What do furries do?

Furries are individuals who are especially interested in anthropomorphic or cartoon animals (e.g., Bugs Bunny). They often strongly identify with anthropomorphic animals and create fursonas, identities of themselves as those anthropomorphic animals.
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What is a furries purpose?

The term furry describes a diverse community of fans, artists, writers, gamers, and role players. Most furries create for themselves an anthropomorphized animal character (fursona) with whom they identify and can function as an avatar within the community.
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What do furries do for fun?

When someone attends a fur-con, or a furry convention, it is to meet furry friends their age and to show off their art and fursuit! Fur-cons can also have dance contests, art trading meetups, and fun games! That's all for now, and thank you for reading Macaroni Kid!
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Is being a furry OK?

The short and simple answer is that furry is a form of artistic and self-expression and while the majority of it is innocent, there can be an adult element for some. That being said, Minnesota Furs is a family-friendly organization, and all events are considered all-ages appropriate unless otherwise specified.
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What do furries like doing?

In the broadest sense, a furry is someone with an interest in anthropomorphized animals — that is, animals who have been given human characteristics, like an ability to talk or walk on their hind legs.
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Why do furries say UWU?

uwu is often used to denote cuteness, happiness, or tenderness. Excessive usage of the emoticon can also have the intended effect of annoying its recipient. The emoticon has been popular in the furry fandom.
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What country has the most furries?

Nationality:
  • USA: 34.9%
  • Canada: 16.5%
  • China: 11.1%
  • UK: 9.1%
  • Germany: 8.2%
  • Finland: 4.5%
  • Australia: 1.3%
  • France: 1.3%
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Can you be a furry without a fursuit?

No, you don't need a fursuit to be a furry. It's a wide and open culture that accepts your desire to be a furry and how you choose to interpret your fursona.
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What is a furry kid?

What are Furries? Furries are people who have an active interest in animal characters with human characteristics. These characters are often created by the community members themselves, who take them on as a “fursona” (an alternate persona) who interacts with other 'fursonas' in the community via roleplaying and art.
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What city has the most furries?

The world's largest furry convention has called Pittsburgh home for more than a decade, but it wasn't always here. The appreciation of anthropomorphic characters has been recognized as a distinct fandom only for a couple decades.
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How much does Fursuits cost?

Averages between $2145 to $2645+ depending on complexity. Our heads are casted in foam, with custom carving to achieve the right look for your fursona! Standard Features include tongues in minky fur, and eyes and teeth are in a hard plastic.
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What percentage of furries are LGBT?

In contrast, according to four different surveys 14–25% of the fandom members report homosexuality, 37–52% bisexuality, 28–51% heterosexuality, and 3–8% other forms of alternative sexual relationships.
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What do furries call each other?

Fans of furry characters sometimes make up a furry character to represent themselves. This is called a "fursona." Often, but not always, the fursona's species is that person's favorite animal. These people sometimes talk to each other while pretending to be their fursonas.
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What does W mean in furry?

OwO, also stylized as owo, as a furry term, is a chat emoticon and meme used in furry text-based conversation and roleplay, normally with a sexual connotation, sometimes as a trolling term. The two Os represent wide and open eyes, and the w represents a cutesy anime-styled mouth.
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What is ow and OwO?

Oral without; in prostitution, signifies performing oral sex on a men without using a condom. initialism.
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What does UwU mean from a girl?

Uwu is an emoticon depicting a cute face. It is used to express various warm, happy, or affectionate feelings.
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Whats a YIFF suit?

Fursuits are custom-made animal costumes owned and worn by cosplayers and members of the furry fandom, commonly known as "furries"; a furry who wears a fursuit is called a fursuiter. The term is believed to have been coined in 1993 by Robert King.
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Who invented furry?

The novels of Felix Salten published between 1926 and 1945 which established the precedents of what would later be called furry fiction. With the advent of animation and comic books in the first half of the 20th century, anthropomorphic animals became a popular phenomenon with fans of all ages.
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