As a result leaders within the fandom took a stance with fans to treat those in the media like drugs pushers and “just say no”. I’m willing to put money down that someone wrote pieces of hard skepticism about those that had allowed filming for the recently well-received Lisa Ling episode and that the episode was going to do something a bit more nefarious. Don’t know who’d ever do a thing like that.
I didn't forget, I was one of them that had a skeptial air and covered this situation: https://www.flayrah.com/7155/anthro-northwest-premier-forgets-history-furlandias...
Of which I later poked fun at myself for having: