Sam Fennah / FailSafe42 - Atheist furry who dropped out of college; sperged to Bionicle fans about God not existing #SAVEBOB

Ignoring that last post so I don't throw up at the fixation these people have with the fetish-portion of Fennah's work...

We're gonna focus on the fetish-portion of Fennah's work! The smash or pass results are out! Kill me please.

3rd place: Winifred
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2nd place: Teazzer
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1st place: Celia
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I dread to imagine what this "Prize" he mentioned is going to be...
 
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... I mean at this point Fennah, just open a OnlyFans for your fetish characters so your lonely loser fanbase can directly get what they truly want.
Maybe that's what will come of his Patreon. Most, if not all of his fanbase has their pronouns, sexuality and other stuff nobody gives a shit about in their bio, so that should tell you what kind of people they are.

At least Sam's keeping the minors out of this and only letting 18+ people into the nsfw channels where this stuff is happening.

Also, how the hell did the parents of minors in Sam's fanbase see his poor excuse for a book and say, "sure you can get this"
 
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Made fanart of Helgen. Why? Because I couldn't think of anything to draw, and if nothing else, Fennah's characters are...interesting subjects for drawing. No visible nudity, but perhaps teetering the SFW line anyways.

Fun fact: Fennah is how I found the Farms.

I think it was the "Oom pah pah" short he made with Lucy and Hyzenthlay that introduced him to me.

It was pretty cool, seeing a guy with no formal training/schooling was able to make animations of his own characters with at least some quality to them. So I followed his animations and his Satellite City series. Sure, it was weird and edgy, (naive soul that I was, I didn't recognize the fetish crap for what it was) but I wanted to support a fellow artist, and I was interested in where the series was going. It wasn't gonna topple Disney like he kept saying, or even get the Hazbin Hotel treatment, not by a long shot, but he had a vision, was pursuing it, and he got a fandom for it, so it was enough for me to be invested in how it turned out.

Then I got to the episode with Bob, and it left a very sour taste in my mouth. After seeing him defend his treatment of the character, I searched up discussion on how other people felt about the episode.

> "Fennah/SAVE BOB/Bionicle Sperg/college dropout" (kiwifarms.net)
> "Oh, guess Fennah is a little bit more of a character than I thought"
>*click*

And what a wild ride it's been since then.

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Made fanart of Helgen. Why? Because I couldn't think of anything to draw, and if nothing else, Fennah's characters are...interesting subjects for drawing. No visible nudity, but perhaps teetering the SFW line anyways.

Fun fact: Fennah is how I found the Farms.

I think it was the "Oom pah pah" short he made with Lucy and Hyzenthlay that introduced him to me.

It was pretty cool, seeing a guy with no formal training/schooling was able to make animations of his own characters with at least some quality to them. So I followed his animations and his Satellite City series. Sure, it was weird and edgy, (naive soul that I was, I didn't recognize the fetish crap for what it was) but I wanted to support a fellow artist, and I was interested in where the series was going. It wasn't gonna topple Disney like he kept saying, or even get the Hazbin Hotel treatment, not by a long shot, but he had a vision, was pursuing it, and he got a fandom for it, so it was enough for me to be invested in how it turned out.

Then I got to the episode with Bob, and it left a very sour taste in my mouth. After seeing him defend his treatment of the character, I searched up discussion on how other people felt about the episode.

> "Fennah/SAVE BOB/Bionicle Sperg/college dropout" (kiwifarms.net)
> "Oh, guess Fennah is a little bit more of a character than I thought"
>*click*

And what a wild ride it's been since then.

If you read the book or at least seen the illustrations of his characters, you'd realize that most of his characters just walk around naked. In fact, there's a style for it called winiwardan or something like that.

It's always interesting to see the stories of former fans of Fennah's work and how they began to dislike him and his community and eventually ended up here.

Here's some things I have to say. Put behind spoilers because this might be stuff that was already stated and might be a slight bit disturbing. It's also long.
- The restatement of a character's features is annoying as hell and unnecessary. Like we get Dalton has horns on his head or Helgan is big. Where it was the worst was when it kept emphasizing the characters with nipples/breasts had nipples/breasts. These features were already stated in their main character description and it doesn't need to be restated.
- MORE CHARACTER/SCENE ILLUSTRATIONS. Scene illustrations definitely would've helped the reader imagine where the characters were better and the descriptions of the boats, buildings and whatever the "light" was the most useless shit. More characters illustrations would've been useful too. They start to get scarce at the end when they would've been useful. Also you can put multiple characters in an illustration, I've seen you do it with Lucy and that Sally Sefton character.
- Don't describe characters unless they actually mean something to the plot of the story
- Stop with the fetish stuff or at least don't make it so obvious you have these fetishes. If you absolutely can't keep your hand out of your pants, keep that shit private and don't try and sell it as a book.
- The purple prosing. A book is not supposed to be 1000 pages long and the purple prosing is why.
- The Kivouachian biology and laws should've been described at the prologue of the book. Describing it in the book throws off the course of this book.
- Just because the characters in this book don't find contorted bodies and gore disturbing and don't live by human standards doesn't mean we won't. Anyone with half a brain will find this disgusting. His loyal fans don't have half a brain.
- Methusa's manifesto is basically rejected because Locket believes in survival of the fittest and anyone who's weak doesn't deserve a chance at life.
- Stop using the same models to promote model commissions. Show off some new models for goodness sake
- The part with Yeshua and Helgan's lovemaking, the part with the fowlers bursting out of the body, the part where Harlow becomes a whore to kill an inker and the detail of fluid coming out of dead bodies will haunt me for the rest of my life.
- One of the parts in a chapter was titled "The death of Gatsby" yet it isn't shown whether or not Gatsby dies
- Winifred is a bitch with anger issues. She's all bark and no bite.
- The boobs and hips on characters are completely unnecessary and serve no purpose. Kivs don't care for their children and their genetic material comes out of their crotches. If Sam wasn't getting off to them, then he'd remove them, as they serve no purpose besides most likely that.
- Bodies "popping", the doll face, vilt and the various contortion poses are just disgusting fetishes disguised as lore
- It was also said Mystique and Thallius were going to work together in this book according to a post by What The Flup, but they never even interacted once in this book.
- If book one is Amygdala, then what are the next books going to be called? Hippocampus? Cerebellum?
- His loyal fans will gatekeep his work like crazy. Any sort of of criticism will either get you kicked out, blocked, or argued with. Nobody in that community will actually accept criticism.
- His fans are literally furries and have fursonas, but he is so in denial about being a furry. Sorry Sam, if your characters have clothes, walk upright, talk, live in a society and have boobs, that's what a furry is.
- Bazzil and Teazzer are fucking assholes. They kill people that get in wrong with Gatsby, but Butika and Bartholomeus didn't even do anything.
- There was no illustration of Butika besides the one of her being humiliated
- Why is there characters with fancy names like Barnaby, Methusa, Winifred, Thallius, Bamforth and then there's just "Lucy" or "Patches"
- Yeshua shouldn't be called Yeshua anymore if the fact he was mistaken for God is no longer canon.
- Holly, Delilah, Penelope and Romulus were all characters mentioned to appear in this book and never did
- Apothokivvy/randyandalites is the person Sam loves to hit up for fetish art and the nsfw account he follows on Twitter. Their name is Zephyr or some stupid nb name. They also agree that Fennah's an ass, but if he is, then why the hell are you drawing porn of his characters?
- I mentioned this in an above post, but most if not all of people in Fennah's community has their pronouns in their bio and identifies as some special snowflake gender, so that should tell you what kind of people they are.

I've seen stuff where the content is cool but the community sucks, or vice versa, but in case of Fennah, both his work and his community is weird and weird work attracts weird people who like that work. I like his character designs, just not the situations they're in.
 
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Another Lucy illustration he did as a side thing, because why the fuck not, we don't have enough Lucy content.
She wasn't even close to winning the 5-7 place in smash or pass, Fennah, don't you see that she's like the most mediocre liked character around? Like, seriously, fans of Lucy are Satellite City fans of Lucy. Give finally something of a different character jesus. I'm still salty that there wasn't even a second illustration of Butika despite her appearing in a few chapters, not just one - but the voice of ink that appears for 2 sentences has a damn illustration. Logic?
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Also did you know First Night is going to be with completely different characters? Yes, so people don't confuse it with canon.
Are you- ARE YOU MAD. Just close the damn channel at this point like, how many fans do you want to lose yet? This is suicide. Everyone is excited for First Night BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A SATELLITE CITY REBOOT BUT WITH BETTER FLESHED OUT MAIN CAST.

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE. People will always confuse SC with the book because there wasn't even a fucking damn announcement where he says it's not. He didn't even make publicly that he discontinued it, lots of people still think it will continue. And then he gets annoyed and asks "WHY DO PEOPLE STILL THINK ITS CANON??" :mad:((((
Ah right, I bet he didn't say publicly SC is discontinued because then he'd be back at 50.000 subscribers.
And even if he does First Night, people will be still confused and think "WhErE aRe ThEsE cHaRaCtErS iN tHe BoOk? I dIdN't sEe ThEm ThErE."
Or, more likely there'll come
"WHERE IS FLEISCHER, DALTON AND EVERYONE ELSE??"
And then you again have to explain fifty pages of why the loved, main characters that made the channel big aren't there.

Dude, not doing it with the main cast is like the worst idea I've ever heard, at this point I'm just gonna leave. I was always more excited for the new animation series than for the book, and now it's all shattered to pieces because.
Ok Fennah, go on, stay with your 50 active discord fans and your 30.000 views on youtube of book content, come on, go and commit arson to your channel. It's not even 2 months and the book is almost already forgotten except for the 50 discord fans (not that there is anything memorable about the book anyway. When I finish a book I expect to feel a 'wow', but there was nothing. As expected, the book is grey and everyone almost speaks and behaves the same. So little emotion.)
It's like doing a sequel without the first series characters. It'll flop, and it'll flop hard. It's literally channel suicide, the only thing keeping the channel up right now are the test and voice animations and still, satellite city. It still keeps the channel alive after YEARS. The fanbase is still existing despite SC ending YEARS ago.

Can't he just put at the beginning "This is a spin-off and isn't related in any way to the canon universe of 'The August Few'"? No, obviously it's too hard to put a text at the beginning.
I'm leaving the fanbase at this point. First Night was the only thing I was excited for, and now it's gone because I don't know what Fennah wants. Again, also wasted marketing opportunity. With First Night the spinoff he could have lured more people in to buy the book, as people as always get always most attached to the characters. They'd see "Oh, Lucy, Winifred etc. - and there's a book too! Oh I'm going to buy to indulge more into the characters!" It's like merch. Also, youtube money too.

But I guess it's more an ego issue, he can't take it that an animated series that does a bit of goofs will be much more popular than his mAgNuM oPuS book.
But there is just something about the Satellite City/First Night concept that's just fun and works.
Again, trash decisions. Again, mad because of his trash decisions. When I read that First Night, god I was mad. I'm sure others were too.

Also polish your Greta model, she looks like a low budget commission model you do for your commissioners.
 
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I don't even want First Night to happen. If it has characters no one's even familiar with that aren't even Kivouachian, then what's even the point?

And why the hell does Lucy have pubic hair? The only reason I liked her design was because her lack of it.
 
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I don't even want First Night to happen. If it has characters no one's even familiar with that aren't even Kivouachian, then what's even the point?

And why the hell does Lucy have pubic hair? The only reason I liked her design was because her lack of it.
At first, one could chock it up to her just being fluffy but she’s nearly short-haired everywhere else and it is a trend in his other models
I think Sam has a pube fetish or something
 
This community is so broken and gross at this point, not even fennah tries to hide his hypersexual focus anymore. At least one-two years ago he was more sparse with it, but now he's commissioning and throwing out renders of pornography left and right without even trying to hide it.
And everyone asks why people still stand by him. Well - have you seen his community? Were you in the discord? Were you in those nsfw adult channels?

God I'm happy this SC mouthcat didn't at least change into a nipple grossout when the creator returned.
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Also, what is this bullshit rant? He holds his work for way higher than it is. If it would be that amazing and moving and touching then people wouldn't have forgotten it after a month.
But the book neither shocked me nor made me think "wow" or anything else. It's something I just read and moved on. He tried so hard to tell a message he forgot to tell a story. Zero emotions, just 90% of the book is eugenics and nature hard and world hard and omg they're so productive and life is harsh.
When I read or watch something I want to feel something.
What's this for a story where you have to shove the message up somebody's face every 2 sentences so they definitely get it?
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This community is so broken and gross at this point, not even fennah tries to hide his hypersexual focus anymore. At least one-two years ago he was more sparse with it, but now he's commissioning and throwing out renders of pornography left and right without even trying to hide it.
And everyone asks why people still stand by him. Well - have you seen his community? Were you in the discord? Were you in those nsfw adult channels?

God I'm happy this SC mouthcat didn't at least change into a nipple grossout when the creator returned.
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Also, what is this bullshit rant? He holds his work for way higher than it is. If it would be that amazing and moving and touching then people wouldn't have forgotten it after a month.
But the book neither shocked me nor made me think "wow" or anything else. It's something I just read and moved on. He tried so hard to tell a message he forgot to tell a story. Zero emotions, just 90% of the book is eugenics and nature hard and world hard and omg they're so productive and life is harsh.
When I read or watch something I want to feel something.
What's this for a story where you have to shove the message up somebody's face every 2 sentences so they definitely get it?
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So let me see if I got this right, the dude who thought he was gonna topple Disney is calling everyone else naive?
 
First I thought Fennah vanished, until a member of a discord I'm part of posted this finished commission from him:
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allegedly they payed more than 200 bucks for that. This looks more like it was done by a teen experimenting with modeling for a year, not like the work of someone "professional". The wingspurs look like a rivet stuck to the wing and the whole character looks like it is floating (no weight on the feet). The horns look like plastic. Fennah seems to be unable to render skin and bone realistically, there is just too much shine going on.
Also he just re-used the same pose twice with different lighting:
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First I thought Fennah vanished, until a member of a discord I'm part of posted this finished commission from him:
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allegedly they payed more than 200 bucks for that. This looks more like it was done by a teen experimenting with modeling for a year, not like the work of someone "professional". The wingspurs look like a rivet stuck to the wing and the whole character looks like it is floating (no weight on the feet). The horns look like plastic. Fennah seems to be unable to render skin and bone realistically, there is just too much shine going on.
Also he just re-used the same pose twice with different lighting:
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It’s definitely not a bad model; but from someone who can do such a quality Winifred model of fur and hair and everything I expect so much more.
Random Indian man from fiverr will deliver better for that price.
 
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Made an account just for this but damn it's been a few years since I've even thought of this guy.

Bit of a sperg here but how does he think he's going to best disney if he can't even be assed to animate anymore? I recall he was supposed to be making a whole animated trailer for his book and while some bits were animated, the rest were just tweened. Not saying thats a bad thing on it's own but when you hype it up for so long and also have the skills to do it, it just falls flat on it's ass.

Also, as for SC being cancelled because he doesn't want it to be confused with the book- I don't understand that argument. Honestly I think he just got lazy to work on it anymore and also since volunteers were dropping out left, right and centre. Honesty the only person I know who is working on the series with him still is Carmen and also the one who owns Mystique. And I find it fucking hysterical people are still drawing Luna even though Halie isn't even on the team anymore lmao

But anyway case in point, I think Sam is just lazy. If he thinks he's going to best disney then fucking act like it and actually animate something. Make a series, animate snippets from a book. Even if his animation isn't my cup of tea he clearly does understand what he's doing and how to work blender. He could do it if he puts effort into his work, but alas :optimistic:
 
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Made an account just for this but damn it's been a few years since I've even thought of this guy.

Bit of a sperg here but how does he think he's going to best disney if he can't even be assed to animate anymore? I recall he was supposed to be making a whole animated trailer for his book and while some bits were animated, the rest were just tweened. Not saying thats a bad thing on it's own but when you hype it up for so long and also have the skills to do it, it just falls flat on it's ass.

Also, as for SC being cancelled because he doesn't want it to be confused with the book- I don't understand that argument. Honestly I think he just got lazy to work on it anymore and also since volunteers were dropping out left, right and centre. Honesty the only person I know who is working on the series with him still is Carmen and also the one who owns Mystique. And I find it fucking hysterical people are still drawing Luna even though Halie isn't even on the team anymore lmao

But anyway case in point, I think Sam is just lazy. If he thinks he's going to best disney then fucking act like it and actually animate something. Make a series, animate snippets from a book. Even if his animation isn't my cup of tea he clearly does understand what he's doing and how to work blender. He could do it if he puts effort into his work, but alas :optimistic:
He said Greta animation test will be out end of March.
Then he said Greta animation test will be out sometime in April.
Well, in two days is May.

Also, apparently he’s going to do the audio book reading himself according to a comment who watched the illustration video on patreon.
Well I hope you have the equipment for it. Of course it’s cheaper, but that doesn’t mean the result will be good…
 
He said Greta animation test will be out end of March.
Then he said Greta animation test will be out sometime in April.
Well, in two days is May.

Also, apparently he’s going to do the audio book reading himself according to a comment who watched the illustration video on patreon.
Well I hope you have the equipment for it. Of course it’s cheaper, but that doesn’t mean the result will be good…
He's doing the audio reading himself? God damn now I got something to say about that.

I've never heard Sam voice act before, but I have listened to his voice. In my personal opinion, I don't think he has that 'narrorator' voice if that makes sense. Call me pompous but you need that certain tone, even if you're a good voicr actor- narroration is almost a different field entirely.

I've worked as a director for about 5 years, not professionally, just for fun. I used to narrorate my own projects with other voice actors playing the characters. However, even though I also class myself as a voice actor since I am able to do voices for characters, I stopped doing narrorations completely. Why? Because I don't have that right narroration voice. You need to have a specific tone for it, and if you don't have it, you ain't making it out the hood.

I believe Sam can definitely practice to give himself that voice but if I'm being honest his voice in general just annoys me which is what I'm tying to get at but that could all probably be a personal biased opinion because I never really liked this guy to begin with lmao
 
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