2 The Ranting Gryphon / 2gryphon / Matthew Wayne Davis - Furry Fandom "Comedian" Whose Spotlight is Fading, leader of the "Anthro" fandom

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His schtick is being Very Politically Incorrect and always has been. Throughout the nineties and most of the zeroes, that meant largely left wing views that resonated with a mostly left wing audience. Over the course of the Obama presidency, the left ascended to full sociopolitical dominance, and suddenly being politically incorrect was for shitlers, oh also the right wing came up with this whole idea of "political correctness" anyway to pretend they're oppressed it's a stupid concept shut up about it.

2 was faced with either changing his dynamic or changing his audience, it's pretty easy to see why he picked the audience... furries are easy, whatever their politics are. Unfortunately he thought his place in the Inner Circle was secure because of his connections, but it was really in large part because he held the "correct" opinions to pass along... if he was still getting up onstage ranting about the "proper" things, doubt anyone would have bothered ousting him from his position in the inner circle and his cushy con gigs even as his audience dwindled and his jokes grew ever more stale. After all, people with far worse reputations and rumors of much, much worse behavior have continued to be held in prominent positions in the nerd con circuit let alone the furry one, because social outcasts of any sort will turn a blind eye to almost anything for the sake to spend a weekend feeling like the "in crowd" and throwing their money at catered-to-taste merch.
The funniest shit is that, if he's really all about attention and fame, switching to different acceptable targets while still edgelording would have secured his position for years. Every single troll's remorse 4chan furry who would call friends niggers and faggots and is now a woke antifa genderqueer pansexual still has the same urges to be edgily transgressive and pick fights online, they just have different rhetoric and targets. Woke 2 would have fit right in with them.
 
The funniest shit is that, if he's really all about attention and fame, switching to different acceptable targets while still edgelording would have secured his position for years. Every single troll's remorse 4chan furry who would call friends niggas and faggots and is now a woke antifa genderqueer pansexual still has the same urges to be edgily transgressive and pick fights online, they just have different rhetoric and targets. Woke 2 would have fit right in with them.

I think the issue is that he genuinely likes to be in the out group and attack sacred cows, at least to some extent. #wokes love acting like they're the out group, but a large part of their behavior and patterns are entirely predicated on them having social and political power... Cancel Culture wouldn't exist if they didn't. It feels weird to use a word like "integrity" for him because that word carries a lot more positive connotations than what the simple, direct use of it means, but I think somewhere deep down there's a genuine desire to be a Real Offense Comic... for his own ego and self-satisfaction if nothing else. Going full woke and just going through the motions would have kept him in his pathetic little amount of acclaim, but he would have had to sell out one of the few values he apparently really holds: being an edgelord.
 
I don't think 2 has the conviction to be an altfur. He just goes along with whatever political ideology will tolerate his edginess. For a long time, it was leftists, but as times change, now it's right-wing weirdos. I'm wholly convinced that's the entire reason he's hitched his wagon onto the conservative furry train. He wants to go back to the way things were where he could do his poor man's George Carlin shtick and have people tell him that he's good at what he does.

It's actually pretty sad.
I couldn't imagine ever finding politics more important than doing the things I love doing.
 
Remember when they rounded up the jews, gave them twitter accounts and made them cry about losing "comedy" careers for several years. One of history's greatest atrocities.

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Ah, I suppose that makes sense, considering the capitalized "LOVE" I thought he was just adding more EMPHASIS. And, y'know, booze.
 
An admitted alcoholic running a bar, great idea.

Maybe he can get a quirky moron as his fellow bartender, a couple of snarky waitresses, and make a TV show out of it. Most original thing ever.
It's kinda hard not to let everybody know your name when you're wearing a con badge
 
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I'd almost forgotten that 2 still existed. I'm still hoping he'd follow through on his promise to host his own convention, if only to have one more thing to laugh at him for. But I won't be holding my breath on that.
 
I'd almost forgotten that 2 still existed. I'm still hoping he'd follow through on his promise to host his own convention, if only to have one more thing to laugh at him for. But I won't be holding my breath on that.

"I'm gonna host my own convention" always provides some amusement if it's followed through on, no matter what demographic the convention is for.

Sadly I'm betting the moment 2 realized it involved actual work and expense on his part instead of simply declaring where and when the convention would be and basking in the adoration when everyone showed up, he dropped the idea like a hot responsibility.
 
"I'm gonna host my own convention" always provides some amusement if it's followed through on, no matter what demographic the convention is for.

Sadly I'm betting the moment 2 realized it involved actual work and expense on his part instead of simply declaring where and when the convention would be and basking in the adoration when everyone showed up, he dropped the idea like a hot responsibility.

He has experience trying to run his own convention when he still lived in California...and shut it down quickly enough to not even give an official statement. I'm betting because he realized he wasn't popular enough to even get SoCal furries to give him money for a shit con experience. Ironic, considering we kept Califur running until it unofficially shut down after losing its 2018 venue.

I'm taking bets on 2 bringing it back and calling it Antheria II: The Resurrection.
 
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An admitted alcoholic running a bar, great idea.

Maybe he can get a quirky moron as his fellow bartender, a couple of snarky waitresses, and make a TV show out of it. Most original thing ever.

And then have a Bar Rescue where John Taffer wrings him out for his incompetence.
He has experience trying to run his own convention when he still lived in California...and shut it down quickly enough to not even give an official statement. I'm betting because he realized he wasn't popular enough to even get SoCal furries to give him money for a shit con experience. Ironic, considering we kept Califur running until it unofficially shut down after losing its 2018 venue.

I'm taking bets on 2 bringing it back and calling it Antheria II: The Resurrection.

That's assuming 2 can even keep his shit together. He said he was starting this new Anthro Fandom and I've yet to hear a damn thing since his mentioning of it. He wants to start a bar and yet I highly doubt he even has the funds or credit to get a business loan going in the middle of a pandemic.
 
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