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Are there many furries on Tildes?
Kinda curious how many furries we have on Tildes. Personally I just got started with sewing and plushie making so I can make custom plushies of peoples fursonas. It's going well so far but it's convinced me to drop an absolute fortune on an embroidery machine so I can make better looking eyes and paws x.x
I'm going to guess "yes, but a low number". That number is at least two.
I think Bluesky is an exception. They have a lot of furries (DM me for an invite link if needed).
I feel like there are particular sites that are more used by the community though. A coworker gave me real suspicious look when they saw Telegram on my phone. I had to explain that it's not just racists and terrorists on the platform but that furries almost universally use it because it supports custom stickers.
I've never heard that connotation. I thought it was primarily associated with tech & privacy enthusiasts. Pretty sure the MKBHD team has said on their podcast that they all use and prefer Telegram. Since I get a notification when my contacts join, I also know quite a few "normal" people have joined the last couple years.
Getting OT here pretty fast so apologies but it's sort of important. I cannot in any way be described as a privacy enthusiast, but even I know Telegram is almost certainly compromised.. I would trust it about as far as I trust plain SMS, ie: not at all.
Interesting. I've never actually seen anyone I know irl outside of furries use it. It was picking up a lot of mainstream attention previously from users who were kicked off twitter (pre Musk) since Telegram will host basically anything that is not illegal in the US. To the point where if a group is required to be banned to comply with Apple/Google store ToS, they will only block it on mobile but not desktop or the PWA. Quite a lot of the deplatformed communities like KiwiFarms were using Telegram.
From my perspective, Discord is the far more common choice for most people. Could be country related too.
Same. I use it for a telegram-bot connected to my 3D printer
It's also just very widespread in some countries. Here in Russia almost everyone has switched to Telegram from WhatsApp in the past few years, and I've also seen a lot of Indian and Arabic people on there
Yeah this is probably it. I've never met someone IRL in Australia that uses Telegram. The contact matching thing shows that none of my contacts use it. Here iMessage, Discord, and Facebook Messenger make up basically all users.
Never heard TG being connotated with any specific group. Every single student of my Uni (engineering school) used it for communication, and this was ten years ago. It’s still the main platform even though I graduated a while ago.
Mastodon, too
I wouldn't call myself a furry, but I guess in a way I'm furry-adjacent. I like the art and I like the lighthearted roleplay, but more than anything I like the general vibes that come from most furry communities, which tend to be accepting to a fault. I still occasionally show up from time to time on Furcadia, which is surprisingly active these days considering it's age.
Nice way to be entrepreneurial. : )
I have a close contact who built a successful reupholstery business. Sewing and fabric arts can be fun and lucrative skills to have.
Yeah my main job is software development and I've been craving something a little more hands on that can be easily done in an apartment. Making cute plushies and kigurumis for people feels more rewarding than my real job building ad tech junk (Looking for a new job but it's a slow market currently).
If you can handle the marketing and build a solid word of mouth reputation, there is serious opportunity. Good for you.
In answer to your question: UwU. Though I haven't purchased any art in an absolute age.
aha yeah. My long term goal is to be able to make stuff like this https://www.curlworks.net/kigurumi
But it takes a huge amount of skill to make something of that quality. Once my new embroidery machine arrives and I work out how to use the software, I should be a fair bit closer though.
Have probably spent close to $15,000 participating in the furry community over the last few years. The people I've met have been amazing and helped me a lot through life so I'm pretty happy to pour money in to the community and the skilled people making stuff.
As a very casual sewer ..... Those don't look so hard ..... How much money we talking here, above $800 per costume? Not that I should enter a space as an outsider only to profit off members.
Self answer $2500-5000
Honestly, from what I've heard from my friends who do visual art, forming a symbiotic relationship with the furry community is a great way to make pretty solid money. Everything I've heard is that they're good clients and really enthusiastic about custom art and artists. I think as long as you're being fair and respectful with your clients, no one cares if you yourself are a furry or not. But I myself am not a furry so this is all secondhand knowledge.
There are some cheaper options around but it's pretty obvious they are taking some big shortcuts to cut the price down. Lemonbrat does them starting at $1000. It's hard to see from their page but I went through a bunch of their work people had posted on twitter where you can see the finer details.
So I feel you are actually getting something for your money. Though I do feel like it should be possible to make something yourself for much cheaper. That said, I've already spent thousands on the equipment needed to make them so its only really a savings if you are making lots of them and selling them. And then at that point you need to make a profit to make it worth it. In general I think you can price furry stuff at pretty much any price and as long as you can show how it's better than the cheaper options. The higher tier fursuits sell for about $20k-40k USD these days.
I can think of two.
Does being a member of the (pega)cister community to furries count?
Never heard of them before. Could you elaborate?
Pegasisters are the female version of Bronies, which are fans the My Little Pony
Altho the name Pegasister is used less than Brony, with people of all genders usually just referring to themselfs as Bronies
I haven't heard of Pegacisters before, would you mind elaborating @public?
@slabs37 gave a good answer.
As to why I spelled it pegacisters, it was playing with phoenetics and the fact that trans pegasisters likely outnumber the cis pegasisters.