I like my wolf blankets and random natural stuff I collect from outside, but I kinda want a tail

(2024-03-08 11:22)CrystalAvian Wrote:  This is really well written, and I'm sorry that your first experience in a supposed safe space was so awful. I have a little more tolerance for those that are just misinformed, and ill try and explain to anyone i come across who i think could be a fake therian what therianthropy actually is, but if they have already had this explained and are spreading more misinformation, then that crosses a line, and definitely pisses me off lmao

Plus, the whole 'let kids be kids' feels really infantilising for older therians. (ik I'm only 16, but I'll explain) It pretty much disregards therianthropy as if its some phase people go through when they're young, which just isn't true for actually therians- its a lifelong identity. Plus it just makes adult therians less and less seen in the community, which i think is really sad. These are the people us pups should be looking up to for advice and knowledge, not disregarding the existence of!

Yeah, I agree. I try to be gentle with people who fake unknowingly, but as soon as they start spreading misinformation I lose my pity for them pretty quick.
I definitely think that adults should be at the helm of the alterhuman community and not kids who only discovered the community weeks ago. When outsiders only see kids in the community, it makes it all seem like a childish game.
I wish there was more we could do to help stop this, but all we can really do is continue to try and educate the people willing to listen.

@TrinketGoblin This is the post I was looking for! I finally found it :]

I started watching Pink Dolphin when I first learned about therianthropy, so I just took on saying it like tear-e-an

This is really well written, and I'm sorry that your first experience in a supposed safe space was so awful. I have a little more tolerance for those that are just misinformed, and ill try and explain to anyone i come across who i think could be a fake therian what therianthropy actually is, but if they have already had this explained and are spreading more misinformation, then that crosses a line, and definitely pisses me off lmao

Plus, the whole 'let kids be kids' feels really infantilising for older therians. (ik I'm only 16, but I'll explain) It pretty much disregards therianthropy as if its some phase people go through when they're young, which just isn't true for actually therians- its a lifelong identity. Plus it just makes adult therians less and less seen in the community, which i think is really sad. These are the people us pups should be looking up to for advice and knowledge, not disregarding the existence of!

I pronounce it "the-ri-ann".

I completely agree with all of this, well spoken

Everywhere I go, I see people saying things like "Fake therians aren't a problem", "Misinformation is not as big of an issue as people say it is", and "How do fake therians even affect you? Let kids be kids!" I strongly disagree with all of these things, and I'm going to be going over my arguments for why.


"Misinformation isn't a problem" and "Fake therians aren't a problem"
Misinformation has been spreading like wildfire within the alterhuman community, and it shows no signs of slowing down. At this point, I believe that more than half of the people who identify as therians do not even understand what an alterhuman truly is. I'm worried that the amount of misinformed humans who think they're therians is only going to grow exponentially as misinformation continues to spread.
Why is misinformation a problem? Because it leads to fake therians; but why are fake therians a problem? Before I answer that, I have to specify my definition of a "fake" therian. In my opinion, a fake therian is anyone who falsely says they are a therian. It does not matter if they are misinformed or if they are doing it by accident, I still consider them to be faking. Having so many fake therians in the community changes and influences the community as a whole. Real alterhumans have been put in the back seat of their own community, all outsiders see is TikTok kids who claim to be therians and push false information. What outsiders believe a "therian" is is changing, and not for the better.

"How does this even affect you? Let kids be kids!"
Therian spaces exist for a reason. If alterhuman safe spaces are suddenly flooded with humans pretending to be them, what happens to the real alterhumans? I don't think its ok to just let them do this because they're "misinformed". It doesn't matter the cause, they're still affecting the therian and alterhuman community as a whole. I'll use a personal experience as an example of how this is harmful.
One time, when I was still fairly new to the community, I joined a "therian" discord server. These people were constantly mean aggressive to me, for reasons I still do not understand. It came to a head when we got into an argument over what therianthropy is, and I told them the real definition. They said things like "That's so weird!", "Nobody actually thinks that way!", "What's wrong with you?", and I was then swiftly banned. As someone who was new to the community, how do you think that experience made me feel? To be so harshly thrown out of a space that was supposed to be full of people like me, after I'd been looking for other therians for so long? After this happened, I no longer felt safe in the community. I still don't fully trust the critters around me to not turn around like this and call me crazy and ostracize me for simply being a therian. I've learned that it doesn't matter where I go, humans will always invade alterhuman spaces.



I hope that this post gets across why I strongly dislike fake therians of any kind, as well as why I specifically dislike the given phrases. I may edit this post later, as I have more I'd like to say, but I've already spent over an hour working on it.

(2024-03-08 2:02)vik Wrote:  

(2024-03-07 20:50)crowboy13 Wrote:  theory-in idk its just how my country-ish accent has made it

Didn't the big J say I didn't sound like I was from around here. Is that why I say "th-air-ian"

also you do NOT have a country accent my boy

yeah I do! its faint

(2024-03-07 20:50)crowboy13 Wrote:  theory-in idk its just how my country-ish accent has made it

Didn't the big J say I didn't sound like I was from around here. Is that why I say "th-air-ian"

also you do NOT have a country accent my boy