Furry Fandom and Drama General

let's take a look at his twitter page quick


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oh, a gay tranny/blm supporter in a polycule? and like @Rozzy eluded to above, died from a disease where one of the major risk factors is HepB, commonly spread as an STD that gay men are much more likely to suffer from (because it's often spread through sexual contact with multiple partners)?

older gay nerds are not harmless, they are merely the prototype to the current day rainbow cult. MUCK, Second Life and VR Chat are plastered all over his WikiFur article. these were all the Discord of their time, easy places to lure younger people into weird subcultures (if not actively targeting them for sexual grooming)

yiff in hell you degenerate greymuzzle
Let me play devil's advocate here. Its very unlikely he was from the same cut as a modern leftist.
Old leftists (the man WAS literal furfag after all) tend to be literal NPCs with their political beliefs. Half the time they don't even understand what they are fighting for, but just fight for it because its just what leftists are currently doing.
I doubt in his life he would actually be able to tell you what any of those slogans mean in his own words, and just mindlessly repeat what he heard on television. Its bad but not nearly as bad as you think.
 
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MOD EDIT:
Mark has no known direct ties to the extremely depraved subcommunities derived from the furry fandom such as zoosadists, he is simply the earliest organizer for the community. Temper your reactions to his passing accordingly. Or don't, I'm just a mod edit.
didn't he also invent Weeaboos as well?
 
There is something very "off" when people post pictures of dying/dead people in hospice. Immortalizing their absolute worst state of being in a picture just seems really corrupt to me. If you post this stuff for internet points you're extremely sick in the head, which doesn't surprise me since they are furries.
 
Furries have always been awful annoying degenerates and if you missed the internet takeover they did in the 90s you are fucking lucky. They are the precursor to trannies and Tumblr and every other shitty thing you hate because they were the same people but hid behind stupid cartoon faces. Just look at Shmorkey, publicly just "I love silly cartoon animal people" but what was hidden behind that thin veneer.
 
This gravedancing taking place here is retarded and proof of how the culture here (in general on the site, not on this board in specific) has shifted into reddit-tier kiwikarma farming and irrational anger for the sake of being MATI.

Dude was old and there's nothing that's come to light here that would warrant such gratuitous celebration. If he was a zoosadist or pedo then It'd be absolutely justified, but I have yet to see that evidence.

And I'm not saying this because I promised Jesus I'd moralfag for 40 days, I mean it because the seething here is baseless and self-serving.
NO FUCK YOU FUCK YOU I WANT TO BE BE MAD REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
 
MOD EDIT:
Mark has no known direct ties to the extremely depraved subcommunities derived from the furry fandom such as zoosadists, he is simply the earliest organizer for the community. Temper your reactions to his passing accordingly. Or don't, I'm just a mod edit.
A lot of people keep saying that Mark Merlino had no ties to the dark stuff that occured in the furry fandom. I think this is a bit disingenuous to say the least. Mark Merlino was known to facilitate the dissemination of drawn CSAM at his conventions and when concerned hotel goers said something about it, Mark would refer to them as saboteurs. There is also the infamous "semen in the elevator" complaint that was filed towards him due to the horrendous management of his conventions. If you want a more concise and detailed look at what he was up to, you can watch Fredrick Knudsen's deep dive into the fandom's origins.

The section about the semen elevator is at 18:32
The section about the drawn CSAM is at 15:40

https://youtu.be/8aF2GxWi7Ag?si=GNJptYeduoUrKsq5
 
Huh. I wonder what they are gonna do with the nearly 60 grand.
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Say what you want about furries... They aren't a skint demographic, en masse.

Massive, Stalinist type statue of a disgusting, unaesthetic, we've-got-manga-at-home stylised fox?
 
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MOD EDIT:
Mark has no known direct ties to the extremely depraved subcommunities derived from the furry fandom such as zoosadists, he is simply the earliest organizer for the community. Temper your reactions to his passing accordingly. Or don't, I'm just a mod edit.
Dear Mod Edit. Mark Merlino is absolutely directly tied to the extremely depraved subcommunities of the furry fandom as evidenced by a letter of concern he received after "ConFURance 8" in 1997 from Ed Klein (another early contributor to the furry fandom community) expressing serious concerns over the rampant homosexuality and debauchery the conventions were attracting

Mark, This letter is in regards to a serious problem that we encountered at ConFurence 8. I direct this letter at you personally because I assume you are still in charge and responsible for the convention in general. I say I assume because certain matters have made me question your authority regarding the running of this con. Mark, pay very close attention to what you're reading. I do not want any misunderstandings. On Thursday, the day of my arrival, on our way to get something to eat at the hotel coffee shop, we watched two young men deliberately waiting for what we saw to be "mundanes" see them, and proceed to deep-throat each other in a rather blatant manner in the hotel lobby. Obviously getting a kick out of offending these people. This went on for the period of time it took us to get across the lobby and into the coffee shop. They were still there when we left. This behavior is immature, disgusting and we assume has nothing to do with the convention. This would have offended me and my group no matter whether those making the display were homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, or otherwise! This behavior is offensive any time and anywhere. This little game of "freak the normals" should be policed by con security. Science Fiction/Fantasy conventions have a hard enough time getting "outsiders" to take them seriously. Besides that, what the hell was one of your security doing walking around in DRAG? What's that got to do with the so-called premise of the convention along with not aiding in the confidence people would be feeling in approaching security? That was very immature and unprofessional! This was not the only experience we encountered. There was a situation in an elevator Saturday evening, when I was taking some important guests back to my room for business. We were discussing = said business in the elevator on our way up to the room when one of the gentlemen with me leaned back against the wall, as most people do, when he found his side and pants covered in SEMEN! Some diseased bottom-feeder couldn't contain himself and squirted all over the wall. This goes way beyond disgusting and immature. There are other situations which I'll go into later, but at this point - in case you're wondering why I'm bringing this to your attention again - it's YOUR con as you are so want to make everyone aware of. Which means shit like this is your responsibility . My question is... when did you decide to make this convention something other than anthropomorphic? What are = you going to do about this "lunatic fringe" that is seeping into = the convention? And understand this, I don't care whether they're alternative lifestlyists or otherwise or if they make love to = their pets, or any other "preference." That's not what I'm = addressing. What are you going to do about the people who aren't interested in attending this convention for its intended purposes? We actually had people look at myself when I was dressed as Eeon, Kishmas as Tashta, and Tanamin as Ingo, and ask "That are the weirdos doing here in costume?" We overheard others, on more than one occasion ask, "What's a furry?" and receive the answer, "I don't know. I'm just here for the parties and sex." What are you going to do about these same people who are going about methodically ruining the reputations of the = alternative lifestylists as well? This convention used to draw everybody you and I knew in fandom because of its uniqueness. In the last few years I've watched fewer and fewer people show up. I wondered about that. I wondered about the causes. I thought, "Surely it's not because of Mark and the way he's running the con?" Last year we saw a great number of "strange young men" again, blatantly embarrassing everyone around them and "oblivious to what they were causing". Or so it seemed. Now, in case we were overreacting to circumstance, I and my group questioned others at the con. "Old Timers" who've been attending conventions for a good ten years or more, like ourselves. Surprise! EVERYBODY = we talked to not only felt as angry as we did at what happened to us, but recounted myriad incidents that happened to themselves as well. And many decided that they were not coming back. Now, Mark, I and my household are extremely open-minded. I myself being permanently involved in a well working three-way relationship: Kishma and Tanamin, my two mates, both being = bisexual, and I myself being heterosexual. (I have declared myself heterosexual, having experienced male sex and found absolutely no interest in it personally. But, as I said before, I am not opposed to it.) Now this was not all that led to pissing me off. What really clenched it was our attempt at being involved in the Pet Auction. Gee, Mark, innocent naive us. We thought it was going to be a PET Auction. As in, people in costumes and anthropomorphically inclined, adopting others of similar interests for the benefit of charity. We thought it would be fun. Lo and behold our surprise! We found it was nothing more than a "queer auction." Kishma offered to do a lap dance as Tashta, her zebra dancer, to the highest bidder. If she was offering this to a furry audience, she probably would have brought the house down. Instead, she got crickets!!! Know what that means, Mark? She went for $28. Subtract the $10 WE spent on the Cabaret ticket, totals $18. I don't even want to tell you what happened with Eeon, who's been known in fandom a lot longer than Tashta. And yet, some little cretin in tight black shorts, offering veiled sex, went for $180. In fact, ALL those offering "extras at the discretion of the pet" sold for over $40. Mark, all of this came off as a thinly disguised excuse for pandering. You're lucky it wasn't shut down. And we DO mean this seriously, Mark. It's not just sour grapes: EVERY furry costume that was bid on went for a low bid. Except Cataroo. .. and that's the ONLY one: the two gentlemen who bid on her had entered and left with her. The only women other than Tashta who participated went for $12 and $8, respectively. And one of that was a pair of round cuties who were basically offering a rather charming "spanking" show. They got crickets. All the women did! All the anthropomorphics did! Anyone who did not offer or imply sexual favours were bid on very poorly or not at all. Now what does this lead you to believe, Mark? Who do you think was dominating the audience, Mark? I think you should really address some considerations concerning your security as well, in these matters. There were camera teams prowling these areas who we discovered were NOT there for the convention's health: but, evidently doing expose`s casting furrydom in a negative light and boy did they have tons of ammunition this time! The nonsense we've seen happen at THIS convention is not helping the situation one bit. You're responsible, Mark. I'd get your act together or get some people to help you who CAN, before you find yourself and your convention facing some very serious consequences. As a result of all this crap, needless to say, you won't be seeing us next year, or a number of others old-timers and new people alike... from what we were given to understand. Should this trend continue, we do not want to be involved, and will be attending other conventions, rather than wasting our time, money and emotions on this one. Understand, Mark, this used to be our favorite convention! We'd make it to THIS one even if we didn't make it to any other! In the past, it's been a wonderful way to re-energize our creative energies: but, Mark, if you're going to change the convention to some other venue then stop trying to hide what you're doing under the guise of ConFurence. If you feel the need to run an Alternative Lifestyle convention, then why don't you do that instead of changing ConFurence into it? It's ruining it for us, and others. And for those who are not interested in the alternative lifestyle aspect. It also piss us off that you invite this opening on the 'net and yet make no mention of this "change" in FurNation.

Mark basically said "lol, lmao even" and continued letting BDSM junkies, pedophiles, and hardcore homosexuals attend his conventions unchecked and unregulated.
He literally is the reason furfaggotry became furfaggotry and not just a group of people trying to relive the joys of their looney toon's childhoods.

This is also all in the "Down the Rabbit Hole" episode on the furry fandom

TL;DR
Yiff in hell, pedo enabling, dog fucker enabling, pervert enabling, furfag of the lowest and most degenerate order.
 
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OG furries were generally tame. Never was a furry but had a close IRL who was.
That seems to be the way things go. The early members of such groups largely want to be allowed to engage in their behaviors, then followers decide that they need to bring deviant behavior into the mainstream.

I don't know how it was early on, but the furry 'movement'(?) is a squalid morass of degeneracy and the worst shade of autism, the latter used as a shield ("you can't make fun of us being disgusting freaks, we're just creative and special!"). It may be that the founding members didn't anticipate it going the way it did, but they created the monster- and remaining a card-carrying member once it has become what it is does not make me think they are sufficiently opposed to it to escape criticism.

I see no reason to celebrate someone's death from liver cancer over it unless they've actually victimized people. Don't see reason to pay respects either, though...
 
Death: you know its funny, usually when I gotta claim one of these furfags they're either not even or just turned 30 and they "call me in to see them early. " If you get my drift. That or the cause of death is aids or rectal trauma....sometimes a mix of both.


Aw well see you all when I come back for Barbara Ann weston chandler...Im amazed her cause of death ISN'T gonna be severe vaginal trauma and suffocation by her retard tranny son.
 
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