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Anthrocon put out a blog post on their site talking about changes for the 2023 event. While most of it isn't terribly exciting, what caught my eye was their decision to not have any covid policy. No mask requirement, no proof of vaccination, etc.

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I didn't see much salt about this on social media yet, but I anticipate we'll see some pretty intense screeching soon. Honestly, I'm just glad to see one of the bigger conventions finally tell the people still screaming about masks to fuck off already.
 
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Pinball 2000 said:
Anthrocon put out a blog post on their site talking about changes for the 2023 event. While most of it isn't terribly exciting, what caught my eye was their decision to not have any covid policy. No mask requirement, no proof of vaccination, etc.

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I didn't see much salt about this on social media yet, but I anticipate we'll see some pretty intense screeching soon. Honestly, I'm just glad to see one of the bigger conventions finally tell the people still screaming about masks to fuck off already.
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I give them a 75% chance they'll bend the knee to Furry Twitter and reinstate masks with proof of however many shots count as vaxxmaxxed according to the Science™ overlords like Chise by the time summer rolls in.

One must remember these are furries we are talking about. They are overtly paranoid about coughs more than they are with STDs.
 
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speaking of poorly-executed covid policies, Further Confusion is next week and here’s an excerpt of their COVID-19 Policy:

All attendees in all publicly accessible areas will need to wear a mask. We make this distinction because we intend to have both dances and the party floor available to attendees.

All attendees will be required to wear a fabric or a disposable mask over their nose and mouth in publicly accessible areas. This includes but is not limited to: the Dealer’s Den, Exhibition Space, Dances, FC:U!, the Party Floor (including hallways and all room parties), and all areas in both the hotels and convention center that do not place you behind a locked door, such as a bathroom stall or hotel room not used for parties.

This requirement also applies to fursuiters, so come prepared with sufficient and comfortable masks if you intend to suit! A mask is required under a fursuit head at all times while in convention space.

A fursuit head ‘wearing’ a mask is fun and cute but is not a substitute for having a mask on under the head.
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Fabric and disposable masks stop you from accidentally spitting on people and that’s all they are good for.

The worst offender is the ‘locked door’ policy. You want to police everyone around the convention centre remotely nowhere near any con activities to mask up? Expecting people to mask up just because they are in a hotel room with the door open? Thirty people in a room constantly taking their masks off and on to drink jungle juice and you think this is going to protect anyone in any way? Who wrote this garbage
 
D.Va said:
speaking of poorly-executed covid policies, Further Confusion is next week and here’s an excerpt of their COVID-19 Policy:


Fabric and disposable masks stop you from accidentally spitting on people and that’s all they are good for.

The worst offender is the ‘locked door’ policy. You want to police everyone around the convention centre remotely nowhere near any con activities to mask up? Expecting people to mask up just because they are in a hotel room with the door open? Thirty people in a room constantly taking their masks off and on to drink jungle juice and you think this is going to protect anyone in any way? Who wrote this garbage
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I think for FC specifically, since they were canned twice, its most likely something to keep the very vocal covidians from stirring up more drama. From my post-covid con experiences no one is really expected to or actually enforces this shit outside of con spaces, let alone room parties. Best case you’ll get some angry glances, worst case some twitter brained idiot actually gathers enough courage to confront you.
I’m willing to bet FC will be the last, or second to last major con with any mask policy.
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> A mask is required under a fursuit head
...I kinda feel bad, but I would like to see fursuit-wearers pass out from this mandate.
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Fortunately it isn’t enforced, nor would any suiter in their right mind follow that rule. From what I understand, to keep from being harassed they just keep one close at hand to quickly put on if they need to take their head off.
However, and I think this was posted around here somewhere, a coyote MFL suiter was recently burned for that very rule on twitter, but I think it was more so how he reacted to criticism online than not wearing a mask at all. This was at MFF iirc where almost no one caught covid despite the constant fears of a mass spreader event, go figure.
 
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I’m willing to bet FC will be the last, or second to last major con with any mask policy.
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Second to last at least. Anthro New England is the week after and they also have a vague policy to police ”all indoor public spaces”.

It’s down to how zealous con security wants to be and that really depends on the individuals who sign up for the role. There’s bound to be at least one LARPer who thinks he’s now a police officer and wants to go around feeling productive and useful (annoying).
 
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It’s down to how zealous con security wants to be and that really depends on the individuals who sign up for the role. There’s bound to be at least one LARPer who thinks he’s now a police officer and wants to go around feeling productive and useful (annoying).
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At least we now know why that one degenerate created those Paw Patrol fursuits.
 
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Second to last at least. Anthro New England is the week after and they also have a vague policy to police ”all indoor public spaces”.

It’s down to how zealous con security wants to be and that really depends on the individuals who sign up for the role. There’s bound to be at least one LARPer who thinks he’s now a police officer and wants to go around feeling productive and useful (annoying).
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Generally speaking that larper who wants to be helpful will probably be less I larper like a soldier/security like anime cons because furries find Cops far too pawblematic (pun intended). So expect to see the policing some highly vocal ACAB/BLM/Pride flag on their shirt/vest/art. They will probably be hyper aware looking out for "chud" behavior ie anyone having fun and not being cringe and gay like them.

We're talking about furries here not weebs despite similar porn interests the virtue signaling with furries is worse.

Rukario said:
At least we now know why that one degenerate created those Paw Patrol fursuits.
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I dunno knowing furries they can't have the Police paw patrol uniform because that's problematic.
 
Anthrocon caved to Furry Twitter and put a Covid policy in place. While not outright confirming it yet, it sounds like they're going to enforce vaccines and masks. The timing of this announcement could not possibly come at a worse time, as New Year's was AC's official cutoff date to ask for pre-registration refunds.
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In some other convention-related news:

Fur The More's hotel block opened for their 2023 event on Sunday (1/15), but if the low tweet analytics and multiple RTs are anything to go by... things don't seem to be going well for them, and not nearly as many furries seem to be signing up this year.
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For the sake of comparison, here's their room block tweet from last year:
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Given how much of a mess 2022's event was, it isn't terribly surprising to me that a lot of furries who previously went aren't returning this year. As a quick recap, they implemented a moronic and overbearing covid policy while the event was already running, made a massive list of poor decisions that are far too numerous for me to list here, and insisted on switching their featured charity to something more "progressive" (that showed multiple warning signs of not being very legitimate), only for that charity to misappropriate all the money that Fur The More gave them.


To their credit, the convention did change their charity this year to something a little more legitimate, but I think for most people who attended last year, it's too little, too late.
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Anthrocon caved to Furry Twitter and put a Covid policy in place. While not outright confirming it yet, it sounds like they're going to enforce vaccines and masks. The timing of this announcement could not possibly come at a worse time, as New Year's was AC's official cutoff date to ask for pre-registration refunds.
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How utterly predictable.

I'm convinced that no furcon is ever going to let go of these asinine policies for the rest of their existence.
 
The Big O said:
How utterly predictable.

I'm convinced that no furcon is ever going to let go of these asinine policies for the rest of their existence.
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It's the typical Twitter virtue signaling where they tell you to take the COVID + Monkeypox Jab and oh, make sure to keep six feet apart while they talk about sharing diapers then attending a sex party after on their AD. Some friends went to Further Confusion this past weekend and most people did not wear masks, abit the amount of people who wore one was a bit higher since Californians are subhuman. It was enforced as soon as you walked past the glass doors into the convention space but you could easily bypass wearing masks completely taking other routes that took the same amount of time or got you faster to your destination. When it came to the party floor, they told me the same thing happened again with majority of people not wearing masks or would only wear it in the hallway to give the appearance they cared till they got to the outside patio on the party floor, including con staff.

The only incident my friend saw about masks was waiting in the registration line and a fat, black girl with a million patches of LGBT shit, rainbow flag and typical attire you'd expect, went up to a group of guys who arrived and told them they had to wear masks. She handed them some masks and they apologized but as soon as she walked away, they all rolled their eyes and uttering stuff about how the policy wasn't gonna be enforced for shit when Friday night and beyond rolls around then took the masks off as soon as they walked out.

As people have pointed out, they only put out COVID policies so they don't have to listen to the terminally online kids cry about not having one in place and how they don't care about the safety of people, the same furs who ignore zoos and pedos running rampant in these cons and encourage the use of dangerous drugs and binge drinking. However on the bright side, more and more furs are slowly getting fed up and telling the small vocal minority to get over themselves.
 
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How utterly predictable.

I'm convinced that no furcon is ever going to let go of these asinine policies for the rest of their existence.
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I figured the degenerates would love to wear a mask, if only to keep photos from being identifiable.
 
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Confuzzled is banning AI art and NFTs because of course they are "the legal framework around these items is currently too unclear".
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But I could take literally any work of art and turn it into an NFT. Does that mean I can go in and get someone's work banned if I don't like them?

NFTs are not physical objects, what does it even mean to ban them from the art show? Could it be this is just a meaningless virtue signal policy???
 
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But I could take literally any work of art and turn it into an NFT. Does that mean I can go in and get someone's work banned if I don't like them?

NFTs are not physical objects, what does it even mean to ban them from the art show? Could it be this is just a meaningless virtue signal policy???
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Judging from the tweet replies; yes, and it's been effective as such
 
Realhat said:
But I could take literally any work of art and turn it into an NFT. Does that mean I can go in and get someone's work banned if I don't like them?

NFTs are not physical objects, what does it even mean to ban them from the art show? Could it be this is just a meaningless virtue signal policy???
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My suspicion would be that they're not talking about someone randomly generating an NFT of someone's artwork. Rather, they don't want anyone selling NFTs AT the con, whether in Dealers or Art Show. At most cons, the Art Show is pretty much a collection of auctioned artwork -- most often, limited edition prints or originals. It serves the same purpose as an NFT, but you actually own the piece you pay for, rather than a receipt saying that you do.
 
I love this thread.

Vague PL for reference: I've worked with a LOT of festivals and conventions internationally throughout the past long while and I've never seen such a shit show for all of them combined than I have seen for a singular fest in this thread.

For all the fests, most of which have existed a min of 5-7 years, the ban list is like...25 people? 30 people? Meanwhile each of these furry cons are having to publish whole yearly ban lists.

If your event brings in that many degenerates, maybe you should be rethinking hosting a gathering.

The amount of damage control posts they have to make on social media before the events even start is also hilarious. If you look at any big convention, you'll never see that. Shit, fests and cons that attract black metal nazis, hallucingen fanatics or neckbeard Sci fi fans don't even struggle with this level of venue complains, ban lists, sexual harassment claims etc.

Fuckin furries
 
MetalParakeet said:
I love this thread.

Vague PL for reference: I've worked with a LOT of festivals and conventions internationally throughout the past long while and I've never seen such a shit show for all of them combined than I have seen for a singular fest in this thread.

For all the fests, most of which have existed a min of 5-7 years, the ban list is like...25 people? 30 people? Meanwhile each of these furry cons are having to publish whole yearly ban lists.

If your event brings in that many degenerates, maybe you should be rethinking hosting a gathering.

The amount of damage control posts they have to make on social media before the events even start is also hilarious. If you look at any big convention, you'll never see that. Shit, fests and cons that attract black metal nazis, hallucingen fanatics or neckbeard Sci fi fans don't even struggle with this level of venue complains, ban lists, sexual harassment claims etc.

Fuckin furries
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The problem with furries when they run cons is unlike anime cons which have their own insanity furries tend to add a giant dollop of SJW politics to their events. Anime cons tend to be politically neutral meanwhile furries are like antifa central.
 
LeChampion1992 said:
The problem with furries when they run cons is unlike anime cons which have their own insanity furries tend to add a giant dollop of SJW politics to their events. Anime cons tend to be politically neutral meanwhile furries are like antifa central.
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The problem with furries is that they're furries, and a basic technique of any degenerate is to become a SJW to try to throw off suspicion from their own degenerate actions.

So yeah, no questions why they throw on the sjw shit. The organizers are the same types of people that would group cum on a pizza. Of course they're pretending to be totally not like that. Guis
 
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