[Georgio] Ayo, what up, it's Georgio. I fucked your bitch in a Buick Encore. I'm here at MFF ready to fuck some shit up, y'all. [Newscaster] This is pornography, it's cartoons, it's aimed at children and it's wrong. [Asmongold] Every single one of the kids that's doing this was groomed by an adult to do this on the internet. [Announcer voice] Select mode! [Georgio] Happy New Year, the fuck is happy about this new year? Listen bitches, it's Georgio. The homo- sexual furry niche internet microcelebrity. Usually around this time of year I treat all 3,000 of my subscribers to a video of all the fun stuff I did at the Midwest Furfest furry convention. But I've been lacking motivation and feeling a slight desire to give a smooch to a speeding car. [Meme audio, child] Mommy, mama, a girl behind- [Crash earrape] So I've been away and I've been feeling like shit for a few different reasons. One is a bunch of bad shit that happened in my personal life. Two, is that thing that happened two months ago. That one. The "Republicans run the country now" one. And two segues me into three, which is that now that Republicans have claimed sweeping victory over "woke libtards" like myself, I thought about quitting the whole furry YouTube thing. I kind of fucking hate being here now. [Man] I HATE BEING A [Dubstep music] Let me explain. I spent the past two and a half years on this website documenting my experiences in the furry community and also making fun of Republicans for feeling way too threatened by the furry community and the LGBT people who largely occupy it. Because I think they're pretty harmless, even if like me they're strange. But now that Republicans won not just the Congress, the Senate, and the presidency, but also for the first time since 2004, the popular vote, lots of Republicans are saying [Piers Morgan] So you want to admit you were completely and hopelessly wrong about this? I spent every weekend of my summer and fall knocking on doors for Kamala Harris not because I'm president of her fan club but because I felt like the other candidate and his friendly gaggle of congressmen, senators, pundits and influencers wanted to restrict the rights of people like myself. [Charlie Kirk] It's in Leviticus 18, is that "thou shalt lay with another man, shall be stoned to death." [Nikki Haley] I actually said his "Don't say gay" bill didn't go far enough. [Mark Robinson] Transgenderism, homosexuality, any of that filth, and yes, I called it filth! [Dana Loesch] You know, sometimes bullying is not a bad thing. [Pete Buttigieg] There's also more personal rights. My right to have this ring on my finger, that I feel are much more secure if she's in charge, than if he's in charge. [Woman] And the evidence you have of Donald Trump being against gay marriage or wanting to roll back protections for gay folks to be married is what, exactly? [Buttigieg] The evidence is that he ran for president with a platform that specifically said in black and white that they were against marriage equality. [Georgio] So when I campaigned every weekend I urged people to vote for my freedoms as a gay man, and the freedoms of people like me, and we fucking lost. And the Democrats' sweeping defeat got me wondering: did the Republicans have a point this whole time? Was the past two and a half years of my life a waste? Is the furry community something that I should actually be a part of? Maybe I should be embarrassed of the fact that I'm here. Maybe we as a community are wrong. So I'm going to examine all of the points that the GOP successfully made about people like us over the past election cycle and I'm gonna tell you why I considered leaving the furry community. [Georgio] Ah, it is a beautiful, chilly day in Rosemont, Illinois. [Asmongold] I view this in like the same way, as like a person wearing like BSDM gear to like a public event. [Megyn Kelly] It has heavy sexual overtones, it has a heavy sexual bent. [Georgio] Hear me out. Come on. Come on. Now listen, when I go to furry conventions, I look at it as good clean fun. [Jesse Watters] They like to go to conventions, kind of like a Comicon except everyone's dressed up like the Philly Fanatic. [Georgio] I used to work for the Guinness book of world records, they'd fire me for trying to put you in for thiccest thighs. [Fursuiter] You right about that one. We're all walking around in costumes, playing video games, going to panels and saying hi to one another. Oh shit! We got spins! [laugh] But that is not what Republicans see. Republicans are very focused on furries' sex lives. And usually I find that weird. [Megyn Kelly] It has heavy sexual overtones, it has a heavy sexual bent in its history. [Georgio] If most everything that happens in the convention space is family- friendly, why do you give a shit what I and other adults do in the hotel rooms after the convention? But you see to many Republicans, there is no casual family- friendly aspect to this. [Asmongold] This is my opinion, I think being a furry is a sexual fetish. [Georgio] Many Republicans see this as a fetish and nothing more and sometimes I feel like they might have a point. So here's the thing about my YouTube page, is that it's actually totally fucking boring and nobody watches it unless I show somebody, a big man with big muscles. May I give the people some fan service and touch your boobies? [Caine Nines] Yeah, go ahead. Ah, sweet. There you go folks. This is what you came for. Thank you so much, Canine Nines [sic]. Take care, man. When I talk about politics or something that I care about, nobody fucking watches but when I talk about sex or put soft-core pornography in my thumbnail, you people click on it. Two of the best performing videos on my YouTube page are the ones with Fluke's ass and Kyle the Tiger's tits in my thumbnails. And that got me wondering, maybe we all do really only care about sex. Maybe this is just a giant fetish disguised as a hobby like Republicans claim it is. So I looked up the content that my analogues have posted. Kyle gets thousands of likes on his tweets until he stops posting nudes and starts wishing his boyfriend a happy birthday. Then y'all tune the fuck out. Don't even get me started on Manny's ASMR channel and the number of foot licking, ball sniffing, boyfriend kissing videos that he's made to keep you fucking weirdos satiated, and all of the normal videos that by comparison you people didn't give a shit about. And what about Soren? Well, nobody's fucking watching him. Sorry to throw you under the bus there buddy but hey, maybe if you follow my lead and put some porn in your thumbnail, you'll get some more views. And take it from me and everybody else in the community, it works unfortunately. Maybe we should feel bad, not for the fact that all of us including me can't seem to muster up content that isn't pornographic clickbait, but for blatantly objectifying one another. I'm even responsible for it. I spent 4 whole days at Midwest Furfest and half of the footage I have on my dumbass fucking cellphone is me going up to fursuiters and asking to touch their tits, muscles or bellies. Ayo, look who the fuck we found! It's Hugs and Snugs. Yo, sir, sir. [Snugs] Yes. [Georgio] Can I have a hug and a snug? [Snugs] Of course! Alright, audience, into the titties we go. [Piano music] [Lagovirt] There are countless minors using this site to watch whatever videos they please. [Asmongold] I view this in the same way as like a person wearing like BDSM gear to like a public event. [Lagovirt] One thing age restriction can't keep under wraps is the video's thumbnail. [Asmongold] You know, you have kids that look into this and they think it's cute or funny and there's a word for that, it rhymes with "rooming". Oh man, what could it possibly be? [Georgio] Now it's one thing for our community to just be a cesspool of porno- graphic clickbait videos and images, but it's another for that kind of content to be made publicly available to anybody on the internet. Recently I received a number of comments like these and immediately I was reminded of all the weird kinky shit that I saw on YouTube when my parents would let me borrow their work laptops. When I was 6 years old, I would go on YouTube looking for videos about the next Mario Kart game and then somehow I would stumble upon foot fetish videos, fat guys playing with their bellies, and Birdo eating Yoshi. Republicans are correct when they observe the stuff that happens in our community and our conventions and describe them as weird. Do you think I ever wanted to be into any of this weird fucking shit? [Bo Burnham] I don't know about you guys, but um, I've been thinking recently that you know, maybe allowing giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit [Earrape bass] [Burnham] You know, maybe that was, uh, a bad call. [Georgio] Hey Wiggleon, can I touch your belly? Yaaay! Yay! [Tires screech] [DnB music plays] [Georgio] There is not a doubt in my mind that things would've turned out differently for me if I never saw this. And if me seeing softcore pornography at a young age was enough to fuck up my brain chemistry and land me here, then why on earth do I and people like me think it's okay to upload stuff like this to the internet when we know that there are kids on iPads on the other side of the screen? I never wanted to end up like this. Maybe those people who put their fetish content on the internet should've thought before they clicked upload all the way back in 2007. Won't we feel weird or guilty when we're in our 40s and the next generation of 20 year old furry YouTubers say that they used to watch our content? I already feel fucking weird about it Come on man, this is the issue that the right is like crusading on? "Gotta crack down on these evil furries, bro!" Go give people healthcare. Call it what it is, it's hatred. This is a movement based on hatred. There are days including the days that I spent at Midwest Furfest where I can't help but feel embarrassed to be here anymore because I know that even if I want to see the good in this community, plenty of people on the outside, perhaps a majority as evidenced by the last election, see us as sex-obsessed freakshows and fetishists with no regard for public decency and no capacity for self-censorship. [Georgio] And so just as a head's up to my viewers, we're going to go into the adult annex and there is a sex game where you put on a virtual reality headset and then you have e-sex with digital characters. So that's what I'm going for. ["Whenever you want it" plays] And yet none of that is the reason I considered quitting. Because here's the thing, every bit of fearmongering and criticism that the Republicans have for LGBT people and furries over the past couple of years is something that has an obvious solution and something that they have been equally guilty of. "You people are too sexual!" cries Megyn Kelly on SiriusXM radio. Well, sure we are. I'll be the first to admit it. [Georgio] Alright, get a load of this. Ready? [Squeak] [Squeak] [Squeaky] [Squeaky] [Georgio] Big fucking moves over here. Cunt for breakfast. Cunt for lunch. Cunt for dinner. [Georgio] And if you have a problem with that don't fucking go to a furry convention. Don't look at my content. Let me look at Kyle's man titties and Manny's paws in peace. Cunt. And while we're at it why don't we talk about some of the comments made by our very family-friendly president-elect? [Trump] You can do anything. [Bush] Whatever you want. [Trump] Grab 'em by the [bleep]. I've said if Ivanka weren't my daughter perhaps I'd be dating her. [Ivanka] Stop it. [Georgio] Apparently there is nothing overly sexual about that. "What if kids see you on the internet?" says Asmongold. "Isn't that the same as grooming? Aren't you introducing them to a fetish? Shouldn't you stay out of the public sphere?" Well gee whiz, after the runner-ups for the Republican presidential nomination spent so much time about the negative effects of social media and banning TikTok, I would think you would know not to give kids unsupervised access to social media since it's so harmful, wouldn't you? And sorry to throw you under the bus, mom and dad, but maybe it was a bad idea to give me the password to your work computers. And while we're on the topic of grooming, do we want to talk about how Jeffrey Epstein, the guy charged with running a sex ring of teenage girls described himself as your president's closest friend? Or do we want to talk about how your guy nominated Matt Gaetz for attorney general - the same Matt Gaetz who has a house ethics report detailing how he paid a teenage girl for sex? Now I didn't think of quitting because of anything these dick riders say. The actual reason that I considered quitting is because this community is so valuable that I frankly don't think I deserve to be here. ["XXL Freshman Cypher" plays] [Young Georgio] Hi skinnies, how are you? Welcome back to this extreme channel surfing thing. I'm going to do something different because OBS doesn't really like my computer anymore. [Ambient music] [Georgio] When I was in high school it took one year of me hearing the word "faggot" for me to feel terrified of being of being openly gay, date a girl as a cover up, and pretend to be a typical homophobic straight guy teenager to avoid getting bullied. When my peers made fun of the one openly gay kid in my Spanish class, when they bullied kids with autism, when they made sexist and racist comments, when they shared pictures wearing a tail with their friends and referred to them as a "dog fucker", I either turned a blind eye to it or I joined in. And I can't help but see a lot of that behavior reflected in the GOP's political discourse. I chose to fit in with hateful people like the ones that now run our country, and even back then the people I was friends with came from households that supported Donald Trump for the 2016 Republican primary.