Haha oh man remember the Comedy Lolocaust

Bc in the late 90s-mid 00s, furries were universally hated and repelled, which was kind of a self-reinforcing thing bc if you ran a forum that didn’t assertively ban furries it would get around and they’d flock and before long whatever you were doing was fucked, haha you’re running a furry board now

(and this is when furries were still otherkin “I’m RILLY a wolf, stop fursecuting us!!” in a way that got adapted from ‘90s Wiccan “Burning Times” and later got diverted to trans shit)

So Something Awful (which pioneered forum culture, and then monetized its excesses by charging you to register an account and being gratuitously banhappy so you’d lose it every so often) was like “okay, we’ll finally have a forum for furry shit”

And after a while if you’d posted in the furry board you’d get forum flair attached to your posts, like a yellow star haha Holocaust jokes

And then after more time if you had you’d only be allowed to post in the furry board

Then all the tainted accounts were deleted at once

Ha!

(part of the joke is they did the same thing again later as “April Furs’ Day” and people still fell for it)