Good Furry Awards addresses recent nominee drama
Our office has received several emails and texts over the last couple of months regarding nominees for the 7th Annual Good Furry Awards. These messages have been sent to criticize some of the nominees and to inform us that these are bad people unworthy of a prize or recognition of any kind.
While we have considered these messages seriously, most of the accusations recently are unsubstantiated or without merit. It should also be emphasized that none of the good deeds listed in the text of the nominations were refuted by any of the accusers attacking them for other charges, real or imagined.
When we decided to leave the nominees on the list, the Good Furry Awards were accused of supporting everything from stalkers to Nazis. We have also been accused of lacking integrity and being merely “an illegitimate popularity contest.” Some of these irate furries have also gone on to make posts on their or other websites against the Good Furry Awards and its chair, Kevin Hile (Grubbs Grizzly).
So, if you’ll bear with us, here is our official statement on the matter:
The Good Furry Awards are your Awards. Furries nominate candidates for the prizes, and furries vote for the ultimate winners. Unless a nominee has broken the law and has a criminal record attesting to that, or if they are ineligible because they have died or are otherwise not active in the fandom, or if the nomination text can be proven to be fallacious—that is, the good deeds listed are patently false and there is documentation to back it up that is not just a screenshot from a chat room, all nominations will be accepted.
If a nominee is truly despised by the fandom at large, then it is very likely (guaranteed, in fact) that they will not win the award, and a worthy candidate will be the winner. It has become clear to us that the criticisms our awards are currently receiving are the result of getting caught in the middle of petty rivalries, gatekeepers, and influencer wannabes. We refuse to take part in this furry drama. Just like a person responding to the exclamation “I do not support gay marriage!” with “then don’t marry a gay person” if people out there do not like a candidate, they can vote for someone else. If they don’t like the Good Furry Awards, they do not have to participate in them in any way.
This experience has only strengthened our resolve to continue with this awards program, which was founded on the principle that furries spend too much time trashing themselves and not enough time uplifting the fandom. In the past, we have received letters from various winners that receiving this accolade has cheered them immensely. We will continue to try and bring joy and recognition to furries, spreading light and happiness as we go.
Thanks to all of you who have sent in nominations and who participate by voting. We appreciate you.
Blessed Be,
The Good Furry Award Staff
About the author
Grubbs Grizzly — read stories — contact (login required)a self-employed writer, editor, publisher and grizzly bear from CA, interested in fursuiting, wildlife, writing and art
Born in 1965, I've been a furry since I was a little kid pretending to be a wolf from The Jungle Book (the book, not the film) or Chip from Chip and Dale. I discovered furries in the late 1980s when I stumbled on FurNation, but I didn't really start to get active until the 21st century, and, when I discovered my bear nature, started to get REALLY active, founding the BearFurries group on Yahoo, getting a fursuit from Beastcub in 2011, and writing the Ask Papabear column. In 2022, I started www.unclebearpublishing.com, a publishing house specializing in nonfiction for furries.
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Cassidy Civet has this fake award, opinion discarded, lmao
Is it our awards if we don't follow them, care about them, or even really know or want to know anything about who wins them? Like, WWE has a Hall Of Fame, for example, but how the hell can anyone have an "official" hall of fame for a "sport" that consists of all kinds of promotions that mostly don't exist anymore, spanning entire different territories and periods of history? Furry is getting to about that old, and like, similarly, has people obsessed with having an "official" enough anything to even make "official statements" about. Is furry a sport? Is it a business? Is it a genre of entertainment unto itself? Is it the size of, you know, acting, where it kind of makes sense (okay, I admit, even there it doesn't make total sense) to have The Oscars but then a bunch of smaller committees with less prestigious awards that are just as official? Self-awareness is often lacking in the fandom with these knee-jerk reactions, so Nazi accusations, etc, might be a red-herring in reality and people could just be lashing out at the premise. These have almost never been conflict free awards/committees when they exist in the fandom. It's like you want to start a whole separate society but can't make it work, because you keep replicating the old society, "furry style" like it changes things.
He really isn't cut out for this.
I LOL'd at his statement "there is documentation to back it up that is not just a screenshot from a chat room" ... like where the fuck does he think the community interacts?
Some of the worst PR I've ever seen.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/859133158694341/permalink/1463155351625449/?mibe...
"Hello, everyone.
Okay, this is rough. For some reason this year, several of the nominees have been attacked and, by association, the awards as well. It got so bad with one of the nominees that I took them off the list of candidates. This was the Furgeddabout it staff. I took down their listing after a newspaper article was sent to our email that the con chair had a weapons charge. A newspaper article and verifying that the charges had been made compelled us to drop the nominee. It seemed a reasonable action at the time given the nature of the awards.
We were contacted today by the chair, Osiris, and another furry and were shown that all charges had been dismissed by the courts. We are satisfied that this was indeed the case and that Osiris is innocent of wrongdoing.
As chair of the Good Furry Awards, I apologize for this rash action against the Furgeddaboutit chair and his staff and resolve to do better in the future.
Sincerely,
Kevin Hile, Chair, The Good Furry Awards"
Hold up, hold up, lemme see if I can condense this, like some fine, Andy Warhol cans of soup LOL since that's MY "official best artist, fuck a furry fandom!" We're The Good Furry Awards, the Furgeddabout it staff scared us into dropping a nominee because unlike rappers, we can't believe in either due process, or giving someone an award if they're less than perfect. Anyway, now that someone calling themselves Osiris, but not the rapper, gave us the 411, it's all good with homie now! And all this shit was settled in court, know'msayin'?! We're official, and this is serious reality. Did I get it right?
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The comments above are made by people with 2 things in common:
1. They are afraid to give their real names
2. They have not done anything with their lives worthy of an award or any other kind of recognition and probably never will
It is impossible for me to be offended by people I neither know nor respect.
Kevin Hile, Publisher, Uncle Bear Publishing
I NEVER 1-star hardly anybody but holy fuck, how DARE YOU imply people are cowards for not DOXXING themselves! I don't see YOU doing it! Or are you going to be like one of the digital Wal-Martians that are FB users and dump a box of screencaps from your days as an indy wrestler, "sacrificing your body for the sport" in a fucking high school gym? Okay, well even he wasn't giving his real name on the site defined by "being the real you" where it's a POLICY, and hello, furry fandom?! I'm dying of smoke inhalation from the Nova Scotian wildfire, the fuck makes you think we take any of this shit seriously? GTFO. You ain't shit. Go doxx minors somewhere else, they don't tend to kick it here, it's too 90's!
Welcome to the internet, boomer. People don't put their real names on their fursonas because it is the internet. Some of us run things here and stay extra careful. Some of us don't want to put up with stupid boomers and annoying kids. Some of us are just private so we can stay in character. What absolute dogshit PR you have.
This reads like a corporate nonpology letter crossbred with a 'Sorry for insulting those ($&@(' type post in one. And this 'y'all just jelous!' reply pretty much seals it. VERY inappropriate.
LOL IKR?! We're so professional guys! We got the costumes, we talk the trash in our "official" organizations, we don't wrestle or anything, but we're professionals! Furry "bloodsports" LOL
Read my comment above.
Kevin Hile, Publisher, Uncle Bear Publishing
If your "Good furry award" nominees are consistently mired in controversy, then it might be a systemic issue with your award. Just saying.
This award really has no standing or credibility.
https://bsky.app/profile/dorje.stego.dad/post/3lw6gw6fsqk2t
Read a pop-up book.
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