This Final Fantasy 14 group may have set a new MMO record: 24 cat boys in speedos clearing a raid threepeat

gamesradar.com:

A Final Fantasy 14 cat boy has brought together 23 fellow Miqo'te to run not one, but three Alliance raids – the latest being the steamiest yet, with the divine entities of the Thaleia raid brought down by a gang of beach-ready cat boys.

Dubbed the 'speedo run,' all three groups doing the Thaleia alliance raid were filled with cat boys ready to hit not only the beach but some of The Twelve, too – benevolent deities who are essentially the gods of Eorzea. 

Speaking to GamesRadar+ (of course we had to talk to them), the ring leader of the Speedo-clad cat boys tells us the inspiration behind the run was to bring the sort of activity they had seen from various communities of Japanese players to the Elemental data center, which Phron'to tells us has the most English-speakers of the Japanese data centers.

"On the JP DCs, I've seen whole communities of Japanese players organize all sorts of events like the runs I've organized," they say. "Some of these ranged from meme runs to more elaborate runs where everyone wore a specific uniform, like this 24 cat boy NieR run I saw before. Different communities (specifically race/gender-exclusive cross-world linkshells) organized these kinds of runs, like a 24 male Au Ra in suits run, or a 24 cat girl in maid outfits run, and the list goes on. Then I thought, 'What if I organized one on Elemental?'"

Now here is the full compilation of the catboy runs I've organized on Elemental! Aglaia-Euphrosyne-ThaleiaThank you so much to the catboys who joined! pic.twitter.com/7bcyMkClPSOctober 21, 2023

After attending plenty of cat boy runs themselves to "take notes," Phron'to brought what they learned to Elemental's more English-speaking community. The first raid of the Myths of the Realm Alliance