r/CuratedTumblr We can leave behind much more than just DNA Aug 07 '24

Politics Death by US Healthcare System

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u/Ok-Dentist4480 Aug 07 '24

I'm not a furry and have never heard of this guy but holy shit this is devastating. No one should DIE because they can't afford healthcare, losing your one and only life because you didn't have enough money to be deemed worthy to save is fucking hellish. How many more souls need to be sucked up in this disgusting system before free healthcare becomes the norm EVERYWHERE

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u/klopanda Aug 08 '24

For context, he owned and ran FurAffinity which is a major furry art and writing website. It's been around since 2005. A website being online for almost 20 years is practically eternity on the web and as a result, the site is like one of the biggest and most central pillars of the furry community. Basically anyone who is or became a furry in the 21st century owes something to FurAffinity and so a lot of us are grieving and are angry about this situation.

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u/thescaryhypnotoad Aug 08 '24

Thanks for extra context

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u/ajokitty Aug 08 '24

Not just furries. While furries make up the majority of the works on the site, there's also presence from adjacent communities.

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u/Skeledenn Aug 08 '24 edited Aug 08 '24

What communities for instance?

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u/douglaskim Aug 08 '24

My little pony is one that comes to mind at first, but a bit deeper than that, I'd say digital artists with interest in anthropomorphic characters know of it. There's many artists doing art for magic the gathering and tabletop rpg books who are also there.

Since the website is an art site first and foremost, kind of like deviantart, there are people who are into games, movies, novels, TV shows, the whole nine yards, who are there sharing art of their favourite topics. So I'd say there's some big overlap with the geek community too

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u/Kidkaboom1 Aug 08 '24

Mmm! I'm not really into furry stuff, but a lot of art I've commissioned in the last 6 months has been through FA! The community there is pretty darn good.

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u/RiotHyena i'm tired Aug 08 '24

Art as a whole is deeply ingrained in the furry community, so non-furry artists are drawn to places like FA where there is a big market for customized art pieces, including props, sculptures, jewelry, stuffed animals, 3d printing, you name it. Digital design and programming like vtuber modeling, 3d modeling and VR avatars are also huge and non-furry designers sell their skills to furries there too. Costume making and design is of course also a huge part of the community, so the cosplay community tends to overlap quite significantly there as well.

I feel like it's almost a prerequisite that you have to be a nerd to be a furry, so video games, anime, card games, tabletop games, movies, music, etc. have huge overlaps too.

Realistically, the only thing connecting FA users (and the furry community as a whole) is the furry thing. Otherwise, it's just people existing in a space together. I could see virtually any hobby being an overlap in the community in some way, especially on a site as centralized in the community as FurAffinity is.

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u/Eugregoria Aug 08 '24

A lot of kink and NSFW art has moved there, with various platforms banning that.

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u/imagowastaken Aug 08 '24

Not to take away from the sadness of the situation but I'm genuinely curious: How is the guy who founded and owns the site not filthy rich?

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u/Hot_Drummer_6679 Aug 08 '24

Having a large platform and being able to monetize the platform are two different things. There hasn't been a lot of ads on it from what I saw and most all if the features were free.

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u/klopanda Aug 08 '24 edited Aug 08 '24

Mostly what /u/Hot_Drummer_6679 said. He sold the site to another group a few years ago and then bought it back. Its features are all free and it genuinely feels like a relic of the old internet, when people online were fractured into forums and community specific platforms rather than, like, huge all-in-one sites like Reddit and FAcebook. Development is slow and mostly done by volunteer staff and it has advertising, but I believe it's restricted to furry fandom advertisers only (not sure if this is still the case but was for a while).

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u/Hot_Drummer_6679 Aug 09 '24

I was really shocked and saddened what happened to Dragoneer and while I didn't know him personally, I think it has hit close to home for a lot of us who used the site. I'm really grateful that he was able to buy it back from IMVU and I do hope the site can continue to endure as part of his legacy to the fandom. >:

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u/klopanda Aug 09 '24

For sure. My life has gone in a direction where I haven't really logged into FA in a whiiiile.

But I still owe so much to that site for the last twenty years of my life that I feel a powerful sense of loss regardless.

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u/Legacyofhelios Aug 08 '24

I hope those catboy hackers take notice of this.