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Zyklon

2007-12-21T03:49:22Z

Ace Guppy:

'''Zyklon''' is a [[furry artist]] from Berlin, Germany who currently lives in the United States. His [[character]] is a "leucistic" white [[alligator]].

Zyklon specializes in drawing semi-realistic [[scalies]] and [[furries]] with graphite. Despite the persistant WWII and [[Nazi fur]] themes on Zyklon's [[Fur Affinity]] page, he has made it clear to fans that he is not a Nazi sympathizer.

==External links==
* [http://www.furaffinity.net/user/zyklon/ Zyklon] on [[Fur Affinity]]

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[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Artists]]
[[Category:Alligator characters]]
[[Category:United States of America]]
[[Category: Nazi fur]]

Zyklon

2007-12-21T03:48:14Z

Ace Guppy: added new information

Zyklon

2007-11-01T22:52:24Z

Ace Guppy: Adding information on a new artist

Zyklon is a furry artist from Northern Germany who currently lives in the United States. He specializes in drawing semi-realistic [[scalies]] and [[furries]] with graphite. His character is a "leucistic" white alligator.

Despite the persistant WWII and [[Nazi fur]] themes in Zyklon's [[FurAffinity]] page, he has made it clear to fans that he is not a Nazi sympathizer.

*[http://www.furaffinity.net/user/zyklon/ Zyklon on FurAffinity]

Zim Gekko

2007-11-01T22:41:13Z

Ace Guppy: Corrections

'''Zim Gekko''' is a [[furry artist]], whose [[fursona]] is a blue and white [[pit bull]].

Zim designed several of the products offered on the site, including t-shirts, though rarely takes personal commmissions. The pair attends several [[convention]]s, including [[Midwest Furfest]] and [[Rocket City Fur Meet]]. Supposedly these conventions are the only place where [[commission]]s are taken, and even then, they are generally restricted to [[conbadge]]s.

== External links ==

* [http://zim-gekko.deviantart.com/ Zim Gekko] at [[deviantART]]
*[http://www.furaffinity.com/user/zim-gekko Zim Gekko] at [[FurAffinity]]

[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Artists]]
[[Category:Pit Bull characters]]
[[Category:Texas]]

Zim Gekko

2007-11-01T22:39:03Z

Ace Guppy: /* External links */

'''Zim Gekko''' is a [[furry artist]], whose [[fursona]] is a blue and white [[pit bull]]. She is the founder of [[PuffinPaws|PuffinPaws.com]], along with her mate, [[Garrith]].

Zim designed several of the products offered on the site, including t-shirts, though rarely takes personal commmissions. The pair attends several [[convention]]s, including [[Midwest Furfest]] and [[Rocket City Fur Meet]]. Supposedly these conventions are the only place where [[commission]]s are taken, and even then, they are generally restricted to [[conbadge]]s (which have a permanent pricetag of $5).

Both her and her mate are strong supporters of pit bull rescue and several of the products they offer go to support various rescue groups. They themselves live with four [[canine]] rescues of their own, as well as one [[Wikipedia:Hurricane Katrina|Katrina]]-rescued [[cat|kitten]].

== External links ==

* [http://zim-gekko.deviantart.com/ Zim Gekko] at [[deviantART]]

[[Category:People]]
[[Category:Artists]]
[[Category:Pit Bull characters]]
[[Category:Texas]]

Labinnah

2007-04-13T13:44:53Z

Ace Guppy:

No longer in the fandom.

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[[Category:Artists]]
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Zagar T. Devil

2006-05-15T01:21:04Z

Ace Guppy: Zagar moved to Zagar T. Devil: full name

Zagar T. Devil is a tasmanian devil character created by [[Zim Gekko]]. He has normal markings for the species, as well as a stocky, muscular body. Artwork of him can be seen on Zim Gekko's DeviantArt page, and a fursuit will be appearing at [[Midwest Furfest]] 2006.

Zagar

2006-05-15T01:21:04Z

Ace Guppy: Zagar moved to Zagar T. Devil: full name

#REDIRECT [[Zagar T. Devil]]

Zagar T. Devil

2006-05-15T01:20:28Z

Ace Guppy:

Something Awful

2006-04-06T02:28:09Z

Ace Guppy:

* '''Address''': http://www.somethingawful.com
* '''Founder''': Lowtax
* '''Ran from/to''': 1999 - Present
* '''Motto''': ''The Internet Makes You Stupid''

'''Something Awful''' is an internet community owned and operated by [[Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka]]. Stereotypical forum members have a somewhat higher sense of collective intelligence and pretension than the average forum grouping. It ranges from teens to adults, talented artists to talented writers, and also very avid gamers.

A minority of its users hold up the established SA tradition of mocking the furry fandom, including pranks, disorganized [[trolling]], and individual harassment of users themselves in places such as [[LiveJournal]], message-boards, and various furry websites. This includes [[WikiFur]] itself, which was vandalized on various pages with defamation toward the furry fandom or repetitions 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 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 an old "meme". But there are still members who continue to "hop on the bandwagon" and attack the fandom.

== 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|User's recollection of the original poster (somewhat inaccurate).]]

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].

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 is not a universally recognized symbol of the website. 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.

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 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."

==== Anthrocon 2005 ====
[[Image:Mix&Kiro.jpg|right|thumb|An SA goon squad forms in a park near Anthrocon's hotel to watch [[Mix]] (right) spray-paint stenciled grenade-paw logos onto T-shirts, which he gives to his friend [[Kiro]] (left)]]

An individual named [[Mix]] decided to bring an old 1976 Canon Canosound 514XL-S video camera with 'Super 8mm Kodak Ektachrome' film with him to Anthrocon, labeled with a bumper sticker that read "LOL INTERNET." He wore a t-shirt with his [[fursona]] on the front-- a blue hyenataur-- with his profile/meme and "SomethingAwful.com" above it; on the back, a blown-up version of the Something Awful grenade logo. He visited the convention [[Con Ops|Operations]] office on the Monday morning of the convention, gave out 'I <3 VCL' buttons, shouted "SomethingAwfulDotCom!!!" and ran out.

Near the end of the convention, Mix took out his art kit full of cans of spray paint and headed for a near park to stencil shirts for his friends and fans. The shirts parodied Anthrocon's motto "Fur, Fun, And So Much More!" by saying "AnthroGoon: Fags, Fat, And So Many Whores!"; They were considered quite amusing by the few who received them, though only a few were made (for [[Kiro]], [[Banrai]], etc).

While many consider this behavior typical for a ''Something Awful'' [[goon]], Mix denies his involvement with the site, saying that he was taking pictures and filming for a personal art project, and that the actions he took on that day were a joke. The T-shirts were to pass the time on a "very dull convention."

Later, a [[Talk:Mix|heated debate]] arose over the inclusion of the above events in WikiFur. In fact, the matter tended to be taken far more seriously by those who heard rumors of it than those who were there at the time. [[Xydexx]] had this to say:

:''To be honest, I didn't think he was doing anything really malicious. I mean, he gave me an [[VCL#buttons|I <3 VCL button]]. That was kinda nice. The worst he did at AC was exercise poor judgement, that's all. Everyone makes mistakes.''

=== LiveJournal ===
==== SALJ ====
[[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.

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

: ''[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 dragons, and puts bad midi music on an already bad site. I think it's about some guy's roleplaying 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."''

The resulting discussion has, unfortunately, now expired from their forums.

==WikiFur==

===August 15, 2005===

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 (now down) [http://forums.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, their attempt to stop WikiFur backfired; the actions of Something Awful actually increased the visibility of WikiFur, and this attracted more legitimate users than SA could bring vandals. In hindsight, their actions were actually beneficial.

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

===Random acts of vandalism===

Since then, WikiFur has been the target of [http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=WikiFur:Community_Central&action=history sporadic acts] [http://furry.wikicities.com/index.php?title=WikiFur&action=history of vandalism] from one or more goons, or at least people claiming to be SA goons. The frequency of some of the edits as well as the effort required to hijack proxies from around the world to get around administrative blocks does raise the question of why some Goons seem particularly obsessed with WikiFur.

== 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 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. 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 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." 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 a nuisance.

=== #safurs ===
<nowiki>#safurs</nowiki> was an [[IRC]] channel on [[FurNet (IRC)|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 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]], [[goons]], 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]] 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.

=== Furry "Goons" ===
A "furry [[goon]]" is someone who is actively involved with both the Something Awful Forum and the Furry Community. Some furry goons are given "immunity" at Something Awful, but the large majority simply keep quiet. An anonymous furry goon has estimated that 20% of SA members are furries, but it has been contended that this figure is too high. 

== See also ==

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

== External links ==

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

[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:Anti-furries]]
[[Category:Media coverage]]

Zim Gekko

2006-04-04T05:59:05Z

Ace Guppy:

Zim Gekko is a blue and white pitbull. She is the founder of www.puffinpaws.com along with her mate, Garrith. Zim
designs several of the products offered on the site, including t-shirts, though rarely takes personal commmissions. The pair attends several conventions, including [[Midwest Furfest]] and [[Rocket City Furmeet]]. Supposedly these
conventions are the only place where commissions are taken, and even then they are generally restricted to conbadges
(which have a permanent pricetag of $5).

Both her and her mate are strong supporters of pitbull rescue and several of the products they offer go to support
various rescue groups. They themselves live with four canine rescues of their own, as well as one Katrina-rescued
kitten.

Greyson Tiger

2006-03-28T19:03:00Z

Ace Guppy:

[[Category:2005 deaths]]
[[Category:people]]

Greyson Tiger, also known as James to friends and family, passed away on August 9th, 2005 after complications
following a heart transplant. He was well known in the Texas Furs community as a great friend and is still dearly
missed.

Labinnah

2006-03-28T17:49:12Z

Ace Guppy:

[[Category:Hyena characters]]

Labinnah is a striped [[hyena]] from somewhere in the southern United States. Though a popular artist in 2001-2003, she left the fandom after the events that occurred at the [[Texas Fur Con]], many of which she is blamed for. A notable feature of her character's design is the ram horns on its head.

Labinnah

2006-03-28T17:45:20Z

Ace Guppy:

[[Category:Hyena characters]]
Labinnah is a striped [[hyena]] from somewhere in the southern United States. Though a popular artist in 2001-2003,
she left the fandom after the events that occurred at the [[Texas Fur Con]], many of which she is blamed for.
A notable feature of her hyena characters design is the ram horns on its head.

Labinnah

2006-03-28T17:43:44Z

Ace Guppy:

Labinnah is a striped [[hyena]] from somewhere in the southern United States. Though a popular artist in 2001-2003,
she left the fandom after the events that occurred at the [[Texas Fur Con]], many of which she is blamed for.
A notable feature of her hyena characters design is the ram horns on its head.

Labinnah

2006-03-28T17:35:47Z

Ace Guppy:

Labinnah

2006-03-28T17:28:27Z

Ace Guppy: Labinnah the hyena

Labinnah is a striped [[hyena]] from somewhere in the southern United States. Though a popular artist in 2001-2003, she left the fandom after the events that occurred at the [[Texas Fur Con]], many of which she is blamed for.

A notable feature of her character's design is the ram horns on its head.

WikiFur:Help Desk

2006-03-27T21:53:17Z

Ace Guppy:

{{HD header}}

== Filter Blocking My Website ==

Hello. I was trying to add my website to my [[Threyon]] article, but the spam filter blocked me. Unfortunately, I cannot post it here, either as the same problem occurs. DX Please contact me at threyon@gmail.com so I can send you the address.
--[[User:Threyon|Threyon]] 19:40, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
:Hi Threyon. I did some research on this, and it appears that Wikicities maintains a [http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Spam_Blacklist Spam Blacklist], which I am guessing you may have run afoul of. Check the list and see if your site is listed there; if it is, leave a comment at [http://www.wikicities.com/wiki/Talk:Spam_Blacklist Talk:Spam Blacklist] to request and justify removal from the list. If your domain is not on that list, let us know (perhaps write it out like "www dot notreallyspam dot com"?) and we'll see if we can figure out what's causing the problem. --[[User:DuncanDaHusky|Duncan da Husky]] 16:46, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

== Problems with variable/value inheritance ==

I can't seem to get any pages to inherit the 'bot' state from their parent (that is, the page they were linked from). The reason could lie within the fact that the pages linked from it are given in this format: '/wiki/pagetitle' rather than this one: '/index.php?title=pagetitle', and from what I gather the 'bot mode' only works if the URL is shown in the latter format (I guess this has to do with PHP-applets and stuff, which I honestly don't have a clue how works :).

Does anyone know of a solution for this? --[[User:MKerris|MKerris]] 18:21, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

== Stub Deletion ==

Greetings. My name is ''[removed]''. I see there is an entry in your database under my name. I wish to have it deleted and blocked from further edits/additions. I am a very private individual in real life and do not wish a connection between my RL identity and that of my fandom avatars. Please help me out. Thank you.

:Would renaming the page to your furry name and removing all reference to your real name be an acceptable comprimise? --[[User:Rat|Rat]] 07:38, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

::I have done this. Hopefully that should be sufficient. :-) --{{UT|GreenReaper}} 08:14, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Alright... I've looked up and down and all over this thing and cannot, for the life of me, figure out how to simply make a brand new article. Specfically a character article in the "(species) Character" section. I know how to make a new article in Wikipedia, but this thing is baffling me! Help?