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I'm almost certain any views it received since it was bashed here are at best in the four digits.
Until he returns to deliver us content most readers can actually sit to watch I offer you another cult classic, ergo something that happened a while ago and most people ignored. Turns out I was wrong, Quinton did share his Garfield Gathering vlog.
Quinton explains it all in the video but for the sake of youse sanity I shall summarize.
- The Garfield Gathering is a Garfield collector meeting held biannually for a week around Garfield's birthday. Started in 1999, last year was held in Clarksville, ID and 2026 will be celebrated in Branson, MS. The entire event is organized by one of the most prolific Garfield collectors (yes, she is an old lady that only promotes on Facebook) and according to Q 'mostly attended by old people'.
- The Gathering doesn't cover your expenses nor any gathering activities. Quinton paid a hotel room for a week so he could pay to play indoor mini-golf and bingo with a bunch of senior citizens.
- The second day of the gathering was themed around Louisville, KY (right in front of Clarksville) or rather the Kentucky Derby. Here Quinton claims to have been born in Lexington and that he considers Kentucky horse culture 'to be pretentious and insufferable'
- Quinton was accompanied by a lady friend that goes by Mother Garfield, they both entered the goodie raffle and 'won big'. The Kiwi Farms refuses to let me upload the screengrab but she looks like afab Jim Sterling with Garfield ears.
- No joke, one of the core parts of the Gathering is going to tourist traps together as a group. Quinton only accompanied them to visit the Louisville Slugger museum.
- He went to the Frazier Museum so he could make a joke about Jack Harlow being shit. I don't care for Harlow or why Q hates him but serves to flex that Lexington has Cocaine Bear.
- The Garfield Gathering has its own currency: garfbucks. You get garfbucks by winning games you have to pay real money to enter so you can acquire Garfield prizes.
- Quinton and Mother Garfield did an art exchange. Quinton drew her 80's Garfield with Gnorm Gnat (if you want an idea of how that looks refer to the Disney Dan podcast summary one page ago or jump around 3:20 in the vlog). MG drew him a sad Ronald McDonald Garfield.
- MG won the most garfbucks at the end of the week so she received a gourd painted like Garfield (Gourdfield) and four flaming Garfield plushies. At 4:00 we get a group photo of Q, MG and the two other people there that aren't on a retirement plan yet: catmanfromwestoakland and Semi-Sweet Gaming.
- The true action of the gathering is in the backroom deals. Geezers turning unsuspecting hotel rooms into garage sales. Quinton managed to buy one of his 'white whales' for 15 bucks (the light switch cover), prototype plushies, the Garfield phone, the Sonic & Garfield game bundle in pristine conditions and the Kennywood poster. He talks about he would've paid more on eBay but he still spent 123 dollars with one seller alone.
- The last day is the only one when you don't have to pay to see shit because everything is scraps. Quinton still buys them, including picking up the McDonald's Garfield lead-painted cups since those are free.
- Quinton drew an Amogus Garfield in the Louisville Antique shop.
- Q joined the last day auction. He explains the rationale of collectors throwing hundreds if not thousands of dollars on cheap shit for the thrill. Quinton said he wanted to prove himself as the biggest Garfield paypig (exact words) and managed to snatch a Chocolate exclusive plush, a full Pizza Hut set and two Enesco porcelain figures.
- A testament to how little even I care about this is that based on how it is edited this vlog was available much earlier as shorts. This video was posted three months ago.
Based on my estimations, Quinton spent at minimum around $900 and I feel that may be a very optimistic. There's not really a need to guess as he made an almost hour long companion piece about what he got from the con. Will summarize it after I get some updates from my employer.
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