🦊 Furry Furry Fandom and Drama General

  • 🇵🇦 Nuestro primer dominio localizado está en español en kiwifarms.pa. Our first localized domain is on Spanish on kiwifarms.pa.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Destacado
mASSive dONg dijo:
The furry fandom never ceases to amaze me, even in times of loss and mourning.

Anybody even slightly involved in furry Twitter recently will know of a older bloke called Dogbomb. He had ALS, and ended his life only hours ago whilst the disease couldn't worsen the quality of it.

His story has gone down a treat: he lived his life to the fucking fullest and didn't give a shit about having ALS. He spread positivity and happiness whilst laughing in death's face, donated his body to a medical school, and took part in a marathon. Depressingly, his contagious ways only got the love they deserved when he was on his way to play his golden harp, with fanart and animations flooding in daily.

Furfags are already using Dogbomb's legacy and death as a chance to grant themselves a free pat on the back and bring up the whole "See guys, we're not so bad afterall!" argument all over again, previously at it highest point during the zoosadism leaks. This example, in a group chat I lurk in, really ground my gears.

Ver archivo adjunto 716659Ver archivo adjunto 716661Ver archivo adjunto 716663

"The fandom needed people like him." "We lost one of our best"

Yes, my sweet Prince, I'm sure only you guys needed him, not his wife and family; only you and your fetish. I'm sure his children didn't lose a father, or his parents a son: only the furry fandom truly lost somebody.

Rate me mad on the internet or powerlevel, but this one has really gotten me livid.
Presiona para expandir...

He didn't have a wife or children. Apparently he was only "head over heels stupidly in love" once and it was with a guy.

Dogbomb adored absolutely everything he did, including being a furry. The fandom might be a greasy clusterfuck, but they also pulled together and donated a bunch of money for ALS research in support of one of their best guys. It's a very bittersweet, difficult night for the fandom and they should be allowed to have it in peace.
 
My issue is when nice people die, tons of people who never knew them or never knew them well try to rush in and talk over people who knew them. Drives me nuts.

if it was a funeral it would be like if half the people attending thought that they were the ones who got to do the eulogy.
 
About the Dogbomb thing, death in the furry fandom really is fascinating to watch from a distance. Dogbomb (from what people have said) seemed like a regular everyday normal guy with fursuiting as a side thing who did good outside and within the fandom. His fucked up disease that would sadly end up taking away his life and will to live along with his planned death set him up to be the talk of the week and now every furry is mourning him like if some celebrity died...except Dogbomb wasn't really a known name in the fandom.

What's interesting here is the scale of mourning that can be seen from this, outdoing other notable furry deaths (such as Lemonade Coyote) with regards to how talked about this is despite the fact he wasn't really a popufur or content creator in the fandom. Numerous people are blacking out their icons (like suicide baiters do) or Telegram group icons, later in the day moving towards using a generic RIP image despite the fact they likely never knew him.

Furthermore, it's a trending topic on Twitter, as shown by multiple Twitter trend listing sites:
716796 716797
If anything, this shows just how deeply ingrained Twitter is within the modern furry fandom. When there's a high profile furry death, it seeps outside of the fandom onto social media trending tags, and furries saw dogbomb on their trending tab thanks to the algorithm.

Just like some other high profile deaths there's also trolls taking advantage of it. Furry telegram groups are panicked about a troll running around using troll art of Dogbomb being killed as their profile picture and later a photoshop of the "rip dogbomb" image with text over it.
716800 716802 716809 716808
 
Frogasm dijo:
My issue is when nice people die, tons of people who never knew them or never knew them well try to rush in and talk over people who knew them. Drives me nuts.

if it was a funeral it would be like if half the people attending thought that they were the ones who got to do the eulogy.
Presiona para expandir...

Ive had this theory that about 75% of the furry fandom is like David Hogg. They dont know the person that died but they were best friends either way. This was very much the case when Furp was killed 10 years or so ago. You had people he even hated saying they loved him. Dragoneer being the worst, since they publicly shit on each other. But Dragoneer came out and couldn't jerk himself off quick enough to get the pitty points.
 
RIP Dogbomb. From what’ve read over the years he seemed like an all around good dude.
Slapstickmonkey dijo:
Dragoneer being the worst, since they publicly shit on each other. But Dragoneer came out and couldn't jerk himself off quick enough to get the pitty points.
Presiona para expandir...
Which makes Dragoneer using Furp’s furry name to bitch about Kage on WYS even more hysterical/disgusting.
 
CIA Nigger dijo:
About the Dogbomb thing, death in the furry fandom really is fascinating to watch from a distance. Dogbomb (from what people have said) seemed like a regular everyday normal guy with fursuiting as a side thing who did good outside and within the fandom. His fucked up disease that would sadly end up taking away his life and will to live along with his planned death set him up to be the talk of the week and now every furry is mourning him like if some celebrity died...except Dogbomb wasn't really a known name in the fandom.

What's interesting here is the scale of mourning that can be seen from this, outdoing other notable furry deaths (such as Lemonade Coyote) with regards to how talked about this is despite the fact he wasn't really a popufur or content creator in the fandom. Numerous people are blacking out their icons (like suicide baiters do) or Telegram group icons, later in the day moving towards using a generic RIP image despite the fact they likely never knew him.

Furthermore, it's a trending topic on Twitter, as shown by multiple Twitter trend listing sites:
Ver archivo adjunto 716796Ver archivo adjunto 716797
If anything, this shows just how deeply ingrained Twitter is within the modern furry fandom. When there's a high profile furry death, it seeps outside of the fandom onto social media trending tags, and furries saw dogbomb on their trending tab thanks to the algorithm.

Just like some other high profile deaths there's also trolls taking advantage of it. Furry telegram groups are panicked about a troll running around using troll art of Dogbomb being killed as their profile picture and later a photoshop of the "rip dogbomb" image with text over it.
Ver archivo adjunto 716800Ver archivo adjunto 716802Ver archivo adjunto 716809Ver archivo adjunto 716808
Presiona para expandir...

Yeah, I think you can definitely chalk this one up to the nature of his death. Whereas Furp and Lemonade Coyote got into accidents on the road and that was all she wrote, Dogbomb contracted a horrific, more or less untreatable disease and spent the next year throwing himself at life full pelt while documenting every step of the way. He knocked off his bucket list, wrote a nice letter to the med students who'll be dissecting his body, and planned to go out on his own terms before he lost his independence. Combine that with his super gregarious personality and it's the kind of thing that attracts a crowd. Even people who are finding out about this at the last minute are blacking out their icons and posting toasts, not because he was popular or a big content creator, but because his story hit everyone right in the human.
 
CIA Nigger dijo:
What's interesting here is the scale of mourning that can be seen from this, outdoing other notable furry deaths (such as Lemonade Coyote) with regards to how talked about this is despite the fact he wasn't really a popufur or content creator in the fandom. Numerous people are blacking out their icons (like suicide baiters do) or Telegram group icons, later in the day moving towards using a generic RIP image despite the fact they likely never knew him.
Presiona para expandir...

Compassion for someone who by all accounts lived a nice happy life and who was dealt one of the worst possible hands in life?

55 is fucking young for someone to go, and the furry fandom, AS CRAZY AS IT SOUNDS, still has a bit of community left in it.
 
You know someone's death is heartbreaking when even the farms is geniuly sad about it.

I actually had the pleasure of meeting Dogbomb during AC, but I've heard about him for years before all this. Dude was the most genuine and pleasant person out there. He's the equivalent of a guy you'd have a few drinks with at a bar despite barely knowing him, because he felt like a guy you've secretly been buddies with for years. He used to be a runner and a vet tech too and seeing all those things taken away from him because of a bad hand he got dealt in life is heartbreaking.

But what really gets me is how depsite all of this, he stared death right in the eyes and just laughed at it. He didnt beg for sympathy points or money (besides donations to ALS research); he just adjusted his life to accommodate this and kept going. He still did marathons, but in a wheelchair. He still went into his work despite being retired to help out where he could. Most people (especially furries) wouldnt have that level of perseverance. His last tweet was even a lighthearted joke. But maybe thats why it's touched so many people. Everybody knew he was going to pass on, but it was more like a happy send off than a painful goodbye. And in the best way possible.

I also think they've raised over $100,000 in his name? There was a marathon run and a bunch of donation drives, but ill add when i can find the source for this.
 
Slapstickmonkey dijo:
Ive had this theory that about 75% of the furry fandom is like David Hogg. They dont know the person that died but they were best friends either way. This was very much the case when Furp was killed 10 years or so ago. You had people he even hated saying they loved him. Dragoneer being the worst, since they publicly shit on each other. But Dragoneer came out and couldn't jerk himself off quick enough to get the pitty points.
Presiona para expandir...
i don't think that's a really good analogy because even if hogg wasn't best friends with the people who died, they were still peers he saw in person regularly and more importantly, he was involved in the same traumatic fucking scenario firsthand. he was just lucky enough to live.

most of the furries mourning dogbomb never spoke to him off of twitter, let alone see him every day. most of them weren't by his side seeing him suffer with the als, they saw it through twitter. I wouldn't be half as annoyed if they had been on mediocre terms with him but still saw him every day and said they were buddies
 
He sounded like quite a personality. Would have loved to meet him honestly, but there's some solace in the fact that he chose to go entirely on his own terms, supervised and peaceful as could be given the circumstances. There's a something admirable in that I guess.

That being said, while I'm not invested enough to know who exactly I should feel disgusted by for trying to ride his legacy for clout, the cynic in me asserts the broader community will either move on in the week or dig up something he said in the past to cripple his memory. Maybe. Hard to say really, but introspection and respect for other people certainly hasn't stopped the usual hordes before.
 
I had never heard of Dogbomb before this whole thing. I find the trolls using it for attention gross because it's just your typical unfunny cries of how much they never felt loved as a kid. While I find the huge fandom-wide mourning a bit odd, I've heard that the fandom alone has generated around $30,000 dollars for ALS research, so at least something positive has come from this.
 
Tron: Deadly Dicks dijo:
What if people are mourning him because the disease he was stuck with was completely unfair and also that he was one of the only truly good people in the fandom?

What if we REALLY lost one of our best? What if we REALLY needed more people like him in the fandom? Can you imagine if there were more dogbombs and less jasonafexes in the fandom?

As far as I'm concerned, you're the only one who infers that the other furries are so selfish as to not even consider his loved ones in the grand scheme of things.

So please, kindly, don't stir shit up just mere hours after he died, huh?
Presiona para expandir...
You know just proved my whole message as correct, right?

If losing someone good to the furry fandom is the only loss you see or recieve from this, instead of the death of a good guy and of course the positive impact on charity and awareness, you're part of the problem and further proof of how two faced the "community" is; There's not even any typical "thoughts and prayers are with you" type messages, at least not that I can see, but rather a load of chaff in regards to how supportive and strong furries are - which we all know is very situational - as and when it suits their public image.

How disappointing.
 
One of my personal favorite subgenres of furries are furries who bitch about capitalism while hanging around a fandom that revolves around money being spent, hell you're expected to bring a wad of cash to spend at furry cons. In this tweet thread, we see furries angry at Elon Musk because he makes more money than they do working at their McJob.
archive.fo

ASSWOLF on Twitter: "Should we let rich capitalist goons exploit the …

archived 6 Apr 2019 21:44:59 UTC
archive.fo archive.fo
717539 717540 717541 717542 717543

Now here's the real question. How would these people react if someone told them to draw free art and said "paying for art is capitalism"? Chances are, they'd make a callout post.
 
An addition, but something dogbomb did that was unique and added to the perception of him was respond to every message, no matter how small.

Dude responded to hundreds of inane and useless messages, encouraged people their lives had value and they could be good people, and always made a priority to chat with and respond to every person who wanted to dm him to chat.

He was just... a genuinely positive, outgoing guy. Even the people who weren’t close with him or didn’t know him at all could see the impact that he had. That, and a lot of folks just had been following along on his journey over the last year.

Some of us have kept up with every fall, every stem cell transplant and doctors visit, and every bucket list item checked off. Dude never stopped loving life and the people who were cheering him on. He was honestly just... a nice, unproblematic dude. People are allowed to appreciate that and feel mournful.

Also, estimates for ALSA donations exceed $30k raised since yesterday now.
 
just another PMD-E member dijo:
An addition, but something dogbomb did that was unique and added to the perception of him was respond to every message, no matter how small.

Dude responded to hundreds of inane and useless messages, encouraged people their lives had value and they could be good people, and always made a priority to chat with and respond to every person who wanted to dm him to chat.

He was just... a genuinely positive, outgoing guy. Even the people who weren’t close with him or didn’t know him at all could see the impact that he had. That, and a lot of folks just had been following along on his journey over the last year.

Some of us have kept up with every fall, every stem cell transplant and doctors visit, and every bucket list item checked off. Dude never stopped loving life and the people who were cheering him on. He was honestly just... a nice, unproblematic dude. People are allowed to appreciate that and feel mournful.

Also, estimates for ALSA donations exceed $30k raised since yesterday now.
Presiona para expandir...

I barely knew the guy, but you can just go into his twitter and see all the tiny gestures that made him a damn good person, seeing that go away forever because of some kind of incurable disease is just such a harrowing thing. It sucks to see someone that gave so much just disappear for good. One of those horrible cruel realities.

His legacy will be the smiles he put on people's faces and the money raised towards ALS research so that hopefully the world doesn't ever lose another dogbomb.
 
It's also worth noting Dogbomb went under multiple spinal taps so his spinal fluid could be used for ALS research. Spinal taps are horribly painful and he went through it to provide researchers with material to study so hopefully someday nobody else has to endure such an awful disease. He not only raised money but gave his own body to the cause with absolutely no return for him. He really was something else.
 
CIA Nigger dijo:
One of my personal favorite subgenres of furries are furries who bitch about capitalism while hanging around a fandom that revolves around money being spent, hell you're expected to bring a wad of cash to spend at furry cons. In this tweet thread, we see furries angry at Elon Musk because he makes more money than they do working at their McJob.
archive.fo

ASSWOLF on Twitter: "Should we let rich capitalist goons exploit the …

archived 6 Apr 2019 21:44:59 UTC
archive.fo archive.fo
Ver archivo adjunto 717539Ver archivo adjunto 717540Ver archivo adjunto 717541Ver archivo adjunto 717542Ver archivo adjunto 717543

Now here's the real question. How would these people react if someone told them to draw free art and said "paying for art is capitalism"? Chances are, they'd make a callout post.
Presiona para expandir...

One of the things I've seen in the last couple of years is a lot of furs and ex-furry artists like Spike Trotman pushing universal basic income. And most of the ones I have met that do so are just lazy shits that just want to sit around with fingering their pricks all day to porn. Even heard one person say that it will lead to more porn because artists wont have to have jobs so they can just sit around drawing porn. I'd love to see just one say "And I would travel the world or something if I did get UBI instead of having to clean the grease trap at the waffle house I work at." I could actually respect that.
 
Destacado
Debes iniciar sesión o registrarte para responder aquí.
Atrás
Top Abajo