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BFC Con Report: A Couple More Things
11 months ago
I've posted my long BFC writeup here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/58368126/
But there's a few little notes and observations that I forgot to include in it that I think are important.
- I was aware of some drama around BFC online, mostly driven by a couple of individuals from outside the community who are deeply misinformed about what babyfur is, who is attending BFC, and what goes on at this convention. The location of the hotel and its name was confidential, revealed only to paid con attendees, but of course this information leaked online. One individual, a MAGA-supporting furry, attempted to start a LibsOfTiktok-style harassment campaign against the hotel for hosting us, and made posts to this effect on Instagram and other social media. I didn’t confirm this, but I heard she may have even showed up to the hotel, but the security did not let them in (if they even attempted to enter). Another anti, ironically an ABDL streamer herself, posted false reviews on the hotel’s Yelp page claiming “a man in a diaper exposed himself to her in the hotel parking lot”. A blatantly false report, and was quickly deleted, however, she had been posting strident critiques of BFC constantly for months leading up to the con, based a few decade-old tweets. Neither of these two harassment campaigns had much traction whatsoever. In this chaotic election season I guess people have other things to worry about. I have reason to suspect the recent FA purges of babyfur content were related to the first individual’s actions though.
- BFC had a strict no-cameras policy, and you had to keep a special sticker over your phone cameras at all times in con space. If you were caught taking even an innocuous picture inside the hotel, you would be ejected from the convention. Only authorized photographers were permitted to take pictures, with badge verification and consent of anyone in the frame. I did personally see a couple of furries fall afoul of this strict rule and they did lose their con badges. They take privacy very seriously.
- As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an old greymuzzle in the fandom, and I was a little nervous about being considerably older than most attendees. And yet when I got there, those apprehensions disappeared and I was just a little among all the other littles. Also, babyfur ironically enough skews a little bit older than mainstream furrydom - for whatever reason, it seemed like the average age of BFC attendees was around 30 and up. Maybe because this con in particular is expensive and in a city thats hard to get to, maybe because babyfur is something you get into when you’ve been into the fandom a few years, but BFC was a slightly more veteran furry crowd. There were furs there older than me, by a good few years, and nobody gave them any static. Your physical age does not matter at a place like this: only what you are on the inside.
But there's a few little notes and observations that I forgot to include in it that I think are important.
- I was aware of some drama around BFC online, mostly driven by a couple of individuals from outside the community who are deeply misinformed about what babyfur is, who is attending BFC, and what goes on at this convention. The location of the hotel and its name was confidential, revealed only to paid con attendees, but of course this information leaked online. One individual, a MAGA-supporting furry, attempted to start a LibsOfTiktok-style harassment campaign against the hotel for hosting us, and made posts to this effect on Instagram and other social media. I didn’t confirm this, but I heard she may have even showed up to the hotel, but the security did not let them in (if they even attempted to enter). Another anti, ironically an ABDL streamer herself, posted false reviews on the hotel’s Yelp page claiming “a man in a diaper exposed himself to her in the hotel parking lot”. A blatantly false report, and was quickly deleted, however, she had been posting strident critiques of BFC constantly for months leading up to the con, based a few decade-old tweets. Neither of these two harassment campaigns had much traction whatsoever. In this chaotic election season I guess people have other things to worry about. I have reason to suspect the recent FA purges of babyfur content were related to the first individual’s actions though.
- BFC had a strict no-cameras policy, and you had to keep a special sticker over your phone cameras at all times in con space. If you were caught taking even an innocuous picture inside the hotel, you would be ejected from the convention. Only authorized photographers were permitted to take pictures, with badge verification and consent of anyone in the frame. I did personally see a couple of furries fall afoul of this strict rule and they did lose their con badges. They take privacy very seriously.
- As I’ve mentioned before, I’m an old greymuzzle in the fandom, and I was a little nervous about being considerably older than most attendees. And yet when I got there, those apprehensions disappeared and I was just a little among all the other littles. Also, babyfur ironically enough skews a little bit older than mainstream furrydom - for whatever reason, it seemed like the average age of BFC attendees was around 30 and up. Maybe because this con in particular is expensive and in a city thats hard to get to, maybe because babyfur is something you get into when you’ve been into the fandom a few years, but BFC was a slightly more veteran furry crowd. There were furs there older than me, by a good few years, and nobody gave them any static. Your physical age does not matter at a place like this: only what you are on the inside.
I personally don't know if any of this is true, hence the double use of allegedly, but if it was, its amazing how certain ABDL furs who are among the most known/popular "won" that lottery. It would.make sense that certain people (IE you and marci) were able to secure your spot as it wouldn't be a babyfur con without y'all.
All this being said I support the extreme security that was taking place at the con as this is seen by "normal society" as a life ruining event and could potentially do massive damage (jsut look at what happened to the comic Tina's Story" after the writer was outed) and I am glad the con and hotel took all the precautions to prevent bad actors.
Glad you enjoyed yourself and got to live a weekend as yourself with like-minded individuals
I would hope that they did keep a majority of the bad actors out, I really do feel this is a harmless kink and its always unfairly judged negatively, even by some of the most "open minded kink positive" people
and no you were not allowed to poop your diapers in con space. If you did that you had to do it in your room. Or go immediately to change - in your room. Someone did do it in the Playroom and people complained. If the culprit had been caught they would have got in big trouble. They also supplied Northshore disposal bags and special trash receptacles on each floor for getting rid of diapers. In most ABDL/littles events Ive ever been to, including BFC, wet diapers are fine, full diapers are not
Glad you had fun. It's nuts how many people I know who managed to go. Maybe I will get lucky next year.