September 2017 – Furry Times

In what some call the Age Of Adpocalypse, where in You Tube is pulling the ability of some content providers to make money off of there videos.

To quote the article…

The ‘Adpocalypse’ began over two separate incidents. The first was when it came to light that terrorist groups like Hezbollah were using YouTube to upload and monetize videos promoting terrorism.

The second occurred when Felix ‘PewDiePie’ Kjellberg made a video that included men he had paid to hold signs that read ‘Death to all Jews.’ Kjellberg insisted his video was satirical in nature and has since apologized. But since his channel remains the largest on YouTube, and since he was partnered with Disney’s Maker Studios at the time and worked closely with YouTube Red on original content, the backlash was intense, and the reverberations were felt throughout the YouTube community.

Advertisers got spooked, call it a personal observation but even on videos where content makes don’t make a dime I have still seen ads.

Is there an easy solution or is You Tube going to drive away what draws people to the site away. Because how many cute cat videos can anyone stand?

Furry Convention Leadership Roundtable

09/26/201709/26/2017 Ahmar Wolf

Ever wonder if all fur cons are somehow connected?

according to Wikifur

The Furry Convention Leadership Roundtable (FCLR) is an association of furry conventions. The group holds meetings in the tradition of SMOFcon in the science fiction fandom to facilitate communication between its members, as well as maintaining a mailing list, chat server, and website. Event organizations may submit up to three representatives for the mailing list and annual events, and must have a signed venue contract and 100 actual or planned attendees to join.

FCLR’s organizers claim it is “not the Illuminati” but “a helpful bunch of furs that are here to help us keep the fandom the amazing place it was always meant to be”. Conversely, some members have called it “the furry illuminati association”; others describe it as “like Twelve Angry Men, except a buncha damn furries deciding the fate of the badge prep process or the con suite sandwiches”.

The FCLR also maintains a Slack server, a chat service with sub-groups that include (but are not limited to) publications, hotels, art shows, dealers, IT, and registration. Membership is open to all furry convention staff and organizers.

according to FCLR’s site

The site names which cons are their members

Fur Cons Return to Seattle: Introducing Anthro Northwest

09/25/2017 Ahmar Wolf

Yep folks I can hardly believe it myself but on Nov 9 – 12 at the Renaissance Hotel in Seattle, WA USA there is going to be an actual fur con Anthro Northwest I swear to you if I could be there I would, I have literally 1000s of questions. The first one being how did they convince a hotel in Seattle, WA to host a fur con after that Disaster Con, better know as Rainfurrest took place. I heard it’s been a couple of years and their hotel is still cleaning up that mess.

Believe me I wish Anthro Con well and will ask them for an interview. But frankly if they say no I can’t blame them, but I wish them well and I will be keeping a close eye on social media to see how things go.

Only time will tell with this one…

Who Killed America by Lowell Thompson

09/25/201709/25/2017 Ahmar Wolf

First of all Lowell Thompson is something of a minor celeb a man who can do just about anything. So why not a play…his latest project.

Link to the official site

I was at the first workshop the other day where his goal was trying to gather ideas for what I think is a good premise. Not exactly what killed America more like what killed the American dream. If your older than 30 and lived all that time in the US, you can see how things have changed and not for the better. Rise in hate groups, more violence, greed seemly everywhere, meanwhile the voters feel disenfranchised. Which is the main reason I feel why Trump was elected. There he came in with BIG promises and frankly despite what he and other presidents have said in the past, frankly there is very little they can do to change things. That is solely in the hands of the congress and the courts.

Can you even name 1 of your elected officials? Not local because they are on the news most of the time. But those we sent to Washington, DC . Which rare exception most frankly can’t why and this goes for a majority of them. They do nothing but vote on other peoples idea’s. I don’t know of 1 that ever kept a campaign promise.

I could get into greed in business but that is all over the news.

So in my mind who killed American it was our own elected officials.

Have your own ideas use the link above and send a message to Lowell Thompson