Rainfurrest 2015, a furry convention with a legacy for being one of the many awful ideas put into action by the furry community. A well-known event documented by the likes of the Internet Historian, it's a tale of drugs, betrayal, shit filled diapers, sexual assault, and multiple people needing serious medical attention. In this Hidden Internet article I will be going over the history, controversy, and downfall of Rainfurrest, and helping you understand why you should not allow furries to hold a convention anywhere near you.
Prior to Rainfurrest 2015, there were nine previous that hadn't gone as awful as the current. Usually there would be a different theme, with the former Rainfurrest being cyberpunk themed, and the current being medieval inspired. Rainfurrest had grown into a rather popular convention within the furry community and it would draw in hundreds of furries across the United States to come together and share their passion, but it wasn't to last as Rainfurrest 2015 would mark the point where the furry community had gone too far with their shenanigans and actually caused serious damages.
Held in the Seattle airport Hilton Hotel, over 3000 furries were expected to show up, making it one of the largest furry conventions going. This was good for numbers but had a fatal flaw too: Rainfurrest was notorious for being lenient towards extreme fetishes at their conventions and many banned furries from other conventions were allowed to attend Rainfurrest too, so you can see how it was destined for failure at the start.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWemWM9lXEM
Calm before the storm
The convention started out relatively ok with an opening ceremony and rather questionable talent show, with at one point a singer showing their taint while singing Linkin Park, and mind you there wasn't only furries at the Hilton Hotel but normal people and their families too, including children.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnmjAsVPGSg
Footage of the talent contest. Thankfully it seems the flashing scene has been censored out of this video, but can be seen in the Internet Historian video.
Then from there it all went downhill quickly. Rainfurrest had a reputation for being a furry convention with a strong party culture and this year was no different, with people quickly getting drunk, high, yiffed, you name it. Quickly chaos became rife: elevators were broken by furries using their feet to kick buttons and elevator cables snapped from them forcing doors ope, and a hot tub was destroyed by having loads of towels thrown into it and then rolled up, and stuffed into the pump, causing it to break and causing thousands of dollars in damages. Also they shat in the pool.
Most notorious of these blatant acts of vandalism is when someone unscrewed a bolt on one of the hotel toilets so when the next person flushed it would overflow, which it most certainly did, causing a leakage that flowed into the adjacent rooms and the basement below which just so happened to be the server room, leading to the hotel's servers to malfunction. The person subject to the prank? Well you can read their story below:
Next came the tagging spree, with stickers, often R-rated, plastered all over the hotel, even in urinals. Other inconveniences included: food left thrown all over the hotel and outdoors to rot, plumbers having to be called out twice and the fire service once, furries walking around the hotel in shit filled diapers, yeah that's right: diapers.
Those wearing the diapers are called babyfurs who are, for the uninformed, a fetish group in the furry fandom who sexualize being baby animals and pretend to be them by acting childlike, and self-defecating in public... Also they threw their shit-filled diapers at cars
Attendants also got in trouble for physically removing fire alarms so they could hotbox their rooms and smoke indoors, which is obviously a massive health and safety risk, and led to another strong warning from the Hilton Hotel's staff.
But not only smoking was an issue but so was rampant alcohol and drug use. So much so an ambulance needed to be called for some guys overdosing on mushrooms, another due to a few fellas getting too fucked up on booze, and police soon got involved due to the drug dealing on site and the fact nitrous oxide capsules were found just laying in the halls.
But this wasn't the start for problems with law enforcement as a staff member got charged for sexual assault and a participant of the con arrested for regular assault. What also was assault, to the eyes most definitely, was the fashion sense of some of the attendees, what you can and can not wear not being very strict within the con's official rules.
Eventually Hilton Hotels had enough and sent out this letter, essentially telling attendees to fuck off, ending the spree of degeneracy once and for all.
Ultimately, the furries had caused over $150,000 worth of damage for Hilton Hotels, being more than all the other conventions held there combined, and though the organizers were insured, and could pay for it all, they were told to take their money elsewhere. These acts of degeneracy had done Rainfurrest in for good as in the coming year they failed to find anyone to take them in again, stopping the con in its tracks. But what if I told a good part of this was an inside job? While all this was going on someone within the staff was sending in-depth letters to other hotels on why they should not host Rainfurrest and we know this from an interview the following year on why Rainfurrest 2015 failed, and this same staff member is also thought to be one of the major culprits of vandalism, including the shit diaper car attacks.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XojIUvWKebU
The failure of Rainfurrest 2015 can't only be attributed to the attendants as evident above, but the organizers too. From an excerpt from a now deleted forum post, an ex-organizer recounts how they had been soft with what people can get away with at the con and had not taken the correct preparations for taking in so many people.
Despite all the failures, they did almost manage to secure a venue for the next Rainfurrest in a place called Spokane. The chance for a 2016 Rainfurrest was in the air, until a day before the event was suppose to take place a defamatory letter was received from the 2015 saboteur by the venue. Straight after reading they said they wanted no association with the furries and so Rainfurrest 2016 never occured.
After this the organizers sent out an announcement stating that Rainfurrest was cancelled for good, ending the convention for the good of humanity.
So came the end of Rainfurrest. It serves as a cautionary tale on why you should run your events properly and why to not let furries within a five mile radius of your property.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCg5tbF9AHU
God forbid sharing the same building.
