Fluffies are, after all, designed to be visually appealing to humans, and when surrounded by so many playful, smiling fluffs at once, it’s hard not to be put into a generous mood. The “Cute Blitz” has been noticed in many municipal parks across the country.
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Seems kinda risky honestly, but I guess there’s safety in numbers.
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I’m thinking for every 10 hugboxer there is at least 20 abusers. Makes the odds “fun”
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Quality over quantity.
And I’ve got a hugboxer who could pound twenty abusers to a pulp without breaking a sweat.
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Also hopin herds without bad smarty.
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No way abusers outnumber hugboxers in “real world” situations. Maybe 25% of people would kick a fluffy if there were no consequences, 25% would ignore the fluffy, and 50% would talk about how cute the fluffies were and provide head pats.
Western, and particularly American, society has an exceptionally high tolerance for violence towards humans, and a remarkably low tolerance for violence against (cute) animals.
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Depends if fu;if firs are viewed as vermin, in which case “sucks to be them”
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I disagree, even a rat isn’t likely to be physically attacked unless it seems threatening. Consider “Pizza Rat”, who carried a slice of pizza through New York City without repercussions.
Now, ugly creatures, like cockroaches, are a different story.
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My only argument in that is rats have an inherent sense of survival whereas fluffies don’t. Rats are also fast and know where to hide when humans appear. Fluffies just run to any human expecting and demanding “nummies,Huggies, and toysies” which to the right hugboxer they will get. But to the abuser that’s a call for a world of hurt.
Pizza rat is cool though.
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Pump the hate brakes “fox and friends” if you didn’t notice, our fandom is all a work. As in fluffies are fictional creatures , f-I-c-t-I-o-n-a-l creatures.
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While I empathize and agree with you, speaking as a hugboxer, I also stress that its entirely dependent on headcanon. Some people will have their settings be more abusive than others, while some would be more hug.
That said,
Also depends on headcanon.
Speaking from a pov that prefers consistency, if fluffies lack said “inherent sense of survival”, I’d argue that, realistically, they wouldn’t be an invasive species. Relying on their propensity to overbreed wouldn’t work as rats are invasive because of said sense on top of their fecundity. But of course, this just an opinion.
That said, some headcanons do have fluffies that have an inherent sense of survival. Hence the statement I keep stressing.
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I know this is a hugbox work but still fuck anyone who does this, it just makes the park less pleasant for other people
You know who out numbers both most likely. Neutral boxers/normal people and I doubt they’ll like herds of ferals breeding, swarming people, begging for food and most likely carrying and transferring parasites like fleas and ticks. These fluffies are at best going to be relocated
I could see some regulations centered around discouraging or even prohibiting the feeding of ramdom ferals. Its like how feeding pigeons isn’t a good idea.
I should write a story around this idea. As much as I’m a hugboxer, I also don’t like to dwell too much on fluffies as a public nuisance, a trope that I feel is overdone.
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You forgot about yo name
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I know. Perfectly capable of distinguishing between fiction and reality, thank you.
Besides, a lot of abusers like to take their time, and drag out the suffering. So they don’t work as fast as hugboxers would. How many fluffies do you think a hugboxer can save in the time it takes an abuser to torture one fluffy to death?
This seems like a fun exercise. We could get mathematical up in this bitch.
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I’d give them some crackers like I’m feeding the ducks
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I know for sure if 10 rabbits suddenly hopped their way over to us at the park and acted genuinely friendly and playful, I’d probably pet them. My girlfriend would probably fucking die from cuteness overload. Yet rabbits destroy grass, dig holes, undermine soil, carry fleas…they’re veritable pests. I hear they’ve done tons of environmental damage in Australia. People hunt them for food and sport. They’d also best be relocated, but they probably never will.
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I didn’t communicate my point well, for which I apologize. My post was a call for intellectual rigor in headcanons. It is commonly accepted that, beyond simple entertainment, the purpose of fiction, and especially science fiction, is to comment on our world using the trappings of a science fiction world.
Fluffies offer a surprisingly effective way to reflect on the way we treat other animals, and even our own kind.
But for this to work, the backstory has to be at least somewhat grounded in reality. This is a recognized and well established rule in science fiction–if you change one thing, people will generally go along, but if change everything, people will get lost.
Hence my original comment–I find it hard to believe in a world where abusers outnumber hugboxers. It was a philosophy of fluffies comment, not a commentary on a particular headcanon.
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Lol because there totally twice as many animal torturing serial killers in the making than normal pet owners irl /s
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