Conventions across America constantly target people over their extreme leftist politics, and now the Clownfish TV hosts have been blocked by Sci-Vi Valley Con in Altoona, PA after the convention organizer ranted about Trump supporters.
While the points that ClownfishTV made are valid, they should've named and shamed that monster. I think it's in service to the public to know that he hates them and to not give him money for his future cons.
My wife and I were vendors at Sci-Fi Valley Con in 2015 and 2016. After the 2015 convention, which really was excellent, we wrote them a glowing review which the owner, Casey Bassett, promoted. He also gleefully jumped into our battles with the scumbag former promoter of his rival Steel City Con. I know for a fact that both of our articles on this con brought significant positive press to them (so much so that he paid Facebook hundreds of dollars to advertise the posts) and several other vendors told us that they had decided to vend there in 2016 because of what we wrote. Unfortunately, a lot of those same vendors blasted me because the 2016 con was very poorly run. Oh well!
Casey was always a radical leftist and had his occasional meltdowns even back then, notoriously including one where he insisted that people should not be able to reproduce unless the state licensed them first. However, he did not let this get in the way of his side business. We were very outspoken about being anti-infanticide, anti-troon, etc... and wrote fiction that was pretty explicitly right-libertarian, but he never cast us into the outer darkness, even when it was obvious that we were Trump supporters. I'm sorry to see that TDS has finally claimed him.
I also remember him complaining about that rival promoter making people pay for extra chairs, wristbands, etc., and then turning around and doing the same things himself. LOL.
I stopped doing both shows as a vendor. I would gladly have gone as an attendee, though, until all of this. We just figured he realized it was dumb, and he went too far and deleted the post until we found out we were blocked from the con page. We didn't even do anything wrong.
He was already well on his way to emulating Steel City Con by 2016: getting the celebrity guests, renting more floor space and selling more vendor booths than the audience could support, etc... The $100+ celebrity ticket packages were drying up all the money on the vendor floor, but the bigger problem was that he was attracting a different audience. 2015 con was very book friendly, 2016 was all normie movie watchers.
I wasn't aware of your YouTube channel back then, if you had even started it yet. What were you selling? My wife and I were selling illustrated superhero/action adventure novels. Maybe we met each other.
A 3rd or 4th tier con, in a place that voted Trump because there was no one farther right on the ballot. All the special guests peaked at being in Twilight.
This is why we can't have anything nice. People introduce politics into a hobby and ruin it for everyone just like they've ruined TV, Movies, and mainstream Publishing.
While the points that ClownfishTV made are valid, they should've named and shamed that monster. I think it's in service to the public to know that he hates them and to not give him money for his future cons.
Well we got the con name, you can figure it out from there.
My wife and I were vendors at Sci-Fi Valley Con in 2015 and 2016. After the 2015 convention, which really was excellent, we wrote them a glowing review which the owner, Casey Bassett, promoted. He also gleefully jumped into our battles with the scumbag former promoter of his rival Steel City Con. I know for a fact that both of our articles on this con brought significant positive press to them (so much so that he paid Facebook hundreds of dollars to advertise the posts) and several other vendors told us that they had decided to vend there in 2016 because of what we wrote. Unfortunately, a lot of those same vendors blasted me because the 2016 con was very poorly run. Oh well!
Casey was always a radical leftist and had his occasional meltdowns even back then, notoriously including one where he insisted that people should not be able to reproduce unless the state licensed them first. However, he did not let this get in the way of his side business. We were very outspoken about being anti-infanticide, anti-troon, etc... and wrote fiction that was pretty explicitly right-libertarian, but he never cast us into the outer darkness, even when it was obvious that we were Trump supporters. I'm sorry to see that TDS has finally claimed him.
I remember all that going on back then.
I also remember him complaining about that rival promoter making people pay for extra chairs, wristbands, etc., and then turning around and doing the same things himself. LOL.
I stopped doing both shows as a vendor. I would gladly have gone as an attendee, though, until all of this. We just figured he realized it was dumb, and he went too far and deleted the post until we found out we were blocked from the con page. We didn't even do anything wrong.
He was already well on his way to emulating Steel City Con by 2016: getting the celebrity guests, renting more floor space and selling more vendor booths than the audience could support, etc... The $100+ celebrity ticket packages were drying up all the money on the vendor floor, but the bigger problem was that he was attracting a different audience. 2015 con was very book friendly, 2016 was all normie movie watchers.
I wasn't aware of your YouTube channel back then, if you had even started it yet. What were you selling? My wife and I were selling illustrated superhero/action adventure novels. Maybe we met each other.
Did not have YouTube then. We did a webcomic then, Shadowbinders, which we now just do as print books. I sold character pillows.
We didn't do the first event because something came up but we did do it for a long time. Back from when it was at the Jaffa.
You seem to have mistaken me for someone who cares about demands from strangers on the Internet. Do you want to try again?
A 3rd or 4th tier con, in a place that voted Trump because there was no one farther right on the ballot. All the special guests peaked at being in Twilight.
Got better things to do in June.
This is why we can't have anything nice. People introduce politics into a hobby and ruin it for everyone just like they've ruined TV, Movies, and mainstream Publishing.
Y'all need Jesus