Furries on Yik Yak | This is a really niche complaint and maybe bitchy but so many furries love of cute youthful character designs leads to them being 30+ y/o with fursonas that look 16-18 and it’s corny. Unlearn your fear of aging and ugliness it makes for better designs

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Furries 1w

This is a really niche complaint and maybe bitchy but so many furries love of cute youthful character designs leads to them being 30+ y/o with fursonas that look 16-18 and it’s corny. Unlearn your fear of aging and ugliness it makes for better designs

Anonymous 1w

There’s not a lot of diversity in fursona/furry character designs because many artists have an unhealthy attachment to beauty standards and youthfulness is what I’m getting at. I’m tired of seeing cute twinky cats and dogs it’s BORING!!!

Anonymous 1w

Like the design itself is cutesy/youthful or the character looks 16-18? Cause I do think there is a difference. My fursona isn’t necessarily cute or youthful in design (plain white house cat) but her as a character is youthful because I am only 23 myself and she is based directly off of me, I have every intention of aging her with me as I grow older though.

Anonymous 1w

i think its fun to add parts of yourself to your sona! kee’s heart shaped face represents my widow’s peak, and the thicker fur on the legs, tummy, and arms is a way to represent my pcos, which causes thicker hair growth, as well as giving them my body type. i think its totally possible to keep cutesy characters while still representing yourself- she’s helped me feel a lot more confident!

Anonymous 1w

Mine is a protogen that has gotten steadily more rusty

Anonymous

#1 1w

Cute I love that concept

Anonymous

#2 1w

Also older doesn’t equal ugly?

Anonymous

#2 1w

I never said it does, but the fact that cutesy and youthful furries make up the overwhelming majority of furry character designs, emphasizes that people favor what fits their idea of beautiful vs ugly. “Ugly” in societal terms means anything not conventionally attractive, and the majority of artists focus on the conventionally attractive when it comes to character design because of their subconscious bias towards beauty. That bias leads to a lack of visual diversity in the characters

Anonymous

#2 1w

Older doesn’t equal ugly, but in a broad societal sense it does which is why I mentioned it.

Anonymous

OP 6d

I guess I can see that. I do think artists should branch out more from the conventionally attractive. I draw and create a lot of “ugly”, some older but also a lot of plus-size. I think what I’m most sick of is when people do stray from conventionally attractive it’s almost always purely for fetish.. Anytime I do see other people draw older or plus-size characters it’s only to fetishized it.

Anonymous

#2 6d

I couldn’t even post a ref of my plus-size character on DA without someone adding it to their fetish folder. I guess it might make sense to see that if I had more of a following but I was literally a brand new account with 0 followers.