Bomb threat at Detriot / Ypsilanti Furry Con
honestly we're long overdue for puppy play/tactical gear crossover that Kojima always dreamed of
It's happening. VancouFur was evacuated for the same reason this month as well. I'm fully expecting it to happen at FWA in May.
:deeper-sadness:
Furries lined outside cons with assault rifles would be pretty boss, though.
The only people who actively hate furries that much are weird middle schoolers, they all grow out of it.
The only people who actively hate furries that much are weird middle schoolers, they all grow out of it.
I wish that were the case, but a lot of middle aged chuds have the emotional development of middle schoolers and kept that mentality through life.
Nobody else is dumb enough to call in a bomb threat to something like a 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.
People definitely poke fun at furries here sometimes, but honestly the topic almost never comes up. And it's never in a really hateful way like you see on most sites.
Last time I saw anything remotely anti furry was when we still had downvotes.
Those were dark times on the internet. While SA has gotten a lot less horrible since Lowtax died and a lot of the main community members that came later are (older, admittedly) LGBTQIA+ and/or furries, the stigma may never fully leave that place considering what it used to be.
Nazi furries are a thing but furry conventions seem to kick them out quicker and more vigilantly than most other convention communities ever even pretend to try.
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.
I heard that Milo Yiannopoulos, long after his minutes of fame had passed, commissioned a fursona and tried to proselytize for nazi shit but wasn't let in from the start. :rat-salute-2:
Yeah that was at MFF in Chicago a few years back before he became the 37 year old intern for MTG lol
all it is is lonely weirdos see a community of weirdos who aren't lonely and get really, really fucking mad that they can't be like that because they hate themselves too much.
Bullying, at its core, is "people are acting different than the norm here, that is now a justification to derive pleasure from hurting them." :frothingfash:
I know there's lots of memes out there about how X or Y chud group "wasn't bullied enough" and I never liked those.
I would get in my car and leave lol. Call me paranoid but standing around during a bomb threat seems weird and with how unhinged mass shooters are with niche communities, I rather not stand in the open like that
Third con targeted in two weeks. Normal society is truly deranged. Why do so many people subsist off of hate?
This tactic comes from feminists pulling the fire alarm to disrupt speakers on campus.
