#TonyTheTigerGate

[Consignia]

Somehow, don't ask me how, I ended up on the Metro site earlier. I was crawling through clickbait, and came across this strange story:

http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/28/chester-cheetah-welcomes-the-sexual-advances-of-furries-rejected-by-tony-the-tiger-5649410/



Apparently furries have been sexting the Tony the Tiger official twitter account. The anti-masturbation flakes producer didn't like this and blocked the offending twits. Apparently this exploded, and not ones for denial play the furries have been making some noise. In a surpise twist, the Cheetos leopard has rallied the furries and said he's cool with all their psuedo-bestiality.

But who is the worse party here? Kelloggs for a being a prudish heartless conglomerate? PepsiCo for being an opportunistic heartless conglomerate? Or is the furries in their wolf suits and ties? I'm leaning towards the group who decided to sexualise a cartoon tiger. In this instance.

[Urinal Cake]

How old is Tony the Tiger? I mean it's okay to sexualise a children's mascot i.e. the Wiggles (the Blue one got Cleo's Bachelor of the Year) as long as the mascot is sexually mature.

[Blumf]

They should have gone with Cadbury's Caramel bunny...



You know she'd put out.

[Thomas]

Tony looks more like a tigersied cartoon man than an anthropomorphised cartoon tiger. He's blocked this lot because the issue of his identity is a delicate one. It's why he has his name printed so boldly on his tiger's neckerchief.

And you can't really blame Chester for anything here. He's blind, look. He hasn't seen what people have been tweeting.

[biggytitbo]

I'd like to know what Tony has to say about this, before we start weighing in.

Point of order though, the anti masturbation Kellogs guy is not the same guy who Kellogs cereal is named after, that's his brother!

[Ambient Sheep]

I'm friends with a woman who, as a little girl, starred in a 1970s Frosties advert in America.

At this point I should have some witty anecdote to tell you about it, and somehow tie it up into sexual deviancy, but right now I can't remember anything else about her experience other than that, and my humour-generator is offline.

Sorry to disappoint.


_{But the fact that I disappointed you... turned... me... onnnn.}

[biggytitbo]

You're friends with someone who used to be a little girl? Mmm bit dodgy mate.

[Steven]

I was veering into furrydom in my young adolescent Amiga animation phase in the early to mid 90s, just before the internet and porn became a 'thing'.



So, anyway...

[biggytitbo]

Isn't that last one superfrog? Perhaps he was young, and needed the money?

[Blumf]

The real corp mascot issue is all the unsolicited tweets Capt. Birdseye has been sending out. We're talking Luke Bozier levels of inappropriateness.

[Big Jack McBastard]

It's pretty clear Tony is the victim here.

[Steven]

Point of order though, the anti masturbation Kellogs guy is not the same guy who Kellogs cereal is named after, that's his brother!

They are both credited to inventing and manufacturing Kellogs cereals though, so there is a Kellogs guy who was in the Temperence movement and was anti-masturbation and thought a dull food like Corn Flakes would prevent people being gripped with lust.

[biggytitbo]

They are both credited to inventing and manufacturing Kellogs cereals though, so there is a Kellogs guy who was in the Temperence movement and was anti-masturbation and thought a dull food like Corn Flakes would prevent people being gripped with lust.

Yeah but he didn't invent the corn flakes we eat today, that was his brother.

[Steven]

Yeah but he didn't invent the corn flakes we eat today, that was his brother.

Dunno if the current shite is the same as the original Corn Flakes, but he is credited with inventing those.

The amount of nutrients in that shite, you're better off eating the fucking box anyway, no wonder they 'suggest' you pour milk on it, then they can claim it's good for you because it's the milk doing all the work.

[Big Jack McBastard]

There's a Dollop about this The Cereal Men.

[biggytitbo]

I don't care about the nutrient content since I make my own cereal.


Yeah. Yeah, that's what I said.

[biggytitbo]

Dunno if the current shite is the same as the original Corn Flakes, but he is credited with inventing those.

It states quite clearly there that his 'corn flakes' aren't the same ones manufactured now by the kellog company, which was started by his brother.

[Steven]

It states quite clearly there that his 'corn flakes' aren't the same ones manufactured now by the kellog company, which was started by his brother.

[mothman]

I really don't get the whole Furry thing.

[shiftwork2]

Tony The Tiger can blow his fucking Frosties out of his arse for all I care.

There, I've said my piece.

[biggytitbo]

It's highly unlikely a tiger would eat sugary processed corn snacks anyway, their staple diet is raw meat, chiefly from small native ungulates. Tony is therefore a liar. Not a nice thing to have to admit, but the truth is the truth.

[machotrouts]

Tony The Tiger can blow his fucking Frosties out of his arse for all I care.

There, I've said my piece.

Tony the Tiger can blow his fucking LOAD in my MOUTH

[Steven]

It's highly unlikely a tiger would eat sugary processed corn snacks anyway, their staple diet is raw meat, chiefly from small native ungulates. Tony is therefore a liar. Not a nice thing to have to admit, but the truth is the truth.

There is another Tony who lies about his preference for meat, though:

[Nowhere Man]

This is a song about a tiger named Tony
It's called Tony's Theme

He's got the milk on his bowl, for a ride in the rain
No frosties
Ride around on my bicycle like a furry
I'm waving hi, hi, hi, hi, hi
Gu-gu-gu-Gimme a scream
Give me, give me the theme
Of Tony

[madhair60]

I was veering into furrydom in my young adolescent Amiga animation phase in the early to mid 90s, just before the internet and porn became a 'thing'.



So, anyway...

Hahaha this takes me back.  I was reading Amiga Format and enjoying the "Sabrina Online" cartoon strip.  Years later I remembered it and decided to Google and, well, let's just say what I found was slightly more adult in content than the Amiga strip.

[Steven]

Hahaha this takes me back.  I was reading Amiga Format and enjoying the "Sabrina Online" cartoon strip.  Years later I remembered it and decided to Google and, well, let's just say what I found was slightly more adult in content than the Amiga strip.

Yeah, I did the same, used to use the same programs he did such as Movie Setter and Deluxe Paint to make my own animations back in the early 90s.. his early stuff does get a bit saucy, then looked up his stuff about out of the blue around `99 and he'd gone a bit more adult by then. now I think he's doing a subscription only hardcore furries porno site, not my cup of tea to be honest.. think it's a complete waste of his talent.

[madhair60]

Not gonna lie though I got a wank out of your post, so thanks.  It was grrrr-eat, hahaha, cos of

[Steven]

Not gonna lie though I got a wank out of your post, so thanks. 

Quid pro quo, my friend.

Quid pro quo.

[Howj Begg]

Discriminating against Furries is the one example where I'm happy to be on the Wrong Side of History.

[Glebe]

There was plenty of furry cereal mascot based controversy in the pre-Internet era, too. Honey Monster openly flaunted live-in lover Henry McGee in the Sugar Puffs ads, long before the act of homosexuality was considered a publicly acceptable thing.

In any case, I feel confident that all this will be water off Tony's back. He's proven in the past that he loves the thrill of the fight, and can rise up to the challenge of his rivals:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUMmjKt0NU