Have been to about 50 furry conventions and most are well run and they’re well behaved.
Yes there are knuckleheads, too.
Pittsburgh’s Anthrocon lures 13k attendees who raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity. City loves us—we spend money.
Someone in an animal costume? You mean like the mascot at a ballgame? Horrors.
I’m 62 years old and do panels on Classic Cartoons. We play game shows like Press Your Luck. Art, writing panels, talent shows, and
dances. While some night events may be “adult” there are families who attend and that is like a pop culture comic con.
At a recent con in Maine. one panel was about the Moxie soft drink. A gathering of “greymuzzles”, older furs—we shout at clouds like Abe Simpson and say get off our lawn.
Car customization events. Ham radio panel.
One writer went to a con in CT expecting to
find debauchery. She later wrote “It was kind of like a Catholic school Halloween party.”
The ones who destroy hotels, initiate “drama” etc...are a minority.
Interesting. Only in America would this happen. Am I wrong about that?