I’m a little biased toward WoW… So I’m a firefighter and the most disgusting call I’ve ever been on was 800lb WoW player that was having chest pain. As soon as you got 8 feet away from the house you just smelt straight shit! He had two foot of garbage all of his house except for his room which we couldn’t get to due to the garbage blocking the door closed. His room was just a mountain of garbage from where the wall met the ceiling. He was half covered in garbage and had his monitor laying on top of the pile. We found out half way though the call that the window we were talking to him from was where he would get his food delivered, where he would dump his piss, and where he would hand scoop his own shit! We ended up taking down his entire wall and basically pulling him out. He was unable to sit up and whenever he would lay flat his fat would literally suffocate him. I was forced to keep him propped up, doing so caused several huge purple liquid filled cysts on his back to burst and cover my bunker pants. All in all the call took a total of 4 hours, I throw up 3 times, and my captain throw up 5 times.
Bruh, you forgot a major category. _Yu-Gi-Oh_ players. I remember back in the day, I used to play D&D with a group of 4 other folks at a flgs (fun local game store) and every once in a while, on the same day we had our campaign, the store would host a yu-gi-oh tournament or whatever in the larger basement room of the flgs (we played in the smaller one) and within 20 minutes of the yugioh stuff kicking off, a sweaty miasma would start to permeate within the basement, and it was a real funk.
damn, not even a single comment saying about any other fandoms. How bad did the yuhigo players fuck up to be universally accepted as the smelliest people?
What's surprised me was how clean most D&D players are. I don't play it often, but it's fun from time to time. And I've always noticed they're sitting away from the main Smelly card dudes, and they never really smell bad. And usually it's older dudes with like families back home n shit or some electrician on his day off. Out of all the Fandoms, they're kinda normal. 💀
@@nathanaelashnonmusic2615 This is due to how hard engaging in D&D is. You need a specific group of people you personally know or friends with on internet meeting up at a specific time period, with some prior preparations, just to play a few hours together. And it requires actual social skills and conceptualization or whatever you gonna do at your game. So, naturally, D&D players are the people who have personal lives who don't sink their lives into an objectively useless activity, and treat D&D just as a hobby and a way to spend some time with frens on a weekend. And somehow media portrayed them the dirtiest way, with actual movies made about "mentally troubled believing in magic and stuff" and suburbia moms calling them satanists
That dude he called making that Yu-Gi-Oh comment unprompted killed me. A buddy of mine was really into it for a couple years and the one and only tournament he went to he left because the smell was so rancid. He said it smelled like cheeto dust and unwiped buttcrack or something. He slowly fell out of it after that.
That'll kill an interest. Always had a love for animal-centered cartoons so the furry fandom appealed to me. Went to two local meet ups and that killed any interest in making it a social hobby. Better to just lurk the animation channels.
People treat swifties like theyre 4chan when they tracked down Shia LaBeouf and stole his flag over and over but all I've ever seen them do is complain on Twitter. And they constantly use words like chile, hun, tea, sis and other bullshit which makes even reading their whining physically painful. That's unrelated but I gotta mention it cause it's unbearable.
@@shenanigans2877 I'd honestly rather have Swifties than Barbz. Barbz and Nicki enable that behavior between each other. Not to mention who she's married to, and the Barbz defending that. Literally, someone said "it was attempted rpe, not rpe" (as if it doesn't count as real SA or we can act like nothing happened) then implied the victim lied.... so they're either saying the victim lied about being SAed because "attempted" means "nothing actually happened" or they're contradicting themselves because they only care about defending Nicki. Swifties are a little more critical of who Taylor dates (and they do go overboard) but at least if they're that critical, (I hope) they're less likely to accept her dating someone who was convicted of murder and "AtTempTeD" rpe even if it was 20 years ago or something.
@@Vincisomething Ya, Nicki fans trip over themselves to defend her, but Taylor fans aren't doing anything that's even close to as actively harmful. They're annoying, but not actually dangerous
If you insult a swiftie, they’ll 100% scream and cry, then put on some random swift song in their room. They’re really just unchecked emotions behind their phone screen that’s all.
there are two types of sweat glands, fursuits being super hot really only triggers the type that is solely for heat, rather than the smelly type, this will result in probably a more musty, plasticky smell to the fursuits rather than straight BO. fursuits are also STUPID expensive, they have enough cash to dry clean the suits after cons ez. also for whatever WILD paying job they work, they probably have to keep up appearances. they def dont stink just out and about if they have fursuits. therefor i think the furries WITHOUT fursuits smell MUCH worse, its a whole lot more BO and a whole lot less commitment. WOW players bring their stink EVERYWHERE, and as you said, its marinated. MUCH worse imo.
yes but no furries are an odd community to judge as a whole because of the amount of subdivisions, with the notorious ones being baby furs (which were touched on in the vid) and the musky ones, which have a musk kink to the annoyment of others (or so ive read from other cons...). also he didnt mention how fursuits are rarely worn. at most, its a weekend warrior type deal, but most save em for cons or whatever tldr most furries are prob fine and dont smell bad day to day, but some of em are kinda...
Furries aren’t rich in the slightest. Those who own fursuits are in debt or made those themselves. And they’ll save up a lot of cash or just ask their parents for money. Most furries have some low income ICT job or car mechanic jobs.
I feel like Disney fans not being mentioned is a crime, that shit is wild. They marinade in the sun all day, eating Lord knows what whilst frolicking around after whatever freaking Disney suit employee is unfortunate enough to be near them.
They're definitely weird but I don't think they smell. They seem to have more like a deer in headlights look like Melissa McCarthy and the weird gum/tooth ratio
Disney fans literally smell so fucken bad, they do marinade all day in the sun and with their kids smelling like vomit and shit it’s just fucken horrible
@@velvetinedrapes4359As someone who’s been to a Disney park, I wish you were correct. In my experience (5 years of experience to be exact), the stereotypical “Disney adults” tend to have an odor, though it has more to do with how much time they spend in the park than anything else. The Florida/California (depending on your park preference) heat will do that to you.
honestly with the limited furries i’ve been around, they take pretty decent care of themselves and their suits- like they hand clean them or smth to that affect, but the existence of that one dude who made like the rag furry suit and got banned from damn near every furry convention is enough to shake me to my core when i think of how furries smell
ahh, you're talking about good old carpet sample, oof yeah that is definitely a one-off case for the foulest of stenches. he made the suit out of rags of stuffed teddy bears that he- *ahem* had some hanky-panky with beforehand. yeah, it's as crazy as it sounds. The dude was also a total creep. but furries do tend to wash the suits when they get the chance to do so since they can get VERRRRY expencive.
Yu-Gi-Oh wins hands down. I went to a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament when I was 11 and there was a guy notorious for "stink-bombing" as he called it. He would intentionally not shower for weeks before any tournament and do stuff like spread his legs and waft the air towards you if you were winning. I knew his stank self was gonna be there so I brought nose plugs. This grown man proceeded to call me a cheater and swear at me so loud the shop owner had to tell him to leave or they'd call the cops on him. He waited outside just to throw stuff at me and call me a cheater for using "unauthorized equipment" before my dad stepped up to him and made him fk off. This man was stinky to his core lmao.
as a furry, most furry conventions ive been too don't even smell that bad. in the fandom, there are actually fursuit sprays and we are always reminded to wash our suits, disifect the heads, shower often and wear deoderant :) there are the stinky onesstill , though
That is interesting that there's a cultural push. Definitely doesn't exist for WoW players. The only push towards hygiene there is avoiding being a stereotype. I do gotta say though, those fur suits are mobile saunas so you're going to have some smell. Also, as anyone who has ever done sports can attest to: no matter how much you clean and deodorize something that's constantly drenched in sweat, it will have a strong smell. Also, people are lazy. Cleaning those things must be a serious undertaking
I was forced to go to a convention with a friend, it really didnt smell that bad but there was that guy in a pink and white fursuit that is clearly dirty, he smelled like shit and farts, I asked my friend and he said that he always comes and everyone hates him and he always smells like that, he be dancing and shit too so it makes the smell worse, I think they later found out he was a zoo and a pedo too which is disgusting
I worked at a fedex with a genshin impact player who smelled so super bad if you were even within like 6 feet of the guys hed make your eyes water like a stinky stinky onion that sweaty fuck smelled like chemicly like pinesol and piss so offensive like if a fish could sweat it would probably smell like thats like my nose burned
Magic the gathering are the worst. I've been to so many friday night magic events, drafts, tournaments. And everytime its like deodorant and wiping your ass are optional. I remember being sat next to a dude in a commander game that smelled like he had an entire shit in his pants, ate a shit sandwhich, and never even seen a stick of deodorant in his life. I litterally intentionally played like shit to lose first and gtfo of there. I litterally audibly gagged
I remember going to comic book shops in the 90s to play MTG, and at least half the people there, regardless of age, smelled like a mix of unwiped ass and body odor.
@@mikemcdonald1999 He's a brave dude organizing that kind of event. I only play with close friends/family, or online now because its so offensive to my nose.
A thing I've encountered and heard of a looot is just that metal heads tend to make their own bread so I've been around a lot metal heads that have consistently smelt like fresh baked bread or know others that smell like fresh baked bread.
Bartender from nyc (lower east side) It was a pleasure meeting you I never got to thank you for coming by. I was pretty slammed but I am eternally grateful to have met you and hope you all the best in life man. Hopefully our paths cross again. Kelly’s welcomes you. As always amazing video!
Me and my wife were walking downtown and she wanted to check out the new gaming store to look at the 40k figs. I was stoked! There was a magic the gathering tournament with about 20 guys in the back. When we walked in they all stared at her and became completely silent for several minutes. The entire store smelled like a ass and sweat. She’s never expressed interest in miniatures again.
We had Warhammer tournaments in the back of our store bi weekly. I’ll never forget some of the smells…it was bad. We had hygienic wipes and extra cans of body spray that we would discreetly offer if we got complaints from other players or shoppers. When there weren’t tournaments, the store smelled neutral more or less. Overall though weren’t too many bad ones- just a few memorable customers that were nose blind to their own smell.
*I genuinely thought Winslow was going to be a one-off character but this fantastic beast of a machine is clearly going to delight for generations to come*
29:00 I do not watch your content, but I know the guy posted here. He's pretty based actually and we're all laughing our asses off cause we have no idea where you found him. Thanks for the chuckle! PS. Furries sadly do get funky just due to the fact of their suits being the equivalent of wearing a shag rug and walking around all day and not everyone knows how to or... really cares to wash their suits. However!!! There ARE suiters out there that wash and brush their suits often (including disinfecting) and there are whole small businesses that make "fursuit sprays" which act as a mild disinfectant and are scented. The community sucks major, but if you find the right niche, it's pretty chill and only reasonably sweaty :)
In the official Yugioh policy it has a rule that penalizes players who are unhygienic or are giving off an offensive odder. I work at a shop where we had to ban a player because they refused to fix the issue after we asked them to fix multiple times on different dates
With regard to stink, if you take a slurry of vomit, and diarrhea filled two jars (think those jars used for making booze) if one of them was sealed and the other was allowed to breathe. I think the sealed one would ferment and amplify. W.O.W is the sealed jar.
For us Metalheads, you should create a tier list for every genre xD I mean, Death Metal fans smell more than Black Metal ones, and have you been to a Hardcore Beatdown concert? The stench of sweat, piss, dryed beer and blood... Brings back memories! One of the reasons I don't go to concerts anymore xD
@@DankTurdTwig completely unrelated. I slept watching this shit and woke up with a 3 hour long video of Wendigoon explaining the monument mythos. The universe is so perfectly connected
My wife and I are both into metal music and have been to many shows together. Last year I took her to see an R&B singer that she was into, which was our first non-metal show together. I’ll tell you what, it was weird to go to concert that actually smelled nice.
Haha i have a similar experience, one time i went to a venue that had multiple stages and would host different shows simultaneously. I accidentally walked into some girly electronica show but it was the smell that first let me know i was in the wrong place
I worked at a local small movie theater for many many years. Marvel movie opening nights were a hellscape. Even just walking through the lobby was an assault on the senses. Cleaning the theaters between shows was absolutely horrendous.
I used to go to the comic con in Chicago every year when i was a kld and the only thing that's stuck with me all these years is when my brother said "we could just not bathe for days, come here and still be the best smelling people in here."
I played a game of modern magic the gathering with this one guy who had never washed his face in so long it looked like he had leprosy because all along the sides of his head were multiple crusted layers of earwax that formed a semi-gradient from a dark brown to a lime yellow in the area's that had been caked over multiple times. When he spoke small white fragments of dead skin cells would quiver around his mouth until erupting with each mouthy gasping breath he took. He had a sluggish plump head that had an uncomfortably sweaty forehead. The droplets of sweat and grease would collect inside his eyebrows and absorb turning his eyebrows into a dark brownish grey color. In the middle of one round, he quickly turned his head which resulted in a sprinkling of crusted earwax which clung to his playmat and card sleeves. the card sleeves themselves had a foil finish from assumed pizza and chip grease. I won my game against this utter Anti-Christ of hygiene, but I my mind still reels at the memory of him. Despite my victory, I lost that day, more than I had ever before.
Fursuits are both spot cleaned with a little green machine and in the washing machine. While wearing them, people wear deodorant and use something called fursuit spray that makes them smell quite nice. Generally speaking, since they cost thousands of dollars, people take care of their Fursuits well to prevent them from getting smelly and/or staying smelly. We also wear special underarmor to help keep cool in the suits.
Nah bro, there aint no way a giant sweaty furry suit doesnt smell like shit . Especially with the spray mixing together with the sweat it creates a perfect harmony of death.
i knew a guy who was into hazbin hotel (and bo burnham. you should've included him on this list lol) before it even officially released. I was friends with him my freshman year. he wore the same shirt every single day, slept in a damp basement, and was obese. you could smell him down the hall. hazbin hotel fans will ALWAYS be the nastiest to me because of this
Your friend isn't wrong about the YuGiOh players. I used to run card game events and DANG. But it is such a rampant issue that Konami had to implement a rule where players can get disqualified if they are too dirty/stinky. There was a card that you offered a handshake to your opponent and if they refused you got great advantage, players would run a card that opponents couldn't refuse, and then do gross stuff to their hands so they would either have to forfeit the entire match or touch absolute filth. This happens often enough that another rule was added that players only had to accept the IDEA of the handshake, no physical contact had to be made.
@@ieatbeanz3955 The card is called "Yu-Jo Friendship" and the card text is as follows: "Offer your opponent a handshake. If they accept your handshake, each player's Life Points become half the combined Life Points of both players. If you have "Unity" in your hand and show it to your opponent, they must accept the handshake."
I’m offended you didn’t include D&D players. As a long time player I can attest to the stink. You have a whole group of people sitting stationary for several hours, snacking and drinking to whole time. All while constantly talking, so your getting the bad breath, and if your really getting into it sweating. By the end of the session you get a culmination of many different people’s stink.
this is an interesting peak into the mind sets of these people. they are so depressed with their own lives that they try to immerse themselves into some other reality so deep to the point where they do not have the physical or mental strength let a lone motivation, to take care of themselves. this speaks on what addiction truly is. an escape from reality. moderation and self control are a key to a healthy life, but it seems humans can take even things that should be healthy and make them unhealthy by turning them into an addiction. from drugs, to video games to food to sex to even working out. we all seem to naturally have some levels of addictions as it must be a part of the current human condition, maybe the trick is to hone those addictions to the least self destructive ones? like collecting cool rocks or creating some type of art. something that you walk away having gained things such as more positives instead of negatives. maybe learning new things. idk but what i do know is we are all only human and in our own right unique individuals going through our own unique pilgrimage of life. the meaning? live unique experiences. the purpose? to leave with unique perspectives gained from those unique experiences.
Back when I was couch surfing I ended up landing in what was basically a crack den that was so bad it was filled up with trash to the point where it would form literal mountains on our deck and kitchen In regards to WoW, I must stress that you can *_not_* underestimate the level of filth that comes with a mountain of trash. You'll maybe see a picture online and go "sure I can't imagine that smells great" but you'll *_never_* appreciate how bad it gets until you're forced to be around every small detail. Fruit flies start swarming and laying eggs in old beer cans or *_any_* food that's remotely sweet, any food leftover will be festering and rotting within a week giving off the most *_foul_* odors, and even if you do somehow have the stomach to handle the mess it leaves such a stain on the house you're forced to do a complete remodel if you want to retain any value on the property. Any fandom that's even *_remotely_* associated with that nightmare fuel will always be the worst for me. *_AND_* you're throwing fully loaded piss bottles into the mix? Yea, WoW for the easy win
@buttnakedsnake9357 lmao, but yea damn near every day I made a point to try and eat out, never wanted to stay in that shit hole longer than I had to and it's kind of hard to eat when everything smells like diarrhea and vomit. But the sad part is you just start getting used to it after a while and hate yourself for it. Got the hell out of there as soon as I could Wasn't there too long but holy hell the stories I could tell. Will never forget that period of my life as long as I live
Good call out on the rotting food bit. In my experience, as gross as it is, at least the piss bottles themselves don't have much stench (have an aunt that used to be a trucker) but you know those dudes gotta be missing. Even so, the smell of rotten food and old soda sitting around is gnarly. You've convinced me, WoW has my vote.
Once I was visiting San Diego and a theater near where I was staying was having a midnight screening of Battle Royale. Got there early so I'd get a good seat, bought my ticket and a snack, went in and sat down. What I didn't realize is that it was Comicon Week. When the Comicon crowd started to show up there was just a wall of every smell the human body can make all mixed together that came into the theater ahead of them. So bad I almost left.
The metal head one hit home because I recently attended a Municipal Waste show at LA and the description papa gave was to the T. Usually the experience at every metal show or concert is you walk in and you're instantly hit with the stench of weed, then a little into the show you smell beer and alcohol everywhere because everybody and their mother is either spilling their drink or throwing it everywhere during the moshpit, then during the middle of the show it starts smelling like sweat and axe body spray depending on where you are at the pit. FINALLY at the end of the show, it's just an combination of all three and a little bit of blood. 💀
Aw hey nice one dude I recently got back into Municipal Waste. Life got in the way and I dipped with Fatal Feast but I was randomly recommended Tango and Thrash and I'm back on it
I’ve been to two metal shows in my life and the smell of Alcohol, Weed, and ass sweat is ingrained in my skull. This is of course why I will attend another one
I feel like with Metal fans, It is very dependent on what subgenre/style of metal. Like, you go see an extreme metal band it's gonna smell like sweat, skunk weed, and cheap beer. You go see an Industrial or alt group there'll still be sweat, but energy drinks and higher-end alcohol. Doom, psychedelic, and stoner are just weed drowning out everything. And then Trad and Glam are just normal crowd smells. I've been to enough variety of metal concerts to know all of this, for better or worse.
Im glad you brought up the "too much of a good thing" situations. Being overwhelmed by perfumes, colognes, lotions, and the like can be just as bad as B.O. And normally it's more akin to using air fresheners to cover up bad smells; they don't cover anything, and instead there are now two overpowering smells jostling for nostril position
the smell of lavender and perfume in general will forever make me nauseous because an old friend used to bring his buddy that would pop on some overpowering lavender scent to cover his b.o. the perfume alone could make you sick but whenever the guy moved or you got too close you could just barely make out something that literally smelled like dirty diaper or burning trash. legit traumatized me to this day
I work at Walmart doing online pickup and the cars I’ve seen and put groceries in are diabolical. Some cars have their own ecosystems growing. I have loaded into cars that make me audibly gag
back when i used to work there had a new hire complain about how many cars smelled like skunk weed. had to remind him how lucky he was to not get one that smelled like actual feces. some people are insanely unhygienic lol
I do a lot of tech work in theater productions and a lot of my friends do customized foam suits (like fursuits), and I can verify that most furry suits end up being cleaned like the majority of our lightly used costume pieces. We use the Febreze Fabric Spray. It works great on pieces that you can’t put in the washer or there isn’t enough for a full load. List of furry costumes are well maintained so the users don’t overheat and the suits can keep their awesome color.
The guy you compare the marvel and anime shirt reminded me as one of the character off your show monster lab I forgot the kid name but he the one who was volunteering to feed the peasants
Cat ladies. My family is from Magrath, Alberta and the area and it's one of those towns where everyone knows everybody, except there was this one recluse who needed a doctor. My great-grandpa was practicing at the time and arrived at her house to check up on her. He wouldn't take his shoes off as he usually would or put down his briefcase. The entire house was covered in cat poop and housed many, many cats. Once he got her diagnosed he told her to go to a hospital and he left. Once she was discharged from the hospital she never returned, so much of town decided volunteered to help clean it. But they couldn't. The smell was so bad they determined the best course of action was to get the cats out and burn down the house, and that's what they did. I don't think cat ladies beats furries, MtG or WoW, but I think it would give them each a run for their money.
Not a Fandom but all this talk about facts reminded me of my older brother who has a fart as his notification for text messages on his phone. Normally just amusing. Until you're standing in the living room of your Mom's house after she died and you're talking to the funeral director as they're picking up her body and his gf is texting him every couple of minutes. Kudos to that guy for remaining professional and not even cracking a smile until our younger brother finally said "just so you know, that's his phone getting a text". Our Mom would have laughed her ass off. She would have set that up in advance if she'd thought of it.
I knew a pair of twins in high school that mastered REM cycle sleep so they could play more WOW. They apparently could sleep only 2 hours so they could play more. Another strange thing, one always wore plain green T shirts, and one always wore plain red T shirts. I learned more about WOW in that class than the actual subject.
My thoughts on these categories Anime: used clothes Marvel: belly button lint WOW: hamburger helper meals Smash: mountain dew and doritos COD: meat lovers pizza + funyons Fortnite: prime and takis Magic the gathering: wizards Pokemon: Baby shampoo Bronies: sex dungeon Furries: hay Cosco: Double chunk chocolate chip cookie Walmart: rotisserie chicken Steven Universe: Minerals Hazbin Hotel: $50,000 Swifties: whatever taylor swift smells like Metalheads: iron and magnesium Overall stinkyness: bronies
Been to a couple cons and anime fans(some of the really fancy cosplayers actally smelled fine) BUT the 30 year old 300 pound guy with a wifeu t shirt always smelled the same, a heavy body sweat smell mixed with a strong mildew smell aswell.
Weebs can't be discounted so easily, either. My local arcade has a permanent odor from poor ventilation and it's at its highest around the stench goblins that tend to focus on anime games. The last time I went there, I got quite the nose full even in open areas because of a handful of people glued to the anime stuff.
As a Costco worker, I can attest to what Hunter is saying. I work both in the food court and on the floor. And regardless, there is that Costco food smell that follows you. But Walmart is worse due to the fact that with Costco you need a paid membership to enter and shop. Where as anyone can go into a Walmart. We literally have control over who gets to shop at our establishment.
If by upgraded you mean got hooked on heroin then yeah forsure reminds me the computer from courage the cowardly dog even though they have different personalities and accents
I hope it's just 40 servo motors like the 80's, if you like animatronics btw you should check out the vid for Headspace/Bent by Benjamin Earl Turner, best practical effects i've seen in years
Looks servo controlled definitely a high level puppet probably a foam latex face but wouldn't be surprised if it's more of a ventriloquist type or hand puppet the way the mouth moves looks like hand puppet but the eyes look servo I driven
Magic has to win. You can TELL that someone plays MTG by stench alone. You can see the stink lines coming off of them like a fucking cartoon. It’s genuinely brutal.
between wow and furries you gotta consider that a fur suit would get cleaned even if its expensive and therefore infrequent. but ive never seen a neet nest cleaned only built upon.
yeah a furry might smell worse on the day they walk around wearing the suit but i’m sure they at least lick themselves clean like once a week. wow stink is constant
@@sdhjsjana72js i'm a furry and can confirm that tongue baths do occur in the feline section, however in the canine world, we just wait until it rains :3
You are forgetting about the crinklers, the ones that purposefully shit in their diapers. Sorry, but in a battle between the worst wow fan vs. the worst furry, it's just no contest
most steven universe fans usually have friends to be depressed with, so its usually more of the "its not an episode kind of day, but the minute mom asks me if ive done the dishes-" sort of thing, while metal heads are just fuckin- bed rotting, off the meds type shit. like the only thing keeping them going is cat pictures and a stale box of cheezits that the ants dont even want.
i'm a fursuit maker. you can machine wash most parts of the suit but it is a bit more involved than regular clothing. As a result there is a spectrum of stink dependent on an individuals maintenance habits. we use disinfectant sprays more frequently to supplement the big cleanings
I was in making a protohead like a few years ago, never finished it though. And yeah I'd imagine proper suites would be cleaned somewhat regularly I hate sweat odours I am special I guess.
I was thinking the same. Most suits require alot of care and most people who actually give a damn do wash them and try to keep them as clean as they can. I think this is very dependent on the person. But thing is...when it gets bad....we sometimes reach outlandishly bad territories and I think that often creates a certain bias xD
My dad (retired Army officer) once told me a story of how he had lost contact with a soldier who wasn’t coming in to work and they couldn’t get in contact with him. He was reported missing for a long time, until he was eventually found at a relatives house. He had gained a staggering amount of weight, having only eaten pizzas delivered to the house, and he was completely addicted to WoW. It was all he did all day, to the point where his body lost almost all muscle I can only imagine how he smelled :( I don’t remember all the details but I’ve never forgotten that. Maybe it was just to get me out of the house more lmao
Well I think the deciding factor also depends if it’s in a congregation or an individual. My brother is a hardcore lol player, he can stink up the room with a miasma of a hard working onion farmer while a mtg or yugio tourney will be awash with undeorderized armpit and stagnant swamp ass. But wearing a used sweaty fur suit is a whole different level of pungent. You can be a freshly showered individual but dawning the forbidden suit makes you the worst. My reference is high school football shirts haha
As someone whos gone to a handful of furry cons, i can definitely confirm their place on this list. The suits themselves can be bad yeah but its the ones that just straight up neglect their hygiene. The suiters are usually self aware and most take care of it since those suits are so damn expensive. Its the ones that just dont shower or put on deodorant that get me. Theres a very accepting and everyone is welcome regardless of who you are vibe that the community puts out there. Some people take that as, i can come to a crowded hall or venue wreaking like worst thing youve ever smelled. Its a very small percentage but god damn is it bad.
Wow, it's almost like the degenerates who make their personality about fucking animals can't be trusted to be rational or reasonable people... I'm baffled
At a cosplay con this weekend a fursuiter was walking around the halls in flip flops. His unwashed, exposed feet were black with encrusted grime. His tail was pulling down his jeans at the back revealing his filthy arse crack.
I really don't get how fandoms ALL seem to have an odor problem. I've been to many conventions over the years for all kinds of different things... Arts and crafts, car shows, coffee brewing equipment shows, airshows, electronics and technology, and almost all of them smelled great! Particularly at an arts and crafts show or a geeky electronics and technology show, I would have expected some bad hygiene but nah, effectively zero! But fandoms? Anime conventions? Magic the Gathering? Warhammer 40k? Furries? Drone racing? Esports tournaments? Video game conventions? 99% of them smell like poop, dirty feet and stale sweat. ALL OF THEM! EVERY SINGLE ONE. The worst part? The people who smell the worst are always extremely sensitive and defensive about being called out over it, and about half of them will double down on it and go out of their way to stink more.
Listen, I’m not ashamed to admit that I too have gone to a movie theater multiple times within the same few weeks to watch the same movie if I really like it. I think the most extroverted I’ve ever been in my life was when I was 11 and the first How to Train Your Dragon movie came out. I was asking friends of friends to go see it with me just so that I’d have an excuse to watch it again. I think I saw it 5 times total in under 2 weeks. Across the Spiderverse and The Boy and the Heron are the most recent movies I’ve been similarly hyped about. (And just in case you were wondering at all…yes, I do in fact have “the tism” and my hyperfixation is animation). But even with all of that said, the guy who called off of work for two whole weeks just so he could watch the same Avengers movie every single day and post about it is actually nuts. That’s a level of either geekiness or just pure unbridled neurodivergence I don’t think I will ever achieve. And I don’t mean that to insult him. I actually think that’s hilarious and amazing. I’d be scared of getting fired if I called off work just to watch the same movie over and over. But hey, if that’s what brings him joy in life, all I’ve gotta say is live your dreams dude. 😂😂😂
At this one GWAR show in Reading PA 2013(while Brockie was still alive). Iron Reagan was the act before them and someone crapped themselves so bad the vocalist acknowledged it.
Honestly I got back into World of Warcraft in my early 30s I had moved back in with my grandparents to help them for health reasons and my grandfather ended up having a massive heart attack and dying literally in my arms which fucked me up bad and sent me on an alcohol and drugs spiral. The only reason I bring that up is because it leads into this I would play World of Warcraft from the time I woke up to the time I went to bed but instead of smoking weed eating junk food and all of that bullshit I would be playing it the entire time while drinking fifths of southern comfort or 30 packs of beer and also smoking around one to $200 worth of crack. Very very dark and bad times that I am more than grateful I was strong enough to get away from all of it
As someone who has been to and worked at many conventions and was literally playing WoW while watching this, I agree with your assessment. I have personally gotten a lot better with hygiene since I was younger, for me, it's pretty closely tied to my mental health.
As someone who plays Yugioh, yes the guy is correct, Konami did put a rule in that players can get penalized for it. As a dude who practices good hygiene, going to some locals and regionals is pretty bad - not to mention that when it's a break to lunch then usually pizza and fast food are ordered to the venue.
