ur scrolling thru ur feed until suddenly and without warning the algo prioritises some thread in a cat group u didn’t know u were in and the post was innocent enough, something like a selfie thread w ur cat but then u notice that there’s comments flying back and forth that appear to be insidious and u realise that you’ve stumbled across a fight between two furries who posted a selfie of them in their furry suits next to their cats and the fight is about how certain types of lighting affect how accurate to life a cat should look and one is saying that the point is that it should not look realistic at all bc that would make their penchant for being an animal fetishest a beastial thing and the other is saying that if u don’t personify the animal in its essence and try and replicate it as it is then u are not doing justice to losing urself to the chafed ecstasy produced by swinging butt plug tails around then WIThOUT WARNING some other rando interjects and says what they’re doing is cultural misappropriation so suddenly your whole perspective on life has changed, your favourite food isn’t your favourite anymore, you find maintaining eye contact with strangers difficult, your therapist is puzzled by your inability to string together a coherent sentence, your parents are worried for you, your hair starts falling out, you look at yourself in the mirror and lament over the person u were b4 u realised u don’t ever want to have children and your life no longer has a purpose