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Thursday during load-in, the folks in charge of that space (a young woman, a young man, an older lady, and an older man) showed up and were clearly displeased with the layout of the area. As they set up their propanel walls, they began to have issues because their equipment was the wrong size.

The staff came and told them to rearrange it and they did, but not happily. As we were getting ready to leave they had started to put up product on the walls and the stuff they started with was, while not to my taste, clearly made by a person.

Messy paintings of pop culture characters with abstract brushstrokes and Grafitti style text. Not my thing, but that’s how art works: there’s something for every one. This is important later.

Man, now I'm *extra* sorry I didn't make it down on Monday, I could have watched all this unfold live 😆 Good on you, I hope other cons note the "artist" name and blacklist.

AI prompters (notice how I didn't day artists) are complete losers. No respect for a single one.

Say* 😂

This his how we KNOW you're human 😂

Hello Dane, I work for KSL Newsradio in SLC and am doing a story on the AI Ban at FanX SLC. I'd like to use your pic of the vendor who was removed at DragonCon. Please let me know if I permission.

Hey there, I'm working on a story about this for Forbes and wonder if I can use your photo of the table and sign. If so, tell me correct attribution etc. Feel free to respond by DM.

Yeah, sure. Credit: Dane Ault, Monkey Minion. Feel free to use my account of what happened, too, if you want.

YESSS. Galaxycon made an announcement about it today!! Hope the other cons follow suit

ReedPop already has an anti-ai policy. As does Nerd Street. I don’t know if SDCC has one. We all know that FanExpo allegedly has one for AA, but not the vendor hall.

God that could have been a space for an actual artist

Yeah. I know the folks who made the decision to bring her in instead of someone else probably feel horrible about it.