beeps

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Fursuit of beeps' fursona Ash, as built by Cassius Crafts. Photographed by Rutan the Qilin.

beeps (also known as Kim Grey; previously known as Alexander Grey) is a UK-based furry and brony best known for running meet ups and websites relating to the furry and My Little Pony fandoms. beeps is alterhuman, agender and uses it/its pronouns.^[1]

beeps joined the furry fandom in May 2006, having originally discovered the fandom in November 2005. It formally announced its departure from the fandom in July 2012^[2], however returned under a new alias in May 2017. It had stated some months prior to returning that its reason for leaving initially was because of receiving "a significantly higher dose of fandom toxicity than most other furries would" and that it was willing to give the furry fandom "a second chance."^[3]

1 Conventions and furmeets
2 Media production activities
- 2.1 The Furtean Times
- 2.2 YouTube series
3 Involvement in community projects
- 3.1 MyFursona
- 3.2 Severn Bronies
4 Fursonas
5 References
6 External links

Conventions and furmeets

beeps has attended BristolFurs meets since 2017 and has been the group's webmaster since 2023.^[4]

beeps formerly attended NorthernFurs Manchester meets between 2007 and 2010, some of which it assisted in running or acted as a fursuit handler. It was also the co-organiser of the Manchester fatfur meets with Little Wolf and hosted several house parties during this time.

It briefly visited the first outing of ConFuzzled as a media representative whilst reporting for The Furtean Times. It later attended ConFuzzled 2010 as a residential attendee, reporting on the charity auction record that was set there.^[5] It joined ConFuzzled's IT team in late 2025^[6] and ran beeps' Spelling Bee-ps, a stage show version of Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, in 2026.

Conventions attended: ConFuzzled: 2008 (media only), 2010, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026; BUCK: 2012, 2014; UK PonyCon: 2017; NordicFuzzCon: 2025; ScotiaCon: 2026

Media production activities

The Furtean Times

Main articles: The Furtean Times and Furry Media International

In January 2007, beeps founded The Furtean Times and associated group Furry Media International, intending to create a free, online fanzine. The Furtean Times eventually evolved into a news and magazine oriented website under the name FurteanTimes.com.

The Furtean Times received exposure outside of the furry fandom after it appeared in the BBC News Online's article "Who are the furries?" beeps was interviewed by The Guardian for a similar article, however this piece was never published.^[3]

The site closed in November 2010 following an extended outage, with the majority of the content being archived on Flayrah.

YouTube series

beeps became involved in the YouTube Furry War between July and August 2007 after posting a video response to an anti-furry troll. The YouTube Furry War video series ended after 18 videos.

The Furry Guru debuted immediately afterwards as an alternative means to answer fandom-related questions without the backdrop of ongoing internet drama. The name of the series was derived from a YouTube feature that existed at the time where user accounts had to belong to a particular category, one of which was "guru."

The Furry Guru received an overall better reception than its predecessor and was credited for welcoming new people to the fandom, notably Tamias, a long time fandom spectator.

The series ended in March 2008 after 32 videos, after which beeps retired from publishing videos.

Involvement in community projects

beeps has been a WikiFur colleague since June 2008, the webmaster for BristolFurs since March 2023, and IT crew for ConFuzzled since December 2025.

beeps was a moderator for The InflatioNation from June 2007 until the forums closed later the same year. It founded the Darn Blimps Minecraft server with Glaz and Darakan in February 2011, before selling it on in November 2012. It continues to maintain downloadable archives of the server on a dedicated website.

In 2021, beeps created the UK Furs and Star Trek groups on barq. The latter group later expanded to include a Discord server, co-managed alongside Nacyle.

MyFursona

See also: MyFursona

Between December 2007 and April 2009, beeps operated as head of design for MyFursona, after impressing the site's staff with a conceptual redesign of the site. Joining only two months into the site's existence, it was involved in the site's early development and first redesign, and spearheaded the initial MyFursona Eden project to redevelop the service from scratch. beeps eventually rejoined MyFursona in its previous role after the site closed for redevelopment.^[7]

Severn Bronies

It founded the Bristol Bronies in July 2012, which later merged with the Cardiff Bronies to form the Severn Bronies. The group holds socials and events in south west England and south Wales in a similar vein to furmeets.

The group was featured prominently in a cultural piece by the Bristol Post on April 9, 2014^[8] and numerous BBC programmes—including Inside Out^[9], the Jeremy Vine Radio 2 show^[10] and Points West^[11]—in October 2017, which garnered significant media coverage in itself.^[12]^[13]^[14]

beeps served as the managing director of the Severn Bronies from 2012 until 2024.

Fursonas

Since May 2023, beeps' fursona has been Ash, a mutant amphimorpho. A fursuit of Ash, created by Cassius Crafts, debuted in March 2026.

Prior to this, beeps' fursona since 2017 had been Emy, a Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba). Initially organic, in 2020 the character was temporarily transformed into a robot. This change became permanent in 2021. Other former fursonas include Tori Belliachi, a folf used from 2006 to 2008, and Alexander Grey, a long-tongued fruit bat (Macroglossus sobrinus) used from 2008 until beeps' hiatus from the fandom in 2012.

In October 2022, beeps' headmate Olive became self-aware. Olive is represented as a living plush fursuit designed after an eastern fox squirrel (Sciurus niger).