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What are some of the worst or most cringe panels you've seen at cons?

>> No.9549320
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To start off I'd like to mention how in the current year of 2017 Saboten Con is STILL accepting Black Butler panels. They really have no filter or quality assurance and just let in everyone's submissions, don't they?

http://www.sabotencon.com/programming/schedule.html

>> No.9549332

idolm@ster panel where the actual panelists had to cancel and gave it to their friend to run. This dude had no idea what idolm@ster was and was just reading off of a slideshow the whole time, running it solo.

The worst is one I ran this past spring but I'm trying to wipe that from my memory.

>> No.9549345

>>9549320
Just reading the first description made me cringe so hard. Why wouldn't they proofread stuff like that?

>> No.9549744

>>9549320
Saboten has consistently terrible programming. Pretty much everything on that programming schedule looks like a cringefest

>> No.9549753

>>9549318
Every Homestuck panel i've ever seen or been to. I didn't read much of the comic and I wasn't what you'd call a fan, but I went to one just to see what it was like.

Hell.

Pure hell.

Besides that, I hate Iron Lolita contests

>> No.9549844

>>9549320
It's always hilarious when an "18+" panel sounds like it had its description written by a 14 year old.

>> No.9549854

Con I always go to has a date auction. Always super cringy. I love it.
>character q&as, sleepovers, spin the bottle etc

>> No.9549857

>>9549318
Acen had a really shitty "Feminist Perspective on Yaoi" this year

>> No.9549886

>>9549318
>AX- dont remember the year
>me and friends are bored. exhibit hall closed so we look for panels at night
>decide to go to some avatar last airbender panel for shits and giggles
>first 5 minutes starts with a slide about shipping characters
>some people laugh, some people start groaning
>immediately people start leaving the room one by one
>me and friends dont leave right away because we were too busy laughing at how bad this panel was
>nearly 80% of the people have left
>finally leave

>> No.9549896

I thought it was a fashion show based on the description and it was in the name. Turns out the organiser was a site selling cosplays. So basically it was just an advertisement to their site. They only had about 5 max in the fashion shows so they ran out of time very quickly. The rest was audience participation where they had to answer what cosplay meant to them, meaning cringy people could get the mic for a couple of minutes to talk about their feelings.

>> No.9550065

>>9549318
Anime Boston's Know Your Meme panel.

>> No.9550073

>>9549857
I was going to go to that, but I forgot about it. How cringy was it??

>> No.9550113

>>9549886
>not the "make you own RPG character panel"
>literally a girl acting stuff out on stage and people yelling their suggestions

>> No.9550189

>>9549896
I went to a panel about adult figures that ended with the woman hawking her porn art
It was midnight so I forgave her, but those advertisement panels are the worst.
At least the awful preteen 18+ QA in-character homestuck undertale shit is enjoyed by idiots

>> No.9550197

Queering up the con panel at AX this year. Completely pathetic.
I love how in the last 5 years gender identity has turned in to a lifestyle. What's the next fad going to be?

>> No.9550201

Whose Line is it Anime is a mixed bag. It's one thing to have people who are not as funny as they think they are perform but there are some diamonds in the rough. What happened to them anyway? They could greatly benefit from better equipment. Didn't see them on the programming at this year's AX.

>> No.9550205

>>9549320
I'm just ready for the cringe at Saboten. So much shitty yaoi 18+.

>> No.9550231
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9550231

>>9550197
July 2 was scheduled full with faggotry and thus failed.

Did someone at least identify themselves as an attack helicopter?

>> No.9550233

Went to Anime Matsuri a few years back and went to the Hentai Dubs panel with some friends. Someone did one at Ikkicon that same year where he would play a clip and let people improvise their dialogue and it was hysterical so we were ready for a good time. This guy at Matsuri just had people reading the actual hentai script and it was absolutely terrible. We left less than 15 minutes or so in, it was so bad.

>> No.9550251

>>9549844
Their bodies got older but their minds will stay forever young


shitty local con had a blind date thing, looked who went: fat beta males, age 27+ and little girls in cosplay, age 18-

most pathetic panel i went to because it sounded like great cringe comedy: how to craft your own catears:
shitty "how do it cut out a paper triangle" cringe

>> No.9550253

I really have two types of panels that I just hate seeing.

>Information/tutorial panels where the presenter acts like the sole expert on the matter rather than referring to online tutorials
>Game show panels with no contestant checking (random from audience)

In the first case, there is a plethora of knowledge available on the internet beyond what any single individual could ever present in a panel. Give us links and reference us to the 100s of hours of information available online rather than acting like you can impart it all to us in less than one hour!

In the second case, I have seen so many cringe gameshow panels where the randomly selected audience members seem to not have any knowledge on the subject matter whatsoever where one person with somewhat mediocre knowledge can answer every single question. It isn't even hard. Call up a group of potentials, give a simple 10 question form and select contestants from the most knowledgeable contestants (while maybe trimming one or two TOO knowledgeable contestants) make it a fair competition that's interesting to watch.

And to repeat it again, your local con's panel quality is only as good as the submissions it gets. If you think you could run a better panel, submit one! People keep saying they hate fandom panels but those are the ones that tend to fill seats.

>> No.9550306

Otakon, 2006? 2007? "do it yourself bukkake," with no description listed in the program guide

>> No.9550312

I always bring it up but there was an MTAC panel called "how to pick up a slant eye"

didn't go, but oh boy I am curious

>> No.9550446

>>9550306
Well did you go?

>> No.9550468

Not so much the panel itself, but a person in the crowd.
I went to a Yuri anime panel that basically just recommended good yuri/shoujo-ai anime. The people running it were calm and fine and very informed
MEANWHILE. Some girl in the audience, right next to me and my friends, would interrupt the panel runners to over explain the anime they're on
She was getting so bad even the panel runners were getting exhausted and just let her go on. Because of this they couldn't finish the list and explanations.

>> No.9550486

>>9549854
Nebraskon?

>> No.9550489

https://youtu.be/CSWN1A04r3U
The one to rule them all

>> No.9550503

>>9550312
MTAC has fuckin weird panels. They also have wait times like AX for all the popular ones.

"How to be an otaku"
"How to not be a creep and other dating tips"
"Faith and the Anime Community"

The only thing this con has going for it panel wise is the Pokémon Church on Easter Sunday.

Thank you oh Arceus, that you sent Mew, your only son

>> No.9550550
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>>9550312
It was a panel by an Asian band called The Slants.

I remember, the controversy when the schedules came out was hilarious. So many obese white women with sidecuts raging on the MTAC Facebook page.

>> No.9550614

I have a bad to ok to bad again panel story.

>Shitty local con 2014/2015
>"Con stories" panel or some shit
>Room is full but no panelists show up.
>Audience decides to just do it ourselves and people take turns telling funny, cringey, or scary con stories
>Everyone having a good time
>Some random group of pokemon cosplayers comes in halfway through
>They decide to "take over" the panel and are just cringey and awkward
>People just start walking out

Why do people insist on being attention whores and ruining all the fun.

>> No.9550655

I didnt go to it but im pretty sure there was a gender science panel at dashcon, hoping to find some more info on that, even someone who went to it would be nice if not unlikely

>> No.9550657

>>9550655
Were there any GOOD panels at that mess of a con?

>> No.9550676

>>9550550
Huh. Didn't know they do anime cons.

>> No.9550690

>>9550657

Hey a broken clock is right twice a day so im sure there mightve been one medicore panel

>> No.9551183

>>9550253
>a fair competition that's interesting to watch

I was in a gameshow panel this year where I absolutely SLAMMED the competition and I still feel guilty about it. It wasn't even a poorly done game show - I just really, really fucking knew my shit on the subject in question. I hope my curb stomp was fun to watch but I feel terrible that the other contestants didn't get to participate.

>> No.9551223

>>9550446

after standing in line for an hour, yeah. they were turning people away at the door. this lady in wolf ears walked up to the front and started showing us all her wolfs rain erotic fanart. that was the panel.

>> No.9551266

>>9549318
>>9550065
Edit: Every Anime Boston Panel

>> No.9551269

AX 2017 had a panel on mental health and fandom. I figured it would be about the coloration between mental issues such as autism and anime, and how it attracts so many people with mental issues. Instead is was five fat SJWs talking about their life stories and coming out the closet as bisexual or trans, and none of it had anything to do with weeb shit. One person just kept talking about Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and how their own dad was an asshole. Needless to say I didn't stick around long.

>> No.9551309

>>9551266
Fuck you, Extreme Geek is hilarious

So was Hentai Dubbing but they got rid of that

>> No.9551372

>>9549753
Homestuck cosplayers in particular are awkward because they all try to do unnecessary and annoying accents for the characters even though they themselves usually have slightly annoying accents they don't know about.

They've been dying off from conventions, which is kind of bad because it's something I actually know about but kind of good because they were annoying as hell.

>> No.9551406

>>9550655
Are you saying you went to fucking dashcon

>> No.9551407

>>9551372
I feel the same, anon. I'm more saddened that Homestucks don't seem to hold more fun, interactive panels past the 'Ask the ____s!'
Any advice on avoiding running a bad panel, keeping a cringey audience engaged/under control, or entertaining interactive ideas would be much appreciated.

>> No.9551425

>>9551407
Yeah, I don't even know if my con even had a panel last year for it. And the "Ask Homestuck" panels always feel meandering because nobody's even looked at the comic in ages so it just reverts into awkward accent talking leading into stupid sbahj puns.

>That time two years ago when I asked some shit about fat Vriska because of the old joke and some Meenah got genuinely upset and said "I will fight you"
Good shit.

>> No.9551431

>>9551269
Correlation

When I saw it in the schedule I assumed it'd be about kinshit

>> No.9551459

>>9551425
Agreed. Not to mention the portion of people that either skipped acts, or only listened to 'Let's Reads.' I find that a lot of people I've talked to are largely impacted by fanon interpretations or headcanons than the actual comic.
For relevancy, one year there were two of the exact same Homestuck panels with the exact same prompt, (Sleepoverstuck), on the same day, at the same con, by two different panel groups. Ended up starting some petty drama for a little bit.

>> No.9551464

Not a bad panel per say, but i have a really vivid memory of going to a trap panel with my brother when I was 13 and he was 15.

>> No.9552058

>Holmat 2016
>Last night of the con, go to a Steven Universe panel
>It's late, so I figured there wouldn't be many people
>Walk in, there's only about eight other people there
>I'm the only one in cosplay
>Dude and his girlfriend are "hosting" the panel. I say "host" because they inform us that the person who was originally going to host the panel couldn't make it, so they were told to host it instead
>A few people are walking out already
>SU trivia round, a few boring questions that are way too easy
>He then decides to do a "mad lib", only instead of it actually being a mad lib, he shows us the script on the screen and lets us fill it in however we want
>I politely raise my hand and inform him that this isn't how mad libs work
>He tells me that "this is how he does it"
>Before I know it, I'm the only one left
>He's still trying to do stuff knowing I'm the last one
>Feel like a huge asshole if I left during his panel, so I stay
>And then banana man shows up
>Literally a guy in a banana costume who I suspected was a little drunk enters
>He's friends with the guy hosting the panel and takes over for him
>Can't even remember what he was trying to do, but it definitely wasn't SU-related
>Finally leave
>Run into my sister and her friend, tell them about the cringeworthy panel
>They actually want to check it out
>We get back, and the panel room is closed and locked, despite the fact that it was supposed to run for another 15 minutes or so
>See banana man dancing across the hall
>Go back to the hotel room and sleep

If plans for a panel fall through last minute, make sure to have an actual back-up plan

>> No.9552166

>>9549332
C'mon, anon. Tell us.

>> No.9552186

>>9550550
>>9550676
Wait, these guys?
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/19/533514196/the-slants-win-supreme-court-battle-over-bands-name-in-trademark-dispute

>> No.9552297

>>9551407
Be prepared.

I could wax on with advice for thousands of words, but it boils down to be prepared. Have interesting visuals, have well researched content, practice improv if it's important, make sure your tech works before hand (If your con has an optional tech check on Day 0 or Day 1 GO TO IT!). Do a dry run of your panel beginning to end before you get to the con, do a dress rehearsal the weekend of the con if you have in character panelists. Be in constant communication with copanelists if you have them. Best way to deal with audience issues is to have plants - friends in the audience with specific pre-written questions, that you can call on in order to get things back on track or durring an audience lull. If you're worried about audience control talk to your staffer durring set up time, every room should (SHOULD) have a staffer assigned to it, and you can ask them to step in if they notice anyone in the audience being beligerent or monopolizing the conversation.

Have FUN, go into this because you fucking love your subject matter, and channel that into energy that you're feeding directly to the audience.

>> No.9552338

>>9549332
What were they even thinking? Why waste an hour on something you don't give a shit about?

>> No.9552339

>>9550197
Story time?

>> No.9552353

>>9552186
Yep! They go to a lot of smaller end anime cons-although they were inactive for a period of time due to the court case.

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actual graphic the person hosting the panel is using for it
the con this panel is at isn't for another month but knowing the person running it I can already tell it will be the most cringey event at the con

>> No.9552644

The one punch man panel at acen was pretty lame. One guy seemed to be falling asleep and one of the others kept being way to close to tge mic

>> No.9552659

>>9549320
>in the current year of 2017 Saboten Con is STILL accepting Black Butler panels
If there's still interest in such panels, what's the problem? Isn't the point of a panel to be about something people will enjoy?

>> No.9552662

>>9550065
Did anyone here go to this last year? I was at AB but didn't attend this panel for obvious reasons, I'm curious about what it was like though.

>> No.9552664

>>9550065
If ancient memes were involved I'd be happy

>> No.9552667

>>9549320
All that kpop and hentai shit as well
>blow a load at our panel and don't pull out too quickly
Gag.

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>>9551183
What was the subject?

>> No.9553316

>>9551464
was that even sfw?

>> No.9553339

>>9552166
Well, my area has a pretty active dance cover/idol comm, and we have a lot of dance events. I had the idea to host a variety show of sorts, to let everyone show off some non-dance stuff and let their personalities come through, kind of like AKBINGO which is played by members of AKB48. I don't think that was a bad idea on its own, but there were a few factors that made it just the most awkward and embarrassing panel for everyone involved.

-I tried to do way too much that weekend. Three panels, two dance events, and an artist's alley table, to be exact. The result is that I didn't allot enough time for anything, and my table was rushed, all three panels were rushed, and the dances were rough and I made a lot of mistakes. I didn't practice any of the games and events I had set up for the panel beforehand, so they were all a blind run.

-Sound/music completely cut out during the panel and I had to run and grab a staff member to get it fixed.

It was late in the day on the Sunday of the con, so most people had left already, including most of the people interested in participating. There was a tiny audience and only a few people competing, so there wasn't as much energy as I had envisioned in the room.

So yeah. Everyone sat through it out of politeness but it was a massive cringey disaster and most of that was entirely my fault for being so unprepared.

>> No.9553368

>>9549318
is that spooner with his keyblade? he gets around a lot at mcm

>> No.9553389

> went to friends panel to support her
> guy who has panel before is going over his time slot
> ok we'll sit in the back and wait
> small con so no line
> guy notices us walk in and starts watching us
> notices us checking the time and looking at phones
> he gets triggered
> starts ranting about us and making fun of us to his no longer enjoying themselves audience
> "IMAGINE GOING TO A PANEL JUST TO LOOK AT YOUR PHONE LOLOL"
> we just stare back, he's over half an hour over now
> he keeps referencing us
> someone from con ops drags him off
> friend has to massively trim her presentation to fit the now extremely short time slot
> most of the crowd stayed, they were waiting as well.

>> No.9553549

>>9553389
when he stated making fun of you why didn't you cut him off and tell him you were the next panelists and he's late?

>> No.9553766

Not the worst but back in 2013 I attended a Hetalia panel. The panelists themselves were pretty cool and were cracking jokes left and right. What ruined it tho was this preteen girl interrupting the main panelist every 5 minutes. The parents were there too and eventually they got fed up with her behavior and were threatening her with leaving the panel if she didn't shut up.

>> No.9553956

Was a part of the homestuck musical and let me tell you what 8 levels of fresh hell and cringe that was. we were technically just a 3 and a half hour long panel

>> No.9554164

>>9553389
Dude, if a panelist goes more than five minutes into my time, I tell them and then start getting closer and closer to the table until they feel uncomfortable and leave without my needing to get nasty. I would have gotten staff after 10 minutes.

>> No.9554571

It's not as bad at the local anime cons, but at the local Comicon type events near me, there are a ton of SJW/social issue type panels rather than actual fandom/cosplay/etc panels. Stuff like "Hollywood Whitewashing"
"It's not your fault - cosplay and bullying"
"Should I cosplay that?"
"Representation Matters"
"Body positive cosplay"
"Cosplaying sexy, safely"

I guess people like those types of panels, but it just sounds like a Tumblr circle jerk to me.

>> No.9554687

>>9551407
If someone has a question or comment and they go on for longer than 15 seconds, cut them off.

>> No.9555174

Got a couple

>18+ haikyuu panel i was on at a small con
>maybe 8 attendees
>two of which know what haikyuu even is
>one dude asks what sport we play right after we make the intro "hey this is the volleyball anime"
>friend has to resort to a shart joke for anyone to laugh

I also went to Kamui's panel at A-kon this year about turning cosplay into a business and the one dude decided to set up camp in the aisle, including a camera thats recording, his laptop, and a camera he was taking photos with. Was constantly interrupting Kamui and directing all of his q's to Benny, asking 8,000 questions, being horribly sexist, and brought up how sexy his friend Kawaiibro was. Literally everyone in that panel was so completely tired of him. I'm surprised Kamui put up with it for the full hour/half, she looked like she wanted to kick the dude in the nuts the whole time.

>> No.9555206

>>9553766
I've only seen a couple good hetalia panels. Sometimes the panelists are super funny and self aware, but most of the time it's full of teenagers and cringey behavior.

>> No.9555238

>>9552058
this was honestly so fucking boring. why did you type this out?

>> No.9555256

>>9550503
>"Faith and the Anime Community"
was that vic lasagna's panel? he HAD to have showed up

>> No.9555588

>>9553956
>the homestuck musical
Is this on youtube because I need to see it

>> No.9555589

Creepypasta panel. I thought that it'd consist of some classic horror stories, maybe some I haven't heard before. Maybe I'm just too old, but it was just some cringy spazzes freaking while playing the Shrek version of Slenderman, stories of Shrek ass fucking, and too many Yugioh Abridged references.

>> No.9555594

>>9555589
It was probably just inevitable with how internet technology progressed, but creepypasta got ruined when it turned into a "brand" with Jeff the Killer, Slenderman, and fucking Five Nights at Freddy's being the "main characters." Shit resembles the mcu more than campfire ghost stories.

>> No.9555641

Fanime had a shit lineup of SJW panels this year
>Cultural Appropriation & You
>Fic W(rec)k (notably utilizing "feminist theories" in the description)
>How to Un-Troll
>Using Nerd Culture to Escape

There was a similarly titled panel to the latter mentioned panel at Anime Expo as well. I can only imagine the people that enjoy them to be mentally unstable.

>> No.9555723

>>9550065
That was a fun panel and the people who ran it were super nice. It got the audience involved and it looked like everyone had a lot of fun. Stop ruining everyone's fun, anon. You know there were worse panels than that.

>> No.9556252

>>9555588

here you go my pal

https://youtu.be/ph5SUGNLSkA

>> No.9556283

>Be at a cosplay mental health panel out of pure curiosity
>Panelist didn't come with any material, just ad lib
>Starts asking people about their experiences
>One attendee dominates the entire discussion with 10 minute long stories about their life and makes it awkward for anyone else to speak
>Also frequently butts in when the panelist is speaking to share even more stories
>"Ok a bit awkward but whatever"
>Suddenly, panelist starts bringing up outside personal drama
>Starts ragging on fatties and how SJW types coddle them
>Suddenly, fatties burst forth from their seats and rush outside mumbling angrily under their breaths
>mfw
>Fatties then spend the entirety of the panel stood outside staring through the windows and crying
>Panelist doesn't handle the situation well and instead continues to rag on the fatties and try and get the attendees on their side
>Panel escalates into an angry debate
>mfw this was supposed to be a cosplay mental health panel

>> No.9556300

>>9556283
That's amazing actually, i should attend the next panel like this i see

>> No.9556351

>>9556283
>>9556300
It sounds like a comedy panel

>> No.9556844

>>9549318
I went to a panel in Phoenix Comic Con 2017 called "Making Fun of Hentai". It was supposed to be just like what the title described - a panel where the host played hentai clips and made fun of them. Except that never happened. Instead, people just volunteered to go up in front of the audience and flash their tits or dick. We never actually got to watch any hentai at all. Complete waste of time.

>> No.9556961

I forgot which thread it was but it seems to be a panel that discusses why Kill La Kill is "Downright Offensive". I want more details because it sounds hilarious.

>> No.9556969

>>9556844
So... full on tits and dick? Any impressive ones?

>> No.9557096

>Panel named something like "Less known must-read mangas"
>Room is so stuffed they had to turn people around on the door
>Half of the panel is just about different types and history of manga
>Then we got into the recommendations
>"Oh yeah, she/he has also drawn some yaoi"
>Repeat on every author
>Almost half of the people go away before the panel ends
>Later find the panelist online, she's hardcore fujoshishit

>> No.9557099

>>9556961
It's a meme

>> No.9557146

>>9557099
So it's a shoop or were they just fucking around?

>> No.9557186

>>9554571
Sounds like it could be some important and helpful discussion panels that are unfortunately most likely run by people the don't necessarily understand any of those things enough to hold discussions on them. But I'm all for encouraging people to cosplay because they enjoy it, yo.

>> No.9559834

I got a small local con every year for the overseas merch, and this year I went into some interesting panels

>Panel about feminism in comics
>Hour long shitshow hosted by a girl in a bad Winry Rockbell wig and thrifted business wear >Accompanied byfat friend wearing bunny ears
>Horrible lisp and stutter
>Has no real information other than pages from Young Avengers, harps about 'muh gay boiz'
>Eventually shows us her Google Drive, full of yaoi, SU, Homestuck, etc.
>Panel derails to them talking about their life, super awkward romance discussion
>Turns out girl is a business major at my college and churns out papers about this shit for genuine classes

Same day:
>Lovecraft in Anime and Manga
>Secret /x/phile, insist on going
>Panel is ran by a neckbeard and his equally gross friends
>Spends thirty minutes insisting that Digimon is Lovecraftian horror
>Barely discusses Junji Ito or anything genuinely related to Lovecraft or even cosmic horror

There was also a horrible Love Live panel I went to, but that was just your typical small con maid cafe gone wrong.

>> No.9559944

>>9559834
To be fair, the writer for Digimon Tamers did write a Lovecraft story and DT did have cosmic horror overtones.

>> No.9559975

At PAX East. Bioware's own Mass Effect Andromeda panel was one of the worst. Literally they had nothing to talk about, didn't acknowledge the amazing mass effect cosplayers in the room, and didn't even show new footage. They gave nothing but some really lame cards against humanity bullshit.
Oh but we did get to watch one of the devs try to play their own game and fail hard over and over. Made the game really look like shit.

>> No.9559978

>>9549320
I don't get these sort of panels. Is it like improv interactive theatre? I find those things cringey anyway, even if it's a professional one.

But with cosplayers? Yesh...

>> No.9560971

>>9559975
BioWare can't even host a panel in its own fucking city. All the panels at animethon are a fuckign mess. Last year a fight almost broke out, I'm not sure if that one was run by them or not though.

>> No.9561050

>>9553368
Oh that's MCM? I knew I recognised some of these faces, think I met them at Kitacon

>> No.9561112

>>9559834
>business major
How the fuck can you shift business papers to be about that shit. I'm a film major and I feel like I'm sperging out whenever I just mention classic films in my papers that aren't explicitly discussed in-class.

>>9559978
I feel like all of the shitty improv/"Ask!" panels are just excuses to congregate all of the fans of some big flavor of the month, and that the panel itself is just tertiary to this end. Think about how all those panels are usually meme shit like Homestuck/Undertale/Steven Universe.

>> No.9561146

>>9559975

>Oh but we did get to watch one of the devs try to play their own game and fail hard over and over. Made the game really look like shit.

That's both hilarious and sad at the same time. I have no hope for their new game.

>> No.9561148

>>9559975
Is there anything they did right during that shitshow?

>> No.9561178

At last years animaga, there was supposed to be an abridged series panel, but the panelists never showed up. So it resulted in us in the crowd and the mc having a discussion on some of our favourite abridged series'. Probably better than the panel we would have gotten.

>> No.9561260

Gravure panel at Otakon, forgot the year. Was just some redneck talking about plowing his girlfriend, with a few JAVs playing on mute in the background.

>> No.9561305

>>9561260
But this unironically sounds hilarious

>> No.9561328

>>9561148
Nope. I waited a long time to get in first before everyone else (don't ask me why, it's human nature to want to be first) and it was a colossal waste of time

>> No.9561921

>>9555641
Thank god I couldn't go this year, was gonna feel bad about it. But after seeing this...

>> No.9561930

>>9561112
She showed some examples, it was basically 'adding feminism to comics increases sales because supply and demand!!!" It was pretty obvious she wasn't top of her class, to say the least

>> No.9562428

Went to a panel that was supposed to be about lesbian sex in yuri and how it compares to real life.

Panelists never mentioned anime unless someone asked a question about it. Most of the panel is about how to tell if a woman is gay, how to come out, how to kiss another woman, talking about lesbian orgies they've been in, how to discretely buy strap-ons, etc.

One panelist left the room for 10 minutes and came back with a giant box of sex toys.

She spends 15 minutes introducing them all.

Some girl in the audience doesn't know how a fucking Hitachi magic wand works (hint: plug it in, turn it on, hold it in your or someone else's genital area, wait for the orgasm... fucking rocket science, man!). The panelist plugs it it and turns it on. Of course, the time it takes to find a place to plug it in takes up more time.

Holy shit that was awful. Anime cons aren't the place to teach sex ed to sexually frustrated virgins and people who don't know what masturbation is.

>> No.9562442

>>9561328
I was actually referring to Andromeda as a whole. Everything about that game is a disaster. Did you know their sponsor Totino's fucked up their DLC codes by printing them outside of the bags?

>> No.9562446

>>9557186
>Sounds like it could be some important and helpful discussion panel
sounds like panels that anyone with an iota of common sense wouldn't feel the slightest need to attend

>> No.9562450

>2015
>speedrunning panel
>two guys hosting it
>one of them is talking about a very basic intro to speedrunning and how it got started
>the other one is wearing a too tight captain america hoodie and speedruns f zero gx
>any time guy 1 makes a point about anything, guy 2 just screams about how it relates to f zero gx
>"speedrunning has some neat tricks that require frame-perfect execution"
>"AND IN F ZERO GX THESE TRICKS ARE A, B, AND C"
>run out of material about 2/3 of the way through their time slot
>guy 1 eventually just puts on a brain age tas to fill the rest of the time in the panel

It definitely wasn't the worst panel on this planet but I still laugh about it.

>> No.9562459

a kyary pamyu pamyu panel where the guy kept calling her "kye-airy" and couldn't get his computer to work

>> No.9562474

>>9562428
>Anime cons aren't the place to teach sex ed to sexually frustrated virgins and people who don't know what masturbation is.
why not, when most of the guests are sexuelly frustrated virgins

>> No.9562485

>>9559834
Someone should do a panel that combines idol games and horror and call it Lovecraftian Live.

I think the worst panel I've been to was probably a "drag" panel at Fanime a couple years ago. Description made it sound fun. Got there a bit late but the only part I saw was a couple of cosplayers doing the chicken dance really unenthusiastically before the secondhand embarrassment was too strong and I had to go. The rest of the panel could have been good for all I know but I was too uncomfortable for them and bolted.

It was memorable in it's terribleness at least, since most of the bad panels I've been to I can't really describe in any way other than "too boring not to immediately forget."

>> No.9562551

>local con a few years ago
>group of friends want to do panel on making your own cosplay
>recruit me since I made their cosplays a few times
>think it'll be fun and make entire PowerPoint dedicated to picking out fabric, pattern making, altering patterns, tip tricks, where to find cheap notions
>end up doing absolutely everything, didn't mind too much since I enjoyed it
>have everything and drive to con to set up early
>end up waiting 20 mins for friends to get rides from their parents
>all show up in horrific DIY Tokyo Mew Mew OC costumes I didn't make
>fattychan of group waddles up to front as people begin to trickle in
>"I'm presenting, anon-chan."
>hasn't even looked at my presentation and looks like she glued her costume together
>'sure thing lol'
>drop everything into her hands and step back
>panel begins
>fattychan floundering spectacularly, looks to other friends for help, they were too busy making shitty costumes to ever look at my presentation, all deer in headlights
>tries adlibbing for a good 15 mins about how she made her costume and explains her OC that's totally a sweetheart BUT DONT PISS HER OFF XD NYA~
>hear snickering throughout the crowd, a few people leave
>fattychan sweating like a whore in church, tries reading from my presentation again
>fattychan puts mic in my face after not figuring out what seam allowance is
>take mic and do the presentation solo, things going well, people interested
>fattychan tries to interject at random intervals trying to be funny and SO RANDUMMXD
>makes really annoying squeaks and gasps during panel like she's a fucking anime character
>'and don't forget to flip your interfacing so you don't accidentally glue it to your iron.'
>"EEEEEHHHHHHH?!?!?‽??"
>entire panel goes like that, finally ends
>fattychan and group do anime poses while screeching 'NYA'
>everyone looks like they just watched fucking Erasherhead as they shuffle out

>> No.9562905
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9562905

Most bad panels are the ones I forget about once I leave the con. They're generally just boring and unmemorable.

I attended an 18+ Donganronpa2 mystery-solving panel at A-kon last year and an audience member vomited so con staff cut the panel short as it was a "biohazard". I was glad to have a reason to leave because the creep sitting next to me kept muttering vile shit and yelling crude sex jokes as if he was the funniest guy in the room. The audience members who bothered to pay attention to him were side-eyeing him for being unnecessarily nasty. Dude had zero self-awareness and even less social awareness. I reactively gagged at a few of his "jokes" and he was obviously trying his best to ignore me (as well as the many others who reacted poorly to him).

The panelists were all out of character and had generally poor quality cosplays, and the lech chef character's cosplayer among the panelists wasn't even making the lewd jokes. It was the straight-laced coach character's cosplayer that was being consistently decadent. The mischaracterization really threw me off, and I lost interest in the mystery as a result.

>>9562551
God, this give me major 2009 con vibes. Made me wince a bit. Wish I was there for the overexaggerating and ill-prepared fattychan as well as the anon with the actual cosplay advice.

>> No.9563545

>>9549753

I knew this girl once who was a part of Homestuck panels. She'd have a friend film them every time and show us the videos. Holy shit, it was bad. REALLY bad.

>> No.9563631

>>9549320
Lol doesn't Saboten usually boast about their "450+ panels"? Not surprised they accept anything and everything. I don't understand how this convention still makes money giving out around 400 free day passes and having only garbage to do at the convention.

>> No.9563769

>>9550676
>>9552186
>>9552353

Yeah they got their start at Kumoricon in the late 00's doing Naruto and Bleach OP covers.

>> No.9563770

>>9549857
>yaoi is misogynist anti-women patriarchal shit because it centers around ATTRACTIVE men who would rather fuck other men than fuck me, a REAL curvy strong, slim 300 lb womyn

How close was I?

>> No.9563786

>>9557186
Those rarely if ever actually actually address the issues at hand, usually at best tangentially related while the panelist talks and nauseum about their self diagnosed problems. The broader social issues are just a smokescreen so they can't be called out for it.

The only place I've seen it done well is at places like SDCC where they actually involve producers and people inside the industry.

>> No.9563918

>>9560971
lmao would love to hear more about this

>> No.9564304

>>9562474
Because unless it actually has some sort of relation to the convention's theme, like a panel on con hookups or a panel on cosplay in the bedroom, it's relation to the con's subject matter is zero. If people want to learn about sex, use the fucking Internet.

>> No.9566580

>>9562450
Fuck, I love F-Zero GX.

>> No.9566655

>>9562551
>'and don't forget to flip your interfacing so you don't accidentally glue it to your iron.'
I literally have no idea what this means. Can you give your presentation to me?

>> No.9567176

>>9550197
>I love how in the last 5 years gender identity has turned in to a lifestyle. What's the next fad going to be?

Whatever lets rich white girls claim victimhood status once alternate gender identities become more acceptable.

>> No.9567186

>>9550550
>>9552186
They're free speech heroes now. Something our country desperately needs.

>> No.9568932

>>9567176
Yeah, this is exactly the same as the bisexuality fad in the early to mid 2000s.

>> No.9568970

>>9552659
Nah I'm pretty sure they'll just take any panels since people aren't submitting much. Just look at how many Kpop panels they accepted, pretty much duplicates.

>> No.9570284

>>9568970
>take any panels since people aren't submitting much
I guess that's one possible explanation for how Mechacon this year is having four (4) different Homestuck panels in Anno Domini MMXVII

>> No.9570374

>>9557096
Was this at Desucon? I was there, it seemed like the panelist had only read mangas by yaoi authors

>> No.9570424

>>9570374
Yes, it was. I wanted to leave before she even got into the recommendations but my friend wanted to stay. What a waste of time.

>> No.9570483

>>9563770
On point. 5/5.

>> No.9571175

>>9568970

That's not the case. I know a number of panels that have been rejected over these effortless panels. It's the panel manager, not necessarily the panelists.

>> No.9571538

>MADstravaganza is an annual tradition at UK cons
>Basically 90 minute long clip show of wacky stuff from Japan
>Funny as fuck, always popular
>2016
>Panel gets put in tiny hall, instead of massive auditorium next door
>Not enough chairs, people having to sit on hard floor
>People turned away at doors
>Creator is now obsessed with some dumbass show most people present have never heard of
>Panel is 50% skits about this show nobody gets and 50% clips from last year's panel
>A literal fistfight breaks out and some dude got arrested

Man, it was shit. Luckily he seems to have got it into his head nobody gives a shit about his shows, and he's said they'll be less of it this year.

>> No.9573076

>>9551183
What was it? AirBender live action movie trivia