dogprint
asked:
The Die Young vid was apparently taken down due to a copyright claim by Gabe Newell? At least that's what it read when I tried to watch it again on youtube. Didn't know he had such a lovely singing voice, haha~
answered:
It wasn’t the real Gabe Newell, it was a troll who is using his name as cover! They claimed the video was stolen from another video entitled “Die Young- Fur Friends”. Apparently they are a member of a group that thinks it’s fun to get ‘furry’ related videos yanked from youtube.
It’s really really disheartening to me. I am not a furry, or a member of that community. But my work speaks to that community and I have enormous respect for it. I have been working with anthro/animal characters my entire life, but it hasn’t been until this film that I have experienced some of the incredibly un-warrented hatred this community gets.
It’s sickening.
Absolutely sickening!