Culturally F'd
| Culturally F'd | |
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| Author(s) | Arrkay, Tempe O'Kun. |
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| Status | Ongoing |
| Launch date | August 2014 |
| Genre | Furry, Educational |
Culturally F'd is a YouTube channel that discusses all things to do with anthropomorphic animals and the furry fandom. The namesake show was created by Arrkay and Underbite Dragon. Tempe O'Kun later joined as the staff writer and conducts interviews. The channel releases new videos in a season-based format.
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History[edit]
The channel was nominated for the 2015 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Website".[1]
The episode "Culturally F'd: Live" was filmed at Furnal Equinox 2016.[2]
The channel was guest of honor at Camp Feral 2019.
After writing some guest episodes, novelist Tempe O'Kun joined the project as a script writer and also produces his Tempo Talks and Puplift series.
In 2018, the channel was picked up by Roku as an independent content producer and is available on all Roku devices.[3]
In 2019, Culturally F'd won the 2018 Ursa Major Award for "Best Anthropomorphic Magazine."[4] That same year, Underbite left the project to focus on music.
The channel's sci-fi series, Puplift, was nominated for a Cóyotl Award in 2021 and 2023.[5][6]
Content[edit]
Over the years, the Culturally F'd team has developed several series, all of which are posted on the same YouTube channel.
Culturally F'd[edit]
The main Culturally F'd series consists of video essays on various furry topics. These cover fandom topics and media analysis. These are hosted by Arrkay (or previously Underbite). Topics have ranged from Star Fox canon and fanon to the history and projected future of fursuiting. The anthropology collaborative FurScience and the parenting YouTube channel Moms of Furries have made appearances on the show. A fursuit character named Rusty Shacklefur, a red-furred bunny, is the series' mascot and appears regularly in outros and sometimes during the video itself.
Fursuit History[edit]
This series explores the history of fursuiting. It starts in prehistory and ends in the modern day. Rather than considering fursuiting as an activity that appeared from nowhere with the modern fandom, the series explores influences such as stage-play costumes and sports mascots. It concludes with discussion of the newest fursuit technology (e.g. WiFi-connected motorized tails and ears) and an analysis of how to make fursuit production and use more eco-friendly. [7]
Fursuit Future[edit]
A follow-up to Fursuit History, this series extrapolates how emerging technologies could be used in fursuiting and/or transforming into a furry: genetic modifications, lab-grown parts, and cybernetics. While some of the content focuses on how the user could be altered to be their fursona, other concepts align more closely to the conventional idea of a fursuit (though a far more scientifically advanced one). Each chapter is broken into two parts, theory and application, with a review of how these advancements could also benefit non-furries with medical issues. [8]
Quests & Queers[edit]
Several furries play a table-top fantasy role-playing game.[9] True to its name, the series embraces queer themes and has an all-LGBTQ play group. These are the channel's most lengthy content, with all episodes between two and four hours long.
Tempo Talks[edit]
In this podcast, Tempo interviews talent from mainstream furry projects, particularly voice actors. These include Dog City, Aggretsuko, Dinotopia, and Rock Dog.[10]
Puplift[edit]
Puplift: A Dog's Guide to Space is a hopepunk comedy sci-fi series, which (in-universe) is produced by uplifted dogs living in an interstellar utopia. It is framed as educational material for puppies, newly-created AIs, cryogenically-frozen humans, and as-yes undiscovered aliens. An unnamed narrator dog, voiced by Tempo, explains complex ideas in simple language from a canine perspective. The series is primarily audio, but with rudimentary visuals prepared by the uplifted dogs. Tempo also writes the series, which has music by Jinpa. The setting features "transhumanism, animal uplift, space travel, realistic artificial intelligence, terraforming, and a future you'd want to live in."[11]
Bone Zone[edit]
The Bone Zone is a movie review series hosted by Rattles, an anthro vulture who dines on bad films, particularly B-movies and obscure media.[12] Each episode discusses a movie with anthro characters from a queer and furry perspective, with heavy use of puns and wordplay Rattles is voiced and performed by Arrkay. At the end of each episode, the movie is given a rating based on how "good" (i.e. fun to watch) the featured bad movie is.
External links[edit]
- Culturally F'd on YouTube
- Culturally F'd on Twitter
- Culturally F'd on Facebook
- Culturally F'd on Instagram
- Culturally F'd on Patreon
References[edit]
- ↑ "2015 Ursa Major Award Winners".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd: Live".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd TV App Roku".
- ↑ "2018 Ursa Major Award Winners".
- ↑ "2021 Cóyotl Awards Reading List".
- ↑ "Coyotl Awards 2023 Final Ballot".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd Fursuit History Playlist".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd Fursuit Future Playlist".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd Quests & Queers Playlist".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd Tempo Talks Playlist".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd Puplift Playlist".
- ↑ "Culturally F'd Bone Zone Playlist".