'Had a BIG IMPACT on the fandom'
-Died over a decade ago and his wikifur article's longest section is about how he died, unrelated to furfaggotry
Sure, jan. Are furries never not lying? The most important thing about him, relating to the fandom, is that he was an EMT and some EMT furs memorialized him in some parade. He appeared to essentially have 0 impact besides buying a fursuit and attending several conventions, which is a dime a dozen among the more social furfags. The only real major thing you can say about the guy is, and this is again unrelated to any fandom activities, is that the city he was an EMT for incorporated his name into an intersection along with someone elses due to his death.

How obsessive was Vias in searching for things to pick at that they even dug up who the furry in the suit was?
More on the dead furry, all of his existing social media accounts are linked on that wikifur. In gay furry sterotypes, he had a
nsfw Twitter. Also he had some good money sitting around, as he didn't just have the obnoxiously loud 'coyote' suit but another one, made for a deer fursona
Cyrus Deer. (Linked is one of his many furaffinity accounts that he apparently made for each fursona of his or something.) He also had a
livejournal blog too under this name.
While there are a few posts from random furries giving condolences on his profiles, I doubt most of them would have given his passing the time of day without this article from some
random furry news site that once had an audience.
To rub in how little of a presence that Tim actually had, the wikifur article appears to not even have been made
until after his death, unless Archive.org just happened not to trawl it beforehand. Earliest save, linked, was made in August 2013. He died in February.