CedarCollie
Well-Known Member
Idk if furries do it, but the bronies have one of those!
Online Furry Conventions
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Ashwolves5
Miss Fluffy Bottom
I’ve seen a couple that people made but it was bust cause all it was is taking furry vendors and having them pay for ad space...
Dinocanid
Well-Known Member
So I did some googling and it looks like, ideally, sort of like a convention but without any of the guests. Panels are just the panelists video chatting, and the artist alley is art streamers
There are some furry online conventions, like HomeCon (apparently long-running, and not recent) on tigerdile, or the one FE is doing, Keep Calm and Carry Con
There are some furry online conventions, like HomeCon (apparently long-running, and not recent) on tigerdile, or the one FE is doing, Keep Calm and Carry Con
Simo
Professional Watermelon Farmer
There was a furry convention thread in the games section for a while 
forums.furaffinity.net: It’s Faux Fur Con 2020!
I think the toughest thing for me about virtual furry cons is that cons can be such tactile things; it is hard to recreate the feeling of all those fluffy hugs : )
forums.furaffinity.net: It’s Faux Fur Con 2020!
I think the toughest thing for me about virtual furry cons is that cons can be such tactile things; it is hard to recreate the feeling of all those fluffy hugs : )
CedarCollie
Well-Known Member
Yay!
SparkOfRuby
New Member
I know there's a VR Chat con called Furality later this month!
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Guest
I would be interested in attending one of these!
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Ruki-the-Zorua
Guest
That would certainly be a change, yet a welcome one too! It sounds fun!
nan_nan_yakamoto
Member
That sounds rather intriguing. Would like to see how it would go. ^~^
Dinocanid
Well-Known Member
Not a furry convention, but there's a virtual otherkin/therian convention August 14th - 16th (I'm running it o3o)
othercon.weebly.com: Othercon
I did plan on running a panel on the crossover between that and the furry community though
othercon.weebly.com: Othercon
I did plan on running a panel on the crossover between that and the furry community though
MadXStitcher
Well-Known Member
I do these as a vendor sometimes. The worst one, by far, was hosted on Telegram. You had to join a bunch of different channels, which meant that the vendors were all just advertising to one another because that channel wasn’t advertised at all until opening day.
CouchCon was last week, and while not furry-specific, was really fun. They had a Discord server with several open voice channels, and people could randomly stream to Discord if they wanted. There were several guests of honour, who hosted panels either on Twitch or directly to the Discord. Others could sign up for panels in the same way. There were DJs, marble races, raffles, and a bunch of other things happening.
They had a Couch Cosplay channel as well, which was people posting pics of their cosplays from home.
They also have webspace where vendors paid for placement to be displayed. A lot of people are reporting a good bump in sales, and right now there’s a channel going for people to show off their swag as it arrives in the mail.
It was a lot of fun. They definitely have to be well-organised though. A lot of them this year are reactionary to not being able to put on physical cons, without a lot of thought into how it would differ in the virtual space.
CouchCon was last week, and while not furry-specific, was really fun. They had a Discord server with several open voice channels, and people could randomly stream to Discord if they wanted. There were several guests of honour, who hosted panels either on Twitch or directly to the Discord. Others could sign up for panels in the same way. There were DJs, marble races, raffles, and a bunch of other things happening.
They had a Couch Cosplay channel as well, which was people posting pics of their cosplays from home.
They also have webspace where vendors paid for placement to be displayed. A lot of people are reporting a good bump in sales, and right now there’s a channel going for people to show off their swag as it arrives in the mail.
It was a lot of fun. They definitely have to be well-organised though. A lot of them this year are reactionary to not being able to put on physical cons, without a lot of thought into how it would differ in the virtual space.
Stray_the_Kitsune
The Rocker Kitsune
This sounds really interesting. I need to get accustomed to Discord first, but this would be worth it. Would save tons of overhead(like insurance) for the staff it would seem :3.
What's the next virtual con you plan to attend?
lemonadevik
Lemonade Goblin
If its like live streams and stuff the con can make a Youtube channel and the panelists/vendors can stream through the channel? That way a lot more people can watch. Or if vendors/panelists stream from individual channels but there's a link hub on the con's website.
MadXStitcher
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Probably CozyCon. I was looking at Feralcon, but I didn't like some of their requirements.
IF the convention is known, yes it help. Many of them are new, so having panelists host on their own space means they'll be adding to their own audience. Otherwise, having panelists try to bring their audience to a channel that doesn't have an audience of its own means they'll see fewer viewers than average. Established audiences don't like to go elsewhere, and curious con viewers aren't going to stick around in a place where there isn't an established audience.