I am not a furry. That's all I really want to say, I guess.

I think the Cat's Pajamas cosmetic is what makes people think that, but I even tried to name it to make people not believe that. The issue is that usually, the people getting salty or cocky enough to start trash-talking are against me and have no way to see my item descriptions during respawn time or inspect them in real time.

I'm fine with the trash talk; it's a competitive game. But still, I wish to have people think I'm not one of the enemy. And yes, that makes my account and being seem more hostile by implying I'm against furries. Which, yes, I am against them. The only downside to this is one of them reading this and then doing well against me so they may record and brag about it everywhere. If that happens, then I am sorry for those being put through the pain of seeing one win. (But to be fair, I just kinda suck at the game.)

And I have been banned from many servers (like 2; I don't use Discord to join servers much, staying in the friend group is all I use it for) on Discord because I describe my hate towards the group. In my eyes, they make playing Pyro for more than 5 seconds feel like a sin. Playing Pyro is now hated not just for taking less skill to learn but as a way for furries to be even half-effective at doing badly, even at that sometimes.

And as they ruined an entire class to the eye of the community and a hat on said class, I seem to be in a bad spot when trying to deny being a furry. I understand why people would be biased through the hat choice of the enemy—Soundsmith did the entire stereotypes series on it—but I wish for you to understand the Cat's Pajamas is not a furry-only cosmetic. The only true furry cosmetic is the Head Prize. That one decapitated fox hat that covers 90% of their head.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk, and I am sorry for making you sit through that. (Though you should blame yourself because you chose to read it.)