Furries & The Ethics of Cringe Culture
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ur becoming so insufferable
i so agree
me to is so agree
Nice move pinning this kurtis. Respect
So true
So we are
Love how the majority of the internet did a full 180 in the past years and said "Hey, maybe cringe culture is actually just bullying people for enjoying harmless things you personally don't like" and I'm all here for it
It really is lovely seeing people progress.
Haven't seen the majority do it sadly, but there is definitely progress being made, which I appreciate especially as someone who's autistic and Not Cisgender
Taking way too fukn long if you ask me.
Sometimes being a decent person means waiting around for years for everyone else to catch up.
I guess it's more than half in 'safe' communities like kurtis' but it's still a minority in others. Very very tiny minority if you go into a low tolerance and low awareness of neurodivergence country's internet.
Edit : changed opinion on the amounts
So true
I remember talking to a furry, I asked them about the whole erotic scene and they were just like 'Bro. Do you know how much these suits cost? I'm not trying to get ANY bodily fluids anywhere near this thing'
That's so fucking funny though
ngl amazing answer to those questions that are like “do you screw animals in ur suit”
Yea Murrsuiters baffle me because I don’t get how you could spend THAT much money to have *ahem* fun times in it
I first was exposed to furries in college around 2005-2006. There was a group of students who ran around with parts of their (suits? I don’t want to use the wrong word) but some would just wear tails, and idk what they wore inside. I just heard rumors that they all had orgies together in their suits and that’s honestly all I knew of furries. Interesting to see a new perspective.
fr. my bf is a furry, and I knew before we started dating and he told me the other day "look, idk if you're into furry stuff or not, at least sexually, but when I get a fur suit, I am NOT having sex in that thing. not risking ANYTHING" I just laughed cause I didn't want to do that anyways lmao
I used to be a fur suit performer for Disney world and universal and I openly told people I was paid to be a full time furry.
that must’ve been so warm 😭😭
@@elicarson6134imagine being in a heavy ass fluffy suit crowded amusement park in florida. A lot of fursuiters pass out just being in inside, ventilated conventions. Imagine that in florida sun 😭
you were, but why you stopped?
@@comrademartinofrappuccinobecause his costume probably stunk of sweat and would have given him heat stroke
Are you sure you’re still alive?? Like- you didn’t experience heat stroke?
Though I’m not a furry myself, I’ve always found the absolute disdain for them weird as hell. Anthro animals are EVERYWHERE! Cereal mascots, Disney characters, children’s book illustrations, this isn’t a new phenomenon. But make them more colorful and create a community around them and n o w it’s weird?
Honestly it looks like fun! Who doesn’t like colorful art and costumes and cute animals?
It also heavily appeals to a lot of marginalized communities, and much of the rhetoric around it generally gives people shit over it on those fronts:
-Geek subculture ("haha nerd")
-Overwhelmingly queer ("haha gay")
-Disproportionately neurodiverse ("haha autism")
@@A_A610 yeah, I hear you. That’s honestly true crux of 99% of cringe culture, it’s all just making fun of stuff marginalized people like. It’s an excuse to make fun of those communities without getting shit for being bigoted, because “I’m not making fun of their identity!” But that’s just a cop out and everybody knows it
I’ve only met furries at conventions, but for me there’s something about them being brought into 3D, being live and walking, that tips into the uncanny valley territory. Other than that, furries are lovely!
It’s like, if it’s a famous character that your dressing up as as a job, it’s fine. But if it’s an oc and it’s just a hobby, it’s bad and sexual.
“The difference being one is a job and the other is mental sickness”
the person who drew Kurtis as a furry is probably having the best day of their life right now
Are you the guy who drew the picture
@@theoanderson2042 they probably arent
@@theoanderson2042 I wish lmao, I'm not very good at art
@@n6h6 I can tell bro
@@CrimeCastInc. oooh
I should start calling sports mascots "professional furries"
FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT
proFURsional if you will
@@rowanh9110 Good one, I FURsonally like that pun
nah
@Pro-Fur Insurgent W
There was this one time at our local con where a bunch of young adults threatened with a knife a 12YO LITTLE GIRL just because she was dressed in an animal costume... I'm not even kidding
That's fucked up
Wth
that's a straight up crime did they get in trouble
@@idlegameplayer3756 I don't think they did :c
i saw a video of a person chasing two young furs who were no more then 13 or 14 with a knife trying to stab and possibly kill them
and people were siding with the stabber
Gotta love the fact that he actually took the time to research this topic, instead of just watching cringe compilations and laughing or something, mad respect bro. I feel bad that furries are bullied so much over a hobby.
Ye man he's critically thinking and doing research it's a good trait but sadly it's a dying one that's why people look at something and be like lol cringe
@@-----_-----------_-------_---- Sad but true 😔
“Don’t make fun of the furry community. If they can afford a 5,000 dollar suit then they can afford a 5 dollar pipe bomb”
-Master Chief
some suits can cost $15,000 lmao
thats an actual hitman right there
Thats not one pipebomb,its multiple
Make fun of them
what the fuck
@@bigdadddyd123 don’t do it
Your life isn’t worth it!
The fact that most cringe compilations are people that sit on reddit 16 hours a day, making fun of people just trying to enjoy themselves is pretty telling
sweat stains on their discord mod shirts
Based patterrzz as always
The irony
The opposing side just spend their 16hrs on Twitter.
@Deadpool × wolverine cry
What I hate is that a good amount of the time people only want others to be themselves when it is convenient for them
Like you can’t be yourself if you’re too outside of the norm
I hate that so much
Like someone with an indie or underground music is cool and praiseworthy and even unique but someone who is a furry or isn’t “conveniently different” is to be mocked and shunned
😑
@@ysguthiofoberatos😑
@@Rapistgaming-uq8fb😑
@@MiyakoPisces4.0what
the fact that kurtis genuinely made me change my mind about furries because of this video
I watched it and waited a couple of months before I watched it again, and now I'm starting to accept them.
Im not a furry but this makes me happy tbh, like finally more people are not hating on certain harmless communities who are just having fun
somehow people are still being annoying after watching it, some people are really just hateful to their core, i’m happy that’s not the case w everyone tho
@@emoclowngirlimo its probably queerphobia or something similar, and thats coming from a gay furry
Same and same, we're all weirdos deep down anyway, why shame anyone who's just having harmless fun
Kurtis you’d be surprised how much so called “cringe” is actually just people dunking on autistic people
FR
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Autistic people, children just existing, and autistic children existing. It’s so disheartening to see. I remember a “homestuck” cringe compilation that was just kids in costumes hanging out at a con. They were just hanging out with their friends…and yet somehow it’s “cringe”.
Fr
True!
I used to just shrug at furry hate and go along with the jokes. Then a furry convention got literally bombed and everyone made a joke out of it. That snapped me out of it. Wtf kind of hobby could possibly make bombing innocent people funny?
Just like the 9/11 jokes. A horrible event happens, and people seem use it as a punchline.
this comment led me to read more about the bombing and oh my god i have learned so much about furries. i had no idea there’s full blown furry hate groups, or that members of those hate groups have carried out multiple attacks on furry conventions???? including a chemical weapons attack????? like holy shit maybe ignoring furries because they’re “cringe” is a bigger problem than i thought
There’s actually a huge p*dophilia & bestiality problem in that community.
@@Lucy-fn9rj it’s not because they’re cringe.
@@v_eye_let17 .....so that means its okay to bomb them?? 😭😭
im not a furry but i am someone who overstimulates easily and i struggle to get through school days without these small, almost invisible hearing-blocks i put in my ears, which for some reason is seen as weird or cringe by *some* neurotypicals at my school. long story short, no matter what we do, neurodivergent people will never be fully accepted as non-cringe while still being comfortable, so do whatever u wanna do! live ya life yk
As long as it doesn’t hurt anyone and as long as it’s not causing any sort of disturbance or breaking any laws
Mood, I'm easily overstimulated by noises so I wear earplugs *everywhere* and for the first year or so there was a lot of "what are those" and "take those out of your ears!!!" etc. It's mostly calmed down now since it's been like 4-5 years of wearing them nearly daily but lord, people can be weird about the smallest things.
I have the kind of autism where it’s really hard for me to feel genuinely shame. When people would get on to me about my stimming or covering my ears, I used to openly mock them for having lives that are so boring that me just doing some hand flapping was so mind blowing.
When I say mock I don’t mean a sneer, I mean I would fully openly laugh hard as hell at them and ask shit like- if they also get excited when they see a slightly different squirrel. Pretty sure it didn’t do a single thing for my reputation, but they stopped trying to openly tease me about it after the 4th time I hard laughed in their face
I too have sensory issues, and i will never understand why whenever neurotypicals notice a soundblocker they just refuse to continue talking, like we were in a coherent conversation for 15 minutes until you saw them, and suddenly I am deaf? what is the issue?
stage 1: denial
I can’t thank you enough for not making fun of furry’s but instead helping others understand them! :D thank you!!!
BE A CITIZEN OF KURTISTOWN😈😈😈
@@Noah12672I beat you too it lol
Uh... deez? Cat cringe. L ratio.
@@judispriest1989 what??? Are you 8 or something?
@@judispriest1989 I take it back your content is kinda good
kurtis talking about furries while wearing a donkey kong shirt is actually really funny
Why tf are so many links lmao
@Deadpool. why are we all just trolls he owns so many trolls
@Deadpool. shut up
czcams.com/video/C9FivyYPb9w/video.html
@@kendramerc7438 Those are all bot comments. Sadly, YT has a bot problem and it isn't being fixed. :(
Could you imagine being a sick-ass baller furry walking down the street then some guy in a flaming tour bus sticks his head out the window and gawks at you?
@Deadpool × wolverine consider getting your account back
@yes Isn't It Ironic
@@voxalice1 it's almost like rain on a wedding day
As a neurodivergent person I have been a furry since I was 12. Actually I blame those cringe comps of furries for making me a furry. I always enjoyed animals and making animal characters. Plus having nerdy supportive parents set me on this path
I've always been very "weird" to others, and been interested in the furry fandom for a while, only recently realized I was neurodivergent after diagnosed at 16 lol
shut up
Nothing wrong with you, bless you
As a furry, i don’t enjoy having people telling me to kms online an in real life just because i like wearing an animal mask. I was out in my fur suit head and someone literally hit me when I was trick or treating with my 9 year old brother
It's especially crazy that they did that ON HALLOWEEN. That's just insane.
ON HALLOWEEN? even normally thats fucked up but like halloween is literally the day you dress up to walk around the neighborhood
@@mukilandhinesh3931 they didn't hit me hard they just kinda shoved me off the sidewalk. I'm not sure if it was on purpose, because the sidewalk was a bit crowded, but still
someone threatened me with their fake gun
he was with his friends and im pretty sure they were kinda fed up when he did that lol
kurtis is a delightfully nontoxic man. like a crayola marker
Would he taste like one too?
that is SUCH a funny way to say that. thank you so much that will be burned into my brain forever now
playdoh
BARS
LMAO
reminder: ALL fandoms have cringy/sexual parts. It’s not just furries 🤝
and they can all k word themselves too
Like, does no one remember the days they likely spent in the Undertale fandom?
@@damienearl8302 Half of them became furries, the other half hate furries.
Yup! And speaking as a former Starbucks barista, it's definitely not just furries that are being assholes to minimum wage workers for the sake of online content either.
Ikr I can never join a fandom with out being grouped with the weirder people (I DON'T LIKE SPAMTON AND I'M NOT A STAN)
Furry haters look up "Furry cringe" and scroll through images and are basically like "Bro all this stuff is cringe so that must mean all furries are cringe"
fr. they only care to look at the bad side of the community rather than both
Not all. But most.
Still is a letdown.
Honestly, stuff like that has ruined my view of furries. I still think that they arent all bad but like i still have a more negative view of them
Furries are fine, but some of them are just... I mean how can you do anything but laugh?
A lot of furries say that but never give examples of these not insufferable furries
I’m a furry myself and on the spectrum, and I appreciate the research you put into this and your respectful perspective on furry culture. Awesome video.
Y'know what's WAY worse than someone who's into something taboo or "cringe"? Someone who becomes obsessed with harassing those kinds of people instead of just ignoring it. Comes across as far more cringe.
You just defined 4Chan!
It's something that's a lot more common than people admit, especially in us Western countries. When people hate something these days, they tend to obsessively hate it, showing said hatred any time it comes up in any regard. An example could be if someone's father said something about a coworker treating them poorly that day, and their mother takes such offense to it that she gets upset and says the pettiest things whenever that coworker is brought up in the future...And yes, I am speaking from experience for this one.
I mean, if that taboo causes any sort of harm to anyone(or animals) then that shouldn't just be ignored. But yeah, I get what you mean.
cringe
@@harryballshd this comment is the cringiest one in the replies lmao
Cringe culture is like- a way too socially acceptable way to make fun of neurodivergent people, and it pisses me off because it ruined my self esteem as a kid
Fr. I never really said it directly to them but anytime someone would say furries are cringe because they're all autistic, I'd just be thinking "So you were looking for a socially acceptable way to harass neurodivergent children-?"
Lol is it though but not always, take the cringy dude emotionally thirst trapping, like thats not neurodivergance is it?
Also neurodivergent people can be pretty cringe and weird and this comes from a person with ASD. I've only ever been able to truely mingle with those people.
I've done funny weird cringe shit before because I'm a tard. Thats normal to look at people doing cringe shit and think that's weird and messed up. Because it's not right. Its not just because it's "socially acceptable" its just fact of life dude. You're the weird boyfriend/girlfriend thats taken to parties being silently laughed at, being judged because your shoes match your unmatched neon outfit terribly and you're screaming like a banshee. Get to know it. It sucks but it's true. Everyday I had battle what was once my awful undiagnosed artard crap and it was not quirky or cute and you know what? It was insane cringe for everyone who knew me because it affects everyone, not just the individual who may or may not be blind to their behaviour.
Also it's actually really nice to not be looked at as a weirdo as much anymore 😊
@@zirconium2014 buddy you have GOT to go to therapy and work on that internalized hatred. it is not normal to look at neurodivergent people and think they're weird and messed up, and that you have to make fun of them.
if you're getting laughed at or judged at parties, those are not parties you should be going to, because those people are fucking awful.
seriously. therapy works.
Shocker, our society has norms and rules that when you break you face scorn.
@@songofthesea6353 good job bethany, you've stated the obvious
I struggle with sensory issues and the way you described it was so well. Not to mention that a mask blocks bright lights and muffs loud sounds which helps a ton. You're also not expected to speak with it on. Plus it's soft sometimes. It's the ultimate form of comfort.
while I’m not autistic, I’m still neurodivergent (adhd) and a lot of the things I enjoy are seen as cringe. I’m a furry, I obsess over trolls and other various childrens cartoons, I’m in the lgbtq community, etc. cringe culture is just a way to make fun of neurodivergent people who are just EXISTING and enjoying their life. It fucking sucks.
Cringe is still cringe lol. I’m autistic lmao
@@gnarrcan108or, cringe is something people use against others for simply being happy and themselves 🤷 if everyone worried about not doing cringy stuff no one would live to the fullest. why "cringe" needs to be said makes no sense to me.
@karma-cu8lx I agree, I only have pretty mild Autism and ADHD, and honestly, I am so afraid to be openly furry (even on social media) that i just don't tell anyone. Same with a lot of things I am a fan of
@@gnarrcan108 caring about cringe is cringe
cringe
When Kurtis came out as a Furry to Jenna in his fursuit, I fell to my knees in tears. It was such a beautiful moment in the video, thank you for being so brave
Furry pride
My favourite part was when kurtis got up and yelled "its furry time" that was so good
@@ludovicatirone4304 It made me respect even more. Not just because he’s so brave, being a cis, white man, but because he’s a furry
i thought that said JERMA
@andrew tate hi andy
I had a student who had selective mutism because of parental issues. She felt more comfortable saying small sentences in the suit and liked sewing them. She’d always show me her art. Changed my perspective entirely.
Being a furry is a way for autists to have an excuse for being weird.
that’s so sweet :'0
Growing up I had selective mutism too. I wasn’t a furry at the time but I did pretend to be an animal (ik it’s like the most stereotypically cringe thing) which helped me to communicate in at least some form. I think it’s great that your student was able to find a work around for her selective mutism like that too, and I’m sure it felt great for her to be able to communicate as well :)
it's nice to hear somebody mention selective mutism, most people don't know what it is.
I was diagnosed with SM when I was 11, I always felt more confident in fursuits and I liked the positivity people gave me, it’s unfortunate people associate a lot of us with z00s and stuff
As a furry, I appreciate these kind of videos covering the fandom and making sure that people understand that the furry fandom isn’t only about the intercourse and sexual stuff. I’ve been in the fandom since I was 12 years old and I only joined because I have an interest in acting and art. Thank you Kurtis! Love from the fandom!
boots! hi! (sorry if it annoys you when people do this) but i totally agree with your comment
OMG HI BOOTS! Luv your videos, and yeah when I first heard about furries I never thought "ew wtf" I was just "yo that's sick" and then about a year or some months later I joined the Fandom ❤
HI BOOTS
BOOTS ILYSSM
I joined when I was 14 because I thought the characters look cute
OMGGG I remember the furry episode of 1000 Ways to Die SO VIVIDLY!! That episode traumatized me as a child, it was so absurd to me. (... I'm also a furry now, ironically, how the turn tables).
Also, amazing video, thank you for this!! Furries are genuinely so overhated, it's low hanging fruit. Thank you for doing the proper research, it genuinely was validating to watch!
I had to google the clip after this vid, I regret it.
I worked at a Subway for awhile and it was very minimum wage and fucking annoying. Anyway, a girl who was a furry used to come in a lot. Her name was Karina. (She got an Buffalo chicken with every vegetable and extra sauce.) she was in her early twenties and she wore fox ears and a tail every time she came in. One day she came in with her full fur suit, though she took off the head so we could hear her, which was very nice. She explained that she was going to a convention that I was also planning on going to the next day. No one else was in line so we talked about how excited we were for it for a couple minutes. She was the nicest customer I have ever served in any job I’ve had. She also put five dollars in the tip jar as well as putting a 20% tip on her card every single time. She was lovely and I really hope she’s doing well.
karina seems great :( i love when people talk about things they're excited about! (yes ive got a drop of the tism lmao)
@@crashh-course I too have a ‘drop of the tism’ and I loved hearing her talk about what she loved. I sadly never saw her at the con and quit my job shortly after that for other reasons.
aww bless karina
i like that you told us her order lol
@@ajayakennedy5239 I feel like it’s important to understand her as a person. Impeccable taste
I'd rather be authentically cringe than fake being based.
Same
Even if they aren't cringe, I have never heard of a normal furry
wdym
@@maleahj308 i’ve never heard of a normal person
@@winonarose7488 because you are a furry.
KURTIS I FUCKING LOVE YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT AUTISTIC PEOPLE BEING OFTEN TIMES TIED TO CRINGE CULTURE I LOVE YOUUU BRO IVE VEEN SAYING THIS YOURE AWESOME
if it isn’t obvious i am autistic
Some neurotypicals will virtue signal all day everyday about “mental health matters” until someone has a mental health issue that isn’t aesthetic enough for them
Finally a title that's not saying "all furries are stupid haha"
As someone who isnt a furry. I appreciate Kurtis saying its cringe culture and not all furries
As a non-furry autistic, I really really appreciated the edit he added in when he mentioned neurodivergent people. Props for really doing some research
@Dark secret thx
same
i am a furry autistic 💪💪💪
@John Doe wait question, no judgement but are you a sociopath?
As a non furry autistic. I find clarification of it to be cringe. Kind of cringe kurtis but I do appreciate you doing it for others!
reject cringe culture, embrace doing things because theyre fun
based and fun
i can't deny myself.........I LIKE VTUBERS AND WRITE FANFICTION ABOUT THEM AND MY OC A LIVING BODY PILLOW, I LOVE BEING CRINGE!
@@ddjsoyenby 👍
@@ddjsoyenby LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK !!! LIVE UR TRUTH 🗣
@@ddjsoyenby IT’S NOT HURTING ANYONE AND YOU’RE HAVING FUN !!!! LET’S GOOOOO !!!!!!!!!
I've never understood why furries get so much hate for dressing up as a character they enjoy and made themselves or paid for yet cosplaying another form of character is seen more as universally acceptable to people. Ain't it just the same thing really at the end of the day, a way to feel more confident and comfortable within yourself. To clarify I ain't a furry but I do like dressing somewhat unique for lack of better terminology.
like genuinely it's so cool
Probably because the workers are there to entertain children and some adults. They also mostly likely don’t want to be there and are just doing it for the cash, while furries do it in their spare time.
Cosplay is cringe though too, and so is being a unique dresser. End of the day, these are all things that make you stick out, but some things make you stick out more than others. Usually when someone sticks out, it's because they lack self-awareness, so to cringe is a natural response - you're feeling bad that they've accidentally done something that some people are going to judge them for doing.
@yurisei6732 To judge someone for being unique or differnt however is how you get racism, fascism, etc. Hate is hate and to get pissed off or judge someone for being thierselve regardless of whether they can help it or not is how we get a society children are scared to grow up in or that put people off bringing kids up in a world full of it. A joke is a joke at the end of the day there is plenty people who don't see it that way however and would rather send people to their grave just for being different. Yes transgender, races, religions etc can all change theirselve technically it doesn't mean they should, just because a dickhead can't get over a new idea. I am aware that racism is worse than the way someone dresses my point was that there is plenty moments where people have been attacked just for wearing something abnormal much like being a different race or religion
@@yurisei6732no you’re just a asshole. If never seen a cosplayer or furry and felt bad or cringed. You have some underlying hatred and distaste your need to work out
As a kid, I also believed color didn't exist in the past bc of old movies being black and white lmao. The fact that Kurtis had this same belief makes me feel so validated bc every time I mentioned this to someone they just didn't get why I'd think that.
i’m not a furry, but i am autistic, and i really appreciate kurtis mentioning autistic people and how they tie in to discussions of “cringe culture” lots of the behaviors people consider ‘cringe’ can be traced back to normal autistic behavior, and it can be really upsetting to watch. this is just my opinion and if any autistic people disagree that’s totally fine and valid but i just wanted to say thank you, kurtis :)
same !!! i really wasnt expecting thiz video n itz making me really happy how someone a lot of people look up to is talking abt something so important :D
I am a furry, and im very neurodivergent, and yeah, that is so true. There are a lot of neurodivergent people in the fandom, and people definitely are super ableist and honestly just horrible towards us for just trying to have fun 😭
I agree (I’m also autistic) it’s kinda concerning how often that happens
Also autistic and not a furry and I agree with you 🙃
Same!!! When cringe culture was more popular I used to feel crushed when I saw someone calling my interests cringe. It still effects me to this day, because I am obsessively hiding my interests from my peers in college, because I worry that they won't take me seriously once we get into our careers.
People constantly labeling things they don't understand as a "sexual thing" is so tiresome
Straight up. Imma be honest, I can't stand furries, but just because I don't vibe with it. It's not like I hate them or anything. But my dad legit thinks furries are some mentally ill kids who think they're animals and attracted to them... Like bruh, stop listining to boomer Fox news talking points.
ur cringe
agreed. another example of this is age regression. (not ddlg or ageplay, which are actual k!nks) age regression can be a symptom of severe ptsd or childhood trauma, or just be a lifestyle. it’s always strange to me how people look at an adult in a onesie with a stuffed animal and immediately sexualize it? like kurtis said, i almost think it says more about the person who automatically assumes something is sexual.
Literally
I DONT UNDERSTAND YOU, YOU'RE SEXY AS HELL wait
I've always had the mindset if people don't hurt others or themselves, they should just do whatever they want. But I've not really understood the furry community. I never had anything against them but I never understood what it was about. This video cleared up a lot of things that I wouldn't known otherwise. And I must say, reading about how so many was scared to even watch this just broke my heart. Been crying while reading through the comments and I feel bad for not doing more for the community, even if i'm not a part of it.
I'm so glad he actually researched things. The amount of times ppl have been weird over me wearing a piece of plastic is too many
"a cringe man will always think he is based, but a based man is truthful to his cringe self" - lao tzu
yes
In all seriousness it's nice seeing someone shed light on who furries actually are when most of the time they're harmless people just doing what they enjoy
@RobotBlue It’s weird. Period. Why you have to make furries have curves like humans and make them all ”sexy”?? It’s an animal??!
@RobotBlue am kinda a Furry I don't own a suit but I love Furry artwork
theirs one of a little fluffy dude trying to keep the Squid in the oven since he used a spell book instead of a cook book oopsie lol
@@jawaela calm down anna
@@jawaela Hey Anna! I bet you're a racist. You're a racist, right? I know for a fact you claim certain people behave a certain way based on their skin color. I can just feel it!
Don't bother trying to defend yourself; you've already outed your inner prejudices. Bye!
@@jawaela You are 100% either under the age of 10, or over the age of 60.
Thank you Kurtis. I’m a furry and autistic and I was scared to watch this bc I thought you’d be hating and honestly it means a lot that you’re open minded
As a member of the furry fandom, I cannot express how happy this analysis makes me. It is quite possibly one of the happiest feelings to be (although not personally) accepted by one of your favorite people.
the way kurtis is ALWAYS there to support and empathize with minimum wage workers. god what a king
He used to work at Starbucks and McDonald's, so I'm sure he knows our pain 😔
Pretty sure Kurtis used to be a barista so he can relate to the minimum wage workers to an extent
if I see one more “Fr” or “Here is the full clip : “ in this comment section imma snap istg
I mean.... Don't go and grope the guy working the checkout
ma'am, bare minimum
A friend of mine passed away in February and she was a hardcore furry. She got bullied for it a lot and when I first met her I thought it was weird but I’m glad I met her. It made me realize that i literally can just mind my own business and not judge others. She definitely made me a less judgy person and I thank her for that. I bet she would have loved this video and the open mindedness you had towards it. This video reminded me of her and made me very happy, cool video Kurtis
I'm sorry for your loss. I agree though, when you stop judging people you get to see what really makes them happy and seeing someone talk excitedly about something they love is so fun!
rip for her and i hope she's in a better place
That's a really nice story, RIP to your friend and Condolences to you and her love ones 🙏🏽💕
@@sunnyandthechlo absolutely! I love when people can be passionate about things bc of it. It’s pure joy.
All I want to say is that furry’s don’t think they are that a animal, that is a therein and I want to thank kurtis for making this video! You are loved by many people. ❤️
Therians don't believe they're animals, they believe they were animals in a past life. I know this because my sibling is a therian.
And if someone truly believes they're an animal, we call that zoanthropy. Which is a mental illness.
I am a furry. I loved how respectful this video was/is!!! Thank you for making a genuinely informative (for non furries) video!! ❤❤
kurtis needs to make merch that says “My tour bus caught fire”
I would buy everything
PLEASEE i would buy that so quick
@@dracuIascoffin SAMEE
Plsss Kurtis make the merch
No but I’d wear that
dude. FACTS. I’m not a furry or neurodivergent but I DO have a head on my shoulders and I can understand that when someone’s interest isn’t harming anyone it’s none of my damn business
That should be a general moral law imho.
As someone who is both of those, thank you for being a decent person.
except it is. its a massive predatory culture, it takes advantage of weak-minded individuals, and has higher rates of mental illness than average populations. this is a disease, it capitulates others, our children could fall victim to this. it is harmful, for these individuals and others, and everyone here should seek help and assistance.
Yeah, like I don’t agree with it. But in the end, it’s not harming anyone. So you just have to let people be happy yk.
@@KatieBee3139 i do not know because i literally just explained how its harmful and you said i didnt. thats like cnn saying take your vaccine you wont get sick.
“Interestingly, Furries claim the sexual component is small, but a quick search for ‘furry porn’ almost immediately disproves this”
“Interestingly, the car community claims the sexual component is small, but a quick search for ‘car porn’ almost immediately disproves this”
Cringe shouldn't be about making fun of people's passions, it should focus on the toxic and harmful people. Furries aren't cringe, pedophiles are. Neurodivergent people aren't cringe, bigots are.
this brings up a good point about neurodivergency and cringe culture, a lot of things people find cringe are literally just neurodivergent traits
Haha, good point, I spent years avoiding getting called cringe by my brother and it left me with no personality.
i get what you're saying, but "neurodivergent traits" don't exist. it really bothers me that people use ND as a synonym for autism/adhd. it literally just means a difference in how a person's brain works. you can make your point more accurately by just saying the specific types of neurodivergence that you mean
@@marnenotmarnie259 I use ND to describe myself because I have ADHD and haven't been able to get assessed for autism due to money and other issues taking precedent. I'm def not alone in that. Also autism has such a massive amount of stigma that it can be a lot more comfortable to just tell people you're neurodivergent.
@@marnenotmarnie259 I believe traits mainly means “behavior” in this case. hyperfixation is something mainly autistic ppl or ppl with adhd do. stimming usually happens with autistic people. it’s a behavior or trait they share. so.. they are real. 😄 nothing bad with nd traits. if people wanna call symptoms or behavior that, let em! at the end of the day, it’s not rlly harmful to the community. and yes, I am ND, so I’m not just talking about something I don’t experience and stuff !
This is such a non-point dude.
One time my sibling and I went to a convention and someone thought it'd be funny to pull the fire alarm. The whole building had to evacuate and it was mid November Cold. The cosplayers in revealing costumes started huddling, my sibby and I, along with other fully clothed cosplayers huddled around them. And then the outer ring of the huddle was a wall of furries forming a barrier around us. It was awesome, and they kept us all warm until we could go inside again.
That's so wholesome!
YOU DARE APPROACH
THE RING OF FIRE ????? (OR FURRY)
you sure were a menace
The worst internet culture sucks 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
that is so wholesome omg
DISCLAIMER: You do NOT need a fursuit to be a furry, and not all mascoters are furries
All of us kurtistownians are so grateful for the safe environment you are curating. It's so sick seeing a creator value their fan base first. All the people that say they are unsubscribing: good honestly, I don't need them in my neighborhood.
*kurtistownonians/kurtistownhallmember
kurtistownian is unacceptable,
improve.
ye!! keep the streets of Kurtistown free of scum
@@callmeqt1269 Kurtistownonian makes less sense than kurtistownian I feel like tbh. I think kurtistowner or kurtistownie would work well.
@@callmeqt1269 no Kurtistownian is definitely better then those. Lol
facts
Fun fact: One of the leading researchers in the COVID vaccine is a furry. They recently won a prestigious award for their work.
Really!! Source please I wanna know who this person is
Yeah and I am one of the leading researchers of the Furry Vaccine. (Very Important)
honestly most people dont realize how big of an affect furries have in their day to day lives. a pretty good amount of furries are nerds and go into tech and sciences.
edit; the furry scientist goes by Chise/sailorrooscout for anyone wondering
@@heehoopeenut2579 that's how they afford their art collection!
And furries run the internet, I'll tell you that!
You piss em off and the internet that you know will cease to exist/j
I'm not gonna do my research into this at all and believe you whole heartedly because that is amazing
Let it be known I got a Charmin ad with those creepy toilet paper obsessed anthro bears during this video
i never understood the furry hatred cause i was a greek mythology kid and half of those guys are some kind of human/animal combo. you're telling me you can accept a horse with a human head and a fish with human boobs but someone dressing up in a costume is too much for you to handle? bffr
i love how kurtis is never going to let that ninja tweet die
Tbh I can't either. I don't think I will ever get over it.
Him and Drew coordinating their jokes lmao
@Bully peter scammer
ill never stop thinking about that tweet its so fuckinf funny
my least favorite thing about people harassing furries is how stubborn their views are, being a furry does NOT equal being attracted to real life animals, not every furry runs around in a fursuit 24/7, and really, they’re people with their own unique interests just like us, no need to harass them for having interests you’re not used to
chiyoko kubozono you're so right... thank you for your wisdom
Exactly, and not all of them are obsessed with sex in general, actually a lot of people in the community are minors, so it's a really harmful stereotype
@@Norithedawgg A lot of people in the community are asexual as well
@@toontownvioletbunny yeah absolutely, kinda sucks to see that being such a side spread stereotype when in most cases it's not even true
exactly, it’s like there’s a whole other term to people being attracted to ACTUAL animals sexually.. there’s a difference between being a furry versus being a zoophile
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the Blessed Machine. Your kind cling to your flesh, as though it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call the temple will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal.
in other words, maybe the drone jab you talked about in one of the lie videos is a good idea
I am so glad that someone made a video about this since most people just assume stuff about furries and hate on them. As a furry I've heard tons of negative things from haters, and a lot of phrases I didn't even know existed, yet most of them hadn't done any research at all. They go out and watch compilations, or they read some random news story and then make a generalization, which the same can be said about lgbtq people as well, especially recently. I just discovered your videos today and I love them so much, keep up the amazing content its like drugs to me
The fact that so many furries who are fans of Kurtis were reluctant to watch this because they thought it was gonna be a big CZcamsr hating on the furry community again just goes to show how commonly they are hated on, and how bad it is.
that’s the reality of it folks
womp womp
@@Snake3417ironic
@@Snake3417nobody is crying lol
Honestly yea
I was super scared of watching it because I didn't wanna find out my favorite CZcamsr was kinda mean
But then he actually
Did research
He didn't hate on the community
Kurtis is genuinely amazing
Never before has a non-furry been so well researched, have such a good take, and still manage to have not a hint that they might be a furry themselves
You could easily say there were quite a number of possible "hints/signs" that he'd be a furry in denial. /j
@@sundalosketch4769 nothing in comparison with kwite
@@valdemarbjork1193 Oh absolutely, *wink*
@Varnist Media Nazi
@Varnist Media politics moment
As a furry I'm sure I can speak for the community here that we appreciate people like you that do your research before you assume stuff about us. We wish everyone was like you.
Agreed.
Furries are typically nice, but there are weird, on the spectrum and have weird gay sex
Your community is the problem.
Dude, im a mascot and i hate being called a furry. I dont do it to entertain myself and because i have a "fursona", i do it to entertain the crowd, not for myself.
Still a furry
Baby Kurtis : M....m..
His parents : He’s going to say mama!
Baby Kurtis : My tour bus caught on fire
😂😂😂
Bots bro 💀💀
Making fursuits paid for my car and most of my student loans. The furry community is loadeddddddddd
dam i gotta get the glue gun
I've heard this so many times and I 100% believe it.
The amount of furrys that I've just seen either irl or online that were going to college or planning to go to college to he something like an engineer or doctor, or who already are doctors, engineers, etc is incredible.
It's absolutely insane the overlap between the furry community and people who have well paying jobs and a good amount of money. I've never seem anything like it before
tbf, you just havent interacted with the broke furs bc we don't have suit money lmfao
its still true tho, glad you got those Furry Industrial Complex checks
I like to think it’s more that furries just really appreciate art and overall get why it ends up expensive. Most of them aren’t loaded, but if they have money they don’t try to get a deal from an artist
Art commisions also work if your skill aint that good
I went to a furcon the other day, and I am now working on my own suit. It was so positive and sweet! Everyone there was so cute, and kind, and just complementing each other and telling each other how cool their fursonas were. they're excited and happy to be there.
It's so cute, and sweet and everyone there was absolutely so nice! There was older people encouraging the younger kids, it was all amazing. Not to mention their outfits are so elaborate and cool!
(Not to mention the full suits cost almost as much as cars)
furry hate has always baffled me. furries are literally a bog standard fandom, except they dont have a uniting piece of media. hating furries is like hating trekkies, like, what? they’re so normal. they’re just an internet community, but some people legitimately want them dead
so much of cringe culture - regardless of what is being cringed at - is just "ew look at this person having fun and being happy"
yeah, that and making fun of little kids for doing silly stuff even though everyone does silly stuff as a kid
yeah exactly its like they think theres a specific way to be happy and being happy in any other way is.. malicious? somehow? lmao its weird
Not really, it's about entertaining thyself with socially inept and bizarre people.
and a lot of times it tends to be stuff that minorities/discriminated groups enjoy- such as nerodivergent people, gay people, teen girls, etc.. I’m so sick of it, let’s make fun of middle aged white ppl things more idk
@@quandaredevil And how do you think kids stop doing silly stuff? By being repeatedly told that it's silly and not socially acceptable. That's why nowadays you see so many people never growing up and continuing to act like a silly kid well into adulthood.
mad respect to kurtis for mentioning the aspect of being queer and being neurodivergent while also being a furry. shows he really did his research and i appreciate that as a queer neurodivergent furry :]
Omg same! I’m a queer neurodivergent furry too :DD
WHAT. WHAT
WHAT DO YOU MEAN. ISNT THAT A PRETTY VOCAL FUCKING MINORITY????
ALL ANYONE HEERES ABOUT ARE THAT BRRED.
I HAVENT SEEN A PURELY STRAIGHT CIS NON NON DIVERGENT ?WHATs Not auttisic? Cuase normals fucked up.
Buit like bro.
What?
Thats like the second build option for a furry? Wdym? It doesnt take a fucking degree. Its literally one twitter thread ever.
LIke genuinely bro. I get what you mean. But jsut really think about it. Yeah im not in the furry discord trenches (thank god) but what?
Theres only like two images of those nazi furries? So you are makingit hard for me to believe that youreally think your in some wild minoirty.
What do you mena shows he did his research. This is teh same as doing a book report on teh a singular magic tree house.
like i respect you bro. I hate that youve gone through life feeling uneuqal just cause your brain has different gears. But use those fluffy gears furry friend. Think a ltitle.
memento mori :)
yeah, i have a good amount of autistic friends who are furries and like i get it my neurodivergence might not manifest through a fursona but i’m super into vocaloid and cosplay, which is another thing people don’t always get
I'm bisexual and autistic and have a fursona I draw sometimes. I hate how people are like "Ew furries are GAY and AUTISTIC" because in my case it's true lol. Most of the fandom is nice though and idk I just like drawing a funky hyena girl character. :) She's fluffy!
As a furry with autism, the point of the suit for me is so i dont have to be me, and i can pretend to be someone more confident and more open in public, and it also gave me something to talk about to people and find some awesome life long friends. Hell, I met a friend online, met them in person 3 years later, and got invited to their wedding that year and we have been in constant contact since then. Sadly we live a few states away from each other, or we would probably be gossiping every day with tea and working together on furry shit and job shit. furries are pretty cool. but if you get in a relationship with one, be warned, you will be converted. My fiance now has a cow fursona.
OMG PICKUP ARTIST! I forgot about that show.
Dude you should do a vid on it…. So gnarly
In September i went to a Lil Nas X concert and furries tried to enter the venue in their fursuits, they were turned away by security but after they tweeted at lil nas x, he made sure they could come in and actually apologized for security acting the way they did. It was heartwarming actually!
I saw that! Lil Nas X actually tweeted he wanted to see furries at his concerts and thats what prompted those furries to go :)
that’s really wholesome. Lil Nas X has my respect
Aww
It's kinda a security concern though. So I see why they turned away. And like Kurtis said it's distracting. Imagine going to show and trying to see over 2 furry ears, especially after paying hundreds of dollars for tickets.
How’d they not die of heat exhaustion 😭
Kurtis is finally going to confess he’s a Brony. I’m here for it.
If he does that I will shit my pants
Instead of an extra greeting subscribers get a brohoof
@@Minto8384 lmfaooooo
First furry
I hope not
This video is how I found your channel and it instantly made me respect you for being open minded and supportive while also still making respectful jokes.
if you draw furries (even in a bad light) your a furry , if your a mascot your a furry , if you took a furry personality test your a furry , if you own a fursuit your a furry, if you have ever been on the masked singer your a furry , if you ever went to great wolf lodge and bought the wolf ears their your a furry, so technically most people are furries but dont know it
As a furry, most mascots are just random people who want to be paid to promote smth
Ninja my hero my icon my favourite man is an ice cream furry
you're only a furry if you self identify as a furry
i know this isn’t about furries but it is about cringe culture and i just want to say that i’m so happy that you’re not pro-cringe culture bc that was the exact main thing that kept me in the closet (trans) for way too long. the fear of “being cringe” is a real thing and it is so harmful to people, especially those in marginalized groups
Eyyy, trans sib!
But for the rest of your comment...thankfully, I live in a place where it's mostly just old people who don't care much about all that, but it kinda makes me think of the Jellybean drama, where this kid was harassed, threatened, doxxed, all over content that people just...didn't think was funny
Not really offensive or anything, just childish...well, there was also that trend that they accidentally started, and were unable to stop, but people probably wouldn't care if it wasn't for the former...I swear, it's a crazy world
Though...now that I think about it, I remember one of many reasons why I was afraid to come out was because I was worried that people would accuse me of "following internet trends" and not actually having serious gender dysmorphia (couldn't even take any showers at some point, but that's besides the point for now-), so...yeah, internet culture is scary
cringe culture also mainly targets neurodivergent people which sucks
Same here! And even trans people calling other trans ppl “transtrenders” and making cringe comps of ppl “not passing” basically. Those kept me in the closet and hating how I was experiencing transness
@@kebbobebop Is it weird that I feel like calling trans people "transgenders", gay people "gays", and stuff like that almost feels like...the og n word for queer people?
For reference, that's mostly because I realized that the word was and is just Spanish for "black", and the people who used it were...Spanish, so I always saw it as similar in that way-
im not a furry but i am neurodivergent and i rlly appreciate your view on cringe culture. i grew up getting made fun of for my special interests and when i did get the chance to talk abt that stuff, i was just smacked with “what are you, autistic?” and it felt embarrassing, like being autistic would be bad thing. im finally getting comfortable with expressing my interests and being myself and rejecting cringe culture🤗
edit: if u have special interests, feel free to share them in the replies! i’d love to talk abt special interests if anyone wants to :) safe space for us neurodivergent people
That's awesome! What are your special interests? I am also autistic and while I haven't really experienced much discrimination because of it, I still feel like I have to limit how much I talk about my special interests because people don't want to hear about them.
@@NJ.Magpie as of now im getting into vocaloid and renaissance art and some special interests are danganronpa (though i’ve never actually played the games😅), Hunter x Hunter, SK8♾️, Saiki K, Gravity Falls, Monster High, and a story im currently writing :) most of my current special interests are anime tbh😂 what about you?
@@NJ.Magpie One of my special interests is Shakespeare‘s plays. Which is great because they‘re insanely detailed and full of intent AND it opens up possible careers in teaching and acting BUT nobody wants to listen to me about how fascinating old Billy‘s use of incorrect pentameter and chaotic metrical feet of the words in Richard Gloster‘s lines in Richard III Act 3 Scene 7 to show his well he is pretending to be anxious, meek, easily manipulated and overly pious when I do really want to talk about it because it‘s fascinating. Shakespeare plays are a disliked subject by many which is sad because they‘re really really fun even on surface level, listening to the poetry and reading the words without delving in incredibly deep is still quite the experience (especially if you go to a theatre. I had the chance to see Richard III in Stratford last Monday and how the last Act was acted and how the ghosts played the part in the crowning of Henry VII will always be burned into my mind it was glorious). Well, I have my books to annotate and a friend who got into Macbeth through GCSE work so I‘ll have them to talk to if they want to listen but if I just want to talk about something randomly like comparisons between Richard II and Hamlet (how they both show off Shakespeare‘s existentialism in full force) and my friend isn‘t abalone (edit: fuck, avaliable) then I will not be able to because nobody really cares about Shakespeare in most of the discord servers I‘m in and I can only describe it as frustrating. So I can relate when you say nobody really wants to hear about your special interests.
@whaaa t Dude, stop, you're just spamming at this point
@@NeoCambria06 Omg! I love Sk8 the infinity, Monster high and writing too! I have seen the first season of saiki k and I enjoyed it
15:11 welp
Time to make a fursona and join m y p e o p l e
Welcome. We beckon you to the furry fandom
you did so well in this, most ppl that cover furries only do 5 minutes of research and dont understand what they are, you actually did thorough research, you covered everything, you acknowledged the bad stuff, but understood that not everyone was like that, you were so respectful, tysm
Cringe is actually just a facet of empathy. Not always positive empathy, but still empathy.
The worst internet culture sucks 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@@MatthewMS. yeah apparently, empathy is putting yourself in the other person's place and sympathising, e.g someone broke their leg and you thought 'that must be painful', cringe is seeing someone do something embarrassing and putting yourself in their place you think, 'that must be painful' but you make fun of them after
@@MatthewMS. Aw thanks
never considered negative empathy before. interesting.
wait this actually makes so much sense. cringe really is secondhand embarrassment, and all secondhand embarrassment is is you thinking how uncomfortable and ridiculous it would be to be in that position. cringe culture comes in when people then follow that feeling up with rebuking/mocking the person for making the decision to do what they did, which often comes with a moral condemnation of some sort. the moral condemnation isn't strictly a bad or wrong thing, it's just that the situations in which it's called for vary from person to person because, you know, everyone has different moral codes.
It has always been like this:
1: A part of a certain group does awful, problematic shit.
2: People start to criticize them.
3. People on the internet take it to the extreme and turn it into a circlejerk by spamming obnoxious comments.
4. Then you got underage teenagers jumping on the hate bandwagon because they think being angsty is a sign of maturity.
1 can also be "people take things out of context" or "people don't understand what's going on fully"
5. There's a chance that the certain group will hire hitmans to erase that part from the very group
6. People on the internet will cheer to the hitmans "destroy the whole group"
@@bigmanliam I ain’t a furry, but I’m curious on your reasoning behind why they’re “weird and cringe”. Just because they don’t conform to your concept of social norms?
@@EliasMorals Then don't talk shit until you know what you're dealing with.
@@bigmanliam fun fact: people who have a higher IQ tend to be social outcasts… such as furries and neurodivergent folk 😀
Props to you for being way more respectful and understanding than most CZcamsrs when reacting to this topic (=
It's a shame that the bad people in the furry community overshadow the good people. It's like people are actively only looking at the few bad people and ignoring the good people.
I'd also like to mention how uncomfortable it is to see a lot of young, ND people exploring themselves through something that makes them happy as kids who feel lost in this world and seeing fully grown adults sexualize that and straight up bully them. This could be said about A LOTT of 'cringe Fandoms'
Agreed. My interests are more than just interests to me. They're a part of my identity as a whole. I'm 14, and use my fursona and other OCs as a way to represent who I'd be if the world wasn't so judgemental. The community is for people who enjoy that stuff, not for gross people to hang around getting mad that I draw anthropomorphic animals.
czcams.com/video/C9FivyYPb9w/video.html
That's a stretch but okay
@@NadiaSeesIt how?
@@NadiaSeesIt it's really not
"Kurtis Town is now a Furry-Friendly Zone!"
*morphs into 3D low-poly raccoon and begins to rotate*
this is so me fr ong
@@ayo69420 yes I will morph into a 3d low-poly racoon and rotate
Wtf has happened to my sense of humour 💀 😂
Morbs*
@@Fafuchess it’s morbin time
I only discovered your channel yesterday, and I have never laughed so much at someone's channel. In a good way that is. Already my new favourite CZcamsr.
i genuinely learnt a lot from this video and am a lot more open minded regarding the furry community now. thank you, i loved the video!
love this take, I work with autistic children and one of my clients is a furry & cosplayer and it's helped open my mind to the fandom. I think we are so conditioned to hate on things we don't understand, but once I saw first hand how happy and peaceful dressing up makes her, it all changed. so much of cringe culture is just people bullying neurodivergent and autistic individuals and it's really sick
so much of “cringe culture” is just autistic people having fun!!!
Not even just neurodivergent people just normal people who happen to have a hobby
as an autistic girl, I've noticed a lot of other neurodivergent, esp autistic people are furries (although fursuiters are a minority due to cost and if someone actually wants to fursuit.) slowly becoming convinced most of cringe culture is just bullying us as you said. even if someone isn't neurodivergent, it's still just as cruel.
As more people are becoming open to the existence of autism/neurodivergency and LGBT people, people in general are going out and doing research and looking into themselves to find out if they may be ND or LGBT. In the case of being ND, more people are getting diagnoses, and it's starting to become more obvious why people who are considered "weird" because of these things act the way they do. Cringe culture has always been just looking at these kinds of people and making fun of them for having fun with their interests and/or being "different". You can see it with how most "cringe compilations", how a lot of them just fill their videos with kids having (usually) harmless fun with their favorite show or book, gay people being open with their presentation and identity, and of course, furries.
THIS EXACTLY THIS! I love this conversation. We need to just let people do what makes them happy as long as it's not hurting themselves or others.
as someone who is a furry and is autistic, i appreciate the mention of how cringe culture and being neurodivergent connect!! most people gloss over the fact that they are connected. and yes, fursuits are very helpful for my sensitivities to touch :D
yooo renard queenston pfp :3
hey thats cool as fuck, i always assumed they'd be awful for touch sensitivity
heyhey omgee me too
Same!! I’m really happy that he brought it up :)
not to mention that fursuiting is just really fun!
kurtis i put the subtitles font to comic sans because i feel like you're just that type of guy
I personally don't find it cringe for a furry to be in fursuit in public. Strange in a neutral sense, yes, but not really wrong as long as they're not harassing people(like homeboy in Dollar Tree, leave the cashier alone). A fursuit is really just exotic clothing