The History Of Weird Furry "Fetish" Art

[00:00:00]Furry fetish you've never heard of by a good channel. Frankie Fay. Bad art history. Bro, this is going to be this is this is going to be uh interesting, bro. Lock in.

[00:00:12]>> Furry nightmare fuel. Furry nightmare fuel. You know it when you see it. And if you grew up online, you've probably seen a furry Photoshop masterpiece that radicalized you. But where exactly do these images come from? Who's making them? I didn't even know these were furry fetishes.

[00:00:30]I guess I didn't think of furries when I saw these. I thought they were made to be horrifying just to kind of scare you and be uncanny and cursed.

[00:00:39]But I guess like >> and more importantly, who are the people into this? It turns out there's a fine line between furry art and body horror.

[00:00:48]And when you cross that line, you enter an obscure internet community where the boundaries between flesh, fursuit, and fetish don't matter. This is a deep dive into botched fursuits and body horror gone sexy. [music] This is bad art history.

[00:01:05]>> I'm sorry. Fetish in this. Who the f I got to see the I got to just find the type of people that look at that and go like my dick hard my [ __ ] wet cuz that doesn't make any sense to me. Okay, lock in.

[00:01:18]>> Part one, furry nightmare fuel. The internet operates much like a freak show. We are morbidly obsessed with creating mythology around our freaks in every sense of the word. So, when a video of a furry dolphin homunculus man began circulating online in 2008 with virtually no explanation, it tapped into humanity's oldest instinct, being mean to furries on the internet. So, where did this thing come from? This is where our rabbit hole begins. On March 24th, 2007, the Canadian art team Northfur, specializing in making animal themed face prosthetics, had recently finished up their latest practice piece, a hyperrealistic dolphin muzzle. They took a few pictures, uploaded them to Deviant Art, and the whole thing flew under the radar. But a few months later, the dolphin man inexplicably appeared on a furry image board. and someone thought it would be funny if they reposted him to the furry porn website E621.

[00:02:18]>> Okay.

[00:02:18]>> And that was the beginning of the end.

[00:02:20]Users immediately spammed the dolphin man with down votes, called him nightmare fuel, and one person even complained the image was so distressing it was making him violent. So, you can imagine how people reacted when they found the dolphin video.

[00:02:35][groaning and screaming] On December 30th, 2007, the North Fur YouTube channel uploaded this alarming clip of the dolphin muzzle in a full range of motion, and Pandora's furs suit was officially unzipped. In no time at all, screenshots of the dolphin man began surfacing everywhere. Neogaf, 4chan, Macrochan, and his protocol online. If you don't know where something came from, just start making [ __ ] up. Rumors quickly spread that this was footage from South experiment to turn people into Kyle's dad. Others claimed that it was a banned Facebook video from 2004, even though it was filmed.

[00:03:12]>> You could have said anything. Live leak.

[00:03:15]You could Yeah, it was some 4chan video someone made. You could have said it was the beginning of a porn video and I would have believed it. Swear to God. It just has that look. It has that look like either someone's about to die or it's about to get really freaky in there. You could have threw those things at me been like, "Oh, yeah, that [ __ ] that makes sense."

[00:03:31]>> 2006. Others still insisted that the original audio was actually lost media, uploading hoax versions of the video with their own audio and claiming that that was the original footage. And for the next 13 years, far past the point where you could simply Google this and find out where it came from, the urban legends persisted. So, why did people freak out like this? I'm not going to insult your intelligence here. There's a pretty glaring issue with this design.

[00:03:58]It's a touch too realistic for its own good. And it came along during an era of the internet where we were all briefly obsessed with Super Mario in real life.

[00:04:08]>> Super Mario in real life.

[00:04:12]>> For millions of people in the 2010s, Uncanny Valley images were their first contact with internet hoax imagery. And armed with this knowledge, people came away with two game theories about the dolphin guy. Either he was disturbing because furry's bad and the artists that made him sucked. And did I mention furry's bad or he was creepy because someone wanted him to look that way because it was a fetish thing. So to really figure out why this image exists, we got to talk about a really freaky guy in a bathtub named Jonathan Galindo.

[00:04:50]Part two.

[00:04:50]>> Jonathan Gindo >> gooning. So, in 2020, kids on the internet were legitimately living in fear of this photorealistic goofy cosplay in piss yellow lighting with dead eyes. But one look at this image and you can tell that it's significantly older than Tik Tok. So, where did this furry nightmare fuel par excalance come from? On January 28th, 2012, a user on the furry art site Fur Affinity, going by Dusky Sam, began documenting his progress on a goofy cosplay through a combination of clothes, makeup, and a dog snout prosthetic that he had purchased from.

[00:05:26]>> Imagine this is what they had at Disneyland when you pulled up. This is what the Oh my god. Kids would be freaking out, [laughter] crying. Mom, I do not want to take a picture with this [ __ ] bro.

[00:05:40]Yo, they'd be losing their [ __ ] minds. Yo, like imagine imagine this was the [ __ ] They're like, "Oh yeah, this is what you get when you come to Disneyland, bro. Take a picture with Goofy." [laughter] Hell no. Somebody would shoot him.

[00:05:56]Somebody would probably bring a weapon in there to kill that [ __ ] cuz like he I feel like just being near that near this thing would give you nightmares. I swear to God. North Furation of clothes, makeup, and a dog snout prosthetic that he had purchased from North Fur FX.

[00:06:12]Dusky Sam uploaded a series of 29 photos showing off the range of his talents. He even dipped his toe into some alt history predictions. And this was all wellreceived until it hit 4chan in 2015.

[00:06:26]Internet sleuths began digging deeper and in no time at all, they found his X-Tube account. Over the next 3 years, different goofy f >> X tube. I never heard of that one. Is that like It's not what I think it is, right? That's just like a different YouTube, right?

[00:06:44]>> Photos explicit and otherwise began to surface on Reddit, sparking discussion about which side should have actually won.

[00:06:53]>> This is [laughter] Yo, that's insane. That's [ __ ] insane.

[00:07:03]>> [laughter] >> Like, hey, bro, look what the internet has come to. If we had just let this [ __ ] win.

[00:07:13]No, you're whining, bro. You're dead wild.

[00:07:17]>> On Reddit, sparking discussion about which side should have actually won World War II. But the videos have long since been taken down. The site hosting them is closed. And it seemed like Dusky Sam could finally put all of this behind him until 2019. That year, a new offshoot of an infamous whale themed internet challenge had just taken off.

[00:07:39]Numerous identical accounts popped up across all social media sites claiming to be someone named Jonathan Galindo, who looked like this and threatened to dox children unless they performed some permanent act. It seems obvious now that this was not all just one guy. But Tik Tockers weaponized their collective 10 IQ anyway and uncritically made the connection between Dusky Sam's cosplay and the fictional persona of Jonathan Gindo. And they came after him so hard that Samuel Canini, the actual human being behind Dusky Sam, had to issue an official statement disavowing any connection between his artwork and the challenge. Fair. And it was at this point researching the video that I hit a wall. I knew in my gut that this was connected to a fetish thing somehow. I wasn't convinced that this could possibly just end with the goofy nightmare bathtub, but I figured, okay, there's one more furry nightmare fuel classic that I haven't looked into yet.

[00:08:43]It's probably nothing. But, you know, maybe it'll contain a very specific phrase that only gets used in a very obscure deviant art fetish community that gets so balls to the wall with it that even furries don't want to touch it.

[00:08:56]>> What?

[00:08:57]>> You know, hypothetically, part three, the Red Bubble Dog Man.

[00:09:03]>> Okay.

[00:09:03]>> So, it turns out I was partially right about this fetish thing because this is where it gets really weird.

[00:09:09]>> I don't like anything about this. This right here might be the I don't like this is throwing me all the way off.

[00:09:17]Nothing about this seems like it. This is not right. It's just not right.

[00:09:25]Please stop this.

[00:09:29]Please. So, a few weeks ago, Pug Pogers on Twitter asked me to find the origin of these two images. The one on the right is kind of a dead end and it's most likely AI generated, but the one on the left is actually a nightmare fuel classic from 2009. Uploaded to Deviant Art that year by artist Jag Dragon. It doesn't look like much. In fact, it was just this guy's Photoshop project for his CG arts class. And his intention was to morph himself with his dog. But the internet had other plans for him. And in the mid2010s, this image made the usual rounds on Reddit and Imager and everyone made their kill it with fire.

[00:10:08]>> I'm sorry, what?

[00:10:09]>> Post the last pick you fap to. And this [ __ ] All right, bro. Hey, man. To each their own. I guess [laughter] that's funny. Post the last pick you fap to right here, gang. Look at this. You see You see the snout on that thing?

[00:10:24]Hard to not let it go >> rounds on Reddit and Imager and everyone.

[00:10:29]>> What is it? In the mid2010s, this image made the usual rounds on Reddit and Imager.

[00:10:34]>> So, my dad posted this today. Thought it belonged here.

[00:10:36]>> And everyone made their >> Wolf Wolf creepiest picture I've ever seen. Yeah, facts.

[00:10:40]>> Usual kill it with fire comments. One Redditor found this image so frightening he demanded to know if this actually happened to someone in real life.

[00:10:51]To this day, no one has answered him.

[00:10:54]But the dog man also appeared on one other website you wouldn't expect. If you reverse search this, you'll find a listing for a sticker on Redbubble. And the listing name isn't uh furry anything or dog man or anything like that. It simply reads zooorph sticker.

[00:11:13]>> So I went on debnart.edu and typed in zooorph and found this and this and this.

[00:11:20]>> Oh my.

[00:11:21]>> And all of these. Because even though the dolphin muzzle, bathtub goofy, and the dog man are not exclusively fetish images as intended by the artist that the worst coincidences ever. They happen to look exactly like something that is something Deviant Art immediately recommends when you click on this image.

[00:11:44]The zoolomorph humiliation fetish. But if you want to hear a sentence that's a little less upsetting, try this video was sponsored by Meta PCs. Customizing a PC can be stressful and >> I'm going to skip the sponsor, get right back into the video, but that'll be a way to throw a sponsor in.

[00:12:00]>> Spilled an entire thermos of coffee on this and nothing happened to it. Link below between their flex sponsor over part four. Boomers on Deviant Art. Now, before everyone jumps me in the comments, three things you ought to know. This is anthro art. as in anthropomorphic animal. This is a photomorph, a term no one really uses anymore. And this is a zumorph. Now, on paper, these are two versions of the same concept, an animal with distinctly human features. But while this variety can be found basically anywhere furry art exists, >> okay, >> this one >> really only lives on deviant art. But why? Well, there are a few rules when it comes to furry fetish.

[00:12:50]And you never ever want to cut out someone's face in Microsoft Paint and stick it on a barn animal.

[00:12:57]>> Fair enough.

[00:12:58]>> Unless >> that happens to be your fetish. So, to come back to our dog man for no reason at all, right next to him is a userenerated collection called Photomorphs. And already it's not obvious that this is mainstream furry.

[00:13:13]The biggest furry porn site that hosts this kind of content only has several dozen images to offer and one of the few artists.

[00:13:37]I just feel like this is something people would make as a joke, you know, like no one would actually consume this other than like just to [ __ ] around with your friends in middle school or something like, "Yo, look at this stupid ass [ __ ] I frowned." And they open it up and it's just straight shock factor.

[00:13:52]You know what I mean? Like, it can't be anything more than that.

[00:13:55]>> Behind most of this stuff on there nuked his entire gallery for reasons unknown.

[00:14:00]And when you look up the term zumorph, uh-oh, no results on the furry porn sites. Yet, Deviant Art is crawling with these guys. This account's whole stick is taking random selfies and photoshopping animal features onto the heads. And the comments are all really normal about >> can you do mosquito necks and have the boobs.

[00:14:27]All I'mma say, bro, is you Sonic fans are never ever ever beating the allegations. You're some weird [ __ ] You're some [ __ ] weirdos, bro. Like, what the hell do you mean? Can you Can you do mosquitoes and have the boob filled with blood? Like, what kind of thought process is that? This one takes a more anomorph style approach to again disfiguring the selfies of completely >> crazy the feet all up in here. Okay, >> women. This guy role plays as a researcher at a medical facility that runs experiments turning beautiful young women into mamlian abominations. He goes by theoranthropist.

[00:15:13]Keep that name in the back of your head.

[00:15:15]And the examples are honestly too numerous to list. Every animal, every stage of transition, every conceivable category is someone's fetish on this website. And if you still don't believe me, here's a guy whose thing is specifically putting the heads of Asian women onto small animals.

[00:15:32]>> Censored due to literal [ __ ] >> But hold up. You're thinking, "How can you say it's a fetish just because these people are photoshopping really stupid?"

[00:15:47]>> Yeah, I was gonna say that was my exact thought. Like, this doesn't feel fetish.

[00:15:51]This just feels like I'm photoshopping faces on [ __ ] cuz I'm bored. What makes it a fetish?

[00:15:55]>> Using women's selfies and also writing really long stories about it. They could be doing this for any reason.

[00:16:01]>> The story is you got me.

[00:16:03]>> There are actually some very reliable tells when it comes to deviant art fetish behavior. the comments. For example, on this post by the theoreanthropist about a hot young blonde being turned into a lioness against her will, the sole comment reads, "Continue with the experiments."

[00:16:20]Oh my god. Or this post of a dog girl using a selfie of dubious origin. Where the comments praise her remarkable beauty and one calls her good girl.

[00:16:31]>> Oh my god. This is like the This is This is up there with book talk. No, no, no, no, no. Because book talk they be having [ __ ] dragon turtle men with fat penises. No, I think it's a chicken guy with a fat penis. The 12-inch long penis having sex with like a a thousand year old woman or something. This is This is Everyone's got their thing, dude.

[00:16:59]Everyone's got their thing.

[00:17:00]>> You get the point. But even lacking comments, the fetish tells alone are numerous. Extreme emphasis in the photo captions on the women's humiliation and despair over their new animal body.

[00:17:12]Constant repetition when it comes to words like drooling, out of control, or the horror. And most tellingly, "Oh no, the big lady sat on me." If you've seen a few of these videos now, you know what that phrase means. But if you don't, I'm basically referring to these incredibly complex origin stories that they come up with in the captions, explaining how these young, beautiful women just accidentally fell into a vat one day and became some kind of like a catgirl science experiment. Um, and and thematically, the whole thing reads like, "Oh no, I can't believe this happened to me. Oh no, well, I'm not going to do anything about it now." That kind of thing. So, what to make of all this? Simply put, it's an animal transformation fetish with humiliation features. And even though the animal part plays a major role, this is really not much of a furry thing at all. They just happen to share some vocabulary.

[00:18:08]Regardless of genre, furry fetish art is primarily about animals with human features, whereas this stuff is really just human women attaining animal features, often against their will. In fact, I couldn't help but notice something incredibly boomercoded about the entire thing, which may explain its absence on the popular websites. A lot of the women featured tend to be conventionally attractive as opposed to internet hot. You don't see a lot of eirls, mostly stock photo models and girl nextoor types. The captions seemingly never refer to memes or pop culture. What film references there are feel incredibly dated. This community does little to indicate that they're aware of a world outside of deviantart.com. And I'd say the biggest tell is their use of this word photo manipulation. The term is pretty dated.

[00:19:03]It was never even very popular back when photoshopping something was a novel concept. And this is obviously just my speculation.

[00:19:10]>> No, no, no. You make a good point. I think I think we caught on to the to the boomer people to the to the to the millennial boomer folks on what those what the weirdos in that generation were up to. All right, we know what the weirdos in the Gen Z generation were up to. They were watching they're watching the hentai right now. But you guys, this is this is what you were doing. All right, this is what you were doing. I got it. It makes It makes some sense.

[00:19:41]It makes some sense. You fit into that category. Okay, Abe Lincoln.

[00:19:45]The whole thing really does just feel like a group of older people for whom the furry thing never clicked in their heads. So, if they're not furries, then how did they figure out they were into this?

[00:19:59]>> Part five.

[00:20:00]>> Boomer body horror. Transformation fetishes are everywhere online. often abbreviated TF. They're one of the most popular categories among furry websites and really anywhere you find fetish art.

[00:20:15]Period. And the simplest explanation is many people are drawn to imaginary scenarios where they can surrender power of their body in a controlled environment. Kind of like a masochism thing. Others prefer the opposite where they can transform into something big and powerful.

[00:20:32]>> You're insulting our generation.

[00:20:34]So be it. Gen Alpha, Gen Z, Millennial, they all have bad things about them, EP.

[00:20:40]It's nothing you can do about that, is there? Right? Such is life.

[00:20:47]Such is how the world works, man. As with a lot of fetishes with big internet communities, it's often a case of early childhood exposure to transformation sequences in books and movies and cartoons. Things that take on a morbidly fascinating quality by the time puberty rolls around. According to psychologist and professional gamer PhD Dr. Mark Griffiths, the most common type of transformation material online by far is humans turning into animals. And this is not shocking. Transformation has >> Oh, yeah. [ __ ] Teen Wolf. Top tier, bro. Let's Let's talk about it. Like, when we were in high school, when I was in high school, a [ __ ] turning into a wolf was the hottest thing ever. All right. The hot teen wolf, Jacob from Twilight, like they were fawning over those people. Okay. Vampire Diaries. It was like, "Oh my god, you turned into a you you're an alpha. You play lacrosse.

[00:21:50]Oh god, he's so hot."

[00:21:54]Like that was like, dude, like they they were the sex symbols, right? And you thought it was because of the the character himself was hot, but now that I'm looking back on it, I think they just genuinely like that these people transformed into animals. It gives you like a I don't know what it gives you. I don't understand it. I still don't understand the animal fetish transformation. I'm I'm I'm going to understand it one day, but today is still not that day. So, I'm not going to sit here and lie like I do understand it. But yeah, >> massive overlap with basically every subculture that has >> My mom's in the room. Mom Abe, your your son Abe is watching uh furry porn.

[00:22:35]Mom Abe is watching furry porn.

[00:22:38]Furry porn. Abe is watching furry porn.

[00:22:44]Check his phone.

[00:22:47]Check his phone. Furry porn. You don't know what that is, Mom? He's watching porn with animals in it. Mom, check that [ __ ] Look at his [ __ ] >> Even transformation has a massive overlap with basically every subculture that has even a single gooner among its ranks. As one transformation fetishist explains, I don't identify at all with the furry thing. I mean, no offense to those of you who do. For me, it's merely a curiosity about what a particular form would physically feel like. And in some cases, there's even a slight element of humiliation at no longer being entirely human. It's when some element of control andor slight humiliation appears that it becomes erotic. In fact, I've noticed one common theme in all the transformation scenes that caught my attention growing up. The scene typically focuses on the character's reaction, which is often a sense of my own body is betraying me.

[00:23:44]>> And that turns >> in the imagination, transforming can be liberating and escapism and empowering and all that good stuff. But in reality, it would be pretty painful and horrifying to behold. Now, quick tangent here. For what it's worth, the dolphin muzzle was not a fetish piece. We know this because in virtually all of the posts on the usual sites tagged North for FX, it's just run-of-the-mill photography showing off their makeup skills. No holes, barely any flesh. But he breaks the illusion because in real life, transformation would probably look a lot like this. In other words, disfiguring. And for people who get off to humiliating transformations, that's the whole point. It's only a few clicks away from zuomorphism before you get into the darker stuff. Girls stranded in the humiliating midpoint.

[00:24:37]>> I don't like that. Stop.

[00:24:38]>> Woman and reptile. Women who barely resemble humans at all. Many of these I can't even show you because they're legitimately just screenshots from the hub with the women's faces made to look as anim animalistic and disfigured as possible. And if you dig deeper still, [laughter] that's funny as [ __ ] Is that making good?

[00:25:04][laughter and gasps] >> Yo, >> you find the dogwoman head swap community, which is exactly what it sounds like.

[00:25:12][screaming] And when I call this stuff body horror, that's not me clutching my pearls. Think of it this way. Terror and exhilaration are very similar feelings.

[00:25:25]Transformation and body horror are both visually effective through the intimate manipulation of the body. They both change you. They both strip you of your control. And they both can get pretty dehumanizing in the most practical sense. And honestly, I think that's where a lot of the morbid fascination comes from. It's not a coincidence that horror and sci-fi often evoke body horror and sexuality in the same breath.

[00:25:50]People like this B-roll is hard, bro.

[00:26:07]>> Being stimulated. I don't like this. I like being manhandled. And you only need to get your wires crossed one time to decide that this is as sexy as this. But what about the real thing? Virtually all this stuff is confined to art and fetish fiction, but there are people who take this stuff to its logical extreme. Cuz when Photoshop isn't enough, you can always just carve up your actual body.

[00:26:33]Super Mario in real life.

[00:26:36]>> [ __ ] you mean?

[00:26:37]>> Bofur as a term is very controversial.

[00:26:40]You can't look it up on DeviantArt and its discussion page on Wikifur cites its unpopularity as a naming convention because so few people seem to identify that way at all. But every group is entitled to its outliers. And there is a vanishing minority of furries for whom transformation art alone simply doesn't cut it. Back in 1998, a furry troll going by Blue Otter launched frenetics.com, the website of an alleged gene therapy clinic running out of Mongolia that was developing humanto furry technology. You can even click this link that goes nowhere to learn about their upcoming 2015 partnership uh with the nation of Iran. But some people were more sincere about this. In the 2000s, there was this very obscure website called the Ecquin Dream Foundation. Its mission statement, promote transhumanism through body mods, surgery, medicine, any means necessary.

[00:27:35]The site itself contains a few pieces of transformation fiction and poetry. On their Hall of Fame page, they site Michael Jackson, the lizard man, and this man covered in leopard print tattoos as living examples of extensive body modification. Now, the implication that Michael Jackson literally became a white guy because he had vitiligo is very funny and incorrect, and I'm not really sure what he's doing on this website, but it did make me laugh. I wasn't expecting to see that. And [clears throat] while someone like the lizard man is undeniably super modded in service of looking like a specific animal, the consensus is not that he's literally turning into one. Evidently, this subculture got laughed out of the room by other furries, and this is probably why Bofur never really became a thing. There's even a 2008 Deviant Art thread making fun of this specific website.

[00:28:32]One person out there must have attempted to remove body parts to actually become >> Stop. Don't say that. Don't No one did that. No one removed body parts to become an animal or to to disfigure themselves. Nobody did that, right?

[00:28:49]Nobody did this. Nobody's doing this.

[00:28:53]Please, nobody's doing this.

[00:28:56]No, nobody's doing this.

[00:28:58]>> An animal, right? In the most extreme example that I could find. Some of you may remember this.

[00:29:06]>> F loses both hands, very likely on purpose. Welcome in the hospital with the life changing situation, not wanting to discuss the deals at this time.

[00:29:12]Basically, it's resulting in bilateral hand amputation. So things are about to get very interesting in my life. I'm doing okay, remaining optimistic.

[00:29:18]>> 2019 incident where a furry alleged had some kind of a DIY dry ice treatment that he was using for his arthritis which accidentally froze his hands and forced him to amputate. Allegedly so that he would have no choice but to wear prosthetic paws for the rest of his life. Now, I have looked high and low for evidence that this is something this person did on purpose, and every single time I found the same 4chan screenshot that people were reposting and treating as gospel. I really don't know what to think. I'm not sure this is true. So, are people doing this to themselves in real life? You know, like that one Redditor wanted to know about the dog man.

[00:30:00]>> No. But there is a small online community of people that believe in this on a spiritual level and they call themselves Theorans. And there's that word again, Theorion. You may remember that the Deviant Art medical experiments roleplay guy, his username contained this word, theoranthropist. But theorans online are a different thing. And they're not a fetish. They know that they're human beings, but it's their belief that their human form does not reflect the innate spiritual animal identity that >> I mean, that's just all of us, though.

[00:30:33]Like, we know that this human form is just >> it's just a shell of the beast inside of me, you know? It's just this shell of the alpha wolf inside of me howling at night that that wants to be unleashed and and run rampant because it's locked in this cage. It wants to finally show itself and reveal its it's its true nature. It's Yeah.

[00:31:10]But of course, I can't let that out, you know. I can't let that out. I just have to play the game with the rest of you humans. Or we just have to play the game with the rest of you humans. But if you're an alpha, just hit the oos in the chat so we all know that you're here with us. As a father, I know y'all [ __ ] ain't been up all night.

[00:31:28]All night long.

[00:31:32]All night long. Even my Even my kids were like, "Bro, Dad, I know you weren't up all night." And I'm like, I was I was They're like, "What were you doing?"

[00:31:42]Grinding.

[00:31:44]Grinding is what I was doing, bro.

[00:31:46]>> They experience. They don't actually think they're turning into animals and they really only pertain to our discussion because they use similar vocabulary to the zooorph fetish guys.

[00:31:56]But I have a feeling that's only the case because the genre of guy turning into animal provides us very little vocabulary to choose from. So, we've covered the nightmare fuel. We covered the fetish. We covered the body horror thing, but we haven't covered you because you have definitely indulged in this kind of thing. Not necessarily in a fetish way, and you probably didn't think twice.

[00:32:21]>> The true true part five, John Pork. It turns out the anthropomorphic animal thing has been a fixture of every society since the beginning of forever.

[00:32:31]And ours is no exception. Some of you grew up reading anomorphs. Some of you watched Disney's Robin Hood as a kid.

[00:32:38]Some of you heard the animal sounds Jonathan Davis was making and decided to take it literally. And some of you are just really big fans of John Pork. Horse girl, cosplay, Snapchat animal filters, drag makeup, the catgirl phenomenon.

[00:32:52]This stuff is ubiquitous. I think it's an inherent part of human nature to try and identify with our animal companions.

[00:33:00]And most of the time, it's completely fun and innocent. There just happens to be a minority of people for whom the experience is a little more intense. But to finish our journey all the way back out of the rabbit hole, let's return to our nightmare fuel and specifically to the artists that made it possible.

[00:33:16]There's one question about the dolphin man that we still haven't answered. Why did he look like that? Well, I hit up North for FX on Twitter and this is what they had to say. In 2005, I met my partner and he wanted to be more involved in my business. He'd never tried sculpting before. In 2006, we discussed what he could sculpt and we decided to go for a dolphin because he was a fan of the Sega Echo games and I thought it would be a simple shape to train on. So, we both worked on the dolphin, passing it back and forth, taking turns working on it for him to get a feel for the process.

[00:33:50]Unfortunately, he couldn't quite get a grasp for morphing an animal shape to fit over a human head, and he hasn't sculpted since. The makeup was done on August 30th, 2006 where I modeled it. I saw the this is not a drill video when I saw a notification on my YouTube copyright tab. I thought it was funny.

[00:34:07]I'm very aware of how creepy what I make is. The uncanny valley is my playground and I enjoy making art that leans over that cliff. I've mostly just been sitting back and chuckling and just letting people have their fun with it.

[00:34:20]It's an extension of their creativity to create stories and videos and edits with it. I've seen the origin stories people whip up or the people treating it as some sort of lost media to go find the original audio. I never because my old digital camera had terrible onboard audio and early gen digital cameras sucked. So basically they never set out to terrify the public.

[00:34:45]>> They literally were just doing it for shits and gigs like yo let's just make something cool and [ __ ] it. It's your first time. Why don't you make a dolphin and then we'll record it.

[00:34:56]>> And neither did Dusky Sam or the dog man or ostensibly the dog woman head swap fetish guys on Deviant Art. It was just an unintended consequence that made for good internet storytelling. So if you're going to get into this kind of thing and share it online, just be warned. It could get a little hairy >> for that was good.

[00:35:17]>> This has been bad art history.

[00:35:19]>> Art history. Thank you again to the goat meta PCs for sp >> fire fire. Shout out Frankie Fay and Bad Our History. Those ones are always so [ __ ] insane, dude. So insane. That furry fetish you've never heard of. W Vid