SO WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE DASHCON TEAM?

or: How The Dashcon Team Manged To Accumulate Another $120,000 In Debt While Trying To Run A Second Convention In 2015

(in time for the glorious one-year anniversary of the ballpit)

So everyone remembers what happened at Dashcon 2014?

Megg Eli and Cain Hopkins headed a team that

While Roxanne Schwieterman was the only admin trying to get shit done, despite the fact that Megg and Cain tried to fire Roxanne even before Dashcon started - they produced a terribly-written contract that they claimed was written by their lawyers that would’ve supposedly demoted Roxanne to secretary if Roxanne has agreed to sign it.

Roxanne was busy organizing registration and training volunteers while Megg and Cain were off pretending to be lawyers (ironic, considering that they both recently got dropped by their own lawyer for a failure to respond to legal communication).

Following Dashcon, Megg and Cain decided to run a second convention.

Emoti-Con Indy

Despite

And here’s where things get really fucked-up.

At first there were the usual issues, with Emoti-Con Indy

So far, so shitty.

But the “new team” begins to fall apart almost immediately.

Emoti-Con’s Sponsorship and Vendor Coordinator

Emoti-Con finally removes all references to their Sponsorship/Vendor Coordinator’s contact details after his behaviour online, despite him claiming to have quit as Sponsorship Coordinator months ago (but conveniently failed to mention it anywhere for potential sponsors to see).

Emoti-Con’s Panelist Coordinator and General Operations Supervisor

has a social justice league tag full of sexist, misogynistic and racist content including



Umm no. She still doesn’t have hairy legs wtf. Why are you so exclusive.



Emoti-Con’s Volunteer Coordinator posts racist “chink face” comment on Twitter

While Dashcon/Emoti-Con staff explain away poor behaviour of fellow staff as…business ethics are probably not my strong suit. But personally, I’d rather work with Satan and have him get the job done then sit holier than thou with the angels who do nothing

Emoti-Con Indy’s online presence sucked balls, and not in the fun way.



THEN IT ALL CAME TO A HEAD

And now?

LE END.