Well, for starters I saw an interaction in a YouTube comment section years ago and well I almost never interacted I did research and such read stuff but I saw that and thought to interact. So I made an account on YouTube, a friendly stranger. Originally it was directly tied to my other stuff I do though not any more, more anonymous. Also to generally test how people may react to someone who acts like I do. Originally I didn't act as this I was a lot more natural and joked and such, though decided this was interesting.
Eventually I kept hearing about and seeing furries and anti furries I had always heard about them. I thought it was dumb and childish but I was willing to look into it.
A lot of other things I looked into though non of it really that important.
I talked to many, eventually deciding furries are not to be worried about though anti furries can be a lot of things even hypocritical. I would subtly play one side then the other at some point a one time test really didn't go anywhere though.
Though anti furries led me to research other things. They would call all furries zoophiles and pedophiles. A friend would eventually tell me he was recovered and I had remembered all the Sappho stuff that got popular. I had looked at the psychology of it for a while so it only made sense. Eventually I would start looking into that.
I would do interviews and look into it and such eventually I would find myself in a Sappho server. I spoke to you wasn't much, eventually I decided to say hi and now I'm here.