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[–] djsoren19@yiffit.net 60 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I feel like it's a pretty bold claim to call America the inventor of furries when ancient Egyptians were making fursonas.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 20 points 1 month ago

Clearly the sole reason for the fall of the Egyptian dynasties: they went too far into their furdom

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 40 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I am genuinely surprised Europe has so few, given how much I've seen Eurofurence mentioned on my social timelines whenever that one approaches. I suppose that's the only European one I really hear about, but still, the impression I got was that there were a fair few people in Europe that would go to one.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder if it would be higher if all of Europe were combined.

[–] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 month ago

According to the map, 5

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Well, there are some big ones, but not so man (people mostly travel).

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

There's probably more smaller ones, and the big ones are concentrated

But I haven't been in one yet so, I just know that friends tend to travel to get to them. It helps that for most of Europe you can just take a train to get to the other countries

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

TIL that the "f" in NAFTA stands for "furry".

[–] folekaule@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see Norwegian furries tend to stay mostly inland.

[–] Dasnap@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They don't want to get their fur wet.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Beaver-fursona* people in shambles.

(* I assume that's a thing)

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

If I were forced to choose ... yes, it would be the ones that build dams just to keep everyone else away from their homes.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

those must be old numbers. germany has more than 3 conventions with more than 500 ppl. every csd has more than 500 furries. https://furrycons.com/calendar/calendar.php?year=2024&loc=eu

[–] Toes@ani.social 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who knew that was the American dream all along

[–] Fox@pawb.social 9 points 1 month ago

The pathowogen spreading just as planned

[–] nl4real@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I'm disappointed in you, Chile.

[–] Allonzee@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey now that's not fair.

We have a globally recognized national pastime that defines who we are as a people really well.

We lead the developed world in mass shootings.

No one lets their kids shoot their other kids as they gawk and do nothing (except make ad revenue off the coverage) like us Americans. pew pew pew Murica pew pew. 🇺🇸

my country don't have furry cons but we made Skype.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't think it's fair to color Greenland and French Guiana differently than Denmark and France, respectively.

I'm never against providing more data points.