Puppy has been here since 2006. She got bleary eyed for the memories of what a tight-knit community Furaffinity was before the rise of social media, and the normification of the furry fandom itself - so she decided to go hunt down all the old names she used to hob-nob with back in the day.

This is what she found.

Most of them are flat gone. Just vanished. Deactivated, abandoned, or simply stagnate accounts. The most recent posts sometimes reaching 2021, but most ending as far back as 2010-2012.

A distressing amount of them are dead...

A handfull are Magat psychopaths now, and several of them are suspended (good). Fortunately, this is a relatively small number of folks.

And uhm... more than I expected were outed for molesting kids or having csam and have poofed away as well. :/

I was surprised to see so many big late-90's and 2000's furry artists just gone, now. Having not updated in years. Like Gnaw, for example. Old fandom celebs just kinda retired, I spose. What happened to [Koh], anybody know?

Is that puppy's fate? Just kinda giving up?

Well, anyway, did find several people still active who I haven't poked in a long time! So I dropped lines. :3

Puppy misses that vibe.