Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 01/08/2024Orangina has always been weirdly horny for furries. 916834
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 02/07/2024The string of horrible furry media coverage in the early 2000s didn't exist in a vacuum. It was part of a massive post-9/11 push for jingoism and "normalcy" on TV. So everybody "different" or "marginal" would be portrayed as a villain or be made the target of mockery. Hence furry marginalization. 15377146
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 18/03/2024The Löwenmensch figurine, discovered in 1939 in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave, part of the Caves and Ice Age Art in the Swabian Jura UNESCO World Heritage Site. It is currently, the oldest known piece of anthropomorphic art in the world, carbon-dated to be approximately 35-41,000 years old. 222978
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 18/03/2024The Orlando Furry Archives provided hosting for furry art and artists media This archive started in 1996 as a programing project by Simtra to place Harik's art collection on the web The original name of the archive was furry.ao.net which led to the name F.A.N. Archive It has been down since 2008 48319
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 06/03/2024Compilation of TERRIBLE fursuits seen on TV during the early-2000s media obsession with furries. 1010016
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 06/03/2024"The fursuit of happiness" was an article that appeared in the April 12, 2001 issue of the Montreal Mirror. It TRIED ("tried" being the key word here) to give a more balanced view of furries as a fandom. But inevitably circled back to obsessing over how we strange freaky people had sex. 1362
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 02/03/2024I'm not going to post this kind of thing often, but... Pro tip : It's generally seen as horribly insensitive and trashy by polite society to name drop a recently deceased person to win points in a petty internet argument. 3018031
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 20/02/2024The Freezing Furs were a (now defunct) group that was founded in response to the Burned Furs. They believed (rightly so) that Burned Furs were a hate group seeking to rally support for a "cleansing" of the furry fandom by dehumanizing and discounting folks that had been part of it from the start. 48213
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 20/02/2024The Pride Lands Online was a web-based fanzine created by and for fans of Disney's The Lion King. The webzine had 7 released issues between 1996 and 1999. An archive of the webzine can be found at : www.thumper.net/tlkmag/ 14813
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 17/01/2024Not vintage furry stuff, but likely relevant to people here: Oklahoma republicans are passing a bill that would make it illegal for children to "attend school as furries". Not only that, but a child could potentially be removed from school by ANIMAL CONTROL. All that because of LibsOfTiktok lies. 2112642
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 16/01/2024In the mid 2010s, Jagermeister ran a series of adverts using bizarrely horny-on-main furry imagery. (Don't ask me why the stag guy has a very visible and detailed bulge on an officially alcoholic beverage advert, I have no idea either) 34973261
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Ken Sample's essay from Yarf #0 "Why?" In which Ken Sample writes about why he likes anthropomorphic characters as much as he does. 3325120
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 04/01/2024In 2022, Dick Tracy had a storyline taking place at a furry convention taking place in Chicago called Fanfur (alternate universe MFF, clearly). He meets with a staff member called "Eric Greymuzzle" about a dastardly fake animation cell ring. 1121284
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 21/12/2023The Tonygate™ An event where so many furries flirted with and drew NSFW fan art of Tony the Tiger that Kellogg's started mass blocking furries on Twitter, and Tony porn started appearing on Google's feature card about the character. 311231
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 19/12/2023Usagi Yojimbo is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai. Set in the beginning of Edo period Japan, with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, it features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, who wanders the land on a shogyusha occasionally selling his services as a bodyguard. 16312
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 19/12/2023Crush! Yiff! Destroy! was a website with an associated forum which was frequented by ex-furs, nonfurs, and anti-furries alike. Its goals was the "uninhibited" discussion and mocking of what its members see as "excesses" and/or "vices of the furry fandom". The website was taken offline on March 2010 8708
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 12/12/2023Biker Mice from Mars or "How to make a whole generation of male millennials question their sexuality" 913928
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 20/11/2023It's really kind of crazy to think that furries' addresses and personal information was just being published so openly in those days: (Page censored for obvious reasons) 7693
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 20/11/2023Of course, one can imagine that there might have been a LITTLE bit of discomfort in the readerbase being called "furverts" repeatedly. 1455
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 20/11/2023"FurVersion" was one of the earliest furry-specific fanzines, published by Karl Maurer from May 1987 to November 1990. It began as a simple list of names and addresses to enable Furry fans to contact each other. By issue #3 it began including art and fiction. 514533
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 20/11/2023YARF! was a fanzine started by Jeff Ferris in January 1990. Other people involved editorially during its early years were Lance Rund, Dave Bryant and Kris Kreutzman. It published comics, book reviews, text stories and pin-ups from dozens of artists. The last issue was published in 2003. 08816
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 18/11/2023Did you know? The original hotel for Furpocalypse was featured in an urbex video by The Proper People after it was closed and abandoned The amount of decay that happened after its closure is kind of impressive in such a short time (even if you consider how damaged it already was prior to closing) 77214
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 14/11/2023That time Steven Universe basically did a not-so-subtle fanservicey furry episode : 3525
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 14/11/2023"Fear of Commitment" is the 20th episode of season 7 of "ER". The episode featured fursuiters who landed in the ER. As typical for late 90s-early 2000s media representation, the two suiters are portrayed as socially-inept nerds and they go through pretty much ANY furry slang the writers came across 2333
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 14/11/2023Animalympics is an animated TV special that was created for the 1980 Olympic Games. The show had two parts: the Winter Games, a ½ hour special which was aired February 1st, 1980, and the Summer Games, an hour special that was never broadcast due to the US boycott of the Summer Olympic Games. 79224
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 14/11/2023The Löwenmensch figurine, also called the Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel, is a prehistoric ivory sculpture discovered in Hohlenstein-Stadel, a German cave, in 1939. Determined by carbon dating to be 35,000-41,000 years old, it is one of (if not *the*) oldest anthropomorphic art pieces. 45917
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 14/11/2023Remember that time some people tried to launch a brand of "luxury" fursuits that actually looked rather mediocre. They were excessively overpriced and all of them featured a gaudy logo on the cheek of the suit's head. 5538
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 13/11/2023Camp Feral (stylised as "Feral!") is a furry convention held every year in the wilderness of Ontario, Canada. It is the first outdoor furry convention, and currently the fourth-oldest still-running furry convention. Camp Feral has been running since 1998. The current location is Algonquin Park. 1477
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 13/11/2023Unfortunately, because of the costumed attendees being visible in many of the news recordings of the incident and the nature of the convention, several news programs did not take the situation seriously. The most infamous example being Mika Brzezinski inappropriately laughing live on air. 1243
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 13/11/2023The 2014 Chlorine Gas Attack incident at MFF was a terrorist attack perpetrated against the attendees of Midwest Furfest on December 7th 2014 at 12:45 AM, when still-unidentified individuals purposefully shattered a jar of powdered chlorine in the emergency stairwell near the corner suites. 74613
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 13/11/2023Christian Parents Against Furries was an anti-furry group created by "Mrs. White", a "concerned Christian mom," whose son "had fallen prey to the sinful ways of the furry fandom", but "through God was able to come back from the brink of perdition." It was, of course, a hoax created by 4channers. 1415
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 13/11/2023Did you know that PeTA once wrote to Anthrocon demanding to know for sure that fursuits were not made out of real fur? (Can you imagine how much a suit would cost if it was made with genuine fur?!) 1310113
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Still frames from a video of a 1982 meeting of the Cartoon/Fantasy organisation, followed by a visit to "Cell-a-bration", a fundraising event organized by the International animated film association. Source: Prancing Skiltaire 0393
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Photographs of 4chan forum members "protesting" Anthrocon 2007. 206812
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 06/11/2023Bill Holbrook's Kevin & Kell is a comic about a rabbit's and wolf's controversial predator-prey mixed marriage. It has been running since 1995, making it one of the (if not THE) longest running furry webcomics in existence. 26411
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 06/11/2023The Prancing Skiltaire is the oldest Furry House (or commune) in fandom history. Founded in 1983 when Rod O'Riley and three other furry fans moved into Mark Merlino's home. Merlino and O'Riley have been the two permanent residents ever since. 1117128
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Stills from KARE 11 report on Confurence 8 - 1997 29520
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Rowrbrazzle, a fanzine, co-created by Marc Schirmeister, Timothy Fay and John Cawley in 1983 as the result of Vootie's demise. Fred Patten, an important figure of the early furry fandom, considers the launch of RowrBrazzle the moment when the furry fandom started transforming into the modern one. 113523
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 16/10/2023Pictures from LIFE magazine from 1949 Tiger costume which could be considered a proto-fursuit at Princeton’s annual Prince-Tiger dance. 532697
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 04/10/2023The "Fur and Loathing" episode from CSI is so infamous and disliked that merely entering "that episode" as a query in Google will have the Wikipedia entry for it as the first result. 914940
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 02/10/2023Burned Furs was the name of a group that claimed to "counter public acts of perversion within the furry fandom", active 1998-2001 The evidence, however, shows an agenda that was sex-negative, anti-LGBTQ, and socially conservative. 1214236
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 02/10/2023The VCL, previously short for the Velan Central Library, popularly known as the Vixen Controlled Library, was an archive website for pictures and stories centered around anthropomorphic characters that launched in 1995. The website now only exists in a read-only state as of 2013. 99421
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 02/10/2023'I married a man who thinks he's a wild cat' CREATURE C0MF0RTS (archive.org) Article from 1997, published by Marie-Claire magazine. 6341100
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 27/09/2023Photographs from C-ACE 2004 A defunct convention held in Ottawa, Canada. 1372
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Older Furries will remember Tiger Den providing basic internet access services at furry conventions before smartphones and free public wifi became ubiquitous. This photo would be from the mid to late 2000s when Anthrocon started taking place in Pittsburgh. This would be set up next to the Zoo. 40607156
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Front page of the webcomic "Buster Wilde" The main character is a grumpy heterosexual office worker drone by day and an excitable playful and friendly gay werewolf by night. 1013534
Vintage Furry Content @oldfurrystuff.bsky.social · 26/09/2023The 1997 version of the webpage for the furry convention "Confurence". A classic example of the messy web design of mid-to-late 90s internet. 24410
