Tulpas being covered tonight on Fusion Network TV

[Cold Blitz]

feels like a lot of cringe .-.

[Pleeb]

I remember when the new York times article came out, everyone was upset because "furries!!!" Yet nobody reading the article outside of .info had such thoughts. This has gone much better than other articles /documentories I've seen, but anything this community judges will be through an unrealistic schema.

[Vos]

This was very hard to watch, yeah.

[ThunderClap]

Jesus flipping Christ.

 

It is amazing how they manage to find the worst examples every time.

[waffles]

Well, I think I was upset because furries, which in retrospect was kind of stupid. If what you're saying is that to people outside of this community this isn't cringeworthy, I'd like for that to be the case - I just have a hard time believing it.

[glitchthe3rd]

Yeah, I think the next time someone does something about us it should be with someone whose tulpas aren't in the simple minority of those with anthro or animal forms. I also felt like they focused a lot on the possession aspect of tulpas and generally tried to sensationalize it rather than really looking at it for what it is.

[Drakaina]

I actually really liked this. I didn't get the cringe factor. The host doing the interview was very kind and seemed more than willing to try and understand the phenomena. Yes the idea and Sam/KT's switching ability was brought up, and tv does need to sell, but I wouldn't say it was overly focused on.

 

Compared to "documentaries" on Furries and therians that genuinely do try to sensationalize the phenomena this is a very good segment.

If I had to criticise anything it would be that only one person was interviewed. Tulpa are a very varied and subjective thing so it would have been nice to get a wider view of that variance. But as a basic introduction, a wider net may overload someone just learning about tulpa so maybe the one view they got was a good one.

 

I don't get why people don't like the nonhuman tulpa thing though. Why is that an issue? They function the same. =/

[Linkzelda]

I don't get why people don't like the nonhuman tulpa thing though. Why is that an issue? They function the same. =/

 

It's probably because people have mixed responses with sexually-based context invading what would really just be peaceful imagination in a person's head. The fetishes, and such as any community can revel in seems more dominate sometimes and sensationalized (but not all of them), and just being someone other than themselves adds on to a cringe factor. It's just that people don't really have an experiential fallback to go to in this case, which is why they become apprehensive, and thus weird-ed out by those concepts.

 

But I'm sure that if they were to read threads of people creating human tulpas, and tulpas that are reminiscent of other people, it can lead to similar, or greater strife with identity, and what have you.

[Drakaina]

 

It's probably because people have mixed responses with sexually-based context invading what would really just be peaceful imagination in a person's head. The fetishes, and such as any community can revel in seems more dominate sometimes and sensationalized (but not all of them), and just being someone other than themselves adds on to a cringe factor. It's just that people don't really have an experiential fallback to go to in this case, which is why they become apprehensive, and thus weird-ed out by those concepts.

 

It's early for me so I may have read this wrong, but it sounds like you're saying that furry is a fetish or sexually-based.

[Luminesce]

It's not really what it's about as much as what people think about it, here. Though I will say that there's more than just fetishism that's seen as "wrong" with furries. There's the typical dislike that otherkin get too, wanting to be something that isn't human, because that's seen as unhealthy. Similarly wanting a non-human partner of some kind is also looked down upon (see:MLP). People don't seem to make the connection that (as you pointed out) functionally no form for a tulpa is really much different than another, and that often times they're simply inspired by things like cartoons or other media we enjoy. For example, having a big dancing bear as a tulpa is pretty strange.. unless it's Baloo from Jungle Book, and then suddenly it makes sense.

 

Anyways, it's just a lack of information as always. Only so much you can get across in public things like that, can't expect them to get it perfect when we aren't the ones making it.