Happy belated New Year, Kiwis! Guess who's doing stupid shit again? I thought we were at the point where Matthew would have learned to not draw more attention to himself, but here we are. Before I begin, I wanted to give a small update on that surprise Ryan Hill crossover. To put it simply, there's currently no evidence that Matthew took up Ryan's offers to accept a free fursuit, let alone engaged with him, so that arc ultimately ended with a big nothing burger. Anyways, moving on.
For those who aren't up to date on their furry events, this last weekend was
New Years Furry Ball, an event held in Newark, Delaware during the holiday, and from what I've been told, it managed to go fairly well without much drama attached to it. But I'm not here to talk about NYFB, I'm here to talk about Matthew. Now before we get much further into this, it's important to note that Matthew was preemptively banned from this event, so he obviously wasn't going to risk showing up. Instead, what he decided to do was camp out on Howlr and creep on random furries who attended the event. When someone eventually recognized his suit, Matthew responded by DFE-ing from Howlr.
For the normies who don't know what Howlr is, the best way I'd describe it is "Furry Grindr". It's an app that allows you to view, "like" and chat with people nearby with your location being listed. From what I've been told via various furries, there's a bit of an unspoken rule that when you attend an event or convention, you temporarily change your location in the app to the hotel nearby so you can quickly see who else is there in case you want to hang out and/or yiff them. Matthew lives about 60 miles away from the hotel where NYFB was hosted, which he decided to use to his advantage by spamming likes and chat requests at the numerous furries that suddenly popped up in-app, hoping some of them would take the bait.
This is a screenshot of Matthew's Howlr account (before he wiped it shortly after NYFB). This is extremely barebones by Howlr standards, as there's no bio, no photos, and only the absolute bare minimum information needed to make an account. You'll notice he's still going by the "Spark" moniker, presumably hoping to lure in horny furries who don't know that Spark and Nitro are the same people.
From what I've been informed on, there are two things worth pointing out on his profile that set off red flags. The first is that the ratio of Matthew's "liking" accounts compared to the number of people who liked him back is extremely low. He also made the first character of his username a

emoji, which is notable because Howlr has a well-known glitch where it hides you from search results if the name begins with any emoji. When combined with the fact that he wrote his name out in bubble letters (which also makes it harder to search for him), I'm very sure he did this intentionally so he'd be harder to find.
There are 22 furries who liked him back. While we don't know for sure actually talked with him beyond that, I am personally aware of at least four as of this writing (and this isn't taking into account the fact that Howlr lets you optionally post your Telegram on your profile to bypass Howlr's chat entirely). One of the furries Matthew messaged was willing to forward me part of their Telegram conversation, which I was able to use to check his account's user ID and compare it to the one he used in some earlier Telegram shenanigans:
Matthew is constantly changing his telegram usernames to make himself harder to track, but every username uses some variation of the words Dumb, Spark, Spot, or Dog. Variations I've personally seen are "dumbspot" "sparkdog1", "thespotdog", "dumbdogspark", "sparkspot" and "dumbspotdog". He's alternated between two separate telegram accounts as well, and the IDs in each account are "1834566768" and "1558565625". If you think he's present in a group you're in, you can check the ID of the account by forwarding any of his posts to the userinfobot on Telegram.
EDIT: I was informed that Matthew is also active on the recently created Barq app, which for all intents and purposes is a Howlr clone. There's no proper way to archive his account, so here's a screenshot of the profile I was sent:
PSA/reminder to any furries lurking in this thread: If Matthew tries to contact you or your friends,
DO NOT INTERACT. Simply block him, report him (if he's in a group you're in), and move on. Matthew exclusively preys on fursuiters who are unaware of his history in order to spread a fake narrative of events. Trying to engage with him despite knowing this will not end well for you. If you're not sure it's him, forward his posts to the userinfo bot I mentioned to see if the IDs match up.
Anyways, I'm not really sure how to end this, so lemmie just finish this update off by adding Patch's and SoulDoggo's responses to Matthew continuing to be a massive piece of shit:
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UPDATE 1/12: Matthew re-enabled the Howlr account and is back to on creeping on fursuiters who don't know any better. He also updated the profile to list a bunch of his fetishes. Here's a screenshot of them because fuck you: