Andrew McCutchen's "Furries" Tweet

About

Andrew McCutchen's "Furries" Tweet is a memorable one-word tweet routinely posted by American baseball player Andrew McCutchen about an annual furry convention in Pittsburgh called Anthrocon. The event takes place during the MLB season and has been referenced by McCutchen on social media since 2014 as a "good luck" charm for the athlete. The conspiratorial tradition rose in prominence over the years and has since inspired a series of memes and reactions correlating McCutchen and the furries event each year.

Origin

On July 5th, 2014, American baseball player Andrew McCutchen posted a one-word tweet^[1] reading "Furries" after spotting a furry in Pittsburgh. In the Twitter post, McCutchen was referring to the subculture devoted to anthropomorphic animal characters and believes that every time the annual furries convention, Anthrocon, takes place during baseball season he "turns into the greatest baseball player to ever exist," as Yahoo News^[2] explained. McCutchen's first "Furries" tweet (shown below) garnered over 1,300 likes and 888 retweets in nine years.

Spread

The correlation between the baseball player and the furry convention would become a viral meme topic every time McCutchen repeated the "one-word" tweet^[3] in the following years. For example, on January 14th, 2023, YouTuber^[4] @FoolishBailey posted a video commenting on why McCutchen loves "furries." The video (shown below) garnered over 393,000 views and 23,00 likes in seven months.

On June 30th, 2023, Twitter^[5] user @JMackeyPG posted a McCutchen interview with reporters in which he addresses the furries correlation with his performance. The post (shown below) garnered over 220,000 views and 2,300 likes in two weeks.

On January 14th, 2023, Twitter^[6] user @DominicDeerFox commented on how unexpected a video about baseball and furries is. The post (shown below, left) garnered over 1,300 views and nine likes in seven months. Twitter^[7] user @JRown32 showed some of McCutchen's statics every time the furries are in the same town he is playing. The post (shown below, right), uploaded on June 30th, 2023, garnered over 2,900 views and 28 likes in two weeks.

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