GFTV OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT 国际兽视官方公告

On November 11, 2023, a non-GFTV personnel was flying a CIO HelloSpot sign at a local fursuit outing in East Coast Park, Singapore.

This event was not a GFTV CE (Community Event).

The HelloSpot is one of GFTV’s community outreach instrument used at publicly visible events. With variations of it flown around town i.e. MeetSpot, the signs are for the sole purposes of ushering and facilitating new community members.

Important details

1. I deployed the HelloSpot. I was handling Roche, a GFTV CCS member, who was fursuiting then.

2. The local fursuit outing changed their meeting spot three times. This resulted in some attendees who arrived to the park getting lost. As I received multiple simultaneous phone calls for directions, I deployed the HelloSpot in response to this situation.

3. The weather was very windy that time. On my right hand, I held the HelloSpot. At the same time, to cool down Roche who was fursuiting, I held a fursuit fan on my left hand. The windy weather had me hold the HelloSpot sign against my shoulder with my head, resulting in an awkward posture.

4. A non-GFTV personnel, aged 13, who is an attendee at this event, approached me. For privacy reasons, this non-personnel will be called “Casper”.

5. Casper asked me if he can hold the HelloSpot sign as a means to free the latter’s hands. I agreed for him to hold the sign, without the expectation that Casper would run around to fly the sign. Not long after, Casper was out of my sight; he ran around with the sign.

6. It was found out that Casper was mistaken as someone knowledgeable about the fursuit outing. It was due to him holding the HelloSpot sign. He was apparently questioned by members of the public about the event, which turned out to distress him. I eventually apologised to Casper in private over this.

Measures to be taken in response

First launched at LIFC 2023 as experiments, the HelloSpot and Group signs are very successful. But because there had never been written guidelines for proper usage of our outreach signs, GFTV must step up.

By end-2023, I will officially codify guidelines for all of GFTV CIO’s community outreach instruments, including the HelloSpot. These rules will be put into our first organisational constitution. This will affirm organisation-wide that only GFTV’s personnel can hold these signs at all times unless approved prior.

I hope that codifying these policies will prevent incidents like this one as detailed above. On behalf of this Team, I’m sorry for any unintended inconveniences caused.

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Stay safe. Have a great and wonderful floofy day.

Best regards,

Pawsry Hamktxchuzhni
Project Head, Global Furry Television (GFTV)

Statement published in English and Chinese on Nov 12, 2023 at 1:24pm Singapore Time.

关于非国际兽圈电视人员处理兽视哈喽牌标志的声明

2023年11月11日，一名非兽视人员在新加坡东海岸公园的一次当地兽装外出聚会上展示了一个兽视哈喽牌（HelloSpot）标志。

这个兽装外出聚会不是兽视社区活动（CE.）旗下举办的。

哈喽牌是兽视在公开可见的活动中使用的一种社区外展工具。各种版本的哈喽牌，如聚会点（MeetSpot）等，在全城各地都有出现，这些标志的唯一目的是场地引导和协助新的社区成员。

重要细节

1. 我负责展示哈喽牌，当时我正在协助穿着兽装的兽视核心内容支持团（CCS）成员 Roche（罗歇）。

2. 由于当时聚会地点多次变更，导致一些与会者迷路。我同时接到多个求助电话，因此决定拿出 HelloSpot 标志以便大家更容易找到我们。

3. 当时风很大。我右手拿着哈喽牌，同时左手拿着风扇为穿着兽装的罗歇降温。大风让我不得不歪着头，用肩膀夹住哈喽牌标志，姿势十分别扭。

4. 一名13岁的非兽视人员，也是本次活动的参加者，向我走来。为了保护隐私，我们将这位非工作人员称为“卡斯伯”。

5. 卡斯伯问我他是否可以帮忙拿一下哈喽牌标志以让我腾出手来。我同意让他拿着标志，但没想到卡斯伯会到处跑着展示它。不久之后，卡斯伯就跑出了我的视线，拿着标志到处跑。

6. 后来发现，卡斯伯因为拿着哈喽牌标志而被误认为是活动工作人员，被公众询问活动相关信息，这让他感到很困扰。事后我为此向卡斯柏私下道歉。

应对措施

哈喽牌等等的标志在小岛兽聚（LIFC）2023 上首次推出并取得了成功，但由于之前没有明确的使用指南，导致了这次的误用事件。

我们将以此为鉴，在2023年底前，正式制定所有兽视社区外展工具的使用指南，明确规定只有兽视工作人员可以在活动中持有这些标志，除非事先得到批准。

我希望通过这些措施防止类似事件再次发生。对于此次事件给大家带来的任何不便，我代表团队深表歉意。

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请各位保持安全。祝你有个美好的一天。

国际兽圈电视（GFTV）项目负责人 爪利行乐主翅尼

声明于新加坡时间 2023 年 11 月 12 日 上午 1:24 以英文中文发表