- Joined
- Jul 2, 2015
So my fellow Kiwis, I have a little inquiry to ask of you.
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Vivisector The Forums? I thought not. It's not a story the furfags would tell you. It's a shitlord legend.
Vivisector was a forum space created in 2007 in a similar vein to forums like Something Awful or Crush Yiff Destroy, that was centered primarily around many exceptional individuals and drama in the furry community. While many of it's posts have been lost to time, there's archives of a couple of their threads on archive.li and archive.org, as well as an official "archive" that just barely functions on the original url: https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php (There's no css and no posts after 2015 or so.) Also, they have a dead blog page that's still up as well: https://vivisector.org/vivblog/ [archive] and they used to have an IRC chat channel.
This thread in particular is a great example of what the overall culture was like at the time.
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So what happened to them? CURRENT YEAR happened.
(screencap taken from lulz.net)
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And in a flayrah blog post [archive] , we get a little more context.
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(There's not much documentation on this whole drama so take it with a grain of salt I suppose.)
The long and short of it is the forums were shut down and replaced with a Discord server, and the Vivisector.org home page now looks like this:
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As a long time lurker, it's painful to see a vast collection of exceptional happenings be left to die this way. (Kinda reminds you of something else huh?) I hope I'm not the only one who remembers what Vivisector used to be, but with Kiwi Farms I suppose it doesn't matter much anymore.
I have no desire to look at the new Discord, but feel free to do so yourself and share any exceptional experiences you have. (Just don't do anything illegal.)
I actually remember that forum, wow. I think it just kinda died down in activity after a while and I stopped visiting.
It felt like the uncensored side to Dogpatch at times.