@Barhandar
>It was not, in fact, “announced” that people have to earmark money for it to go to furry archive. IIRC the “earmark if you want the money to go anywhere [implicitly including ponybooru] but TPA” is/was buried in the description, so “money I give to this place is going to furshit” is a natural assumption
Need to see more of the discourse on that before I can render a judgement.
>Bonus: furries couldn’t be bothered paying for archival anyway lmao, and it SHOULD HAVE been a lesson for anyone still supporting furshit.
That is a stronger point honestly. I suppose it might not be a big deal if it is merely one aspect of money that goes to a lot of projects and they are fully transparent (again, I will need to check your claims and other discourse before I can render a judgement) but I would imagine that a great majority of the folks donating money to the patreon would have a interest in
pony projects and be more of the type to be purely pony people considering how the demos between the fandom usually works. It would feel odd for a the furry archive project to be funded by pony money.
@Anonymous #CE52
I think furry craziness has two sides to it. One is a awkwardness of mainstream acceptance; you would have pony fandom and furries both projecting the worst sides of each other (X has all the pedos). The other is a sort of “nationalism”, something that I heard was much more common in the furry fandom in the early days (due to somewhat understandably our autism) driving a hatred and a fear of the loss of culture from everyone suddenly jumping onto the new bandwagon. Now the same is playing out on the pony side, perhaps with a slightly stronger existential threat due to furries now being often a vehicle for the advance of an all encompassing ID politics. I honestly have some of these fears as well, namely our certain distinctions and oddities being erased. The furry links in our fandom though shouldn’t be erased either, we have some deep connections for sure but we are separate groups with different cultures.