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Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (5/9) Sotalo calls everyone protesting: "exclusive, discriminatory... People who despise this convention's leadership, and Furries". Sotalo says protesters are full of "hate" because they don't love Furry, and wouldn't give Dashing another chance.

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (6/9) Sotalo says after WWII, everyone had to live together, and it could happen here, but not with people who don't bring the fandom together. Chat: "Guess how WW2 ended. They got rid of the Nazis first, and the people who enabled them were denazified"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (7/9) Chat: "saying WW2 ended happily ever after... the most tonedeaf, insulting, infuriating thing you could possibly say... confirming everyone's contempt... You have no idea how fucking livid I am" Sotalo: "this is not furry fandom, you guys aren't fans"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (8/9) Sotalo: "I've seen worse behavior in this chat that I can possibly imagine a supremacist being capable of... What about all the hatred I received... Go somewhere else" Chat: "he's lecturing us after lying to us and not getting it sold"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (9/9) Chat: "when the guy in charge of PR basically says 'Nazis and those that like them aren't bad your bad for saying they are bad' things aren't looking good" - "'antifa are the real nazis'" "You don't deserve to run a con period"

In GSFTW chat, today's meltdown ended with a new admin appointed. The admin told Sotalo, the PR guy from Florida, to quiet down.

If someone wants to pay for a con run this way, you know what they say about a fool and their money.

This is actually a somewhat common kind of bad leadership, but the followup was uniquely awful. It just usually scares off better heads and then continues sucking. It rarely has the gory details laid out so exquisitely by staff and management running from consequences like chickens without heads.

At this point GSFTW appears to be a walking dead con without consistent leadership, policies, community support, competent staff or GOH's after a third staff exodus in protest. Of course with the bad bet of sunk cost and contracts, the board will hang on to the last thread. Watch how things crumble.

In GSFTW chat, there's been yo-yo whiplash from repeatedly closing/reopening, to throw off criticism and ban anyone with a spine. The turmoil led to briefly appointing new mod Ethan, who didn't last a morning until he was identified as author of numerous hate slurs and owner of an art theft group.

Content warning: Slurs by Ethan, mod for a morning in GSFTW chat. Picking him shows how deep over their head the management is. Ethan shushing fellow mod Sotalo was funny, though. Sotalo lied that mods found Ethan's posts and removed him instead of being forced by watchers. bsky.app/profile/dogp...

Sotalo, Shy Matsi's imported friend from Florida, was brought in to crush criticism in their chat with petty tyranny and bans of "trolls", which means a significant portion of active posters including many local community ex-staff. Why is a New Jersey convention being run by so many Florida furs?

This brings us back to what Sotalo is - a person of significant controversy. I'm getting long reports of toxic behavior from Sotalo while he defends other problem people. bsky.app/profile/dogp...

Here's a multiple-witness corroborated report of toxic behavior by Shy Matsi's friend and white knight, Sotalo. "Sprawling wall of text rants... Advocating for the widespread acceptance of child porn" The worst part is kept unpublished in respect for hurt people who don't want more attention.

More of a multiple-witness corroborated report of toxic behavior by Shy Matsi's friend and white knight, Sotalo, who gets into situations of "fighting for the inclusion of child pornography and zoophilia... A very egotistical man who takes the spotlight whenever he can get it."

That represents GSFTW manager's choice of support for a walking dead con. Bringing a highly disliked person from Florida to New Jersey because he is a personal friend and will use petty tyranny for them.

Yikes bsky.app/profile/boxo...

Some recent takes. Maybe NJ furs should start a chain of reposting the quoted line. bsky.app/profile/blin...

Tailends, a former GSFTW vendor with 24k followers on Xitter, has made a statement thread and they are NOT happy.

I wonder if those who already paid for next year and are past the refund window can complain to their credit card company for a refund. "False advertising" seems to fit the bill (no pun intended) here?