I hope he'll be at peace now. It's still not an easy pill to swallow.

That sucks! He was a great guy and a terrific artist to boot too. I'll miss him.

May he rest in peace.

That's a shame. I was looking at their art the other day.

This is terrible! I hope he had a decent life.

aww man RIP buddy i'll miss you

Jesus... I used to know that guy and I chatted to him a few times at my earlier Confuzzled conventions. He did fall out of favor with a lot of people a while back but I never wished ill will towards him.

Several years ago, he posted a lengthy journal here titled "Accountability," and somewhere in the middle he vigorously defended me from all the attacks I've endured over the years. He didn't have to do it, but MY GOD he put a lot of trolls in their place with that journal and for that I'm forever grateful. I was at odds with his extreme political leanings, but I never had issues with him otherwise. He drew me a number of times, and I'll have to hold those pictures closer to my vest now that he has exited. Huge loss.

The Roarey who I was friends with died a long time ago. I think I'll leave it there.

Duly noted. When he posted that atrocity last year, I blocked him for keeps. I don't care who it is, anyone who willingly does that and expects plaudits gets no quarter from me.

I've seen more and more stuff come out the last couple of days that's completely repulsed me, and shows he was much worse than I ever realised. Nothing but pure hate and bigotry the last few years of his life. There's a reason why literally every website (including this one) apart from Elon's Twitter banned him. Even InkBunny, which is very much an achievement. People shouldn't be airbrushing or whitewashing him he was just because they liked some of his art, he wasn't a good person, he's thrown a LOT of hate and hurt a LOT of people.

You only have to look at the reaction (or mostly lack of it) of the last couple of days to see how he alienated pretty much everyone in the furry community, from being was literally one of the most popular UK furry artists back when I first met him at Confuzzled 2010. Literally none of the many, many friends he had surrounding him at that con have stood by him or publically said a single word about his passing.

Just goes to show

You only have to look at the reaction you usually get when a prominent furry dies, lots of outpouring and tributes. This time it's a mixture of silence, mockery, regret for what he turned into and a VERY small number of tributes- nearly all from the very small number of (mainly outcast) furries who shared his politics.

As I saw someone else say, he went from one of the most popular furries in the UK fandom to more or less dying alone through his own behaviour.

It is interesting just how many people I've spoken to didn't realise just how bad he'd got until he passed away and things started resurfacing and people looked at his twitter account. Some people who were braver than me to be able to read more than a handful of posts on his twitter account told me it was near wall to wall neo-nazi shit. Not to mention the various political drawings he's done and the infamous Livejournal post (which actually pre-dated him going nazi). Sadly I don't think any of this can be whitewashed no matter how people might want to remember him.

It is bad enough that years ago people were saying he had become alt-right, but he had since gone a lot further than that. :/

Nope, he was infamous for saying things even more controversial than that.

Actually, his InkBunny account was suspended for four months not because of his views, but he posted too many political rants and not enough regular art. And for the record, anything adult he did was commissions from clients. And many of his supposedly controversial comments match those of most people, even gay ones. The movie "Tootsie" worked because Dustin Hoffman was so convincing looking and acting like a woman. And he was doing it because he couldn't get an acting job as a man.

No, they don't. Most people don't support genocide or believe in the 13/50 horseshot. Neither are they OK with him physically assaulting somebody.

Can you name instances of those? I won't hold my breath.

I never said he was suspended because of his views. I knew Roarey in person and there's a lot of things you are off the mark on with this.

Don't argue. Block and move on.

I’d say everything you said rings true, as one who use to buy art from before he literally turned into an unlikable cunt he was really not a good person. He literally chose to burn bridges with everyone who was either once his friend or customer just because he just really loved arguing with everyone who disagreed with him. I had noticed this change in his behavior happened around the time Trump won his first term in 2016, and shortly after he was sworn in he posted art of his fursona with a smug smile wearing a (Make America Great Again) shirt. knowing the kind of person he was it’s pretty clear he drew that because knew some people were going to get angry about that. He always had a nasty fetish for engaging in needless drama for his own gratification. While I never wished any harm on him I also don’t pity his passing. If he didn’t want to die alone, or be shunned by most of the fandom. he shouldn’t have been behaving like some nasty goblin. But I suppose there was no helping him after a while. I view what became of him as Karma.

I commissioned him once as well. Of course that piece of art came straight down from FA when he went full fash.

R.I.P. to him.

Yikes! I will be praying for him and lighting a votive candle for him the next time I head to church. I pray that he’s at peace

I think I recall that name though and my memories of him from the past (like Mid 2000s) are not necessarily the best.

Nevertheless, RIP.

Thank you.

I'm sorry to hear.

Damn... Another artist gone.

Oh no... :(

How did he die?

Natural causes. That simply means stuff they already knew he suffered from killed him. It was not suicide.

I knew he wasn't well, but I never knew he was THAT unwell. My condolences.

I have this to say about Roarey. He was a saint compared to supposedly "good" people and had the courage to stand up to them. He was tactless but honest, and I applaud him for standing up to moral fakes. And plenty of people in the furry community say that too.

Plenty more say otherwise. The majority of the furry community is against fascists like him.

We are against fascists all right. Roarey was an antifascist.

Roarey was a fascist. He was a piece of shit bigot who hated immigrants & trans people. And more. If you don't want people celebrating your death, don't be a shitty person.

A fascist is not someone who holds different opinions that you.

i reported the loss to the FA staff team it sure is tragic when we lose someone

Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.

I'm worried about Keefur.

Have not heard from him?

The fandom's own Wilford Brimley has been silent for a few years now it seems.

I've heard from him.

It's honestly just shameful how the people running this website treated Roarey during his last few years here. I get that he could be controversial at times, but even still, nothing he posted ever really broke the rules. He didn't deserve to be banned and have his entire gallery deleted, and now that he's no longer alive, he doesn't even get the dignity of having an infinity symbol by his name here. If you look at his profile right now, it's just stuck with an exclamation point, a placeholder avatar, and an empty gallery. I know it's probably not going to happen, but I really hope the current administration could, at the very least, consider giving Roarey his infinity symbol.

That poor treatment extends to Wikifur. There was a big editing war on Roary’s Article that escalated to a point the article had to be locked down (set to read only mode). The hate is still vivid and TBH shameful.

Roarey wasn't even conservative; he was a disillusioned leftist. By his own admission, he was not religious.

He was conservative.

HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW I actually read what he said. He wasn't conservative at all.

I read what he said. Unlike you. He was.

Just don't be a piece of shit. It's not difficult.

It doesn't help when you throw the term "fascist" around left and right. It only makes you sound childish, like calling your mother a slavedriver when she tells you to clean your room. I suppose his crime was being argumentative rather than having extreme views.

His crime was leading doxxing and harrassment raids. And physically assaulting at least one person. Spare me the bullshit.

If I remember he argued with people, but I certainly don't remember him going to other peoples' threads and harassing them. I trust you have proof to prove me wrong?

I should remind you people that this was meant as a Roarey Raccoon tribute thread. I know not everyone liked him and he was argumentative, but the comments from some posters here give me the impression that Roarey was a better person than they are.