I think funding a few artists probably tips you over into having too much investment to not be one. You contribute actively and probably more than some self identified furries lol

I'm a furry and definitely believe in the big-tent definition of the term, inclusive of "people significantly more interested in furry art than average"; by "I don't self-identify", do you mean you don't affirmatively self-identify? Or that you actively deny being a furry? I don't "identify as" an artist, but I do make art and if you asked me if I was an artist I would hesitate to say no.

I think Conflux's logic of respecting your self-id makes sense for the latter, but not for the former; there are plenty of things we do not affirmatively self-identify as that we nonetheless are.

@Adam I don't affirmatively self identify. I used to actively deny, but honestly I think that was more rooted in shame than fact

You don’t identify as a furry and have never worn a fursuit. I don’t see why manifolders shouldn’t respect your identity on this just because you’ve enjoyed some furry media

if you have to ask, you've already lost

@8 And yet mine is only at 38%

I did one too

• I do not self-identify

Any of your furry friends who know about the fursona will almost certainly count you as furry, but unless your self-identification changes, your description doesn't really have a lot of big "furry in denial" red flags...

(except maybe if the furry : nonfurry ratio of Patreon users you fund, personal friends excluded, is super high — like, it's about 80% furry for me)

Of course the rest of Manifold may have different standards.