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Diezel Raccoon

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[[File:DiezelRaccoonFursuit.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Diezel Raccoon's fursuit]]
'''Diezel Raccoon''' (born July 18, 1988),<ref>[http://diezelraccoon.livejournal.com/profile Diezel Raccoon's profile] on [[LiveJournal]]. Retrieved November 27, 2010.</ref> is a [[fursuiter]] and [[babyfur]] who lives in [[W:Dallas|Dallas, Texas]], USA.<ref>[https://twitter.com/DiezelRaccoon Diezel Raccoon's profile] on [[Twitter]]. Retrieved October 2, 2014.</ref>

== Fandom involvement ==
[[File:DiezelRaccoonCABan.jpeg|thumb|right|Diezel's Creature Arts' ban (mail)]]
[[File:Diezel Raccoon Twitter AKAs.jpeg|thumb|riight|Diezel's and US Goverment intervention]]
=== Fursona ===

Diezel's [[fursona]] is a [[raccoon (species)|raccoon]].

=== Fursuits ===

Diezel owns three [[fursuit]]s of his raccoon fursona:

* Diezel 1.0, made by [[MixedCandy]]
* Diezel 2.0, made by [[Kodi (Canada)|Kodi]]
* Diezel 3.0, made by [[FirestormSix]]

=== Convention attendance ===

* [[Anthrocon]] - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
* [[FA: United]] - 2011
* [[FurFright]] - 2010, 2011, 2012
* [[Furlaxation]] - 2012
* [[Furry Connection North]] - 2011, 2012, 2013
* [[Furry Fiesta]] - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2019, 2020
* [[Furry Weekend Atlanta]] - 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015
* [[Further Confusion]] - 2011, 2012, 2013
* [[IndyFurCon]] - 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017
* [[Megaplex]] - 2011, 2012, 2019
* [[Midwest Furfest]] - 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* [[RainFurrest]] - 2011
* [[Fur the 'More]] - 2014, 2015
* [[Furpocalypse]] - 2014, 2015
* [[Motor City Fur Con]] - 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
* [[Fur Squared]] - 2016
* [[Biggest Little Fur Con]] - 2016

=== ''Fursonas'' documentary ===

In 2016, Diezel was one of the individuals featured in the ''[[Fursonas (documentary)|Fursonas]]'' documentary.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaGFsfoEpGw ''Fursonas'' official trailer] on [[YouTube]]. Retrieved January 5, 2017.</ref>

=== "Big and round" meme ===

This meme came about on January 12, 2021, when after Diezel tweeted:
{{q|You leftist furs amaze me. Like seriously calling anyone that disagrees with you a Nazi or racist. like seriously do you know you could actually be a productive citizen instead of wasting your time being a keyboard warrior?<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210113040533/https://twitter.com/StarTheRaccoon/status/1349205716666560512 ''You leftist furs amaze me''] post on Twitter. Retrieved April 26, 2021.</ref>}}
[[Riff Raccoon]] replied to the tweet with:
{{q|[[W:2021 United States Capitol attack|A coup was attempted to over throw the government]] and install a dictator as the leader of this country.}}
Which Diezel replied to with the now infamous:
{{q|I like you deeply as a friend and I'm going to choose not to even respond to you. '''*inflates you making you big and round*'''{{cn}}}}
Which quickly became a popular [[W:Meme|meme]] in furry Twitter, with [[fandom]] personae such as [[Boozy Badger]] commenting on it, and with some furry businesses created merchandise based on the phrase.<ref>[https://twitter.com/CurlworksKigus/status/1362551835333177352 ''anyways I saw something on Furry Twitter today''] post by @CurlworksKigus on Twitter. Retrieved April 26, 2021.</ref>

== Controversy ==
=== Convention ban ===

On April 2021, Diezel was banned by [[W:Texas|Texas]] based [[Creature Arts]] from attending their local events ('''Furry Fiesta''' and [[Furry Fiesta]]),<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210426235147/https://twitter.com/BiodieselRacco1/status/1386771755277160457 ''It's happening!''] post on Twitter. Dated April 26, 2021. Retrieved April 26, 2021</ref> citing the following:
{{q|Your statements online in social media are inconsistent with these efforts(*) and inconsistent with our stated anti-harassment and anti-discrimination policies. As such we have determined that you will not be permitted to attend Creature Arts events.}}
While in the end Creature Arts stated their decision was final, he was given the opportunity to appeal it around 2026.

(*) "(Creature Arts) endeavor of delivering quality events to our (even) attendees and to keep the environment in our events safe, friendly, and fun, (while holding) ourselves to high standards of ethical conduct to ensure our visiting attendees feel welcome."

=== US Goverment intervention ===

Under the [[Twitter]] aliases '''@TruthJustice87''' and '''@FurryFairness''', Diezel Raccoon tried to convince [[W:Ted Cruz|Senator Ted Cruz]], [[W:Louie Gohmert|Congressman Louie Gohmert]], [[W:Texas|Texas]]' [[W:Greg Abbott|Governor Greg Abbott]],<ref>[https://twitter.com/altfurryblocker/status/1397217565399830531?s=10 ''Diezel attempted to get the federal, state, and city governments to shut down furry cons.''] post by [[AltFurryBlocker]] on Twitter. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref><ref>[https://twitter.com/FurryN_Official/status/1397345545031622656 ''Diezel was caught on his "puppet account" tagging Ted Cruz trying to cancel Furry Conventions, specifically Furry Fiesta.''] post by [[Furry News]] on Twitter. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref> and the [[W:City of Dallas|City of Dallas]], that the "[[furry fandom]]" was trying to silence the [[W:Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[W:Conservatism in the United States|Conservative]] voices within it, specifically by the "[[W:BLM|BLM]]/[[W:Antifa|Antifa]] [[furries]]", more concretly those attending Texas Furry Fiesta and Texas Furry Siesta in Dallas, Texas.

Diezel deleted both accounts when called upon it.<ref>[https://twitter.com/TwitchDaWoof/status/1397064508464680961 ''He just got caught with this sock puppet account and deleted it as soon as he got called out in replies for it.''] post by [[Twitch Da Woof]] on Twitter. Retrieved May 28, 2021.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
{{Contributor|Diezelraccoon}}
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/diezelraccoon/ Diezel Raccoon] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [http://twitter.com/DiezelRaccoon Diezel Raccoon] on [[Twitter]]
* [https://www.youtube.com/user/diezelraccoon Diezel Raccoon] on [[YouTube]]

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Leiton Grey

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'''Leiton Grey''', formerly known as '''WolfNamedLeiton''', is a [[furry writer]] who lives in [[W:Dartmouth, Nova Scotia|Dartmouth, Nova Scotia]], Canada.

== Fursona ==

Leiton's [[fursona]] is a black [[Squirrel_(species)|squirrel]]. His [[paw]]s and the tip of his [[tail]] are amber. He typically wears forest-green leggings and carries a quarterstaff.

==External links==

* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/leitongrey/ Leiton Grey] on [[Fur Affinity]]
* [https://www.weasyl.com/~leitongrey Leiton Grey] on [[W:Weasyl|Weasyl]]
* [https://twitter.com/LeitonGrey Leiton Grey] on [[Twitter]]
* [http://steamcommunity.com/id/squirrelboi Leiton Grey] on [[W:Steam (software)|Steam]]

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Something Awful

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'''Something Awful''', also known simply as '''SA''', is a [[W:comedy|comedy]] website hosting a variety of content, including [[W:Blog|blog]] entries, [[forum]]s, feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. Since its inception, the website has helped to perpetuate various [[W:Internet phenomenon|Internet phenomena]], and has been cited as an influence on [[W:Internet culture|Internet culture]]. It was created by and is operated by [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka]].

Forum members, also known as [[Goon]]s, range from teens to adults, [[artist]]s to [[writer]]s, and gamers.

== Something Awful and furry ==

Some of its users hold up the perceived SA tradition{{fact}} of mocking the [[furry fandom]], including pranks, organized [[trolling]], and individual harassment of users themselves in places such as [[LiveJournal]], message-boards, and various [[furry]] websites.

While the administrators of the SA forums do not officially condone the actions taken,{{fact}} and that they almost never take any action unless legal action could be directed towards SA itself, many goons take it upon themselves to troll social media, personal and furry media websites, and/or their forums.

It should be noted that since the meme of Trolling furries has become somewhat passé, there have been increasing numbers of Furry fans that have taken to participating in the SA forums themselves. their motives are unknown, but considering the primarily humorous nature of the site itself, one can only guess that it's for entertainment. When pressed about their choice to participate, most users tend to respond with "it's just an internet forum." Furries that are discovered are usually called out in "Helldump", a subforum used to contain mockery and call-outs of other Something Awful users. Helldump was eventually shut down in 2009.

* [[SALJ]], or "[[Something Awful]] LiveJournal", was a LiveJournal community which trolled pretty much all of LiveJournal. From auto-erotic asphyxiation communities to [[zoophile]] communities, they attacked them all. While not the main focus, one thing they did attack were other furry communities.
* SA [[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 #dragonyiff. What happened was enormous amounts of spam with constant barrages of various catch-phrases from the [[Something Awful]] forums. The users, however, when everything calmed down, blamed it on [[Sibe]].
* The Awful Link of the Day - The Awful Link of the Day is a daily feature of Something Awful where a particularly awful web page is located and showcased. 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 artist's website or community, such as [[Vorarephilia|vore]] or [[babyfur]], will pop up as the target. Furry-themed websites have been part of the Awful Link of the Day nearly since the site's inception.

: ''[http://homepages.go.com/~tomfoxx/ The Foxx's Den] (down, [http://web.archive.org/web/20000617060945/homepages.go.com/~tomfoxx/indecks.html archived]) - Since I'm currently at a loss to explain this page (yes, it appears to only be one page), I'll just copy the description that was included in the email: "[[Gay]] [[anime]] boy goes to fantastical online make-believe land, becomes a gay [[humanoid]] [[fox]] creature, falls in love with fellow humanoid fox creature, takes care of baby [[dragon]]s, and puts bad midi music on an already bad site. I think it's about some guy's [[roleplay]]ing character, but I'm not sure."''

The page is long gone. Tom's site was more or less hammered with a combination of hits and hate mail in his guest book. The incident sparked allegations that the site ops were picking on furries because they were gay. [[Lowtax]], the person responsible for the selection, stated that he chose the page because ''"it appeared to be written by a spastic 10 year old with ADD who was obsessed with becoming a magical humanoid fox and marrying another guy fox. If that's not a ripe candidate for an Awful Link, God help me, I don't know what is."'' He added: ''"And to all you furry-lovers out there: you can defend and rationalize and explain the act of pretending to be animals so you can have online sex with people all you want. The fact is that it makes for some hilarious websites, and prime ALOD links. If you don't want people making fun of your abnormal sexual fetishes, DON'T MAKE THEM PUBLIC."''

=== Conventions ===
[[File:Sawarning.jpg|right|thumb|User's recollection of the original poster (somewhat inaccurate)]]
* Texas Furry Con 2004 - A newer SA forum user{{who}} started a post detailing her first visit to a furry convention (Texas Furry Con), then decided it wasn't for her.{{fact}} She left a picture of a detailed pineapple hand-grenade which stated, "WE ARE WATCHING."

The image above is a recollection of what the initial poster assumed she had left drawn again. The original displayed was left laying around in the dealers room and was given to con staff. The actual drawing had the grenade standing vertically, said "We are watching you!" and did not have the SA insignia anywhere. At the time, staff were perplexed and, although the logo of Something Awful is a hand-grenade, it was not a universally recognized symbol of the website at the time of incident. Equally, this hotel was right across the street from Bergstrom International Airport. Had the drawing identified itself as coming from SA, it would have been seen as harmless.

Later, SA member [[Vorpal Bunny]], a resident of Texas, attended the convention 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, attempting to force them to stay until they signed a form which stated they would not release anything to the Internet. This, of course, didn't happen.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20050311035405/http://www.viewfromuphere.com/writings/000122.php ]</ref>

Video of the incident can be found [http://www.nothingkat.com/confession/somethingtexas/bust.zip here]. Also of interest is an opinion article on the matter at [[nothingkat]]'s [[nothingkat.com|website]], ''[http://www.nothingkat.com/confession/somethingtexas.htm Something Awful In Texas]''.

* [[Feral!]] 2004 - A forum user{{who}} 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 other forum goons for "having no life."{{fact}}

On July 16th, 2000, the web page of [[Tom Foxx]] was given the "Awful Link of the Day" treatment:

=== WikiFur ===

On August 15, 2005, WikiFur was invaded by goons from Something Awful only a few days after the project had been announced. Despite the disclaimer contained in the (archived, archives account required for view) [http://archives.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1642602 initial thread] in the Something Awful Forums ("''DISCLAIMER: DO NOT INVADE THIS SHIT YOU FUCKERS. YOU KNOW THAT'S AGAINST THE RULES. JUST POINT AND LAUGH''",) vandalism ramped up when the link to the site was chosen as the SA ''Awful Link of the Day'' on the same day.

At one point, pages were being maliciously edited every 45 seconds. However, the actions of Something Awful increased the visibility of WikiFur. This attracted more legitimate users than SA vandals.

:''[[User:GreenReaper|GreenReaper]]: As they say, the only bad publicity is no publicity!''

=== The "Furry Concentration Camp" ===
[[Image:FurSACCold.jpg|thumb|right|Initial badge design]]
[[Image:FurSACCnew.png|thumb|right|Final badge design]]
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 sub-forum filled with even more horrendous furry spam, created the Furry Concentration Camp, a sub-forum which acted much like FYAD, but disconnected furries from the main forum, with the apparent intent to discourage furries from spamming the site with unrelated and offensive images and other memes.

The furries who spammed -- and many others who didn't, but were labeled anyway for humorous effect, such as user Procrasturbator -- were placed in this sub-forum if deemed to be incredibly annoying. It also proved to be a place where members of FYAD could come in and ridicule other furries for their own humor. For identification purposes, a "Furry Badge" was tacked to their "Sigs." Many non-furry and furry members of the forum found this highly amusing as, as expected, there were endless pages of funny, dramatic and venting posts.

However, after a few months, the furry goons took the forum for themselves and turned it into their own "Furry FYAD." Much to the disturbance of SA forum regulars, [[Sibe]], under an alias on an account purchased by JJcoolJ and several other furries began to post their collections of furry porn there. In mid-summer [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka|Lowtax]] deleted the forum. Sibe and several of the furries participating in the furry concentration camp were later banned for being both spammers and annoying, disregarding moderator warnings and administration rulings against such behavior.

=== #safurs ===
<nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> was an [[IRC]] channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|FurNet]] started by a [[furry|fur]] named [[Jazzy]] (SA forum handle JJcoolJ). While on the SA forums, on various occasions-- 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]], [[goon]]s, other 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 [[Wikipedia: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 kick-banning her every time she joined the channel, causing another round of [[Wikipedia:akill|akills]] and rejoins to occur. Another admin, [[Simba (puppeteer)|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 her administrative job of FurNet, turned the tables and akilled Snowpony.

The channel is now inhabited and run by furries of the [[South Australian Furry Community]].

=== Furry "Goons" ===

A "[[furry]] [[goon]]" is someone who is actively involved with both the Something Awful Forums and the Furry Community. Being a furry is technically a bannable offense on SA, but enforcement is uneven. Several older SA furs have been given official immunity to being banned for it, the most well-known example of which is [[Doodles (California)|Doodles]]. Other open furries who post on non-furry topics are very seldom banned. Closeted furries who are outed by others are sometimes banned depending on the subforum, mod whim and degree of perceived deviance. Open furries who spark drama about it are always banned, as are closeted furries who out themselves.

== See also ==

* [[W:Something Awful|Something Awful]] on Wikipedia

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [http://forums.somethingawful.com/dictionary.php SA's SAclopedia] Built dictionary, with many terms related to furry fandom. (Registration required)

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Diezel Raccoon

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