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2024-06-12T09:03:52Z

SimonFox: Created page with '== List Order == Now that "online conventions" are no longer a new concept, it is probably about time we collectively figure out how this list should be presented. It's curren...'

== List Order ==
Now that "online conventions" are no longer a new concept, it is probably about time we collectively figure out how this list should be presented. It's currently just lumping together a couple of very distinct concepts (i.e. VRChat conventions and YouTube streams) into a weird mishmash of nonsensical numbers. There should be an effort made to come up with some kind of rhyme and reason for it. There are a lot of distinct elements at play behind many of these events, such as Furality mainly being in Virtual Reality, operating like a in-person convention (requiring a membership,) and events that just happened in a free-to-join Discord server.

Perhaps either this concept needs to be split, with a new category created for "Virtual Reality Conventions", or just defining these events under the "Online Convention" banner based on their primary platform and purpose. VR events that collect registrations as a in-person con would, and streaming events that can only report "page views" (which are largely arbitrary, and based on the definition of a "view" on their chosen platform) are different things, and should be treated as such.
--[[User:SimonFox|SimonFox]] ([[User talk:SimonFox|talk]]) 05:03, 12 June 2024 (EDT)

List of online furry conventions by attendance

2024-06-12T08:09:19Z

SimonFox: Moving Megaplex Online as the list seems to make more sense this way.

The following is a '''list of [[online furry convention|online]] [[furry fandom|furry]] [[convention]]s''' from around the world, listed by officially announced attendance figures from the most recent year available. Each convention is listed only once. There is also a [[list of in-person furry conventions by attendance]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-size-adjust:200%"
|-
! Convention !! Year !! Platform¹ !! Virtual Attendees² !! Registrees !! View Count
|-
| [[Furality Online Xperience]] || 2024 || [[VRChat]], Stream, Twitter, Discord || 21,004<ref>[https://x.com/Furality/status/1800246990577467821 "Furality on X"], Tweet, checked June 10, 2024.</ref> || 21,004<ref>[https://x.com/Furality/status/1800246990577467821 "Furality on X"]</ref> || 200,729<ref>[https://x.com/alofoxx/status/1800792091444064385 "Alofoxx on X"]</ref>
|-
| [[Virtual Anthrocon]] ([[Anthrocon 2020]]) || 2020 || [//anthrocon.tv Anthrocon.tv] || 6,153<ref>[https://twitter.com/Firr/status/1280273116065824774 "Virtual Anthrocon Results]</ref> || N/A || -
|-
| [[Furnal Equinox|Furnal Equinox]] || 2021 || VRChat || 3,722<ref>[https://twitter.com/FurnalEquinox/status/1373805385803530242 "Furnal Equinox Twitter"]</ref> || 3,722 || 1,800+
|-
| [[Brasil FurFest 2020|Brasil FurFest Night]] || 2020 || [[YouTube]] and Discord || 1,935 || - || 4,557
|-
| [[Biggest_Little_Fur_Con|VBLFC]] || 2021 || [[Wikipedia:NeosVR|NeosVR]] || 1,218<ref>[https://twitter.com/VirtualBLFC/status/1415815176675205121 "VBLFC Twitter"]</ref> || 1,218 || -
|-
| [[RAMCon]] || 2021 || [[W:Discord|Discord]] || N/A || 1,178<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheRAMCon/status/1415352026045820929 RAMCon's Results]</ref> || -
|-
| [[IndyFurCon 2020]] || 2020 || [[W:Livestreaming|Stream]] and VRChat || 1,356 || 1,040 || -
|-
| [[CozyCon]] || 2023 || Stream and Discord || 1,076<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/698676498558746665/706951329574158417/1154561386765103134 CozyCon Discord], posted September 21, 2023.</ref> || - || -
|-
| [[Further Confusion]] Discord Dealers Online Event || 2022 || Discord || 760<ref>[https://twitter.com/zrayUH/status/1483142049524162567 "FC DISCORD DEALERS HAS COME TO A CLOSE!..."], posted January 17, 2022.</ref> || 760 || N/A
|-
| colspan=6 | ''980 peak users in Telegram chat''
|-
| [[Anthro Festival]] || 2024 || [[Wikipedia:Steam (service)|Steam]], [[VRChat]], Stream, Twitter, Discord || - || - || 46,884<ref>[https://x.com/anthrofestival/status/1800376206908600326 "Anthro Festival on X"], Tweet, checked June 10, 2024.</ref>
|-
| [[Megaplex Online]] || 2020 || [[W:Hopin (software)|Hopin]] || - || 571<ref>[https://twitter.com/MegaplexCon/status/1297701237023035392 "Megaplex Online Results"]</ref> || 30,309
|-
| [[Othercon]] || 2023 || Discord || N/A || 426 <ref>[https://furrytimes.net/2023/08/21/othercon-totals/ "Othercon Totals," FurryTimes.Net]. Retrieved November 1, 2023.</ref> || N/A
|-
| [[Little Island Furcon]] Spring || 2022 || Stream and Discord || N/A || 300 || -
|-
| [[Fur the 'More]] || 2021 || Stream || N/A || 268<ref>[https://twitter.com/FurtheMore/status/1386422513232609283 Fur the 'More Twitter], posted April 25, 2021.</ref> || N/A
|-
| [[Floof Con]] || 2022 || Discord || 199<ref>[https://twitter.com/FloofsCon/status/1556791633256992769 Floof Con Twitter], posted August 8, 2022.</ref> || - || N/A
|-
| [[Digital Villainy Summit]] || 2023 || Picarto and Discord || 170 || N/A || -
|-
| [[Kamu:l A'wee Con]] || 2023 || Discord || N/A || 80 || N/A
|-
| [[Weekend Furry Retreat]] || 2022 || Stream || N/A || 33 || 50<ref>[https://twitter.com/wkndfurretreat/status/1558867337889079296 WFR Twitter], posted August 14, 2022.</ref>
|-
| [[Furry Weekend At-Home]] || 2020 || [[W:Twitch (service)|Twitch]] || N/A || N/A || 14,048<ref>[https://twitter.com/FurryWeekend/status/1260661091098677249 "Furry Weekend At-Home Results"]</ref>
|-
| [[DEFCON Furs|DEFCON Furs 2020]] || 2020 || Stream and VRChat || - || N/A || 1,117
|}

'''¹''' Platform: the primary social media service, livestreaming application, or visual online space used to portray the majority of the convention.<br>
'''²''' Virtual attendees: the number of participants within an area of an visualized online space, such as a video game, or virtual reality social platform. This is a total count of individuals across the span of the convention, not the amount of 'visits' an area has received.<br>
'''-''' The statistic was applicable, but not reported.

==References==
<references/>

==See also==
* [[Online furry conventions]] ([[List of online furry conventions before March 2020|pre-March 2020]] - [[List of online furry conventions in 2020|2020]] - [[List of online furry conventions in 2021|2021]])

[[Category:Online conventions]]

List of online furry conventions by attendance

2024-06-12T07:58:21Z

SimonFox: The AnthroFest "Virtual Attendees" count does not meet the specified definition of "Virtual attendees" on this page. Klace posted in the AnthroFest discord that "the Anthro Festival event page welcomed a total of 46,884 unique registered Steam accounts."

The following is a '''list of [[online furry convention|online]] [[furry fandom|furry]] [[convention]]s''' from around the world, listed by officially announced attendance figures from the most recent year available. Each convention is listed only once. There is also a [[list of in-person furry conventions by attendance]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-size-adjust:200%"
|-
! Convention !! Year !! Platform¹ !! Virtual Attendees² !! Registrees !! View Count
|-
| [[Megaplex Online]] || 2020 || [[W:Hopin (software)|Hopin]] || - || 571<ref>[https://twitter.com/MegaplexCon/status/1297701237023035392 "Megaplex Online Results"]</ref> || 30,309
|-
| [[Furality Online Xperience]] || 2024 || [[VRChat]], Stream, Twitter, Discord || 21,004<ref>[https://x.com/Furality/status/1800246990577467821 "Furality on X"], Tweet, checked June 10, 2024.</ref> || 21,004<ref>[https://x.com/Furality/status/1800246990577467821 "Furality on X"]</ref> || 200,729<ref>[https://x.com/alofoxx/status/1800792091444064385 "Alofoxx on X"]</ref>
|-
| [[Virtual Anthrocon]] ([[Anthrocon 2020]]) || 2020 || [//anthrocon.tv Anthrocon.tv] || 6,153<ref>[https://twitter.com/Firr/status/1280273116065824774 "Virtual Anthrocon Results]</ref> || N/A || -
|-
| [[Furnal Equinox|Furnal Equinox]] || 2021 || VRChat || 3,722<ref>[https://twitter.com/FurnalEquinox/status/1373805385803530242 "Furnal Equinox Twitter"]</ref> || 3,722 || 1,800+
|-
| [[Brasil FurFest 2020|Brasil FurFest Night]] || 2020 || [[YouTube]] and Discord || 1,935 || - || 4,557
|-
| [[Biggest_Little_Fur_Con|VBLFC]] || 2021 || [[Wikipedia:NeosVR|NeosVR]] || 1,218<ref>[https://twitter.com/VirtualBLFC/status/1415815176675205121 "VBLFC Twitter"]</ref> || 1,218 || -
|-
| [[RAMCon]] || 2021 || [[W:Discord|Discord]] || N/A || 1,178<ref>[https://twitter.com/TheRAMCon/status/1415352026045820929 RAMCon's Results]</ref> || -
|-
| [[IndyFurCon 2020]] || 2020 || [[W:Livestreaming|Stream]] and VRChat || 1,356 || 1,040 || -
|-
| [[CozyCon]] || 2023 || Stream and Discord || 1,076<ref>[https://discord.com/channels/698676498558746665/706951329574158417/1154561386765103134 CozyCon Discord], posted September 21, 2023.</ref> || - || -
|-
| [[Further Confusion]] Discord Dealers Online Event || 2022 || Discord || 760<ref>[https://twitter.com/zrayUH/status/1483142049524162567 "FC DISCORD DEALERS HAS COME TO A CLOSE!..."], posted January 17, 2022.</ref> || 760 || N/A
|-
| colspan=6 | ''980 peak users in Telegram chat''
|-
| [[Anthro Festival]] || 2024 || [[Wikipedia:Steam (service)|Steam]], [[VRChat]], Stream, Twitter, Discord || - || - || 46,884<ref>[https://x.com/anthrofestival/status/1800376206908600326 "Anthro Festival on X"], Tweet, checked June 10, 2024.</ref>
|-
| [[Othercon]] || 2023 || Discord || N/A || 426 <ref>[https://furrytimes.net/2023/08/21/othercon-totals/ "Othercon Totals," FurryTimes.Net]. Retrieved November 1, 2023.</ref> || N/A
|-
| [[Little Island Furcon]] Spring || 2022 || Stream and Discord || N/A || 300 || -
|-
| [[Fur the 'More]] || 2021 || Stream || N/A || 268<ref>[https://twitter.com/FurtheMore/status/1386422513232609283 Fur the 'More Twitter], posted April 25, 2021.</ref> || N/A
|-
| [[Floof Con]] || 2022 || Discord || 199<ref>[https://twitter.com/FloofsCon/status/1556791633256992769 Floof Con Twitter], posted August 8, 2022.</ref> || - || N/A
|-
| [[Digital Villainy Summit]] || 2023 || Picarto and Discord || 170 || N/A || -
|-
| [[Kamu:l A'wee Con]] || 2023 || Discord || N/A || 80 || N/A
|-
| [[Weekend Furry Retreat]] || 2022 || Stream || N/A || 33 || 50<ref>[https://twitter.com/wkndfurretreat/status/1558867337889079296 WFR Twitter], posted August 14, 2022.</ref>
|-
| [[Furry Weekend At-Home]] || 2020 || [[W:Twitch (service)|Twitch]] || N/A || N/A || 14,048<ref>[https://twitter.com/FurryWeekend/status/1260661091098677249 "Furry Weekend At-Home Results"]</ref>
|-
| [[DEFCON Furs|DEFCON Furs 2020]] || 2020 || Stream and VRChat || - || N/A || 1,117
|}

'''¹''' Platform: the primary social media service, livestreaming application, or visual online space used to portray the majority of the convention.<br>
'''²''' Virtual attendees: the number of participants within an area of an visualized online space, such as a video game, or virtual reality social platform. This is a total count of individuals across the span of the convention, not the amount of 'visits' an area has received.<br>
'''-''' The statistic was applicable, but not reported.

==References==
<references/>

==See also==
* [[Online furry conventions]] ([[List of online furry conventions before March 2020|pre-March 2020]] - [[List of online furry conventions in 2020|2020]] - [[List of online furry conventions in 2021|2021]])

[[Category:Online conventions]]

Anthrocon 2021

2022-06-27T21:58:11Z

SimonFox: Information about AnthrocOnline

{{Anthrocon}}
'''Anthrocon 2021''' was to be the 24th annual [[Anthrocon]] [[furry convention]]. It was supposed to be held on the weekend of July 1-4, 2021, at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Anthrocon 2021 was postponed to June 30 to July 3rd, 2022 due to the [[COVID-19]] pandemic still lingering in the United States.

The convention's theme was going to be "Aesop's Fables", but the theme was planned to be carried over to Anthrocon 2022. A [[online furry convention|virtual convention]] was held in it's place.

==Anthrocon Online==
As a replacement for the physical convention, Anthrocon announced a virtual convention and began raising funds for "something truly special"<ref>[https://twitter.com/anthrocon/status/1378212299945598980 Twitter Announcement]</ref> in April. The virtual convention was dubbed '''AnthrocOnline'''<ref>[https://twitter.com/anthrocon/status/1386480394929848321 AnthrocOnline announcement]</ref> (or '''Anthrocon Online''')

In early June of 2021, members of the production crew began teasing an in-person film shoot that was taking place in Pittsburgh<ref>[https://twitter.com/Firr/status/1401573612805672963 Firr shows off flyers given out to the curious public]</ref> at the Waterfront Plaza of the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.<ref>[https://twitter.com/fawksnews/status/1401626591537553423]</ref>

On July 2nd, AnthrocOnline officially kicked off, with [[Uncle Kage]] appearing in an Opening Ceremonies video partially shot in the Westin Convention Center Pittsburgh, Anthrocon's primary hotel.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkger6P30iM Opening Ceremonies [4K HDR] — Anthrocon Online 2021]</ref> Panels and meetups were also held on Google Meet.

Through the weekend, many of Anthrocon's staple events were shown, filmed on-location around Pittsburgh<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLnmPOQUa5YF2VmC5WI1-dPDyEfUEvdFM Anthrocon Online 2021 Playlist]</ref>, including a performance by [[Pepper Coyote]] and [[Fox Amoore]] (who appeared remotely from his home in Scotland), and Uncle Kage's Story Hour filmed on-location in Pizza Parma/Fernando's Cafe. In addition to the recorded content, live events also took place from the [https://www.astrocasters.com/ Astrocasters] studio in Virginia, including the Charity Auction and Closing Ceremonies.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH27XL3Az3k Closing Ceremonies — Anthrocon Online 2021]</ref>

The videos recorded on-location in Pittsburgh were released in [[Wikipedia:High-dynamic-range_television|High Dynamic Range (HDR)]] [[Wikipedia:4K_resolution|4K]], marking the first time a major furry convention had main events broadcast in the 4K format.

==Statement from Anthrocon staff==

"We had high hopes but at this point, it looks like that we will not be able to safely hold the convention. As such we have come to the unfortunate conclusion that the convention will be canceled this year.

For those of you who have deferred memberships or dealerships from 2020, those deferrals will carry over to 2022, as will hotel rooms won at the charity auction. Emails with the coupon codes for Anthrocon 2022 will be sent out at a later date.

Those who were purchasing memberships for this year need not do anything. Those memberships will be canceled and since no payments were processed so there are no refunds that need to be issued.

We are planning a virtual convention for this year. Information regarding the virtual convention will follow shortly.

Plans are proceeding for the in-person convention for 2022 which will take place June 30th - July 3rd. We plan to carry over the theme once again (Aesop's Fables).

We are looking forward to Anthrocon's return in 2022 and are excitedly anticipating seeing everyone in person and making the return of Anthrocon 2022 the best Anthrocon ever."<ref>[https://twitter.com/anthrocon/status/1373736080357269504 Anthrocon's postponement]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Anthrocon]]
* [[COVID-19]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

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Anthrocon 2020

2020-07-07T01:09:27Z

SimonFox: /* Virtual Anthrocon */ Add details about Virtual Anthrocon

{{Anthrocon}}
'''Anthrocon 2020''' was scheduled to be the 24th annual [[Anthrocon]] [[furry convention]]. It was to be held on the weekend of July 2-5, 2020,<ref name="cctweet">[https://twitter.com/anthrocon/status/1147993471246110720 ''Anthrocon 2020 will be held July 2-5, 2020 and the theme will be “Aesop’s Fables”.''] post on [[Anthrocon]]'s [[Twitter]]. Dated July 7, 2019. Retrieved July 7, 2019.</ref> at the [[W:David L. Lawrence Convention Center|David L. Lawrence Convention Center]] in [[W:Pittsburgh|Pittsburgh]], [[w:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], USA.

The convention's theme was to be ''[[Aesop’s Fables]]'',<ref name="cctweet"/> but later dubbed "Virtual Anthrocon".

== Cancellation ==

On April 27, 2020, it was announced that Anthrocon 2020 was canceled in response to the [[COVID-19|COVID-19 novel coronavirus]] pandemic.<ref>[https://www.anthrocon.org/ ''An Important, Sad, Announcement''] post on Anthrocon's website. Retrieved April 27, 2020.</ref>

== Virtual Anthrocon ==

In late June, Anthrocon board members decided to host an impromptu [[online furry conventions|online version]] of the convention dubbed "Virtual AnthroCon". They hosted key events such as ceremonies, [[Uncle Kage]]'s Story Hour, and annual fursuit dance competition through their own livestreaming platform at https://anthrocon.tv from July 3-5. [[Wikipedia:VRChat|VRChat]] world creator, [[Firr]] had re-created the David L. Lawrence Convention Center's 'Spirit of Pittsburgh' ballroom weeks prior to the livestream. Anthrocon agreed to make the VRChat world as an official gathering space for attendees over the weekend. There was no registration fee for the livestream, or interacting with the virtual ballroom world.

The production of the live stream was handled by two of Anthrocon's video equipment vendors, [https://www.astrocasters.com/ Astrocasters] and [https://moving.camera/ DC Steadicam Inc.] [[Wikipedia:Production_control_room|Production control]] was operated out of Astrocasters' Virginia warehouse, and was produced by [[FreezeFrame_Fox|FreezeFrame]] (who also served as the [[Wikipedia:Emcee|Emcee]],) [[Protocollie]], and [[Veyote]]. Many other members of Anthrocon's production staff supported the live broadcasts, both on-site and remotely. [[TimeSuppression]] served as Technical Director, [[Nieto]] as Audio Engineer, [[Paradox Wolf]] was the on-site [[Wikipedia:Character_Generator|CG Operator]] while [[Simon Fox]] was the Graphic Artist, working remotely from his home in [[California]].

According to stats released by Firr after the virtual convention ended, 6,136 unique visitors entered the Virtual Anthrocon VRChat world<ref>https://twitter.com/Firr/status/1280273116065824774</ref>, which would have made it the third highest-attended convention, behind [[Anthrocon 2019]] and ahead of [[Biggest Little Fur Con 2019]]. Two members of the production staff fursuited through the production control room and took a photo outdoors, claiming it was the "fastest [[Fursuit Parade]] and fursuit photo ever."<ref>https://twitter.com/kofukitty/status/1279962203832057858</ref>

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
* {{con resources|Anthrocon|Anthrocon 2020}}

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