YouTube Furry War
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The YouTube Furry War is a term used to refer to a mass amount of anti-furry trolling against members of the furry fandom lasting from approximately summer 2007 to the start of 2008. The furry war is notable for the hacking of numerous furry YouTube accounts as well as the creation of new furries.
[edit] Overview
The Furry War is rumoured to have been started by Soki Twopaw who, fed up with the numerous trolling comments on his videos, promoted the idea of a furry uprising against trolls. From this grew a number of videos both in support and against a rebellion - nonetheless it happened, with many anti-fur YouTube users (not all of them necessarily trolls) spamming furry-related videos whether their authors were involved in the War or not.
This continued for a number of months, a group calling themselves the FCTC (an acronym for Fried Chicken Trolling Crew, also referred to as the FooCy TooCy) appeared soon after the start of the War with the specific purpose of posting inflammatory comments and hacking furry-related YouTube accounts. The most notable of these was in late-2007, where a failed phishing attempt was started through emails and falsified YouTube pages - this was soon halted after being reported by Wolfee Darkfang but no one was ever caught.
Between the summer and winter periods of 2007 the War was mostly an exchange of videos and comments between various furries and the FCTC; with some major events breaking the monotony such as the hacking and vandalism of the YouTube, MySpace and website of Silentwulf and a furry invasion of 7chan on September 2nd. A video series, titled YouTube Furry War, was started by Tori Belliachi to specifically counter comments left by trolls in a calm and logical manner; by means to contrast to the usually angry and loathing videos left by enraged furs. The series ran for only a few months, to be succeeded by Furry Guru.
Towards the end of 2007 the War had largely died down, with most trolls moving on to partake in the Anonymous plot to take down Scientology. Other troll accounts had been suspended or deleted by this time. However from this new furries were born - notably Tamias, who had been observing the growth of the furry fandom for the last decade but had feared the negative stereotypes and constant persecution suffered by the fandom. On December 31, 2007 he announced his willingness to be part of the furry fandom in a public video explaining his exact views - including an objection to furotica artwork.
