The Kigurumi Community

"The Kigurumi Community", a loaded term if there ever was one.

For starters there is no "one" community, there are many. And most of them have major downfalls.

Kigurumi communities often fall into one category or another.

The public communities

Cesspits of the kigurumi community, enter at your own risk.

Where 'kig fans' ruin any hopes of actual discourse, where bad kigs seek what little attention they can get, and bad takes are all those joining for actual advice will often get.

Public discords like shamezone KIG, subreddits, and similar are where most of the bad takes are found.

The private friend circle

Far more often kigurumi focused communities are just friend circles. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but far too often ironically the friend circle nature ends up being their downfall.

Its all friends and good vibes until it isn't, interactions are overthought, and usually theres one or two people who have to be tip-toed around. When things do go south, it goes rapidly, as people feel bad that their friend circle is falling apart or don't want to be in a space no longer welcome to a friend or few.

Usually these spaces are fine when smaller, when they grow too much is when critical mass hits and conflicts are inevitable rather than something easily solvable.

The hugbox discord

Positive vibes only, unless you're a moderator or in their inner circle. Usually prevents them from dealing with weirdos or creeps which push most away to other spaces.

In many ways an incubator for the worst kigurumi, as feedback or advice is frowned upon out of fear it could be seen as criticism. Sometimes a lack of feedback is intentional to prevent people from improving so they can keep their edge, and sadly in many cases that's the only way to keep their edge in their spaces. Historical example, the former Cici circle who'd gatekeep info and ostracize kigs that got masks from overseas makers in fear of looking bad.

The goonerumi community

Jorkin it, and by it, I mean their junk. Nothing wrong in my eyes with NSFW kigs, but NSFW specific spaces tend to attract people that are lacking common sense. Consent might be a foreign concept, huge egos and general lack of sense are common. Tends to invite an inbred culture of boomer-esque sissy crossdressers and attention seekers, "drone" kigs are a sign of a walking red flag almost without fail.

The anonymous communities

Toxic to all ends. Usually has people "just trying to be honest" but in reality are just trying to be rude. Cliche for chronically online people to dogpile onto those they like to bully by larping as if they're multiple people. Many of the kigs frequenting anonymous spaces like 4chan's kig threads are just straight up bad kigs who are largely unwelcome in most spaces, if even kigs at all. Don't be the person who wastes your time arguing with a homeless middle aged man trying to bully kigs since he has nothing going on in his life, I wish I was kidding with this statement.

The web forum

For better or worse, all dead. The last major one, kigurumi online died by large as discord became mainstream. Turns out if you can only survive by astroturfing and trying to stomp out other communities, the community dies.

Twitter

Not a community, but worth mentioning being somehow the most active space to find and interact with kigurumi. Tolerable if you can shape your algorithm well enough to avoid all the slop, politics, and other undesirable content.