Pokemon, Digimon, Sonic, and Fire Emblem as a kid planted the groundwork. Then, when I was a teen, the MLP phenomenon started. I looked up clop ironically. And then looked it up again. Purely ironically, of course. And then I started looking up porn of franchises I actually cared about, and so on. Fast forward about ten years, and we're here.

shit man, its kinda embarassing.

as a kid, i really liked animals, and five nights at freddys def didnt help. in middle school i was a social outcast amongst social outcasts. i remember meeting 2 people in the fandom who were hiding in the bushes. this one girl who scared the crap out of me hissed at me. i wanted to be liked so i made a fursona, but i never met the scary girl ever again after that year. probably for the best, heard that she snuck a frog into the classroom and killed it when she got caught.

at the same time, it was thanks to her that i found the fandom, and through the fandom i realized i wasnt cis or straight lmao.

i think i became a furry by finding MLP futa porn made by BlackJr combined with later discovering the works of Miso-Souperstar
good stuff
and ive found plenty more amazing art from then on
being a pokemon fan also lead me to good stuff as well since i love pokemon anthro of all kinds

<---What Space Jam's Lola Bunny does to a mf.

Palcomix shit in early 2010s.

penisthief said:
shit man, its kinda embarassing.

as a kid, i really liked animals, and five nights at freddys def didnt help. in middle school i was a social outcast amongst social outcasts. i remember meeting 2 people in the fandom who were hiding in the bushes. this one girl who scared the crap out of me hissed at me. i wanted to be liked so i made a fursona, but i never met the scary girl ever again after that year. probably for the best, heard that she snuck a frog into the classroom and killed it when she got caught.

at the same time, it was thanks to her that i found the fandom, and through the fandom i realized i wasnt cis or straight lmao.

boi, she sure was crazy. Weird way of finding furries tho

envwy said:
idk me curious

parents bought me Star Fox Adventures in preschool and it made me very horny. i don't know if it's typical for most people to feel horny before puberty, but that damn blue fox was a catalyst for a very weird childhood. i didn't discover the furry community until i was already a teenager, which i found after discovering kemonomimi girls from touhou. they really are a gateway drug. i never made a fursona and i think that the costumes are scary, i don't really want to "be" an animal, but i would marry one if they were real (although ironically i hate human body hair).

it's sort of funny, now that i'm in my mid twenties, i actually browse e621 and find some nice art of a character, and then i end up watching the movie or show because i found porn of it, rather than the other way around.

there's really only a few species i'm actually into: foxes, wolves, and raccoons. they have that pointy face. i'm actually a little concerned that we can't find a foxxo that doesn't get oversexualized. i really like zhen from kung fu panda 4 because she's not depicted as a shameless tease like krystal, diane, or nick. species stereotypes are very limiting.

Maid Marian. She was very attractive, you could even say she was a fox!

Also bee porn.

For me there was no awakening from TV or movies or even games. Just a case of hormones raging combined with curiosity. First it was Pornhub with the vanilla stuff then rule 34 for pokemon where one of the first things that got my interest was the ashchu comic from palcomix. Then it was candyfoxy, haychel, winick-lim, etc. Came across some "material" on tumblr before the nukes wiped out all the material and the lovely furry oc and pokemon blogs and another thing I found I had an interest in. I won't say what but it is on the default blacklist (and no it's not gore. Im not that much of a freak.) Then along the way I found this site years ago which was fine for me since back then most of what I was looking for was there. I do find myself questioning every now and again how things would be if I didn't have that curiosity back then. Then I just shove that thought to the back of my head saying it was inevitable. With the references people would be making later down the line on youtube, I would have wanted to know what their referencing and end up in the same spot, only slightly older.

Saw some cartoon porn of an anthropomorphic character, thought it was hot.

Admittedly, the definition of ‘Furry’ isn’t very widely agreed upon, is it?

Simply laughing at a Bugs Bunny cartoon and deciding that it’s something that you enjoy and want to keep enjoying is enough to make you a Furry according to some people.

There’s folks who think it’s not enough to find cartoon animal people sexually attractive, you’re not a Furry unless you identify as a cartoon animal person and hate being a real human that exists in three spacial dimensions.

Oohhh I love this question! It was braixen. I woke up one day, realized I thought braixen was kinda hot. Excepted my fate and made a fursona that day. Haven't looked back sense