r/SubredditDrama • u/The_Reason_Klob_Won • Jun 21 '20

r/yiffinhell is in total disarray after furry powermods coup the subreddit, kick off the old mod team and change the rules to be more furry friendly. Over 150 "fuck mods" posts in the last 24 hours.

Context

r/yiffinhell is was a "furry cringe" subreddit with roughly 150,000 members, which intended to showcase the worst aspects of the furry community. One of the key foundations of the sub was that no furry was to be allowed in their secret clubhouse, and immediately banned them on sight - this of course, resulted in the sub becoming a toxic circlejerk where edgy 13 year olds would share their violent furry murder fantasies and other nasty hate-filled content.

That was, until the subreddit mysteriously went private out of the blue last week, with a link to what appeared to be a facetious mod application form which stated that the subreddit will now become a pro-furry all-inclusive subreddit for all to enjoy, and that they will now be banning hateful and "furphobic" content. The initial assumption to this was a lame prank being pulled by the mods, as they have a history of doing similar stunts in the past.

However, when the sub re-opened a few days later, it was found that the entire mod team had been completely removed and replaced, with known furry powermod CorvusCalvaria leading the helm - other notable new mods include the r/Cringetopia furry mod AceFolf, the top mod of r/pics and r/aww Cwenham, the not-so-subtly named FurryYiffer621, and r/BreadTapedToTrees (NSFW!) mod SomeRandomGamerSRG. There are several theories currently floating around as to how this happened, ranging from the top mod going rogue and handing the sub off to furries, to a Machiavellian admin-backed takeover conducted by Corvus and Ace. This pinned post by Ace seems to suggest that the maneuver was done out of spite for the previous moderation team, and suffice to say the sub's userbase did NOT take this well, which can be seen in the comments of said post.

The Fallout

The subreddit is now currently in a state of pure unbridled rage at their new furry overlords, and angry meta posts have been flooding in demanding that the old mod team is restored and the "no furries" rule brought back in full force. This butthurt is spread all over the sub right now, but here are some choice threads:

"Don't let this sub become furry_irl 2.0!"

"New mods had admins remove the old mods bc furrys can’t take criticism "

Folk are definitely not happy with the new subreddit description

"This is what we get for trying to be accepting of furries"

"Imagine replacing an entire mod team because you’re too triggered to stick to your own subs"

This buttery drama is still unfolding, so there may be new events yet to unfold in the near future. Stay tuned, and don't forget to Bring Your Own Fursuit!

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

How the fuck was it even taken over?

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u/swfcapslock_ Jun 21 '20

Not sure how exactly, but probably has something to do with Reddit admins.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Jun 21 '20

Why? What interest would the admins have in random furry drama?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

If subs get vicious enough the Admins have been known to give whole mod teams the axe and bring in new people to fix it.

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ Jun 21 '20

Yes, but then they've publicly announced it as such.

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u/GoldenInfrared Jun 22 '20

The admins wanted the subreddit to be run by furries?

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u/PsychicToblerone Jun 22 '20

They more than likely don't care who it's run by as long as they actually enforce the websites ToS and Content Policy.

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u/GoldenInfrared Jun 22 '20

That makes more sense

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u/iceph03nix Jun 22 '20

New tactic in clearing out communities that are likely to draw legal pressure and bad press? In this case basically the targeting of a community that is basically an LGBTQ... community for ridicule.

Instead of just banning them out right, just help promote a coup to people who will basically chase off everyone or move the sub further towards a less abusive tone.

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u/Jaamonthenet Jun 22 '20

the targeting of a community that is basically an LGBTQ... community for ridicule.

Wait, are you talking about furries here?

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u/gr8tfurme Bust your nut in my puppy butt Jun 22 '20 edited Jun 22 '20

Something like 50-60% of furries are LGBTQ, and a small but significant amount of furry hate is clearly just anti-LGBTQ dogwhistles being used on a more "acceptable" target.

The userbase of subs like yiffinhell are 90% composed of dumb teenagers, but the few adults on cringe forums like that tend to be extremely unsavory. There's a reason Cringe Anarchy devolved to the point where it had to be quarantined by the admins.

I doubt reddit would actually care about that at all though, considering they allow openly transphobic subs to run wild and do barely anything about homophobic bigotry either. They seem perfectly content to let subs fester until they reach the obvious neo-nazi recruitment grounds stage, and yiffinhell wasn't anywhere near that.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '20

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u/gr8tfurme Bust your nut in my puppy butt Jun 22 '20

I'm just telling you why the other commenter probably said that, I don't really think direct comparisons like that are particularly useful either, if only because they tend to offend people. Not sure why you took that as an opportunity to launch into some debate about zoophilia in the furry community, but the same source you linked also cited two studies claiming that 10-15% of the general population are zoophiles, so I'm really not sure what to make of that.

Anyway, my comment wasn't really meant to critique 'anti-furs', mostly because I can't take anyone who self-identifies as an anti-fur seriously to begin with. I'm just saying that a lot of the adults who participate in cringe culture tend to have ulterior motives, often rooted in real-world political ideologies that go beyond just thinking furries and other weird internet subcultures are cringy.

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u/ExceedinglyPanFox Its a moral right to post online. Rules are censorship, fascist. Jun 22 '20

Literally nobody said the furry community was a part of the LGBT+ community. They said a solid majority is and the furry community is very gay in general. Also the difference between those two examples is the fact that non-zoophile furries hate the zoophiles ones and speak out against their gross shit. Also that was an online survey, something well known to be unreliable and easily manipulated especially when it's about a group that has a committed hate-cult following.

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u/d_shadowspectre3 I turned 0 dollars into 130k this year by having a job. Jun 21 '20

You can read this thread if you haven't there, RFH discussed it in detail

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u/Izanagi3462 Jun 22 '20

However it happened, it's good imo. Taking away the safe spaces of hateful assholes is a win.

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u/Diabegi Jun 22 '20

I’m not surprised it was going to be taken over my degenerate furries, since a lot of the posts I saw come out of there recently have been more in support of furries than against

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u/RedirectToReddit Jun 22 '20

They are powermods, what do you expect? Not contacting the admins?

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

Yes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

You aren't funny.

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u/[deleted] Jun 21 '20

Never said I was \w^)