So is literally anybody else on FC, and?
I read this article a few weeks ago lol. Was pretty interesting to look at.
Really interesting when fluffies show up outside the community.
Buzzfeed with this ‘exposed and beware’ stuff which nobody really cared about apparently.
Then The Click came out with his two videos showing it in a positive light and we got an influx of new dedicated members lol.
i read the article and almost died laughing at how it was an exploitative and alarmist look that took the most outrageous examples and ran with them without actually looking at the breadth of the whole field.
its actually comical.
in other news y’all saved my ass from a bad depression spiral back in 2020. Fluffy Ponies became this weird window into the world for me that honestly helped me unfuck my own mind so I love y’alls. warts and all
Happy 9 years to the article that got me into fluffies. Wasn’t its intended purpose but lol, fuck it. It’s fun.
I’ve talked to other people and it’s been a haven for people to vent frustrations in a safe way. Rather than taking anger out on themselves or real living things they took to fluffies as their outlet for violence and a lot of them from what I heard become better people for it. Some even ‘graduating’ after their need for it vanished.
Of course is Buzzfeed.
I find hilarious how they consider adorable kid-friendly characters envolving into porn a legit and normal sequence but can’t understand how it could turn into gore.
I remember drawing Backyardigans gore years before I could ever draw my first uncensored boob x’dddd
Nah fluffies were made by bronies. The “Fluffies are made to heckin troll da bronies!” are made-up revisionism by /b/ posters
“Edgy MLP fan-media” are as plenty as “Edgy Thomas Train fan-media” or “Edgy teletubbies fan-media”
Yeah. The huge popularity of things like Fallout: Equestria show the whole “Oh let’s do a bleak take on the cutest commercial property we can find!” deal works for any fandom. We are but one.
Took these amateurs long enough to find us
Too busy going bankrupt.
Found the article! I had a good laugh at the old art by artist-kun!
Nah. the first fluffy was made by Mixxermike who was a brony himself.
The fandom and chans ran with fluffies.
Ran over fluffies.
Then the booru happend.
Then the booru imploded.
And Virgil scraped the booru off the asphalt and turned it in to FC
And here we are now.
Interesting. I always like learning history behind memes, as opposed to just interacting with them out of context. Gives it more life and meaning, funny things become funnier.
that’s not quite how desert storm happened. The first part of the conflict was called desert shield as the US built up a presence there…
Saddam Hussein (bad dude) had invaded Kuwait, and that’s why we were going there. The war (Desert Storm) lasted less than 100 hours because of our fire power… Fun fact it was the first war that occurred in the country after the advent of 24 hour news cycle. I have many Marine friends a bit older than me that were deployed there, and they said when they landed on the beach CNN was there to greet them. HW Bush wasn’t like W Bush… Damn near the whole country wanted us to go there and liberate Kuwait.
but we weren’t able to kill Saddam Hussein, and that’s why the younger W Bush decided to go there… It was like he was finishing what his father couldn’t do. Just wanted to clear that up about the older one because it happened a but differently than it was described.
Well what i told you is the history in very short form.
There is a lot more to it then that.
But we could be here for days if we are gonna recount all of that
but these are the second fluffies
https://fluffy-community.com/t/higher-and-higher-by-anonymous-mlpg-01-11-12/37074
and if you scroll down you wil see mixxermike’s original fluffy
Flufflepuff.
It all spiralled down form there
Happy Tree Friends getting a TV series around the same time probably didn’t help.
There is in so far i know no evidence HTF actually had any influence on fluffies other then the combo of sickeningly cute paired with extreme violence.
But I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some influence
Jissouseki and Yukkari are a closer comparison.
Yeah i always forget about those two.
Buzzfeed: “Look at how horrible this community is! Anyway, here’s more images and a link to find more content like this”