{"id":381533,"date":"2018-10-18T20:34:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-walmart-encourages-bizarre-furry-subculture\/"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:34:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T19:34:30","slug":"prison-planet-com-walmart-encourages-bizarre-furry-subculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-walmart-encourages-bizarre-furry-subculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Walmart Encourages Bizarre \u2018Furry\u2019 Subculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Retail giant applauds weird \u201cfursuit\u201d image<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>October 18, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181018walmart1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Retail giant Walmart has caused confusion by appearing to encourage the bizarre \u2018Furry\u2019 subculture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A twitter user called BlondeFoxy (a furry) tweeted a picture of themselves wearing a \u2018Walmart head\u2019 as a part of their \u201cfursuit\u201d.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">These Walmart heads are so cute and super affordable.  I&#8217;m going to modify this one to kinda show some of my younger followers the potential these things really have &#x2764;&#xfe0f; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/furryfandom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#furryfandom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fursuit?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#fursuit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ul9hx6PAE5\">pic.twitter.com\/Ul9hx6PAE5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Lucky Coyote&#x1f335; (@BlondeFoxy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlondeFoxy\/status\/1052716293772652544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Walmart responded, saying: \u201cmentoring fursuiters for the next generation? Nicely done, Lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mentoring fursuiters for the next generation? Nicely done, Lucky.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Walmart (@Walmart) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Walmart\/status\/1052744700908724224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Many reacted with mock horror at the weird juxtaposition of a glorified supermarket interacting with a human pretending to be an animal:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3ajEtf0vjm\">pic.twitter.com\/3ajEtf0vjm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shit Boi (@Liam_Giblin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Liam_Giblin\/status\/1052797199493419008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"und\" dir=\"ltr\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z7T0GnvPGm\">pic.twitter.com\/z7T0GnvPGm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 &#x1f383;jessica. (@JessicaonRS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JessicaonRS\/status\/1052791915773652992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Furries, for the uninitiated, are an internet subculture fandom who anthropomorphize animals. Furries dress up, wearing full-sized \u2018Fursuits\u2019 to fit their \u2018Fursonas\u2019, and meet up at conventions.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is a real thing.<\/p>\n<p>There is, of course, a sexual element to the Furry scene and it is regarded by many to be a fetish. There are even linguistic terms used solely to describe sexual activities for Furries, such as \u201cyiffing\u201d (the sound foxes make during sex, obviously).<\/p>\n<p>Furries on the internet are generally overly sexual. Frosted Flakes, a cereal by the brand Kellogg\u2019s, once had to ask twitter Furries to keep it PG as too many of them were sexualizing Frosties\u2019 mascot Tony the Tiger and sending them anthropomorphic animal porn. Kellogg\u2019s then resorted to mass blocking&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/walmart-encourages-bizarre-furry-subculture.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retail giant applauds weird \u201cfursuit\u201d image Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comOctober 18, 2018 Retail giant Walmart has caused confusion by appearing to encourage the bizarre \u2018Furry\u2019 subculture. A twitter user called BlondeFoxy (a furry) tweeted a picture of themselves wearing a \u2018Walmart head\u2019 as a part of their \u201cfursuit\u201d. These Walmart heads are so cute and super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-381533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}