Has anybody hear heard of Jeff Mach, steam punk convention promoter?
The Tik tok link above involves a mutiny of vendors against Jeff at his recent Steam Punk convention in Pennsylvania. You can see a trans woman acting as body guard, standing between Jeff and the angry vendors, reaching for a sword before one of the vendors threatens to “drop” the pink knight. Below is a different angle of the same encounter, much longer.
There are many layers to this- the convention didn’t go very well and all the vendors banded together on Sunday to demand their money back. He also had a series of allegations regarding consent in bdsm play as well as his abuse of power as a figurehead of the community.
Right now #Jeffmach and Steam Punk Worlds Fair are trending on Tik Tok and most likely other platforms. I found out about this yesterday and went down a little bit of a rabbit hole. I have to say that the allegations against Jeff Mach are nebulous and unspecific. These are a community of people who seem fond of getting fucked up and having group sex, generally speaking. They are all obnoxiously woke, alleging to be about “consent” and “safe play” etc but somehow, somebody always winds up abused
I’m curious to see what info anyone might come up with, there is a fair amount written and posted about this man since 2018. I was made aware of this situation by an acquaintance who attended this convention and knows a few vendors- she did not stay for Sunday (day of meltdown/mutiny). She’s not a part of or loyal to this community in any way, just the same I don’t want to blow up her spot too much. I am happy to say that when this all started, she was very sympathetic towards Jeff, telling me he was a poor old autist who’d been turned on by his community. The vendors she knew were not angry about the results. Apparently, some of these people who demanded their money back actually did make money, but jumped on the bandwagon out of greed or convenience. HOWEVER, as the prior allegations against him came up and the nature of this group became more apparent, the story began to look more like everyone just sucks, prompting me to bring this to the attention of you fine folks
