Writing Prompt The Animals in the World Have Turned into Humans

[CadmarLegend]

What happens?

 

[Deleted member 49654]

Overcrowding
Happy vegans, Sad omnivores
Widespread vitamin B12 deficiency

 

[CadmarLegend]

Overcrowding
Happy vegans, Sad omnivores
Widespread vitamin B12 deficiency

That's actually logical... xD

 

[MoodyFoxCat]

In the end, the dominant species will always stay under the cycle of life and death. Whether it's acceptable or not for them, can't say.

 

[Napelynn]

Are the animals humans or animal people?

 

[Ai-chan]

Everyone outside Japan are arrested for beastiality. Even the transformed animals are arrested for 'promoting beastiality'.

 

[CadmarLegend]

Are the animals humans or animal people?

Humans

 

[Deleted member 45782]

- We all either become vegans or try doing.
It may be against the law now since it would be immoral eating something that now looks just like you so say goodbye to your steak!
The ones that don't become vegans will be seen as abhorrent and will try to fit in small niche places where they can continue to resist and keep doing what they think is right.

- People have a reason to like furries or characters with some animal traits like ears or tails. Some people may intermingle or become friends because they are interested in those who are different.

- People wonder back to all those myths of animals taking on the shape of humans and wonder if that is actually connected somewhere and if so what happened in the last several centuries where animals didn't take on human shapes.

- Or there leads discrimination, segregation, racism, xenophobia, genocide etc. because there is a friction between ones that were originally humans and ones that are animals-now-turned-humans. This can lead to war between the two groups, esp. if there's fight over resources and stuff.

*Probably a combination of one or three or all of these things mentioned above.

 

[Muddy]

Ah, this is an interesting one. So many possibilities.

Let's start out by assuming that with animals you limit yourself to mammals. Because counting insects and stuff, yeah, there are about 10000 animals per square foot in the world. That basically coats the planet if a layer of squished together people several miles high.

So, back to just mammals. The logical (and apocalyptical) scenario of several billion new humans appearing out of nowhere is massive societal upheaval, racism, famine, war, and eventually a potential extinction-level event.

That's what everyone instantly thinks of, and it's depressing, so let's skip right past that as well. Let's make this funny. Time for some what-ifs.

Are they mentally turned into humans, or only physically? Because coming home and having your pet cat/dog running around looking fully human but still mentally every bit as much of an animal is hilarious.

Actually, making them mentally human might be an even worse nightmare scenario than the apocalyptic one. Do they remember being an animal? Or do they have all the human experiences to interact with other people? If they have those, where do they come from? Did some god-like entity invent their personalities and mental frame of reference out of nowhere? Are they aware that they have implanted memories and behaviors? What are the implications for the mental health of these new humans?

Yeah, terrifying. Let return to the funny stuff.

Do they appear fully clothed, or naked?

What about birds, squirrels, and other animals that live in trees and other high places? Do we suddenly have a bunch of people falling down from high places? Millions of birds turned human falling out of the sky, to their death?

What about animals that live in dens under the ground: bunnies, foxes, badgers? Crushed by the tonnes and tonnes of dirt surrounding them?

It's just... man! Keeping this light-hearted is difficult. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

Where does the mass even come from to turn little animals into normal-sized humans? Or where does it go for animals larger than people? Or do we suddenly have mouse-sized and elephant-sized people?

Even if all of the above turns out fine, won't the sudden disappearance of a large chunk of biodiversity basically destroy every single ecosystem in existence?

Um... right. Let's just stop now, before I give everyone nightmares.

 

[Deleted member 45782]

Ah, this is an interesting one. So many possibilities.

Let's start out by assuming that with animals you limit yourself to mammals. Because counting insects and stuff, yeah, there are about 10000 animals per square foot in the world. That basically coats the planet if a layer of squished together people several miles high.

So, back to just mammals. The logical (and apocalyptical) scenario of several billion new humans appearing out of nowhere is massive societal upheaval, racism, famine, war, and eventually a potential extinction-level event.

That's what everyone instantly thinks of, and it's depressing, so let's skip right past that as well. Let's make this funny. Time for some what-ifs.

Are they mentally turned into humans, or only physically? Because coming home and having your pet cat/dog running around looking fully human but still mentally every bit as much of an animal is hilarious.

Actually, making them mentally human might be an even worse nightmare scenario than the apocalyptic one. Do they remember being an animal? Or do they have all the human experiences to interact with other people? If they have those, where do they come from? Did some god-like entity invent their personalities and mental frame of reference out of nowhere? Are they aware that they have implanted memories and behaviors? What are the implications for the mental health of these new humans?

Yeah, terrifying. Let return to the funny stuff.

Do they appear fully clothed, or naked?

What about birds, squirrels, and other animals that live in trees and other high places? Do we suddenly have a bunch of people falling down from high places? Millions of birds turned human falling out of the sky, to their death?

What about animals that live in dens under the ground: bunnies, foxes, badgers? Crushed by the tonnes and tonnes of dirt surrounding them?

It's just... man! Keeping this light-hearted is difficult. I don't know, maybe it's just me.

Where does the mass even come from to turn little animals into normal-sized humans? Or where does it go for animals larger than people? Or do we suddenly have mouse-sized and elephant-sized people?

Even if all of the above turns out fine, won't the sudden disappearance of a large chunk of biodiversity basically destroy every single ecosystem in existence?

Um... right. Let's just stop now, before I give everyone nightmares.

Yup the realistic version. A not-so pretty version.