So pretty much on June 22nd, at 10:00 AM a convention called Tanacon opened to basically rival with Vidcon. It was established by a youtuber by the name of Tana Mongaue. For backstory's sake, Mongaue didn't get her personalized badge from Vidcon but most people did pretty much. She was singled out with a number of other creators who couldn't get theirs at the moment, so because of that issue. Mongaue made a rather large fit about it and pretty much made an autistic fool out of herself.
Not only was Tana over reacting of course and trying to sic her fans onto Vidcon's staff (jesus fuck what a bitch move to do) but she even said that she thinks that she could make a better convention than Vidcon ever was. The problem with this whole idea was that the reality that came with the said idea, Vidcon Staff in general had years of prep and experience with this type of field. It was pretty obvious what the outcome was going to uncover sooner or later. And low and behold, the outcome was shown rather magnificently.
20,000 people actually showed up and paid for the VIP tickets that were on sale for 65 dollars. A lot of money hold all together but however there were a large amount of people who were moved constantly on a daily schedule. Refunds were impossible to get for those who paid more, and some were even getting hit with heat stroke
[1].
Apparently there were more telling signs of problems before the humongous crowds were approaching the area. According to a
twitter user; "THE NIGHT BEFORE they changed registration time from 8 AM to 6 AM but they didn’t start registering anyone until 8:50 AM".
Another problem was that no creators schedule was actually finalized, meaning Mongaue would put
panels on overlapping people entirely; "
no creators schedule was checked for clashes with vidcon. this means creators like elijah daniel, mikey murphy, jennxpenn, and the gabbie show all have overlapping panels and M&Gs"
And from certain screenshots; it also looked that Mongaue didn't even work with finalizing security UNTIL FINALLY THE DAY OF THE EVENT.
Also some convention guests who were invited had a shady past as well speaking of Adam Campbell, a hiphop artist who literally talks about how he fucks with daddy issue girls on stage and makes homophobic jokes. You know for kids.
And the list of issues continues to come arise, but the one thing that really grinded everyone's gears was that
the gift bags were stickers and condoms. That's right. A condom, stickers and a condom.
The con was a complete disaster, showing us all that youtubers can't do shit unless they have the guts to actually do it. People who waited were disappointed, and it was like the youtubers were living in a complete different world thinking that their convention was a success. But in reality it really wasn't.
Tana Mongaue is pretty much done for in my opinion, but she wants to try and act like nothing is ever wrong.
Sources [1]:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/22/17495528/tanacon-shut-down-vidcon-tana-mongeau-shane-dawson