MAGFest - Nerd Con that's rapidly falling to internal strife.

[Metamorpho]

Is there really any nerd convention that isn't pozzed as fuck?

Nope. This is why gatekeeping is important

There's Rise Up Con, but I personally think that mixing religion with nerd conventions sounds like a terrible idea. I guess any con that's cool with inviting Vic Mignogna might count too I don't know.

 

[Realistic]

Funny how this thread has 2 years of dormancy before all the recent posts.

I'll be honest, there was a time when I was tempted to go to MAGFest, to see what the hype was all about but the more I found out about these "people" who claim to be "pro-lgbtqia+-social justice-progressives and yet can't give up their YTMND and hide their past with sites like Encyclopedia Dramatica because it doesn't look good", the less desire I got to even attend that piece of shit garbage in the first place.

I've been wanting to make a thread about the nerdcore clique but one problem I found out is that the clique actively erases any public history, rewrites history to make themselves look better and use sites like Facebook in order to prevent sites like this from making threads that'd stick. From my failed attempts at making threads, I've learned that a thread won't stick unless there is a paper trail that can be archived and referenced.

I don't know about you but I'm really getting tired of organizations like MAGFest, DragonCon and others getting away with whitewashing their own history just to make themselves look "perfect". I'm even surprised that people like Brian Brushwood do not have their own threads here despite the cover-up attempts he successfully got away with when he got targeted by 4chan only for his clique to draw the target away from him.

I will end by saying this. If you are reading this and you feel some sort of anger and frustration... well, you're probably on this site cause you want to prevent any negativity from affecting your image. You care more about yourself and how great you think you are than anybody else who in your mind are beneath you. And you wonder why people voted for Trump in droves? Everybody is tired of you and others claiming people are evil/vile/degenerate/redneck deplorables because they don't 100% agree with your views. Instead of doing something to make the world a better place for all, you decide to do it cause it makes you "look good". I blame the decline on society on anybody associated with MAGFest, DragonCon, Nerdcore, hell... even Penny Arcade. All because you want "all or nothing".

Sorry if I'm ranting but man do these people really grind my gears.

 

[Marvin]

I'll be honest, there was a time when I was tempted to go to MAGFest, to see what the hype was all about but the more I found out about these "people" who claim to be "pro-lgbtqia+-social justice-progressives and yet can't give up their YTMND and hide their past with sites like Encyclopedia Dramatica because it doesn't look good", the less desire I got to even attend that piece of shit garbage in the first place.

Magfest used to be pretty boss.

At some point it was 24 hours, I think, or close to it.

So you're just walking around a hotel, drinking all weekend, with hundreds of strangers. But they're only barely strangers, because you all have a shared interest in nerd bullshit. Getting to know people, making friends, is basically instant. Just start talking about anything remotely nerd related and you have instant comradery. There's parties going on both in the convention part of the hotel as well as the hotel part. You'll just start up conversations with randos and join in peoples parties at any time.

Fun people to hang out with. Surprisingly good looking chicks for a nerd event. I think I grew up during the sweet spot, where video games and anime and other nerd bullshit started to pick up at least a solid minority of girls, before all those girls started having penises. It was still like a 4:1 ratio of guys to girls, but that was better than how it was in the 80's and recent years, I think.

It's pretty lame how wokery wormed its way into the admin parts of the convention and ruined it. Troons are like an agricultural fungus. If you're inattentive, you'll look at your plants and see the fungus and realize you might need to burn down this harvest, eat the loss, and just replant later and hope you got it all.

 

[Shitstorm Duke]

I've been wanting to make a thread about the nerdcore clique but one problem I found out is that the clique actively erases any public history, rewrites history to make themselves look better and use sites like Facebook in order to prevent sites like this from making threads that'd stick. From my failed attempts at making threads, I've learned that a thread won't stick unless there is a paper trail that can be archived and referenced.

The higher-up people in charge of MAGfest are masters of this. They operate in very much a Tranny Mafia modus operandi, to the point of telling others who not to share media archives with, simply because they've said "bad" things (i.e. legit criticism) about MAGfest. Not only do they "kill" (social media cancel) anyone who wronged them, but they also go after the friends and family of said targeted individual. I've been collecting direct from main mixing board concert recordings from the first 10 years of the event, (Seriously, the early years had some fucking great video game music) and was trying to fill out missing sets of MAGfest 9 concerts, when the one contact I had suddenly blocked me, deleted shared files, and refused any further contact. I've later learned through back-channel friends, that it's because I'm friends with someone who has been "trying to slander the event for many years".

At some point it was 24 hours, I think, or close to it.

It's been 24 hour since the very first year. Sure there aren't many panels past 4 AM, but the arcade/console area has always been open around the clock. The only time this did not happen, was the 2021 event during the height of Covid.

 

[Shitstorm Duke]

JFC, this is who was picked as cosplay Grand Champion?

Spoiler: Cosplay Grand Champion 2025

This utterly reeks of DEI... why in the fuck would they actually use THIS to advertise the cosplay contest? I still remember when MAGfest had a Cosplay Roast, wherein all participants knew beforehand what they were getting themselves into. Good times and laughs were had all around. But of course, someones feelings got hurt, and the Roast never happened again. Someone tell the event that the "A" in MAGfest doesn't stand for "Anime".

 

[LeChampion1992]

Well kiwis I got my tickets to magfest this next year (2026) and plan on going If I see any horror stories personally I will let yall know the details. I'll keep mouth shut despite me being queer enough to be a fan of nick Fuentes and look like a future troon i defintly want to see the insanity that goes on.

 

[Realistic]

The higher-up people in charge of MAGfest are masters of this. They operate in very much a Tranny Mafia modus operandi, to the point of telling others who not to share media archives with, simply because they've said "bad" things (i.e. legit criticism) about MAGfest. Not only do they "kill" (social media cancel) anyone who wronged them, but they also go after the friends and family of said targeted individual. I've been collecting direct from main mixing board concert recordings from the first 10 years of the event, (Seriously, the early years had some fucking great video game music) and was trying to fill out missing sets of MAGfest 9 concerts, when the one contact I had suddenly blocked me, deleted shared files, and refused any further contact. I've later learned through back-channel friends, that it's because I'm friends with someone who has been "trying to slander the event for many years".

I can attest to this 100% despite me never being to any of their events.

I was one of those people killed not only by MAGfest related people but by those who have close connections to those people.

The first time I said anything they didn't like, they treated me like dirt and went to great lengths to create a "paper trail" of harassment and threats.

They banned me for stupid stuff like calling the genre "dead" in a failed attempt to be cool and giving "unsolicited advice" to some queer rapper among the lines of "practice makes perfect", there are even people who have blocked me on social media and refuse association with me despite them being independent people.

I wanted to resolve shit so badly. This is killing me having people think poorly of me due to fuck shit I wanted no association with. They keep pulling me deeper and deeper into the rabbit hole cause they know it causes me pain.

No one is even willing to stand up for me or at least tell me what's going on.

They refuse to let go of this notion, they keep holding on despite my best efforts to move past this situation. I can't get traction with my creative stuff due to how toxic my name has become.

Hell, If it weren't for how they attacked my character and made me an absolute pariah on social media. I wouldn't even be posting here.

MAGfest and the like need to be taken down. I'm already at the point of forcing myself into a legal situation just so I can defend myself. It would be different if I was truly at fault but I've witnessed people get exiled and forgotten about when they did nothing wrong.

To me, seeing this system control every aspect of creativity on the Internet and watching poor unsuspecting people get sucked in, all while those who try to build a better community get ostracized and friend zoned; this is personal.

I really don't care about the embarrassing bullshit or if people get the wrong idea based on what they said about me. If I'm the martyr that causes the eventual downfall, so be it.

I'm tired of being "guilty till proven innocent". I'm tired of witnessing constant hypocrisy from people who claim to be loving, be for human rights, be against brutality of any kind and yet support police and give money to X and Twitch. I'm also tired of certain people being "pro-trans" while not having the balls to go against Kiwi Farms, or even YTMND or 4chan for that matter.

The only problem is that they closely guard their secrets. I don't know if I can find any way to gain their trust; yeah I thought it over and every time I come up with the same assessment, they won't budge.

I know it's a bit wordy and revealing and it may be MATI but I really detest what they did to me as well as the absurd amount of power they hold. If you made it this far, thank you for reading.

 

[dame dudi jench]

They refuse to let go of this notion, they keep holding on despite my best efforts to move past this situation. I can't get traction with my creative stuff due to how toxic my name has become.

Hell, If it weren't for how they attacked my character and made me an absolute pariah on social media. I wouldn't even be posting here.

dude you gotta pull yourself together: (i) vagueposting about con drama is lolcow behavior, (ii) vagueposting about it on KF is even dumber if you are trying to get into ppl's good graces, (iii) these losers get their sense of in-group identity by excluding others, your hurt confused autistic whining tone is just going to activate the prey instinct and they'll be even shittier to you. It sucks the nerd scene has been taken over by these people but there's no fixing it, gotta build your own thing and let these people run their fandom into the ground.

 

[Realistic]

dude you gotta pull yourself together: (i) vagueposting about con drama is lolcow behavior, (ii) vagueposting about it on KF is even dumber if you are trying to get into ppl's good graces, (iii) these losers get their sense of in-group identity by excluding others, your hurt confused autistic whining tone is just going to activate the prey instinct and they'll be even shittier to you. It sucks the nerd scene has been taken over by these people but there's no fixing it, gotta build your own thing and let these people run their fandom into the ground.

Forgive me if I believed in the lie so much that I was pulled in to cult hive-minds long enough to be aware of their operations. All I can do is vaguepost and to the contrary, this is not to get into people's good graces. This is more than just convention drama, these "losers" so to speak have an absurd amount of power and control, even outside MAGfest.

They are already being the shittiest they can be to me, I have no life because of these people not giving me any chance to defend myself and if they could do this much damage to my life where I am consistently depressed and stressed out to the point where I am tired of feeling this way. Just imagine what they can do with anybody in the nerd scene or outside of it.

What I'm feeling is more than exclusion, I put in years of time and effort only for it to be treated as if it were nothing. Personally, to me, it feels like betrayal.

Ignorance is bliss, knowledge is a curse; especially learning the true natural of a majority of people I used to call friends or close associates. I'm not looking for a fix, I'm looking for justice or at least a consolation prize.

 

[The Lawgiver]

YTMND

Kay.
Kay.
Kay.
Sicker than your average niggger killer

 

[Rudolf's Friend]

So Gay Nigga and MovieBob clone Cory Anotado is set to host some gay shit at MagFest again.

 

[Shitstorm Duke]

The MAGfest guest announcement that lasted a whole two hours, before it was summarily deleted from MAGfest's Facebook page and X account, because of humongous backlash:

Sadly, I couldn't get any of the comments on the FB post. Visiting said vtuber's twitch channel, they still have the reaction video discussing the cancellation. Of course, they are declaring themselves "not a loli'. But apparently, one of their catch-phrases is "Suck my clit!"

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Relevant discussion of the events happen at 26:52. (Someone might want to archive this)
I personally could give two shits about vtubers, but it is very interesting, how this one explains how MAGfest has been in contact with them, and basically lays out MAGfest's recipe to responding to any public fuckup: Say nothing, delete all public-facing evidence, reach out to MAG volunteers that are mods in mag-related communities and give instructions to forbid discussion until further instructions are handed down from on high, and even make it sound "criminal" to reach out to talk to affected individual directly.

 

[Verdun_Salient]

Apparently Luigi Mangione was a Magfest attendee and even volunteered there.

 

[The Lawgiver]

Apparently Luigi Mangione was a Magfest attendee and even volunteered there.
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Luigi's mansion at the music and gamefest 2019, colored like mario... Luigi's mansion at the music and gamefest 2020... colored like green mario...

My god, it all makes sense now. The gaylord was behind it all from the start.

 

[Staticness]

while not having the balls to go against Kiwi Farms

Kiwifarms has an unbroken winning streak specifically because it is anonymous and completely U.S.-legal. There is legitimately nothing people wanting to stop KF can do unless they want to break the law, and frankly, Joshua Moon is not a symbol the way Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump, et al. are. He is one man with an autistic passion and a website (with attendant autistic userbase) that exists in spite of the concentration of the internet into a few corporate platforms.

Anyone condemning KF is doing so because it is in their best interests to, be they personal or professional. The condemnation really started when the rat king’s tail was stepped on and KF users put trans lifeline’s brazen fraud, unbelievable incompetence, and sheer embezzlement out there for anyone to see. That was a threat to their business model. They’re still in the charity work circuit where they collect huge paychecks so their rich sponsors can claim huge tax breaks, by the way.

Journalists fucking salivate over every time Null calls them out as the scum they are because they can say “we’re reasonable, look at this vitriol” then write a circular set of hitpieces. If you want to get anywhere, you toe the party line and join in condemning KF.

They’re smart enough to know they have no leg to stand on when trying to shut down KF. If they sued over something, Hardin would have that shut down pretty much immediately, and they would be forced to admit the tranny death site has won yet again.

 

[Realistic]

I personally could give two shits about vtubers, but it is very interesting, how this one explains how MAGfest has been in contact with them, and basically lays out MAGfest's recipe to responding to any public fuckup: Say nothing, delete all public-facing evidence, reach out to MAG volunteers that are mods in mag-related communities and give instructions to forbid discussion until further instructions are handed down from on high, and even make it sound "criminal" to reach out to talk to affected individual directly.

Sounds about right. Avoid critique, gang up against anybody saying "negative" things, gaslight and guilt trip.

How can these people claim to be for human rights and yet do almost the exact same shit that dictators do?

Apparently Luigi Mangione was a Magfest attendee and even volunteered there.

I'll be surprised if MAGFest even makes a mention about him, they're probably already busy memory holing him from their existence.

 

[dame dudi jench]

They’re still in the charity work circuit where they collect huge paychecks so their rich sponsors can claim huge tax breaks, by the way.

Hey, you're smarter than this, don't make lazy sweeping incorrect statements like a failed chapotard talking about how evil the system is. The way charitable donations work is that if you donate say, $100k, that $100k is deducted from your taxable income. Let's say your effective tax rate is 40%, then reducing your income by $100k would reduce your taxes by $40k. You're spending $100k to save $40k. It's like the redditards who think landlords can make money leaving property empty "for the write-off."

 

[Markass the Worst]

Crosspost:

Post in thread 'Lolicon/Shotacon Defense Force'

Dec 20, 2025

Yesterday on Twitter, it was revealed a VTuber (Vivi Chan The Dragon) will no longer be an official guest for MAGFest. They sited that her child-like avatar included sexualized elements.
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Vivi says that she "VEHEMENTLY disagrees" with the perception that she presents as a sexualized minor. Vivi states she is a "5ft" woman and that her avatar represents her and her body. Furthermore, she states if her avatar has been sexualized in ANY context, it was done without her consent.
Let us...

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Reactions: x 39 x 3 x 2 x 1 x 1 x 5 x 1

 

[Realistic]

I honestly don't get why FAGFest, which surely has an 18+ section, would announce the cancellation when the whole community are basically degenerates in themselves.

It's not like they're any better than the Vtuber when they turned a music and gaming convention into a LGBT+ club that coincidentally allows minors to attend.

There's a reason LGBT+ clubs require you to be 21+ to enter.

 

[Toxic BRAAAAP Mask]

Checking the schedule and it's full of can't-miss events!

My top pick for the Too Much Time on Your Hands Award:


Women and "women":



Niggers and jews:



Down to fuck genderblobs and literal retards:



Why?:




There were so many more... Fuck I miss the 90s...