Norfolk, VA has a new con run by this sketchy 'family' group appearing to run a bunch of other first-year cons for-profit. Any gulls know about this event or these people? Looks hella shady. Dumping caps from their FB group here.
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>accidentally mouseover this one
>LORT films
I'm so glad I know one Danish word, and it's this one
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>LORT
What's it mean?
>>8988113
are you fucking dense?
>>8988117
Way to take my bait, anon. Talk about low-lying fruit!
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>for-profit
lol They aren't seeing much profit.
I went to a Black Materia Inc convention last year. To get a feel of how many people there were, pic related is their rave about 10 minutes in. The con was dead.
The con itself wasn't too bad, didn't really seem unorganized or anything, but they have a problem filling up a con with people. They charged too much for a first year con.
Of course, that was their first year, their first con too. It was in Nashville TN. Sorta weird that their cons are so spread out.
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I feel like it would make more sense to focus all that time and energy into making a single good con instead of working on multiples.
>>8988166
You'd think, but this seems to be the trend lately with new people on the con scene who want to start running events. "More cons = more money, right? I'll just oversaturate the market and monopolize my area so that ALL of the money comes to ME!!"
>>8988211
That's...a little creepy.
>>8988211
I went last year, he's only got three kids, so that can't be it.
>>8988383
To clarify, I went to the one in Atlanta.
>>8988211
Weird.
Black Materia is a Ryan Kopf organization, so this family is a front for Kopf.
Heh
>>8989065
LordSephiroth? That explains everything.
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Yup, Kopf runs Black Materia, and if this con if a Black Materia convention, it is a Ryan Kopf owned convention.
>>8989065
Wooooow. Now I understand why this looks like such major shit.
I personally know 2 of Kopf's higher up people within his company. Both self-important assholes who cause a lot of drama in our local community.
>>8989065
legit question who are they, I mean this is my hometown so I know about the 2 local cons (AMA on the south side and Neko on the Pennsula, and they are solid 'regional' cons (sub 15K, greater than 5K though I think neko hit 10K in 2015)
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I'm pretty sure I've seen that girl on an h&m sweater.
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Nobody cares. Stop posting about yourself.
>>8988383
>he's only got three kids
Are you certain, anon? I thought it was more like nine.
