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IShallRiseAgain posted:

What was even in the furry apology article that made it so it bad it had to be purged? Was it ironic and actually anti-furry? or was it just really embarrassing in some other way. There doesn't appear to be an internet back-up of it.


iirc it equated furry bashing with gay bashing

I think the frontpage thread discussing it describes well enough what it was all about : https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3931678

The X-man cometh
Nov 1, 2009
Was that furry apology the last frontpage article ever?

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




there are rumors, whispers, that another post was made, one to unite us when the world is at its darkest and hope seems lost

Poohs Packin
Jan 13, 2019

I submit an fp article to Lowtax's GF/admin mere days before he ended it and its possible its one of the last front pages he read.

Makes you think.

Internet Old One
Dec 6, 2021

Coke Adds Life
I'd write an article about how lowtax was never funny.

Bad Purchase
Jun 17, 2019




what about dance dance karnov?

Black Noise
Jan 23, 2008

WHAT UP

An article telling me what the 2023 equivalent of the Boondock Saints Poster is.

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Jun 22, 2023
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Sex Farm
Nov 17, 2017

Posting the dear furries we were wrong article in full is what got me my custom title and av!

Edit:

This may confuse our younger readers, who are used to a world where no one would ever shame anyone for their sexual proclivities, but for the first two decades of the Internet's existence, basically the only joke you were allowed to make was at the expense of Furries.
Now, in defense of us proto-trolls, there were no women online for us to hate, so Furries were an easy target. With their bright, colorful fursonas, and their cultlike devotion to Disney's frost-chapped rear end, there was a lot going on. Plus, the fursonas of yesteryear were way more embarrassing than the Sonic OCs and thoroughly extinct jungle cats modern furries jack off to.
Used to be every Livejournal circle was comprised of, at a minimum, a celestial thunder-husky, an ultra-ripped carfucker dragon, and a rainbow thylacine with three dicks. Also, everyone was a Super Saiya-jin with a halo AND devil horns. Does that justify how much time we here at Something Awful spent mocking them?
Oh, of course. Every single second. Furries are silly, and to be fair, Furries are the first ones who will tell you how silly Furries are. No one hates Bad Furries more than Furries, and stalker-trolls who are all closet Furries. Every furry community has ended exactly like the Island of Dr. Moreau, which is probably intentional. A furry porn trading card game somehow failed to earn enough money to print their last expansion. That's tragicomic on a Grecian scale.
Porn is the aetheric medium through which the community economy transacts. The financial failure of a porn business in the furry community requires a sort of anti-acumen which borders on a deliberate if self-destructive malfeasance. If you walk into any furry convention's Artists' Alley with a sketch pad and set of Coptic markers, you will stumble out the far end bereft of paper and ink, your pockets stuffed with bitcoin, your brain awash in a rainbow of impossible dicks.
Essentially, the furry community is the single largest distributed arts patronage program in history. The existence and codification of the fursuit belies a profoundly nuanced group dynamic. The consistency of fursuit pattern across makers speaks to an institutionalized approach to not only design, but fabric sourcing and construction.
It's something more than cosplay, a sort of tin-penny spirituality born from the scriptures at the bottom of a Michaels receipt. Furries are no sillier than any other terminally online community. They are better organizers than most of the theory-preaching culture warriors on social media, better at doxxing and deplatforming nazis than half the #OSINT community, and third good thing too.
Babyfurs are still an ongoing problem. Age play as a whole is hosed up, the various & sundry kink communities gotta sort that out, but whatever I'm talking about positive things right now.
A huge, huge motivation for early furry hate was homophobia. That remained the one axis on which we (non-furry dweebs) could punch down, no matter the stated justification. Furries helped mainstream majority-queer online spaces. That made them easy to mock, because they were unashamed enough to be public with their weird art and their dragon wings and their rejection of all the suffocating norms that still make mainstream geek culture an unrelenting hell.
That invited scorn. It hurt to see others free of the shames that wracked us so. Disgust was the immediate response, a kind of unbodying rejection which would seek to purge any otherness from ourselves. Some of us knew it to be queerphobia, and I'm sure that was the motivation for a lot of the early trolling. Others just wanted to be part of the in-group, and there was no easier way to do that than take a swing at a designated punching bag.
Something Awful had a particular response to furries. After creating a subforum specifically for furries to post in, everyone who used it was marked with a custom yellow star avatar, then banned.
I don't know if something so deliberate can rightly be called a Holocaust joke. A tin-penny re-enactment, a perfect internet microcosm reflecting utterly mainstream prejudices. It is indefensible.
I'm sorry. It was wrong then, and it remains wrong now. I do not know what will happen with the site, but it cannot die with this unsaid: We were wrong.


Sex Farm fucked around with this message at 22:16 on Jul 10, 2023

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Sep 10, 2007

I shitposted in the same thread for 2 years and all I got was this red text av. Ask me about my autism!



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Apr 6, 2011

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I’d take up the mantle and continue the series of water fountain reviews.

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Sep 30, 2000
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