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Find someoen who'll actually attend and take pictures. Penny Arcade & PAX have been famous for having the "safe spaces" populated by the same minority of white tumbrinas and goony-bearded STRAIGHT WHITE MALES and the spaces looking ridiculous. Make them into a hilarious freakshow and a failure that they are by quietly taking pictures and sharing them online.

But this is not bideo gaems.

>>323618

Overruled. You should know for the last few months now general anti SJW threads have been allowed

There we going to be coming for Anime full on next. It was just a matter of time.

>>323624

They were*

>>323602

>SPJA

This typical for them, as someone who has worked volunteer staff for a shit load of other Anime and Gaming Conventions (not AX specifically, but I have a some funny/dumb stories about the few AX's I've attended, tho), the way duties are delegated favor the ambitious over the competent, which allows for idealogs (including, but not limited to, SJWs) to stack-the-deck with their like-minded friends on staff to take over an organization.

Honestly if I held some expos I'd do the same. I'd have a few playpens set up for anyone that felt unsafe from whatever imagined slight they came up with could sit and have a good long cry, suck on a pacifier or play with some raddles.

>>323628

seconded, I've had a friendo who's done con duty and observed similar.

Also, didn't report the thread, just complaining that con safe spaces are self-defeating.

This is coming from the one group more dangerous and cancerous than SJWs and fundies combined - concerned mothers.

You can tell because they're doing it "for the children".

And they're doing a whole lot more scary stuff:

> In accordance with the new policy, all employees, volunteers, panelists, performers, guests, members of a guest's or performer's entourage, and Artist Alley participants must complete specific requirements to participate in SPJA events. These requirements include providing accurate personal information, completing certain online youth protection training courses (the policy has a total of eight training courses with certain groups needing to take different courses), consenting to a third party criminal background check, and providing truthful information as required by the background check provider. Employees and volunteers must also complete an online application and agree to SPJA's code of conduct.

>Exhibitors, press, and vendors must affirm that all representatives have been subject to a screening process that includes a criminal background check. Additionally, members of these groups must also guarantee that their representatives are not disqualified based on the criteria laid out in the policy and the results of the criminal background check. Freelance members of the press or those whose employers will not follow this policy must complete a third party criminal background check. Exhibitors, press, and vendors are also encouraged, but not required, to take certain online training courses.

You have to pay Anime Expo to invade your privacy if you want to have anything to do with the con besides just attend.

And they're going to push every other con to go batshit, too:

> SPJA CEO Ray Chiang said regarding the new policy, "Not only does this mark a huge milestone for SPJA and our upcoming Anime Expo, we expect this move to shift the status quo for event safety and security."

>>323718

>Exhibitors, press, and vendors are also encouraged, but not required, to take certain online training courses.

I hope more exhibitors, press, and vendors and anyone else even thinking of attending an expo with that kind of doubleplus goodthink policy would recognize it as a huge red flag and take their business elsewhere.

>>323714

>what the hell would trigger weebs hard enough that they would need a safespace?

Tumblr tier fan art could be one possible horror.

>>323714

They're not actual weebs?

>>323714

>what the hell would trigger weebs hard enough that they would need a safespace?

The following phrase:

"Your waifu is shit and is a whore."

>>323733

>None of you guys mentioned Naruto/3DPD this looks more like a list of what would trigger /a/ into having a meltdown.

If there is 3DPD cosplay, and combined with a high chance of Concerned Mom's segment inevitably becoming the Moral Hygiene&Anime Sharia Squad.

Well what kind of expo would NOT want that kind of recipe for success?

:^)

>>323750

>I'd flat-out refuse out of principal If I were either volunteer or staff, and sue If I were paying-money-to-be-here vendor.

I'm just some dude who sometimes watch mongolian cave painting shows, and I never went to any large expos. But do the vendors need them or do the expos need the vendors more? I mean I remember before there was a large expo it was conventions and meets, usually held by college age enthusiasts in rented college space.

And in that era anime had no shortage of 2D overfiend tentacle cyber ultra violencejack. I don't remember people needing a safespace, and they seem to function just fine.

>>323757

That was before anime became a kids thing,

This is a huge con, so some people might no doubt submit,

The scary prospect it that other cons start copying this, since they need kids attending, and that means parental approval - and also that, as you've no doubt noticed, teenagers have gone from wanting to rebel and live dangerously to wanting to conform and censor and be "safe".

>>323757

>But do the vendors need them or do the expos need the vendors more?

The vendors in the dealer's room are mostly small businesspeople, who generally don't give a shit about chinese porno cartoons, other than knowing what kind of onnaholes, goggles-with-gears-glued-on, or metal-ninja-headbands to stock, will probably sell.

Every dollar or minute hey have to spend on bullshit mandatory SJW indoctrination is money or time not being invested in growing their business, which puts food on the table.

It's literally taking money from small businesses for SJW feels.

…for a "problem" that doesn't exist in the first place!

>>323757

> But do the vendors need them or do the expos need the vendors more?

it's a symbiosis, neither particularly needs the other. Anecdotal evidence, I have a friend who travels around my state to various conventions and shows, and a good show brings in 5 figures worth of sales for him with a 6-table inventory, for 3 days of work, for $200-$800 in dealer/space fees. He's picky about which shows he attends because they're either not profitable, or the administration/show promoters mismanage the events and make life difficult for dealers. He feels in control of his own business and can afford to skip venues that mistreat him or he doesn't like, and likewise the shows he skips don't particularly miss him or feel any impact of his avoiding them.

There's very little room for any sort of revolt against a particular show unless you were literally the Jimmy Hoffa of pocky and anime plushies, and were superconnected to dealers in such a way that you could make them all pull out of an event, and even that wouldn't run a con immediately, just damage their reputation for future shows.

>>323759

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>>323777

Ok, so is this a shitty situation for /a/utists but ultimately still a containable cancer?

I mean I can think of one worst case scenario where the Mothers and ProblemGlasses For Morality Squad tries to become some fucked up anime import\translation censor gate keeper. Some of that has already happened with some jap games localization iirc, and the mightyno.9 clusterfuck.

>He feels in control of his own business and can afford to skip venues that mistreat him or he doesn't like, and likewise the shows he skips don't particularly miss him or feel any impact of his avoiding them.

So is the animoo expo situation in general big enough where the skittle hair brigade can't amass totalitarian control over it.