Yaos posted:

They ran out of money on the first day and begged for $17,000. For this princely sum, everybody got an hour in a ball pit (a kiddy pool full of plastic balls) and a bouncy castle. Somebody peed in the ballpit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KM2vpz179g

Yaos posted:

Forgot to mention they scammed the panelists that showed up. After the the panel was finished the DashCon people refused to pay for the panelists hotel room as they promised.

Drunk Nerds posted:

Yeah there was an 80 page thread about it. When it was, you know, remotely relevant.

Smeego posted:

some guy with a hipster mustache made a montage of videos laffing at the event in person and it was funny

amityville anus posted:

The furry con that was two towns over later that year got sed

Waltzing Along posted:

Not really sure what this is but I am certain that if someone burned down the conference hall the world would have been a better place.

Shinjobi posted:

Tumblr gay. so what

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Footage of the fundraising announcement shows convention organizers soliciting donations from a crowded ballroom of Tumblr users, many of whom hand over cash and then break into song while performing the three-fingered salute from The Hunger Games.

In a Tumblr post, which has since been deleted, DashCon staff wrote, “The upper management of the hotel is threatening to shut down dashcon, unless we give them $17,000 by 10 p.m. Central Time tonight. Please go to DashCon.org and click the Donate button and give her anything you can. Unless we get this by tonight everything is cancelled. We suspect it’s due to the fact that upper management doesn’t like the people at the con.”

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Aside from the growing concern over DashCon staff asking for so much extra money mid-convention, the main reason for the increase in DashCon conspiracy theories is the implausibility of the hotel fee story. It seems unlikely that a major venue like the Schaumburg Convention Center (which is owned by Marriott) would allow a first-time convention to show up without having paid their fees in advance, and then demand a $20,000 fee at 10pm on a Friday night. At the very least, they would not suddenly change their agreement with the convention halfway through the event itself.

A 2013 post from convention organizer Megan Eli states that the convention center had already been rented 11 months ago. Referring to the fact that DashCon was listed on the hotel’s website, she wrote, “They don’t just do that without a legally binding contract and the exchange of money.”

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Aside from major problems like apparent financial chaos, guest cancellations, and the ball pit, plenty of other things at DashCon began to seem strange or unprofessional.

- Only 500 tickets were made available each day, making it well-nigh impossible for the convention to achieve the projected 3,000-7,000 attendees they originally assumed would show up.

- Tumblr user kirbeh described hotel mints being given away at a panel as competition prizes.

- The so-called “game room” featured a single TV and console.

- The moderator for Noelle Stevenson’s panel never showed up, so she had to moderate it herself.

- Several videos making fun of the convention surfaced online, filmed by someone who claimed that they found it easy to just wander in without paying for a day pass.

- The DashCon blog said they were “in partnership” with the charity Random Acts, but the convention does not appear to have been publicly acknowledged by Random Acts.

- A blogger claiming to be a former DashCon volunteer posted a lengthy account of their experiences during the planning stages of the convention, along with what appears to be screencaps of conversations with other organizers, most of whom seemed disorganized or confused throughout. This aligns with other descriptions of DashCon’s organizational structure, with “fandom committees” taking control of various aspects of convention fundraising and scheduling.

- None of the main convention organizers appear to have a background in fan conventions or similar events. DashCon owners Megan Eli and Roxanne Schwieterman are a novelist “with 15 years of business experience” and a 20-year-old with “a degree in hospitality management,” respectively.

Parallax Scroll posted:

lol at renting that gigantic hall for their first event

Yaos posted:

They ran out of money on the first day and begged for $17,000. For this princely sum, everybody got an hour in a ball pit (a kiddy pool full of plastic balls) and a bouncy castle. Somebody peed in the ballpit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KM2vpz179g

GUYS STOP posted:

bring back gooncon. i vote where i live in wisconsin because there is a shitload of bars in 1 square mile radius

haljordan posted:

so basically you live anywhere in wisconsin

GUYS STOP posted:

bring back gooncon. i vote where i live in wisconsin because there is a shitload of bars in 1 square mile radius

haljordan posted:

so basically you live anywhere in wisconsin

But Rocks Hurt Head posted: