When the founders split and it moved from art collective wassailing to dude bro pub crawl. And it’s like franchising. There’s now Lepre-con for St Pat’s and like Bunny-con for Easter. I even saw a Kwanzaa-con. Bunch of white kids getting publicly intoxicated for Kwanzaa. Classy.
They definitely seem to have worn out their welcome. NYC the common practice is for bars to refuse participants service, if not turn away everyone wearing a Santa hat or Christmas sweater on the day in question. “No Santas” signs are increasingly common. And non participants generally refuse to go out during Santacon. So it’s overall pretty bad for buisiness. And it seems like the big popular ones are pushing further and further into the suburbs these days.
