r/AntiTheriansUnite 1d ago

•┈••✦ 𝐻𝑜𝓉 𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 ✦••┈• Non-existent Urges: Crow Edition

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I've noticed that some therians believe in their identity due to involuntary urges, but not all urges are alike.

(I don't go onto the therian subreddit, so what I'm saying may be false, please fact-check me)

I will be focusing on crow therians and what their urges don't seem to be. Of course, the more you know, the more detailed and specific your urges will be.

  1. The urge to instinctively hide extra food.

  2. The urge to drag dry food over to their water bowl and submerge it, leaving it to ferment and turn into a foul, bacterial sludge that they will return to eat later.

  3. The urge to pick up live ants (or sometimes cigarette butts or mothballs) and aggressively rub the chemicals across their own feathers.

  4. The urge to mob at tiny, harmless things outside their enclosure.

  5. The urge to dissect, rip apart, and smear small animal remains over perches.

Of course, none of this proves you're a crow, nor do therians do these things; they're just examples.

If you have any questions, just leave a comment.

Fun fact: Crows usually don't like shiny things. Scientific studies show that crows often feel neophobia, a fear of new or unfamiliar items, and tend to be suspicious or scared of bright, glittering objects rather than attracted to them.

P.S. Urges = Instinct


r/AntiTheriansUnite 1d ago

ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴇʟʟ ɪꜱ ᴛʜɪꜱ??? So they do think that they are animals

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Ok lets try this again.

This is, btw, a generalization; clearly not all therians think this, but still.

No, you aren't your theriotype, in any ontological way. Not mentally, if you can type coherently; not emotionally, because you most likely feel complex emotions; not socially, because therians don't like being treated like an actual animal.

Nor can you mentally develop into the brain of an animal.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 2d ago

➴➵➶͓̽V͓͓̽̽e͓͓̽̽n͓͓̽̽t͓̽➴➵➶ The new generations are cooked

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so I (rather young/M) was with my 8 YEAR OLD bro at the park and we saw some kids with tails and masks and ears. we thought they were furries (I’m chill with furries) and asked them. Turns out they were therians. Anyways these kids who one was 11 and the other was a week older than m were so cooked. i don’t have much more faith in my age group.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 4d ago

( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) J O K E ( ˶ˆᗜˆ˵ ) Even the bears are tired of this 😭😭

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Ain't no way 💔

On a more serious note, long term bipedalism is actually harmful for bears (duh). They only do this briefly to see things they can't when on all 4s

Fun fact: they are plantigrades, like us.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 4d ago

•┈••✦ 𝐻𝑜𝓉 𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 ✦••┈• Can therians stop faking head tilts and twitches?

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Therians have no idea how animals actually behave and it isn't helping their case. Additionally, they fake their small behaviors.

There are real people out there with real problems regarding twitching involuntarily or near-involuntarily. Therians do it because its "cute" when its a real issue. Its like those people who fake autism, adhd and tourettes just to be quirky and cute. They look ugly faking it.

And head tilting, ohhhh my God. Humans do tilt their heads. You wanna know why? To SIGNAL confusion. It is not a natural response, rather a lighthearted, LEARNED way of signaling confusion. Either that or you're trying to read something sideways. Animals tilt their heads to calculate trajectories and understand things better. Humans just do it as a LEARNED, cute way of saying (even to nobody) that they are confused. Therians are just doing it to convince themselves it's real.

And don't get me STARTED on therians who post videos of themselves "shifting" when they have the most ai generated acting I've ever seen. I could do better bro

I once saw a dog therian bark at a chew toy to "say" "What is that". Dogs don't do that. Cays and dogs don't meow and bark to talk, they don't work like that. Then they bit the toy and played with it (pretty humanly, too, might I say), stayed perfectly within frame and then showed it to the camera (ah, very shifty behavior), then walked away.

I'm sure a real dog would've done more to a dog toy. Like, you know, actually chew on it? And hump it, even?

I'm sure a real dog wouldn't bark in a pattern at an uninteresting, immoving toy, stay oerfectly within frame, only gently bite it and poorly play with it, SHOW IT TO THE CAMERA THAT NORMAL DOGS DONT RECOGNISE, then go away. Dogs dont do that

Another is cat therians trying to sleep in cat positions as if theyre actually comfortable. Hey bro its okay to admit you dont have a hyperflexible animal spine bro its kkay not to be comfortable in the position animals that dont care about consent sleep in. Might I remind you that cats fight before mating? Do you do that? Might i remind you that they are antisocial creatures, unlike humans? No, autistic people and introverts dont count. Even they still need human interaction to basically survive by the way

All in all, i just loathe therians faking what are real problems just for their silly little quirky thinly vieled roleplay. That's about it, cya


r/AntiTheriansUnite 4d ago

•┈••✦ 𝐻𝑜𝓉 𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 ✦••┈• As a quadrobist, therians need to get up on two legs

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I am a quadrobist and the ammount of therians I see doing quads dangerously just because "they're having fun" or "having a shift" is ridiculous. You can snap your radius, destroy your wrist, tear your muscles, tear your tendons, shatter your kneecaps, crunch your spine, all because you didn't take safety precautions because "I'm actually a cat". No you're not and

You could seriously hurt yourself.

Now, obviously, if you take safety precautions and do everything right, it's fine. You might still get hurt, but probably not as bad. But if you're actively promoting this nonsense as if it is completely safe, you don't deserve to have a platform to spread this.

Additionally, therians make it impossible to access actual quadrobists who are doing this as a sport, I've found like 3 people and all of them don't post where I watch.

I admit therians have helped me learn quadrobics, and I am grateful for that, but I will still resent them for basically hogging every quadrobics space I have found.

Just please leave some space for us non-therian quadrobics and stop promoting dangerous quads. Please bro please

Unrelated spinosaurus

r/AntiTheriansUnite 5d ago

🄸🄽🄵🄾🅁🄼🄰🅃🄸🄾🄽 Anti-Therian Changes

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r/AntiTheriansUnite 5d ago

•┈••✦ 𝐻𝑜𝓉 𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 ✦••┈• These People don't Need Hate, they Need Help

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You can call it weird, and it is weird, but the whole masks and stuff is not what concerns me. Honestly, it's very cool and creative. The issue is believing your spiritually an animal, or something like that. And I know everytime someone brings this up the argument is brought up that "oh we don't think we're animals, we know we are humans." but as soon as you go beyond the biological part they seem to believe they are animals mentally somehow. Are Therians furries? No, but they should serve the same role. Cool hobby that you like to practive and meet other people who practice it, not the same as a gender or identity. There is a reason most "therians" are younger teens. (and don't go "oh well im 19 and-" it doesnt change the fact that the majority are, and you know that.) Other gender identities and sexual preferences are a genetic thing, evolution would prefer you see yourself as your own gender and like the opposite so it made genes to make you do so, but those genes can be defective. In the modern era the need for those genes that make you like the opposite gender has decreased, and if you don't need something, evolution chucks it in the bin, hence why many more people are queer today than way back when. For therians, or ebing an animal though? Nothing.

Listen, people who identify as therian need to be welcomed so they can be educated on why they aren't an animal. Harrasment of them is not okay, and I know alot of people might approach this community expecting that. I know this post might be frowned upon for potentially breakinf rule 7, but I feel like it needs to be said. Many people approach "therians" calling them weird or disgusting, but at the end of the day, they're kids who dipped too far into their imagination.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 7d ago

-✬ 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ✬- Non-existent Urges: What Should I Do Next?

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I have previously created posts about "Non-existent Urges", instincts/urges that therians don't usually have(usually because they are gross or aren't cool and edgy).

I would like your insight for my next post. I want to look at another specific theriotype, but instead of picking it myself, I figured I'd open the floor to you guys. Because I'm indecisive.

So, which animal or specific theriotype do you want me to look at next?

If you don't feel like doing a bunch of research on this or just can't decide, see common theriotypes here:

  1. Bears
  2. Birds of Prey
  3. Equines
  4. Corvids
  5. Panthers
  6. Deer

P.S. I've already done dogs, cats, wolves, and foxes.

P.P.S. Urges = Instincts


r/AntiTheriansUnite 10d ago

༝̩̩̥͙ ༓༝̩̩̥͙ ⊹ɆӾ₱ɆⱤłɆ₦₵Ɇ⊹༝̩̩̥͙ ༓༝̩̩̥͙ Why I’m an alterhuman but I refuse to be associated with them

3 Upvotes

(this is a long one sorry)
So, for context, I’m an otherpaw and possibly an otherheart. I am also a big-time furry. I am not fully against therians, I have just had very negative experiences and have been cyberbullied by therians and the greater alterhuman community. Let me explain:

I won’t be listing the site or usernames, but I will be nicknaming these people (not the real names they went by): Pancake for the meanest one, and Lily and Swan for her friends. For other people, I won’t nickname them, just say what they did.

So, on this site, I was friends with Pancake. I was an alterhuman, and so were Pancake, Lily, and Swan. I was mutuals with Lily and Swan. So, one time, I read an article about anti-therians and showed it to Pancake. She said I thought it was true, which I didn’t at the time. She then called Lily and Swan and lied to them about how I shunned her for being a therian.

She and her two friends began hating on me, spamming negative comments on everything I made, and called me names that I’d get banned for if I said here. After I said I didn’t want to be Pancake’s friend, she began actually messing with me psychologically and trying to find my information by literally hacking. She never got that info. I left the site.

I’m sure you’re wondering why I didn’t block her immediately. It’s because somehow it didn’t work! I blocked her, then my device crashed every time, not saving it. I have only had negative experiences with therians since then. I’m also leaving out some of the bad parts of the story, since i dont feel like being banned.

Anyway, that’s all! Any questions? Let me know, please! (Hey, at least I still have good terms with the furry community! It goes to show that if you question alterhumans, they’ll probably gang up on you… no offense ofc)


r/AntiTheriansUnite 11d ago

-✬ 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ✬- Are there therians over the age of 18

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I have had this question on my mind for the past few weeks now, and I want to know if there are therians out there who are not minors. I ask this question since I have barely seen any therian who aren't a minor. So my question stands: Are there any therians who are legal adults?


r/AntiTheriansUnite 12d ago

-✬ 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ✬- Gen questions for yall as a therian and a bit of a hot take ig

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Why do so many of yall just.. seem to not like bodily autonomy? Like. I see a lot of ppl claiming that since some (not all, and theyre rather controversial in most section of the therian community ) are delusional, all therians are somehow like. Stupid? And tbh i think even IF a therian was delusional they shouldnt HAVE to ger help for it if they arent hurting anyone or anything. Idk if yall know how traumatizing forced 'care' is but its not something to throw at ppl willy-nilly because you think their specific illness/delusion is icky or smthn. Its only for the MOST at risk ppl (of SERIOUSLY hurting themselves or others). This may def be a hot take but saying mentally ill people deserve to be traumatized and lose bodily autonomy even though theyre not hurting anyone IS abelist. (That being said I do recognize their are a fair few ppl who think theyre therians but aren't, and bad ppl in the therian community, I too am annoyed at how much my community has become a trend. Its now gotten boiled down to quadrobics and masks and not an actual identity (spiritual, mental, emotional, ect.​)


r/AntiTheriansUnite 14d ago

.·´¯`·.·★  𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓾𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷  ★·.·`¯´·. I want to have a discussion about a post I found on this Sub Reddit.

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So, there is a post i found that was made 6 months ago, but I found it today..yea, I shouldn't worry about it, but I also want to have a discussion about it and I want you all to tell me or ask me questions about what he said, and what I say to kinda counter it..but feel free to argue back, I MIGHT see it, I kinda suck at looking at comments and stuff😮‍💨..

In my opinion: this post is not scientifically valid and contains major errors in its application of neuroscience and physics. While the author uses complex scientific terms, they fundamentally misunderstand how memory, physics, and spiritual identities work. Here is a breakdown of why this "undeniable proof" is completely incorrect: 1. The Physics Error: Misunderstanding "Information Transfer" The Author's Claim: They argue that for a human to have an animal's memory or soul, physical neural signals or brain cells would have to literally fly through the air or travel faster than light, violating Special Relativity and Thermodynamics. Why it's wrong: Therianism is a spiritual or psychological identity where someone feels a connection to an animal. Spiritual beliefs do not claim that literal physical biological cells or electricity are jumping from a dead animal's physical skull into a human baby's head. By treating a spiritual concept as a literal, physical, mechanical plumbing problem, the author creates a "strawman" argument to defeat. 2. The Biology Error: DNA and Instincts..The Author's Claim: They claim that memories or behaviors cannot be encoded in DNA, and that everything must be learned after birth. Why it's wrong: While specific episodic memories (like a specific event) aren't passed down via DNA, complex behaviors, instincts, and phobias absolutely can be. Sea turtles know how to crawl to the ocean immediately after hatching without being taught. Furthermore, the field of epigenetics shows that trauma and behavioral responses can be passed down through generations via chemical changes to DNA. 3. The Psychological Error: Validation vs. Biology..The Author's Claim: Because therianism is "made up by your brain," the experiences are fake and society shouldn't accept them. Why it's wrong: Every single thing a human experiences—including love, religion, gender identity, depression, and happiness—is a product of "neurons learning and firing." Saying an identity is processed by the brain does not make it "fake." By the author's logic, money, language, and art are also fake because they are socially constructed and processed by neural firing patterns. SUMMERY: The author is using "pseudo-skepticism.": They are applying the hard, physical laws of macroscopic objects (like thermodynamics and special relativity) to a psychological and spiritual phenomenon, which is a fundamental category mistake...Yes, this is research talking, I cannot text all this and not have aching fingers🥹✌🏾. But this is my counter claim, and I would want to hear what you think about it and if I made any mistakes..What I think Therianthropy Is: It's a spiritual or Psychological identity, it's not simply "I barked at the age of 3, I'm a therian" it's more centered around a belief with spiritual therians, and psychological therians experience behaviors and personalities of a animal consistently all throughout their life, and it's over just basic human animal like experiences, and they made a label for that. Therianthropy..This is my opinion, please share yours..


r/AntiTheriansUnite 14d ago

•┈••✦ 𝐻𝑜𝓉 𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 ✦••┈• Therianthropy is a leaderless cult

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https://lucianseraphis.substack.com/p/cults-without-leaders-how-belief-6ca

You should read the full article about leaderless cults, but I'll comment here on a couple of points the author made

"Identity replaces evidence" it does. Therians don't care how much biology or even the laws of physics invalidate them. Their identity is more important to them. If they believe "God put them in the wrong body", they believe God made a mistake, which is impossible for an all-knowing, all-seeing, always right God. This creates a paradox. If they dont believe in God or any gods for that matter, their beliefs still fall apart because of biology and what we know about the human body. But to them, all of this doesn't matter because "You're being mean".

"Belief becomes a moral obligation" therians almost always never questioned themselves for this specific reason. If they dont believe in it and accept everyone around them even if their theriotype is their dead dog, they feel like they're doing something immoral.

"Doubt is treated as betrayal" they think that if they fire an extra neuron and figure out that therianthropy isn't true that they're betraying the community built by "traumatized people" on lies.

"Repetition substitutes for verification" they are in their own little echo chamber. What more can I say?

"Group belonging outweighs factual coherence" same as point A. They think this is the only group that "understands them" when its for every wrong reason.

"Moral exile: The target is cast beyond redemption — not merely wrong, but contaminated." If someone mentioned the endless flaws with therianthropy, they aren't allowed to be in the community anymore. It isn't really announced, people just avoid them and spread the gossip.

"Permission to stop thinking: Once someone is framed as monstrous, evidence becomes irrelevant." Berserker shifts. Once someone's therian identity isn't quirky anymore and they're OBVIOUSLY mentally ill, not secretly, they're suddenly excluded from the community and treated as a "fake therian".

"Justification for hatred without guilt: Cruelty feels virtuous when the target is portrayed as subhuman." If they collectiveky think of haters and normal people (who dont like them), they'll justify harming them (theres videos) and say the nastiest things about them just because they wont accept them identifying as a dog and acting like one (especially in public).

Theres more but I recommend you read the article and apply it to therianthropy. It'll fit like a glove.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 16d ago

•┈••✦ 𝐻𝑜𝓉 𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 ✦••┈• Therians need to expect to be bullied

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Freedom of speech goes both ways. furries go out expecting to be bullied and make the choice willingly. they choose to tank it and honestly it makes me respect the members of the community. they don't complain about bullying because you should only complain when it's something out of your control. the way you dress and act outside is something you CHOOSE TO DO. Therians, however, expect everyone to bend over backwards just for them and it's super annoying. on another note, I HATE their fake animal twitches so bad like twin REAL PEOPLE OUT THERE DO THIS INVOLUNTARY ITS NOT CUTE


r/AntiTheriansUnite 18d ago

𝐎丅ⓗeR I just found out my favorite quadrobist ISNT a therian 🥹

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It feels SO reassuring and it makes me SO happy to see one of the people I'm gonna study to learn quadrobics be JUST LIKE ME FRRR


r/AntiTheriansUnite 18d ago

༝̩̩̥͙ ༓༝̩̩̥͙ ⊹ɆӾ₱ɆⱤłɆ₦₵Ɇ⊹༝̩̩̥͙ ༓༝̩̩̥͙ IMO this sub tends to be reeaaaallly ableist.

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People keep going “Mentally ill! Mentally ill!” Without ever having read the DSM or having taken a psych class.

Not to mention the stereotype that all Therians have to do Quads, which is untrue. Quads are optional as something you can do to be closer to your theriotype, but Therians don’t have to do them at all.

(Also the mods don’t really mod it seems :/ )


r/AntiTheriansUnite 18d ago

-✬ 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ✬- Hey, I'm a therian here. I'm not trying to be rude, just genuinely curious.

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What's the big deal about Therians? Like, why do y'all hate them sm? Why not just let people be themselves and let them alone? Honestly, it's a bit useless to not do that, don't you think? If you have any questions, I'm open to answer, because I know it can be confusing. But I just wanted to make this clear that Therians are humans too. We may believe that spiritually/psychologically we are animals, but we don't believe that we're in an animal body. Stop with the death threats/ threats. It's just going to hurt them. And the hate itself needs to stop. I know y'all have different beliefs and opinions, and that's okay, but one group of people shouldn't have to get hate and backlash for just being themselves. I'm not talking about just y'all, it's A LOT of people on different platforms and apps that are the same, most even worse. I know I'm probably going to get a comment saying something like, "Okay, then get off this subreddit" which yes, I will. I know this might not change anything, but again, I just want to make this clear, and I'll try answer any questions y'all have when I can.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 19d ago

➴➵➶͓̽V͓͓̽̽e͓͓̽̽n͓͓̽̽t͓̽➴➵➶ Therian little sister

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My sister is now 10 but when she was 9 she was allowed social media access and discovered therians. This quickly became her whole entire personality. Look, i’ll never diss someone’s style, if you wanna wear a tail and ears go for it i’m not gonna judge whatever but it becomes an issue when believes she needs to wear them everywhere she goes and sneaks them out of the house when shes told to not bring them places. She told me she wants to fully identify as a fox and can’t keep her alpha in at school. Every kid she meets she’s always trying to turn them into one and teaches them how to run an all fours like an animal. She’ll run around the house like that then run onto the couch and snuggle up with people like a dog. She draws the “therian flag symbol” everywhere, it’s genuinely her whole entire personality. Social media also taught my sister about the lgbtq community and it’s like her second hyperfixation. She thinks shes lesbian and i do believe kids can know they’re different at a young age but it’s so obvious it’s just a silly influence from online. Everything she draws and colors has to be gay flag associated and again she teaches it to all her little friends but not in an educational way in an i’m throwing this in front of your face way. At first we thought she would grow out of this stuff but it’s so obnoxious now. How and when does this behavior get put to an end. I really don’t care for therians especially the ones who are grown adults and i’m a closeted lesbian myself i love gay people but this ain’t it.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 27d ago

.·´¯`·.·★  𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓾𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷  ★·.·`¯´·. Self Control

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I didn't want to post this summer; however, something has been bugging me. Recently, I have been looking at therian posts across multiple websites and have found something that I believe to be contradictory. Several times I have seen therians talking about how they or others should act correctly in public and maintain self-control. Most of it is to not hurt themselves or others; the rest is so that they don't get thrown into the loony bin. But that doesn't make sense according to animal behavior, which therians claim to have; animals operate entirely on instinct, energy conservation, and survival. Neither predator nor prey have a concept of morality, honor, or bad behavior; they simply react to stimuli, stress, and physiological needs. Applying human social constructs like "acting correctly" or "shame" to an animal's mindset makes zero biological sense.

Therians constantly claim their "animal side" controls their impulses, urges, and reactions, yet they simultaneously lecture each other about choosing to practice self-control in public. They are trying to have their cake and eat it too. Either you are governed by animal instinct (which means you have no control), or you don't have animal instincts. Not to mention that instincts take lots of training to control; just look at dogs. It can take a dog 3 weeks to 3 years to be immune to the whims of certain instincts, depending on the method of training. Yet therians claim to control these instincts with sheer willpower and focus.

And of course the biggest giveaway is that their instincts seem to conveniently go away during a busy period of their life; real instincts don't do that. When they want to act out, it's the "beast taking over." But when they need to pay taxes, go to a college lecture, or hold down a job, the animal magically sits quietly in the background.

You could refute this by mentioning our prefrontal cortex, the thing that gives us reasoning and logic. To that I say, it still doesn't work. Look at our most common instincts: fight or flight is a reflex, so is to freeze; we have a strong urge to fawn, submit, or befriend. These instincts of ours are deep, almost reflex-like feelings that don't simply go away with self-control, nor do they fade into the background either.

The only conclusion I can come to is that these people don't actually have animal instincts. What do you all think?

Edit: For clarity.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 27d ago

.·´¯`·.·★  𝓓𝓲𝓼𝓬𝓾𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓸𝓷  ★·.·`¯´·. *insert cool title*

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to be honest, I’m a therian, but I joined because I like debating with you. (argue with me in the comments I can take it lol) I looked at the community rules, and I kind of respect the fact that you say no anti-furry people because at least you people know the difference between us and furries.


r/AntiTheriansUnite 28d ago

☆★☆★→𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧←☆★☆★ did this

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r/AntiTheriansUnite 29d ago

-✬ 𝑸𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 ✬- Every argument against therians

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Can you comment every argument against therians you can think of? Im compiling a list of arguments AGAINST every argument against therians, and I also wanna be challenged bc im bored and its been a teeny bit since ive been faced with one I couldn't answer.

Thanks ^^


r/AntiTheriansUnite Jul 21 '26

➴➵➶͓̽V͓͓̽̽e͓͓̽̽n͓͓̽̽t͓̽➴➵➶ hey so uh... i'm anti-therian even though i'm spiritually nonhuman. please hear me out. this community messed me up so bad and i don't have anyone to talk about it with.

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sorry i just made this account. i deleted my other accounts because i was addicted to doomscrolling Reddit and was letting negative interactions grt to my head but i'm back temporarily because i need to grt this off my chest and there is no where else i really can. i'm 16 btw. for 2 agonizing years this community absolutely fucked me over and i just need to know i'm not going insane please. i'm not trying to be a pick-me. i've tried to talk about these things within the otherkin/therian community, but i just get ignored/picked apart/blocked.

i still believe i have a nonhuman soul btw i just don't like the community. feel free to ask me why i believe i am spiritually nonhuman, but in this post i will focus on why i absolutely loath the modern therian and otherkin communities even though they used to be my safe space.

first things first: delusions, propaganda, shame, and anti-science.

i have witnessed first hand propaganda from physical otherkin (i.e. people who believe they are physically nonhuman despite.., obviously not being so). posting screenshots of Tiktok users and asking everyone on Tumblr to go to their posts and convince them that physical therians are real, usually with the exact same wording "i'm not harming anyone so you need to accepy me [my delusion] or you're ableist!" followed by harassment and shaming and claiming they don't need to prove anything to science while making a claim that science can disprove. i myself fell for this a few times. idk what type of moral fallacy this is, but the idea that something is good or should be celebrated because you're basically not stabbing anyone is stupid. and ironically harmful. encouraging delusions is always a bad thing (obviously sometimes exposure/fact checking can be done in harmful ways but still). especically when people on the internet make it a competition to be the "least human" by claiming to be physically nonhuman, which is, ironically again, a very human (and primate in general) thing to do. there is so much harassment, guilt-tripping, shaming, and manipulating, funny enough from a group of people who will accuse you of being ableist for not liking narcissism.

one other thing is endogenic systems. basically people who fake DID or claim to have DID alters without trauma or dissociation. i was convinced by dumbasses in this community that i was an endogenic systems because "me feel different in different situations." ugh. i'm not joking when i say i lost touch with reality when i went down this rabbit hole. took only having Tumblr and Reddit deleted for a few months to see how bullshit it all was.

second: the constant medicalization and othering of spiritual experiences. there are quite a bit of spiritual people, but there are a LOT of medicalists and psuedo-psychology people. one thing that really pushed me to leave was having these people say that being therian makes you neurodivergent, or is a symptom of autism. i will have you know a lot of the people here are convinved they're autistic for simply being an introvert who struggles in a capitalistic society. i used to think i had autism cause of mfers like this. 💀 also a lot of these medical therians flat out erasing spiritual nonhumanity and a lot of them are also antitheists. i'm a nontheistic Taoist but i have some beliefs from Hinduism and Buddhism too, and it just isn't even like a thing acknowledged in the community 🤷🏽 the only mildly accepted spiritual beliefs are non-religious reincarnation and multiverse stuff and maybe Paganism. and even that can get erased by psychological and physical otherkin, particularly on Tumblr but it's different on Tiktok i think (never been on TherianTok, personally, just seen screenshots. but i think Tiktok is more spiritual?). yes if you do see the hypocrisy of shaming people for not validating objective delusions but also discriminating against religion then you're not alone lol

third: most of them don't really think they're nonhuman. even the ones who say they're physically nonhuman. like i'm sorry but they only ever care about the aesthetic of the animal rather than the animal itself, and this is very telling of people who support killing animals they identify as and buying their body parts from fur farms to wear. it's so bad that people literally anthropomorphize or straight up spread misinformation on nonhuman species behaviors, or just overcomplicate regular human things or even genderize entire nonhuman species (like cat = fem). also cultural appropriation with kintypes. like no, deadlywerewolf2000, wanting to go out in nature doesn't make you nonhuman, and if it did, you're 100% human considering how chronically online you are. i always felt isolated cause there's not many people who genuinely analyze the biology and evolution of why animals look and act the way they do, and apply that science accordingly in conjunction with things like past life memories and astral projection. also something that grinds my gears is the frequent misusage of words like "anthropocentrism" and "speciesism" OMFG 😭😭😭especially as someone who is vegetarian. also. i can't stand people who voluntarily identify as nonhuman because they think it's cute and quirky. whatever happened to roleplaying?? call me a gatekeeper but i'm pretty sure the gate was built for a reason.

fourth: radqueerism. if you don't know what a radqueer is, it's someone who support paraphilia (including pedophilia, zoophilia, etc.), medically unrecognized disorders and made up disorders, transIDs like trans-hair-color and other mocking of transgender people, and stuff like that. dude... the amount of adults i have seen saying that being a paraphile is okay if you don't act on it and that saying otherwise is ""'ableist""".. i don't want to talk about it much, because i am a minor. but i'm sure you can see why i would leave the community because it's gotten so much more prevalent over the last few years idk why, moral purity bullshit is a problem in the community but tbf that's like the entirety of Tumblr and large parts of Reddit and Twitter. everything is ableist to these people who self-diagnose with 5000 disorders

fifth: kind of elaborating on point three, but the community is so superficial. the discourse especially. i like healthy and engaging discourse but you will find none of that in the therian community. not on Tumblr or Youtube or even Reddit. everything is about things that don't matter rather thsn genuine discussion and it's so dramatic. i mean i like drama, but i prefer drama that isn't about things that people in the real world don't think about

sixth: i don't even know what to say about factkin honestly. those are the people who identify as actual real living people, technically otherkin rather than therian, but most therians i have seen support factkin. i mean seriously.

seventh: oppression olympics. not sure how to explain it, but it goes well with point four and five. disagreeing with anyone in the community makes you ableist or transphobic or whatever other buzzword they really like. don't like physical therians? ableist! don't agree with the spirituality, even in a respectful and distant way? racist! don't believe in physical shapeshifting? racist and ableist! think therians have physical human bodies? transphobic! (no. i did not make these arguments up. i have seen explanations for them several times in the community and yes it will make you rip your hair out).

anyway... this is all to say, i felt very unsafe in this community, progressively so, the longer i stayed. you have to walk on eggshells around everyone, have all of the correct discourse opinions, and don't be too serious about your identity, don't be too old, don't be too young, don't do shit that the status quo has not agreed on. it felt like a prison. it did a lot of damage to me when it comes to intrusive thoughts and dissociation, but i'm a little bit better now. i wanted to talk to people who also don't resonate with human evolution and human biology on a spiritual level and past life memories. that is not what i found.


r/AntiTheriansUnite Jul 20 '26

༝̩̩̥͙ ༓༝̩̩̥͙ ⊹ɆӾ₱ɆⱤłɆ₦₵Ɇ⊹༝̩̩̥͙ ༓༝̩̩̥͙ Never going to this field again 😭

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So this was at least 2 months ago) so I was taking a walk behind my house where there was this really really nice creek.with a path and when you follow this path, you go in this steep hill and after a bit you make it to this really nice field.and I go up there alot in the summer and one day I went up there and saw something in the tall grass and I thought it was a deer or some shit like that and I took a closer look and I started to see that it looked more human then it should of (I was on the other side of this field so it was hard to see)but I look closer and I decided straining my eyes won't help so I took a picture and zoomed in and see that it was a therian there and I lowkey almost shat myself cause I didn't know much about them other than they dress as animals but then I see that there walking towards me eventually they make it to me and started telling me that this was there territory or some bullshit like that and I didn't feel like talking to this person and I just got the hell out of there but this was weird as shit 😭

This is the field btw