On Saturday (June 3, 2023), Anthro Northwest (ANW) founder Gabriel Felix publicly slammed furry fandom cancel culture. Their statement (archived June 10) was published on ANW’s official Twitter account.

Mr. Felix pointed out the trend of taking shortcuts to judge others, vilifying them wholly and not giving a chance to listen and for people to change in the furry community.

But many furries asked instead what’s the context of the statement, let alone some saying they do not understand it, even mocking it.

ANW’s statement heavily used poetic language to reference current problems in the furry community. Many called it vague and confusing.

Then, furries assumed about the context. For example, some thought an ANW staff got in trouble, thus the furcon “prepared the public relations work” in response. GFTV cannot verify all of these assumptions.

Not long after, other furcons in America made parodies of ANW’s statement, bearing the same post taglines.

Tantroo McNally, an editor of British furry news site Flayrah, called this a “public relations blunder” in an article.

As of Jul 13, 2023, the ANW statement was deleted.

ANW兽展创始人严正批评兽圈取消文化

周六（2023年6月3日），Anthro Northwest（ANW）创始人Gabriel Felix公开抨击兽圈取消文化。他的声明（于6月10日存档）发布在ANW的官方推特账户上。

菲利克斯先生指出兽圈中存在着走捷径评判他人、全盘诋毁他人、不给人倾听和改变的机会的趋势。

但许多兽友反问了这表态的来龙去脉，有的表示不理解，甚至嘲讽。

兽展的声明大量使用诗意的语言来提及兽圈存在的问题，导致许多人认为该声明含糊不清，令人困惑。

兽友们事后对背景假设连连。例如，一些人认为声明是某员工搞砸，之后兽展“准备公关工作”来应对。假设真假，兽视无法验证。

不久后，美国其他兽展打出同样的标语模仿ANW的声明。

英国兽圈新闻网站Flayrah的编辑Tantroo McNally在一篇文章中称这是一个 “失误”。

截至2023年7月13日，ANW的声明已被删除。