Just to caveat, as an old head I do actually want to offer context to one of the more obscure/legendary posts. But let’s also keep it respectful of this persons very bad day, as ridiculous as it was to essentially everyone else.
Do you also want to fuck the bunny cop?
I’m gonna let Ben take this one for me.
Shapiro: Let’s get some facts straight, if I, hypothetically, was sexually aroused by feet, then surely, logically, larger feet would be superior as they would provide greater stimulus. Have you ever touched a lucky rabbits foot? I have. They are perhaps the softest thing ever. In conclusion, any paraphernalia I make my very real wife wear as I call her Alexandria Hopps is extremely justified and normal.
It was a mix, mainly people were incredulous. I think the initial difficulty in discerning whether it was a bit played into it, a lot of people thought it wasn’t sincere at first and I think not being taken seriously and then the subsequent memes on the sub were what pushed them over the edge.
In the actual threads they joined most of the top comments were trying to talk them down once it became clear they were in a bit of a spiral, but there were a lot of not very sensitive meme posts that of course drew them in.
No one, as far as I know, went out of their way to harass them directly. They just couldn’t resist continuing to engage even though they were obviously unhappy. It was very clearly a manic episode of some kind.
I would say that overall, the community on average didn’t behave too badly, and the mods did a good job of shutting shit down once it became clear what kind of headspace they were in.
A lot of unintentional harm as a meme post that wasn’t particularly mean-spirited would draw them in again. Of course some people kept teasing them about wanting to fuck the bunny cop. That was the main egregious thing.
i kinda assumed most people on this site were around for the bunny cop incident
uhh could you give me an outline of it? was it just someone hornyposting about judy hopps orrr?
The legacy started earlier than the climatic events on r/cth. Basically they were active on leftist furry subreddits and had a, as they described it, a deep personal connection to Zootopia. This was the height of ACAB and in those leftist furry spaces people started critiquing Judy Hopps (all bunny cops are bastards etc).
This person believed that leftist memes were some kind of unrelenting juggernaut of cultural hegemony (no, actually though) and that Zootopia was going to be cancelled, along with Hopps.
Cue going to leftist subs and trying to plead that Judy Hopps is ok and for people to stop critiquing her. Of course people think it’s a bit and start joking about it, until this persons increasingly emotionally distraught posts, erratic behavior, and post history come to light: they were totally sincere.
The mods see someone having a breakdown and ban them to try and prevent them from being so online, but they start making alts and just head right back in. Eventually they petered out as people mostly started trying to talk them down and bunny posting was suspended.
More than anything I wish I had screenshotted their posts, since they were honestly some of the funniest shit I’ve ever read, and I say that with a lot of sympathy for what they were going through, they were clearly having some kind of episode, but it was still deeply deeply funny.
see, with the meme takeaway being ‘don’t fuck the bunny cop’ i’d assumed it was hornier in character than that. thanks for the deep lore insight
