Twitter is full of furries upset about the room lottery for Midwest FurFest 2024.

Soatok Dreamseeker

I shall, once again, tap the sign: https://soatok.blog/2024/05/30/furries-are-losing-the-battle-against-scale/

Soatok Dreamseeker

What's the selling point of going to "the largest" conventions?

Do you want crowds?

Do you want long wait times for the hotel elevators?

Do you want to miss out on a room at the main con hotel?

What's the upside? A chance to hang out with people who rank higher on some social media popularity chart?

Fuck that noise.

Karb 💎

@soatok

What's the upside?

Well, some of my friends can only afford to really go to one con so they choose the biggest one, where most of their (international) friends go.

Which I can't really blame them for.
Cause I also wanna meet them, so to the biggest con I'll go too. And on and on that goes :blobfoxthink:

Gabu!! DRAGON!! 🍜🐉 ΘΔ

@karb @soatok

counterpoint: if you don't have to fly to the US to go to The Big Con but instead can just take the train or bus to Your Local Con, suddenly you CAN afford to go to more than one con.

i feel like more smaller local cons is always going to be the solution

Risotto Voted

@soatok for job related conventions: it's to network as much as possible to find a job and make the trip worth it. at some point there are diminishing returns, but 200-800 people.

for fun related conventions: it's because all the people I know online are hard to get in one place, and they're /in one place/ at this event.

for comic con: I think it's largely to take pictures with hobbits or get a book signed by an author (the author probably does have smaller book signings but this has more footprint)