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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.

I'm getting too many tips and links to even keep up with about GSFTW management, and their bad friends who saw it as their special refuge.

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...

Message about GSFTW from one of numerous ex staff: Tripp, who was PR lead. Tripp had also done that job for the failed CCFC (Capital City Fur Con in PA,) and was the whistleblower of that debacle who helped uncover mismanagement and fraud by its incompetent chair.

Tripp, former PR for GSFTW, addresses Sotalo. "What you're doing is NOT PR, it's deflecting blame." "Artists have pulled out, GoHs have pulled out, staff have pulled out. How many more people need to pull out until you realize THE CON IS THE PROBLEM... This is a con that should have never existed."

The story of GSFTW imploding has been picking up unusually long lasting traffic for 9-10 days. It seems to be gathering steam. www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama...

A lot of local NJ furs said they felt like this about GSFTW management and their problem friends who were invited from upstate NY. bsky.app/profile/cray...

When GSFTW management resorted to importing an arrogant, problematic Florida fur to quash dissent, bans and censorship may have left members who don't speak up. But ex-staff who did a lot of volunteering and made the first con happen aren't made powerless by disrespect, petty tyranny and bans.

It's not just outspoken local community members that Sotalo and GSFTW management have pissed off. A great quote from a private conversation in my inbox: “There is nothing to fear more than the anger of a gentle man.”

If you're not doing anything on the weekend GSFTW was scheduled in 2025... bsky.app/profile/ness...

Not my meme, but everyone who is banned should share their story

An assortment of recent takes on Xitter from people quitting as staff and pulling out as supporter and vendor at GSFTW.

Opinion by GOH for next MFF.

Remember a week ago, how GSFTW purged dozens and dozens of local community members, then imported PR/Alternative-Facts Lie Guy Sotalo from Florida to gaslight everybody? He lied that everyone got sowwy and left on their own. 🤣 Well here's an update... bsky.app/profile/dogp...

Sotalo, the Alternative Facts Lie Guy from Florida, is back at it. After public outrage at his lies twisted his arm and held him over a barrel to shut up for most of the week, he finally broke silence to spew more lies. Inside sources are passing me screens because this stain is NEVER going away.

You know who Sotalo reminds me of? It just hit me, and I gagged at the likeness. He's the same breed as the few remaining sycophants of Kero the Wolf, who purge discussion of Kero's crimes in any space they run, and try to prop up the rotting roadkill of his career as if it can come back some day.

When you see this behavior, it's rooted in Furry-PR methods that were once semi-sane reaction to decades-past exploitative media. Except this time, the villains are us... Or used us to benefit themselves, like GSFTW's management. Now we see the naked dogma shielding their deeds, and it is UGLY.

Fox News didn't create this problem. Fox was allowed in by management after the stage was set from inside for them to use. The ugliness that a liar like Sotalo represents is the fandom's own mutated, malignant growth. Many close to it are taking action to cut off the oxygen of support for it.