Casey Chen / Lumin City - “fursuiter” and “videomaker” banned from every furry event across several states for constant autistic stalking

[Pinball 2000]

Lumin’s spent the last couple of days rambling about New Jersey politics on Bluesky. I’m not going to bother sharing most of it because his takes are generally uninteresting, but this particular post caught my eye because he attached a photo of his fursuit.

(Skyview archive)

Two things worth noting:
-He’s talking about going to a picket line, so maybe we’ll get another photo of him showing up in fursuit again.
-His bodysuit looks gross. Take note of how much darker the green is on the body compared to the green on his head, and how matted the fur appears. Matted fur is usually a common side effect of a suit that’s either unclean or hasn’t been brushed. So either Lumin has never cleaned his suit, or he got it wet and didn’t bother to do the bare minimum (brushing it once it dried).

 

[Spoonomancer]

-His bodysuit looks gross. Take note of how much darker the green is on the body compared to the green on his head, and how matted the fur appears. Matted fur is usually a common side effect of a suit that’s either unclean or hasn’t been brushed. So either Lumin has never cleaned his suit, or he got it wet and didn’t bother to do the bare minimum (brushing it once it dried).

you're right. For comparison, here's two pictures of the fursuit when he first got it as per the OP to today as per your post. It's got that poor quality that some more infamous fursuiters like Crusader Cat and Growly have. Could be lighting, but the green fur looks too dark for it to just be lighting.

 

[mr. testicular torsion]

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*Continues to use Twitter*

sorry if im late ing here but
he continues to use twitter because that is, besides youtube, one of the biggest audiences he has.
god i hate the guilty by association arguement so much

 

[SanicBlackMagic]

Despite all the vile disgusting stuff that goes on with furries, he manages to be hated among them even without doing anything that reprehensible (relative to his peers).

It is precisely because of that that he is hated. All he needs to become a true and honest member of the furry alumni is fuck a poodle.

 

[mr. testicular torsion]

It is precisely because of that that he is hated. All he needs to become a true and honest member of the furry alumni is fuck a poodle.

and blame it on autism?

 

[Pinball 2000]

In today's Lumin adventures, he got extremely MATI over an obvious troll account on Bluesky, "furrydetected".


furrydetected caught my attention a few months ago in the BlueFolf thread because they came up with an extremely effective way to troll thousands of Bluesky furries en masse with almost zero effort on their part: pick a notable furry, run an automation script to automatically add all of that account's followers to a Bluesky moderation list, and then state in the list's description that if you mute their list, it will give you "an easy 1-click removal" of all the content associated with said furry.

As an example, here's what the "BlueFolf Detected" moderation list looks like. Take note of how it doesn't say anything negative about Blue, it just states you can remove BlueFolf content by muting it.

link to list

And here are a few examples of people getting butthurt about it I found from casually browsing the site:



I'm guessing that whoever is running the account decided to expand it to more furries recently, because according to Clearsky, they managed to automatically tag Lumin in three separate lists:


How does Lumin react to this? He makes his own blocklist for """Nazi Furs""", declares furrydetected is clearly a nazi for putting him in these lists, and makes a bunch of posts bragging about his nazi blocklist. Take note of the extremely aggressive tone of Lumin's list as well.


I'd directly link to his list, but by the time I noticed this, I found out Lumin's list was deleted from the site.


In a surprising twist, Lumin didn't delete the list himself, it was deleted by Bluesky's own moderation team. Given Lumin's extremely aggressive behavior over what's considered a Nazi and his rude description for the list, I would assume that he probably just started flooding it with tons of people he didn't like, enough people complained, and someone on bluesky's moderation team assumed Lumin's list was made for harassment.


Lumin reacted to this about as well as you'd expect. You can tell he's clearly mad about furrydetected but he's refusing to say the name of the account.


To me, the funniest part is that whoever runs furrydetected noticed Lumin's meltdown, because they made another list:

(Link to list)

 

[Pinball 2000]

Lumin seems to be ranting a lot lately about AI-generated content. On Bluesky, he wrote a long post about how he tried to report someone for uploading AI art to FurAffinity, but they didn’t do enough to appease him. Now, before I begin, just to make it clear: FA’s policy on AI content is that it’s not allowed, and if you post it, it’ll be removed.



Lumin ranted that he went on FA and reported an account that uploaded AI art; the moderators took down the art but didn’t ban the account. Lumin insists they should be banned because their bio “sounds like AI,” and he ran it through an AI detector. FA staff told Lumin they don’t rely on AI detectors because they tend to be very inaccurate, and they weren’t going to take any further action beyond removing the AI art.

(link)(Skyview Archive)

Somehow, this means that FA is working with Jasonafex and his polycule because they didn’t ban their accounts... which simply isn’t true. After all, if you look at the screenshots Lumin posted, he, Jason, Kaiber, and Peacewolf have an exclamation point next to their usernames. That means the account is banned.



Lumin then goes on the FA Bluesky and starts ranting in the replies to a random site announcement post about how FA should be deleting AI stuff immediately. This manages to catch the attention of a passerby and an actual FA mod, who both tell him the same thing: Report rule-breaking submissions using the FA ticket system instead of ranting about them on Bluesky. Lumin keeps ranting about how they didn’t ban the other guy, and both of them ultimately seem to give up and stop responding further.

(link)(skyview archive)


Rate me autistic for this, but seeing Lumin getting this mad over AI art gave me a stupid idea; how easy is it to recreate a meme using someone else's fursona's ref sheet? I decided to recreate the "Everyone I don't like is Hitler" meme, but with Lumin.

Spoiler: AI Art Autism

For reference, this is the original meme:



My source images for this project consist of the original image without the text and a copy of Lumin's ref sheet.



Here's what I got out of two ChatGPT prompts. The end result? Not bad.


ChatGPT tends to flake out if you ask it to write out any offensive text, so I had to do the finishing touches myself. First, I asked it to identify the font used:


After that, with roughly 10 minutes of layering the new image over the original book cover, adding in the text, and giving it a light shadow for readability, we get this masterpiece:

This whole thing only took me about 30 minutes from start to finish. I await the day when more people just start making meme/hate art using other furries reference sheets, because I see a lot of potential with this shit.

 

[Pinball 2000]

WIRED put out a fairly unremarkable article about how to attend a political protest. There’s nothing particularly interesting in it; it's just a basic guide on what to do and what not to do if you decide to attend a protest.

So why am I bringing it up here? Because, for reasons I cannot begin to understand, Lumin’s fursuit is featured in the cover image.

(bluesky link)(bluesky archive)

This is real, by the way.

(Wired Article)(Archive)

This article is meant as a basic guide for safely attending a protest. One section encourages protesters to wear something that covers their faces. But if you're trying to hide your identity, wouldn't wearing a unique, custom-designed mask like a fursuit defeat that purpose?



At least the replies and quote-posts on the Bluesky link are pretty funny, though:

 

[Bubble Ba'ath]

I can't decide what is funnier: that someone intentionally included him as a joke or if that was just an image that came up in an image trawl for fursuit and they ran with it.

 

[A.P. Hill]

It's gotta be some sort of world record for being such a spergy autist that not even dogfuckers and child predators want anything to do with you. Not because you did something heinous, just because you're that autistic.