Anthrocon
From Encyclopedia Dramatica
Anthrocon is a convention in Albany Philadelphia Pittsburgh which started at least 100 years ago where furry artwork, memorabilia, and other crap is sold to fat guys with glasses. It's also a convention where fursuiters prance around and talk about how Minevra Mink is hot. No women attend these furry conventions, they are all transvestites. These "women" that attend Anthrocon are fugly bulldykes.
Wherever furries meet, drama is not far behind. It's in front of them.
- In this email a fur by the name of Cutter McCoy describes an encounter with another fur by the name of Nekobe. Nekobe called the cops on the hotel saying that child pornography was being sold and drugs were being consumed.
- An email by a fur named Badger says that Badger had the security at Anthrocon out to find Nekobe and that he never showed up. Later in the email he says "Once again, I say this with absolute seriousness - cross the state line, and get deported to Europe."
These emails might not be funny in themselves, but remember: They're furries.
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Recent Drama
Dr. Samuel Conway aka Uncle Kage, the chairman of Anthrocon, recently wrote (before deleting a few days later):
Ghosts 1, Kage 0 Wednesday, June 27th, 2007; 5:55 pm I'm afraid I stirred up quite a hornet's nest, and at precisely the wrong time, it would seem. I am forced to concede the point that ghosting is not as great a concern at Anthrocon as I had at first thought, and that there is no sense in taking any action against those who attend yet do not wish to support the organization. The true shame, though, is in the way I reacted to what turned out to be very level-headed individuals who were trying to point out to me, quite calmly and professionally in fact, that I was wrong. To the likes of Squnq and circuit_four I owe my deepest apologies. I was too focused on the "narrow picture" of the next ten days to really listen to what you were trying to tell me. I owe an apology to the board of directors, which I shall deliver forthwith. They entrust me with no other duty than the task of putting the best public face on Anthrocon, and in that duty I have been very sadly remiss in the last two days.
A couple of days before, he wrote a few LiveJournal entries explaining how much it cost him to make sure Anthrocon goes on this year ($100,000+) and how much it upsets him when people in the furry community go to the hotel the convention is being held in, but decide not to pay for the registration of the convention and just hang out with their friends in private room parties. Calling them thieves for not paying their fair share. After being both supported and flamed, this is what he had to say.
Well, wasn't THAT a bit of fun! 2007-06-26 06:03:00 Yesterday's lament, inspired by my dismay at people who saw nothing wrong with spending four days partying with their friends in a space that I paid for, without helping me to pay for it, somehow turned into a savage debate about my apparent practice of assaulting and robbing any person who walked within fifty feet of the Westin. I think that's a rather amusing image, myself, but I thought the discussion got out a little out of hand. Inevitably someone mentioned Hitler, so I invoked Godwin's law and decided it was time for everyone to take a breather. For the record, I have never personally flogged anyone nor instructed the Dorsai to do so (though temptation has at times been strong), nor have I ever mugged a person who stopped by the lobby to say hello to friends from out of town. My disapproval lies specifically with those people who spend more than a reasonable amount of time in our company without paying their fair share. If I was unclear in my assertion, then I offer apologies to those who unwittingly misinterpreted what I said...and offer a big "boo-hiss" to those few who did so with purpose.
What Uncle Kage should have clarified was the true definition of Ghosting. Going to a convention, using convention space, attending events and workshops, all while not paying the registration fee.
LOLz a furry with a PhD
His Solution for handling the ghosts that show up was explained in a comment.
2007-06-25 10:59am We deal with it on a case by case basis. There is no standard protocol. Commonly, what we will do is verify that the person we catch is indeed ghosting the convention. At that point, we determine if the person is staying in the hotel (easier to do than you would imagine, though I'm not prepared to discuss how we do it). If the person is staying in a hotel room, then that room, regardless of who rented it, is taken out of the Anthrocon room block. The room charge reverts to the standard rack rate, which usually exceeds $300 per night. The person who rented the room is then free to speak to me when presented with the bill, so that I can inquire why a "ghost" was permitted to stay in the room. The few times that we have done this have resulted in the person in question buying a membership ($50 was a lot less to pay than $800 or so). At that point we are happy to return the room to our block-rate.
People question if this practice is legal after the person reserving the room makes the contract with the hotel and signs the room rental agreement/receipt. People also plan on ghosting the convention this year.
Baseball Drama
The Milwaukee Brewers, fresh off beating the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the series that day, checked into their hotel for the first time for their four day series. The only problem was, their hotel was infested. Infested with furries.
For those of us know had no knowledge of these types of people, it was kind of like being dropped into the middle of a "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" movie. The lobby was packed with human beings dressed in various animal costumes. Going up the elevator is unsettling when you are packed in with a bunch of people who look like they hadn't left their mother's basements since the last convention. Virtually everyone, even those who looked otherwise "normal", had a tail sticking out of their clothes in the back. Players and staff reported neighboring rooms generating loud animal noises, barking and other, deep into the night.**
The team couldn't sleep that night, most of them freaked out by what appeared by commoners to be immense amounts of bestiality. Third Basemen Ryan Braun called the scene "sick and depraved", and could not believe their travel agent stuck them right in the very hotel where Anthrocon was held. Not surprisingly, the shocked Brewers team lost the next two games, still stricken from fear of the furry menace.
Past Drama
For 4 years, the Adam's Mark Hotel on the outskirts of Philadelphia had the misfortune of hosting Anthrocon. After the 2004 convention, health officials discovered a hazardously large number of furshampoo-soaked plushies, cum-encrusted furry pornography, and a stench of mythic proportions. This caused the Adam's Mark to be condemned mere months before the 2005 convention, and was the source of many lulz in anti-furry communities. Further hilarity ensued when it was discovered that dozens of potential attendees showed up at the abandoned Adam's Mark in 2005, an error that could have been avoided by utilizing the Internets for something other than porn or yiffing on Puzzlebox. Despite having undoubtedly spent far too much of their parents' money on travel expenses, many of these misguided macrophiles simply turned around and went home to cry in their LJs. Attendance was therefore down significantly for the year.
YouTube Drama
the original video
Current Status
Thanks in part to the closing of the Adam's Mark, Philadelphia has been spared from the yearly influx of furries, and the title of "Filthiest City in Pennsylvania" has shifted to Pittsburgh, the new home of Anthrocon from 2006 onward.
Fun Facts
It is known by few non-furs and is a Furluminati imperative that at a con, every odd-numbered room is to be used for massive gay yiff orgies near the end of the night ("female" furs have dicks, btw). This fun fact can be used to troll the shit out of any fur, IRL or online.
Most furries vehemently deny this; they don't want the fandom to seem sex-oriented and consider these their sikrit club roomz. If you find a furry who denies this they either a) are an active and eager participant or b) have not taken part in one of these, which makes them a double-loser. This also gives prospective trolls a good target for troll practice.
Links
- Anthrocon.org
- The Brewers get infected by furries: [1]
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