The data over the past month or so has been that people with boosters are more likely to test positive, which is the best part of this. A bunch of self-proclaimed Twitter-educated medical experts sat around and came up with this rule 6 months ago, then weeks before the con happens it starts to fall apart because it wasn't based in any real studies.
At some point these people are going to have to realize that their attempts at virtue signaling are pointless, when 90% of the attendees are going to end up crammed in a hotel room with 40 other people.
I think the vaccinated furries think they are immune to the virus so are more likely to not bother with masks or hand washing (which they didn't bother with either before 2020). Its like covering your hand with burn cream before placing it on a hot stove - sure, you're less likely to get badly burned, but you're still going to end up in hospital anyway. Its better to not put your hand on the stove in the first place (or attend a Furcon room party, which I imagine is far more painful).
Similar, but also not at all. BFLC required boosters, masks under heads "enforced by security", promised to call the cops, and went "reeeeeeeee" over the non-masked normies at their venue. All that grandstanding just to have it spread anyways, and their "security" probably spent the whole con with their thumbs up their asses.
Furlandia just went "I mean, have ur main shot and if you can handle a mask in suit go for it" and covered the basic legal bases to abstain from responsibility if positive cases happened. Sounds like Furlandia in general is quieter and more respectful than west coast conventions.
Allow me to introduce you to the Sex Toy Thread. You think that's large? Come and take a look at the shit we stare in horror at over there. Furries are terrifyingly adept at shoving things up where the sun don't shine.
I find it hard to believe the human body doesn’t have limits preventing shit like that. Mr. Hands died for a reason. At some point it’s too much to bear.
I find it hard to believe the human body doesn’t have limits preventing shit like that. Mr. Hands died for a reason. At some point it’s too much to bear.
It does - usually in the form of pain - but that's either part of the draw for furries or they're too horny to realise what's happening until it's too late.
New drama is surfacing about a newer convention that's happening this weekend.
StratosFur, a smaller con in Houston, TX, is holding their 2nd year this weekend. But already things are not looking good.
First, let's talk about the numbers. Initially, the convention planned on an attendance cap like they did last year, so as to "not overwhelm the staff." However, unlike last year, this year the attendance cap would be increased. The actual attendance cap number is a tightly-held secret by staff for reasons unknown.
But because they wanted to limit attendance, they insisted initially to do just pre-registration. Last year, pre-registration badges for StratosFur sold out within a couple months of opening. This year, however, they've not been that successful. This was their count as of May 6, 11 days before their pre-registration was set to close:
If you're looking at this and thinking "wait, WTF?", you're probably not alone. Either a huge amount of "attendees" are ghosting, or someone higher up fucked up severely on ordering rooms for the room block.
It's very possible that the con board was shitting their pants when they saw how slowly people were pre-registering, because the day after pre-registration closed, they made the announcement that they will now be registering people on-site.
So much for "not overwhelming the staff," or whatever.
Speaking of the staff, StratosFur 2022 will start with fewer staffers returning from last year. Word has got out from former staffers (either they were fired or they left on their own accord) about allegations of abusive behavior from a staffer named Ryn. Other staffers, particularly the con chair Nite and HR manager Wonder Queen, look on as all this is happening in the staff chat and either try to cover for Ryn or flat-out not give a shit.
Ryn, in particular, seems to love to bend any and every argument lobbied against her into an accusation of racism.
So who is Ryn? Looking over her tweets, she could be a lolcow in her own right: a mentally ill, terminally online leftist Native American Jew (wut?) who tweets nonstop about white supremacy, genocide, and other leftist garbage to whoever stops to listen to her nonstop screeching.
There would be plenty in her tweets to throw some red flags and give any convention run by sane, level-headed people some pause before hiring. But when Wonder Queen subscribes to the same issues of far-left bullshit, it's no wonder (pun not intended) that not only Ryn is on staff, but has so much clout within the convention since Wonder Queen thinks everything she does, all the way down to the disparagement of her con colleagues based on race, is all perfectly normal and justifiable. It's everybody else who's being racist towards Ryn!
Finally, we get to the final point of contention. For their first year, StratosFur required masks to be worn in convention spaces (even under fursuits), but didn't require a vaccine. This didn't stop Corona-chan and at least 1 person tested positive.
There's just 1 small problem with this policy: It's blatantly illegal. The legality issue has already been brought up to staff, and as expected, they don't care.
It's why no other furry con in Texas has done it, and have instead tiptoed around the law by requiring that everyone show their vaccine card or a negative COVID test.
So who's idea was this? You guessed it, Ryn and Wonder Queen. According to the same staffers that leaked the screenshots above, Ryn claims that "StratosFur has a duty to conduct a safer environment for people of colour (sic), even more so than the CDC." Emphasis mine. It's always gotta be about race with these degenerate ghouls...
And Wonder Queen claims that they must have everyone attending vaccinated because she's immunocompromised:
Nobody's asking the obvious questions as to why these people are going to a furry convention with hundreds of people from all over if they're this terrified of catching the Coof.
However, this may all be a moot point, since furries aren't interested in kicking up a fuss with the AG, and it's very likely that the AG doesn't want to be bothered with whatever some furfag show is doing. But they can be looking at a $1000 fine if the AG decides to slap them down.
But overall, things are not looking good for this convention.
Looks like they'll make room block. That's what can annihilate a convention (of any type, it's not just furry cons).
Have they stopped to consider they're going to make block and not make prereg because, uh, people want to go and aren't interested in being in con spaces with mandates?
Seeing as this is the thread to sperg about cons, I’m curious if any of you have ever unironically or still unironically attend furcons. If so, what is it like in person or is it the same on YouTube?
No hatred from me, but I’m just curious since some rumors say former or actual furries browse animal control.
Seeing as this is the thread to sperg about cons, I’m curious if any of you have ever unironically or still unironically attend furcons. If so, what is it like in person or is it the same on YouTube?
No hatred from me, but I’m just curious since some rumors say former or actual furries browse animal control.
Pretty tame in person if you avoid parties, at least in my experience. I go to small local cons to buy from small businesses and charities that set up shop there alongside attending some meetups. Though I assume larger cons are way different. Worst I've seen before midnight is just crusty ass fursuits and smelly nerds.
Seeing as this is the thread to sperg about cons, I’m curious if any of you have ever unironically or still unironically attend furcons. If so, what is it like in person or is it the same on YouTube?
No hatred from me, but I’m just curious since some rumors say former or actual furries browse animal control.
I’d say in con-spaces its pretty safe and innocent, with the occasional barely sfw fetish gear dude or people running around in stupid puphoods. Most weird things are kept behind closed doors.
Its very very easy to avoid the freaks and just have good time
Native American jew. Someone explain to me how the fuck that is supposed to work. Is it like Maghreb jews in Africa that claim they are Jews and live by their rules and I am already thinking too deep into this, ain't I?
Native American jew. Someone explain to me how the fuck that is supposed to work. Is it like Maghreb jews in Africa that claim they are Jews and live by their rules and I am already thinking too deep into this, ain't I?
Native American jew. Someone explain to me how the fuck that is supposed to work. Is it like Maghreb jews in Africa that claim they are Jews and live by their rules and I am already thinking too deep into this, ain't I?
I wouldn't think too much. I took a look through Ryn's twitter and from what few selfies I found they were white as a sheet. In all honesty I was expecting a black chick.
I wouldn't think too much. I took a look through Ryn's twitter and from what few selfies I found they were white as a sheet. In all honesty I was expecting a black chick.
Seeing as this is the thread to sperg about cons, I’m curious if any of you have ever unironically or still unironically attend furcons. If so, what is it like in person or is it the same on YouTube?
No hatred from me, but I’m just curious since some rumors say former or actual furries browse animal control.
It honestly varies from con to con. I keep my con circuit small on purpose, mostly because I'm not stupid enough to bankrupt myself for conventions.
Each convention cultivates its own atmosphere. For example, Anthrocon has gone all-in on its partnership with the city of Pittsburgh, to the point where their parade goes outside, they're having a block party this year, and they pick up a not-insignificant amount of daily walk-in membership from curious locals. It has become a spectacle for the entirety of downtown, and the business folks who aren't skeeved out get a lot of glee out of watching the fursuiters and getting pictures. The convention itself puts on a pretty polished showing, and keeps the questionable activities/panels to after 10pm and often out of the convention center.
Other cons that I've been to have been way less active, often because they're much smaller. But they're also crammed into smaller spaces that aren't great for the size of their events. However, a lot of them like to lean into being bawdy and vulgar. Some include open beer bars, then wonder why there are wasted furs all over the place.
Seeing as this is the thread to sperg about cons, I’m curious if any of you have ever unironically or still unironically attend furcons. If so, what is it like in person or is it the same on YouTube?
No hatred from me, but I’m just curious since some rumors say former or actual furries browse animal control.
As the others have said, cons in general (not just furry cons) are pretty "safe". They still have to abide by the venue's rules, after all. So most horror shows related to the convention floor itself are the result of mismanagement. The most degeneracy you'll see there will be in the dealers' den, if they allow for adult content to be sold openly, if they sell/serve alcohol in the premises, and/or in "sex-positive" and "LGBT/queer" panels.
Things really get wild when people head to the bar or back to the hotel. Most conventions, normie or degenerate, have pretty wild afterparties because most people there are essentially on vacation away from their families. So they get really drunk/high and do what drunk/high people do. Furry conventions just take it to the extreme because that's what furries do. I remember sneaking into attending a BlizzCon afterparty a long time ago (I was in Anaheim for another convention) and while it wasn't maximum degeneracy things got pretty intense. Watching a small Asian girl chug down half a bottle of Jack Daniels and then jump into a fountain was... enlightening.
At some point these people are going to have to realize that their attempts at virtue signaling are pointless, when 90% of the attendees are going to end up crammed in a hotel room with 40 other people.
The rest of the world has moved on but furries are still all about this shit for some reason.
There were a few posts on Twitter calling out Megaplex for not caring about vaccination status. Whatever. At this point you get what you get, just leave it up to personal responsibility.
The rest of the world has moved on but furries are still all about this shit for some reason.
There were a few posts on Twitter calling out Megaplex for not caring about vaccination status. Whatever. At this point you get what you get, just leave it up to personal responsibility.
That Stratosfur schedule is something else. Pretty much every event that isn't dancing or games is some flavor of autism or tranny shit.
Add in their mask/vax requirements and it just gets worse. Probably only a good con if you enjoy seeing blue-haired fat chicks and ma'am's with beards in ugly thrift store granny dresses in their natural environment.
That Stratosfur schedule is something else. Pretty much every event that isn't dancing or games is some flavor of autism or tranny shit.
Add in their mask/vax requirements and it just gets worse. Probably only a good con if you enjoy seeing blue-haired fat chicks and ma'am's with beards in ugly thrift store granny dresses in their natural environment.
You have no idea how hard you hit the nail on the head there.
Here's just a small sample of who's going, from their official TG chat:EDIT: They actually felt compelled to do a land acknowledgement during opening ceremonies. Whining about how they're "sharing land" with a half-dozen tribes or so.
