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furry fandom

subculture focused on anthropomorphic animal characters
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Summary

furry fandom is a fandom[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of fandom entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (29,553 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: subculture[3]
  • Commons category: Furry[4]
  • Inception: 1970[5], 1980[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Furry fandom[7]
  • Commons gallery: Furry[8]
  • Partially coincident with: uwu[9], owo[10]
  • Topic has template: Template:Furry fandom[11]
  • Different from: animal roleplay[12], otherkin[13], therian[14]
  • Hashtag: Furry[15], Furry-fandom[16], furries[17]
  • Interested in: furry[18], anthropomorphic animal[19]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Furry[20]
  • Lemmy instance URL: https://pawb.social[21]
  • Usenet newsgroup: alt.fan.furry[22]

Why It Matters

furry fandom has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

Related Entities

Fur Affinity Furry Hentai Tangram Furry Love Furry Love 2 Laurence Parry

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Q141724089. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . ricemedia.co. Retrieved . ricemedia.co. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Q141686857. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Q141686857. wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Q141686857. wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . en.wikipedia.org. en.wikipedia.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · Psychpsyo · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1970-00-00T00:00:00Z, +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Sitelink count → 52
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be_x_old', 'bjn', 'bn', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Inception: 1980s"
  2. 5d ago · Psychpsyo · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → +1970-00-00T00:00:00Z, +1980-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Partially coincident with → uwu, owo
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Inception: 1970s"
  3. 8d ago · Psychpsyo · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 52
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'be_x_old', 'bjn', 'bn', 'ca', 'ckb', 'commons', 'cs', 'cy', 'da', 'de',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Interested in: anthropomorphic animal"
  4. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → furries
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: furries, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289929212|furries (#289929212)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #mix'n'm"
  5. 14w ago · ~2026-31184-44 · 2026-07-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Danbooru tag → furry_(fandom)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Danbooru tag: furry_(fandom)"
  6. 20w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-05-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Usenet newsgroup → alt.fan.furry
    On focus list of wikimedia project → WikiProject Furry
    Instance of → —
    Interested in → furry, anthropomorphic animal
    + 7 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||bjn, nl */ import labels from sitelinks; cleanup"
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