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There's those alternative facts! After GSFTW management mass-purged dissent from their chat, Sotalo, Shy's white knight from Florida, is denying it ever happened and pretending everyone left after they got real sowwy. Unreal to lie so brazenly.

Corporate record implies GSFTW had a period of operating as legally suspended. This says bad things about how they handle pre-registration, money and taxes. bsky.app/profile/boxo...

Sotalo, the white knight for GSFTW's management has been a focus of complaints about bad relations with others. Tippers sent a screen of one incident with his advocacy for showing porn to minors that caused such uproar in a California chat group, it had to pause posting.

Above screen shows "wrong place, didn't ask." Parents with children had not been asking for sex positivity or complaining about any problem in a general furry social chat that had nothing to do with kids or adult content.

As tippers are scrutinizing the management of GSFTW, we're getting a mix of corporate records, screens of authoritarianism in their chat, and background about poor judgement by their remaining supporters. What a ride.

Wew, I took a few hours break and it's been wild. In GSFTW chat, Shy Matsi's imported Floridian white knight Sotalo has now caused yet another meltdown with his walls of text, full of blame-shifting excuses. It ended with Sotalo accusing critics against nazis of being the real nazis.

Am I psychic?! bsky.app/profile/dogp...

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (1/9) Chat to Sotalo: "Telling us to be "grateful" for a NJ furry convention with so much controversy is very distasteful"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (2/9) Sotalo: "Show him some respect as your con chair and make him feel welcome in this chat... I have a book of weasel words, not a single one helping us"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (3/9) Chat: "I recommend listening people and not telling them what their opinions should be" - "and not be condescending about it" - "lose the attitude of superiority" - "you flood out the criticism the con has rightfully earned, you need to sit down"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (4/9) Sotalo: "then make a new con" - Chat: "Right, then get out of the way" Sotalo: "I don't think you need to be here any longer" Chat: "There are a lot of furry cons. Ones who operate this way don't need to exist."

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (5/9) Sotalo calls everyone protesting: "exclusive, discriminatory... People who despise this convention's leadership, and Furries". Sotalo says protesters are full of "hate" because they don't love Furry, and wouldn't give Dashing another chance.

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (6/9) Sotalo says after WWII, everyone had to live together, and it could happen here, but not with people who don't bring the fandom together. Chat: "Guess how WW2 ended. They got rid of the Nazis first, and the people who enabled them were denazified"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (7/9) Chat: "saying WW2 ended happily ever after... the most tonedeaf, insulting, infuriating thing you could possibly say... confirming everyone's contempt... You have no idea how fucking livid I am" Sotalo: "this is not furry fandom, you guys aren't fans"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (8/9) Sotalo: "I've seen worse behavior in this chat that I can possibly imagine a supremacist being capable of... What about all the hatred I received... Go somewhere else" Chat: "he's lecturing us after lying to us and not getting it sold"

Sotalo's Manipulative Firehose of Lies (9/9) Chat: "when the guy in charge of PR basically says 'Nazis and those that like them aren't bad your bad for saying they are bad' things aren't looking good" - "'antifa are the real nazis'" "You don't deserve to run a con period"

In GSFTW chat, today's meltdown ended with a new admin appointed. The admin told Sotalo, the PR guy from Florida, to quiet down.

If someone wants to pay for a con run this way, you know what they say about a fool and their money.

This is actually a somewhat common kind of bad leadership, but the followup was uniquely awful. It just usually scares off better heads and then continues sucking. It rarely has the gory details laid out so exquisitely by staff and management running from consequences like chickens without heads.

At this point GSFTW appears to be a walking dead con without consistent leadership, policies, community support, competent staff or GOH's after a third staff exodus in protest. Of course with the bad bet of sunk cost and contracts, the board will hang on to the last thread. Watch how things crumble.

Content warning: Slurs by Ethan, mod for a morning in GSFTW chat. Picking him shows how deep over their head the management is. Ethan shushing fellow mod Sotalo was funny, though. Sotalo lied that mods found Ethan's posts and removed him instead of being forced by watchers. bsky.app/profile/dogp...

Sotalo, Shy Matsi's imported friend from Florida, was brought in to crush criticism in their chat with petty tyranny and bans of "trolls", which means a significant portion of active posters including many local community ex-staff. Why is a New Jersey convention being run by so many Florida furs?

This brings us back to what Sotalo is - a person of significant controversy. I'm getting long reports of toxic behavior from Sotalo while he defends other problem people. bsky.app/profile/dogp...