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I'm beginning to assume 99% of Furry conventions this year will either have attendees complaining over mask rules, or attendees trying to re-create the pizza incident that turned into a meme.
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There had been a convention trying to get started called North Country Anthropomorphic Con. Normally I would avoid talking about things that near me, but this has been growing a bit and...it's being held in the next town over. Judging from how most startup cons go I'm both wondering about any shit linked to it and at the same time recoiling because I DO NOT like doing shit in that short proximity.
tl;dr I don't like the fact that it's close to home, I don't wanna touch it. If someone else wants, they can go look.
tl;dr I don't like the fact that it's close to home, I don't wanna touch it. If someone else wants, they can go look.
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The one thing that immediately strikes me as really odd with North Country's website is the page showing off the board of directors (archive). All of them prominently linked their Twitter accounts, and between all four of them, they have 479 followers combined as of this writing. Now I'm not saying that high amounts of followers are a sign of a popular or well-adjusted fur, but it seems very weird to me that none of the people running this seem to be well-known. Even Nitro with his short-lived ACFC stunt had "staff" listed that had more than 50 Twitter followers on their accounts.
Relic: "President / CEO". 192 followers (Twitter)(archive)
MewsSnep: "Co-Chair". 99 followers (Twitter)(archive)
James Otty: "Co-Chair". 45 followers (Twitter)(archive)
Xenowulf: "Advisor to the Board". 143 followers (Twitter)(archive)
Relic: "President / CEO". 192 followers (Twitter)(archive)
MewsSnep: "Co-Chair". 99 followers (Twitter)(archive)
James Otty: "Co-Chair". 45 followers (Twitter)(archive)
Xenowulf: "Advisor to the Board". 143 followers (Twitter)(archive)
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This one in particular gives me weird vibes because they rarely ever post to Twitter. I know, not everyone is addicted to Social Media, but this person looks like the type furry who should have at least 20K Tweets since their account's creation date.
This dude in particular looks like he joins nazifur Telegram groups and would likely be the end of the convention as a result if what I am saying does happen.
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I’d honestly argue a lower follower count indicates a less involved, and likely more “normal” furry.
That said, this convention will probably go off without a hitch unless one of the guys is some kind of undiscovered lol cow, in which case, more milk for us.
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On the other hand, the convention's twitter account having 40 followers does not bode well for their success. If things keep going like that they're going to fizzle out before we get to see any funny fireworks.
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I’m gonna call it right now, this convention has no good milk. It’s already been established that the con staff seem like well-adjusted people at a glance. There’s no indication that anything other than possible con cancellation will occur.
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I say that you ar exaggerating, since I see some basi competence here.
Some of those faces has that weird, disturbing mix of John Kricfalusi and Christopher Hart when drawing 'anime', though.
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I was exaggerating somewhat for comedic purposes, yes.
On the other hand, there are some styles that make me immediately think the artist draws candygore and cub porn on Inkbunny. This is one of them.
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Eh, if anything it'll be like a medium size furmeet. I also did a lil sleuthing on the artist who made their header as I had the same suspicion as you. I managed to find a credit on their Facebook page.
They are on FA with the name Syntax... as well as Twitter. Honestly, it is just their style. They have an Inkbunny account with no submissions that I could find. No real interaction really, same as there FA, not a lot going on, not even NSFW arts. I had thought they were at least a weeb, confirmation bias, but I think they are actually an immigrant from Japan. They are also older because one of their Twitter posts complained about menopause. Honestly, regardless of that, nothing really to find here in fact I'd buy her and her husband a drink or two if I was anywhere near the area for a furmeet. Her art style is really Kawaii and she likes the fiber arts.
Haven't done a deep dive in the others, but I think, they are probably pretty "normal" not to mention the name of their con points toward "gray muzzles" as furry used to just be anthropomorphic art instead of Furry art.
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Well, then. I'm glad to say I'm finally pleasantly surprised by something in the furry fandom. Good stuff, thanks for the follow-up.
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yeah based on this I have my doubts this con will have any real issues. I’m almost rooting for them, but I’m looking for new stuff to laugh at so not really. If it goes really well that’s something to report on, if it doesn’t that’s also notable. However I think it’ll just be some small “con” (more like large meet tbh) that makes little noise.
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I just realized something: only one of them has any reference to pronouns and there are no pride flags.
Are we sure these guys are furries? I know Upstate New York isn't as insane as NYC proper, but this is weird.
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They are very likely either very old blood or extremely new blood... that is, 'just joined'.
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I did have a peek into the telegram member list, and one of them was a babyfur, but beyond that I couldn't really find anything either. Normally I'd be inclined to be like "eh, whatever" but my thing is if they're trying to hold a convention and are essentially "literal whos", it leads to some questions since they're trying to hold a convention in what I politely call a fucking tourist trap, and the expenses would be wild as shit.
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Does it count as a tourist trap if they're all local?
Here are the pictures from the last event they held. (Archive, will take forever to process) It looks like they took pictures of basically everybody who went, and I don't think anyone there drove more than a couple of hours to get to the site. While I commend their ambition, what they've got brewing there isn't a convention. It's just a furmeet by any other name. Those aren't usually worth tracking, unless the people involved are presenting themselves as the only group in town and trying to gatekeep shit.
So yeah, even if they're near you, I wouldn't be too worried. Even if they try to get big, they'll just get swallowed by Furnal Equinox or any larger convention in that area.
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Seems like TFF's attempt at requiring masks outside of convention space is failing spectacularly. At any point the lobby is like 25-50% unmasked. They even set up a small seating area with the airplane "you can lower your masks for bites and sips" rule and people are just crowding the tables and none are wearing masks. It's about the same percentage for hotel staff.
Might be a setup to someone on leadership having a spectacular meltdown because their precious rules aren't being followed.
Registration also apparently has a 4 hour wait line. There's a serious lack of staff running everything.
Might be a setup to someone on leadership having a spectacular meltdown because their precious rules aren't being followed.
Registration also apparently has a 4 hour wait line. There's a serious lack of staff running everything.
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Yeah I noticed it was TFF was going on downtown because I suddenly saw a rise in dysgenic white and Hispanic people and dyed hair.
Wait sable is a tranny now? Damn I haven't been to fur cons since 2020 TFF to be exact and I didn't know sable trooned out already.