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** When the only invitees who defended your event were the one that actually got paid on full and the panelist that was accustomed to pay for his expenses, you know you did it wrong.
** There is even [http://phantomrose96.tumblr.com/post/146802889137/agriff11-phantomrose96 a theory] on how Dashcon marked the [[Franchise Killer|beginning]] [[End of an Age|of the end]] of the [[Supernatural (TV series)|Super]][[Doctor Who|Who]][[Sherlock|Lock]] [[Friendly Fandoms|megafandom]]. Granted, all these series suffered long hiatuses and/or severe [[Seasonal Rot]] at the time, but since the event bent heavily towards their joint fandom, the failure of the con was the turning point where people either became distant from the fandom or stopped claiming public affiliation to it.
* Before Dashcon, there was Tentmoot, an infamous 2003 ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' convention that was cancelled the same day it was supposed to begin (even having some guests stranded), due to both low sales and the spectacular mismanagement and outright conning of its organizer, an individual known at the time as Jordan Wood - later revealed to be a person nowadays known as Andrew Blake<ref>No, not the director of incomprehensibly artistic porn films.</ref> (back then being a female-identified person), that has been in the LOTR fandom under several other aliases and had stirred drama with each one of those. The whole thing generated an ''actual legal investigation for fraud'', [https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5739854W/When_a_fan_hits_the_shit a tell-all book] by one of then persons involved in the clusterfuck, and rivers of digital ink. To make a [https://web.archive.org/web/20120117005047/http://wiki.fandomwank.com/index.php/Bit_of_Earth long] [https://fanlore.org/wiki/Victoria_Bitter_Wank story] short: Mr. Blake essentially lied, conned, and manipulated people into (badly) organizing several events, with the convention as the expected gem of the crown, because he allegedly wanted to get enough funds to move with his girlfriend and transition into a male identity (he eventually did transition, but not before getting several criminal charges on him and having to move out of the area to avoid getting more). And the antics of this individual didn't end there; you may know him as the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200123032503/https://failfandomanon.fandom.com/wiki/Thanfiction author] of the infamous [[Harry Potter]] fanfic ''[[Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness]]''.
* While [[Furry Fandom|Furry Conventions]] tend to have a bad reputation, the very popular RainFurrest was doing quite well... until the 2015 edition, where the massive misconduct of the assistants went beyond the organizers capacity of control them. Apparently, way too many assistants engaged in drug abuse, unsavory sexual conduct and wore openly fetishistic gear despite the convention taking place in a family-oriented hotel. There is at least one documented case of assistants claiming "RainFurrest is a fetish con" to everybody in range. But the final straw was when one assistant dismantled their room's smoke detector, with, along with plumbers having found found too many "used objects" flushed down and the hotel's hot tub having to be closed due to misuse by the assistants, caused the hotel to finally lose patience with the organizers [[Persona Non Grata|and declared the whole convention being booted and blacklisted practically the minute it finished]]. The whole infamy of the 2015 edition basically spelled [[Franchise Killer|the end of RainFurrest]].
* TanaCon, a 2018 convention whose whole reason to exist was that its creator, [[YouTube]]r Tana Mongeau, took offense on that she wasn't chosen as a featured creator at VidCon 2018 and decided to [[Start My Own|Start Her Own]]. Planned with just only one month on advance, and it showed. Between overbooking the place (leading to long waiting lines), lack of amenities and water, a very lackluster VIP bag of goodies, many panelists not appearing due to safety concerns, and the whole convention being canceled six hours in, saying that the whole thing was a gigantic fiasco is an understatement.
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