Because the furry gamers (let's call 'em FG's) have managed to send them into a friend-or-foe dilemma they can't find a solution for. While the furries EASILY solved this by identifying the FG's as furries, the gamers have decided that since furries are the enemy, FG's must be betraying the gamers. Then again, this is the war which managed to split the anime fandom in half...