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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.

Watch how the manipulative liars at GSFTW try to claim credit for mopping up a mess they made ... And kept eacalating for a year of obstructing any accountability to their paying members and community, and doing everything they could to break promises and favor special friends of ill intent.

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.

This is why it's important to document and present the evidence, because if nobody does, lies can gain as much credence as the protest against them. At first GSFTW was engaged respectfully, and they blew that off. Now they can lay in the bed they made, and community members can warn each other.

So much energy has swirled around a new, small local con that thought they could get away with anything, due to the arrogance of a handful of people running it. This isn't just about a con, it's about power of handfuls to ignore problems and struggle for control with people they want to use.

If you want to see a good furry con in New Jersey, Christmas is here a day early. Just announced for May 2-4, 2025... Web: furgeddaboutit.org Telegram: t.me/furgeddaboutit Don't skip the announcement video, go watch it on their Telegram channel for a good time.

Good info and reactions about furgeddaboutit.org !

How about that name, Furgeddaboutit... what other con has such a good name? Well sorry to bring back critical looks for this long thread about mismanagement of Garden State Fur the Weekend @gsftwofficial.bsky.social Here's something new I didn't expect, even with how horrible things have been...

A tipper sent me posts by Shy Matsi, 2024 chair for GSFTW, made this fall, where he's hanging out for kink fun with a Furry Raider named Tuskyn. Real name David Allen James, recidivist registered sex offender, twice convicted for CSAM. He was also active with the 2018 zoosadist ring of Kero infamy.

Archived Shy Matsi post of hanging out with Furry Raider sex offender Tuskyn. archive.ph/tup7x