"Muriel Fahrion, the creator of Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears DOES NOT GET ANY ROYALTIES for the popular lines. NOTHING, even though it has steadily been licensed out for more than 40 years. Please consider buying something at her site."
For years I complained that the 19-million-views Internet Historian video "The Failure of Rainfurrest" was misleading. It mixed real and fake info and should not be trusted. (Nobody pooped in the pool?) Well...
🧵
I sent a media inquiry to the ALS Association about Dogbomb and his impact on their cause. Got an instant phone call and they talked about him being as close as family. They asked about collaborating with an event in the SF Bay area and there's going to be good news about that.
Georgia governor candidate whose slogan was "jesus guns babies" campaigned against furries and got demolished with only 3.4% of the vote.
She is now refusing to admit she lost:
This is what happens to a first year con that kicks out Alt-Furries publicly.
Final numbers for
@denfur
: Attendance 2086, $12,500 raised for charity and con just made that $15,000. Far exceeded staff expectations. Congrats!
That Rainfurrest video has so many views, maybe it's the most-viewed YouTube video about any furry con? I didn't compare but it may rank among other highest profile misleading media that smeared furries decades ago. Perhaps the most notorious:
Gosh it's been a busy week. Flying to Germany to personally insert "Nazi Furs F*ck Off" ribbons inside every con book, flying back to Denver for the antifa-furs meeting about running Foxler out of the con... time to kick back with a beer
Huge beware about discord server Furry Menagerie and owner Simba. Stories keep coming of people experiencing abuse from him. Apparently he runs a control fetish group on the side, uses FM as a front to groom targets, collects private info, and uses it to attack ones who leave.
Back in September I had a bit of drama with The Furry Menagerie and its manipulative owner Simba.
I didn't realize till talking with
@DogpatchPress
this was common place & in fact ran much deeper. Both gamers & furries please give this a read.
NaomiH drama story: see tweet.
Homer Hickam was good about it, but there was a "mob" so both left Twitter. Sucks to get that from a bad tweet, boo for "mobs".
Plot twist: it wasn't just a mob, it was a 4chan transphobic doxing/harassment troll op. 1/
Good to see a creator getting support, and here's another one, Peter Beagle, who created The Last Unicorn. He had to win a legal battle to separate from an abuser manager. Peter's site:
That isn't true though. There's tons of smart deeply researched stories made with resources and reach that fans don't have. You have to look at the sources and purposes. Media literacy is so important.
New record for auction at
@TheDealersDen
if it completes. It would also be an all time fandom record as far as I know. I love seeing such support for artists, it shows more potential for them to make better stuff for a living.
Alt-right and alt-furries: oh noes, what if there's an infestation of anti-american terrorists who are ignorant of the culture and the laws?
Everyone else: that's why you nazis can fuck off
That said, there is real horrible context about Rainfurrest, but some of it was never in any video or article. I guarantee you that and it's because of suppression. So who has the reliable story you can easily reference?
Former Fur Con chair drops a bombshell: A proposal to ban Nazis and zoophiles was opposed within con management. Members threatened to walk out if zoophiles were banned!
Exec staff were friends with outed zoophile Wild Life, featured as con DJ after proof of animal sex abuse. 🧵
The stories behind these creations can be way more complicated than anyone knows. This article about Muriel Fahrion tells how the brand that owns her creation makes billions, while she isn't rich but uses her talent to support antiracist causes.
It may not exist. The tragedy about that, is the Internet Historian video may be the closest thing because of lack of anything else. If inside members don't document the good AND the bad, it can let opportunists own the story. That means...
Joshua "Kero the Wolf" Hoffman wormed back into furry fandom with his cover identity Hakan Yote. Kero was outed as member of a sickening abuse network that uses fandom to hide crime. Background: The quoted account has more excellent investigation.
The Russian government raided a fan convention. American right-wingers want the same power to crack down for reasons as petty as being associated with rainbows. There has already been legislation pushed in the US against furries. Avoiding politics means they get put on you. 🧵1/
There are reports that the Russian government just raided a
#MyLittlePony
convention in Moscow.
Google translation of the article text attached.
Article link (in Russian):
Saying nothing is worse than telling a bad story and owning it. It lets outsiders own it. Treating everything like it has to serve positive PR is a form of suppression that can hurt more than it helps. PR is used for great evil in the hands of powerful people, too. Remember that.
@Bengaley
Picture of great spiritual energy. Shield your eyes to not be blinded. Fred Patten with Robert Hill, the definitely not LGBT first documented fursuiter at the first fur con (also founded by the definitely not LGBT couple, rod and mark.)
Don't ask "how does this make the fandom look?" as a first priority, and don't trust people who do that. Raising media literacy about sources and purposes is a good alternative.
Yo everyone! ooooh scawy! From the crap I get, I think this is actually trying to be real. "Hand ovew youw twittew account to wevewse the hit uwu" - positively trembling here, post your shock and horror below :D
Someone says "hey I'm from Uganda and your meme isn't nice to my culture", and the troll loser response is "LOL let's mock them because furries". Some people need their mom to come grab them by the ear and lecture them about being better people.
Skitch, the fur who went missing, is found. His roommate who filed the missing person report sent a pic (taken when he wasnt looking), he's shy so it may be a good idea not to disturb his privacy for now. Posting to confirm.
Tip from Daniel:
In the UK, disability activist, TV host and movie actor
@Adam_Pearson
recently got involved in furry fandom, even trying a fursuit and joining
@londonfurs
game nights.
It's nice to see someone get involved rather than treat it like an afternoon amusement.
A good con that cares about attendees. Knowledge is power. Trolling on it comes from the same place as fraudulent anti-vaccine conspiracy, homophobic hate and victorian anti-sex panic. Share to give them thanks for abating ignorance.
German tabloid Bild looks at furries as a fetish. Paywalled, here's a Google Translate link. (Bild is called a German rival to The Sun in the UK, which ran a similar article that tells me there's probably no reason to look farther.)
SB943, by Sen. Shane Jett, would have a school district defined as a "trigger district" if (among other things) any of its employees or volunteers were identified as furies, which it defines as "engaging in anthropomorphic behavior." h/t
@SidneyVanWykLee
#okleg
#oklaed
Looks like attention is this guy's currency and he's being cagey about his guns because hotels and cons ban them.
Isn't it sad when lamers show up to exploit notoriety and don't give a shit about the community that fans built over decades. Don't buy into that game.
Rainhopper Roo (Toast) was just sentenced to 6 years in jail for CP.
He was boyfriend of
@2_gryphon
. The day before the FBI raided their place, 2 posted a journal attacking victims of child molesters. When he was charged, 2 lied to the public about why.
@IMVU
Furaffinity hosts an open alt-right racist leader. With friends like these, who needs enemies, right
@dragoneer
? How is this "fictional"? ZeFurredReich on FA is
@Furrightdiscord
, who boasts about your laws. Nazi Germany was run lawfully and needed war to stop what they did.
A lazy retweet has so much power to make nazi-furries poop their diaps.
@farorenighclaw
mentioned a problem user in a chat was recognized in my screencaps afterward. From that, we get a beautifully stupid conspiracy theory. State-wide, guys! Blackmail!
*cue Yakity Sax music*
There aren't many "leaders" in furry, more like volunteers who serve as traffic directors or even janitors. That's a good and bad thing. But growth makes a need for more proactive managing. Thanks to those furs who are looking out with eyes on the future.
This guy got caught having sex with roadkill and lying about it. Now he's trying to deflect like it's poetry.
Ever notice when narcissistic people won't own up, they lie as grandly as possible? When 2 Gryphon got caught in a hate group, he compared it to being holocaust victims.
Ok, just one extra screencap of what altfurs are about before i retire to my chamber of golden slumber.
Reminder to laugh at these ultimate losers and slam doors in their faces when they cry "but antifas are the reel nazis?"
Suggestions wanted for a "Representing the fandom in 2018" list.
So far I have: CNN show, Sonicfox, Bucktown Tiger on Jeopardy, MFF numbers, Dogbomb, Violent J & Jello Biafra, Denfur's rebuild, and a few I'm holding on to for now. Overlooked/underrated stories wanted too.
Remember when
@AndrewWK
was furry? Now there's a bigger celebrifurry.
This interview from
@tjenningsbrown
@icp
and
@RubyBruceLee
is so wicked good. The part about going to the store for slime made me happy to be alive.
What is even happening. I love it.