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Anti-furries

2005-08-18T17:09:03Z

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'''Anti-furries''' are a group of individuals that find furry to be repulsive, especially any and all aspects having to do with furry sexuality. However, they tend to exhibit great interest in the sociology of the furry community.

In some cases, anti-furries may be previous members of the [[furry fandom]] who have become disgusted or disillusioned with furry. They may consider themselves ''anti-furry'' while still continuing to produce or consume media relating to [[anthropomorphic]]s, using [[fursona]]s or participating in [[conventions]] or [[MUCK]]s. Conversely, they may not only cease any interest or association with furry fandom, but actively deny any previous involvement.

Many online communities have a strong anti-furry slant, such as [[Something Awful]]. [[Crush! Yiff! Destroy!]] is an example of a site primarily catering to a general dislike of current furry fans and fandom.

'''Anti-furries''' are also commonly known as "[[mundane]]s", although this can also be used to refer to anyone who is not a member of the fandom.

==See also==
*[[Burned Fur]]
*[[Fursecution]]
*[[Crush! Yiff! Destroy!]]
*[[Something Awful]]
*[[Eat All Furries]]

[[Category:Terms]]
[[Category:Anti-furries]]

Something Awful

2005-08-18T17:05:02Z

24.170.28.198: /* #safurs */

'''Something Awful''' is an internet humor community owned and operated by [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka]]. Among its users are stereotypical forum members with a slightly higher sense of collective intelligence and pretentiousness than the average forum grouping. (For example, "GameFaqs.") It ranges from adults to teens, talented artists to talented writers, and also very avid gamers. However, among these users also lurks a minority dark-side which has gotten the website its reputation in the furry fandom. Constant harassment and ridicule toward the furry community, including [[trolling]]-- sometimes organized-- and harassment toward users themselves in places such as [[LiveJournal]], messageboards, and various furry websites, including [[Wikifur]] itself, which was vandalized on various pages with defamation toward the furry fandom or repeitions of the phrase "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." While the administrators of the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums do not condone the actions taken-- and do take action to remove these troublemakers from their ranks when they deem necessary-- many [[Goons]] take it upon themselves to invade websites, forums and [[LiveJournal|LiveJournals]] when they are linked on or off the forums. (Examples of off-forums organized invasions includes the now defunct [[SALJ]].) There are three instances where [[Goons]] "infiltrated" a furry convention. 

To many on the Something Awful forums now, however, furries are considered "old meme." But there are still members who continue to "hop on the bandwagon" and attack the fandom.

* Address: [http://www.somethingawful.com http://www.somethingawful.com ]

== Involvement with Furries ==
=== Conventions ===
==== Texas Furry Con 2004 ====
A newer SA forum user started a post detailing her first visit to a furry convention then decided it wasn't for her. She left a picture of a detailed pineapple hand-grenade which stated, "WE ARE WATCHING." [[Image:Sawarning.jpg|right|thumb|The SA grenade picture]]

Later, SA member Vorpal Bunny, a resident of Texas, decided to pay the convention a visit, wearing a shirt that said "L33T LIEK JEFFK" and had a URL to the website. After being tipped off by furry and SA goon Labinnah, the con staff proceeded to catch and detain Vorpal Bunny and his pack of friends, forcing them to stay until they signed a form which stated they would not release anything to the Internet. This, of course, didn't happen.

An account in his own words of Vorpal Bunny's visit can be found online [http://www.viewfromuphere.com/writings/000122.php here].

==== [[Feral!]] 2004 ====
A forum user posted about his "ninja infiltration" to a furry convention out in the woods. Sneaking around the camp area, he placed numerous paper flags with the [[Something Awful]] logo on various cars. In the thread he posted, he was ridiculed by the [[Something Awful|SA]] [[Goons]] for supposedly "having no life."

==== [[Anthrocon]] 2005 ====
A furry goon named [[Mix]] decided to bring an old 1960's-style video camera with him labelled with a bumper sticker that read "LOL INTERNET." He wore a t-shirt with his [[fursona]] on the front-- a blue hyenataur-- and on the back a blown-up version of the Something Awful logo. He was pulled aside by [[Uncle Kage]] and told not to wear his t-shirt around the convention space.

=== LiveJournal ===
==== SALJ ====
[[SALJ]], or "[[Something Awful]] [[LiveJournal]]", was a [[LiveJournal]] community which trolled pretty much all of LiveJournal. From autoerotic asphyxiation communities to zoophile communities, they attacked them all. While not the main focus, one thing they did attack were other furry communities.

=== IRC ===
In late 2004, when the [[SALJ]] [[LiveJournal]] community was still around, many users of the community congregated in an IRC channel. They organized an attack on a channel on FurNet called #dragon_yiff. What happened was enormous amounts of spam with constant barrages of various catchphrases from the [[Something Awful]] forums, such as the ever infamous "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." The users, however, when everything calmed down, blamed it on [[Sibe]].

=== Awful Link of the Day ===
[[Something Awful]] has a feature on their front page called ''The Awful Link of the Day.'' The websites featured range between horrendously created Tripod websites or the most bizarre of the bizarre forums on the Internet, and sometimes a random furry fetish artist's website or community, such as [[vore]] or [[babyfur]], will pop up as the target.

On August 15, 2005, [[WikiFur]] was featured as an Awful Link of the Day.

== Furry involvement with Something Awful ==
=== The "Furry Concentration Camp" ===
In January 2003, [[JJcoolJ]], a now ex-forum member and somewhat excommunicated from the furry community, organized users from the now defunct #safurs channel on FurNet to spam an internal forum called "FYAD," or "Fuck You and Die" with furry porn. [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]], after getting rather annoyed with having the obtuse-humored subforum filled with even more horrendous furry spam, created the Furry Concentration Camp, a subforum which acted much like FYAD, but disconnected furries from the main forum. The furries who spammed-- and many others who didn't, but were labelled anyway for humorous effect, such as user Procrasturbator-- were placed in this subforum because they were incredibly annoying. It also proved to be a place where members of FYAD could come in and ridicule other furries for their own humor. However, after a few months, the furry goons took the forum for themselves and turned it into their own "Furry FYAD." In mid-summer, to save CPU cycles, [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]] deleted the forum.

=== #safurs ===
<nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> was an [[IRC]] channel on [[FurNet]] started by a [[furry|fur]] named [[Jazzy]] around 2002. His SA forum handle was [[JJcoolJ]], which is a play on the name of a famous rap artist, [[Wikipedia:LL cool J|LLcoolJ]]. While on the SA forums, on various occassions-- mainly in the [[furry porn game]] when it came around in FYAD-- he would advertise the [[IRC]] network as well as the channel.

The channel became popular and well-known among the SA community when the Furry Concentration Camp (see above) was created. Many [[trolls]], [[goons]], other [[furry|furries]] and [[anti-furries]] alike began to visit, stick around to chat, harass the users for being furries or use the channel as a make-shift portal to troll other channels on the IRC network.

In late 2003/early 2004, [[Snowpony]], an administrator of [[FurNet]] deemed [[Jazzy]] unstable and therefore unable to keep administrating his channel. Forcibly, ownership was passed on to [[Bobby]] (aka [[Squnq]]). After getting bored, [[Bobby]] passed the channel on to [[Verix]].

At this point, the [[FurNet]] administration stated their belief in other users utilizing <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> as a doorway to [[trolling]] other channels on the network. [[Snowpony]] began monitoring the channel by idling and logging. Annoyed, the users of <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> took on a rule of "no idling," which was typically only enforced on [[Snowpony]], and [[kickban|kick-banned]] [[Snowpony]] from the channel. Flustered, [[Snowpony]] used her administrative powers to unban herself and rejoin the channel, only to have it happen again. She then proceeded to [[akill]] those who had removed her from the channel and rejoined.

For a few days after this, <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> began to mock and taunt [[Snowpony]] constantly, perpetually [[kickban|kickbanning]] her every time she joined the channel, causing another round of [[akill|akills]] and rejoins to occur. Another admin, [[Simba]] caught wind of this and began to look into the situation between [[Snowpony]] and this [[IRC]] channel. Believing that [[Snowpony]] was out of line with her actions, in a rather infamous display of quitting his administrative job of [[FurNet]], turned the tables and [[akill|akilled]] [[Snowpony]].

'''See also''': [[Anthrochat]].

=== Furry "[[Goons]]" ===
A "furry goon" is someone who may or may not be accepted on the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums while also knowingly being a member of the furry community. Some of these users are:
* [[Verix]]
* [[Doodles]]
* [[Mix]]
* [[Necco]]
* [[Footboy]]
* [[Reddie]]
* [[Foggy]]
* [[Malkith0]]
* [[vistaquest]]

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:Something Awful|Something Awful]] on Wikipedia

[[Category:Websites]]

Something Awful

2005-08-18T17:01:06Z

24.170.28.198: /* #safurs */

'''Something Awful''' is an internet humor community owned and operated by [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka]]. Among its users are stereotypical forum members with a slightly higher sense of collective intelligence and pretentiousness than the average forum grouping. (For example, "GameFaqs.") It ranges from adults to teens, talented artists to talented writers, and also very avid gamers. However, among these users also lurks a minority dark-side which has gotten the website its reputation in the furry fandom. Constant harassment and ridicule toward the furry community, including [[trolling]]-- sometimes organized-- and harassment toward users themselves in places such as [[LiveJournal]], messageboards, and various furry websites, including [[Wikifur]] itself, which was vandalized on various pages with defamation toward the furry fandom or repeitions of the phrase "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." While the administrators of the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums do not condone the actions taken-- and do take action to remove these troublemakers from their ranks when they deem necessary-- many [[Goons]] take it upon themselves to invade websites, forums and [[LiveJournal|LiveJournals]] when they are linked on or off the forums. (Examples of off-forums organized invasions includes the now defunct [[SALJ]].) There are three instances where [[Goons]] "infiltrated" a furry convention. 

To many on the Something Awful forums now, however, furries are considered "old meme." But there are still members who continue to "hop on the bandwagon" and attack the fandom.

* Address: [http://www.somethingawful.com http://www.somethingawful.com ]

== Involvement with Furries ==
=== Conventions ===
==== Texas Furry Con 2004 ====
A newer SA forum user started a post detailing her first visit to a furry convention then decided it wasn't for her. She left a picture of a detailed pineapple hand-grenade which stated, "WE ARE WATCHING." [[Image:Sawarning.jpg|right|thumb|The SA grenade picture]]

Later, SA member Vorpal Bunny, a resident of Texas, decided to pay the convention a visit, wearing a shirt that said "L33T LIEK JEFFK" and had a URL to the website. After being tipped off by furry and SA goon Labinnah, the con staff proceeded to catch and detain Vorpal Bunny and his pack of friends, forcing them to stay until they signed a form which stated they would not release anything to the Internet. This, of course, didn't happen.

An account in his own words of Vorpal Bunny's visit can be found online [http://www.viewfromuphere.com/writings/000122.php here].

==== [[Feral!]] 2004 ====
A forum user posted about his "ninja infiltration" to a furry convention out in the woods. Sneaking around the camp area, he placed numerous paper flags with the [[Something Awful]] logo on various cars. In the thread he posted, he was ridiculed by the [[Something Awful|SA]] [[Goons]] for supposedly "having no life."

==== [[Anthrocon]] 2005 ====
A furry goon named [[Mix]] decided to bring an old 1960's-style video camera with him labelled with a bumper sticker that read "LOL INTERNET." He wore a t-shirt with his [[fursona]] on the front-- a blue hyenataur-- and on the back a blown-up version of the Something Awful logo. He was pulled aside by [[Uncle Kage]] and told not to wear his t-shirt around the convention space.

=== LiveJournal ===
==== SALJ ====
[[SALJ]], or "[[Something Awful]] [[LiveJournal]]", was a [[LiveJournal]] community which trolled pretty much all of LiveJournal. From autoerotic asphyxiation communities to zoophile communities, they attacked them all. While not the main focus, one thing they did attack were other furry communities.

=== IRC ===
In late 2004, when the [[SALJ]] [[LiveJournal]] community was still around, many users of the community congregated in an IRC channel. They organized an attack on a channel on FurNet called #dragon_yiff. What happened was enormous amounts of spam with constant barrages of various catchphrases from the [[Something Awful]] forums, such as the ever infamous "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." The users, however, when everything calmed down, blamed it on [[Sibe]].

=== Awful Link of the Day ===
[[Something Awful]] has a feature on their front page called ''The Awful Link of the Day.'' The websites featured range between horrendously created Tripod websites or the most bizarre of the bizarre forums on the Internet, and sometimes a random furry fetish artist's website or community, such as [[vore]] or [[babyfur]], will pop up as the target.

On August 15, 2005, [[WikiFur]] was featured as an Awful Link of the Day.

== Furry involvement with Something Awful ==
=== The "Furry Concentration Camp" ===
In January 2003, [[JJcoolJ]], a now ex-forum member and somewhat excommunicated from the furry community, organized users from the now defunct #safurs channel on FurNet to spam an internal forum called "FYAD," or "Fuck You and Die" with furry porn. [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]], after getting rather annoyed with having the obtuse-humored subforum filled with even more horrendous furry spam, created the Furry Concentration Camp, a subforum which acted much like FYAD, but disconnected furries from the main forum. The furries who spammed-- and many others who didn't, but were labelled anyway for humorous effect, such as user Procrasturbator-- were placed in this subforum because they were incredibly annoying. It also proved to be a place where members of FYAD could come in and ridicule other furries for their own humor. However, after a few months, the furry goons took the forum for themselves and turned it into their own "Furry FYAD." In mid-summer, to save CPU cycles, [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]] deleted the forum.

=== #safurs ===
<nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> was an [[IRC]] channel on [[FurNet]] started by a [[furry|fur]] named [[Jazzy]] around 2002. His SA forum handle was [[JJcoolJ]], which is a play on the name of a famous rap artist, [[Wikipedia:LL cool J|LLcoolJ]]. While on the SA forums, on various occassions-- mainly in the [[furry porn game]] when it came around in FYAD-- he would advertise the [[IRC]] network as well as the channel.

The channel became popular and well-known among the SA community when the Furry Concentration Camp (see above) was created. Many [[trolls]], [[goons]], other [[furry|furries]] and [[anti-furries]] alike began to visit, stick around to chat, harass the users for being furries or use the channel as a make-shift portal to troll other channels on the IRC network.

In late 2003/early 2004, [[Snowpony]], an administrator of [[FurNet]] deemed [[Jazzy]] unstable and therefore unable to keep administrating his channel. Forcibly, ownership was passed on to [[Bobby]] (aka [[Squnq]]). After getting bored, [[Bobby]] passed the channel on to [[Verix]].

At this point, the [[FurNet]] administration stated their belief in other users utilizing <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> as a doorway to [[trolling]] other channels on the network. [[Snowpony]] began monitoring the channel by idling and logging. Annoyed, the users of <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> took on a rule of "no idling," which was typically only enforced on [[Snowpony]], and [[kickban|kick-banned]] [[Snowpony]] from the channel. Flustered, [[Snowpony]] used her administrative powers to unban herself and rejoin the channel, only to have it happen again. She then proceeded to [[akill]] those who had removed her from the channel and rejoined.

For a few days after this, <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> began to mock and taunt [[Snowpony]] constantly, perpetually [[kickban|kickbanning]] her every time she joined the channel, causing another round of [[akill|akills]] and rejoins to occur. Another admin, [[Simba]] caught wind of this and began to look into the situation between [[Snowpony]] and this [[IRC]] channel. Believing that [[Snowpony]] was out of line with her actions, in a rather infamous display of quitting his administrative job of [[FurNet]], turned the tables and [[akilled]] [[Snowpony]].

'''See also''': [[Anthrochat]].

=== Furry "[[Goons]]" ===
A "furry goon" is someone who may or may not be accepted on the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums while also knowingly being a member of the furry community. Some of these users are:
* [[Verix]]
* [[Doodles]]
* [[Mix]]
* [[Necco]]
* [[Footboy]]
* [[Reddie]]
* [[Foggy]]
* [[Malkith0]]
* [[vistaquest]]

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:Something Awful|Something Awful]] on Wikipedia

[[Category:Websites]]

Something Awful

2005-08-18T16:56:42Z

24.170.28.198: /* #safurs */

'''Something Awful''' is an internet humor community owned and operated by [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka]]. Among its users are stereotypical forum members with a slightly higher sense of collective intelligence and pretentiousness than the average forum grouping. (For example, "GameFaqs.") It ranges from adults to teens, talented artists to talented writers, and also very avid gamers. However, among these users also lurks a minority dark-side which has gotten the website its reputation in the furry fandom. Constant harassment and ridicule toward the furry community, including [[trolling]]-- sometimes organized-- and harassment toward users themselves in places such as [[LiveJournal]], messageboards, and various furry websites, including [[Wikifur]] itself, which was vandalized on various pages with defamation toward the furry fandom or repeitions of the phrase "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." While the administrators of the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums do not condone the actions taken-- and do take action to remove these troublemakers from their ranks when they deem necessary-- many [[Goons]] take it upon themselves to invade websites, forums and [[LiveJournal|LiveJournals]] when they are linked on or off the forums. (Examples of off-forums organized invasions includes the now defunct [[SALJ]].) There are three instances where [[Goons]] "infiltrated" a furry convention. 

To many on the Something Awful forums now, however, furries are considered "old meme." But there are still members who continue to "hop on the bandwagon" and attack the fandom.

* Address: [http://www.somethingawful.com http://www.somethingawful.com ]

== Involvement with Furries ==
=== Conventions ===
==== Texas Furry Con 2004 ====
A newer SA forum user started a post detailing her first visit to a furry convention then decided it wasn't for her. She left a picture of a detailed pineapple hand-grenade which stated, "WE ARE WATCHING." [[Image:Sawarning.jpg|right|thumb|The SA grenade picture]]

Later, SA member Vorpal Bunny, a resident of Texas, decided to pay the convention a visit, wearing a shirt that said "L33T LIEK JEFFK" and had a URL to the website. After being tipped off by furry and SA goon Labinnah, the con staff proceeded to catch and detain Vorpal Bunny and his pack of friends, forcing them to stay until they signed a form which stated they would not release anything to the Internet. This, of course, didn't happen.

An account in his own words of Vorpal Bunny's visit can be found online [http://www.viewfromuphere.com/writings/000122.php here].

==== [[Feral!]] 2004 ====
A forum user posted about his "ninja infiltration" to a furry convention out in the woods. Sneaking around the camp area, he placed numerous paper flags with the [[Something Awful]] logo on various cars. In the thread he posted, he was ridiculed by the [[Something Awful|SA]] [[Goons]] for supposedly "having no life."

==== [[Anthrocon]] 2005 ====
A furry goon named [[Mix]] decided to bring an old 1960's-style video camera with him labelled with a bumper sticker that read "LOL INTERNET." He wore a t-shirt with his [[fursona]] on the front-- a blue hyenataur-- and on the back a blown-up version of the Something Awful logo. He was pulled aside by [[Uncle Kage]] and told not to wear his t-shirt around the convention space.

=== LiveJournal ===
==== SALJ ====
[[SALJ]], or "[[Something Awful]] [[LiveJournal]]", was a [[LiveJournal]] community which trolled pretty much all of LiveJournal. From autoerotic asphyxiation communities to zoophile communities, they attacked them all. While not the main focus, one thing they did attack were other furry communities.

=== IRC ===
In late 2004, when the [[SALJ]] [[LiveJournal]] community was still around, many users of the community congregated in an IRC channel. They organized an attack on a channel on FurNet called #dragon_yiff. What happened was enormous amounts of spam with constant barrages of various catchphrases from the [[Something Awful]] forums, such as the ever infamous "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." The users, however, when everything calmed down, blamed it on [[Sibe]].

=== Awful Link of the Day ===
[[Something Awful]] has a feature on their front page called ''The Awful Link of the Day.'' The websites featured range between horrendously created Tripod websites or the most bizarre of the bizarre forums on the Internet, and sometimes a random furry fetish artist's website or community, such as [[vore]] or [[babyfur]], will pop up as the target.

On August 15, 2005, [[WikiFur]] was featured as an Awful Link of the Day.

== Furry involvement with Something Awful ==
=== The "Furry Concentration Camp" ===
In January 2003, [[JJcoolJ]], a now ex-forum member and somewhat excommunicated from the furry community, organized users from the now defunct #safurs channel on FurNet to spam an internal forum called "FYAD," or "Fuck You and Die" with furry porn. [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]], after getting rather annoyed with having the obtuse-humored subforum filled with even more horrendous furry spam, created the Furry Concentration Camp, a subforum which acted much like FYAD, but disconnected furries from the main forum. The furries who spammed-- and many others who didn't, but were labelled anyway for humorous effect, such as user Procrasturbator-- were placed in this subforum because they were incredibly annoying. It also proved to be a place where members of FYAD could come in and ridicule other furries for their own humor. However, after a few months, the furry goons took the forum for themselves and turned it into their own "Furry FYAD." In mid-summer, to save CPU cycles, [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]] deleted the forum.

=== #safurs ===
<nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> was an [[IRC]] channel on [[FurNet]] started by a [[furry|fur]] named [[Jazzy]] around 2002. His SA forum handle was [[JJcoolJ]], which is a play on the name of a famous rap artist, [[Wikipedia:LL cool J|LLcoolJ]]. While on the SA forums, on various occassions-- mainly in the [[furry porn game]] when it came around in FYAD-- he would advertise the [[IRC]] network as well as the channel.

The channel became popular and well-known among the SA community when the Furry Concentration Camp (see above) was created. Many [[trolls]], [[goons]], other [[furry|furries]] and [[anti-furries]] alike began to visit, stick around to chat, harass the users for being furries or use the channel as a make-shift portal to troll other channels on the IRC network.

In late 2003/early 2004, [[Snowpony]], an administrator of [[FurNet]] deemed [[Jazzy]] unstable and therefore unable to keep administrating his channel. Forcibly, ownership was passed on to [[Bobby]] (aka [[Squnq]]). After getting bored, [[Bobby]] passed the channel on to [[Verix]].

At this point, the [[FurNet]] administration stated their belief in other users utilizing <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> as a doorway to trolling other channels on the network. [[Snowpony]] began monitoring the channel by idling and logging. Annoyed, the users of <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> took on a rule of "no idling," which was typically only enforced on [[Snowpony]], and [[kickban|kick-banned]] [[Snowpony]] from the channel. Flustered, [[Snowpony]] used her administrative powers to unban herself and rejoin the channel, only to have it happen again. She then proceeded to [[akill]] those who had removed her from the channel and rejoined.

For a few days after this, <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> began to mock and taunt [[Snowpony]] constantly, perpetually [[kickban|kickbanning]] her every time she joined the channel, causing another round of [[akill|akills]] and rejoins to occur. Another admin, [[Simba]] caught wind of this and began to look into the situation between [[Snowpony]] and this [[IRC]] channel. Believing that [[Snowpony]] was out of line with her actions, in a rather infamous display of quitting his administrative job of [[FurNet]], turned the tables and [[akilled]] [[Snowpony]].

'''See also''': [[Anthrochat]].

=== Furry "[[Goons]]" ===
A "furry goon" is someone who may or may not be accepted on the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums while also knowingly being a member of the furry community. Some of these users are:
* [[Verix]]
* [[Doodles]]
* [[Mix]]
* [[Necco]]
* [[Footboy]]
* [[Reddie]]
* [[Foggy]]
* [[Malkith0]]
* [[vistaquest]]

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:Something Awful|Something Awful]] on Wikipedia

[[Category:Websites]]

Something Awful

2005-08-18T16:54:25Z

24.170.28.198: /* #safurs */

'''Something Awful''' is an internet humor community owned and operated by [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka]]. Among its users are stereotypical forum members with a slightly higher sense of collective intelligence and pretentiousness than the average forum grouping. (For example, "GameFaqs.") It ranges from adults to teens, talented artists to talented writers, and also very avid gamers. However, among these users also lurks a minority dark-side which has gotten the website its reputation in the furry fandom. Constant harassment and ridicule toward the furry community, including [[trolling]]-- sometimes organized-- and harassment toward users themselves in places such as [[LiveJournal]], messageboards, and various furry websites, including [[Wikifur]] itself, which was vandalized on various pages with defamation toward the furry fandom or repeitions of the phrase "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." While the administrators of the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums do not condone the actions taken-- and do take action to remove these troublemakers from their ranks when they deem necessary-- many [[Goons]] take it upon themselves to invade websites, forums and [[LiveJournal|LiveJournals]] when they are linked on or off the forums. (Examples of off-forums organized invasions includes the now defunct [[SALJ]].) There are three instances where [[Goons]] "infiltrated" a furry convention. 

To many on the Something Awful forums now, however, furries are considered "old meme." But there are still members who continue to "hop on the bandwagon" and attack the fandom.

* Address: [http://www.somethingawful.com http://www.somethingawful.com ]

== Involvement with Furries ==
=== Conventions ===
==== Texas Furry Con 2004 ====
A newer SA forum user started a post detailing her first visit to a furry convention then decided it wasn't for her. She left a picture of a detailed pineapple hand-grenade which stated, "WE ARE WATCHING." [[Image:Sawarning.jpg|right|thumb|The SA grenade picture]]

Later, SA member Vorpal Bunny, a resident of Texas, decided to pay the convention a visit, wearing a shirt that said "L33T LIEK JEFFK" and had a URL to the website. After being tipped off by furry and SA goon Labinnah, the con staff proceeded to catch and detain Vorpal Bunny and his pack of friends, forcing them to stay until they signed a form which stated they would not release anything to the Internet. This, of course, didn't happen.

An account in his own words of Vorpal Bunny's visit can be found online [http://www.viewfromuphere.com/writings/000122.php here].

==== [[Feral!]] 2004 ====
A forum user posted about his "ninja infiltration" to a furry convention out in the woods. Sneaking around the camp area, he placed numerous paper flags with the [[Something Awful]] logo on various cars. In the thread he posted, he was ridiculed by the [[Something Awful|SA]] [[Goons]] for supposedly "having no life."

==== [[Anthrocon]] 2005 ====
A furry goon named [[Mix]] decided to bring an old 1960's-style video camera with him labelled with a bumper sticker that read "LOL INTERNET." He wore a t-shirt with his [[fursona]] on the front-- a blue hyenataur-- and on the back a blown-up version of the Something Awful logo. He was pulled aside by [[Uncle Kage]] and told not to wear his t-shirt around the convention space.

=== LiveJournal ===
==== SALJ ====
[[SALJ]], or "[[Something Awful]] [[LiveJournal]]", was a [[LiveJournal]] community which trolled pretty much all of LiveJournal. From autoerotic asphyxiation communities to zoophile communities, they attacked them all. While not the main focus, one thing they did attack were other furry communities.

=== IRC ===
In late 2004, when the [[SALJ]] [[LiveJournal]] community was still around, many users of the community congregated in an IRC channel. They organized an attack on a channel on FurNet called #dragon_yiff. What happened was enormous amounts of spam with constant barrages of various catchphrases from the [[Something Awful]] forums, such as the ever infamous "SOMETHING AWFUL DOT COM." The users, however, when everything calmed down, blamed it on [[Sibe]].

=== Awful Link of the Day ===
[[Something Awful]] has a feature on their front page called ''The Awful Link of the Day.'' The websites featured range between horrendously created Tripod websites or the most bizarre of the bizarre forums on the Internet, and sometimes a random furry fetish artist's website or community, such as [[vore]] or [[babyfur]], will pop up as the target.

On August 15, 2005, [[WikiFur]] was featured as an Awful Link of the Day.

== Furry involvement with Something Awful ==
=== The "Furry Concentration Camp" ===
In January 2003, [[JJcoolJ]], a now ex-forum member and somewhat excommunicated from the furry community, organized users from the now defunct #safurs channel on FurNet to spam an internal forum called "FYAD," or "Fuck You and Die" with furry porn. [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]], after getting rather annoyed with having the obtuse-humored subforum filled with even more horrendous furry spam, created the Furry Concentration Camp, a subforum which acted much like FYAD, but disconnected furries from the main forum. The furries who spammed-- and many others who didn't, but were labelled anyway for humorous effect, such as user Procrasturbator-- were placed in this subforum because they were incredibly annoying. It also proved to be a place where members of FYAD could come in and ridicule other furries for their own humor. However, after a few months, the furry goons took the forum for themselves and turned it into their own "Furry FYAD." In mid-summer, to save CPU cycles, [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]] deleted the forum.

=== #safurs ===
<nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> was an [[IRC]] channel on [[FurNet]] started by a [[furry]] named [[Jazzy]] around 2002. His SA forum handle was [[JJcoolJ]], which is a play on the name of a famous rap artist, [[Wikipedia:LL cool J|LLcoolJ]]. While on the SA forums, on various occassions-- mainly in the [[furry porn game]] when it came around in FYAD-- he would advertise the [[IRC]] network as well as the channel.

The channel became popular and well-known among the SA community when the Furry Concentration Camp (see above) was created. Many [[trolls]], [[goons]], other [[furry|furries]] and [[anti-furries]] alike began to visit, stick around to chat, harass the users for being furries or use the channel as a make-shift portal to troll other channels on the IRC network.

In late 2003/early 2004, [[Snowpony]], an administrator of [[FurNet]] deemed [[Jazzy]] unstable and therefore unable to keep administrating his channel. Forcibly, ownership was passed on to [[Bobby]] (aka [[Squnq]]). After getting bored, [[Bobby]] passed the channel on to [[Verix]].

At this point, the [[FurNet]] administration stated their belief in other users utilizing <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> as a doorway to trolling other channels on the network. [[Snowpony]] began monitoring the channel by idling and logging. Annoyed, the users of <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> took on a rule of "no idling," which was typically only enforced on [[Snowpony]], and [[kickban|kick-banned]] [[Snowpony]] from the channel. Flustered, [[Snowpony]] used her administrative powers to unban herself and rejoin the channel, only to have it happen again. She then proceeded to [[akill]] those who had removed her from the channel and rejoined.

For a few days after this, <nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> began to mock and taunt [[Snowpony]] constantly, perpetually [[kickban|kickbanning]] her every time she joined the channel, causing another round of [[akill|akills]] and rejoins to occur. Another admin, [[Simba]] caught wind of this and began to look into the situation between [[Snowpony]] and this [[IRC]] channel. Believing that [[Snowpony]] was out of line with her actions, in a rather infamous display of quitting his administrative job of [[FurNet]], turned the tables and [[akilled]] [[Snowpony]].

'''See also''': [[Anthrochat]].

=== Furry "[[Goons]]" ===
A "furry goon" is someone who may or may not be accepted on the [[Something Awful|SA]] forums while also knowingly being a member of the furry community. Some of these users are:
* [[Verix]]
* [[Doodles]]
* [[Mix]]
* [[Necco]]
* [[Footboy]]
* [[Reddie]]
* [[Foggy]]
* [[Malkith0]]
* [[vistaquest]]

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:Something Awful|Something Awful]] on Wikipedia

[[Category:Websites]]

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'''Troll''' is the colloquial term for a user who seeks to incite negative responses from others in online mediums, such as in [[IRC]] chat rooms or in [[Usenet]] postings. Trolls typically bait their victims with inflammatory and derogatory remarks, to which users respond with criticisms of the troll's behavior. The goal of a troll is to detract users from their normal communications and get them to instead start arguments with them or other users. When users do start arguments with each other or with the troll, it is often referred to as "feeding the troll". Somtimes trolls refer to their activities to others as [[lollercoasting]].

Trolls are typically crude and simple in their tactics; however, some trolls carefully calculate their activities so their online posts seem quite innocuous but have the same argument or negative feeling producing effect.

Trolls are best dealt with by ignoring them, and optionally removing them/banning them from the forum/mailing list/IRC channel in question so that they cannot cause further problems. It is imperative to remain as calm as possible and not get involved in any arguments in the process. However, the goal of some trolls is to be removed, and on mediums such as IRC where it is nearly impossible to ban a determined user, this may only feed the troll.

[[Category: Terms]]

== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:Internet troll|Internet troll]] on Wikipedia

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== See also ==
* [[wikipedia:Internet troll|Internet troll]] on Wikipedia