lux 🦊:therian: on Nostr: So the FA financial distress is another indicator that furries are going to be or are ...

So the FA financial distress is another indicator that furries are going to be or are already the next proxy for queerphobic fear-mongering in the US, huh.

The TL;DR is that payment processors have come to FA and told them "listen here buddy, furries hugging, fat furs, or furries being naked with no genitals is too risqué for us. You gotta stop that or we stop paying you for the advertisements you display." This is, of course, a bar impossible and morally too reprehensible to clear, hence FA now being without a major source of income.

This story comes out after furries have been name-dropped up to the fucking senate. Furries have been called "not trustworthy to be air line pilots" recently, while a representative was yapping bigoted nonsense with the "pregnant man emoji" printed out on a board behind him. There are precedents for bills by right-wing legislators targeting furries specifically (but until this year without getting any traction; remember the "litter box" moral panic?)

This designation of furries as a "weird and not trustworthy demographic" is, of course, thinly veiled queerphobia.