Preview The Furry Detectives docuseries, and learn how reporting emerged against backlash
by Patch O'Furr
Full series out July 17. The first 12 minutes of the first episode:
The Furry Detectives docuseries — The story they don’t want told, emerging against 7 years of backlash and interference.
Coming on AMC+: this 4-episode series introduce furries who investigated the 2018 zoosadist leaks. (More summary of the leaks.)
The leaks exposed evidence of deep-rooted, ongoing animal abuse networks in the community. They use furry as a cover, for organizing that can’t be helplessly dismissed with an “anyone can be a furry, we can’t gatekeep it” disclaimers. Half of the truth is that abuse happens in any community — and internet tech and platform dependence are big factors not fully in our power — but the whole truth is that this behavior is uniquely among us in real-life organized ways seen nowhere else, and it’s nobody else’s problem when our groups are run by and for us.
Before release, the show is catching backlash from some people who haven’t seen it, for airing serious problems that the community didn’t properly deal with for 7 years. It’s like they want things brushed under the rug so ignoring it can make it worse. Backlash was always part of holding back investigation over 7 years while tens of thousands of words of reporting were published at Dogpatch Press.
Some of the most counterproductive interference was not just from incuriosity and denialism, falsely prioritizing optics over solutions, or random bad actors; there’s also corruption from influence at the top.