One of the most godforsaken and absolutely depraved shitholes on the
Internet. On the surface, FurAffinity (or FA, for short) appears to be just some
art community website,
y'know, like DeviantArt, except it's primarily catered to
furries. Users can post artwork, journal entries, stories, and even
music they've made.
Nothing wrong with that, so what's the problem? Well, if you thought that DeviantArt has it bad with
porn and disgusting fetishes, it is at least 10 times worse on FurAffinity.
Chances are you've probably seen something that's made you want to gouge your eyes out with a screwdriver, and FurAffinity is filled to the brim with things like that. Absolutely nothing is sacred to them; a good fraction of its userbase insists on making it their mission to taint anything that they can get a hold of. To put it into perspective, if you've looked at images of something you like, and you've seen anything you wish you hadn't, it probably links to FurAffinity. No other art sites have this problem even remotely to the degree of FurAffinity; more often than not, if you saw something depraved you found on FurAffinity, that same thing will NOT be found on DeviantArt, it's just FA.
That's not to say you won't find genuinely good creations on FurAffinity, but it's unfortunately overshadowed by the infestation of fetish art and fetish
porn. It's something a lot of people on the
Internet remember it for, and ultimately, a website that the
Internet would be much, much better without.
Search "FurAffinity" on Google Images and see how far down you can go before you decide you've had enough. I tried this and
literally the first result was fetish
art of the site's mascot. That alone says a lot about the website and it's
sad.
This doesn't happen with DA. If you were to do the same with "DeviantArt" the results are primarily filled with insanely good art; you'd be surprised at the sheer level of
talent of some users on DA.
There is a noticeable number of DeviantArt users that at least have some dignity. You can expect them to keep some things clean for the most part, outside of
maybe a few bad actors. The same cannot be said with FurAffinity; if it exists, and FA gets a hold of it, they
WILL taint it. While something may be left untainted on DeviantArt, that same thing has probably ended up fetishized at least once on FurAffinity.
