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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 Advocating for the widespread acceptance of child porn" The worst part is kept unpublished in respect for hurt people who don't want more attention.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.

Look what Tailends said about the afore-posted behavior by Sotalo, the GSFTW chosen PR guy and chat mod. "Praise for Dear Leader... Claiming falsely that we're liars... Nutzo behavior... Random dude from FL" "I, along with many other vendors, have been ignored about refunds" x.com/tail_ends/st...

Tippers sent in evidence that GSFTW's PR guy, Sotalo, lies to excuse the management, and calls people liars who report unsolved problems. That includes Tailends, the afore-posted ex-vendor who suffered theft at the con, being treated dismissively by GSFTW's PR guy Sotalo. (1/6)

Tip: "Vendors at GSFTW 2024 suffered an incident where someone broke into the Dealer's Den after hours and stole from a lot of vendors. This was Sotalo's response to concern about it. Note his 'vendors were compensated' lie." Sotalo's official GSFTW chat statement: (2/6)

Vendors from GSFTW talk to each other in direct messages about Sotalo's lie that they were compensated for theft: "such fucking liars... Vendors are pulling out in large droves" (3/6)

Tailends confronts Sotalo about his lying in GSFTW chat: "Stop lying to us!" Another vendor: "I never got any form of compensation" (4/6)

Sotalo suggests that vendors are lying. Tailends, who suffered theft and was not compensated: "you are actually a clown." (5/6)

Sotalo, after dismissing vendor concerns, gives a warning to them for being upset. Chat: "The issue is not that we weren't compensated... It's that you lied... And called us liars". - "Sotalo is following instructions to quash all dissidence." (6/6)

In GSFTW Dealer's chat, people who suffered theft react to being called liars by Sotalo, the PR guy brought in to quash dissent. "It would be so cool if the representatives of this con would stop lying to us." - "This is the official PR rep of GSFTW calling you a liar."

God it just keeps going and going and going. They don't know when to quit. They just keep getting worse and worse people, like Sotalo, to keep trying to reanimate this corpse of a con. It's not happening.

Kitsu Galaxy is a NJ artist who posted about being scammed and mistreated by Dashing Fox, GSFTW founder, in 2021. "He scammed me in the name of the con." It was at Dashing's poorly managed bowling meet used to fund a plan to start GSFTW without informing people. www.instagram.com/p/CRSOi_7JsP...

Kitsu made Bewares about mismanagement by Dashing Fox 3 years before GSFTW launched. "One of the most untrustworthy people I have ever been commissioned by."

Another Beware: this time collecting info about Peter/Flynn/Arcticwindsphoto, who was repeatedly allowed back in to GSFTW spaces with Furry Raider friends, and inhabits many regular furry spaces near the area. docs.google.com/document/d/e...