I found the community through the grapevine (AKA I saw someone talking about it in a thread somewhere) then stalked through a bit.
It wasn’t until fluffy community that I officially joined
I saw a video from The Click and thought, “Hey,this looks Interesting…” and boom now I’m here
Via /mlp in the olden days. When it was still barely moderated and people had regular, deidcated fluffy threads. I even posted my first comic there, I still remember getting blasted a new one over my files because of it.
I discovered the community in the booru days, but officially joined it when this site came up.
Was involved with cringe communities on Reddit finding the worst things to make me feel cringe or anger.
Then u/Dvli posted one of Mcgonagal’s works which, like any other user, disgusted me initially as I didn’t understand the lore or reason and only saw an animal being abused.
I questioned him on how he knows about the community and why he only posted content about it, he gave me an answer.
I was sucked in as soon as I read each and every aspect of the community and realized I found an interest I never had before.
Eventually, reading people’s comics and texts couldn’t satisfy my experience.
So I made my first comic
At this point, most know the rest where I headed with the community.
I saw the McGonnagal strip where he threw fluffies into a stove, in a post on /pol/. That led me to find fluffybooru about half a year before it got shut down.
I would say the click insurgence but I joined way after that because of him so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
I’ll just repost what I said here:
First poll, curiosity. Virgil’s poll, 4chan specifically.
I saw a comic by Quickhorn, and it got me to find out more about fluffies. I was sickened by the abuse, gore and edgy tryhardness, but stories like Carpdime’s Avocado and a lot of Squeakyfriend’s stuff, as well as the effort into worldbuilding done by Carpdime, Squeakyfriend and Fluffus, was what got me to stay. Oh, and of course, hugbox.
Oddly similar to my story.
I…
I date back to 2014.
Lurk many different forums to watch trends… followed a fluffy trail to the booru.
WetFluff forcibly drove me away… repeatedly.
Hah! You and I might have both been brought in by the same post.
Find by Click video, I wos lurking booru next but never post eanything. Now i think of writhing some stories about fluffies.
I stumbled upon a fluffy thread on the /b/ board on 4chan. Even visited the 8chan fluffy board
I unironically found the community through 4chan in 2021
@FluffyPimp You should write some stories man! We’d all love to read them DM me if you need help =)
I started with the Click, lurked around. I was afraid at first because I saw artists being attacked and eaten alive in the comments. I joined after the admins said they were making some changes. But I didn’t realize “changes” meant shutting down the booru altogether. I never even got the chance to join😭
And all that art we lost…
i found this community in reccomendations on yt, so i checked on reddit and google, and i started to liking it so far, so i send image in reddit but then suprise! i got banned for being under 16
(here image what i posted)
so after being angry silently i noticed that in desc was site so i joined, and there i am!
I spent a lot of time on 4Chan back in the day and I first got into fluffies when the dumps started on /b/.
I first contributed on the Booru. My contributions here on FC started with rewrites of stuff I posted on the Booru but have since moved far beyond that.
Booru vet here since…um…2016, IIRC.
2020 after reading a Buzzfeed article