Something bad has happened. That's not new. There are at least a million people on the planet by my estimate and that means a lot of things are happening at all times and sometimes they are bad (read: not good). But this bad thing was personal enough that I felt it needed to be talked about by me: a not very good sleazeball furry porn artist (it's one step up, morally, from "hard drug dealer"). Here is why I reckon it is so personal:

1. It happened in the genre I work in: furry.
2. Our Furry Morality Overlords (you know one, c'mon! Name your favorite) weren't talking about it or, at best, whipping out a quick "I disavow" before moving on to the more important business of being more sarcastic than each other on Twitter.
3. Oh yeah it involves 2k+ people raping, torturing, and murdering animals.

Now I'm not the smartest guy but I'm fairly positive that's pretty bad, and personal. So over on Furry-Twitter an anonymous user was creating throwaway burner accounts and dropping an, apparently now deleted, megaupload link that was full of stuff that has been in my nightmares for the past few nights (no joke! Hahaha! Lack of sleep is very humorous). The person who uploaded it ("Akela") claims to be "one of the good zoophiles" which isn't a thing, but what they uploaded is every bad adjective in the dictionary. Within the .rar they posted are hundreds of chatlogs, videos, and pictures from the "Zoosadist" community on Telegram. I'd never heard that particular term before but it's fairly self explanatory: you see a Zoophile is someone who rapes animals, while a Zoosadist does that as well but ALSO tortures and/or kills them. We're talking Degrees of Evil here.

Like I said: not great.

There was a lot to take away from all this and while most of it was "holy shit I don't want to ever think about this ever again it is disgusting" there was also the fact that over 2,000 furries were implicated as participating in this Community from Hell. One in particular is getting a ton of flak, one "Kero the Wolf": a furry YouTuber who is apparently really popular. I don't really know, I don't understand fursuit videos because I am old and grumpy. But the logdump indicates, among other things, that he fucks roadkill and puppies. That's just one guy and man oh man do these guys get creative in their debauchery of animals, children, and corpses.

I can't believe I'm typing any of this.

As I said earlier the initial MegaUpload appears to be gone (though some friends of mine DID get the entirety of it into the hands of Encyclopedia Dramatica) the big thread on Twitter about it is here: https://twitter.com/VenusAsABun/sta.....43539450408960 Make your own judgements.

Since this has come out a couple of things have happened. One: a lot of people claiming it's fake which, you know what? I hope it is, because that would mean only fake animals were harmed and that would be great. Granted, it's a weird thing to fake; maybe Banksy is trying to do a prank in very poor taste? Who knows. If it is fake I will breathe a sigh of relief, apologize for getting Pranked Bro, and literally never think about this ever again.

Two: remember the moral busybodies I was talking about earlier? You know one maybe like... a guy who sees an edgy tweet from some dumb teenager and then decides to ruin his life forever over it? Or maybe a free speech warrior who can literally only talk about how it's very important that they post as many racial slurs as possible? Or maybe someone who puffs out his big legal/journalistic chest when a cartoon internet villain shows up and tells us all how good of a person they are for writing snarky things about this person no one liked in the first place? Maybe they drink or tweet a lot? I'm not implying anyone in particular but I bet you know one. Well all those guys, who will tweet and blog and podcast minutes after a man with seven followers says something they don't like, have been weirdly quiet on this one. I know it sounds crazy that these guys who talk about how internet brave they are for typing bullshit at dorks are, when real monsters rear their ugly heads by thousands, suddenly really quiet but it's true! I've seen some make flippant jokes about it "just being drama", others say "well this is just my hobby! I can't go anywhere near this!" to just outright silence. And goddamn did it ever get those chestnuts roasting over my open brain-fire and, after some real nut burning, I figured out a couple of reasons maybe these Super Good Furry Internet People aren't talking:

1. It's gross, and not "hipster gross", which is what you say about movies you like so that girls will think you're thoughtful and caring; but this is sick-to-the-stomach gross. If you need an example maybe read the parts about roadkill or puppies again. People stay away from gross things, it's why there aren't bestiality laws in a lot of states: no one wants to talk about super gross stuff. It's unpleasant.

2. It's bad for metrics. Outrage is great for metrics but when it's too real and too horrible people don't go near it and you know what that means: the constant cavalcade of e-dick sucking grinds to a halt and you get the Twitter equivalent of blue balls. Since these guys have fried their brains to the point where Twitter approval is a drug to them they can't risk it, the withdrawal is too severe. Remember: you're not a person anymore, you are a metric to these guys. Currency! Isn't that cool? You're not an individual to them, you're money. Also animals getting raped isn't worth talking about, there are people WHO THINK DIFFERENTLY ON THE INTERNET TO HUNT

3. They know people who are on the list. Hell they're probably friends with them and you know what? I wouldn't doubt someone I know is on that list (presumably under a name I don't know, I've got a pretty great track record of ditching skunkfuckers) because it's a BIG list. I've been doing this furry thing for years and I've met some pretty awful people: sexual-assault happy feminists, guys who want to shoot up conventions, even a real not-on-the-internet neo-nazi (he died though, funny enough). The pattern I see with these types every time has been unfailing: circle the wagons and defend your awful friend because he's your friend. Well let me tell you: if one of your furry buds turns out to be a zoophile, sadist, whatever, you don't have to be their friend. Loyalty is a virtue and a fault that way; and there are more friends out there, trust me. If you find out one of your friends is a zoophile and all your other friends are defending them for completely amoral reasons: ditch 'em. I'll be your friend instead.

Anyhow, that's my piece on it. I wanted to spread this around because I hate people that hurt animals (I use to raise kangaroos for a living, and I've owned a lot of pets and the thought of people hurting my weird dumb actual-animal friends pisses me off). There's a bunch of other reasons getting rid of these guys is good but I don't want to talk about "the effect on the fandom" or how they're bad for business, etc... because that's way down the priority line when it comes to a moral obligation this obvious.

Boneitis Counter-Argument and Criticism Contrarian Fuckwit Corner: If you're wanting to e-own me over this journal, or be a contrarian prat, or tell me how I didn't quite own the dogfuckers properly, or you didn't like my tone, or you want to argue the merits of animal-buggery you can go to hell and never come back. I rarely look at things without nuance but this is a pretty cut and dry issue and if you think you're going to totally Stephen Crowder Change My Mind on this then you're vastly overestimating your intelligence and vastly underestimating just how much brain damage I have from all the "Rage Against the Machine" I've listened to in the past 15 years. You're not dogfucker Jesus come down from his Movie-Reviewer-on-the-Internet-LogicLord Throne to enlighten us about shit, you're just demented and pissed that someone outed a chatroom where monsters like you could feel safe.

-Bone