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Roo and Tugs are joined by their long time friends Klik and T-Wolf in studio as they explore the world of friendship and how it connects to the fandom. Between all the giggles, we read your emails and share your thoughts on friendships and what it means to you. To top it off we visit THE GAME, play a listener voicemail, and open the mailbag. A description can't really show how awesome and hilarious this episode is, so stop reading and hit that play button!



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Special Thanks

Zandafrost
Keirron
Pyro Husky
Danny
Felix
Kira the Fox
Kit Kat
Bree Pup
and Vinyl Scratch/DJ-Pon3, our guest announcer!

Music and Breaks

Opening theme: Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Radio Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. Used with permission.  (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)
Closing: Fredrik Miller – Cloud Fields (Chill Out Mix). USA: Bandcamp, 2011. Used with permission. (Buy a copy here – support your fellow furs!)

Next episode: Take a break from the holiday hustle and bustle with Fur What It’s Worth. Send us your voicemails and emails about the things you are grateful for. This is one of our favorite annual episodes, and we need YOU to help make it great! Send your responses by December 5, 2013. S3 Episode 12 – Friendship and the Fandom - Roo and Tugs are joined by their long time friends Klik and T-Wolf in studio as they explore the world of friendship and how it connects to the fandom. Between all the giggles, we read your emails and share your

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Deep breath

So I'm very new to this "furry fandom", it seems to be called, and I don't know very much about it other than what I've been told by my friends and in drawings, and my friends pointed me to this dandy subreddit.

I have a few questions, if you all don't mind answering them...

• What exactly is a "fursona?"

• Where can I meet/talk with other furries?

• Are there any standards or etiquette for furries?

I'll add/ask more questions as I think of them. :)

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There are a lot of tutorials and stuff on making fursuits, but does anyone know where I can find a good tutorial for a scaley suit?

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More and more I'm wanting to go to a convention and I'm curious how much money I'll have to save up to make the trip. Are you guys sharing rooms? Where can I find people to carpool with ( have a car but it's good to share seats because I'll save on gas money right?) and split hotel costs? How much of your trip is planned ahead of time, places to eat ect. Got any tips or general advice?

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After a few days of sorting through species here I am with the results! I hope you find them as interesting as I did. :D

Big thanks btw to http://www.chartgo.com/ for allowing me to make these charts!

THE RESULTS!

As for the future of the polls, most people seemed positive about doing polls semi-regularly so here's what i'm going to do:

• I will try to get one poll out every month at most
• Every poll will be more or less furry related
• Every poll will be different, and will be more focused than this one was
• Results will be posted in an imgur album on the subreddit about a week after the poll

Topics I have planned so far include, but are not limited to:

• Yiff
• Fursonas
• How other people view the fandom
• This same generic poll (but refined) every so often to see how /r/Furry changes over time

Feel free to post feedback and ideas in the comments!

Thanks for all the support! The "Other Feedback" field on the poll was such a huge morale boost and motivated me greatly, while still giving me great ideas for further polls. I got to hear some very, very interesting life stories too and if anyone feels like they just want someone to talk to, just send me a PM, I'm happy to hear all about you and your quirks! :3

tl;dr - Poll results and thanks!

Peace! ~ ?

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Author: rodney Big news from our friends over at Cartoon Brew, especially if you’re a fan of traditional animation: “Indie animated feature distributor GKIDS has announced that the highly anticipated hand-drawn French film Ernest and Celestine will open in New York and Los Angeles on March 14, 2014. That will be followed by national expansion […]

Any sites where I can get a cute fursona outfit?

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Hello to the fuzzier among reddit :3 So for those of you celebrating Thanksgiving today, I figured it might be a nice time to make a thread about something you're thankful for, or even just what you did o celebrate. ^ As for moi, I'm just thankful that my family is healthy, and we still get to get together for Thanksgivig every year. ^

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[adjective][species] recently concluded a month long promotion and experiment into how well advertisement works within the furry fandom. The results are interesting but nothing surprising, though it goes someway to validating why websites (and not just furry ones) put up advertisement and why so many will spend money on marketing.

A concerning issue for any furry site not called FurAffinity is the fight for advertisement revenue. FurAffinity brought in 1486 referrals compared to 174 from SoFurry, a staggering difference. That was for [a][s] alone, it was a similar scale of difference for their other properties: Love – Sex – Fur, The Furry Poll and Bookmarfs.

The natural order of things is that the site that brings advertisers the most traffic command a higher demand and can charge more, leaving other sites in a cut throat market to fight for the remaining marketing dollars.

I think that the advertising experiment was useful in seeing just how the fandom utilizes advertising.  Judging by personal interactions with friends and through comments here on the previous post, our reaction to advertising is decidedly mixed.  Several people I have heard from have described ads in general to be intrusive and a nuisance, especially on the Internet.

This is something for me to write about another day, the contradictory "can't live with them, can't live without them" relationship with advertisement. There is a prevailing attitude among web surfers that adverts are a nuisance, yet the same people I would bet are not willing pay for services that are normally funded by ad revenue. If you could corner someone with the reasoning, just what would their response be? Do they just expect the likes of YouTube to be free through magic?

Advertising does play a role in our community, and I think that these few examples have shown just how that information is transmuted into a measurable and visible change.  For those out there questioning whether or not their business within furry will benefit from advertising, I think this serves as a fairly strong “yes”.  I placed four ads on two high-traffic sites for a month for just about $130 (about the cost of running all of the above sites except for the furry survey for one year) and the results were immediate.

I have noticed that advertisement is all the more important if you wish to gain mindshare within a special interest community like the furry fandom. It would make for an interesting article looking into how websites achieve mindshare. Some sites can gain wide recognition within a short space of time, whilst others have to be persistent in order to become accepted as a long term player in the fandom.

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