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I'm Frankie, I play TTRPGs too much. I will be reblogging and/or posting a lot of furry arte and some of that's going to be kink stuff so heads up
AKA Nerts but that's going back a while

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ADeerNamedMando
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Like in its 3rd year it was bigger than every furry con, and then 3 years later it's fucking dying, 2 after that it's shut down

ADeerNamedMando
@ADeerNamedMando

Honestly, I think it was inevitable? The thing about furry cons is that they're about a community - it's why I think the term "furry fandom" is a misnomer, it's not a space that's about being fans of Furry: The Show - and being a community they have intrinsic ties that are much stronger than what "being fan of a show" can provide

To my knowledge, single-fandom conventions either rely on an immense amount of cultural cache (like Star Trek or Star Wars) or they're a much smaller thing (and I can't even think of that many single-fandom cons off the top of my head, there's Supernatural's Jus in Bello in Rome? then what?)

What I'm trying to say is, "furry convention" is i think more closely comparable to "anime convention" or "comic convention" than "fandom convention" as a frame of reference

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rebane2001
@rebane2001

I'd argue that a lot of people just got on the hype train in the beginning, but the fandom itself isn't short-lived and is still going strong to this day. Con graphs also aren't a good way to chart the popularity of a fandom, the 2019 BronyCon got ~10k people because they couldn't fit more in the venue, and I'd guess the same is true for the furry conventions capping out at certain counts. Convention-goers are also the minority of people in both fandoms.

It's actually kind of hard to get simple data (eg google trends) for the pony fandom, because a lot of people don't use the term "brony" and just looking up "pony" or "mlp" gives a lot of misleading results.

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Zuthal
@Zuthal

One better proxy for fandom size might be the amount of fanworks - art, stories, music (mlp fandom especially early on has a lot more of that than furry I feel) - created in a given time frame. Shouldn't be hard to look up say on derpibooru the number of images (excluding screencaps etc) uploaded for each year or each month.

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fwankie
@fwankie

Convention attendance is a good enough measure here I think, it's constrained by the same things that furry cons and BLFC is the only one with even close to the same growth curve (also constrained by its venue)

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