Becoming a furry could happen because you like the community or you like more “feminine stuff like pony’s.” But being a furry is not a good lifestyle you should chose, although the community may be mostly good 5-10% of the fan base are “werid” being “werid” may be something like sexually attracted to animals. I got this statistic from a furry I interviewed to understand how the community is like. While interviewing furries I came up with a conclusion I made about the fanbase. Usually people who start off being furries are just there because a friend told them to join or because there interested those would be stage 1. Stage 2 is where they become immersed in the community and become active members people in this stage usually start drawing furries. Stage 3 this is where you become completely devoted to furries this stage can take months or years to become into but in this stage you want to go to furry cons and want to buy animal costumes you may also be interested in watching furry porn(I didn’t know this until interviewing them and found out a lot of them watch that type of porn). Stage 4 you go to furry cons and if you have a furry suit you wear it to many places but not usually in public a lot of artists may draw some furry porn. Stage 5 you have a furry suit and you where it mostly everywhere at this point you could be changing as people in stage 4 or 5 can sometimes develop weird behavior. There is no coming back from stage 4 or 5 usually. You see why becoming a furry may be harmful if you are there for the community I would recommend joining different communities such as the gaming community, the art community or the anime community. I do know that most of you are in some of those communities but aren’t as devoted to them as the furry community so I would recommend to get out of the furry loop you should focus on becoming a huge member in these communities.