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

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That's the Bay Area's largest furry event, cancelled 6 months in advance. That long lead time on the cancellation is gonna have people upset at cons NOT cancelling early.
 
Rukario said:
So first one of their board members got cancelled within 3 days of the event getting announced. Now they've been threatened with a lawsuit by Midwest Furfest.

And the fandom is supposedly friendly and welcoming?
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Because MFF has "Furfest" trademarked, they had to defend their trademark. If they didn't, they lose it. Furries are gonna take that how they will, but that's legally defensible. Any company with sense would do the same.

More related to the event, their overzealous sale of merchandise for this event that doesn't exist has already bitten them with the name change. It's going to bite them again if they have to change it again.

And while a camping con is an admirable goal, October is a rough time for camping. The weather is unpredictable, the wasps are hungry. If you're going to add in dealers on this, to try and make it a full on furry con, it screams disaster waiting to happen.
 
Sintharia said:
Because MFF has "Furfest" trademarked, they had to defend their trademark. If they didn't, they lose it. Furries are gonna take that how they will, but that's legally defensible. Any company with sense would do the same.

More related to the event, their overzealous sale of merchandise for this event that doesn't exist has already bitten them with the name change. It's going to bite them again if they have to change it again.

And while a camping con is an admirable goal, October is a rough time for camping. The weather is unpredictable, the wasps are hungry. If you're going to add in dealers on this, to try and make it a full on furry con, it screams disaster waiting to happen.
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I'm already writing up the HowlCon "Wha Happun?"
 
Sintharia said:
And while a camping con is an admirable goal, October is a rough time for camping. The weather is unpredictable, the wasps are hungry. If you're going to add in dealers on this, to try and make it a full on furry con, it screams disaster waiting to happen.
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Plus there is the situation of providing enough accomodation, decent food, and enough portable toilets. It really is going to turn into the Furry equivalent of Fyre Festival at this rate, although without the celebrity endorsements.

But unlike Fyre Festival, they won't need to provide portable showers. If you've ever been to a convention you'll know that most furries don't wash.
 
D.Va said:
I was wondering why @HMFurfest was now squatted by nothing and...

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This con is a shit show at best. Look at our BIPOC committee who can do everything better than experienced con leads.... Look at them fuck everything up in the first month and exploit the fandom for money with non existent merchandise. Chise knows what she's doing and it's called milking black furries without any clue how to run a con.

Edit: Looks like someone archived this already but seeing as jemma is a known psychopath it's a grain of salt
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Mac n’ Chise @ HMHF 🌕🍁🍂🐺 on Twitter: "Beware on @/strawberryjemma…

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camopattern said:
This con is a shit show at best. Look at our BIPOC committee who can do everything better than experienced con leads.... Look at them fuck everything up in the first month and exploit the fandom for money with non existent merchandise. Chise knows what she's doing and it's called milking black furries without any clue how to run a con.

Edit: Looks like someone archived this already but seeing as jemma is a known psychopath it's a grain of salt
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These bewares read like autobiographies. They need to read like news reports. Important details first, then you can go into the fluff.
 
D.Va said:
Trouble, because the shirt vendor they are working with reportedly have a history of making projects that failed and never delivered or refunded. Chise responds by claiming it's "not official con merch", despite promoting them, getting the funds from them, and stating that the shirts are being redesigned to use the new "howlfest" namesake.


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"Not official con merch" but the proceeds go directly towards funding the con and they were advertised heavily by the con. I think that's about as close to "official con merch" as you can get.
 
Rukario said:
Plus there is the situation of providing enough accomodation, decent food, and enough portable toilets. It really is going to turn into the Furry equivalent of Fyre Festival at this rate, although without the celebrity endorsements.

But unlike Fyre Festival, they won't need to provide portable showers. If you've ever been to a convention you'll know that most furries don't wash.
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I'm just excited to see who they will throw under the bus when it inevitability burns down. First they will blame the trolls and make excuses but who will be thrown into the volcano first?
 
The Fursecutor Prime said:
I'm just excited to see who they will throw under the bus when it inevitability burns down. First they will blame the trolls and make excuses but who will be thrown into the volcano first?
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I would put odds on it being the whitest person on their "senior" staff, since they claim that they're going to have diverse staff. Or whomever makes a very convenient person to cancel (probably also still white).
 
So, when are the furcons who don't try to get sex offenders like Growly out of any con space going to be charge for possible child endangerment?
 
Anthro Southeast and Neonfur both cancelled. RIP. Neonfur isn't even planning 2021. ASE however has plans for October 29-31st 2021.
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Rukario said:
Plus there is the situation of providing enough accomodation, decent food, and enough portable toilets. It really is going to turn into the Furry equivalent of Fyre Festival at this rate, although without the celebrity endorsements.

But unlike Fyre Festival, they won't need to provide portable showers. If you've ever been to a convention you'll know that most furries don't wash.
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Fyre Fest Con will lead to voting on which furries to eat based on their prey animal fursonas.
 
I can't wait to see what convention wins the 2020 Corona Hunger Games. Probably only the ones with outed dogfuckers and chomos on staff.
 
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