Toxicity:
The furry fandom is one of the most toxic fandoms out there. It is worse than even the likes of Sonic, Undertale, and K-Pop, which are all considered to be pretty toxic fandoms.
The fandom is full of people that are not like your average person in normal society. They tend to be white, male, and around 20-ish years old. And a lot of them can be any one or more of the following: Special snowflakes, neckbearded, troubled teens, depressed, socially awkward, hateful, and/or an SJW. Very different demographics from the rest of society.
The SJWs are the worst. The fandom is full of them. They will attack anyone for any reason, as minor as it can be. Even the smallest fuck-up can make someone a target of these SJWs. They will jump on and attack people in droves, sometimes even driving said target to commit suicide just to get away from it all. They will try to actively push out anyone they don't even remotely like. And they know all. You've done something they don't agree with? Even if it was many many years ago? Congrats! Now you're the ass and target of the entire fandom, and everyone is going to shit on you for that "heinous" thing you've done. This is how drama starts.
Whenever drama happens, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and starts blowing everything out of proportion and dogpiling on what's happening. It becomes the talk of the town. Everyone discusses it, everyone attacks the main subject for it, and everyone wants justice to be served. Data about the person will be leaked, rumors and gossip will be spread around, and someone out there will always take it too far. Sometimes, someone will even impersonate the person in question to try to make them look bad, just to rub salt in the wound. This kind of behaviour has led to people straight-up leaving the fandom, or even committing suicide, because it is just too much. People in the fandom are like piranhas on this stuff, they will not let go. They do not forgive and they do not forget. Eventually the drama does die down, but not without leaving its mark on the fandom. Sometimes the drama is even rekindled a while after it is thought to be over.
And if you so happen to be the subject on any form of social media after the drama has started, people will assume you are somehow still "supporting" this person, and will block you and cut off all contact with you, never to give you a second chance. Essentially, following someone automatically equals "supporting" them, even if you haven't interacted or paid money to them. This is a really stupid way to end/prevent relationships.
Other forms of toxicity include:
Fursuit elitism: If you own a fursuit, you are automatically popular in the fandom and absolved of all sin. Everyone likes you. You can do no wrong. Everything you do is totally justified. And those without fursuits are lower than you and subject to the same basic social, moral, and behavioural guidelines that everyone else is but you are somehow not.
You see how problematic this is?
Popufurs and their fanpeople: Again, if you are a popular furry, you can do no wrong. The fanpeople are even worse. They will blindly follow that popular furry and attack and shit on anyone who opposes them. They'll continue to support that furry even if they get exposed for doing something bad.
Egocentrism: Many furries often think about no one but themselves, nothing but their own pleasure. They don't think about how their actions have consequences and how they impact other people. They can be very self centered. This is not the way to live life. It should be common practice to improve others' well being at the expense of some of yours, if they need it.
The furry fandom is one of the more toxic fandoms out there, to say the least. Its forms of toxicity are very unique, not found in many other fandoms. It just goes to show that furries can only look towards themselves if they're wondering why they're hated so much.
Lack of awareness:
There is an utter lack of self-awareness and common sense in the furry fandom. A form of behaviour not seen in many other fandoms. Furries always make fools of themselves, do things that people in other fandoms don't, and make themselves the laughingstock of the internet.
One of these things is RainFurrest. A convention that was held in Seattle until 2015, that was the year everything went to shit. Literally. There was lots of damage to the hotel after RainFurrest was hosted for the year, more than every other event held there combined. This went on for the last 5 years of RainFurrest's existence. There was flooding in the bathrooms because someone loosened a bolt on the toilets. The hot tub was closed for most of the con because of vandalism. People got busted for doing drugs. There were babyfurs (a furry who likes to essentially be a baby as a persona) and diapers everywhere, and yes, some of them were full. The convention got kicked out of the hotel and couldn't rehome. It shut down.
I can think of literally no other fandom that does this kind of stuff. No other fandom has damaged a hotel enough to where it got banned from not only that hotel, but every other one in the state. All the other Star Trek and Anime conventions are completely exempt from this shit.
Not only was it RainFurrest, but there are also other cons. A convention in Oklahoma, Oklacon, was shut down because a few people had decided to register for the con and then do illegal sexual activity at the venue (it was an outdoor con), and put it under Oklacon's name. As a result, they got banned from their venue too and shut down.
More recently, some furries that attended Anthrocon 2017 actually projected furry porn onto a city building for all to see.
Yet more recently, videos circulated on Twitter early last year, involving two people in pup hoods suggestively wrestling on the lobby floor at FWA 2018, out in the open for everyone to see.
And at BLFC 2018, some guy pissed on the floor around the elevators. You know, I would have just put up fire hydrants all around the con for them to piss at.
At these conventions, there are room parties, where people gather and lots of alcohol is consumed and lots of sex is had. This isn't very ideal for the convention, as drunk people can haphazardly damage the hotel and/or hurt other people in their drunken stupor. Not only that, but STDs like HIV, gonorrhea, and chlamydia get passed around at these conventions, further proving that furry conventions also serve as gathering places for horny people to have sex. One more thing, people at these conventions seem to be unable to practice basic hygiene, insisting on being a "musky husky". Gross. Again, there are other hobbies and interests that hold big ass conventions that don't have these things.
And I've already told you about the whole Tony the Tiger thing.
On Twitter, and all around the rest of the internet, in fact, you will see furries making fools of themselves. Fursuits with breasts and big bellies because the suiter has a vore fetish, furries making disgusting art of degenerate kinks (like scat/diapers), making cancerous memes, sexualizing everything, being socially awkward, etc. Too much to list. You'll see this kind of behaviour not only online, but in real life too.
All in all, the furry fandom is home to some very awkward stuff that makes you wonder if anyone in it has any self-awareness at all.
Overall, there are plenty of reasons to hate furries, ranging from how sexual they are, to the degenerate actions they do. They only have themselves to look towards for answers on why they are hated so much. They do things that not many other fandoms would even think to do in a million years. The fandom is full of degeneracy and toxicity, and void of self-awareness.
If you think this is the work of a "loud minority", then how come the "silent majority" isn't doing anything about it? And why do these cases of a "loud minority" happen more frequently and in higher counts than any other fandom? It seems like this "loud minority" is not a minority at all. If it were, it'd be a pretty big one. And again, blaming it on a "loud minority" is just an excuse to dismiss the problems at hand. You can't dismiss them forever. Fix them.
If you think "all other fandoms are like this," no. I've repeatedly said that there are degenerate things done in the furry fandom that are not done anywhere else. The "bad side" of the furry fandom is bigger than any other fandom, should the other fandoms also have "bad sides".
If my inner "13-year-old edgelord" had anything to say about furries, then it would be that they're not human, so they don't deserve human rights, and that if they want to be animals so badly then we have the right to hunt them, if they think they are dogs then we should be able to clip off their balls so they don't reproduce. But my inner "13-year-old edgelord" does not matter, so it would be best left alone.
If you want to change my mind then go right ahead.