It's Sort Of Like That

Seriously we need a Miltank cameo.

Todd Perkins

I think she is trying to not laugh. Epic level troll.

Wild Card

might have had more to do with Jeph needing to avoid brand names

Joe

Heh, and just as this SMBC comes up today: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/vr#comic

Peter Jensen

I was just coming to comment just how amazing the facial expressions all are.

A. J. Alfieri-Crispin

the expressions in panels 2 & 3 kill me. Claire's affectionate bemusement turning to utter disbelief... Aurelia's eager attentiveness.... magnifique

Logan Nix

Ok this comic explains why she calls herself a vtuber when everyone I know on Twitch only uses that term as a joke

dragonkittyrawr

This reminds me a bit of when my mother heard a song by the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, and asked me what the name of their band meant. I told her she was too young to know.

Yonatan Zunger

Aurelia!! You clean up that desktop right now, young lady!

Kyle Rudy

Furries run the internet.

Hugh Eckert

I … do not have to imagine this. It probably could have been worse. My sister repeatedly butting in to insist that it’s entirely a sex thing and never innocent did not help. I’m not a furry, I just really hate people randomly bashing a harmless hobby.

Yvonne Hanafee

I couldn't understand at first why Clare looks so furious in panel 4, but then I thought about how I would feel if I were forced to explain the world of furries to my mother.

Clifton Royston

I love Aurelia's little *v* face in panel 3 haha

I am horrible for desktop file storage. I routinely upload photos to my gdrive for ebay, then download them to my desktop (just easier than transferring them directly off my phone to my computer - don't judge me), then i forget to move them off my desktop to my "dump drive" aka the drive where all interweb downloads and torrent downloads go...

Technoir

Yes but a subset called scalies

Robert Tucker

Is there an anti-like button....? :-p

David Durant

Are you a furry if your otherkin identity has scales?

Thomas A. Dennis

God, I love these people. Thank you Jeph.

John Fiala

Did you hear the one about the furry who used heroin? They were a furry with the syringe on top.

David Garrett

I know a few Bulls.

Churchill (formerly TeaBear)

They are…furry?

Mad Marie

Furries make the internet work, duh. But as a furry, I accept her into the community. Don't see a lot of cow fursonas

Amy Cheuka

The question "fucking furries, how DOES IT work?" is the next question...

John Ridley

To paraphrase, "fucking furries, how do they work?" My money is on Aurelia trolling Claire, because it wouldn't be the first time.

Mark

This became my favourite online space around the start of the pandemic and remains so

David Durant

So is “Angies List” actually a dating site for Aziraphiles?

Mad Marie

I love how this community has developed around the comic to the point that so many of us see it as a safe space to be genuine about our own selves. Many spaces—online or off—are nowhere near ready for folks to discuss topics like “what is a furry, anyway?” from the perspective of self-identifying as one. Thanks, Jeph for creating this space and indirectly guiding it through your art; thanks, qc patron community for being you!

Mad Marie

Leafies? Fungies? Algies? Amoebies?

Mad Marie

panel 3 has ruined me. it's so perfect. my mum's gotten really into Good Omens fanfic and I've had this moment with her a couple of times

Boots McGoot

As a furry myself, i am fully willing to accept Aurelia as an honorary member of our community,..

Same, big shrug

Patteroast

I spend all my time on the internet, watch a fair amount of YouTube videos, and know what furries are. I had no idea about vtubers until they came up in this comic. So Claire's areas of knowledge seem entirely reasonable to me!

Ste Saunders

Marten focuses on the important issues in panel 1

Bagge

Rabbit hole? I see what you did there...

JourneymanWizard

Well, maybe not expert but... she knows the basics at least?

Nicolas Demers

Rule34 in comic form, actualise!

MikeT

NO DON'T TELL HER! She might go down the rabbit hole and never come back!

Drakoo Dreamer

It's always those mammalocentric furries. What about warties? Scalies? Slimies? Shellies?

Todd Ellner

I know the feeling, 14 years of QC consumption is an interesting thing.

Omnoms

Her desktop looks slightly worse than mine with files stored directly on it. Seems legit.

Thomas Halpin

this comic best appreciated with Jephs comments in context.

Andje Lewkowicz-Lalonde

I've never agreed with Marten more.

Randall Norman Pick

Praise be to Bleph

I am the captian now

This strip is perfection. Thank you, Jeph! 🤣💜

Rosilin

Gotta catch 'em all? All four of them, anyway...... ^_^

Man, I just realised, I've been regularly reading this for 6 years now. This comic has been RUNNING for my entire life. Christ, jeph

Dave, Duke of Fridges

Me neither! I thought that was a QC in-universe thing, not IRL too!

Pejo

Bless you, Jeph.. Bleph

Honestly, the compartmentalization is believable. I knew people did like "Let's Play"s of video games, but I literally had no idea before this storyline that people streamed themselves playing games with animated avatars. 😆

Mandy Hoskins

I don't think Aurelia is trolling. She doesn't seem like the trolling type. I think she asked a genuine, sincere question & doesn't realize how ridiculous it is that she missed that. Marten got it--perfect compartmentalization.

Pejo

I GUFFAWED

Pejo

Functional prehensile tail. My number one most frequent wish as a child.

Vic or Vyxter

Do you wish you could remain yourself (sentient, memories, ability to speak, etc) but with animal features? Do you wish for the wings of a bird, a cat’s grace, the eyes of a hawk, or a dog’s wagging tail? If you would honestly prefer a body with animal features/traits- YOU ARE A FURRY. It doesn’t have to be sexual AT ALL 😹 people focus so strongly on the kink portion, but I shouldn’t be surprised since humans are obsessed with genitals and reproduction 😹

Nicole Widrig

Marten will see how much that chair cost and he’ll take his chances with a Herman Miller chair instead.

Miyaa

I saw a tweet last week that 90% of the people working in IT are furries, trans, or both.

Miyaa

“Is it like Pokemon?” …Sometimes?

EnterTheHero

This is sort of on the level of someone I know coming up with the idea that "VR could be really great for porn!" ...and then I had to explain the current state of affairs in that regard. Heavily bowdlerized, to keep his brain from exploding. (I finally got to use "bowdlerize" in a sentence!)

Noise

OH GOD, I WANNA HEAR EVERY GODDAMN WORD OF THIS CONVERSATION FROM THIS POINT FORWARD!

Yelling Bird

This is how Moms get revenge for those toddler questions isn't it.

SpookyPenguin

PANEL THREE!

Simon Green

I'm a furry and I don't even know.

Kirby Canvas

Furry is different, so knowing that family it's possible that she doesn't know - kinda like Claire not knowing what a vtuber is....but knowing what a furry is. They seem to have an amazing ability to know some things but not other related things.

Onyx

Baa-aa?

Molly McAllister

Oh god I can't. This is too funny :D

SingingTurtles

omg I can only DREAM of reaching this level of parenthood, absolutely flawless

Magic Chopstick Games

Furry = Furfrou?

Matthew Reiter

We can never really be sure

R. Francis Smith

Was coming here to cry about her cluttered desktop 🤣

Courtney Kral

The answer varies between "yes" and "very yes". It's honestly moved a lot closer to mainstream in the past five years or so.

Merle Blue

To be honest. I’m not sure of the exact definition of ‘furry’. I think the definition changes a lot based on the perspective. Can a non furry who only has a base view really know the definition? And does it really matter these days?

Thisguy

I love this family so very much. They are all their own special brand of crazy.

Tannerbot

She'll need that chair back eventually, Marten.

BobC

Aurelia’s hair is just perfect for this. It’s like wha?

Andrew

Furries are impossible to describe.

chili sunrise

Trust Martin to focus on the important thing: He's found a comfortable chair. :)

Joseph Bonnar

Ok, the random desktop icon placement is making my skin itch. 😂

Techdragon

BULLSHIT, AURELIA

Tamara Macadam

Yeah. Panel three. She knows full well about furries. And when did Claire become an expert.

Michael Boettger

Are furries still a thing?

Alacrity Fitzhugh

Furries are your friends and colleagues in the IT department.

Ozzy

That small smile. She knows.

Mitchel Huffa

She's mastered the "sometimes, you just don't want to know" part of the internet.

K C

._.

Sean & Chloe

Either way, I envy Aurelia

I'm fucking CREASED.

Forgettable

She TROLLING her baby girl!

Joseph Bonnar