To be honest the thing that bothered me the most about his video is he lied full stop. I attended ANE the nsfw section of the dealer's den WAS separate and you did need an id to enter that part, they checked my id multiple times even. So the fact that he lied for no discernible reason left a bad taste in my mouth. Unless he was talking about some other booth that was in the regular hall that I somehow missed, but that feels unlikely.
He lied because the video was never a good faith attempt to get to know the furry community. The implicit perpetuation of the homophobic stereotype of furries, hence queer people, being groomers and sexual predators was wholly intentional. Then he has the gall to claim he never meant to "spread harmful stereotypes." Punching down on furries was just his way of disguising thinly veiled homophobia under a more """socially acceptable""" veneer.
I never been to ANE but at FWA there was a few times wearing a fursuit the ID checker only looked at my handlers ID and not mine and let me into NSFW Dealers Den. So there is a chance his ID just wasnt check cause he had on a fursuit. Also I've seen a few times these 18+ magazines, body pillows, art, etc in the SFW Dealers Den at multiple cons and all they have to do is put a sticker over the naughty bits to be allowed...which like shouldnt be allowed there still potentially minors. But this video was made with a agenda so i have a feeling if his ID was checked he was always planning to say it wasnt.
@@TheSecretSwordsyea i saw a booth at FWA with loads of NSFW comics in the SFW side of vendor hall. The stickers covering the nsfw parts and they ask for ID before you look at anything. At least there isn’t anything crazy graphic out in the open(not that I saw) but it’s definitely there.
he did ask on the segment that he filmed, the second segment he didn't record video for for that reason. I'm glad he cut it though since it didn't really add much to the video and was rly unecessary.
@@goofiest_goober366 Yeah, tho there is a big difference of "can I film this?" (assuming its personal use) and "Can I film this?" (uploads for public use) If he was clear to the people what he'd use the film for, im sure everyone would've flat out rejected a camera in the room at all.
Test. That worked? Good. Here's what I've been trying to say: "It is also like studying anthropology and getting a doctorate just so you can prove that the human species does indeed exist."
I was doing human subject research ethics training recently for my senior thesis, and one of the *main* examples of ethics violations was the Tearoom Trade experiment, where Laud Humphreys, a researcher, went undercover and recorded his interactions and involvement with (often closeted) queer men's adult and private lives without their consent. The similarities with what Anthpo did in his video are uncanny
Dame! The fact that there are any similarities is deeply disturbing. I don’t know what to make of Anthpo at this point. What he did was frankly messed up. Honestly the video as a whole does feel like it’s objectifying and poking fun at furries as a whole. Although the end part was more nuanced and informative, the other parts of the video still feel slimy.
Anthpo had consent in the section he cut out and had a section he didn't film. Literally at the entrance to the room he asked, "is it okay if I film?" Not the same at all.
Except Ant did ask for consent to film prior and even showed that he asked in the video. And then got it. It was only a matter of aftermath being reprehensible. Sure, there are disingenuous factors, like the goal of searching for a “party” to begin with and not having a clarified view on the possible repercussions of the video. However, the majority of it was incorporated with participant consent and he had even gone on to mostly have fun, make valid critiques, address commonalities of the culture, and clear up poor stereotypes of the community. It’s not a 1-to-1 of the unconsensual putting of gay men and non-consensual filming of gay men.
Dude actively looked for an 0rgy, acted surprised when he found some and on top of that, actually went to 2 of them even though nobody was forcing him to. Only to make fun of them like he wasn't the weirdo youtuber in the room recording it.
He was pretending to be a Journalist , but he violated every rule of Good Journalism . The biggest fault is going into an investigation with a predetermined out come in mind . His apology sounds like it was written by his lawyer .
Yep. He had a preconceived idea in his mind and used his fursuit head, TikTok account, dance skills and position as a furry website admin to fulfill that goal. It's kinda twisted.
A real journalist wouldn't have had this published because it wouldn't make enough drama or have a stereotype surrounding it. We get so lucky when actual, good journalism manages to leave the BS cracks. Every other sincere person who has gone to cons actually have fun experiences and acknowledge that sexual stuff does happen at least once. But that's all locked away for adults and whatnot. Plus the bit where they said they went into the Dealers Den and found smut is plausible cause I found a single table selling it at IFC but they made sure not to let you view anything unless you had an ID present. But I really think Anthpo lied there for more clicks and went to the Adults section. I saw more things here for clicks and ragebait lol
Honestly I feel like Anthpo's video is a very good example on how people: 1, do anything to reach their goal (As seen by the business cards for the o**y, DMing all the people, which, after the video I doubt he continued DMing, etc) and 2, not question morals and only try to damage control after the whole thing has already gone downhill. The entirety of his video seems just... disingenuous, done with the sole purpose of talking about the "parties", with the other stuff as filler to try and put the furry fandom in a good spotlight before completely going from 0 to 100 in the most weird, manipulative way possible. At the end I genuinely felt... disgusted by his image, and with a reason. I personally percieve this like he was trying to be genuine about the furry fandom and all, just to end up being a controversy farm that could be used against the furry fandom.
All you said on top of how he and his friends acted when he showed off their options for fur suits just adds to the disingenuousness of what he was doing
@@hardidislike I get needing cheap suits but, they could’ve just worn a hat or smth, then again if it was for comedy that’s fine??? But yea this whole video was such a mess
he said a lot of nice things about the furry community and showed a few people sharing about their neurodivergence and other issues they face, i thought it was good
As an Anthpo fan who originally enjoyed the furry video (unedited), who is hearing about all this. Honestly, under a more critical eye and not just “omg Anthpo returned, new video!!”, the whole nsfw party aspect just feels gross. It ruins the whole video looking back on it and makes me feel gross for enjoying the video in general. If the video never included the party segment in the first place (even with all the censorship efforts), or just had him talking about it and not show anything, I don’t think the backlash would be as bad. But the whole party aspect & it BEING RECORDED originally being there puts a bad taste in my mouth now and really disappoints me as a fan of his content. Especially that the apology he has is just on Twitter and isn’t posted anywhere else as of making this comment. Like he doesn’t mention this anywhere else and it feels really scummy imo. It was already uncomfortable to watch at first (even though I did enjoy the video as stated), but looking at it under a more critical eye with the backlash makes me feel even worse. :( Edit: Actually editing this here, He shouldn’t have went to the furry party at all. Especially given that these people trusted him enough to flirt with him and were under the guise of this being a private thing. Something not meant for the public eye and just meant for people to have a “good time”, and that being thrown in the public eye by a guy who was just doing it for content. Even if it was heavily censored. It’s extremely violating.
I am sorry but his video isnt good at all like full stop His character is implied to be a zoo and pedo He made a furry persona that just feels like a stereotype of a autistic person on the internet He lied about kids being able to get hands on nsfw comics He is fatphobic in a community in wich is known for being accepting of fat people And also he acts grossed out about people being sexual when he is choosing to go in a sexual place
I saw the video before it got cut and it was basically just anthony going to the party he was invited to, getting naked in bed with the others, getting invited to one upstairs from that one, and then joined a guy in riding some guy's leg. crazy visual, but im glad he cut it out. those people still deserve privacy 😭
The part that bothered me most, was how he was mocking queer folks for having queer sexual experiences in a (supposedly) private and safe space. He violated their privacy and mocked them behind their backs. Like it’s every nightmare from high school, being mocked and attacked for being who you are.
The stuff still in the video is bad, I've seen some people say he could've focused on the dance competition instead but even that he screwed up by crashing it like he's some sort of narcissistic mid-tier kick streamer throwing a fit that the competition isn't centered around him. I'm a long time Anthpo follower and was upset he left but now I wish he hadn't came back, behavior I didn't take note of before is now impossible to miss in his older videos
could you give examples of his behavior that you're referring to from his older videos? after watching the furry video (which was very disappointing) and the alien one i remembered how much i used to enjoy his videos and how i thought he could probably never make content as good, or rather enjoyable to me, as his college videos. i watched a lot of them recently and i didn't get bad vibes or pick up on anything that i would consider bad. i'm genuinely curious, because i do agree with what you're saying however i struggle to find those aspects in his other, older videos.
@@kejsik6374 The dance competition had me thinking of the previous competitions he's done, I interpreted things in those videos as trying to construct a narrative for youtube but with how he threw a fit when he was out of the dance competition made me realize a lot of the competitions he's entered or entered by proxy have been aimed at different demographics of contestants then he is (Filipino, Korean, generally Asian, and now furry, just off the top of my head) and in the videos he's trying to make them about himself, trying to fit it into a narrative he likes. Clearly he didn't like the direction the Furry Dance Competition went in with it no longer involving him at all so he crashed it to desperately make it about him again Anyway I recently revisited "Disturbing students as Perry the Platypus" which I liked it the past but it had moments I didn't remember like while Anthpo is running around being disruptive he rolls around someone who says "I don't wanna be in your video", it's even captioned. He's also yelled at to get off the basketball court. Suffice to say the rose tinted glasses are off I didn't watch the Alien video but I am curious, is it as much of a dumpster fire as the furry video?
Crazy they didn't consider that giving business cards, in an attempt to get invited to an orgy, would result in them being invited to weird chats As if those aren't the only kind of people who would not just throw these away Also, the apology's obviously a huge fucking lie lol "I wasn't trying to perpetruate stereotypes about furries" THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT
on top of that Anthony talked about being “for the kids” and wanting them to be safe from nsfw but then he goes and leaves a nsfw business card right in the open in the hall or wherever he left it for any kid to wander up on and see. So hypocritical
The 200 day video really annoys me, because it’s that mixture of male teenage annoyance vibe + how it’s another example of someone trying to exploit (I don’t know if that’s the best way to describe it) the internets absolute trash ideas of what the furry community is. And I find it hard to believe that a person who spent all that effort and spoke to all those people, would have not know that. I will also add that it feels like he wanted an excuse to do something like this and say ‘oh no, it’s for the bit 😉‘. As well as that, when he did put that part near the end about how ‘furry aren’t all bad’ felt really half assed and more like a parody than anything else (especially when if it was genuine it should of been at the start of the or in parts like with the interview). Not even to mention how f***ed up and dehumanising it was to record and how this video has such main character syndrome with the crashing the dance competition. I feel like this is an example of how when people try to make fun of cringe so much they become the thing they once laughed at. I’m not even a furry btw, but this really annoyed me in all honesty. What do y’all think ?
It would not surprise me. His entire commitment to going undercover for half a year, becoming a furry admin, learning to dance, and actually buying one of SigmaX's comics is a sure fire way of saying "I'm not a furry but..."
There's a reason the whole half-assed 'furries aren't so bad' segment is toward the end of the video. If you're not paying too close attention to the video or have it playing in the background while doing something else, your takeaway will just be "oh he thinks furries are a little weird but still thinks they're cool, that's nice." None of the REALLY shitty things he does at the con sticks because they all come sandwiched between the fake evenhanded intro and a laughably disingenuous closing statement. It's manipulative editing. And yeah it's SUPER telling that he doesn't actually mention a single person in the community that he was friends with during the 200 day lead up, or have any kinds of examples of him interacting with the community before the con outside of his TikTok account where he just... RPs as what he assumes a furry is alone and starts fake beef with UA-camrs he already knows. Like the implication is either he DID have some actual friends that cut ties when they realized he was just using them for content (like really, not a single one of them was willing to give a statement or even get a shout-out in the video?), or he made 0 friends and felt too embarrassed to say so.
Agree but if it wasnt for anthony guy I wouldnt have known that people have sex with their head fursona l o l thats some weird thing even for a kink guy myself(you can laught but not insult then ok?lol) I hated anthonypo since beggining he always seemed anoying but he became huge in pandemic and he always appeared on my feed, glad people calling him out
OMG HE EDITED DOWN THE VIDEOOOOO. basically, he went to 2 parties. he didn’t film the first one, as everyone was naked, he undressed fully and got in bed, sandwiched between several other people. then, one of the people at that party went to another party, which he invited anthpo to. so, he put his clothes back on, went to the other party, where the people were, instead, only in their underwear. there was someone in a large cow suit, and there was someone in underwear straddling one of the cow’s legs, so anthpo stripped down to his underwear and did the same to the other leg. then, someone brought up that they had a strap-on they wanted to test on someone, and then he ditched the party and went back to his room. the second party was partially filmed, when he was straddling the cow’s leg, and the first one was re-interpreted by a rudimentary 3d animation with what i assume were animal crossing characters as he voiced-over what happened. ima be honest, when watching the video for the first time, it did rub me the wrong way. wanting to “infiltrate” the furry community is perfectly normal for youtubers to do. it happens all the time. but, infiltrating an or*y feels very VERY wrong. everyone in those rooms are there for a good time, and are sharing pleasant moments with eachother. but anthpo was there for content. i can’t imagine how embarrassed i would be after, knowing that i had fully exposed my own nude body to someone who was just there to be judgmental and put the events of the or*y into a video for content. i understand that the filming portion was what most people were concerned with, but the unfilmed voice-over half was just as egregious. the fact that he put it in the video at all isn’t even entirely the problem. but the fact that he actually went to one of these, where people are supposed to be fully comfortable with everyone in the room, when he was actually just doing it for content, feels like manipulation and deception. he made these people comfortable enough with him to invite him to have sex with them, when he actually was just doing it for views. it feels like when the cool girl/guy at school tries to get in bed with the weird girl/guy at school, just to “see if they’re actually that weird”, or to prove something, or to start rumors. it feels disgusting, and boarderline rap*ish. it’s awful edit: also, im curious to know how the aftermath went. he seemed to have made pretty good friends with several people at the con, and, as he showed, they even flirted with him. i wonder if he saw these people as real people, or if he just saw them as a “byproduct” of doing this “experiment”, and he ended up just ghosting all of them when he got his content. i’m suspecting it’s the ladder. once again, to go back to a school comparison, it feels like if someone was doing a science fair project on social cliques, and to test their theories, they sat with each social group at lunch for 1 or two weeks. and to get accurate results, they had to pretend to be interested in being friends with each one of the cliques during the experiment. but once the experiment was over, and the student was ready for the science fair, they stopped talking to all of their new friends cause they were just a catalyst for the good grade. once again, this feels very deeply of manipulation and deception. you either have to be deeply unintelligent, or boarderline evil to not have seen the issues with doing a video like this, before you did it. he had to have known he would make friends, so he either didn’t consider the fact that he’d have to keep the friends for the sake of not being an asshole, or he knew all along that he’d ghost every last one of them once he was finished with his routine content farm.
Honestly why isn't anyone talking about how he betrayed those people on a personal level? He had the mindset to manipulate these people and see them at their most vulnerable. To participate and see them naked and lie about being interested. To see them as specimens to be judged, to participate in someone's most intimate moment, manipulating, saying he wants to be there as an equal adult when really he's participating in the most VULNERABLE, INTIMATE state a human can BE in with a toxic and honestly abusive mindset. This is honestly so fucked. Imagine if someone literally slept with you in an intimate way and later you find out they only did it because they thought you were weird and wanted to investigate. That the whole time they were looking at you with disgust or as lesser than them. This is so beyond "oh that's bad" this is "That is the bottom of the barrel pit of what you can do to someone".
I feel like you guys (comments) aren’t understanding the issue with the party videos. It DOESN’T MATTER if it’s censored. The issue is that it was recorded in the first place. Usually recordings at these parties are fully consensual by everyone there. The fact faces needed to be blurred is an immediate show that this was NOT an agreed upon recording. That is the big issue. Especially if it is a sexual setting.
"The fact faces needed to be blurred is an immediate show that this was NOT an agreed upon recording." Not true. People can consent under the prevision their face is blurred. Do you think interviews with whistleblowers are done without consent when they have a blur over their face and voice distortion?
@@LightLovesU he asked if he could film even before entering the room and it wasn't a hidden camera. He was upfront and they permitted him to film. Meanwhile he didn't have footage of the other party he went to.
@@PileOfStones #1 we have no way of knowing if he has footage of the other party. #2 having a camera visible doesn’t mean permission to film. #3 All filming at these parties is usually for private purposes and not to be uploaded to UA-cam. There are many cut parts of the video that are direct barely censored clips from videos of the parties. I suggest watching some of the other videos on this topic to better understand the issue.
Beyond the footage of the room party, theres also just the general homophobia of the video. Making his Sigma character into a sex offender, using the idea that furries have mental disabilities as an "explanation" in his conclusion, dancing around the whole idea that he as a straight person was seeking out a gay encounter... beyond the clips removed, the whole video is just... ugh.
I got to see the original and it was just...weird. The part that got cut wasn't anything super crazy but it was uncomfortable seeing footage of what was presumably people who didn't know they were being recorded. My main gripe is that he made the party "the goal" which completely put it up on some pedestal like it was the only thing that mattered even though there was plenty of other positive stuff going on. If the whole video wasnt framed around the party then I feel like the rest of his experiences would of came through as fun and maybe his 8/10 rating might of had some sway power to people on the fence about the community, but his way of creating the content by bouncing between good things and silly cringe stuff like faking getting swatted, calling his mom, crashing the dance, etc just completely drowns it out and ruins the fact that he got super involved and seemed to have fun.
Literally, and he frames it as if he asked for consent from all parties but it’s clear he didn’t, what makes it more obvious that he didn’t is that someone in the room SAW the video and asked him for it to be cut out. Can’t be more cut and dry
I saw the original video where he went to the room. But he blurred all of the faces and changed the voices. That video was super cringe and hard to watch though.
in the og video, where he went into the second nsfw room (not the first one to be extra clear) he only burred the one guys face who was standing in the side of the bed and *didn’t* blur the two on the bed, which you could obviously see their fursuits and in a tight nit community can be easily identifiable.
@@internetchild2615in the second room, which he hardly blurred, there was one furry laying down on a bed (who i’ll call X) and another furry straddling said furries leg (who i’ll call Y). Anthony ended up switching places with Y and straddled X’s leg and started asking seductive things, totally leading X on. Anthony makes up some bs that his friend called and he has to leave so does. After he leaves the room he meets up with his mates and shows them videos of the encounter while laughing about it.
I was so glad to not have known this happened until like 20 minutes ago... well, can't unsee all this now. While I did know about these "furry parties" (dumb name lol) and of course the NSFW side of the fandom, I didn't think some random guy would go undercover into the fandom, go to a convention and film a room party in progress, get those parts cut out of the original video and then try to sweep it all under the rug. Like my guy... he violated so many people's trust with that and more than likely is getting sued behind the scenes. This is just wrong man...
What really grind my gears is the whole "heist approach" to the parties he's trying to break in. Like these parties being the holy grail, super prestigious and exclusive. There can be fun parties and private raves that are what drive the fandom forward, even build entire communities within the fandom. (see the fandom - room party episode) The meticulous planning involved to be at these parties when he's clearly not having interest in men baffles me. Ofc it's going to be gay. Tho the business card approach is pretty good I've seen that a few times with furs giving out their card for later interaction. If you wanna go to nfsw parties look out for inofficial group chats that pretty much any con has and see if they have parties going on
I saw the original vid, The parts that were removed, were the parts where he filmed in the party but all that we see is the people cuddling, which is kind of understandable that they wanted it taken down, especially if consent wasn’t given before hand
So this video started out kinda funny. Definitely wondering why my man spent 200 DAYS “under cover”, seems more like he was trying really hard. But once we get to the part where his mom wants pictures of ass from whatever bedroom shenanigans her actual flipping son is in… definitely lost me there. I think around day 10 I’d just admit that I’m a furry and have my own bedroom party, and also wouldn’t have included my mom. But that’s just me. Also crashing the dance party is essentially an F-tier stunt for attention. Overall this comes off as either a HUGE grab for attention, or otherwise is so out of touch that I question his ability to make adult decisions. Actually, I might question that regardless.
If one of your concerns is how lewd furry comic smut is in the vicinity of kids who may have access to it, I agree it's something that should be dealt with. The worst thing you can do as a content creator is to decide to spend half a year undercover as a furry in order to get into a room party and film it for an audience who is, I'm assuming, below the age of 17. Like, you should not be complaining about the open access of SigmaX art when your goal is to hunt down where the furry bacchanalia is going to be held and have your viewers watch that regardless of whether or not you blurred it out.
@@miigi-p4939 This is true. Book sellers always need to check IDs. Last year I went, Sigma's comics were sold in the adult section. Which means that this year, Anthpo had either: 1. Bought the comic, hid it in the kid section and filmed himself "pretending" to purchase it there 2. Filmed himself buying the comic in the adult section and edited the audio and video to make it look like it was in the kid section. If, by chance alone, it was sold in the kid section, then staff and sellers REALLY need to step up their responsibilities because that's a pretty bad sign. Even still, this guy can not make that argument if he's making a video documenting for his young audience how anyone can secretly get into an orgy. It's already showing much more about who Anthopo is as someone who pretends to be a furry, but already has a fixation on the sex. 😑I mean if police catch you after robbing a bank, and you say to them "I'm not real a bank robber, I'm just documenting for my audience how bank robbers do it..." there's a very high likelihood that you're a bank robber.
@@cinekodakexp folks at the convention have brought this up and those comics were in the adult section, Anthpo just misremembered and forgot that his con badge identified that he was an adult and so could walk into that space uninterrupted.
You are missing the fact that he made homophobic jokes and labeled all furries as neurodivergent and joined the furry fandom under false pretenses. He only slapped on the link to the Trevor project after being called out for posting non consensual videos in a private setting as band aid to make all better.
HEY THAT'S WHAT I SAID! I thought he was alright, but I just keep finding out MORE and MORE. It keeps going; he is actually a shit person from what it seems and past videos in between college. I actually liked his old content mannnnnn
I’m not trying to defend him abd im not a furry or anything and some of the stuff he did was pretty bad but I don’t think he was labeling all furries as autistic he was just saying that although a lot of people who are neurotypical might find furries weird it can be comforting hobby or community to those who aren’t neurotypical and that we shouldn’t judge
Guess what, filming people in intimate situations without their consent (and it has to be WRITTEN consent and clear about the intentions of the maker of the material if it's going public in any way) is actually a crime. As in jail time crime. He could have been SHAFTED HARD if the people in that party wanted to, and NOT in the fun way...
Ain’t no way bro filmed these people in the orgy WITHOUT THEM KNOWING. I don’t know about you but that sounds ILLEGAL. (This is what I got from the apology) Really hope the people involved aren’t traumatized.
@@meganek0597 Dunno he didn't have the entire conversation, just the start. Given the people who were there haven't come forward to say, "I was the guy who talked to him at the door and he didn't tell us it was going on UA-cam" it's unlikely it wasn't communicated.
Apparently anthro new england check your ID when you get your con badge and children get a different type of con badge and need to be chaperoned by an adult at all times. In other words it wasn't really that big of a concern but rather just vaguely homophobia adjacent
In the original video, before it was edited and demonetized, he had went to a room party one where they were clothed in one where they were naked. And he filmed everything it was like I did in like clip form. And their faces were blurred. Why you could still hear audio when he wasn't talking over the clip. Very illegal sounding
As far as I can tell, that video was 1 step forward and 2 steps back for the furry community. Worst part is that it wasn't even made by a furry, so they can't even be blamed for it. It's just another legitimite reason why they can't trust outsiders. Thanks for that.
Furries shouldn't be blamed for it, but all the anti-furs are going to use the video as an excuse to be homophobic, ablest and let it reaffirm what stereotypes of furries they have. He definitely didn't research enough or put enough care in the video to not make all those "subtle" stereotypical jokes at the whole community's expense.
I unfortunately watched the full video like 10 minutes after it was uploaded (I used to watch his old videos so I got the notification) and yeah... it was definitely not in our favor 😐
It honestly sucks because he could’ve very well. Been trying to put a good spotlight on the fandom, but it just didn’t work out. :[ and he was so committed to getting to what he wanted. He didn’t stop to think if he should, he invaded peoples privacy and I am a minor so I cannot comment on this but he did do that and that’s not OK it violates and even if he did get permission I’m sure he didn’t tell them that he’d be making fun of them on the Internet, and even if it was just cuddling, people can recognize other peoples faces, or even their fur suits, if they chose to use those and that can get people in some hot water for frankly, doing nothing wrong, but having what adults do ;-; he definitely went about it, and the entirely wrong way and I kind of feel bad for him, but I also feel bad for the people involved. It might not have been him trying to force something but him trying to find something he was excited about but then again, why would he be excited about something something like that if he’s not in the fandom??? ;w; idk
who tf did that? tbh in brazil we got a case where a guy that make child content released a book and in the book there is a question of how the kid call their genitals.... ITS A KIDS BOOK BRO WTF
I hit dislike to the original video after I read BarleyTheBurr's thread on Twitter and watched twice about the mess. That's why the room parties are always private.
I actually got to watch the unedited version, Beta... Anthpo certainly didn't skimp on the details of it... And the first thing that happened with the parties. Anthpo had only the audio recorded and had remade it as a 3d animation with Animal Crossing villagers. Anthony, through post-audio and the audio from the actual recording of the first party, explained that he went to the first party and as soon as he knocked on the door, he was told he couldn't come in unless he was completely naked. Then, Anthony explained how he took off his clothes, and then was invited in the room and him and a few other people were squished in a single bed together and just cuddled and talked. In the original video, Anthony actually described the experience as "kinda wholesome." Then, after a little while of being at that party, a person at the party was leaving to another party and invited Anthony to come along. And then, when Anthony got to this party, he actually got video of this one, but it wasn't a very good video, so he still remade and explained it with editing pngs. He explained that when he walked into the room of the other party, there was a tall person lying on their back in one of the beds in a full bear fursuit, and there was someone on their left leg *"thrusting"* as Anthony explained it. Then, he was invited to do the same thing, and then after a few minutes of being at that party, Anthony faked getting a call from his roommate and left. And then that's where the video goes back to the "Seeing Ben after that hour and a half was..." part. So... it was a total invasion of privacy for the furries who were involved, and I'm glad that Anthony made the right decision and cut it out.
@@matleo7988 With most of these people they still want the attention and the comedy spin. B.O.T.W. (Ben) did that before in Europe and it wasn't as chill. He played the same prank cards time and time again. Of course, not enough to actually get kicked. But it's what some people wanna see. We know how it is in the fandom anyways. Hell, only one guy did an "undercover" with his friends and it was just chill af and down to earth. They got tipsy of course but I don't blame them. I think it was someone named Spoonkid or somthin'. Overall, I think that was more respectful than what we got here. I won't defend what Anthony did in any sense. I pray the lawyers didn't have to watch that footage either.
At the very least, he did originally blur everything and tone shifted every voice It's still not ideal; it's good that he removed the section entirely; but he did take precautions to hide identities
@@ccasserole5267 Recording people without consent is legal in some states (I haven't checked the specific state, however) A lot of people recording in public often blur entire people in the background, which he did blur the entire scene besides himself; thus, if it were in a "open, urban environment" it wouldn't have been considered unethical However, I do agree this sort of scenario could be considered unethical; just all the usual protective measures were taken if it was a more typical, public setting
@@owlenderg Yeah cause like we don't know who those people were and obviously privacy is a major concern. Some of these people don't want to be seen, and that should be respected. ESPECIALLY IF IT WAS A PRIVATE EVENT. I do not care about the public side; as you aren't actively around people that could object where it is legal and you'll usually do a "call-ahead" scenario. But I mean, I know that if any shit was to go down at a room party, whether I'm involved or not, I don't wanna be on camera. I wouldn't want that on my work record, honestly.
@@ReddFourBirds while I fully agree, everyone was fully blurred and unrecognizable Measures for anonymity were taken, but probably shouldn't have been recorded in the first place
I was going to say the same thing. I feel like by cutting it out it makes people who didn’t see the original uncut version imagine the worst possible scenario of him filming the parties while if I remember right he just went to a nudist cuddle party and then left an or-gee (not sure if UA-cam will block it if I spell it right) before anything could happen.
holy shit... I watched it right as the vid came out and the, uh room vids were in there and I thought surely that cant be legal- especially posted a place where chrildren has access to
He turned the comments off on his video so you know he knows how much hot water he's in. Also, his comments are either making fun of the extent he went to, talking about how weird it is he even went to the parties in the video or insinuating hes a furry
It does feel kinda sucky because it does sound like he did an amazing video with one super messed up part he wasn't thinking about and it ruined the whole thing for tons of people, but outside of that the message is great and one thing I always love about his videos
Unfortunately it seems like his whole video is sprinkled with horribly poor taste 'jokes' and disrespectful conduct on his part while under the 'guise' as Sigma. His tik toks especially highlight how off his take on "what being a furry is about"
One thing which made me ludicrously angry is that one of Anthony's friends jokes about him getting HIV. Which is fucked up because quite a large amount of furries are gay or LGBT, and LGBT people were some of the biggest victims of the HIV epidemic, so for his friend to make the joke (Anthony and his friends are straight if I recall) and then having the audacity to laugh at it? Its absolutely vile. He should have taken the video down.
"Infiltrating furries"? The guy is way more furry than me. I would say way more furry than most furries. Buying actual fursuit, becoming a furry content creator for over half a year, making a lot of friends, getting a job at the con, writing a song and learning a dance in order to WIN a competition? I mean, what stunned me is that after he returned from the "party", which meant his infiltration mission was over, he was still like: "Man, I really want to put a fursuit on and dance in front a large audience of furries. Too bad I didn't qualify in the contest... I could go home... But no, I will crash the dance floor and do it anyway!" In my eyes, that's not an action of somebody who just wanted to infiltrate a den of lowly lowlifes and then get the fuck out of there. That's an action of somebody who so thoroughly enjoyed being there that he wanted it to continue. And despite he was not allowed to, he did it anyway. Either that, or he did this merely for the sake of showing off. Testosterone took over his brain and he had show off even though it was in front of cringe people... But then, he didn't have to do it in his fursuit did he...? Since it didn't count in the competition anyway. But then, all positive thoughts I have about him are lost when I remember the part when he basically made a sexual compromat on unsuspecting victims. That puts him in the league of some fine people like Epstein or Weinstein.
The first day of my first con I was invited to a room party... for 3D printing nerds. While I did have to leave early, I somewhat doubt there was an orgy after I left, even with all the alcohol provided. Also wow that was difficult to finish watching. He managed to out-cringe the furries, bravo.
I’ve seen the original video and he at least went out of the way to blur everyone’s faces but the action of recording things like how he did is still scummy. He literally went out of the way to hide his phone as he (mostly) recorded the audio of the room (adding to his wrong doings as no one was aware he was recording). There weren’t any directly sexual acts as he said but he did mention that he had to get naked to enter the room (put two and two together) which adds to the sliminess of his action (being that private events like these shouldn’t be publicized without the consent of others). He really did miss a lot of steps like Beta said to get that initial video out there.
First convention I ever went to was one I had only heard about thanks to a friend who just went for the room parties. She's not even a furry, she just likes the room parties.
The animation part still had their live garbled voices though, and even if he had only used his own voice to tell the story, he still manipulated all those people to trust him and let him into their space
He also didn't have to include anything from it in the first place 😭like he had the money to commission someone to do animation for the first segment so he could've just... done that twice and not been a creep
Can I just also go over the fact that I actually hate that he returned to youtube? He built up this whole thing of him leaving, having this sentimental moments in his videos and the countdown, only to be gone for a year, come back and take down both his merch site and the site with his friends and make this video And I also hate that he changed his channel banner as well as his youtube profile picture like he couldn't leave this channel to be like a time capsule
I liked anthpo before he quit, so for the video where he came back I was pretty excited, and I watched the furry video on it's debut, not thinking too hard until the whole thing was over because I just didn't want to believe that the entire thing would be negative, and then when the video ended and he didn't acknowledge any of the shit he did I was just absolutely flabbergasted; ashamed of having watched it on premiere and ashamed of having been excited for it.
As a furry myself when i watched the video i just saw it as a non-furry doing their casual shenanigans and to be honest i dont think this video really proves anything other than furrycons being super fun. It was funny seeing how Anthony thought it was easy getting to an nsfw party when all of us know its not that common and its not gonna show up unless you look for it.
Hey, you got one thing wrong that can be a bit dangerous to not address or correct, they don't just have NSFW stuff out in the open for minors to see, the con states minors need to be chaperoned, when you get your badge you need to show your ID to the staff, if you are a minor you get a different badge stating you are a minor, and you have to show your badge to both enter the artist area AND purchase stuff. If you show the minor badge, you cant buy or see the NSFW stuff. Antpo here is implying they can sell porn to minors, and you agreeing with him about this being a little whoopsie that cons need to be more careful about can put these whole cons in danger. They do check IDs, by way of checking the badges.
I was subbed to you before and have been wondering why I haven’t seen you on my feed. I think UA-cam’s messing with me. Regardless, this is definitely an interesting suggestion to give me to get me to come back lol(I didn’t finish the video yet but “undercover as a furry” is not a strong start). After watch update: I’m ngl, didn’t expect him to have had footage of the party(whether or not it was sexual). His video didn’t start off bad but I agree that the undertones felt slimy to some degree, especially after he crashed the dance competition. I wish he had taken a more educational route to the video rather than what was released.
I actually got to watch the unedited first version of his video. The first room he went to had a group of people on the bed naked side by side just cuddling and petting each other. No intercourse at all. He didn't show a video of what happened inside(Or just didn't show the video) but he did make a 3d rendition of what occurred using animal crossing type characters/3d models (Shown at 21:35 in Bootle's video). He left the first room after a bit by faking a text/call from a friend and went to the second and final room. The second room was more spicy and he did show the video of what happened inside the room but it was blurred (Can't remember if it was partial or just the full screen). The camera was on a table/chair that directly faced the bed. They had a fursuiter laid out on the bed. All that was shown was him getting on top of the fursuiter's leg or something like that. I can't remember exactly what he did but it was more sexual than the first room. Although he did not have intercourse with anyone. Just more physical. Wish I could remember what exactly was shown but what I've written gives a very good idea of what he cut out. I'm sure someone saved it somewhere.
I’ve been following anthpo since literally before he graduated high school, so seeing stuff like this is just so disappointing. I saw someone say that he’s acting like the popular kid that interacts with the weird kid as a way to mock them and that’s exactly what this feels like. The way he made fake friendships to low key manipulate people into getting what he wanted so he could point and laugh when he finally “proved these parties are real” is so off putting. I’ve watched him graduate high school AND collage but he’s still seems like he’s acting like a 16 year old boy
Man, I feel my blood boil the whole time Im watching this Id give his video the remaining 2/10 from his rating of the fandom, this whole thing just felt slimy
The fact that you watched this video after he removed the recordings of the con party I feel made you not aware of just how bad it was. It was straight up a camera placed on a chair or something, in a position I imagine he just hit record and placed it there without telling anyone. He censored a lot of it, but it's still disgusting to upload that. Plus, he literally showed it to his friends completely uncensored and laughed about it. The dude is a massive scumbag
As someone who saw the original full video when it first came out I was horrified of what damage it could cause to the furry community. But, as I watched your/this reaction I realized that (thankfully) Anthony cleaned up the video and took out the original rudeness and very clear oblivion to what he was doing. Thankfully the 2 minutes of the "furry party" that I saw really wasn't that bad and only was cuddling (like he said) and all faces were blurred. Still a weird and oblious thing to do but I'm glad he came out about how that could negatively affect the community and the people in the video. (thank you for listening to my rant lol)
Even with that part cut out, the video is slightly damaging for the community. The homophobic jokes of getting STDs while hyping up how uncomfy he is going to a party that he can decline, to the insinuation of furries mostly being autistic while never even mentioning the queer side (unless it's to make jokes of gay things); That won't look good to someone not in the know of furries at all, even to antis it'll just fuel what stereotypes they believe in further. It all made me slightly horrified/concerned about the conflicting messages.
The sheer details he went through to do this *_WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO DISQUIETING & UNCANNY A.F._* (kinda) if he didn't show his county inmate/state chain-gangster "master plan."
We all know that the he will secretly continue being a furry. You could tell he really had fun some times. He's got the taste of it now, but i imagine he still feels the need to keep up an image as a non-furry to his old friends.
11:30 You just validated his pedo-smear against the con, Why?? He told a lie about children accessing adult furry magazines, you said "well, good point."-No, it's terrible.
24:11 so I’m happy he clarified that the filming wasn’t entirely secretive, although it’s still gross that he probably used the footage in a way they were unaware of and didn’t consent to, I take issue with ‘cuddling’ though - from what I remember people were in states of undress and someone was grinding on someone else’s leg. Like he did film sexual things. Idk. Sucks that he did this.
His videos are informative sometimes. I've seen these 2 suiters at ANE. In fact, I took pics of them. Awesome video beta. Keep it up and hope to see you at the next con.
I recently saw a video about a guy who is a furry but did a lot of wrong things related to minors and such, but an issue in the video was raised about the characteristics of this person's fursona because he used the genitalia of a horse and both the person who made the video and in the comments there were many people saying that furries are zoos because they like to have, see or want the genitalia of an animal, even for me being a furry some real characteristics added to the fursona I don't like to see because turn it to much feral and very close to zoo... the furries that don't do that they end up receiving hate and judgment from those who like it. That's something important to discuss
To be honest the thing that bothered me the most about his video is he lied full stop. I attended ANE the nsfw section of the dealer's den WAS separate and you did need an id to enter that part, they checked my id multiple times even. So the fact that he lied for no discernible reason left a bad taste in my mouth. Unless he was talking about some other booth that was in the regular hall that I somehow missed, but that feels unlikely.
Massive yikes (regarding Anthpo) :(
He lied because the video was never a good faith attempt to get to know the furry community. The implicit perpetuation of the homophobic stereotype of furries, hence queer people, being groomers and sexual predators was wholly intentional. Then he has the gall to claim he never meant to "spread harmful stereotypes." Punching down on furries was just his way of disguising thinly veiled homophobia under a more """socially acceptable""" veneer.
@@ccasserole5267 yes, there is a good video from Keith Ballards second channel about this video and how it is homophobic
I never been to ANE but at FWA there was a few times wearing a fursuit the ID checker only looked at my handlers ID and not mine and let me into NSFW Dealers Den. So there is a chance his ID just wasnt check cause he had on a fursuit. Also I've seen a few times these 18+ magazines, body pillows, art, etc in the SFW Dealers Den at multiple cons and all they have to do is put a sticker over the naughty bits to be allowed...which like shouldnt be allowed there still potentially minors.
But this video was made with a agenda so i have a feeling if his ID was checked he was always planning to say it wasnt.
@@TheSecretSwordsyea i saw a booth at FWA with loads of NSFW comics in the SFW side of vendor hall. The stickers covering the nsfw parts and they ask for ID before you look at anything. At least there isn’t anything crazy graphic out in the open(not that I saw) but it’s definitely there.
idc if you love or hate furries, filming people in sexual situations WITHOUT consent is really fucked up tbh
THANK YOU WHO THE HELL DOES THAT ISN’T THAT ILLEGAL???
@@Dingus-69420wait… *flips pages* It is!
it’s not a “tbh”, it’s “going to prison”!
he did ask on the segment that he filmed, the second segment he didn't record video for for that reason. I'm glad he cut it though since it didn't really add much to the video and was rly unecessary.
@@goofiest_goober366 Yeah, tho there is a big difference of "can I film this?" (assuming its personal use) and "Can I film this?" (uploads for public use)
If he was clear to the people what he'd use the film for, im sure everyone would've flat out rejected a camera in the room at all.
Dude devoted his entire existence into becoming Furry Cringe for 200 days, in order to prove that Furry Cringe exists.
Genius.
That's like becoming an astrophysicist to prove that the earth is round
@@commenter621 or an anthropologist to prove that humans exist.
I mean he was the cringe furry all along
@@commenter621 or an anthropologist to prove that humans exist.
Test.
That worked? Good. Here's what I've been trying to say:
"It is also like studying anthropology and getting a doctorate just so you can prove that the human species does indeed exist."
I was doing human subject research ethics training recently for my senior thesis, and one of the *main* examples of ethics violations was the Tearoom Trade experiment, where Laud Humphreys, a researcher, went undercover and recorded his interactions and involvement with (often closeted) queer men's adult and private lives without their consent. The similarities with what Anthpo did in his video are uncanny
Dame! The fact that there are any similarities is deeply disturbing. I don’t know what to make of Anthpo at this point. What he did was frankly messed up. Honestly the video as a whole does feel like it’s objectifying and poking fun at furries as a whole. Although the end part was more nuanced and informative, the other parts of the video still feel slimy.
That is nuts, what an amazing parallel. Gonna mention this to any anthpo defenders
Anthpo had consent in the section he cut out and had a section he didn't film. Literally at the entrance to the room he asked, "is it okay if I film?" Not the same at all.
Except Ant did ask for consent to film prior and even showed that he asked in the video. And then got it. It was only a matter of aftermath being reprehensible.
Sure, there are disingenuous factors, like the goal of searching for a “party” to begin with and not having a clarified view on the possible repercussions of the video. However, the majority of it was incorporated with participant consent and he had even gone on to mostly have fun, make valid critiques, address commonalities of the culture, and clear up poor stereotypes of the community.
It’s not a 1-to-1 of the unconsensual putting of gay men and non-consensual filming of gay men.
Oh, that’s so horrible/gen
Dude actively looked for an 0rgy, acted surprised when he found some and on top of that, actually went to 2 of them even though nobody was forcing him to.
Only to make fun of them like he wasn't the weirdo youtuber in the room recording it.
He was pretending to be a Journalist , but he violated every rule of Good Journalism .
The biggest fault is going into an investigation with a predetermined out come in mind .
His apology sounds like it was written by his lawyer .
Yep. He had a preconceived idea in his mind and used his fursuit head, TikTok account, dance skills and position as a furry website admin to fulfill that goal. It's kinda twisted.
@@cinekodakexpBro couldve worked for the CIA
Not really, but yeah the apology was written with lawyer 100%
A real journalist wouldn't have had this published because it wouldn't make enough drama or have a stereotype surrounding it. We get so lucky when actual, good journalism manages to leave the BS cracks.
Every other sincere person who has gone to cons actually have fun experiences and acknowledge that sexual stuff does happen at least once. But that's all locked away for adults and whatnot.
Plus the bit where they said they went into the Dealers Den and found smut is plausible cause I found a single table selling it at IFC but they made sure not to let you view anything unless you had an ID present. But I really think Anthpo lied there for more clicks and went to the Adults section. I saw more things here for clicks and ragebait lol
He also ghosted the journal he was supposed to be writing for.
Honestly I feel like Anthpo's video is a very good example on how people: 1, do anything to reach their goal (As seen by the business cards for the o**y, DMing all the people, which, after the video I doubt he continued DMing, etc) and 2, not question morals and only try to damage control after the whole thing has already gone downhill. The entirety of his video seems just... disingenuous, done with the sole purpose of talking about the "parties", with the other stuff as filler to try and put the furry fandom in a good spotlight before completely going from 0 to 100 in the most weird, manipulative way possible. At the end I genuinely felt... disgusted by his image, and with a reason. I personally percieve this like he was trying to be genuine about the furry fandom and all, just to end up being a controversy farm that could be used against the furry fandom.
All you said on top of how he and his friends acted when he showed off their options for fur suits just adds to the disingenuousness of what he was doing
@@hardidislike I get needing cheap suits but, they could’ve just worn a hat or smth, then again if it was for comedy that’s fine??? But yea this whole video was such a mess
@@hardidis Yeah... it's just, sad to see people like them doing this kinda shit
I had a quite similar opinion, I do just find it more annoying than anything else.
@@RanEdgar-ok3wk It’s not the costumes I’m talking about, it’s their behavior with them when being introduced to the suits. But agreed
Their whole video basically has the energy of "popular kid interacting with the weird kid just to find more things about them to laugh at".
He’s the weird kid. He’s the one that went to a furry convention just to get ‘hugged’
Did you see the last part of his video? Like did you watch it through
@@PalomaMatte he deleted the borderline sex scenes from the video after massive backlash
I think you need to relax. You're projecting insecurity.
he said a lot of nice things about the furry community and showed a few people sharing about their neurodivergence and other issues they face, i thought it was good
As an Anthpo fan who originally enjoyed the furry video (unedited), who is hearing about all this. Honestly, under a more critical eye and not just “omg Anthpo returned, new video!!”, the whole nsfw party aspect just feels gross. It ruins the whole video looking back on it and makes me feel gross for enjoying the video in general.
If the video never included the party segment in the first place (even with all the censorship efforts), or just had him talking about it and not show anything, I don’t think the backlash would be as bad. But the whole party aspect & it BEING RECORDED originally being there puts a bad taste in my mouth now and really disappoints me as a fan of his content. Especially that the apology he has is just on Twitter and isn’t posted anywhere else as of making this comment. Like he doesn’t mention this anywhere else and it feels really scummy imo.
It was already uncomfortable to watch at first (even though I did enjoy the video as stated), but looking at it under a more critical eye with the backlash makes me feel even worse. :(
Edit: Actually editing this here, He shouldn’t have went to the furry party at all. Especially given that these people trusted him enough to flirt with him and were under the guise of this being a private thing. Something not meant for the public eye and just meant for people to have a “good time”, and that being thrown in the public eye by a guy who was just doing it for content. Even if it was heavily censored. It’s extremely violating.
Also re watching this video, some more of the bad vibes the rest of the comments are talking about become a lot more noticeable too.
I am sorry but his video isnt good at all like full stop
His character is implied to be a zoo and pedo
He made a furry persona that just feels like a stereotype of a autistic person on the internet
He lied about kids being able to get hands on nsfw comics
He is fatphobic in a community in wich is known for being accepting of fat people
And also he acts grossed out about people being sexual when he is choosing to go in a sexual place
If we remove the furry angle, he also just plain was a straight guy trying to have and record a gay sexual encounter for content.
every Fandom has NSFW
so not special
YeAh BuT FuRrY AlwAyS NsFw
I saw the video before it got cut and it was basically just anthony going to the party he was invited to, getting naked in bed with the others, getting invited to one upstairs from that one, and then joined a guy in riding some guy's leg. crazy visual, but im glad he cut it out. those people still deserve privacy 😭
The part that bothered me most, was how he was mocking queer folks for having queer sexual experiences in a (supposedly) private and safe space. He violated their privacy and mocked them behind their backs. Like it’s every nightmare from high school, being mocked and attacked for being who you are.
The stuff still in the video is bad, I've seen some people say he could've focused on the dance competition instead but even that he screwed up by crashing it like he's some sort of narcissistic mid-tier kick streamer throwing a fit that the competition isn't centered around him. I'm a long time Anthpo follower and was upset he left but now I wish he hadn't came back, behavior I didn't take note of before is now impossible to miss in his older videos
could you give examples of his behavior that you're referring to from his older videos? after watching the furry video (which was very disappointing) and the alien one i remembered how much i used to enjoy his videos and how i thought he could probably never make content as good, or rather enjoyable to me, as his college videos. i watched a lot of them recently and i didn't get bad vibes or pick up on anything that i would consider bad. i'm genuinely curious, because i do agree with what you're saying however i struggle to find those aspects in his other, older videos.
@@kejsik6374 The dance competition had me thinking of the previous competitions he's done, I interpreted things in those videos as trying to construct a narrative for youtube but with how he threw a fit when he was out of the dance competition made me realize a lot of the competitions he's entered or entered by proxy have been aimed at different demographics of contestants then he is (Filipino, Korean, generally Asian, and now furry, just off the top of my head) and in the videos he's trying to make them about himself, trying to fit it into a narrative he likes. Clearly he didn't like the direction the Furry Dance Competition went in with it no longer involving him at all so he crashed it to desperately make it about him again
Anyway I recently revisited "Disturbing students as Perry the Platypus" which I liked it the past but it had moments I didn't remember like while Anthpo is running around being disruptive he rolls around someone who says "I don't wanna be in your video", it's even captioned. He's also yelled at to get off the basketball court. Suffice to say the rose tinted glasses are off
I didn't watch the Alien video but I am curious, is it as much of a dumpster fire as the furry video?
I misread his name and almost thought this was Anthony Padilla
I misread it as “Anthro” lmao
@@apollo_363 Same.
@@apollo_363 i did both
i misread what you read it as. "ant tony pedo lilly" and i am like wot
Yuh, Anthony Padilla is really cool
Crazy they didn't consider that giving business cards, in an attempt to get invited to an orgy, would result in them being invited to weird chats
As if those aren't the only kind of people who would not just throw these away
Also, the apology's obviously a huge fucking lie lol
"I wasn't trying to perpetruate stereotypes about furries" THAT'S LITERALLY WHAT THE VIDEO IS ABOUT
on top of that Anthony talked about being “for the kids” and wanting them to be safe from nsfw but then he goes and leaves a nsfw business card right in the open in the hall or wherever he left it for any kid to wander up on and see. So hypocritical
It obviously wasn’t what the video’s about considering in the video he brings up that the stereotypes are unwarranted
@@ProGamer-hg3mb You might want to talk about this with a therapist, cause this mindset can very easily be taken advantage of by an abusive person
The 200 day video really annoys me, because it’s that mixture of male teenage annoyance vibe + how it’s another example of someone trying to exploit (I don’t know if that’s the best way to describe it) the internets absolute trash ideas of what the furry community is. And I find it hard to believe that a person who spent all that effort and spoke to all those people, would have not know that. I will also add that it feels like he wanted an excuse to do something like this and say ‘oh no, it’s for the bit 😉‘. As well as that, when he did put that part near the end about how ‘furry aren’t all bad’ felt really half assed and more like a parody than anything else (especially when if it was genuine it should of been at the start of the or in parts like with the interview). Not even to mention how f***ed up and dehumanising it was to record and how this video has such main character syndrome with the crashing the dance competition. I feel like this is an example of how when people try to make fun of cringe so much they become the thing they once laughed at. I’m not even a furry btw, but this really annoyed me in all honesty. What do y’all think ?
It would not surprise me. His entire commitment to going undercover for half a year, becoming a furry admin, learning to dance, and actually buying one of SigmaX's comics is a sure fire way of saying "I'm not a furry but..."
There's a reason the whole half-assed 'furries aren't so bad' segment is toward the end of the video. If you're not paying too close attention to the video or have it playing in the background while doing something else, your takeaway will just be "oh he thinks furries are a little weird but still thinks they're cool, that's nice." None of the REALLY shitty things he does at the con sticks because they all come sandwiched between the fake evenhanded intro and a laughably disingenuous closing statement. It's manipulative editing.
And yeah it's SUPER telling that he doesn't actually mention a single person in the community that he was friends with during the 200 day lead up, or have any kinds of examples of him interacting with the community before the con outside of his TikTok account where he just... RPs as what he assumes a furry is alone and starts fake beef with UA-camrs he already knows.
Like the implication is either he DID have some actual friends that cut ties when they realized he was just using them for content (like really, not a single one of them was willing to give a statement or even get a shout-out in the video?), or he made 0 friends and felt too embarrassed to say so.
Agree but if it wasnt for anthony guy I wouldnt have known that people have sex with their head fursona l o l thats some weird thing even for a kink guy myself(you can laught but not insult then ok?lol)
I hated anthonypo since beggining he always seemed anoying but he became huge in pandemic and he always appeared on my feed, glad people calling him out
You clearly did not watch the fucking video
OMG HE EDITED DOWN THE VIDEOOOOO. basically, he went to 2 parties. he didn’t film the first one, as everyone was naked, he undressed fully and got in bed, sandwiched between several other people. then, one of the people at that party went to another party, which he invited anthpo to. so, he put his clothes back on, went to the other party, where the people were, instead, only in their underwear. there was someone in a large cow suit, and there was someone in underwear straddling one of the cow’s legs, so anthpo stripped down to his underwear and did the same to the other leg. then, someone brought up that they had a strap-on they wanted to test on someone, and then he ditched the party and went back to his room. the second party was partially filmed, when he was straddling the cow’s leg, and the first one was re-interpreted by a rudimentary 3d animation with what i assume were animal crossing characters as he voiced-over what happened. ima be honest, when watching the video for the first time, it did rub me the wrong way. wanting to “infiltrate” the furry community is perfectly normal for youtubers to do. it happens all the time. but, infiltrating an or*y feels very VERY wrong. everyone in those rooms are there for a good time, and are sharing pleasant moments with eachother. but anthpo was there for content. i can’t imagine how embarrassed i would be after, knowing that i had fully exposed my own nude body to someone who was just there to be judgmental and put the events of the or*y into a video for content. i understand that the filming portion was what most people were concerned with, but the unfilmed voice-over half was just as egregious. the fact that he put it in the video at all isn’t even entirely the problem. but the fact that he actually went to one of these, where people are supposed to be fully comfortable with everyone in the room, when he was actually just doing it for content, feels like manipulation and deception. he made these people comfortable enough with him to invite him to have sex with them, when he actually was just doing it for views. it feels like when the cool girl/guy at school tries to get in bed with the weird girl/guy at school, just to “see if they’re actually that weird”, or to prove something, or to start rumors. it feels disgusting, and boarderline rap*ish. it’s awful
edit: also, im curious to know how the aftermath went. he seemed to have made pretty good friends with several people at the con, and, as he showed, they even flirted with him. i wonder if he saw these people as real people, or if he just saw them as a “byproduct” of doing this “experiment”, and he ended up just ghosting all of them when he got his content. i’m suspecting it’s the ladder. once again, to go back to a school comparison, it feels like if someone was doing a science fair project on social cliques, and to test their theories, they sat with each social group at lunch for 1 or two weeks. and to get accurate results, they had to pretend to be interested in being friends with each one of the cliques during the experiment. but once the experiment was over, and the student was ready for the science fair, they stopped talking to all of their new friends cause they were just a catalyst for the good grade. once again, this feels very deeply of manipulation and deception. you either have to be deeply unintelligent, or boarderline evil to not have seen the issues with doing a video like this, before you did it. he had to have known he would make friends, so he either didn’t consider the fact that he’d have to keep the friends for the sake of not being an asshole, or he knew all along that he’d ghost every last one of them once he was finished with his routine content farm.
Wasn’t the cow suit a bear suit?
@@djsaidez271 coulda been a bear. i thought it was a cow, but maybe ur right. i’m probably misremembering
i homestly dont know if im just dumb but it didnt make me think it was bad until i saw a tweet by another furry and i was like oh...
@@klovexthewolf I was the same way, a lot of stuff goes over my head
@@nick7587 it was a bear, I have a screenshot from the old video
Honestly why isn't anyone talking about how he betrayed those people on a personal level? He had the mindset to manipulate these people and see them at their most vulnerable. To participate and see them naked and lie about being interested. To see them as specimens to be judged, to participate in someone's most intimate moment, manipulating, saying he wants to be there as an equal adult when really he's participating in the most VULNERABLE, INTIMATE state a human can BE in with a toxic and honestly abusive mindset. This is honestly so fucked.
Imagine if someone literally slept with you in an intimate way and later you find out they only did it because they thought you were weird and wanted to investigate. That the whole time they were looking at you with disgust or as lesser than them. This is so beyond "oh that's bad" this is "That is the bottom of the barrel pit of what you can do to someone".
I feel like you guys (comments) aren’t understanding the issue with the party videos. It DOESN’T MATTER if it’s censored. The issue is that it was recorded in the first place. Usually recordings at these parties are fully consensual by everyone there. The fact faces needed to be blurred is an immediate show that this was NOT an agreed upon recording. That is the big issue. Especially if it is a sexual setting.
"The fact faces needed to be blurred is an immediate show that this was NOT an agreed upon recording."
Not true. People can consent under the prevision their face is blurred. Do you think interviews with whistleblowers are done without consent when they have a blur over their face and voice distortion?
@@PileOfStones If there is no CLEAR consent shown (which none was shown in the documentary or in Anthpo’s apology) it means it was non consensual.
@@LightLovesU he asked if he could film even before entering the room and it wasn't a hidden camera. He was upfront and they permitted him to film. Meanwhile he didn't have footage of the other party he went to.
@@PileOfStones #1 we have no way of knowing if he has footage of the other party. #2 having a camera visible doesn’t mean permission to film. #3 All filming at these parties is usually for private purposes and not to be uploaded to UA-cam. There are many cut parts of the video that are direct barely censored clips from videos of the parties. I suggest watching some of the other videos on this topic to better understand the issue.
Beyond the footage of the room party, theres also just the general homophobia of the video. Making his Sigma character into a sex offender, using the idea that furries have mental disabilities as an "explanation" in his conclusion, dancing around the whole idea that he as a straight person was seeking out a gay encounter... beyond the clips removed, the whole video is just... ugh.
I got to see the original and it was just...weird. The part that got cut wasn't anything super crazy but it was uncomfortable seeing footage of what was presumably people who didn't know they were being recorded. My main gripe is that he made the party "the goal" which completely put it up on some pedestal like it was the only thing that mattered even though there was plenty of other positive stuff going on. If the whole video wasnt framed around the party then I feel like the rest of his experiences would of came through as fun and maybe his 8/10 rating might of had some sway power to people on the fence about the community, but his way of creating the content by bouncing between good things and silly cringe stuff like faking getting swatted, calling his mom, crashing the dance, etc just completely drowns it out and ruins the fact that he got super involved and seemed to have fun.
Ikwym
Literally, and he frames it as if he asked for consent from all parties but it’s clear he didn’t, what makes it more obvious that he didn’t is that someone in the room SAW the video and asked him for it to be cut out.
Can’t be more cut and dry
Never thought in my lifetime I’d ever appear in a Beta video ( 8:21 w/ my friend Drewski ) but it’s appreciated nonetheless, haha
derg
Gotta say I love ur suit :3
Hope you had fun at the con, also your suit is so cute
Oh hey, Funny running into you here :>
I saw the original video where he went to the room. But he blurred all of the faces and changed the voices. That video was super cringe and hard to watch though.
Yeah, I saw it day one. Craziest thing I've ever watched.
Still, filming them and posting it without knowledging/consent is NOT it.
He actually did that??? what happened??
in the og video, where he went into the second nsfw room (not the first one to be extra clear) he only burred the one guys face who was standing in the side of the bed and *didn’t* blur the two on the bed, which you could obviously see their fursuits and in a tight nit community can be easily identifiable.
@@internetchild2615in the second room, which he hardly blurred, there was one furry laying down on a bed (who i’ll call X) and another furry straddling said furries leg (who i’ll call Y). Anthony ended up switching places with Y and straddled X’s leg and started asking seductive things, totally leading X on. Anthony makes up some bs that his friend called and he has to leave so does. After he leaves the room he meets up with his mates and shows them videos of the encounter while laughing about it.
Honestly he tried, but stepped on a few nails but deffinetly didnt like the goal of attending a room party instead of just having fun at the con
I was so glad to not have known this happened until like 20 minutes ago... well, can't unsee all this now. While I did know about these "furry parties" (dumb name lol) and of course the NSFW side of the fandom, I didn't think some random guy would go undercover into the fandom, go to a convention and film a room party in progress, get those parts cut out of the original video and then try to sweep it all under the rug.
Like my guy... he violated so many people's trust with that and more than likely is getting sued behind the scenes. This is just wrong man...
What really grind my gears is the whole "heist approach" to the parties he's trying to break in. Like these parties being the holy grail, super prestigious and exclusive. There can be fun parties and private raves that are what drive the fandom forward, even build entire communities within the fandom. (see the fandom - room party episode) The meticulous planning involved to be at these parties when he's clearly not having interest in men baffles me. Ofc it's going to be gay. Tho the business card approach is pretty good I've seen that a few times with furs giving out their card for later interaction. If you wanna go to nfsw parties look out for inofficial group chats that pretty much any con has and see if they have parties going on
I saw the original vid, The parts that were removed, were the parts where he filmed in the party but all that we see is the people cuddling, which is kind of understandable that they wanted it taken down, especially if consent wasn’t given before hand
So this video started out kinda funny. Definitely wondering why my man spent 200 DAYS “under cover”, seems more like he was trying really hard.
But once we get to the part where his mom wants pictures of ass from whatever bedroom shenanigans her actual flipping son is in… definitely lost me there.
I think around day 10 I’d just admit that I’m a furry and have my own bedroom party, and also wouldn’t have included my mom. But that’s just me.
Also crashing the dance party is essentially an F-tier stunt for attention.
Overall this comes off as either a HUGE grab for attention, or otherwise is so out of touch that I question his ability to make adult decisions. Actually, I might question that regardless.
To be fair he never really outgrew his high school/early college self
If one of your concerns is how lewd furry comic smut is in the vicinity of kids who may have access to it, I agree it's something that should be dealt with. The worst thing you can do as a content creator is to decide to spend half a year undercover as a furry in order to get into a room party and film it for an audience who is, I'm assuming, below the age of 17. Like, you should not be complaining about the open access of SigmaX art when your goal is to hunt down where the furry bacchanalia is going to be held and have your viewers watch that regardless of whether or not you blurred it out.
Also reminder how no kid could buy those and everything +18 was shown as +18
@@miigi-p4939 This is true. Book sellers always need to check IDs. Last year I went, Sigma's comics were sold in the adult section. Which means that this year, Anthpo had either:
1. Bought the comic, hid it in the kid section and filmed himself "pretending" to purchase it there
2. Filmed himself buying the comic in the adult section and edited the audio and video to make it look like it was in the kid section.
If, by chance alone, it was sold in the kid section, then staff and sellers REALLY need to step up their responsibilities because that's a pretty bad sign. Even still, this guy can not make that argument if he's making a video documenting for his young audience how anyone can secretly get into an orgy. It's already showing much more about who Anthopo is as someone who pretends to be a furry, but already has a fixation on the sex.
😑I mean if police catch you after robbing a bank, and you say to them "I'm not real a bank robber, I'm just documenting for my audience how bank robbers do it..." there's a very high likelihood that you're a bank robber.
@@cinekodakexp folks at the convention have brought this up and those comics were in the adult section, Anthpo just misremembered and forgot that his con badge identified that he was an adult and so could walk into that space uninterrupted.
You are missing the fact that he made homophobic jokes and labeled all furries as neurodivergent and joined the furry fandom under false pretenses. He only slapped on the link to the Trevor project after being called out for posting non consensual videos in a private setting as band aid to make all better.
HEY THAT'S WHAT I SAID! I thought he was alright, but I just keep finding out MORE and MORE. It keeps going; he is actually a shit person from what it seems and past videos in between college. I actually liked his old content mannnnnn
I’m not trying to defend him abd im not a furry or anything and some of the stuff he did was pretty bad but I don’t think he was labeling all furries as autistic he was just saying that although a lot of people who are neurotypical might find furries weird it can be comforting hobby or community to those who aren’t neurotypical and that we shouldn’t judge
Guess what, filming people in intimate situations without their consent (and it has to be WRITTEN consent and clear about the intentions of the maker of the material if it's going public in any way) is actually a crime. As in jail time crime. He could have been SHAFTED HARD if the people in that party wanted to, and NOT in the fun way...
Ain’t no way bro filmed these people in the orgy WITHOUT THEM KNOWING. I don’t know about you but that sounds ILLEGAL. (This is what I got from the apology) Really hope the people involved aren’t traumatized.
In the section that was edited out he asked at the door to the room, "can I film?". They knew.
@@PileOfStones did they know it was going to be uploaded to youtube though..?
@@PileOfStones Did they know it was going to be uploaded to youtube for everyone to see?
@@meganek0597 Dunno he didn't have the entire conversation, just the start. Given the people who were there haven't come forward to say, "I was the guy who talked to him at the door and he didn't tell us it was going on UA-cam" it's unlikely it wasn't communicated.
@PileOfStones One of the people asked for him to remove it, though... Thus, it's logical to assume that the UA-cam part was NOT communicated.
The mom wanting to see the video for the sex party was sus....like her son would have been in it ....
Apparently anthro new england check your ID when you get your con badge and children get a different type of con badge and need to be chaperoned by an adult at all times. In other words it wasn't really that big of a concern but rather just vaguely homophobia adjacent
In the original video, before it was edited and demonetized, he had went to a room party one where they were clothed in one where they were naked. And he filmed everything it was like I did in like clip form. And their faces were blurred. Why you could still hear audio when he wasn't talking over the clip. Very illegal sounding
As far as I can tell, that video was 1 step forward and 2 steps back for the furry community.
Worst part is that it wasn't even made by a furry, so they can't even be blamed for it.
It's just another legitimite reason why they can't trust outsiders. Thanks for that.
Furries shouldn't be blamed for it, but all the anti-furs are going to use the video as an excuse to be homophobic, ablest and let it reaffirm what stereotypes of furries they have.
He definitely didn't research enough or put enough care in the video to not make all those "subtle" stereotypical jokes at the whole community's expense.
I unfortunately watched the full video like 10 minutes after it was uploaded (I used to watch his old videos so I got the notification) and yeah... it was definitely not in our favor 😐
I love how the video was like wholesome and fucking around to VIOLENT CRINGE.
It felt like sitting on rolicoster going up gently and send u full speed down to hell
It honestly sucks because he could’ve very well. Been trying to put a good spotlight on the fandom, but it just didn’t work out. :[ and he was so committed to getting to what he wanted. He didn’t stop to think if he should, he invaded peoples privacy and I am a minor so I cannot comment on this but he did do that and that’s not OK it violates and even if he did get permission I’m sure he didn’t tell them that he’d be making fun of them on the Internet, and even if it was just cuddling, people can recognize other peoples faces, or even their fur suits, if they chose to use those and that can get people in some hot water for frankly, doing nothing wrong, but having what adults do ;-; he definitely went about it, and the entirely wrong way and I kind of feel bad for him, but I also feel bad for the people involved. It might not have been him trying to force something but him trying to find something he was excited about but then again, why would he be excited about something something like that if he’s not in the fandom??? ;w; idk
At least he didn’t go around asking minors about their genitalia like A… certain UA-camr 😑
who tf did that?
tbh in brazil we got a case where a guy that make child content released a book and in the book there is a question of how the kid call their genitals.... ITS A KIDS BOOK BRO WTF
@@jktech2117how did that get published like yoooo😭😭
Let me guess, Matt Walsh?
It's funny that's his true journey about Furries, yet it's inspiring
I hit dislike to the original video after I read BarleyTheBurr's thread on Twitter and watched twice about the mess. That's why the room parties are always private.
I'm barely halfway through the video and I'm convinced this is Anthony Po's poorly-disguised Fetish Quest 🤣
I actually got to watch the unedited version, Beta...
Anthpo certainly didn't skimp on the details of it...
And the first thing that happened with the parties. Anthpo had only the audio recorded and had remade it as a 3d animation with Animal Crossing villagers. Anthony, through post-audio and the audio from the actual recording of the first party, explained that he went to the first party and as soon as he knocked on the door, he was told he couldn't come in unless he was completely naked. Then, Anthony explained how he took off his clothes, and then was invited in the room and him and a few other people were squished in a single bed together and just cuddled and talked. In the original video, Anthony actually described the experience as "kinda wholesome."
Then, after a little while of being at that party, a person at the party was leaving to another party and invited Anthony to come along. And then, when Anthony got to this party, he actually got video of this one, but it wasn't a very good video, so he still remade and explained it with editing pngs. He explained that when he walked into the room of the other party, there was a tall person lying on their back in one of the beds in a full bear fursuit, and there was someone on their left leg *"thrusting"* as Anthony explained it. Then, he was invited to do the same thing, and then after a few minutes of being at that party, Anthony faked getting a call from his roommate and left. And then that's where the video goes back to the "Seeing Ben after that hour and a half was..." part.
So... it was a total invasion of privacy for the furries who were involved, and I'm glad that Anthony made the right decision and cut it out.
am I delusional or is the business card art AI??
Tbh i don't think his intention was to show amy of it in a good light, from what i saw he wanted to show it in a honest light good and bad.
It makes sense. He wanted to show the good and bad, but the execution was HORIBLE!!!
@@matleo7988 With most of these people they still want the attention and the comedy spin. B.O.T.W. (Ben) did that before in Europe and it wasn't as chill. He played the same prank cards time and time again. Of course, not enough to actually get kicked. But it's what some people wanna see. We know how it is in the fandom anyways.
Hell, only one guy did an "undercover" with his friends and it was just chill af and down to earth. They got tipsy of course but I don't blame them. I think it was someone named Spoonkid or somthin'. Overall, I think that was more respectful than what we got here.
I won't defend what Anthony did in any sense. I pray the lawyers didn't have to watch that footage either.
Nah reminder again that his fursona is implied to be a pedo and a zoo
At the very least, he did originally blur everything and tone shifted every voice
It's still not ideal; it's good that he removed the section entirely; but he did take precautions to hide identities
I mean regardless of whether you blur faces or not, that's both still super unethical and more importantly illegal.
@@ccasserole5267 Recording people without consent is legal in some states (I haven't checked the specific state, however)
A lot of people recording in public often blur entire people in the background, which he did blur the entire scene besides himself; thus, if it were in a "open, urban environment" it wouldn't have been considered unethical
However, I do agree this sort of scenario could be considered unethical; just all the usual protective measures were taken if it was a more typical, public setting
@@owlenderg Yeah cause like we don't know who those people were and obviously privacy is a major concern. Some of these people don't want to be seen, and that should be respected. ESPECIALLY IF IT WAS A PRIVATE EVENT. I do not care about the public side; as you aren't actively around people that could object where it is legal and you'll usually do a "call-ahead" scenario. But I mean, I know that if any shit was to go down at a room party, whether I'm involved or not, I don't wanna be on camera. I wouldn't want that on my work record, honestly.
@@ReddFourBirds while I fully agree, everyone was fully blurred and unrecognizable
Measures for anonymity were taken, but probably shouldn't have been recorded in the first place
I was going to say the same thing. I feel like by cutting it out it makes people who didn’t see the original uncut version imagine the worst possible scenario of him filming the parties while if I remember right he just went to a nudist cuddle party and then left an or-gee (not sure if UA-cam will block it if I spell it right) before anything could happen.
I’m sure this video Anthpo made will be genuine and have no manipulative editing whatsoever. :V
holy shit... I watched it right as the vid came out and the, uh room vids were in there and I thought surely that cant be legal- especially posted a place where chrildren has access to
The fact that you putted a OST Portal Stories: Mel, that was a nice touch^^
He turned the comments off on his video so you know he knows how much hot water he's in.
Also, his comments are either making fun of the extent he went to, talking about how weird it is he even went to the parties in the video or insinuating hes a furry
funny how i am here watching this age restricted vid from a 1.7m sub channel, on a 36k sub channel.
I am both impressed and appalled😂
Dude used AI Art for his character....
It does feel kinda sucky because it does sound like he did an amazing video with one super messed up part he wasn't thinking about and it ruined the whole thing for tons of people, but outside of that the message is great and one thing I always love about his videos
Unfortunately it seems like his whole video is sprinkled with horribly poor taste 'jokes' and disrespectful conduct on his part while under the 'guise' as Sigma.
His tik toks especially highlight how off his take on "what being a furry is about"
One thing which made me ludicrously angry is that one of Anthony's friends jokes about him getting HIV. Which is fucked up because quite a large amount of furries are gay or LGBT, and LGBT people were some of the biggest victims of the HIV epidemic, so for his friend to make the joke (Anthony and his friends are straight if I recall) and then having the audacity to laugh at it? Its absolutely vile. He should have taken the video down.
"Infiltrating furries"? The guy is way more furry than me. I would say way more furry than most furries. Buying actual fursuit, becoming a furry content creator for over half a year, making a lot of friends, getting a job at the con, writing a song and learning a dance in order to WIN a competition?
I mean, what stunned me is that after he returned from the "party", which meant his infiltration mission was over, he was still like: "Man, I really want to put a fursuit on and dance in front a large audience of furries. Too bad I didn't qualify in the contest... I could go home... But no, I will crash the dance floor and do it anyway!"
In my eyes, that's not an action of somebody who just wanted to infiltrate a den of lowly lowlifes and then get the fuck out of there. That's an action of somebody who so thoroughly enjoyed being there that he wanted it to continue. And despite he was not allowed to, he did it anyway.
Either that, or he did this merely for the sake of showing off. Testosterone took over his brain and he had show off even though it was in front of cringe people... But then, he didn't have to do it in his fursuit did he...? Since it didn't count in the competition anyway.
But then, all positive thoughts I have about him are lost when I remember the part when he basically made a sexual compromat on unsuspecting victims. That puts him in the league of some fine people like Epstein or Weinstein.
The first day of my first con I was invited to a room party... for 3D printing nerds. While I did have to leave early, I somewhat doubt there was an orgy after I left, even with all the alcohol provided.
Also wow that was difficult to finish watching. He managed to out-cringe the furries, bravo.
me when i become convinced i am spy from tf2 and slowly go insane
I’ve seen the original video and he at least went out of the way to blur everyone’s faces but the action of recording things like how he did is still scummy. He literally went out of the way to hide his phone as he (mostly) recorded the audio of the room (adding to his wrong doings as no one was aware he was recording). There weren’t any directly sexual acts as he said but he did mention that he had to get naked to enter the room (put two and two together) which adds to the sliminess of his action (being that private events like these shouldn’t be publicized without the consent of others). He really did miss a lot of steps like Beta said to get that initial video out there.
Thank you for showing and telling me all the information about this video Beta Delta.
Gotta Love The Age Restriction On The Original Video LOL
8:02 it doesnt even have fur? That's like just. A bald and naked fursuir head base?
First convention I ever went to was one I had only heard about thanks to a friend who just went for the room parties. She's not even a furry, she just likes the room parties.
Wait so your telling me if I just waited I wouldn't have seen furries in underwear
DAMIT
the party parts were absolutely censored beyond recognition in every way possible when it was still up
Wasn’t half of it an animation too?
The animation part still had their live garbled voices though, and even if he had only used his own voice to tell the story, he still manipulated all those people to trust him and let him into their space
Yes and????
He also didn't have to include anything from it in the first place 😭like he had the money to commission someone to do animation for the first segment so he could've just... done that twice and not been a creep
Aight, this is a pretty good cue to go to bed instead of letting videos randomly play.
Goodnight 😴
Can I just also go over the fact that I actually hate that he returned to youtube? He built up this whole thing of him leaving, having this sentimental moments in his videos and the countdown, only to be gone for a year, come back and take down both his merch site and the site with his friends and make this video
And I also hate that he changed his channel banner as well as his youtube profile picture like he couldn't leave this channel to be like a time capsule
8:24 Oh hah that’s the Aloft down the street from the Westin. Those two cool dudes were my roommates
I liked anthpo before he quit, so for the video where he came back I was pretty excited, and I watched the furry video on it's debut, not thinking too hard until the whole thing was over because I just didn't want to believe that the entire thing would be negative, and then when the video ended and he didn't acknowledge any of the shit he did I was just absolutely flabbergasted; ashamed of having watched it on premiere and ashamed of having been excited for it.
14:35 imagine getting that card. Thatd be scary and creepy as all hell.
As a furry myself when i watched the video i just saw it as a non-furry doing their casual shenanigans and to be honest i dont think this video really proves anything other than furrycons being super fun. It was funny seeing how Anthony thought it was easy getting to an nsfw party when all of us know its not that common and its not gonna show up unless you look for it.
Hey, you got one thing wrong that can be a bit dangerous to not address or correct, they don't just have NSFW stuff out in the open for minors to see, the con states minors need to be chaperoned, when you get your badge you need to show your ID to the staff, if you are a minor you get a different badge stating you are a minor, and you have to show your badge to both enter the artist area AND purchase stuff. If you show the minor badge, you cant buy or see the NSFW stuff. Antpo here is implying they can sell porn to minors, and you agreeing with him about this being a little whoopsie that cons need to be more careful about can put these whole cons in danger. They do check IDs, by way of checking the badges.
Anytime I see videos like that on youtube especially with thumbnails like that, I don't even bother clicking on them 🗿
I was subbed to you before and have been wondering why I haven’t seen you on my feed. I think UA-cam’s messing with me. Regardless, this is definitely an interesting suggestion to give me to get me to come back lol(I didn’t finish the video yet but “undercover as a furry” is not a strong start).
After watch update: I’m ngl, didn’t expect him to have had footage of the party(whether or not it was sexual). His video didn’t start off bad but I agree that the undertones felt slimy to some degree, especially after he crashed the dance competition. I wish he had taken a more educational route to the video rather than what was released.
hes more furry than most furries
YEAAAA I was hoping you would go over this video!
The art he had made was also ai generated. There’s a lot of spots on the art that are signs of ai
I actually got to watch the unedited first version of his video. The first room he went to had a group of people on the bed naked side by side just cuddling and petting each other. No intercourse at all. He didn't show a video of what happened inside(Or just didn't show the video) but he did make a 3d rendition of what occurred using animal crossing type characters/3d models (Shown at 21:35 in Bootle's video). He left the first room after a bit by faking a text/call from a friend and went to the second and final room. The second room was more spicy and he did show the video of what happened inside the room but it was blurred (Can't remember if it was partial or just the full screen). The camera was on a table/chair that directly faced the bed. They had a fursuiter laid out on the bed. All that was shown was him getting on top of the fursuiter's leg or something like that. I can't remember exactly what he did but it was more sexual than the first room. Although he did not have intercourse with anyone. Just more physical. Wish I could remember what exactly was shown but what I've written gives a very good idea of what he cut out. I'm sure someone saved it somewhere.
I’ve been following anthpo since literally before he graduated high school, so seeing stuff like this is just so disappointing. I saw someone say that he’s acting like the popular kid that interacts with the weird kid as a way to mock them and that’s exactly what this feels like. The way he made fake friendships to low key manipulate people into getting what he wanted so he could point and laugh when he finally “proved these parties are real” is so off putting. I’ve watched him graduate high school AND collage but he’s still seems like he’s acting like a 16 year old boy
The sigma part felt like it actually did psychic damage to me. It felt like it actually did damage my brain and lessened my intelligence.
"I Spent 200 Days Undercover as a Furry" is such a Mrbeast ahh title bro 😭💀
Man, I feel my blood boil the whole time Im watching this
Id give his video the remaining 2/10 from his rating of the fandom, this whole thing just felt slimy
The fact that you watched this video after he removed the recordings of the con party I feel made you not aware of just how bad it was. It was straight up a camera placed on a chair or something, in a position I imagine he just hit record and placed it there without telling anyone. He censored a lot of it, but it's still disgusting to upload that. Plus, he literally showed it to his friends completely uncensored and laughed about it. The dude is a massive scumbag
16:30 it’s almost like he never heard of the boys group chat memes
As someone who saw the original full video when it first came out I was horrified of what damage it could cause to the furry community. But, as I watched your/this reaction I realized that (thankfully) Anthony cleaned up the video and took out the original rudeness and very clear oblivion to what he was doing. Thankfully the 2 minutes of the "furry party" that I saw really wasn't that bad and only was cuddling (like he said) and all faces were blurred. Still a weird and oblious thing to do but I'm glad he came out about how that could negatively affect the community and the people in the video. (thank you for listening to my rant lol)
Even with that part cut out, the video is slightly damaging for the community. The homophobic jokes of getting STDs while hyping up how uncomfy he is going to a party that he can decline, to the insinuation of furries mostly being autistic while never even mentioning the queer side (unless it's to make jokes of gay things);
That won't look good to someone not in the know of furries at all, even to antis it'll just fuel what stereotypes they believe in further. It all made me slightly horrified/concerned about the conflicting messages.
Okay, in first 2 minutes I nearly choked on my drink
Imagine committing so hard just to get into an adult party. I'm sure that was not necessary.
The sheer details he went through to do this *_WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SO DISQUIETING & UNCANNY A.F._* (kinda) if he didn't show his county inmate/state chain-gangster "master plan."
omg i didnt know he cut the parts...i saw the original vid
Same. I saw the full thing befor he cut it
We all know that the he will secretly continue being a furry. You could tell he really had fun some times.
He's got the taste of it now, but i imagine he still feels the need to keep up an image as a non-furry to his old friends.
When he made that revelation about the sigmax comic it sent me into a wheezing fit🤣
Damn... his business card idea came in clutch.
I feel like he secretly is a furry but was trying to play it off as "a bit"
11:30 You just validated his pedo-smear against the con, Why?? He told a lie about children accessing adult furry magazines, you said "well, good point."-No, it's terrible.
24:11 so I’m happy he clarified that the filming wasn’t entirely secretive, although it’s still gross that he probably used the footage in a way they were unaware of and didn’t consent to, I take issue with ‘cuddling’ though - from what I remember people were in states of undress and someone was grinding on someone else’s leg. Like he did film sexual things. Idk. Sucks that he did this.
boring keith made a great video on this as well
when your last name is "po" you know they dont have anything good to say
What bro got against people with the last name Po 🤔
@@arpyt1334telletubbies
what do u got against the kung fu panda guy 😭😭🙏
@@twinfantasytowers ong I coulda swore that was bros name
@@twinfantasytowers ohno your right, cant diss Po like that 😭
His videos are informative sometimes. I've seen these 2 suiters at ANE. In fact, I took pics of them. Awesome video beta. Keep it up and hope to see you at the next con.
I recently saw a video about a guy who is a furry but did a lot of wrong things related to minors and such, but an issue in the video was raised about the characteristics of this person's fursona because he used the genitalia of a horse and both the person who made the video and in the comments there were many people saying that furries are zoos because they like to have, see or want the genitalia of an animal, even for me being a furry some real characteristics added to the fursona I don't like to see because turn it to much feral and very close to zoo... the furries that don't do that they end up receiving hate and judgment from those who like it. That's something important to discuss
I watched this video when it came out and i watched the whole unedited thing but he only recorded some audio but he never showed furries doing it