Bomb threat at Detriot / Ypsilanti Furry Con
I’ve been in it for a long time and I appreciate that. A lot of the original hate stemmed from trolls from SomethingAwful or the chans targeting often neurodiverse people in a distinctively queer space. It just kind of has this self-sustaining momentum now and it’s always a real shame to shit like that repeated. There are absolute dogshit people in the fandom, but most are pretty decent. I’ve met more comrades there than I have anywhere else.
I’ve seen it (and pushed back on it) on this website before and I’ve been here since the beginning. It’s been a while though to be fair. I’ve been in the fandom for the about the same amount of time so I hear you. The hate seemed to die down for a bit, but with the general rise in trans and queer phobia, harassment is returning again.
Oh there definitely are. They’ve got themselves a chud con in the Midwest too and it has all the usual patriot, freedom, 'merica imagery you’d expect. But yeah, a notoriously awful furry just tried to attend a con this month and as soon as staff was alerted, they had his badge pulled in like an hour. Con staff does their best, but at the end of the day, they are a handful of volunteers against several thousand attendees with very little way of checking every person that comes in. They get a lot of shit online for not just knowing about certain people, but expecting them to have an encyclopedic knowledge of dumbasses isn’t fair imo.
