Newsbytes archive for March 2026

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Contributors this month include 2cross2affliction, dronon, and EberraWolf.

Fur the 'More returned home to Baltimore, Maryland for 2026

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Fur the ‘More 2026: Homecoming drew furs from the Mid-Atlantic back to its birthplace of Baltimore, Maryland, last weekend. Overlapping with Texas Furry Fiesta, the convention was held from March 27 to 29 for a short, three-day convention. 1,917—nearly two thousand people—showed up, according to the convention.

Founded in 2012 with its inaugural event in taking place in 2013, Fur the ‘More began in the Hunt Valley suburb of Baltimore, and moved to venues in northern Virginia from 2015 to 2025. (A virtual convention was held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, like nearly every furry convention that year.) "As attendance grew, the convention quickly became too large for its original hotel, while still being too new to attract bids from other Baltimore-area venues," Kitra told Flayrah in an email.

Titles being removed from Netflix in March 2026

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This is an incomplete list of titles that will be removed from Netflix during March 2026 (with a handful in early April), mostly in Canada and/or in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, end dates are based on the Netflix Canada service.

(Started putting this list together around March 12, so it mostly skips any content that was removed before that day. It was slow work; some USA exit dates are elusive to verify. My writing was hampered by a respiratory infection. I'm now non-infectious, but am still healing).

The most notable losses (in my opinion) are Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and African Folktales Reimagined; details below. Also, I want to mention two things being removed after March:

April 5:

  • Sirius the Jaeger (12 episodes; anime): vampire hunters including a "werewolf". NOT a traditional werewolf; small amount of body transformation plus glowing eyes.

June 25:

  • Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (seasons 1-3): with varies species of interest to furries. (Included this ahead of time, to increase the chances that before June, Flayrah readers have time to watch all 30 episodes.)

Because She-Ra and the Princesses of Power series (AWESOME show) was removed from Netflix, I was concerned that The Dragon Prince series would also be removed. I've now watched the entire series and recommend it. A sequel series, The Dragon King, has been funded by a Kickstarter that was "fully funded in under 5 hours" (source: Kickstarter), and raised more than a MILLION dollars ($1,098,489) from fans in 29 days. Because the sequel was not funded by Netflix, it seems unclear where it become available.

Movie review: 'Hoppers' (2026)

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hoppers.jpgPixar's track record with animated anthropomorphic animals is kind of odd. Early on, it seemed to avoid the concept, or almost consciously steer towards animal characters not normally featured in animated movies. Its first two movies to fully feature animal characters were the insect-featuring A Bug's Life and the fish-focused Finding Nemo, the two types of animals the recent fully furry world sequel Zootopia 2 went out of its way to show were "okay to eat". The only other animal stars from the first decade of the twenty-first century from Pixar were the rats from Ratatouille, also an odd choice for an animal star. The goal seemed to be, if they were going to do something as "conventional" as a talking animal picture, they'd at least go for an "un-conventional" animal to do the talking.

More recently, however, Pixar has seemingly preferred variations on human-to-animal transformation. Brave, with magical human to bear transformations, was an early example, though the trend didn't really start until this decade, with Soul featuring a man stuck in a cat's body for most of the back half of the movie, Turning Red basically a straightforward furry transformation fantasy, and now Hoppers, which takes a more "science fiction" approach to the human intelligence in an animal's body. Directed by Daniel Chong, it tells the story of nature-lover Mabel (voiced by Piper Curda), who hijacks a local university's science project involving transferring human minds into animal robots in order to stop a highway project, becoming a beaver in disguise. I'm not entirely sure why Pixar has suddenly gotten really into "tf me into a ..." type stories, but it is a trend I've noticed.

(I also don't get how trendy beavers have gotten all the sudden. Is it dirty, or what?)

Movie review: 'Dog Man' (2025)

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Dog Man (trailer) is an 89-minute 3D action-comedy animated film released by DreamWorks in 2025. It was written and directed by Peter Hastings, based on the Dog Man series of children's graphic novels by Dav Pilkey, which are a spin-off from his Captain Underpants books. And because this film is up for a 2025 Ursa Major Award, this seemed like a good opportunity to watch and review it, while the voting period is still open!

Dog Man is an anthro-dog cop, created in a hospital emergency room after an accident critically injures a human cop and his pet dog, saving their lives by fusing them together. Don't think about it too much. He has no tail and communicates entirely by canine sounds. His arch-enemy is an anthro-cat criminal named Petey, who's very fond of creating diabolical machines. The whole thing is happily silly, and remarkably, the trailer doesn't spoil anything!

(Though it does lie. Dog Man can, in fact, play the piano quite well.)

Digging Up Positivity - February 2026

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Welcome to another episode of Digging Up Positivity! The year is well on its way and boy was it packed! During SloFluffCon, I interviewed Uncle Kage, and we had Nordic FuzzCon, where I will give you a sneak peak behind the curtains of the circus together with the leader of the charity! This and more, but first, the charities!

Tubi Acquires a Large Catalog of Animated Content

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The fate of Warner Bros. seems to be up in the air, as the company burns billions of dollars each year, proceeding with major staff layoffs and cancelled projects. In the past few years, Warner Bros. removed most of their animated content from HBO Max and were about to shelve their upcoming Looney Tunes film Coyote vs. Acme until Ketchup Entertainment acquired distribution rights.

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On February 13, 2026, streaming service Tubi announced they will add many classic Warner Bros.-owned cartoons to their platform this March. The selection of cartoons range from the 1960s to the 2010s, so there's a lot of variety.

Vanity Fair protected Epstein two years after sensationalizing furries in infamous Pleasures of Fur article

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It is now March of 2026, and a story over two decades old has now been given new life and a new perspective when it comes to the behavior of media organizations in the early 2000s. At this time furries faced a hostile media landscape which included many infamous titles, such as “that one episode of CSI” by the name of Fur and Loathing.

This story is in regards to another of these publications, which was an article published by Vanity Fair by the name of “Pleasures of the Fur” this article went into very adult aspects of the fandom in a particularly sensationalist way that many furries of the time felt was inappropriate. The article was released in March of 2001 by George Gurley. It is a very raw, gonzo style piece that talks with furries and locals around Midwest Furfest in the year 2000, back when as the article mentioned, only 400 were in attendance.

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Two years following this article, another piece would be released by Vanity Fair that was far more reserved in its approach. In fact the article didn't make the cover unlike our own. This hushed article of praise would end up changing the trajectory of an entire country toward one of its darkest chapters. This article covered the billionaire by the name of Jeffery Epstein. Recently it has come to light that the original author for that piece had their story reshaped and partially redacted when she found a thread of abuse perpetrated by the billionaire. Now in 2026, these are allegations that we are all too familiar with in the modern day after Jeffery’s conviction and death in prison.

Like other things around this story, reader discretion is advised as this covers topics such as abuse.

It's voting time for the 2025 Ursa Major Awards!

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The 2025 Ursa Major Awards are open for voting through Monday March 23! You can go to the voting page to request a voting key.

New this year is the Streamer category, and a temporary Classic Anthro Videogame category for games from before 2001 that had animal protagonists.

The 2025 nominees are...

BetaEtaDelota steps down as Bewhiskered Guest of Honor due to Anti-ABDL campaign

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Noeth Carolina Anthro Society.jpgOn February 24th, the North Carolina based furry convention Bewhiskered announced that furry YouTube content creator Beta Eta Delota would no longer be present as a Guest of Honor for their 2026 gathering.

We want to let you know that Beta Eta Delota will not be appearing as a Guest of Honor this year at Bewhiskered 2026. This decision was not made lightly and was made in coordination with Beta to ensure our ability to host a smooth and safe convention.

As many of you know, Beta has been the subject of a harassment campaign for the last several months. That campaign has unfortunately impacted us as well and generated more than one safety concern for the convention. The unfortunate end result, that we both agree on, is that if Beta were to attend, we are unsure we could offer him the quality experience that a Guest of Honor deserves and would have very real safety concerns to prepare for.

We have been and will continue to be a kink-friendly organization and will always do our best to uphold our values. This will be reflected by the panels we select, the dealers we invite, and more. - North Carolina Anthro Society

This announcement comes in the midst of an ongoing controversy in furry content creator spaces revolving around anti-ABDL furries from TikTok and pro-kink furries from YouTube, which has now bled into real world consequences at physical gatherings.

Newsbytes archive for February 2026

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Contributors this month include 2cross2affliction, dronon, EberraWolf, and Rakuen Growlithe.

Game review: 'Inspector Waffles' (2021)

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Inspector Waffles (trailer) is a 2021 adventure game by Goloso Games, best described as a fun, casual point-and-click, available on multiple platforms.

Waffles is a feline detective going through a rough period, drinking alcoholic milk and blaming himself for what happened to his partner in the Cat Town Police Department. When a new, high-profile case comes his way, involving the murder of a box magnate, he's teamed up with a sniffer dog named Spotty to solve the mystery.

ALL Furry & Animal Games In Steam's Next Fest - February 2026

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Everyone loves Steam Next Fest here at Gaming Furever! Our staff goes through the entire list of games published in the Fest to find and list each and every one that features anthropomorphic character(s), or features animals as a focus. This time, we went through all 3450+ games to get to this list of 370+ games. We could've missed a couple, but we hope this is an all-encompasing list for this season's available games! Almost every one has a demo, so go have fun and wishlist the ones that pique your interest!

We have an actively updated Furry & Animal Games & Developers List over at @GamingFurever on Twitter and another List over @GamingFurever on Bluesky that you can follow and get constant updates for lots of indie titles with TONS of lovely furry characters!

If you're a developer of any of these games, feel free to hit us up on email over on our Contact Us page!


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Nominations Are Open for the Good Furry Awards

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Nominations for the Good Furry Awards are now open now through June 30. This is an annual awards program run by furries for the furry fandom. It recognizes furries who do good deeds and promote a positive image of the fandom. Nominations come from the furry community to acknowledge people in three categories:

  • The Good Egg Award for volunteer work.
  • The Image Award for furries who work in various media promoting the fandom and educating the public about it.
  • The Furtastic Award for furries who do wonderful things in the community that do not easily fall into the first two categories.

Any furry can nominate other furries who they feel are likely candidates by following this link https://www.unclebearpublishing.com/good-furry-awards.html.

Each category's winner will receive a handsome trophy and a check for $200. Nominees who did not win in a category will receive a certificate stating their nomination.

The awards also have a Lifetime Achievement category that is chosen by committee. Previous winners of the Lifetime Achievement include Mark Merlino, Rod O'Riley, Steve Gallacci, Reed Waller, and Ken Fletcher.

Winners will be announced in September.
 

Back to the Dawn - Of prisons, routines, and corruption

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The title.jpgTime estimate: 28 - 34 hours (Thomas [Fox] Playthough)
Available: XBox,Steam
Game Type: Narrative based Slice of Life RPG with resource management elements
Elements of Game not Reviewed: Bob [Panther] Playthrough, combat elements

Back to the Dawn is a computer game where your character Thomas, a fox journalist, ends up in prison by a corrupt mayor looking to quash a story about a facility plant polluting a nearby community that the politician’s relatives “allegedly” have some stake in. Your imprisonment comes 21 days before the re-election campaign that will ensure his corruption will remain for many years to come. In this game and story you will need to lead Thomas on his mission to prove his innocence, or perhaps find a way to flee the prison and corrupt metropolis that has put a target on his back.

This is a life simulator RPG mixed with time and resource management. You’ll need to play to your strengths to acquire items and information that can help you on your journey to freedom, all while the system wants to break your mind and body so that you give up or give in.

You can also play as another character who acts as an NPC in Thomas’s quest. Bob the black panther is an undercover officer who is assigned to the prison and has an entire quest unique to him. I did not play that to review however.

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