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Tip: "Vendors at GSFTW 2024 suffered an incident where someone broke into the Dealer's Den after hours and stole from a lot of vendors. This was Sotalo's response to concern about it. Note his 'vendors were compensated' lie." Sotalo's official GSFTW chat statement: (2/6)

Vendors from GSFTW talk to each other in direct messages about Sotalo's lie that they were compensated for theft: "such fucking liars... Vendors are pulling out in large droves" (3/6)

Tailends confronts Sotalo about his lying in GSFTW chat: "Stop lying to us!" Another vendor: "I never got any form of compensation" (4/6)

Sotalo suggests that vendors are lying. Tailends, who suffered theft and was not compensated: "you are actually a clown." (5/6)

Sotalo, after dismissing vendor concerns, gives a warning to them for being upset. Chat: "The issue is not that we weren't compensated... It's that you lied... And called us liars". - "Sotalo is following instructions to quash all dissidence." (6/6)

In GSFTW Dealer's chat, people who suffered theft react to being called liars by Sotalo, the PR guy brought in to quash dissent. "It would be so cool if the representatives of this con would stop lying to us." - "This is the official PR rep of GSFTW calling you a liar."

God it just keeps going and going and going. They don't know when to quit. They just keep getting worse and worse people, like Sotalo, to keep trying to reanimate this corpse of a con. It's not happening.

I'm getting too many tips and links to even keep up with about GSFTW management, and their bad friends who saw it as their special refuge.

Kitsu Galaxy is a NJ artist who posted about being scammed and mistreated by Dashing Fox, GSFTW founder, in 2021. "He scammed me in the name of the con." It was at Dashing's poorly managed bowling meet used to fund a plan to start GSFTW without informing people. www.instagram.com/p/CRSOi_7JsP...

Kitsu made Bewares about mismanagement by Dashing Fox 3 years before GSFTW launched. "One of the most untrustworthy people I have ever been commissioned by."

Another Beware: this time collecting info about Peter/Flynn/Arcticwindsphoto, who was repeatedly allowed back in to GSFTW spaces with Furry Raider friends, and inhabits many regular furry spaces near the area. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Message about GSFTW from one of numerous ex staff: Tripp, who was PR lead. Tripp had also done that job for the failed CCFC (Capital City Fur Con in PA,) and was the whistleblower of that debacle who helped uncover mismanagement and fraud by its incompetent chair.

Tripp, former PR for GSFTW, addresses Sotalo. "What you're doing is NOT PR, it's deflecting blame." "Artists have pulled out, GoHs have pulled out, staff have pulled out. How many more people need to pull out until you realize THE CON IS THE PROBLEM... This is a con that should have never existed."

The story of GSFTW imploding has been picking up unusually long lasting traffic for 9-10 days. It seems to be gathering steam. www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama...

A lot of local NJ furs said they felt like this about GSFTW management and their problem friends who were invited from upstate NY. bsky.app/profile/cray...

When GSFTW management resorted to importing an arrogant, problematic Florida fur to quash dissent, bans and censorship may have left members who don't speak up. But ex-staff who did a lot of volunteering and made the first con happen aren't made powerless by disrespect, petty tyranny and bans.

It's not just outspoken local community members that Sotalo and GSFTW management have pissed off. A great quote from a private conversation in my inbox: “There is nothing to fear more than the anger of a gentle man.”

If you're not doing anything on the weekend GSFTW was scheduled in 2025... bsky.app/profile/ness...

Not my meme, but everyone who is banned should share their story

Opinion by GOH for next MFF.

Remember a week ago, how GSFTW purged dozens and dozens of local community members, then imported PR/Alternative-Facts Lie Guy Sotalo from Florida to gaslight everybody? He lied that everyone got sowwy and left on their own. 🤣 Well here's an update... bsky.app/profile/dogp...

Sotalo, the Alternative Facts Lie Guy from Florida, is back at it. After public outrage at his lies twisted his arm and held him over a barrel to shut up for most of the week, he finally broke silence to spew more lies. Inside sources are passing me screens because this stain is NEVER going away.