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Digging up Positivity June 2025
Posted by Pegla on Sun 6 Jul 2025 - 21:08Welcome to a new episode of Digging Up Positivity! We are already over halfway of this year, and despite of all the [gestures] everything we still continue to try to make the world a better place. In this episode:
- Did you know there is a fur con in Slovenia?
- Animation news
- Animal news
- Furry charities from all over the world!
- The result of the pride shirt giveaway
So let’s get started!
VRChat gets clogged by dreaming furries attending Furality Somna
Posted by Sonious on Wed 25 Jun 2025 - 19:20As the sleepers awakened from their slumber in early June, a total virtual attendance count of 26,405 and a total of $109,000 was raised for the returning charity, The Center of Orlando Florida, at the 2025 virtual gathering of Furality. The sleep in the ninth iteration of the gathering was not always an easy one, with a VR Chat system outage during Saturday’s peak times. But in relation to the prior year’s experience, things actually went much smoother for the event itself. It continues to be a wonderful experience for people who like to explore new worlds, and the revel creation of their fellow eccentric dreamers.
This year we’ll go over the worlds and environment and their purposes, and other general thoughts now that I have been to two and can see the foundation and standard layout. Preliminary thoughts about Virtual conventions in general and their comparisons to real world gatherings can be found in last year’s Umbra review found at this link which remain generally unchanged in this passing year.
Digging Up Positivity May 2025
Posted by Pegla on Sun 8 Jun 2025 - 13:08Welcome to the sixth [sic] episode of Digging Up Positivity this year starting a month where we are proud of our fandom and our community! And to celebrate this wonderful colourful month, I am giving away one of these T-shirts, details at the end of the video! Also, we have an interview with one of the driving forces behind MeetsFurYou: PolkaSpots and of course we have a bunch of charities, exciting news from the games industry and other uplifting news, but first, lets go to the charities of last month!
Digging Up Positivity March 2025
Posted by Pegla on Sat 12 Apr 2025 - 16:00Welcome to the April[sic - should have been March] edition of Digging Up Positivity, this month:
- An update on all the furry charities around the world
- How Coyote vs Acme got saved from the Shelf
- Cattbutt controllers (who writes this stuff)
- And our special guest is the amazing pie-tactic Duino Duck!
But first, lets start it with our charity update!
Anthro New England Celebrates Ten Years
Posted by EberraWolf on Sat 15 Mar 2025 - 12:04Anthro New England, or ANE, held its tenth annual convention, and its ninth in-person one, at the Westin Boston Seaport District hotel in Boston, Massachusetts in mid January. The convention was sandwiched between the Hanover Insurance Group’s National Sales Meeting (ended Thursday) and a MathWorks event (Monday onwards).
Digging Up Positivity February 2025
Posted by Pegla on Tue 4 Mar 2025 - 22:03Fresh back from a convention, still dealing with the concrud, but welcome all to an amazing packed episode filled with good news from the furry fandom! Covering not just the charity numbers with a highlight of Nordic Fuzzcon, but also a lovely interview with Chester the Geroo. I mean, not only does this little critter have the voice of an angel... he sings operas— in fursuit. But first the charities!
Digging Up Positivity - January 2025
Posted by Pegla on Sun 2 Feb 2025 - 10:47Hello! And welcome to the January edition of Digging Up Positivity, from this year on we are aiming to have a new video every first Saturday of the month featuring amazing charity results from the furry fandom, wholesome animation and animal news and a special guest! This month we are having an interview with Maying from Maying Fantasy Creations.
And trust me when I say, we can use some positive news this year, now more than ever. So here are the charities, starting with a little update from last year from the Furry Charity Index.
Furries raise over $1.9 million for charitable causes in 2024
Posted by Pegla on Sun 29 Dec 2024 - 18:10After tallying up the charities collected by conventions and streams for 2024, furriers came together to raise $1,953,149.29. The breakdown for the causes can be found below:
- LGBTQ+ Welfare: $299,619.71 (15.34%)
- Animal Welfare: $1,108,623.81 (56.76%)
- General Humanitarian Welfare: $544,905.77 (27.9%)
Spreadsheet of the breakdown can be found here.
Digging Up Positivity November 2024
Posted by Pegla on Fri 6 Dec 2024 - 18:01Well, the last month sure was something, time for a palet cleanser in this extra packed episode!
- A huge milestone for the Dutch Furry Fandom
- The Good Furry Awards!
- An interview with Val, a Dutch Furry, an excellent fursuiter, about how the fandom changed her life
- Of course a whole bunch of awesome charities from all over the world.
- Some cool animation news
The last month of 2024 is going to be exciting! So many amazing things in not just the Dutch Furry Fandom and beyoooooond!
Digging Up Positivity July 2024
Posted by Pegla on Sun 28 Jul 2024 - 22:35In this episode!
- An exclusive interview with the force behind Brok the investigator
- Last month's furry charities
- What makes a fursuit really stands out!
- The results of the Pride Shirt give-away and how to get one yourself
But first, the latest charity news from the fandom in this July edition of Digging Up Positivity!
Digging Up Positivity - June 2024
Posted by Pegla on Sun 30 Jun 2024 - 13:06In this episode!
- Cool animation news!
- How an actual photographer won in an generative AI contest
- A furry Halloween in Rotterdam!
- The worlds first furry opera!
- How to win this amazing Pride shirt, so fresh, mine is still in the mail.
But first, the latest charity news from the fandom in the June edition of Digging Up Positivity!
Digging Up Positivity May 2024
Posted by Pegla on Sun 26 May 2024 - 13:58In this episode!
- Furry convention in Atlanta raising 100.000 for charity!
- Spotlight on several awesome women in the fandom!
- How accessible is our fandom truly?
- Animators working together!
And much more!
Digging Up Positivity - April 2024
Posted by Pegla on Sun 28 Apr 2024 - 11:01Welcome to the April episode of Digging Up Positivity! Spring is in the air and summer is just around the corner.
In this episode:
- The April charities from the fandom
- Even crocodiles need to go to the dentist
- Animation news
- A wonderful interview with one of the main forces behind AnthroIrish!
And much more.
Oh hey! Also, I am happy to say we are giving out item from my PAWS collection from my ArtworkTee store, more details at the end of this video.
Digging Up Positivity March 2024
Posted by Pegla on Sat 30 Mar 2024 - 21:56Welcome to a packed episode of Digging Up Positivity! The convention season is gearing up and boy does it show!
In this episode:
- Many charities in March, pushing us over the $400,000 raised this year!
- A lovely memoriam for Mark Merlino, also known as Sy Sable.
- Nomad Complex is able to return, backed by the fandom.
- AnthroAir: Virtual airplanes for a real fandom!
- And the Good Furry Award.
Also I am happy to work together with artwork-tee, and there is a new pawtastic T-shirt in the store, for more details on how to get one, stay with us till the end of the show!
Digging Up Positivity February 2024
Posted by Pegla on Sat 24 Feb 2024 - 16:22In this episode:
- Zootopia 2 gets a release date!
- Small trains and giant cats!
- Several furry charities and the update to total raised this year!
- An exclusive interview with Nio the Dutch Angel Dragon!
Welcome to the February episode of digging up positivity. At the time this goes live, both me and this episodes’ special guest are at Nordic Fuzzcon in Malmo, Sweden, where I am helping the charity team raising funds for U-Animals. But besides this awesome charity, there is so much more! And I love to tell you more once future me has returned home.
But for now the charity updates!