[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.
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.