) Problems occur when you're like me and have a stomach-turning fear of abandonment and loneliness.

2) Luckily, I've come through and have made some new friends, albeit no where near the level of "comfort" I had with the old ones.

3) Given that I prefer drawn/animated porn over the regular kind,I figured I'd try to come here to try and feel connected to other people in that way again. Obviously not in the same way as before, but just through conversation about the stuff thats near impossible to talk about with just anyone you meet in person.

1) I can relate to that. So I know it sucks. Hang in there. On an other point, being odd is the best way to be.

2) that is very good. Friends are always important. And you'll get there with some of them. Also, talking about "taboo" stuff is a good way to get rid of the stigma around it and put every one at a more eased state of mind. By "taboo" I mean sex stuff.

3) this porn is the best. So artistic and loaded with skill. Further more the furry community is very connected on a lot of levels. So this is a good place to connect. Conversation s are funner too.

Lastly, you are OK. You are loved. You madder. You are important

I like discussing tags...that's why I'm here. I'm normally on rule34.xxx, but the environment over there is somewhat stifling for tag discussion. That site is so fucking broken...we can't alias anything, can't mass-change a tag, nothing. This means everyone is super cautious and the prevailing wisdom is basically "don't change ANYTHING!" Hard to discuss tags with people who are so scared of/adverse to change.

Not saying this site is perfect either...I've got problems with you people! TIME FOR THE AIRING OF GRIEVANCES! jk ;p

This is my 4th main source of Furry porn with Inkbunny becoming my 5th recently but only to follow artists and get their newest material right away all in one place. I love it here for the tags and organization to find exactly what I want and collect my favorites. My Previous 3 main sites either closed down or aren't as good as E621.

For those interested they were Wildcritters, Mundofurry and U18chan.

I came here because the artwork is very well organized, the tagging system is incredible useful and you can filter everything out you don't want to see. Also, having a centralized platform for this kind of art is really useful.

Also, I don't have to socially justify myself for my fetishes here. That takes a really big load of my mind and it makes me unbelievable happy. (in fact, the last time I watched "real" porn was like 6 years ago? 7?)