Most furries in the furry fandom have never had a fellow furry as a friend for over 2 years in the furry fandom I have discovered over time.
Based on my own discovery, most furries online tend to break up friendships on the first year.
The rest tend to have the majority break up the friendship on the second year.
Out of all furries, less than 10% of furries have held a friend for over 2 years.
This is a disturbingly consistent fact that has plagued the furry fandom for a long time.
I honestly want to know why my fellow furries cannot maintain long lasting friendships.
Even I find a 2 year friendship short. And yet, most furries find it a long friendship. It is bizarre, but it appears to be rampant.
Is it because you can simply block someone over the slightest disagreement, argument, or even disliking a race, religion, and sexual orientation?
That you can block someone over the tiniest nit-pick thing, like the fact someone has a mental illness, mental handicap, learning disability, or behavioral disability?
That you can block someone based on their favorited porn? Or their favorite sports team? Even a favorite animal? Or a fursona species?
Blocking people right away at the slightest disgust is done by most furries in the furry fandom. It is also rampant on every social media site that is newer than furry fandom sites (FA & SoFurry).
But, it is more than that. Many people refuse to even be messaged on furry websites. Many people refuse to take commissions over furry websites. Many people also refuse to use furry websites to effectively perform communication all together.
Most people prefer to use instant messenger applications, and most people prefer instant messenger applications that were designed originally only for phones.
The furry fandom is vanishing online on the computer. Most furries refuse to use websites on their phones, preferring applications over websites. Most furries refuse to even use any single furry website, and most furries don't even want to use a furry website, showing an increased preference for phone applications.
So why is this happening? I've noticed the furries who make up these most furries are mostly furries up to the age of 25. They also tend to be furries with anti-social tendencies above the age of 25.
So... is it the sign of the times? Or is it a sign we're becoming anti-social? Is it a sign we're abandoning computers? Or a sign we're starting a new generation?
Most furries consider me a gray-muzzle because I'm 31 right now. They also find me old. They find me backwards. They... aren't used to me.
Then again, I might be less appealing as a furry. I'm not a real person to most furries. I have problems. I have mental illness and behavioral disorders. I'm old. I'm not part of any majority race, religion, or political group, and am a rare sexual orientation.
I feel that the furry fandom has begun to embrace certain ideas of the ideal furry and the ideal view of the furry fandom, as perfect people and a perfect place. A place they feel is a sanctuary for what they view is ideal. And... ideal means the old, flawed, unusual, are just not a part of it.
I might be a bit put off by the furry fandom's online right now. Automated support for furry websites, a non-existent moderator staff that never talks to users, and a non-existent staff elsewhere that never talks to users.
This analysis was based off of FurAffinity specifically. But, some select parts of what goes on at FA applies to all other furry websites. Which says... the furry fandom is dying on the computer used internet. The laptop used internet. The internet that I grew up on. The internet that has been a part of my life since 20 years ago when I was 11 years old. The internet has always been the only way for me to contact furries, until the development of online gaming, and much much later, the use of phones and similar new additions. I've never been to a convention. Most furries have never been to a convention. But, most furries now do not use the computer to contact other furries.
This means to survive, the furry fandom needs to adapt its computer based websites to appeal to younger generations. Right now, they are sub-standard. They also do not allow the freedom to communicate that young furries are used to. They do not allow for furries to post as many pictures, journals, and such as they want. Phones and such do. They do not allow them a safe place to talk do to extreme measures by moderators. Phones do. They do not allow people the same ease of commissioning art. Phones actually do. Furry websites must adapt, or go extinct.
Because already, friends were going extinct in the fandom 8 years ago... when most furries never had friends for over 2 years, which continues today, even though cellphones are more popular today than they were 8 years ago.