We have interviewed several current, recently resigned, and former FA (website) and FA Discord staff, and have this news to share.
As of Oct 28, 2024,
CHASE / Xanaecor, Director of Operations, has resigned.
Additional resignations include Horsie, Kitsche, Luffy, Lightdragon64, and Sparky.
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As of Oct 28, 2024,
CHASE / Xanaecor, Director of Operations, has resigned.
Additional resignations include Horsie, Kitsche, Luffy, Lightdragon64, and Sparky.
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But not just them. WikiFur helped, as did various historical internet dives to find ancient archives, threads, journals, social media posts, and even old forums.
But j appreciate the insight given here.
-Babyfurs were banned in silence for over a month with no response or accepted appeals. These bans were spurred by a mass reporting campaign by a known agitator and harasser of babyfurs.
What's the chances that they're all resigning, is because the person that normally allows them to get away with BS has passed?
Additional resignations have occured, but as the situation is ongoing and not public, the full roster of who even was an FA admin and who has resigned is not known.
Nearly all FA Discord staff have resigned. One resigned from the FA Discord but kept their position on the actual website.
It is not known who remains on FA (website), though it is likely the lead tech admin Yak is still there, since Yak has never been very public and likely doesn't care unless it's a technical issue.
Resignations continue.
A) All FA staff/volunteers must sign an NDA regardless of whether they are admin for the site or for the discord.
B) Public staff lists were removed due to harassment and targeted abuse, but some staff voluntarily display or talk about it, assuming the risk and not FA.
The FurAffinity Forums were shut down because they were too costly and burdensome to maintain.
Luffy spearheaded the conception of the FA Discord. FA leadership trusted her to start and run it since "She was the most informed about how to start/run a community server."
A) No resignations occured because of 2.7 policy or its discussion. All resignations were for personal reasons.
B) Luffy never went rogue. Nothing Luffy ever said, EVER, was not first cleared by FA's Directors. Including Chase.
Luffy simply got the heat for it. For years, whenever there was drama, and screencaps of Luffy's insanity, pinning everything on her... to protect the anonymity and rep of FA.
And that site gets more traffic than even FA (Though I believe FA has more active users)
Also from what I've seen the furry scene tends to see leakers as "drama" and "destroying the fandom" so there's not much incentive for them. I can't remember a single time when a leak has led to positive improvement.
I find it VERY hard to believe that folks are signing NDAs and leaving in droves because of issues with the payment processor. There has to be something more.
someone was fucking with kids.
This really helps with keeping track of the actual happenings and not losing the narrative with how many speculations are going around.
But it takes one pebble to build a dam to stop the flood.
Also, dunno if ya aware of this thread, but thought you might be interested in it (even beyond the abdl stuffs) @ashcoyote.bsky.social
https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-canadian-brothers-and-their-company-payza-sentenced-conspiring-launder-money-service
Do not kill the part of you that is cringe, kill the part that cringes.
But I still think it's important to share this information, as it would explain a LOT of what happened in the last 2 years. :\
Luffy did come up with some of the insane things off the cuff *while* waiting for Directir input. See the Egg thing which they walked back.
This also doesn't cover advertisers which Sciggles has mentioned.
What did we miss about advertisers?
Remember YiffyLeaks?
The NDAs weren't to protect anything business, just furry drama fuel. The things that are said about some of the most known folk on staff are pretty horrific, and the NDAs help silence that preemptively.
I've never had a non-furry event ask me to sign an NDA.
It's like, heeey they didn't really do too good of a job of hiding, and they were sloppy with wiping their pages when they were discovered to still be director of operations in 2023.
Let's reconnect and start over again. We have 20 years of catching up to grow.
Do you have telegram?
You can add me @LizzyScales
Long time no see !
Adult sites getting neutered while Children sites gets corrupted, both are equally bad in both cases.
I don't trust any site at this point since there are inevitable bad actors regardless.
If you can guarantee people stability and police the place a bit, that's all you really need.
Managing some social media channels for an upcoming video game, being approachable by someone and almost being "sold" the idea of a community discord, despite already making one myself before
Regardless, I hope things improve, and I want what's best for everyone involved.