Kiwi Farms
Most of my other threads are depressing as hell. I need the funny so here you lot go.
As we all know, furries are basically just a collection of mentally unstable, attention seeking, sex fiends LARPing as animals. No doubt that even when left to their own devices, they can find some way of garnering attention (see: this entire section of the Farms). But what happens when you take hundreds / thousands of them, give them private rooms, & let them do whatever the fuck they want?
Bad things.
Bad things happen.
Whether it's drug overdoses (sometimes happening in-suit), child / animal abuse, sexual assault, vandalism, or whatever else you could possibly imagine - if you can think it, furries have probably done it. Let's start off the thread strong with the most prominent examples in the last decade.
Rain Furrest 2015
Most people on the Farms (and the internet as a whole) are largely familiar with the event due to the video made by Internet Historian:
As a brief recap though:
Rain Furrest is a convention that took place typically around late Sept / early Oct that was hosted at the Hilton SeaTac airport. The location was prime due to it being located right across the street from SeaTac Airport and right next to the Light Rail - a local train system running from downtown Seattle to the airport. The rail has been extended to reach further south since then. As such, traveling to the convention, especially for those on the west coast, was made relatively easy. That being said, the convention was one of, if not THE MOST, prolific cons when it came to degeneracy. This was because of the over-abundance of ABDL and other hardcore kinks that were openly embraced in public con space. It was very common to see people walking around in Pup Gear, murrsuits, and even just in diapers (or a combination of the 3).
So why is this year in particular so prolific?
Because this was the year it was shut down. For good.
Why?
Let's have a look
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Worth noting that post-Kero leaks, it's likely that Rainfurrest was used as meeting grounds for West Coast and East Coast zoos. This pic did not age well AT ALL.
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No archive. Taken from IH's video. He didn't archive and this Twitter account no longer exists.
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StormyFag is someone who was outed in the Zoo Crew leaks. Pretty sure Sako was as well but I could be wrong
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Turns out the whole Glory Hole thing was fake
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To recap:
normalizing degenerate behavior " LGBTQ+ " topics wrote a fluff piece for the convention. I'll touch on why this is important later but you can read an archived version here.
The Fallout
After the con concluded, the event garnered damage costs in upwards of $150K, surpassing the operation costs of all other conventions hosted that year combined. As a result, the Hilton cancelled their partnership with RAin
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Attempts were made to move the venue to several different locations, including Spokane, but this would ultimately prove fruitless. An ex-board member sent letters to every venue within a 50 mile radius, writing in vivid detail the issues hosting the next Rainfurrest would provide for them. As such, no one would take their offer. Rumor has it that any event with the word " furry " in it is now instantly rejected.
Archive
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Furries were not keen to hold back criticism / hostility towards the RAin Board given the situation they were in. A postmortem (presumably written by an ex-staff member) can be read here.
TL;DR:
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Last note: The guy who recorded the video of the ex-board member of RAin discussing what happened at the 2016 Vancoufur panel was none other than local lolcow KhordKitty / Gabriel Jeremy Sickel. Internet Historian insinuated that whoever recorded the video was responsible for dumping the used diapers all over the place but I can say for a fact that's not true. Gabe was not a member of the board and had a bit of a shitfit (pun intended) about the vandalism done by the diaperfurs. His ex-wife was a volunteer for the con but she was only a general staff member. A PDF of the Con Staff book will be at the bottom of the OP
Here's the video
Anthro Northwest (2016/2017)
This section is being written after RF because the RAin Board got pretty pissed off about ANWpotentially taking their place & essentially doing it better.
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I think this bitter resentment came from the fact that not only could they successfully secure an event, but they managed to get an event space in DOWNTOWN Seattle (which is really fucking expensive). This should've been impossible due to previous restrictions stated but since ANW was registered as " historical celebration of anthropomorphic art " rather than " furry " they managed to get away with it.
The Tea
Koji Fox & Viro Science Collie of the formerly notable furry podcast Feral Attraction got into a dispute with ANW staff before the event ever took place about a policy banning fetish gear at the con. This included collars which really got them into a tizzy.
The policy against collars was ultimately reversed but furries simply found more things to bitch about. To be fair, I'm going to blame the event organizer partially for not expecting this backlash. He tried to make a " family-friendly " convention in the most degenerate section of the country. The vast majority of the locals were spoiled by Rainfurrest which let them essentially run wild with their kink bs. He should've been prepared for this and stood his ground. Also I really, really don't see furry as a " family friendly " thing. Everyone on this board agrees with that sentiment, I'm sure.
Anyways, one such policy furries took issue with was that the staff wanted to ban suits that might scare young children.
Then came the conspiracy theory that because the event organizer happened to be religious, he was trying to brainwash / kinkshame BDSM furries into not being such godless heathens (which, tbf, they could probably use the proselytizing). Ironic though when one of the furries making these claims is a cub furry who's friends with Dog Rapist Cupid the Deer / Matthew Grabowsky.
ANW did eventually respond with the following:
The Actual Con
The con was approved so eventually it actually went down. So what happened?
Not as much as you'd expect. Half the people that bitched about it on Twitter wound up going anyways, including Viro. Had a pic of this but since Viro went DFE after numerous sexual assault allegations, I don't have it anymore.
That being said, the previous drama did impact the guests the con attempted to invite:
I think in this instance, CC didn't want to come due to the " No Scary Suits " policy & felt personally attacked.
Archive
One thing people flipped their shit over was the ballpit.
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After the pit was deflated by the owner, a rumor was spread around (presumably by a group of assblasted ABDL furries who weren't allowed to attend the con) that it was being removed due to a diaper being thrown in it. The owner later refuted the rumor by tweeting this out.
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All well and good until you see who provided the ball pit. Well if it isn't the one of many dog fuckers Nacho Doggo.
I hope whoever played in that pit washed THEIR balls immediately after. Fucking gross.
Speaking of people / groups who were banned from the convention. If you were banned from a previous convention, you had to file for an appeal with the board. Guess who that included:
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Sibe's thread
Apparently there were people banned from the convention, the AnthroNW forum, and/or blocked on Twitter for being critical of the event. Idk how much of that is true since a lot of people’s “ criticisms “ were just saying they were gay or mad that they should abstain from swearing (which is a rule at practically every convention)
Next, CNN was allowed into the con to record a documentary. When you checked into the con and claimed your badge, you were given a waiver to opt in to the program. Keyword: in. Not out. People got these confused and assumed that CNN was going to just be barging in with cameras in everyone’s faces. Funny how everyone was cool when The Stranger reporter was allowed to roam free and do his shit but it's suddenly a problem because it's at ANW.
Ultimately, this drama also fizzled out into a big nothing burger as it was, yet again, another fucking fluff piece to cover up the fandom's gross side.
Last tidbit is just Junius being Junius - interjecting Altfurry fearmongering into every little thing with zero evidence to back it up.
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RMFC 2016
RMFC was a con that took place in Denver, CO up until 2016 due to the events that happened that year & the months following.
TL;DR: Furry Raiders booked a shit ton of rooms out, didn't use most of them, & got the entire fandom to sperg out on them through death threats. DeoTasDevil made threat saying something along the lines of " lol can't wait to punch Nazi! " to which someone pointed out that CO is a concealed carry state. She lost her shit and claimed that she was being threatened as a result. Apparently the con didn't take action against either side for this as Deo went on to cry about how Furry Raiders were still permitted to attend the convention (had it not been cancelled).
Said threats (from both parties) had the unintended consequence of raising the cost of security to an amount that outweighed the cost of hosting the convention ($22K USD). As a result, it was permanently shut down. It's likely that the venue which hosted it spread the word to other con spaces in order to prevent booking as well. Deo & DogPatch press then dug into some other shady shit the convention was doing & wrote articles about it. Deo got sent a C&D from an ex-staffer (who was convicted on sexual acts w/ a minor back in 1993). Literally nothing happened though aside from Deo getting showered with asspats for being " a victim "
Capital City Furcon 2020
Credits to @Pinball 2000. Read their work here or here
Closing Thoughts
I do intend to add more sections to this thread but I'm afraid I'm reaching my character limit. Other subjects I'd like to flesh out in the next post(s)
As we all know, furries are basically just a collection of mentally unstable, attention seeking, sex fiends LARPing as animals. No doubt that even when left to their own devices, they can find some way of garnering attention (see: this entire section of the Farms). But what happens when you take hundreds / thousands of them, give them private rooms, & let them do whatever the fuck they want?
Bad things.
Bad things happen.
Whether it's drug overdoses (sometimes happening in-suit), child / animal abuse, sexual assault, vandalism, or whatever else you could possibly imagine - if you can think it, furries have probably done it. Let's start off the thread strong with the most prominent examples in the last decade.
Rain Furrest 2015
Most people on the Farms (and the internet as a whole) are largely familiar with the event due to the video made by Internet Historian:
As a brief recap though:
Rain Furrest is a convention that took place typically around late Sept / early Oct that was hosted at the Hilton SeaTac airport. The location was prime due to it being located right across the street from SeaTac Airport and right next to the Light Rail - a local train system running from downtown Seattle to the airport. The rail has been extended to reach further south since then. As such, traveling to the convention, especially for those on the west coast, was made relatively easy. That being said, the convention was one of, if not THE MOST, prolific cons when it came to degeneracy. This was because of the over-abundance of ABDL and other hardcore kinks that were openly embraced in public con space. It was very common to see people walking around in Pup Gear, murrsuits, and even just in diapers (or a combination of the 3).
So why is this year in particular so prolific?
Because this was the year it was shut down. For good.
Why?
Let's have a look
Archive
Archive
Archive
Worth noting that post-Kero leaks, it's likely that Rainfurrest was used as meeting grounds for West Coast and East Coast zoos. This pic did not age well AT ALL.
Archive
No archive. Taken from IH's video. He didn't archive and this Twitter account no longer exists.
Archive
StormyFag is someone who was outed in the Zoo Crew leaks. Pretty sure Sako was as well but I could be wrong
Archive
Turns out the whole Glory Hole thing was fake
Archive
Archive
To recap:
- Elevator was broken because people were using their feet to press (kick) the buttons
- The hot tub was destroyed by dumping towels into the tub itself as well as rolling + stuffing them into the pump
- A toilet had its screws loosened which resulted in a flood causing water damage to nearby rooms & the servers located in the basement
- Food was being tossed around and left on the ground
- Drugs were being sold & used at the con
- This resulted in several arrests as well as an overdose
- Diaperfurs were:
- Allowed to roam the hall in soiled diapers
- disposing their used diapers outside by either just tossing them wherever or collecting huge trashbags of them (and then not putting said bags in the dumpster)
- Someone took pics of 2 zoosadists outed in the Kero Leaks pissing while in-suit
- A (potentially) false rumor was spread the a furry drilled gloryholes in the bathroom
- Ex-staff member committed sexual assault
- Current staff member committed physical assault
- And more!
The Fallout
After the con concluded, the event garnered damage costs in upwards of $150K, surpassing the operation costs of all other conventions hosted that year combined. As a result, the Hilton cancelled their partnership with RAin
Archive
Archive
Attempts were made to move the venue to several different locations, including Spokane, but this would ultimately prove fruitless. An ex-board member sent letters to every venue within a 50 mile radius, writing in vivid detail the issues hosting the next Rainfurrest would provide for them. As such, no one would take their offer. Rumor has it that any event with the word " furry " in it is now instantly rejected.
Archive
Archive
Furries were not keen to hold back criticism / hostility towards the RAin Board given the situation they were in. A postmortem (presumably written by an ex-staff member) can be read here.
TL;DR:
- It was staff's fault the convention died because for the past 5 years, they refused to curb problem people from doing stupid shit.
- Property damage became prevalent in 2011 and continued onward. They never paid for the damages so they just kept accruing over time
- The head of the board refused to update outdated policies such as harassment / drug consumption / ect. & would not hold anyone accountable for their actions by revoking badges.
- Vastly understaffed for the size of their events
- How they handled things after the con publicly and privately was stupid af
Archive
Last note: The guy who recorded the video of the ex-board member of RAin discussing what happened at the 2016 Vancoufur panel was none other than local lolcow KhordKitty / Gabriel Jeremy Sickel. Internet Historian insinuated that whoever recorded the video was responsible for dumping the used diapers all over the place but I can say for a fact that's not true. Gabe was not a member of the board and had a bit of a shitfit (pun intended) about the vandalism done by the diaperfurs. His ex-wife was a volunteer for the con but she was only a general staff member. A PDF of the Con Staff book will be at the bottom of the OP
Here's the video
Anthro Northwest (2016/2017)
This section is being written after RF because the RAin Board got pretty pissed off about ANW
Archive
I think this bitter resentment came from the fact that not only could they successfully secure an event, but they managed to get an event space in DOWNTOWN Seattle (which is really fucking expensive). This should've been impossible due to previous restrictions stated but since ANW was registered as " historical celebration of anthropomorphic art " rather than " furry " they managed to get away with it.
The Tea
Koji Fox & Viro Science Collie of the formerly notable furry podcast Feral Attraction got into a dispute with ANW staff before the event ever took place about a policy banning fetish gear at the con. This included collars which really got them into a tizzy.
The policy against collars was ultimately reversed but furries simply found more things to bitch about. To be fair, I'm going to blame the event organizer partially for not expecting this backlash. He tried to make a " family-friendly " convention in the most degenerate section of the country. The vast majority of the locals were spoiled by Rainfurrest which let them essentially run wild with their kink bs. He should've been prepared for this and stood his ground. Also I really, really don't see furry as a " family friendly " thing. Everyone on this board agrees with that sentiment, I'm sure.
Anyways, one such policy furries took issue with was that the staff wanted to ban suits that might scare young children.
Then came the conspiracy theory that because the event organizer happened to be religious, he was trying to brainwash / kinkshame BDSM furries into not being such godless heathens (which, tbf, they could probably use the proselytizing). Ironic though when one of the furries making these claims is a cub furry who's friends with Dog Rapist Cupid the Deer / Matthew Grabowsky.
ANW did eventually respond with the following:
The Actual Con
The con was approved so eventually it actually went down. So what happened?
Not as much as you'd expect. Half the people that bitched about it on Twitter wound up going anyways, including Viro. Had a pic of this but since Viro went DFE after numerous sexual assault allegations, I don't have it anymore.
That being said, the previous drama did impact the guests the con attempted to invite:
I think in this instance, CC didn't want to come due to the " No Scary Suits " policy & felt personally attacked.
Archive
One thing people flipped their shit over was the ballpit.
Archive
Archive
After the pit was deflated by the owner, a rumor was spread around (presumably by a group of assblasted ABDL furries who weren't allowed to attend the con) that it was being removed due to a diaper being thrown in it. The owner later refuted the rumor by tweeting this out.
Archive
All well and good until you see who provided the ball pit. Well if it isn't the one of many dog fuckers Nacho Doggo.
I hope whoever played in that pit washed THEIR balls immediately after. Fucking gross.
Speaking of people / groups who were banned from the convention. If you were banned from a previous convention, you had to file for an appeal with the board. Guess who that included:
Archive
Sibe's thread
Apparently there were people banned from the convention, the AnthroNW forum, and/or blocked on Twitter for being critical of the event. Idk how much of that is true since a lot of people’s “ criticisms “ were just saying they were gay or mad that they should abstain from swearing (which is a rule at practically every convention)
Next, CNN was allowed into the con to record a documentary. When you checked into the con and claimed your badge, you were given a waiver to opt in to the program. Keyword: in. Not out. People got these confused and assumed that CNN was going to just be barging in with cameras in everyone’s faces. Funny how everyone was cool when The Stranger reporter was allowed to roam free and do his shit but it's suddenly a problem because it's at ANW.
Ultimately, this drama also fizzled out into a big nothing burger as it was, yet again, another fucking fluff piece to cover up the fandom's gross side.
Last tidbit is just Junius being Junius - interjecting Altfurry fearmongering into every little thing with zero evidence to back it up.
Archive
RMFC 2016
RMFC was a con that took place in Denver, CO up until 2016 due to the events that happened that year & the months following.
TL;DR: Furry Raiders booked a shit ton of rooms out, didn't use most of them, & got the entire fandom to sperg out on them through death threats. DeoTasDevil made threat saying something along the lines of " lol can't wait to punch Nazi! " to which someone pointed out that CO is a concealed carry state. She lost her shit and claimed that she was being threatened as a result. Apparently the con didn't take action against either side for this as Deo went on to cry about how Furry Raiders were still permitted to attend the convention (had it not been cancelled).
Said threats (from both parties) had the unintended consequence of raising the cost of security to an amount that outweighed the cost of hosting the convention ($22K USD). As a result, it was permanently shut down. It's likely that the venue which hosted it spread the word to other con spaces in order to prevent booking as well. Deo & DogPatch press then dug into some other shady shit the convention was doing & wrote articles about it. Deo got sent a C&D from an ex-staffer (who was convicted on sexual acts w/ a minor back in 1993). Literally nothing happened though aside from Deo getting showered with asspats for being " a victim "
One of the leaders of Furry Raiders shared how the rooms were booked in advance. Apparently they booked before the Convention's block rates were posted.
(need to find this image again)
Staff post on the now defunct Google+ page discussing the overbooking issue had yet to be resolved as of April 1st, 2016.
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Deo's threat + the resulting counter threat
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Deo sperging about being threatened
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Patch's article on the situation
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The C&D
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Blog post written about RMFC that I thought was worth a read.
(need to find this image again)
Staff post on the now defunct Google+ page discussing the overbooking issue had yet to be resolved as of April 1st, 2016.
Archive
Deo's threat + the resulting counter threat
Archive
Deo sperging about being threatened
Archive
Archive
Archive
Patch's article on the situation
Archive
The C&D
Archive
Blog post written about RMFC that I thought was worth a read.
Capital City Furcon 2020
Credits to @Pinball 2000. Read their work here or here
Closing Thoughts
I do intend to add more sections to this thread but I'm afraid I'm reaching my character limit. Other subjects I'd like to flesh out in the next post(s)
- The current debacle surrounding con cancellations / refund policies due to COVID-19
- Con Staff Corruption