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Furries and drama go hand-in-hand. It's not uncommon to see someone get torn to shreds for something relatively minor. In a fandom that's so drama-prone, a minor incident can quickly be blown out of proportion, and a major crime can often be swept under the rug with furries shrugging it off as "drama". At times, it can be tough to determine who are the truly bad people, so I'm honestly shocked this guy didn't have a thread until now.
Matthew Soltys (better known by his fursona names Nitro Roosky, Cyder The Donkey, and most recently Spark the Dalmatian) from Red Lion, Pennsylvania would like you to believe that the hundreds of furries who cut ties with him are lying about him and his behavior. However, a quick glance at how he handles himself both online and IRL shows that Matthew has left a fairly destructive path in his wake, trying his best to drag down everyone who gave him the benefit of the doubt along the way. While his infamy was somewhat known among the PA furries for a few years, it finally hit critical mass in 2020 with a massive string of fraudulent activity and continued into 2021 with Matthew actively harassing people for incredibly petty reasons.
DISCLAIMER FOR LURKERS TO THIS THREAD:
Hello there! Odds are good that you discovered this thread because it popped up in a search, or you were linked to it by a friend. There are a lot of reasons why Matthew/Nitro should not be trusted (either with money or your time). Since this thread has gotten a fair amount of traffic from furries not familiar with KF's atmosphere, I'd like to give our lurkers a few quick reminders, especially since Matthew is aware of this thread and has tried his hardest to discredit all the information within.
Matthew's most common tactic is to claim that KF cannot be trusted and only exists to bully people with fake evidence. It is important to note that when you see an (archive) link mentioned in the thread, that is an accurate snapshot of that weblink (eg if a Twitter link is archived, it means that tweet was indeed real, even if it might have been deleted later). Archive links can not be faked, and they’re hosted on a service completely independent of KF. If you're willing to disregard legitimate evidence solely because you don't like the website it was posted on, you absolutely deserve to be scammed by Matthew.
In addition, while some of Matthew's personal information in this thread, DO NOT CONTACT/HARASS MATTHEW. It is a forum rule to not contact a thread's subject. If you try to use the information here to "troll" Matthew or his friends and get caught, you'll most likely end up doxed and featured here and we'll all collectively laugh at how much of an unfunny dumbass you are.
Matthew's most common tactic is to claim that KF cannot be trusted and only exists to bully people with fake evidence. It is important to note that when you see an (archive) link mentioned in the thread, that is an accurate snapshot of that weblink (eg if a Twitter link is archived, it means that tweet was indeed real, even if it might have been deleted later). Archive links can not be faked, and they’re hosted on a service completely independent of KF. If you're willing to disregard legitimate evidence solely because you don't like the website it was posted on, you absolutely deserve to be scammed by Matthew.
In addition, while some of Matthew's personal information in this thread, DO NOT CONTACT/HARASS MATTHEW. It is a forum rule to not contact a thread's subject. If you try to use the information here to "troll" Matthew or his friends and get caught, you'll most likely end up doxed and featured here and we'll all collectively laugh at how much of an unfunny dumbass you are.
Matthew Himself
To get the basics out of the way, Matthew is a furry in his mid-20s who had been somewhat well-known in Pennsylvania and New Jersey’s furry scene for a couple of years. According to one furry I talked to while working on this OP, nearly every furry who attended PA fur meets regularly from 2017-2019 had personally encountered him at least once in some form. Outside of the furry fandom, he works at a Six Flags amusement park and runs "DJMSOL Entertainment" (sometimes referred to as "Nitro Production Company"), a side business of DJ/AV work that got him a few local gigs.
Former friends have also claimed that Matthew was constantly broke and asking for more money (while at the same time buying expensive things and living far outside of the means that his job provided). While precise evidence to back this up is lacking, it should be pointed out that Matthew has been sued for unpaid rent at least twice, once in March 2018, and again in February 2021. It goes without saying that it takes a lot to justify unpaid rent escalating to a court case.
It is critical to bring up the fact that Matthew's skills with money are lacking before going any further, as this comes into play several times during this OP. This won’t be the last time you’ll hear about him mishandling money.
Capital City Fur Con (March 2019-June 2020)
What made Matthew as infamous as he is now was the drama and fallout involving the convention he founded (and made himself chairman of), Capital City Fur Con. Initially announced to the public in March 2019, the first and only CCFC was held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in January 2020. It also has the unique distinction of being one of the only 2020 furry events that wasn't canceled due to COVID-19. CCFC has been talked about heavily in the Furry Convention Drama thread, and it spawned a massive CCFC OP. I’d strongly suggest reading the OP if you have some time, but here are the cliff’s notes:
Matthew wanted to host his own furry convention, but he lacked the experience, knowledge, or resources. He decided to proceed anyway, hired a few of his friends as staff, then spent most of 2019 pestering furries (primarily ones with a lot of followers on Twitter) to show up to his convention.
Planning was close to nonexistent. Matthew insisted on having control over everything, wouldn’t communicate with his staff or volunteers, and managed to piss off the few people who actually had convention experience to the point that they all quit. Despite all this, he was able to fill in some of the staffing gaps with random people he met at fur meets, and CCFC actually happened as promised in early 2020, with roughly 400 furries showing up to it.
Matthew never paid the hotel a deposit that was agreed upon in their contract, and on the first night of the convention, the hotel demanded payment or they’d shut everything down. First, Matthew tried to pressure his staff member Tripp to hand over thousands from his college savings to help cover the unpaid deposit. Due to transfer limits at Tripp's bank (as well as Tripp's parents refusing to let him use the money for non-college expenses), nothing came from this, but that didn't stop Matthew from continuing to harass Tripp for money for the rest of the convention. Here's Tripp's take on what happened:
Despite this setback, Matthew managed to avert disaster. He convinced one of his friends to put their personal credit cards onto the convention's billing accounts, and he also managed to suppress news about the potential shutdown from attendees before it became public knowledge.
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Surprisingly, the rest of the convention seemed to go okay. Most of the furries I reached out to who attended CCFC said they generally enjoyed themselves and had fun. Matthew spent most of CCFC casually schmoozing furries and did little to no management and left the inexperienced staff to fend for themselves. At CCFC's closing ceremonies, he announced he was immediately stepping down as the chairman and gave the role to a DJ who played at one of the dances, then told everyone that any inquiries post-convention should be sent to the new chairman, not him.
Matthew promised the guests of honor and his staff that he would cover their rooms, only for all of them to find out upon checking out that they were now stuck paying the entire bill. Matthew’s friend that put his card down to save CCFC's shutdown was stuck with a bill for $12,000. Matthew's new chairman quit ten days after CCFC ended because he realized that Matthew was trying to shift the blame of CCFC's mismanagement over to him. Matthew also ignored all questions from everyone about being compensated.
Matthew had also partnered CCFC with a charity (ALS Association) and con-goers had raised somewhere around $4K-$5K at the event. At some point, Matthew came up with the idea to use the charity money to pay down some of CCFC's debt. He was repeatedly told by staff and friends that this was a terrible idea, but he did it anyway in order to save himself from having to declare bankruptcy.
Since a lot of this wasn't publicly known at the time, Matthew managed to avoid drawing more attention to himself for a few months. That all changed on June 11th 2020, when his (now former) staff Tripp called him out and demanded proof that the money was properly donated to charity. Tripp's callout gained a lot of traction online very quickly, and Matthew responded a few hours later by announcing that CCFC would be ending.
When people started pointing out how incredibly suspicious it was that CCFC announced its closure mere hours after a callout, Matthew nuked all of CCFC's social media (as well as his own) and went radio silent for a few months.
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Post CCFC: (June 2020-Present)
A more sympathetic reader might read the above and see Matthew as a misguided person who wanted to throw an event but got in way over his head. However, Matthew has since proven the direct opposite. Over the course of the next few months, he managed to eradicate any sympathy people might have had for him, refusing to take any accountability for his actions and (unsuccessfully) trying to absolve himself of any blame.Unsurprisingly, most furries did not want to be associated with someone who willingly mishandled thousands of dollars meant for charity. News about CCFC’s mismanagement spread quickly through the Pennsylvania furry scene, and Matthew quickly found himself universally shunned and despised by most of his former friends and associates. While most events for 2020 were on indefinite hiatus due to COVID-19, most fur meets and conventions in PA preemptively banned him from coming back (once they were allowed to safely start running again).
Matthew's dating life and #TeamNitro
(Top row: "Kyle the Wolf", "Kenaii The Husky". Bottom row: Matthew and "Blue Heart Fox")
Before moving on to his failed attempts to get furries to like him again, it's worth taking a look at Matthew's love life and a few of his known associates. Between each of his failed schemes, there seems to be a repeating cycle of predatory dating behavior coming from Matthew, which consists of him cruising furry dating groups and asking unsuspecting furries out, usually ending poorly for whomever he suckered in. It's best summarized by this chart I made:
Authors' note: Most of Matthew's exes have expressed remorse over getting involved with him and admitting that he lied about a lot of things. For that reason, I'm going to keep personally identifying information about most of them minimal.
In 2020 alone, Matthew has gone through at least 8 romantic relationships, and those are just ones we know about through public posts. Matthew likes to ask out vulnerable furries who are unaware of his history (oftentimes while he is still dating someone). The majority of his exes were just recently establishing themselves in the local furry "scene", which allowed Matthew to gaslight them into believing that any furries who disapproved of them associating with him were only doing it because they're just jealous and/or intolerant.
Matthew actually has a long con where he befriends people, takes their money and/or gifts, kisses their ass, manipulates them to a point they're willing to share personal information just to stay on his good side, only for him to laugh at them and share that information the second they inconvenience him. He has been caught doing this to at least three of his exes. It's also worth pointing out that Matthew explicitly seeks out furries that own fursuits of their own, which is supported by the fact that every ex has photos of the two of them in suit together, all of his close personal associates are fursuiters, and the fact that every furry Matthew pestered to come to CCFC was a fursuiter.
Despite this, Matthew has maintained a small cult of personality around him of furries who support him unquestionably, with at least one of them currently living with him. They appear on each other's social media, liking/sharing each other's posts and white-knighting each other. Essentially, think of it as a smaller version of the rat-king social structure prevalent in some other online communities.
Notable #TeamNitro members
Max NightEmber
Max (actual name: David Earl Moss) is a personal friend of Matthew who worked at CCFC as the head of events and has since become one of Matthew's biggest and contentious white knights. He became Matthew's roommate somewhere between CCFC ending and CCFC's shutdown. Max is probably best known for "leaking" a forged charity donation receipt, and he was also listed as a staff member in the ACFC incident (both mentioned later in this OP).
When CCFC was shut down in June 2020, Max made his public online presence as minimal as possible in order to avoid drawing more attention to his association with Matthew, but he's since used his lack of visibility as a means to harass people on Matthew's behalf without personal repercussions. He's also believed to have intentionally leaked the dox of several CCFC staff and attendees via registration information he was known to have access to, which (if true) means he may have committed a legitimate crime to defend Matthew.
For some reason, Matthew has also given Max access to some of his social media, which has resulted in multiple incidents where Max said very regrettable things on his friend's behalf. On at least two occasions, he's been documented harassing and threatening people critical of Matthew (the linked one is especially concerning because his target was underage), insisting Matthew did nothing wrong, all evidence saying otherwise is faked, and everything in this thread is a lie.
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Kyle the Wolf
Kyle is Matthew's second-biggest white knight. He's been documented going out of his way to actively harass furries who have spoken negatively about Matthew and CCFC's mismanagement (sometimes replying to tweets that were months old) and was involved in at least one of Matthew's failed schemes.Kyle hasn't made much of an effort to hide his association with Matthew, going so far as to put #TeamNitro in some of his social media bios. Despite the fact that Matthew is often in a committed relationship of some sort, that hasn't stopped Kyle from commissioning artists to make suggestive art of their fursonas together.
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Kenaii The Husky / Kenaii The Floof
Kenaii was first known to be in contact with Matthew during CCFC, when he pressed Matthew on the near-shutdown and was informed by the CCFC Twitter that "everything is fine, there are no debt issues". Despite realizing that something fishy was going on with CCFC's finances, and despite the very public fallout over CCFC, he has continued to associate with Matthew.
Kenaii has acted as a cameraman for some photos and videos and has also been spotted entering chats/groups at the same time as Matthew. While he doesn't declare his support as openly as the rest, he is very actively complicit in Matthew's activities. He's also let Matthew guest host in some of his music/DJ streams, usually referring to him as "Cyder" to avoid backlash.
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Blue Heart Fox
Blue Heart was Matthew's current romantic relationship when this thread was first created in January 2021. He is probably best known for an incident where he stupidly implicated Matthew further in wrongdoing, resulting in Matthew not only dumping Blue but throwing out a bunch of Blue's dox in the hopes that people would harass Blue instead of him. Out of concern for Blue being actively harassed by Matthew, that information will not be posted here.
In late January, someone claiming to be Blue showed up in this thread claiming that he was not responsible for a separate unrelated incident (that was blamed on him). They then immediately logged out, so it's unknown if this was the real Blue, or someone attempting to ween. "Blue's" statement did line up with some previously posted evidence in the thread but was ultimately inconclusive.
Blue Heart is a lolcow in their own right, but not nearly to the same level as Matthew. When someone showed Blue hard evidence that Matthew was cheating on them and sending unsolicited dick pics to others, Blue claimed they watched Matthew send the dick pics so that makes it okay, completely ignoring Matthew's unfaithfulness. It's also worth pointing out that based on the above photos, Blue had access to alcohol when he was dating Matthew, which is concerning as he was underage (20) at the time.
Dear Furries, PLEASE take me back!
In the months following CCFC’s shutdown, Matthew has made multiple attempts to reinsert himself back into a group of furries that want nothing to do with him. So far every single attempt has managed to backfire massively and only increase animosity towards him.Editor’s Note: a lot of these incidents were previously discussed in greater detail in other threads. As such, I’ll give brief summaries of each incident and then link to appropriate Kiwi Farms posts if you want to read further.
The “donation receipt” saga (June 2020)
(read more)Someone gets in contact with Max and presses him on what happened to CCFC’s charity money. Max then claims it was actually just donated a few minutes ago and sent a photograph of the receipt to prove it. It was almost immediately determined that Matthew instead googled “ALS receipt”, photoshopped some of the text, printed it out, and took a photo. It’s not clear if the forgery was Matthew’s idea or Max’s, but it certainly didn’t do Matthew any favors regardless.
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The "Twitter resurgence" saga (September 2020)
(read more)Matthew showed up on Twitter with a new account, posting fursuit photos and pretending that nothing ever happened. Other furries eventually noticed that he was back on Twitter and started harassing him, which caused him to tweet this before he locked his account, name-dropping the furry he was dating and bringing unwanted attention to them in the process.
The “my cousin's donkey fursuit” saga (October 2020):
(read more) (featured in Act 4 of the CCFC OP)Matthew stumbled upon a donkey fursuit auction on The Dealers Den (think eBay but for furries) that was sitting at about $5,000. Matthew contacted the seller and offered to pay $10,000 on the condition that they settle the payment offsite and ship him the suit first. He then admitted to a friend in private that he didn’t have anywhere close to that money, but he was hoping that with a new sona, he could sneak back into venues he had been banned from.
He was so confident he was going to scam the fursuit maker that he immediately set up multiple social media accounts for his new character, “Cyder the Donkey”, then started using Cyder to contact ex-friends who had previously cut ties with him. Furries caught on that something fishy was going on almost immediately, and it probably didn’t help that he thought it was a good idea to send a selfie to someone:
He didn’t get away with it. Someone tipped off the fursuit maker that Matthew was a known scammer and they decided to cancel the sale entirely. This prompted Matthew to reactivate the official CCFC Twitter account and have a bizarre meltdown. Matthew claimed numerous ridiculous things in the process. Among others:
-The guy trying to buy the donkey fursuit was actually his cousin and totally not him.
-His cousin also looks exactly like Matthew, lives in the same house as Matthew, and was dating someone who looks exactly like Matthew’s (at the time) boyfriend.
-His cousin communicated with the fursuit seller through Matthew’s personal Twitter account instead of just making his own.
-Tripp was a liar who ruined his reputation.
-CCFC failed because his staff sucked and he did everything right and none of it was his fault.
-The only good staff members were Matthew and the head of events (Max)
-Everyone got compensated and if they say otherwise, they’re lying.
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Not even furries were stupid enough to believe any of this. Tripp responded mockingly, which only made Matthew even angrier. He flew into an incoherent rage which only caused more people to notice the situation and start mocking him.
Matthew continued to rage and argue with furries for a few more hours before he eventually got off Twitter. While the donkey fursuit was eventually sold to someone else, he’s continued to use the “Cyder” alias on social media, still attempting to sneak into places he is no longer welcome.
The “ACFC” saga (November 2020):
(read more) (ACFC Telegram summary)In late October/early November, several social media pages and a website popped up for an “Amish Country Fur Con”, planning to tentatively run sometime in 2022 in Lancaster, PA. The official website set off several red flags almost immediately.
Among other issues, it was discovered that all the promotional photos were stolen off Google, the convention’s logo was a stolen stock image, the hotel was the same one Matthew had bragged about getting a new job at a few months prior, and all of the listed staff knew Matthew at some point (including one of Matthew’s exes as well as Max). ACFC’s Code of Conduct was also blatantly plagiarized from the codes on the Anthrocon and Furrydelphia websites, and bizarrely, one line accidentally referred to the event as CCFC.
An official ACFC Telegram chat was linked on the website, which prompted some furries to join it to figure out what was going on. Ultimately, it was being run by Matthew (with Kyle white-knighting him heavily in the chat). Matthew had pressured his ex into being his meat-puppet and speaking on his behalf, and the ex spent hours being grilled by furries who were pointing out very obvious questions the ex could not answer (eg “what experience do you have?” and “where is the contract for the hotel you claim to have a contract with?”). The ex eventually relented, admitted the entire thing was Matthew’s idea, and nuked the chat.
Matthew reacted to ACFC's failure by putting his fursuit up for auction, stating in the description that he was “leaving the fandom” and asking $800. It ultimately ended with zero bids, presumably because nobody wanted to risk getting scammed and/or give Matthew more money.
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The “Cease and Desist” saga (January 2021):
(read more)Blue Heart Fox (Matthew's boyfriend at the time) decided to make a shitty callout post about Tripp's earlier callout on Matthew (despite the fact that that said callout was six months old at this point). Tripp laughed it off and in the ensuing argument that followed, asked Blue to prove that anything he said about Matthew was wrong.
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Blue declares that they have proof that exonerates Matthew, and tweets a photograph of a Cease and Desist letter Matthew was sent in late December. The letter states that CCFC was never registered as a 501(c)(3) organization (something that 99% of conventions are registered as for tax and charity purposes) and Matthew did not have any authorization to legally raise charity money under the CCFC name. If he continues to claim otherwise, he will face legal action.
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When Blue Heart finally realized how royally they fucked up by implicating Matthew even further in charity fraud, they nuked their Twitter account, but not before the incident caught the attention of furry lawyer Boozy Badger.
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The "Impostor Patch" Saga (October 2020-Present)
(read more) (part 2)In late February, it was brought to light that almost immediately after failing to scam the donkey fursuit, Matthew had tried to buy someone else's Dalmatian fursuit that was put it up for sale. After agreeing to a payment plan, but missing the deadline to pay for the suit (even after the seller gave Matthew multiple extensions), the sale was canceled entirely due to nonpayment. When the suit was eventually sold to someone else, Matthew spent months harassing and impersonating the suit's new owner in petty revenge.
After Matthew was called out, he disappeared for three months, and Matthew attempted to re-invent himself yet again, this time as "Spark the Dalmatian". Due to the fact that Matthew didn't take ten seconds to google the name before settling on it, he shares it with another dalmatian furry named Spark (who has MULTIPLE arrests for being a pedophile, lol). And despite the fact that he was recently sued by his landlord for thousands in unpaid rent, he decided to instead spend thousands on commissioning a nearly-identical copy of Patch's fursuit, demonstrating in a later conversation with Patch he was so mad about being called out for impersonation that he was willing to spend actual money to prove a moronic point.
As of this writing, he is still actively bullying Patch, privately messaging every furry he can get into a private conversation with to spread a false narrative of events, presumably hoping that Patch will eventually give up and he can slip under the radar and re-brand under Patch's name.
Closing Statement
Matthew Soltys is a pathetic, socially broken scam artist who is incapable of admitting his mistakes and has since surrounded himself with moronic white knights who are either unaware of his history, fallen for his lies, or who simply don't care because no other furries will tolerate them. He will continue to be actively shunned and despised until he either goes to jail or somehow repays the thousands of dollars he’s responsible for misappropriating.He is also part of the reason why websites like Kiwi Farms exist in the first place. Sooner or later, Matthew will make another resurgence online with another failed stunt to get furries to like him again, and it will almost certainly blow up in his face. When that happens someone will have to tell the younger generations the "legend" of Nitro. As such, it is our sworn duty to archive and re-tell his tale for all to hear. It's sort of like the ending to James and the Giant Peach, only with more being Mad at the Internet.
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