🦊 Furry Furry Convention Drama - Because you can't have a couple thousand dog fucking enthusiasts under the same roof without shit hitting the fan

[Elderly beef taco]

A musky huskies are gross and should be kicked from con space


I will say, I've been to a few fur cons and weeaboo cons and weeaboos stink more


While -some- furries enjoy stinking, most dont and want to have gay sex with gay guys that also don't smell like a foot


Weeaboos gives no fuck they said I must protect my virginity by any means necessary

Yeah, anime cons are the worst. If someone could bottle that smell it'd make a great weapon.

 

[AnOminous]

Yeah, anime cons are the worst. If someone could bottle that smell it'd make a great weapon.

When I was a kid I remember the local nerd store (comic books/games/anime VHS shit) had a sign ordering everyone to have proper hygiene and would actually throw you out for smelling. Now you'd probably be decried as some kind of bigot for that but I bet it helped at least some adolescent autists to develop at least SOME habit of bathing if they wanted to be in their favorite nerd zone.

There were about three or four fatties who would smell so foul you could smell them a day after they were in a room, which is why the sign went up.

 

[Jonathan Boudalycaon]

When I was a kid I remember the local nerd store (comic books/games/anime VHS shit) had a sign ordering everyone to have proper hygiene and would actually throw you out for smelling. Now you'd probably be decried as some kind of bigot for that but I bet it helped at least some adolescent autists to develop at least SOME habit of bathing if they wanted to be in their favorite nerd zone.

There were about three or four fatties who would smell so foul you could smell them a day after they were in a room, which is why the sign went up.

SMELLY SMASH BROS MeatCanyon

 

[Jonathan Boudalycaon]

Too many Furries refuse to wash and keep clean even with hotels providing soaps, shampoo and toiletries, at no extra cost. Is it pure laziness, or do these people not know any better?

Spoiler: Non talked about furry convention illnesses. Foot, hand and mouth disease in humans, hoof and mouth in furries.

 

[Rukario]

Too many Furries refuse to wash and keep clean even with hotels providing soaps, shampoo and toiletries, at no extra cost. Is it pure laziness, or do these people not know any better?

Spoiler: Non talked about furry convention illnesses. Foot, hand and mouth disease in humans, hoof and mouth in furries.

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It's worse. Some Furries (especially the obese male ones) claim to have a "musk" kink so don't wash as a result. Others are just lazy of course.

 

[Pinball 2000]

Garden State made yet another statement/apology post. I think this is like what, the 5th or 6th time in the last 6 months at this point?

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Personally? I think they should just stop posting at this point because it's never going to be enough for the people screeching at them. It's also giving me a shitload of documenting to do because now I have to re-do part of that mini-OP.

 

[Spoonomancer]

Garden State made yet another statement/apology post. I think this is like what, the 5th or 6th time in the last 6 months at this point?
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Personally? I think they should just stop posting at this point because it's never going to be enough for the people screeching at them. It's also giving me a shitload of documenting to do because now I have to re-do part of that mini-OP.

At some point furries have to realize they should gatekeep more instead of shouting "no dwama!" at anyone and everyone who even as much as questions any of their leadership's beliefs. How is everyone related to this convention's membership turning out to be some sort of supposed shithead?

 

[Hellbound Hellhound]

Too many Furries refuse to wash and keep clean even with hotels providing soaps, shampoo and toiletries, at no extra cost. Is it pure laziness, or do these people not know any better?

Spoiler: Non talked about furry convention illnesses. Foot, hand and mouth disease in humans, hoof and mouth in furries.

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It's a relief to have them explain that hand, foot, and mouth disease is unrelated to the foot-and-mouth disease which occurs in farm animals, because if I didn't know any better, I'd probably assume the worst.

Garden State made yet another statement/apology post. I think this is like what, the 5th or 6th time in the last 6 months at this point?
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Personally? I think they should just stop posting at this point because it's never going to be enough for the people screeching at them. It's also giving me a shitload of documenting to do because now I have to re-do part of that mini-OP.

It's so weird to see the organizers of a furry convention issue such a corporate-sounding memo. I get that they probably want to project the notion that they're a professional outfit, and it makes sense for them to treat it like a business when there's the potential for reputational damage and lost revenue, but it's still surreal to witness the self-seriousness of an event which centers around people who fetishize and like to dress up as cartoon animals.

It's an amusing incongruity, especially when a good chunk of the attendees will only be there as an opportunity to meet other people to join with them in hotel room debauchery.

 

[Jonathan Boudalycaon]

It's a relief to have them explain that hand, foot, and mouth disease is unrelated to the foot-and-mouth disease which occurs in farm animals, because if I didn't know any better, I'd probably assume the worst.

With furries you can expect the worst such as a newly mutated variant of Foot/Hoof and Mouth/Muzzle disease. D:

 

[Rukario]

It's so weird to see the organizers of a furry convention issue such a corporate-sounding memo. I get that they probably want to project the notion that they're a professional outfit, and it makes sense for them to treat it like a business when there's the potential for reputational damage and lost revenue, but it's still surreal to witness the self-seriousness of an event which centers around people who fetishize and like to dress up as cartoon animals.

Its more likely that they used ChatGPT or some other AI to write this memo for them - the way it reads is as if someone has transcribed a drunken rant at a room party.

 

[Pinball 2000]

Furrydelphia has finally updated on what Furgeddaboutit is, making it abundantly clear this is a spite convention over the Garden State Fur the Weekend drama. If you want to see the full video, I'll put it in the spoiler below, but I screenshotted the two most important parts of the video:


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Archive of the attached video:

Spoiler: Unfunny garbage

There are already three glaring dramas over this announcement, so I'm going to do my best to break down all three of them:

ISSUE #1: Pinefur Meets is involved​

Almost immediately after this was posted, furries started complaining that Furgeddaboutit was actively associating with Pinefur Meets. From what I can tell, the quick version is that Pinefur is ban-happy and has a reputation for banning people they don't like with sketchy to no evidence. They also (allegedly) had no problem with letting minors near alcohol.

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ISSUE #2: The Furst State is involved​

Furst State is a Delaware-based furry organization that monopolizes meets in the area and runs the Furry New Year's Ball. From my conversations with furries in the region (while working on other threads), the consensus seems that most people enjoy the events but strongly despise the current leadership. Furst State has since gained a reputation for being excessively ban-happy over petty issues. I mentioned this here on the forums two years ago when they banned someone for being too right-leaning, and again last year when they outright randomly banned multiple people from their chat without explanation.

There was drama in the NYFB chat when someone saw the Furgeddaboutit announcement and asked how involved Furst State was with the event. A bizarre argument ensued, during which multiple staff members refused to answer the question. This went on for a while before one of the admins eventually locked the discussion.

Since the chat is invite-only, someone sent me the following screenshots of the argument:

Spoiler: Lots of images

ISSUE #3: Someone else already set up a different Spite-Convention on the same days​

If you read the screenshots in the last spoiler, you'll notice another event mentioned happening at the same time, called The Big One. From what I can tell, The Big One is being organized by PawSouls, who has hosted a handful of New Jersey-based furmeets over the past couple of years. This is also notable because PawSouls was listed as staff for GSFTW but quit shortly after the 2024 convention. As of this writing, she is listed on the convention's WikiFur article as a former staff member. Pawsouls is also the only named whistleblower in Dogpatch's article about the convention's drama. In my opinion, that makes her testimony particularly significant, as it is the only one with real weight behind it. Everyone else Dogpatch referred to as "anonymous staffers," and we're just supposed to take their statements at face value, with no proof that he wasn’t simply making it up.


Anyway, it seems that after Pawsouls left GSFTW, she returned to organizing meets for a few months before the GSFTW drama escalated significantly. She later announced a mini-convention on December 18th via a comic—ironically, the same day the Furgeddaboutit Twitter account was created. In my opinion, their announcement had far more effort put into it and is miles better than the unfunny garbage video Furgeddaboutit released. This comic was spread out over several tweets, so I'm only bothering to save the images themselves:

Spoiler: Full comic

The rooms for the hotel opened up on the 23rd, which is still a full day before Furgeddaboutit's announcement.

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As of now, Furgeddabout is currently running damage control over the fact their spite convention is intersecting with another spite convention.

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People also complained the Furgeddabout website was taking a shot at Paw's event, though it seemed they tried to mitigate this by adding an addendum. It's worth noting that the entire website currently consists of nothing but an FAQ as of now:

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TL;DR: A group of furry con organizers who are already disliked by many furries are organizing a "spite convention" to overshadow another convention happening simultaneously. People are already upset about who’s getting involved in this mess, and now the organizers look even worse for sabotaging someone else’s spite convention which was created to spite the first convention.

This is so painfully autistic that I'm not even sure how to end this post, so here's a meme I made for fun while I was working on documenting this shitshow:


edit: fixed some spelling and grammar

 

[Harm]

Good, these spite conventions are a cancer and banning furries because they voted the wrong way or because they didn't properly "respect the pronouns" of a tranny pedophile gooning in an adult diaper is fucking retarded.

These losers are only hosting these shitshows to consolidate power for themselves which gives off massive mentally ill troon vibes. They don't give a fuck about attendees feeling "safe" or any of that nonsense. They want to perpetuate the far-left gatekeeping with themselves acting as Saint Peter of their slice of furry heaven.

 

[Pinball 2000]

The heated debate over furgeddabout continues on Twitter, with more people joining in to criticize those involved.

This latest update builds on my previous post, but here’s the TL;DR: Multiple furries have pointed out that the organizers of furgeddabout are acting like entitled children, banning anyone who dares to offer even the slightest criticism. Even Pawsouls has weighed in, corroborating the accusations, while furgeddabout scrambling to manage the backlash by urging people to contact them privately instead.

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Personally, what I find sketchiest about this entire event is the complete lack of transparency regarding who is even managing it in the first place. According to their website, they don't name a single staff member and outright state that they don't even have a chairman for the first year. Theoretically speaking, if this event were to fail, there would be nobody to take accountability.


The last paragraph mentioned that Furrydelphia is funding most of this, so I assumed that most (if not all) of the people actually in charge were from FD. This assumption was immediately confirmed when I noticed the convention was linked to a Telegram chat. I reached out to someone I knew had access to the chat and asked them who was listed on the chat's moderation staff.

(The screenshot of the staff listing is taken directly from the wikifur page on FD.)

 

[AngryTreeRat]

The last paragraph mentioned that Furrydelphia is funding most of this, so I assumed that most (if not all) of the people actually in charge were from FD. This assumption was immediately confirmed when I noticed the convention was linked to a Telegram chat. I reached out to someone I knew had access to the chat and asked them who was listed on the chat's moderation staff.

(The screenshot of the staff listing is taken directly from the wikifur page on FD.)

So the question is who the fuck Toofy is in all this?

 

[Pinball 2000]

This might not be breaking news, but it holds personal significance for me: This weekend marks the fifth anniversary of the first (and only) Capital City Fur Con.


The OP I wrote for the convention's chairman Matthew Soltys/Nitro Rooski is the very first one I ever created for this website. If not for the drama surrounding this event sparking my curiosity, I likely wouldn’t have developed an interest in exploring or documenting this niche area of convention controversies. A blessing or a curse? You decide!

https://embed.kiwifarms.st/threads/...-cyder-the-donkey-djmsol-entertainment.83361/

 

[Pinball 2000]

Garden State randomly put out a vague feedback form, probably for yet another apology.

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This is what the form looks like. This is the entire thing.


Whenever I think I'm finally done writing this, more nonsense comes along. I promise you all that I still have the summary I've been working on, but given the sheer length of this thing at this point, I'll probably submit it as a full thread to Prospering Grounds once I'm reasonably satisfied with it. If for no other reason, doing so would allow me to continue making edits after the initial 24 hours.

To any Garden State staff lurking on this thread: I am begging you to stop with the endless apologies. Ignore or mute the a-logs flooding your Twitter mentions, and delete your Telegram chat. This constant apologizing and justification is damaging whatever good faith you might still have. Not only does this ongoing apology arc come off as really pathetic, but it also makes the remaining staff look thin-skinned and incapable. Plus, you're giving me a ridiculous amount of documentation work to do.

 

[AnOminous]

Plus, you're giving me a ridiculous amount of documentation work to do.

Plus they're encouraging people just to go "lmao let's make these faggots apologize some more" while laughing.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

Ermmm what's this? I really didn't wanna click on it.
Edit: frick. Okay here's a ss.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Sometimes I forget how absolutely hooked my fellow European teens were on the idea of a furcon. Going somewhere and feeling "at home", before you get drunk, led into a hotel room and run a train on by your Digital Daddy who turns out not to be a cute panther but a hairy man in his 30s. I genuinely believe it's simply a case of these shut-in losers having no actual hobbies to partake in events for. Go to a normie gaming tournament and chances are you'll be overwhelmed and hype for life.

Slipknot played at this one music festival and even people who despised their music went and loved it. Simply being out in real life is inspiring, and these terminally online loonies haven't experienced that. They've grown into a mindset that if not seen through the scope of "furry", it's not appealing. Like shit, a friend has gone to several Barq-orchestrated parties and it sounds equally worthwhile as a convention. Maybe try.. party? with friends?

 

[Ultra Ping]

Sometimes I forget how absolutely hooked my fellow European teens were on the idea of a furcon. Going somewhere and feeling "at home", before you get drunk, led into a hotel room and run a train on by your Digital Daddy who turns out not to be a cute panther but a hairy man in his 30s. I genuinely believe it's simply a case of these shut-in losers having no actual hobbies to partake in events for. Go to a normie gaming tournament and chances are you'll be overwhelmed and hype for life.

Slipknot played at this one music festival and even people who despised their music went and loved it. Simply being out in real life is inspiring, and these terminally online loonies haven't experienced that. They've grown into a mindset that if not seen through the scope of "furry", it's not appealing. Like shit, a friend has gone to several Barq-orchestrated parties and it sounds equally worthwhile as a convention. Maybe try.. party? with friends?

Yeah, these faggots live for their next con, going as far as changing their Telegram and Twitter names to indicate where they're going next, even if it's months away.