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

[Corn Flakes]

It seems ridiculous, but the kind of openness that furries have about being sick in the wake of the pandemic is actually kind of refreshing.

"Hey, I'm sick. If you hung out with me, you might have caught what I have, too. Just a heads up!"

It honestly doesn't matter if it's Covid, Influenza, if you fucked around and found out (though maybe be discrete about it?), or even a random cold. That info can help someone else seek appropriate treatment by providing additional information.

The openness is fine.

It's the blame-shifting and the shit-flinging that are lulzy.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

The 19 people pizza was still worse.

Speaking of such, did anyone find out who were the last 3? I consider that one of my Unsolved Mysteries From The Farms.

Spoiler: In case you need a reminder

So far:

1. manedwolfy
2. jayfoxcat
3. KuramaSoCalFox
4. KooperShiba
5. SmashVill
6. WyattTheFox
7. ArdynWolf
8. ChewyTobacco
9. BadBullBento
10. BlaqpantheR30
11. ferretcheeks
12. chillyboxad
13. RubinTheFox
14. MarivauxCoyote
15. wrx_dawg
16. SendABleat

 

[sassblassted]

For what it's worth, you gotta commend the sheer confidence it takes to be this shameless.

 

[The Ultimate Ramotith]

Pretty good oppourtunity to show up at the free-for-all room parties and just steal everything not nailed down while everyone's drunk/high/snoofing.
Does a ski mask count as a partial suit?

I would think that would not b enough, but I feel that you can get away wi that, since the conventions may allow pup masks.
Wear more, just in case.

Myself, I would wear a Batter costume.
I have a broader definition of 'Purification', too.

 

[moocow]

It actually got me thinking. Have any of you ever been in a situation where, while just staying in a hotel, a horde of furry degenerates suddenly descended and began to scatter feces all over the hotel? Just imagine what it's like.

I once got a refund from a Sheraton after frat boys down the hall from me emptied all the fire extinguishers on the entire floor into the air as they ran screaming through the halls, setting off the fire alarms and leaving everyone coughing up yellow gunk. The desk clerk offered token resistance, but when I coughed up some neon she quietly issued the refund, apologized and sent me on my way.

It can't be any harder to get a refund from a hotel infested with these circus freaks. Just showing pictures of the feces-smeared walls outside your room should be more than enough. Even the dullest manager would realize the alternative is seeing the social media reaction the next morning -- "Hilton Whatsitsname let this happen [photos of shit-smeared walls] outside my room and wouldn't give a refund."

The increase in (understandably) angry normal people demanding refunds and leaving the hotel in disgust during furry conventions is undeniably one of myriad reasons hotels tend not to want to host a furry con more than once.

 

[Sintharia]

I once got a refund from a Sheraton after frat boys down the hall from me emptied all the fire extinguishers on the entire floor into the air as they ran screaming through the halls, setting off the fire alarms and leaving everyone coughing up yellow gunk. The desk clerk offered token resistance, but when I coughed up some neon she quietly issued the refund, apologized and sent me on my way.

It can't be any harder to get a refund from a hotel infested with these circus freaks. Just showing pictures of the feces-smeared walls outside your room should be more than enough. Even the dullest manager would realize the alternative is seeing the social media reaction the next morning -- "Hilton Whatsitsname let this happen [photos of shit-smeared walls] outside my room and wouldn't give a refund."

The increase in (understandably) angry normal people demanding refunds and leaving the hotel in disgust during furry conventions is undeniably one of myriad reasons hotels tend not to want to host a furry con more than once.

This is honestly dependent on the convention and the atmosphere they encourage. Events like Furpocalypse have a notoriously bad relationship with their hotels, and it carries with them because they don't do anything about their attendees' bad behavior. However, if you look at cons like Anthrocon, Kage is a notorious hardass regarding bad behavior around the hotels. So while there's grumbling about fur cleanup, even the gilded Omni William Penn has welcomed the furries back for 15+ years.

 

[RA-5C Vigilante]

It actually got me thinking. Have any of you ever been in a situation where, while just staying in a hotel, a horde of furry degenerates suddenly descended and began to scatter feces all over the hotel? Just imagine what it's like.

I remember one year around Saint Patricks Day, my family, including my 70 year old god-fearing grandma, our town had a local anime convention running. As I escort her to her car, we get passed by cosplayers and one person in a fursuit. I can still see the disgust in her face as she asked me "What the hell was that" when we went by. I merely told her "Weirdos, don't worry about it."
If there's anything I've learned from the internet, it's that no matter how much you learn, it's better to leave some people in the dark.

 

[Rukario]

I once got a refund from a Sheraton after frat boys down the hall from me emptied all the fire extinguishers on the entire floor into the air as they ran screaming through the halls, setting off the fire alarms and leaving everyone coughing up yellow gunk. The desk clerk offered token resistance, but when I coughed up some neon she quietly issued the refund, apologized and sent me on my way.

It can't be any harder to get a refund from a hotel infested with these circus freaks. Just showing pictures of the feces-smeared walls outside your room should be more than enough. Even the dullest manager would realize the alternative is seeing the social media reaction the next morning -- "Hilton Whatsitsname let this happen [photos of shit-smeared walls] outside my room and wouldn't give a refund."

The increase in (understandably) angry normal people demanding refunds and leaving the hotel in disgust during furry conventions is undeniably one of myriad reasons hotels tend not to want to host a furry con more than once.

Anything that violates health and safety that can get them sued or shut down by the local authorities is enough for them to hit the refund option on their monitors.

 

[F13 Key]

This can't possibly end well for... anyone. Betting pool on Rioley being preemptively banned and having another meltdown?

 

[Sintharia]

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This can't possibly end well for... anyone. Betting pool on Rioley being preemptively banned and having another meltdown?

A con specifically for and about Babyfurs? Watch them speed run a Rainfurrest.

 

[Coolio55]

A con specifically for and about Babyfurs? Watch them speed run a Rainfurrest.

*Me flailing my arms like a retard so I can clip into a nearby business meeting in full fetish gear before my blj bunnyhop run through the corridors spreading dirty diapers and drug paraphernalia

E:

 

[AssignedEva]

It actually got me thinking. Have any of you ever been in a situation where, while just staying in a hotel, a horde of furry degenerates suddenly descended and began to scatter feces all over the hotel? Just imagine what it's like.

Quite a few Londoners have experienced turning a corner in Central London and coming face to face with LondonFurs. They meet up once a month in a pub and go for a walk in their fursuits.

Their meet ups seem pretty tame and they appear to have rules around behaving appropriately, but nevertheless pub landlords eventually get tired of having furries come in their pub and creep out the other customers so invariably kick them out:

• Founded in 1998, in the early days of the group, furs would congregate at Soho Square before going to the pubs "The Ship" or "The Intrepid Fox".
• Late 1999 - early October 2000 - The meets were held in "The Devonshire Arms", London's premier Goth pub in Camden Town. As the group grew to larger numbers, this small establishment was no longer suitable and so moved on.
• Late October 2000 - October 2003 - the "Jorene Celeste" pub in Kentish Town was home for LondonFurs. However, steady decline in relations following a change of management resulted in the group moving on. During this period Makali helped organized the group with a stable web presence and custom website.
• October 2003 - July 8 2006 - The meets were held at "Ye Olde London Pub" (formerly "The Bell, Book and Candle" until it was refurbished in mid 2005), close to St. Paul's Cathedral. Increasing attendance and another management change left the LondonFurs distinctly unwelcome, and moved on.
• July 29, 2006 - December 15, 2007 - The LondonFur Meets were held at the "Theodore Bullfrog" pub in Charing Cross. The venue was quickly outgrown as the group grew ever larger.
• December 15, 2007 - March 2010 - The meets were relocated to the "City Golf Bar" in the Blackfriars area of London, and remained here for some time, before relocating again to the Saint Bar in Paternoster Square.
• March 2010 - March 2019 - The increasing regular attendance meant the meets outgrew the available space again, and were relocated down the road to the larger "Jamie's Bar" (now "Fleet Place"), next to the northern entrance to City Thameslink station adjacent to Holborn Viaduct.
• March 2019 - December 2019 - Changing management at Fleet Place/Jamie's caused a relocation of the meet venue to Revolution London America Square in Tower Hill. Most meets took place here, although there were visits to Summer/Winter party venue the Tank & Paddle and Fleet Place in October and November respectively.
• Since January 2020- Meets have been held at the Tank & Paddle in Minister Court, Mincing Lane, located in a covered shopping arcade below the north tower of the London Underwriting Centre, close to Aldgate, Monument and Tower Hill underground stations and Fenchurch Street railway station.

 

[El Gordo Ramsay Sex Dwarf]

"Mincing Lane". Very appropriate. Nice to have a "kicked out of 109 countries pubs" saga too.

 

[TEA 3HF]

How much do you want to bet those are just local residents sick of furfags' (literal) shit?

Good Money, actually. I am kind of surprised we've gotten to [Current Year] with as little anti-furry sentiment from the general public as we have. They pull all sorts of shit all over the country and the results are all over social media to boot. Previously this kind of aentiment was for the extremely online, but I wonder that as the iNTERNET gets more pervasive and people get sicker and sicker of troons (which also leads to general anti LGBT thought) that we might actually see more pushback from the public.

ETA Thought this was latest page, pls excuse noob mistake

 

[Pinball 2000]

This last weekend was New Year's Furry Ball in Newark, Delaware, and it seems to have raised some controversy leading up to the event due to the way the official Telegram chat was moderated.

In order to actually gain access to the chat in any capacity, you are required to join the "NYFB waiting room" chat, where you are then required to provide a link to your social media, at which point a moderator presumably scans your account to make sure you're not posting any wrongthink. If you refuse, you don't get access to the chat.


It looks like they're deleting posts in this channel once they approve/reject somebody, so I can't tell how many furs they've turned away. However, it appears this policy didn't apply to people already in the chat before this was instated.

Glancing at Twitter, at least one furry was immediately banned for an "unacceptable" social media presence, and the replies suggest the chat mod immediately upgraded this to a ban from the actual event as well.

Unfortunately, said fur's account is locked so I don't know what they specifically said or did, but there are numerous replies from other furries suggesting they tweeted something right-leaning and were immediately banned for not being woke enough.

 

[Sintharia]

This last weekend was New Year's Furry Ball in Newark, Delaware, and it seems to have raised some controversy leading up to the event due to the way the official Telegram chat was moderated.

In order to actually gain access to the chat in any capacity, you are required to join the "NYFB waiting room" chat, where you are then required to provide a link to your social media, at which point a moderator presumably scans your account to make sure you're not posting any wrongthink. If you refuse, you don't get access to the chat.
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It looks like they're deleting posts in this channel once they approve/reject somebody, so I can't tell how many furs they've turned away. However, it appears this policy didn't apply to people already in the chat before this was instated.

Glancing at Twitter, at least one furry was immediately banned for an "unacceptable" social media presence, and the replies suggest the chat mod immediately upgraded this to a ban from the actual event as well.

Unfortunately, said fur's account is locked so I don't know what they specifically said or did, but there are numerous replies from other furries suggesting they tweeted something right-leaning and were immediately banned for not being woke enough.

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Many chats have the waiting room setup on Telegram, specifically to screen for spammers and bots. It's not anything new. And many mods in the screening rooms will look up folks' socials, but not for the purposes of policing posts. It's used more to make sure that's a real person.

That being said, Wonderdawg is a shit show and a half. Given the fandom's general leanings, the fact that Wonderdawg is aggressively alt-fur makes it better for everyone if he wasn't in the chat. They saved him from numerous arguments with other attendees. But you know, anything to start drama.

 

[Pinball 2000]

Many chats have the waiting room setup on Telegram, specifically to screen for spammers and bots. It's not anything new. And many mods in the screening rooms will look up folks' socials, but not for the purposes of policing posts. It's used more to make sure that's a real person.

That being said, Wonderdawg is a shit show and a half. Given the fandom's general leanings, the fact that Wonderdawg is aggressively alt-fur makes it better for everyone if he wasn't in the chat. They saved him from numerous arguments with other attendees. But you know, anything to start drama.

I do agree with most of this. In my defense, I don't know who Wonder is or what he said/did to upset people, so I was mostly trying to piece this together from public information.

The only other part I've been unable to verify is the success/failure rate of letting people in the chat, since some people are claiming it feels a bit pushy. Though again, it's hard to determine due to most of those posts being deleted.

 

[wunhunglo]

A "zoosexual" Furry Raider named Shadow Le Rawr (archive) is attempting to start a furry convention in South Carolina, Soda City Fur Con.

Shadow's Twitter is full of arguing and his cow history resembles Nitro and his CCFC debacle. SCFC hasn't paid a deposit for their venue (not a hotel, but a wedding and events center like Free Fur All's) and doesn't have funds yet, but announced the place and date in 2024 already and are promoting it with a chat group and website.

Callout thread

https://archive.ph/wS8ae

https://twitter.com/NazifurReceipts/status/1610513098124963840

Shadow Le Rawr personal site and archive

 

[Ratboy Genius]

A "zoosexual" Furry Raider named Shadow Le Rawr (archive) is attempting to start a furry convention in South Carolina, Soda City Fur Con.

Oh no.

Spoiler: embarrassing powerleveling

A week or two before Christmas, I was searching Twitter for furries sending out free Christmas cards. I'm retarded and gave my home address to this guy (rate me dumb, I deserve it). He had a google forms thing so there was no interaction. I didn't know anything about him either (let alone the fact that he's starting a con, or he's a raider).
Anyway, sure enough, I got a Christmas card. Here it is. They also included a business card for their furcon, which makes sense to me now lol

 

[JethroTullamore]

Oh no.

Spoiler: embarrassing powerleveling

A week or two before Christmas, I was searching Twitter for furries sending out free Christmas cards. I'm retarded and gave my home address to this guy (rate me dumb, I deserve it). He had a google forms thing so there was no interaction. I didn't know anything about him either (let alone the fact that he's starting a con, or he's a raider).
Anyway, sure enough, I got a Christmas card. Here it is. They also included a business card for their furcon, which makes sense to me now lol
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I don’t know if I should feel bad for you because your life is so sad that you’re searching for random furries to send you Christmas cards, or make fun of you because you’re stupid enough to just randomly give out your home address in exchange for a fucking card.

You were so desperate for such a small display of affection, something that most people just throw away after they realize there’s no cash inside, that you gave out your address without even doing the most basic research on who this person is.