I know the whole situation seems surreal (all situations are automatically surreal just by adding furries) but honestly based on the last few years of things happening in the fandom and catching glimpses of the beliefs of alt-furs, I’m almost surprised this didn’t happen sooner?
This is a perfect environment for someone like him. There’s the horrid people who are on his wavelength who’d happily go out for drinks with him (and are desperate for even the tiny bit of legitimacy he could lend them), but also the fandom has a lot of minorities among the pro-artist community, the most visible people in the community, who are already resented by the toxic creeps who feel entitled to them in a myriad of ways.
It’s not just that he has a few sad weirdos to seek out as allies, it’s also that his preferred victims are here too. One stop shop.
I’m really glad he was banned. I fully expect more nonsense but dealing with nonsense from a position of “we already told you to get lost” is stronger than them trying to pretend there’s no problem and getting blindsided by some nonsense at the con itself.
This is extremely true; some people still see him as a celebrity, and he’s equally desperate for attention, so it’s not hard for him to gather toadies among any subgroup. And, sadly, there’s already been several prominent artists who’ve spoken out in support of Milo — free speech absolutist types who, being career furry artists with sketchy backgrounds, see themselves as potential rejects as well. Standing up for a Nazi pedophile probably isn’t the best career choice for them.
In related news, apparently Milo might be running a sock puppet account on Twitter to drive traffic to his telegram account under the name ‘MadMustelid.’ He can’t even stop using his over the top language when pretending to be someone else.
In 2014, an intentionally-set chlorine gas leak sent 19 people to the hospital at this same convention. It was never conclusively linked to any group and nobody claimed responsibility.
Under the MadMustelid account, Milo (or a guy claiming to be ‘the world’s biggest Milo fanboy who isn’t Milo’) is currently reporting every account he can find who has mentioned this story on Twitter as ‘violations of the TOS’ and is messaging and DM’ing people about how he’s “found all of their accounts”.
I know the con chair for this con personally, as well as many members of the board.
They have lawyers (furry lawyers, at that!). They’re going to be fine. The delay was likely them setting up the requisite notifications and requests for trespass orders and what not that banning someone from a convention and hotel requires. The conference in question are good friends with the hotels, and so when a potential convention attendee is asked not to attend (forcefully) there are some notifications that go back and forth while the hotel secures the trespass order and cancels room reservations/etc.
This isn’t the first time this con has dealt with unwanted characters. It won’t be the last. It takes time to do things the right way.
Jokers like Milo may look at the fandom and see a bunch of weirdos in animal costumes, but they certainly don’t expect the number of excellent lawyers and professionals in it who are more than happy to help with cases such as this.
We’re everywhere. We also run the internet, are in multiple and numerous public offices, all over the medical industry, etc. People don’t seem to ever get that. It’s funny when they realize it.
… Yeah, that’s going to (eventually) get the attention of an admin who will drop a BanHammer 40Kg on the account. Maybe. (I don’t use twitter for several reasons, incessant drama being one of them)
