The video in question: "I Made a 3D Model (I Love Blender)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgEbJEtnSfY

>brings adorable bird-person version of Blender-logo into existence for a mere YT thumbnail

>never Anthrofied anything before or since

>leaves

>refuses to elaborate

https://x.com/MooseArtAD/status/1013282866468274178

Original photo taken 1955 by photographer Phil Stern

https://www.philsternarchives.com/hollywood/stars/james-dean/

https://x.com/anthonysuarezjr/status/1816521823271698591

Original:

https://www.abebooks.com/9780439148245/Internet-First-Discovery-Book-Books-0439148243/plp

https://x.com/merzb0w/status/1482129005499219969

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21117116/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21039619/

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26865073/

What the HELL is Animalympics? (Furry Olympics) -- a video essay by Saberspark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6bDffuQHU4

ANIMALYMPICS (1980) | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZuWT0hglZ8

https://archive.org/details/animalympics1980

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalympics

Notes from the Wiki article:

Animalympics was commissioned by NBC in 1978, as the network intended Lisberger Studios to create it as two hour-long specials to be paired alongside coverage of both the 1980 Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics then held in Moscow. But after the Soviet Union had invaded and gained control of Afghanistan, then United States President Jimmy Carter decided to boycott the Moscow Summer Olympics. Because of this, NBC canceled its Olympic coverage and the Animalympics Summer special.

However, from its conception, producer Donald Kushner and director Steven Lisberger intended the project as a feature-length theatrical release (complete with Dolby surround sound via 35mm film), even though The Winter Olympics special was already considered being nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

Among those who worked on Animalympics were art director/animator Roger Allers, animation director Bill Kroyer, and animator Brad Bird. Allers, who animated Kit Mambo, the lion star of Animalympics, went on to direct The Lion King. Kroyer later wrote and directed the Oscar-nominated short Technological Threat and the animated feature FernGully: The Last Rainforest. Brad Bird went on to work as story editor of The Simpsons, and later achieved even greater success writing and directing The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille. Director Lisberger went on to conceive, co-write and direct the science fiction cult classic Tron, which some of the Animalympics crew were involved in. Its soundtrack supervisor was Michael Fremer, who was involved in Animalympics as a co-writer, voice artist, dialogue/music track editor and sound mix supervisor. Fremer also went on to supervise the soundtrack to Tron as well.

https://x.com/mochiri_work/status/1191003396775579656

https://x.com/GIMP_Official/status/1330329371048095744

https://www.gimp.org/news/2020/11/21/25-years-of-gimp/

FOSS mascots, left to right, top to bottom:

• Firefox (web browser)
• [unknown]
• Puffy the pufferfish (OpenBSD, operating system)
• Tux the penguin (Linux, operating system)
• Wilber (GIMP, image editor)
• GNU (free software collection)
• Suzanne the monkey (Blender)
• Beastie the daemon (BSD, operating system)
• Konqi the dragon (KDE, international free software community)

Even more FOSS animal/Anthro mascots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computing_mascots

https://fixupx.com/melonfella/status/1753742139425542450

"The Star Wars lore states that Jawas are rodent-like furry creatures and EU Tuskens were related to Jawas so that can only mean that they are rat and mice people."

https://x.com/WolfdawgArt/status/1663678933483520003

Today's fun fact: Discord's logo is not only a game controller reference, but is also one of their mascot characters, Clyde.

Main/thumb art by DreamAtDusk https://x.com/dreamatdusk/status/1675260567806935040

https://x.com/rivergravidade/status/1522074790554906627

Art by Blooming~Lynx https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51153165/

https://x.com/lottieplus/status/1794043109354926501

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35312145/

Main img src: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47830714/

Paraphrased from the E621 explainer on 6/26:

On June 26 2015, the United States Supreme Court, presiding over the landmark case of Obergefell v. Hodges, declared in a 5–4 decision that homosexual couples have the fundamental right to marry per both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and that any state-level bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. This tag is for posts where characters celebrate that decision in the form of gay pride.

Stitch from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise tends to be popularly affiliated with this date as well, due to his Experiment number (626). Even though he is canonically portrayed in Disney media as heterosexual (most notably his relationship with Experiment 624/Angel), he has become a minor gay rights icon in some circles. The fact that "Stitch Day" or "626 Day" landed on the day of the decision did not go unnoticed by Lilo & Stitch film co-director/co-writer Dean DeBlois, who is openly gay. On the day of the decision, he posted a sketch on his Twitter account of Stitch and Scrump respectively waving a rainbow flag and a flag with the logo of the Human Rights Campaign.

https://inkbunny.net/s/1915908-p2

https://inkbunny.net/s/2475973-p2

Bonus solo Anthro-Stitch art

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21756701/

https://x.com/sannota272/status/1579436804318859265

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/110435732

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38414995/

Deadass don't know a single other person under 40 who's seen this stupid flying-car movie lol

Have a wacky ~~Aeromorph~~ Carmorph from RenTheDragon to enhance those distant 20th century memories

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28529313/

https://x.com/merzb0w/status/1591881905779400704

Art by @MoozuaMary on Twitter

https://x.com/MoozuaMary/status/1594016376284643329

Art by UnownedID

https://e621.net/posts/3722918

EDIT: trans-flag emoji broken everywhere except Telegram apparently 💀

https://x.com/bigcozyorca/status/1744954806685327614

https://itaku.ee/images/721851

1. We're here, we're Queer, get used to it.
2. Love & Tolerate; Bash the Fash.
3. Everyone gets yiffed (consensually).
4. There is an Anthro or Furryfied version of everything. Yes, even that. And that too. No exceptions.
5. Someone, somewhere, thinks you're hot. No exceptions.
6. Someone, somewhere, shares your kinks. No exceptions.
7. Every part of Furry is a collective responsibility, comrade. (Even this text -- suggestions welcome!)
8. Everyone "totally not a Furry" will get good-naturedly mocked by Furries. No exceptions.
9. Furry-hate is laundered Queer-hate. Stay vigilant.
10. Furries make the Internets go.
11. We are literally older than human civilization. We outlasted the Puritans, 4chan, SomethingAwful, CSI, Vanity Fair, and the Burned Furs. We are still here. The Fandom still grows and expands (uwu). We shall endure. We are inevitable. Expect us.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko

Main / thumbnail art by Holo Eden

https://twitter.com/HOlo_Eden/status/1362887716455788544

art by Jonas

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/23495969/

art by Kayama Akimaru

https://x.com/kayama_akimaru/status/1530554328377077760

https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/98823090

art by MrShin

https://inkbunny.net/s/2861777

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55378754/

Main / thumbnail art by Jarnqk

https://x.com/Jarnqk/status/1726121596191113537

Savanna's Pyroshark outfit, by ElisaLevin

https://x.com/ElisaDaBug/status/1654126656871886850 (NSFW source URL)

"I took this photo of a new loadout I made for Pyro in TF2 and I just thought it was simply too goofy and cute so I wanted to draw it :]"

https://x.com/Ponpuramu/status/1373696902793936897

"a friendly pyroshark" by CartoonCrayon

https://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/i6tlzn/a_friendly_pyroshark/

For those unfamiliar with TF2: the pyromaniac class has an unlockable melee weapon called the Neon Annihilator, which gives guaranteed critical hits (3x dmg) against enemies who have "wet" status -- an ironic weapon for a character whose majority of weapons deal fire damage.

As a result, this birthed the impractical but hilarious "PyroShark" playstyle, where Pyros neglect their flamethrowers for this item instead, camp areas with any water at all, and not-so-stealthily await to ambush enemy gamers who get the slightest bit wet.

To boot, a headwear cosmetic item was later added to the game simply called "Pyro Shark":

#FixTF2 by the way; the goofy PyroShark shenanigans cannot continue when TF2 servers are overrun with swarms of aimbots :(

https://x.com/Tokyozilla/status/1731989195223375878

Another train-dragon, also from Tokyozilla

https://x.com/Tokyozilla/status/1674178953710301184

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/8729550/

FYI ICYMI, TF2's official servers have been trolled by mass-aimbot farms for a solid 5 years in a row. Today (June 3rd, 2024) the TF2 community is launching the #FixTF2 campaign, to demand that Valve finally do something about it.

This problem goes far beyond TF2, since these bot hosters have proven willing to commit real-world crimes (swatting, doxxing, death threats, impersonation, hacking, DDOSing, etc.), and are heavily implied be mass-aimbotting Counter Strike servers as well, and who knows how many other multiplayer games. The upcoming Deadlock will surely be next, unless Valve finally employs more reliable anticheat measures.

Visit https://Save.tf to add your own signature (100,000+ signatures so far, all to be physically printed out and hand-delivered to Valve's main office), and to learn other ways you can help.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56866330/

Design based on Apple's iMac G3, as well as Vader-San's "Synth" species