>>2826 >Averi.foo >The owner and userbase, as far as I can tell, are implacably hostile to Anfoo. Funny, from outsider's perspective they seem almost identical. What even sets them apart?

>>2827 I don't understand all the history myself. If I understand correctly, and it is entirely possible that I don't, a guy calling himself Floof created anthro.foo, a smol cute altchan for SFW discussion of anthro characters. Discussions there have tended to run to comparisons of waifus, art, and suchlike things. A lot of the userbase, not all of them, but a lot of them, came from places like soyjak.party, and these were people who think soyjaks and soyjak board slang are funny, but also like anthro characters, which made them pariahs at the 'sharty and they were pretty much driven out by organized harassment. Anyway. One of the people who volunteered to be a mod for Floof at the new place was a guy calling himself Lachlan, who is also kind of infamous at 4chan's /trash/ board and is considered by some to be a lolcow, which is to say, a crazy person who behaves amusingly when poked. Anyway, Lachlan decided that "SFW" meant "absolutely no sexualization ever, and calling a character attractive is sexualization." Lachlan went on a tear when Floof wasn't present, banning lots of people and deleting "oversexualized" art. Floof removed his mod privileges. Lachlan began calling out Floof, spamming and harassing, until Floof finally banned him. Lachlan swore to build his own 'foo board, but better, with blackjack and hookers. Averi.foo has what I perceive to be a small userbase of people who for whatever reason believe Lachlan was treated unfairly by the "gooners" at Anthro.foo and have declared jihad. They frequently attempt to raid Anfoo but there aren't really enough of them to accomplish very much more than mildly annoy the users. Any attempt go to Avfoo to make peace or explain that saying "this female character is pretty" is not exactly the same as posting loli guro diaper snuff inflation fetish porn gets you dogpiled and shrieked at ("GB2ur gooncave GOONER!") until you leave. It's neither fun nor friendly and I feel no desire to try again. As an outside observer my perception is that a sort of purity spiral took place in which these people who have coalesced around Lachlan are constantly competing with him and with one another to see who can denounce GOONING most vehemently. It is perplexing. I freely admit that I don't understand all of it. I think I probably don't understand most of it. But it is clear to me that there's a lot of bad blood there. It's kind of a shame. Lachlan used to draw some cute art for fox waifu threads in /trash/ at 4chan. I don't know what happened. I know that I made banners for anthro.foo and I posted a fair amount of art there. I was going to post more, but Floof's announcement makes me feel like it was all a waste, like it's all pointless. Mind you, I don't think Floof owes us free entertainment or free hosting forever. He's got a life. In the announcement he talked about lacking time to take care of everything, and I fully understand that. No one is paying him to do this. It's not my place to make demands of him. I don't have the right. It wouldn't be proper. At the same time I'm disappointed. There was a story I was writing. There was art I was working on. Welp, not any more, lol. In all seriousness I feel kind of bad about the situation. And I feel bad that I feel bad, if that makes sense. On a certain level it seems kind of shallow and entitled to be depressed about this. I don't have any call on Floof or his time or money or resources. I shouldn't be so depressed about this.

>>2828 >Anyway, Lachlan decided that "SFW" meant "absolutely no sexualization ever Classic example of modern alt-internet porn derangement. One half of the net went full /trash/ open gooning, the other turned into rambling e-puritans. Anyway I'm reading the announcement and it doesn't look like anthro.foo is actually closing. He has a successor already lined up that will be handed the database and all the files, he just doesn't want to shoulder the hosting part anymore. Only thing that's going to change is the domain I think.

>>2826 >>2828 I believe it's just exchanging owners now with a planned rebranding. >>2829

>>2829 >alt-internet porn derangement That's a good term for it. >One half of the net went full /trash/ open gooning, the other turned into rambling e-puritans. The duality of 'foo. To be more serious I can understand both ends of this spectrum of reactions. "No. I will, in fact, not do what you are attempting to tell me to do" is a very common motivation. Some people see these characters and their minds go immediately to a particular subset of topic matter. And stay there. And they can't shut up about it. And they post visual aids that could give you visual AIDS just from looking at them. I came to the 'foo from 4chan and I know how bad things can get. It's always been part of human nature. Augustine of Hippo was complaining about too many people being uncontrollable horndogs seventeen centuries ago. And historically there have been times and places where strongly anti-sex attitudes, the kind we'd call puritanical now, were common, and they go back much further than the Victorian Era (which was itself a reaction to the extremely raunchy Georgian Era). A lot of these people, eras, and groupos, were reacting to the opposite extreme. I get it. Anfoo represented an attempt to gatekeep and mitigate the worst of the hornyposting. I don't know Floof. I don't speak for him. It seems like he is willing to tolerate a little hornyposting, without which you get Avfoo and its chorus of "die in a fire GOONER" every time someone says "That girl is cute." But if you don't gatekeep hard it turns into /trash/ and people show up posting HDDs full of fetish stuff involving characters drawn to look about eight years old getting tortured, raped, and vored. Maybe Floof got sick of dealing with it all. If that's what happened I can't blame him. Maybe it was half that and half all the people riding his ass and bitching at him to stop adding new flags and emojis and concentrate on just keeping the wheels turning. I can see that getting hard to keep seeing over and over day in and day out. >successor >>2830 >rebranding I hope you're right. I stopped reading yesterday afternoon. There was a conversation with several people offering to take over, then I got the impression he changed his mind. I decided it was too depressing to read any further and I haven't been back to look at it any more.

>>2831 What catches my attention is the >young adult part, which tells me he is a late Zoomer who is perhaps dealing with all the stressors that come at the beginning of adult life, and for that, I can't blame him for prioritizing his responsibilities. This does, however, leave much uncertainty about the future of the community, but I hold out hope that things will be okay. Though more importantly, I wish for you to be well.

>>2826 >I am not sure it'd be appropriate either. This is an established community with its own userbase. There has already been some friction. I anticipate perceptions of an attempted takeover and a great deal of resentment. I don't think it will end well. I mean, I wouldn't mind some anons from the foo dropping by if the place went down, although I will admit to not being terribly fond of soyjaks.

>>2833 yikes

>>2833 >although I will admit to not being terribly fond of soyjaks. We're not fond of them either, the schizos that used to obsessively post them are all gone by now

>>2826 Damn, this is the first place I've heard an explanation for what anthro foo is supposed to be. Hopefully the replacement pans out.

>>2828 >There was a story I was writing. There was art I was working on. I wish to see it please, if you do not mind sharing. I believe there is value in creation, no matter how incomplete. The expression of the idea is what matters.