The Furries of VRChat 

I wouldn't call myself a furry, but if I had the choice to hang out with a group of depressed anime characters in front of a mirror or hang out with a group of fun, uplifting, and energetic furry people, I'm gonna hang with the furries.

From my experience furries are more accepting and friendly than most

People may run up to you and call you every slur they can think of if you're a vrc furry, but I swear that's half the fun when they get so angry if you don't take it seriously

Furry community by far is still the best creators on VRC for optimized models. Blows my mind at every event how crazy the avatars are so customized

I love VRChat because it's one of the few places on the internet where most people won't care that I'm a furry

I personally agree that ducks are dope.

"If you want to bully someone, bully to Racist" Yo. That's pretty based. You dropped this W.

Life time furry, the community is full of fans of anthropomorphic animals of every kind, there are also artists, content creators, pro gamers, dancers, performers, musicians, you name it they exist, there was a negative stigma about furries and sex in their culture that for the longest time was buried and denied because there were so few members of the community who made it awful, here we are more than 30 years later and a majority of us just don't care anymore, I told a few people that "ok yes the furries are having all the sex and everyone else is jealous" and for the most part the stigma has faded away and we are enjoyed as the artists and creators that we are now, I personally just am a member of the community because they are among the best people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and being friends with, wouldn't change it for the world, good video by the way.

in my experience. the furry community is the most loving and caring community of them all.

Me and my friends usually end up in Furry Conference as a joke but that sh*t has a working piano and that ALMOST makes up for like 20 "very poor" furry avatars breaking my game

So actually I’ve had my greatest VR Chat experience in furry hub (I’m pretty new), I went there with a friend to ask about furries, and that was the first ‘real’ human interaction we had in the game and we left with a lot more understanding of the furry community. My friend completely changed his mind about furries, he was too harsh before. VR having the power to connect people like that really left me in awe that day.

There's probably so many Furries in VR Chat because Fursuits cost a fortune to buy, and you get to do essentially the same thing, but better in VR Chat. (For reference, a Fursuit is about $3,000 at the low end depending on maker, and an Oculus Rift S can be as low as $200, but still allowing them to portray themselves as this anthro animal but not at the cost of your left leg)

I've been part of some communities for a while, and probably one of the most common things that people get wrong about furries is that "aLl FuRrIeS aRe ZoOpHiLeS." This is heavily blown out of proportion, as only a percentage of a percentage of the furry fandom does that. In fact, many furries look down on zoophiles. Honestly, take some time and get to know a community a little, and you'd be surprised how friendly and overall fun it can be. The vast majority of them are just people who like to hang out and chat with people who share similar interests. They've accepted the whole UwU and OwO thing as basically a meme at this point (I have yet to encounter a furry who unironically says those in a conversation). Oh and don't get me started on the artwork and animations some of them can pull off. Overall, the fandom is vastly misunderstood, and is usually heavily bullied by outsiders who get their information from other outsiders rather than actually checking and doing research themselves.

I've been a furry for years and been on vrchat sence early 2017 and with my experience most pepole and kind and cool to hangout with but some do take it a bit to much in the community. But everytime i join a world i get bullied or targeted for being a furry :/

had so much fun helping out with this! keep up the good work!

Man I've been a "closeted" furry for like 3 years then finally I decided to just accept what I like and who I am around the begining of this year. It's been great so far, haven't run into any bullies yet. I hope that means people are just finally starting to mature these days? 😅

Everytime I watch a video like this it just makes me feel everyone had a better experience with the fandom than I ever did

8:53 that is so factual. They have the best full body support ever. Idk why.

For me furries are not even a bother. interesting to have around, let them be who they want, as long as they don't go farther than a model XD. i have a furry model because there isn't any good Normal Models, and furry ones seem to be the best you can get to something not entire E-Girl or E-Boy now these days

The history of Furries in VR Chat goes further, and it's NOTHING like it is today. It was basically a hidden gem in VRChat in the early days, and the Furry Hub has an interesting history as well

9:20 homie so sick of being used for content for streamers and youtubers im proud of him.

Can we just agree that this otter avatar is an absolute masterpiece? This looks so alive !

This seems like a really odd interview/really odd answers coming from the folks you asked questions to, and it really puts in perspective what Gen Z culture thinks furries are, versus what people who have been in the fandom for 10+ years feel. For me, the definition of a furry is: Someone who likes anthropomorphic animals in art. A fursona is a representation of yourself as an anthro animal. Someone can have multiple fursonas to represent different aspects of them, but usually they have one core fursona. Not all furries are creatives/artists, some just enjoy the art. Some furries wear fursuits. The fursuits can either be of their fursona, or just of a character design of an anthro animal that they think looks neat! It's like having a VRChat avatar in real life. Fursuits are extremely expensive, with heads alone usually costing more than $1000 from most makers. There is definitely a lewd part to the fandom and there's no denying that, but it isn't what the fandom is about as a whole. (Additionally, the lewd part of the fandom should absolutely be kept away from minors.) As a "fandom", furry is interesting because there's no one media that everyone bases their creations off of. Furry fandom is self-sustaining, creating its own content, with all money going to and from artists within the fandom itself. There is no corporate presence. While many furries like Disney's talking animal movies for example, it isn't a fandom based on Disney alone. Furry is honestly more like punk: DIY-based, community-based, and promoting the creativity of the community and rejection of the norm. Punk also lends itself into the queer community. A huge part of furry fandom is that it is inherently queer. According to studies like Furscience and others, only 20% of the fandom identifies as exclusively straight/cis. Furry fandom is all about expressing yourself in ways that feel true to who you are on the inside in a welcoming environment, which encourages and attracts a lot of LGBT folks. The need to express a form of yourself differently from how you look in real life also hits home with a lot of the queer community. This also goes as far as expressing yourself differently in how you act; a large group of furries feel like they can be more outgoing and social when in fursuit. There are of course a few bad apples that spoil the bunch, but the majority of the fandom condemns them, and it's infinitely frustrating that these folks seem to be getting the most attention. Almost all conventions are working to make sure the unsavory folks know they are not welcome here. Overall, I'd say the takes of the people interviewed in this video are kinda surface-level at best. They may be young, new to the fandom, or have their only furry experience be on VRchat. Weirdly, I find way more hate for furries on VRchat and tiktok, places more dominated by younger folks, than on twitter, at actual conventions, or just in day to day life irl. There's so much more to the fandom, even within VRchat itself! I promise there's much nicer furs out there within the VR world. Definitely try to visit when a VR con is going on!

ngl but their avatars always look well-made and cared for, and the movements look better then most because there is no clipping

As part of the furry community when the stigma was around you can't go anywhere online without getting harassed or bullied, as of late a lot more people are accepting the community and it makes socializing way easier, I myself am a Furry artist and just love the art that the community makes, not to mention how open people are for people with something special like disabilities or so on. Overall I don't think I will be leaving the community any time soon.

lmao weeb that part where the 2 furries got mad at each other was fucking brilliant haha

For me I finally accepted being a furry. It took 3 months for me to have the courage to accept it because all the hate I had on myself. I hated myself so much just by thought of me being a furry. Hopefully in the future I have more confidence to show myself more.

That was a great video. As a furry myself, I'm really proud of the hard work and effort you made into this video. BTW my favorite part that had me cracking up was 8:40

Furry here, learning Unity just for furry memes in VR chat. also, good video! You haven't even begun to see the crazy shit Furries can get Unity to do with VR chat

6:52 that "👍sure👍" was soooo cute 🥰

Bro is almost at 10k, im waiting for this moment. These videos are getting more effort put into them and that's fantastic

That moderator im the video was my bud flato. Me and him were staff in ftac, and I remember he was a very active and trained admin. Getting harrassed there is an everyday thing, but it was fun being able to meet new people on duty. If you see admins in furry talk in chill,dont bully them. Staff go through a lot while moderating, and respecting them will mean a lot to them 👌

Awesome video and topic! You should interview the transformers community in VRChat sometime in the future. It’s a fun community with friendly and nice people and you’d love it!

Furry artist over here. I do a lot of VR chat on the side, so I just wanted to add a little bit to the conversation. I tend to mirror dwell with my friends when not playing a game or soemthing. Personally it helps me for two reasons: one: the furry avatars I use are really complex and it gives me practice learning the different emotes through different hand positioning. That's actually the second reason for mirror dwelling. When hanging with friends to see and interact with others a little more comfortably. Now to talk about the fursonas and things, do note I'm biased. Although it tends to be a way to express one's self in a safe environment. No fear of being seen as too edgy or constrained by how you look in real life. That being said I know that's not for everyone but I just figured it was worth adding.

I really like how real you make it. You keep it funny, show the weird things and all the amazing and cute things.

Can I just say that Twice, I am proud of you for allowing yourself to understand the fandom, because that’s truly the breaking point of getting to the bottom of what the furry fandom is and what it’s not, People outside the fandom spread rumors countlessly about how the fandom is and isn’t, due to them being sheltered from what the fandom actually is, to a lot of people it is first incredibly overwhelming at first but the more you open yourself up to it you get used to the feeling and it gives of the feeling of powerful affection, because that’s truly what it’s like, all I can say is your (cousin I think?) was pretty harsh but he is younger and obviously not as understanding as you are (no offense) I know he was joking I’m sure, but the “burn all furries” is really harsh to any furry that hears something like that, what normie outsiders say about the fandom is just a big GIANT echo chamber.

I know this is way off topic from this video but I love your content and I'm so glad I found your channel and your why I started making vr content thank you have a good day twice

They guy with a frying pan around 1:55 really was looking good lol Thanks so much for uploading this! That was me when I think I just got my vrheadset! That was so awesome to see it again after so long! If you ever want to hang, the names Lostwolf527!

I've been one for years and it goes really deep there's different branches of the community where some make and sell characters, theres some that like wearing suits, some who don't or have no interest in it, and a whole lot more.. I have a lot of furry characters and when in vrchat I usually use a dragon avatar I found. Most people want to use their fursonas in vrchat but since it's so hard to make/really expensive to commission, most people don't.. However I have seen some people with custom avatars of their sonas and they're pretty cool Also I'm aware I'm like 2 months late but I just recently found your channel and you seem pretty cool

Bro you got 10k I'm so happy for you I love your vr videos unboxing videos school projected I'm so happy never new you well make it this far in just 2 moths but your videos have been really nice bro I want to support you in anyway

the intro was enough to make me laugh, cant wait for the video hell yeah edit: oh my god, ITS SO GOOD! KEEP IT UP TWICE!

So basically the simplest way to put it is that Furries are an art subculture. Specifically they like and appreciate Anthromorphic media and artwork. There are other art movements out there as well for example impressionists or surrealists, really there is no difference it's just a different style of art! "Anthromorphic" art is any media that has animal characters with human like traits, they could walk on two legs, wear clothes, and talk. Movies like "Wolfwalkers" and "The Cat Returns" are good examples.

Oh shot 10k is almost here, Let’s go! Hype, congratulations

I love watching this guy at night he's just so calming to watch and keep up the good work

The furry community is the most accepting tbh & tbh is like any other fandom. There is love towards it and there are people that dont understand so they hate on it

"be a bully to racism" made me actually sit back in my chair like, wow.... that's deep.

Epic video! Suggestion: Maybe make a video on the SCP foundation of VRchat it would be interesting to see that documented. Anyway keep up the good work!

You did good dude. It’s not every day I see a genuinely nice video talking about our community ;)

Such a weird amount of my friends between middle and high school turned out to be furries to the point that I’m like 90% sure all my other friends suspect me of being a furry, but my experience seems to be exactly what the one guy at the end said. About half of them are just laid back and fucking hilarious and the other half are some combination of sjw and/or openly sexual deviant. There’s like a divide between the two types and they rarely seem to associate with one another

As a furry, I find the furry community to be one of the most polarizing communities, and it can be tough to get into the eye of the hurricane that is the community.

I've been a part of the community (on and off) for more or less 6-7 years at this point. I joined mostly due to some movies and TV shows I watched as a kid combined with a sudden interest for drawing and animating. I left for a while, thinking that people wouldn't respect me, or want to be friends with me if they knew I was a furry. However, my interest for drawing, animating, and 3D modeling hadn't gone away. Eventually I realized good friends would judge me based on my character, not my interests and I came back. In the community, there will always be people that do strange things like make animal noises, but I've seen far more people who are just there to talk about normal, though often nerdy, things like game design, drawing, animating, programming, tech, etc. And that is my personal reason for using VR Chat, I want to meet and talk to people with similar interests. I may look different from what I am in real life, but I'm still very much just the same regular dude I am outside of VR. The one thing in your video I want to add on to is the snowflake argument. Though I personally can laugh off furry haters, there are more than enough people in the community with mental illnesses and depression. For a lot of them, insults hit way too close to home, especially if they're already being bullied in real life by people that threaten and commit acts of violence, or even just degrade them socially. I've been there and it isn't fun. That being said, there are of course also people that get unreasonably upset at others for saying negative things about furries, even if they are just meming. But, those cases are far less frequent and more often than not, people are quite justified in being upset. Anyways I've rambled on for far too long, so if anyone actually reads this, thank you!

I've been waiting for this! ^^

11:33 omg. I'm in this video. I'm pretty sure that is me dancing as unity-chan on the right side. Also, Wo1fie is a great DJ. I love his sets!

Love the videos man, keep it up

one of the few vrchat youtubers i like, keep it up

You've been in my recommendations too much recently. You deserve a sub.

9:48 A wild Pikachu has appeared Me: YEEES! PIKACHU, 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

Any furry I've ever met has always been super chill and a cool person to hang around. I feel like because people target and troll them so much, a lot of them have learnt just to not give a damn about anyone's opinion of them. They always respect others even though so many people disrespect them.

Needs more views ngl. Liked the drop kicking part.

I like that you’re exploring new worlds and looking at new groups and cultures of people. I consider myself a furry as well, I like when people are genuinely interested and want to know things.

1. The Virtuefurence Map is actually 1:1 based on the Estrel Hotel in Berlin, which has held the annual furry convention "Eurofurence" since 2014. And that's just one of the numerous major furry conventions around the world. 2. The most popular definition of furry/furry fandom consists of two elements: a) people fond of anthropormorphic animals, and b) acknowledging the presence of the fandom and consider themselves as parts of the community. Doesn't matter if you have fursonas, furry avatars, fursuits or else as they're not obligatory for being furries. 3. Just like human societies, the furry community is composed of all kinds of personalities and traits, you may see artists, nerds, gamers, anime/sci-fi fans, roleplayers, scientists, occasionally, while cringy ones, trolls, mental diseased patients, horny furries do exist as well, and the fandom generally holds greater acceptance towards LGBTQ+ members, avoid holding specific stereotypes is advised. 4. The fandom offers chances to express yourself with all kinds of ways, fursonas, avatars, fursuits, commissioned drawings, literature, musics are just common medium. By the way numerous content creators have benefited from taking commissions from furries and even make ends meet around the world. Sorry for my nerdiness but the video doesn't seem to reach the core of what furries are. Hope this helps.

The furry fandom is the most welcoming community in the world because true furries just want to make other people smile

how do you make such quality videos in such a small span of time wow your underated

I'm a free I got into it about 16 years ago they help me in a way that I didn't think anybody else could I have anxiety disorder and watching the videos of them at conventions got me strong enough to actually go and take part of it since then you're like one big family always willing to help you out

100k quaility video as always, keep it up!

I would like to point out on the intro that when they walked over to the cat there was specifically Minecraft sounds when you walk on grass. I can recognize any Minecraft sound used in something that isn't necessarily related to Minecraft, I just recognize it. ✨🦊👍

Nice video, surprisingly. Respect for being adequate bro, and, as you wanted, my comment on your definition: it's alright, though there should be a mention that furry can mean the antropomorphic animal character itself too! Some people tend not to know about this.

Your definition of what a furry is was spot on. I have never seen anyone outside the fandom ever get it right on as you did. Now you have more spastic specialized definitions for each individual person of why they are in the fandom and what the fandom is to them their selfs. My spastic reason is that I like dressing up as animals in what we call within the fandom as a fursuit. A fursuit is just a costume of a animal that a furry wears. As far as I am aware of I have more fursuits than any other furry has. From just heads to a full fursuit which covers my entire body in the costume I own over 70 fursuits. Many furries like collecting artwork where I like collecting fursuits.i happen to like what is called a realistic fursuit which just means that the costume is more a realistic stile compared to a toon fursuit which is on the toony side of the spectrum. Most furries don't own any form of a fursuit for many reasons. The most common reason is that they just have no desire to own one. Then there are the furs who just can't afford one as fursuits can be extremely expensive as its not unknown for a fursuit to run over ten thousand dollars. Most fursuits run from as low as five hundred dollars just for a head to into being three or four thousand dollars for a nice full fursuit. Another reason that a fur may.not want to own a fursuit is that they are extremely hot to wear. A fursuit can be 20 degrees or even hotter than the room that they are standing in and even worse outside in direct sunlight.

As a fellow furry, I can say that the furry community on VR chat is basically just like the ones that you'll probably see when going to normal Furry conventions or communities. The people that you meet there are super nice and calm compared to the edgy 13-year-olds that try their best to scare you with their demon fursonas. Overall, I say that everyone should at least befriend a furry, mainly because the communities are super chill and their overall just some cool people to be around.

actually I took a college course about furries so I know about the historey and lore of furries. It all started when President John F. Kennedy authorized an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. It's not common knowledge, however the bay of pig was in fact a bay of pig people. These people were pretending to be strange humanoid pig creatures. To kennedy's surprise however, the pig people were much stronger than anticipated. During a second attempt at invading the bay of pigs in 1963, the military brought bacon to fend off the pig people. Unfortunately their intel was wrong as the pig people had transformed into wolf people. The bacon backfired and they were slaughtered... The enemy wolf people were dubbed "Furries." Everyone feared the furries. But eventually people learned to coexist and they formed their own island nation where furries prosper and yes you guessed it, play Vrchat. It is estimated that 69% of vrchat players are located in the furry island nation of Furrytopia.

i became a part of the furry fandom in 2018 im starting to slip a bit out of the fandom, but i still call myself a furry since i draw my oc's from time time and still love anthropomorphic animals, im really glad that when i joined the first thing i saw was the nice and cute part, i found a really cute video of a fursuit of a dutch angel dragon and i fell in love with it and made my own fursona that ended up being a dutchie(dutch angel dragon) since its the first interaction i had with the fandom and they're really cute. alot of furries draw, but not all of them and there arent actually that many furries that have a fursuit compared to how big the community is. thanks for making this video and putting us in a good light, it makes me and alot others very hapy!

Yooooo, I was chilling in the Furhub instance you joined! Hope you had a great time making the video! I'm at the bottom of the photo at 0:44!

Aezuki I got your back next time I see that kid I will give him the 1,2

5:04 When you go shoping and some random kid start staring at you for no reason.

I’ve been in the community for a long time it’s so welcoming, fun, expressive. I find it to be where I belong.

nice video man, u did the fandom well :)

Oh, forgot to comment that "Fursona", like "Steamsona" in the SteamPunk crowd, is derived from "Persona", as in the personal character/fictional alter-ego that a given person likes to play as. Both terms are portmanteaus of their respective fandoms + the word persona, as in "Fursona" = "FURry perSONA" or "Steamsona" = "STEAMpunk perSONA". This can even be extended to VTubers' "Twitchsonas", or online roleplayers' "websonas", or... Well, I think you get the idea, nyao. -_^

Oh no. 0:31 it's me

I wish I could have been on vrchat at the time you guys were walking around asking these questions. I would have loved to answer them! ❤️

Bro, this video and the comment section is so wholesome - I love it

a private DELUX hotel suite just to eat out LUNCH? sounds LEGIT

the cat just hits the fan NOOOO

Glad I checked out your other videos, cool stuff mang

As a commission artist I had a lot of experience with furries and they generally are really nice and approachable people. Many furries' fursonas and avatars of choice do look off-putting in my eyes to varying degrees, but I won't just judge people based on a character or general look they personally enjoy. It's stupid how people still, in this day and age, are very prone to hating on others just for liking something they don't.

Honestly, just from a personal standing, the furry community has been one of the nicest, most caring, and all around wholesome (except for the... well...) and generally accepting to everyone around them. As a furry myself, sure maybe it's just me being one of those "My bad bitches can do no wrong, they are the baddest of bitches and i love them" people but, no it just- well, I quite adore the furry fandom/community.

11:05 that’s not the reason why people bully furries.

I loved when the visitor avatar thing messed with your screen lmao

I have been reading the comments for the entire video and it has honestly made my day that the majority of what i have seen is nice and sensible conversations. Much love to anyone who see's this. I hope you have a Fabulous day.

10:01 MY GOD HES HES RIGHT

Lmao the beginning loved it 💀

Yo what's up twice! love your vids!

I like the editing on this video nice job

See when RU-vidrs do this my brain is like “Ok what dumb crap are they going to say, I know they aren’t a furry” Watches whole thing impress of there reaction “U earn my respect” But yes most people do bully furries a lot, but I ignore them, bc if I can be myself and who I want to be on vr, then idc what everyone else thinks

im waiting for my 1st furry avatar to be ready, my friend making it for me... gonna have fun with it for beatsaber and VR chat

love your videos man you are going make it far one day!

When I first started playing VRCHAT a few months ago the first avatar I picked up was a cute little pink fox girl. Why? Because it was CUTE. For some odd reason though when I used that particular avi everyone in public worlds assumed that I was a furry and would ask me questions about it. I have no problem with the community, but I would’ve liked to have used that avi without having that assumption ya know? Anyways, awesome video! ☺️❤️

I've found the furry Community very warm and welcoming. Yes there are dics like anywhere but overall its a brilliant and chilled place to be.

Bro your cousin is a fucking legend 6:21 hahah

Yo you should low key do a sign language video; there was a whole stand at a recent vrconvention about it, from helping hands to Immersed and more tis a hella cool place love the people and commuinity

You should interview the Warhammer PVP community as someone who is apart of it we definitely have our ups and downs, particularly petty almost fully grown men ripping our avatars because they got blacklisted for being a racist ass.