Guide to Furby Fandom Tags
Thereâs been a lot of newcomers to the furby fandom recently, and Iâve been seeing a lot of them ask really excellent questions about the fandomâs tagging system. I figured that I would write up a brief guide to these tags and how they are used to avoid confusion!
furby: Obviously used to tag furbies.
allfurby: Also used to tag furbies, but with a catch â itâs our fandom-specific tag. Sometimes people who are outside of the furby fandom will post images of destroyed furbies or other types of furby hate within the furby tag, and most of us would like to avoid that. So âallfurbyâ indicates that the post comes from a pro-furby blog. Why do some of us still use furby and allfurby simultaneously, then? I canât speak for everyone, but in my case, I know that I discovered the furby fandom by typing âfurbyâ into the Tumblr search bar, and thatâs how I got here. I want to make the fandom visible to people who might do the same thing as me! It also helps to push down hate with positive furby images.
furby fandom: Basically the less popular version of âallfurbyâ. Sometimes used to specifically reference the fandom, not just furbies.
safefurby: Safefurby in many ways serves the same purpose as allfurby, but it has a complicated history thatâs worth mentioning. There was a particularly rough time in the fandomâs history where we discovered that some of our high-profile users were into DD/LG and possibly lolicon â something we as a fandom with a lot of minors take very seriously. Less horrifically, at the same time all of that was happening, there was a blog (who I think was literally called nsfwfurby) posting a lot ofâŚwell, NSFW furby memes. Things like furbies wearing whips and chains or referencing sex. Nothing too bad, but stuff that some members didnât want to see. Out of these two events, safefurby arose. It was simultaneously a stand against DDLG members in the furby community and a place where no inappropriate furby references could be made. Donât worry, even at the time it was made, its purpose was confusing.
So how do you use safefurby now? A good rule of thumb is that if any of your posts are NSFW or even slightly inappropriate  â ie, posing your furby with a bottle of alcohol or a cigarette â donât tag it as âsafefurbyâ. Itâs a âsafeâ space for people who donât want to see images of furbies in âadultâ situations (please keep in mind that when I say adult, Iâm talking about the examples I made before â posing naked with furbies or furby porn tends to be explicitly frowned upon posting to any of our tags).
f *furby name here*: You might see people tagging images of their furbies with âf *furby name here*â. For example, when I post pictures of Clorox, I tag them with âf Cloroxâ. The âfâ either stands for âfurbyâ or âfeaturingâ depending on whoâs using it and indicates that the furby with that name is in the picture. It makes searching for images of your furby on your blog worlds easier because your blog wonât pull up you just mentioning the name of your furby in a post (provided that you only tag images with f *furby name here*, of course).
This should cover all of them! I hope this guide helps. Please reach out to me if you have any questions or if I missed any.
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