User blog comment:ChaoZStrider/Not Enthused, Concerning The Creepypasta Convention 2020/@comment-5101683-20180727083706

dbzfan1121 says:

This is what is really raising my eyebrows on this whole convention. Thus far, no set-up, no venue, no dates, no times, no dedicated planners or figureheads besides a group of writers who don't seem to have backgrounds in this kind of stuff, no information on how to book artist tables, or guests, no travel information, no information about the city it will be held in. But they do have, logos, websites, guests announced, podcasts, social media that is talking about everything else BUT the con they are supposed to be about, and a contest for designing a logo. These things should not be your main concerns when starting a convention. Those things are extra "window dressing" to spice up the event after the MAIN CONCERNS have been booked and cemented. And even then, some cons won't have that at all. Because though those extra things are fun, they reduce manpower/manhours that could instead be used to work on making the first convention the best it should be.

In my hometown there is a small scale Horror-Con (called Horror-Con, go figure), that has been active for a very long time. They have people who plan the thing down to the littlest detail, they have people you can talk to if you would like to voice your concerns, sign-up sheets for bookings, contact information, phone numbers, venue already booked in advance, details for how to book convention tables, maps, announcements about the next years event, venue information, lists of volunteers and what each one does, sign-ups for volunteers and what they will receive by participating in helping out, where you should go to if you are coming in from out of town, what to do in emergencies, and a general FAQ for all the recurring questions people may have. It's a small con, but it has gotten slightly bigger each year. Only recently did they start adding larger celebrity guests while still keeping the focus primarily on the smaller indie horror stuff. They have screenings of new and old, smaller budget, horror films and invite the creators to talk about their movies to new audiences. One year I was going to have a table booked there to sell art, but forgot to send an important piece of paperwork (as it was my first time booking anything) with my initial application. Then I forgot about it for a while, as life got busy with school. But within a month after bookings had closed, I received a call from them, asking about the paperwork, asking if I was still interested in booking a table, and telling me how to submit it so that my application would still stand. All while answering any small questions I had on the matter, even if they were questions I could easily find the answers to on the website. That is how you run a convention. There was no podcast, no big name guests announced until the venue and important details are LOCKED IN PLACE, any contests are done at the show itself and judged on the day of the con in front of an audience, their social media tends to stay quiet on most things unless they have a pre-con announcement or just little fun things to remind fans that they are still operating or to engage with their community.

This creepypasta con, it seems way too interested in a small clique group of content creators. While I get that those guys are the more popular kids and will bring in the most fans, the planning has thus far been all about promoting that said group's figureheads. While the con itself, has received minimal information other than that it exists. They should have been working to book venues, cities and secure dates before ANYTHING ELSE was announced or broadcasted, before even the website was made and the url was registered. Because right now, it does not exist as a convention. It's just fluff talk. And if they really wanted to focus on the MCP gang and promoting them specifically, fine. That's cool. But then drop the fucking pretense and just announce it as the MCP Convention. Make that your priority and stop jerking everyone else around. Do not talk about community when you are not promoting the guys at the bottom and rounding up smaller guests as well. If they were a TRUE Creepypasta convention for EVERYONE in the community, they would have first gotten dates and venues booked first, ironed out all the details, and only then started brining in the smaller guests and lower card guys to make sure that if MCP decided he didn't want to come, that they still had some reliable creators to bring the attendee's in. Also they would have booked something besides "youtube famous narrator man" as a hook to get people who aren't creepypasta fans into the building as well. Because conventions also need to appeal to the local market they will be using as a host. To a complete outsider, or a passing fan of creepypasta, this looks like some fans of the genre had an idea that might be able to work, but don't have the faintest idea of how to put this all together. They do have some ideas on how to draw up some interest, but nothing else really. It's like a child trying to run before they have even been born.

As of RIGHT NOW, this is not a convention. All this is, is announcing that maybe MCP and his butt buddies will be doing a meet-up with fans at some point, in some city, somewhere, at some time, maybe, possibly, who knows, we'll get back to you when we have more information, I think. He knows better than I.