Elder furry here lol. I’m not particularly shocked FA and IMVU are being targeted by ice, given the fandom is 90% gay lefties lol. But the IMVU connection suggests the tool is a few years old imo: IMVU owned FA up until the recently deceased site owner Dragoneer bought it back in 2022/23, and became independent again (FA is under “Frost Dragon Art” officially).
To me, including IMVU on this list says this tool existed at least 2 years ago, when FA was sold back to Neer. I do not know why this tool would include both companies without that connection. Why not Second Life? Why not WoW? Because of the chat functionality? Telegram and Discord archives makes sense for similar reasons, given its popularity within the fandom, but the IMVU/FA connection tells me more than a lot else in that pdf.
700k subscribers lost against 125 million overall, with 24 million on ESPN+ alone, means total subscribers went down 3%, which isn’t nothing. It is directly tied to the price increase from $9.99 to $15.
It does feel like the current strategy of all major businesses is to kill themselves, from Reddit and Twitter locking their APIs to Netflix and Disney+ increasing their prices for no good reason. Tesla went from being the cool electric car company to the car people are embarrassed to drive and have to slap bumper stickers on saying they bought it before Elon became a fascist president unelect. Most of Teslas revenue last year was from licensing [https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-crypto-tesla-earnings-stock-elon-musk-trump-accounting-ev-2025-1?op=1](and selling cryptocurrencies), it seems.
All that being said, you forgot to call anyone brunchlords, Karl, so this article is bad and you are a monster. I made this account to leave this comment. Thumbs down, unsubscribbled. Disgusting. #dobetterkarl
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Elder furry here lol. I’m not particularly shocked FA and IMVU are being targeted by ice, given the fandom is 90% gay lefties lol. But the IMVU connection suggests the tool is a few years old imo: IMVU owned FA up until the recently deceased site owner Dragoneer bought it back in 2022/23, and became independent again (FA is under “Frost Dragon Art” officially). To me, including IMVU on this list says this tool existed at least 2 years ago, when FA was sold back to Neer. I do not know why this tool would include both companies without that connection. Why not Second Life? Why not WoW? Because of the chat functionality? Telegram and Discord archives makes sense for similar reasons, given its popularity within the fandom, but the IMVU/FA connection tells me more than a lot else in that pdf.
I asked ChatGPT to detail a plan as POTUS, and it said to create an executive order, so now I know where trump got his ideas from.
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700k subscribers lost against 125 million overall, with 24 million on ESPN+ alone, means total subscribers went down 3%, which isn’t nothing. It is directly tied to the price increase from $9.99 to $15. It does feel like the current strategy of all major businesses is to kill themselves, from Reddit and Twitter locking their APIs to Netflix and Disney+ increasing their prices for no good reason. Tesla went from being the cool electric car company to the car people are embarrassed to drive and have to slap bumper stickers on saying they bought it before Elon became a fascist president unelect. Most of Teslas revenue last year was from licensing [https://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-crypto-tesla-earnings-stock-elon-musk-trump-accounting-ev-2025-1?op=1](and selling cryptocurrencies), it seems. All that being said, you forgot to call anyone brunchlords, Karl, so this article is bad and you are a monster. I made this account to leave this comment. Thumbs down, unsubscribbled. Disgusting. #dobetterkarl