The Disaster Of Rainfurrest 2015

I find stories about cons and festivals that go off the rails fascinating, I don't know why exactly. It's like they're tiny temporary societies and when they go wrong you get a miniature apocalypse.

Me: You got the shit? Youtube: gives me a video essay on a fandom I was never in Me: Das good shit

I'm a hotel manager, we look out for our fellow hotels in the area. When we experience a criminal or extremely unpleasant individual, we will contact other hotels and share their names, so it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that every hotel rejected this side-show, I know I would.

i burst out laughing at the part "they took to Twitter complaining that people are judging them" imagine being that person and honestly thinking "these people are judging me, an adult because i shit myself in front of them. how rude"

Still can’t believe they found a venue who would be willing to host them after the previous year.

“Yes, a lone gunman pulled the trigger, but the board of executive staff sold them five years’ worth of bullets” Such a raw line and it’s about a furry convention lmao

I once went to a furry rave party and when I walked around with my furhead one I felt a tap on my shoulder, I looked back and saw the mouth of a gun, than I heard the trigger. I informed the management and left, when I came home my mailbox had like... 20 massages that all were the same: 'Don't be overdramatic, everybody knew it was a fake gun.' 1. no body told me. 2. this happen a week after the shooting in Belgum. 3. She never excused herself.

Rainfurrest con staff: "Pick up that diapie! " 👮‍♂ Babyfurs: Literally 1984

'Fun' Fact: Rainfurrest was known for being the con that all the furries banned from other fur cons attended. Probably explains a lot!

Hello! Furry here! I have a short story that describes how much we DETEST this convention. Once I was sitting in a busy room at a furcon (Furlandia 2018) and I noticed a box fan in the center had some writing on it. I realized this fan HAD BEEN SALVAGED FROM RAINFURREST since it said “property of rainfurrest staff” or something like that on it. So I say “uh… Hey guys, this fan is from Rainfurrest.” The whole room went silent for about a second, then EVERYONE erupted into NOOOOOOOOs and OH MY GODs and DONT MENTION THATs. It’s so bad I sent an entire room of about 30 people into complete agony and chaos.

Fun Fact: The sabatour wasn't the only one to contact the hotels, there are reports of the hilton actully reaching out to some of the bigger hotel chains about the desaster Bonus Fact: tampering with smoke detectors is beyond dangerous, as it can exspose you to LOTS of radiation

If the guy that got flung off the toilet was launched 3 feet and they weighed over 500 lbs, imagine what would have happened if it had been someone smaller, like a child. They might has gotten seriously hurt. It’s actually LUCKY it was someone bigger.

I can't imagine being high on a fury suit, that sound like the worst idea ever, the heat and claustrophobia of a fursuit wouldn't mix well with any drug

Adam/YourMovieSucks (who's an open furry) had some insight--he said RainFurrest was either created by, or at least became the only remaining option for, furries who were banned from other conventions... most likely for the behavior documented above lol

Something about this reminds me of New Zealand's more standard convention, Armageddon. I went to the Auckland one *once*. It was fine, barring one incident that made me turn my back on it forever. Namely a professional seamstress in the costume contest mocking me, a 15 y'o who sewed most of her own costume by hand. Thankfully the contest now has divisions for professional vs amateurs, but I can never forget that this 20's woman looked at a child and laughed at their love of cosplay.

I hadn't heard of Rainfurrest before this video. Now all I can think is "If Rainfurrest and Dashcon had a horrendous lovechild, it'd be FreeFurAll."

“They don’t know better” is the WORST excuse for not enforcing anti-harassment measures because then the harassers are just going to assume their behavior always was and always will be okay??? Saying “they’ll just get better on their own” is like enabling an abuser by letting them do it and never reporting it to anybody.

idea: izzy should come to a furry convention in a garfield fursuit and report on whatever's going on there

I get the whole "embrace your inner child" thing. A lot of hobbies and passions should be allowed to be embraced by people at any age. However, sometimes people get the wrong idea and refuse to endure any kind of personal growth. Here's what you get as a result of that. lol

as a furry who goes to cons and (god forbid) wears a fursuit sometimes, it was pretty refreshing to have someone just straight up cover some furry shit without spreading weird disinformation or their own snotty opinions lol. i wasn't attending cons back then but i had plenty of friends who were there and they still tell stories to this day. i knew most of this already, but it was fun to watch anyway! furry cons are certainly special lmao