Imagine being so toxic, another hotel has to warn their competitors not to host them

I can't imagine the mentality of someone who thinks, 'you know what, this furry convention is a bit too grounded in reality, let's do mushrooms'.

"PUT YOUR PANTS ON AND STOP BREAKING SHIT!" That guy is the voice of a generation.

This entire event can be summarized in one phrase: “Dear God no…”

Imagine being so toxic every hotel rejects you

“Give a man a mask and he’ll show his true face”

It's so funny how people were trying to justify these guys' actions like "dude it's a fetish con, if you're going to shame others for their personal hobbies than that's your problem" NO DUDE YOU DON'T GO AROUND A HOTEL LOBBY WITH A GIMP MASK AND A SOILED DIAPER ON

The organizers thought they were being so inclusive and welcoming when they chose not to heed the "Do Not Invite" list. They didn't seem to consider that the people on that list are there for a reason.

I can imagine that the people in the ambulance, probably taking off the furry's head, felt like Scooby Doo

"crinkling"? I don't think I've ever had a word physically hurt me until now.

apparently the reason why everyone was so crazy was because the con didn't ban anyone, so all these people were ones banned from other cons showed up here. so this was just all the worst furrys. apparently other cons are a lot more chill and feature much less property damage and drugs.

I had a roommate who worked for a hotel cleaning service and got the call to clean up the 2015 Hilton mess after the furries left. The bill was in the tens of thousands because of all the human feces that had been ground into the carpets. He said it looked like people were crapping on the floors then stomping it into the carpet on purpose. None of us believed him when he told us the story because none of us knew what a furry was so it seemed impossible a person would do such a thing intentionally. In hindsight i miss those simpler and more innocent times when i didn't know those kid of people existed and still had a sliver of faith in humanity.

“The diaper wearing saboteur had written another letter.” There’s a sentence I never thought I’d hear.

imagine being a cop. its your first day, and you get a call on the radio. when you get there you have to arrest someone in a fursuit for assault

2023 UPDATE: RF17 never happened, nor has any Rainfurrest event since

I can imagine being the owner of the hotel and hearing that your hotel was vandalized and thinking it was probably caused by wannabe troublemakers only to find out it was caused by people in animal costumes

Imagine opening a convention with "This convention was NOT a target of an evil curse. Don't worry."

The oldest anarchy server in minecraft

That guy snitching to save those hotels immediately after throwing diapers everwhere basically had the ultimate redemption arc.

"I would never advocate violence against someone for being different, no matter how bizarre they may be." *Finds a used adult diaper on the hood of my car* "Except for that guy. Fuck that guy."

Props to the guy who said, "let's build a server room right underneath the bathrooms. That way, when the bathroom floods, the servers will be watercooled!"

Imagine working everyday for a year so your family can go on a nice vacation to Seattle and when you get to your hotel you are met with a furry shitting his diaper in the lobby.

What really caused Rainfurrest to fail was the fact that the convention didn't ban anyone, so furries who were banned from other conventions for good reason arrived and showed everyone exactly why they're blacklisted from everything fur-con related. Basically, the worst of the worst showed up simply because they could and made the whole thing a living nightmare. Every fandom who holds conventions has a blacklist, and I'm fairly certain that if another fandom hosted a convention without their blacklist you'd get a similar result to Rainfurrest if not worse.

The true reason why Hbomberguy picking fights with Internet Historian.

I feel bad for the actual guests at that Hilton Hotel...

The true unsung hero's in this story are the house keepers who worked at this hotel. I can't imagine what they walked into.

rainfurrest is the exact reason why furry cons in seattle/washington now are so insanely strict on their NO NFSW FAMILY FRIENDLY ONLY rule. if your outfit is even leaning a bit too risque, they will ask you to change or throw you out. i think it's a good thing, they want to enjoy their hobby safely and in a sfw fashion with no chance of an event like rainfurrest happening ever again.

5:45 Oh, it pisses you off? How pissed off do you think the hotel staff and police were, having to manage your lunatic con-goers?

This convention was so destructive that the hotel actually banned ALL fan conventions from ever using their space again.

Can you imagine you're on a business trip, getting done with a long day, you walk into your hotel and see hundreds of inebriated grown adults in animal costumes.

I use to deliver pizza in San Jose. The furry convention was held at the radisson by the airport. They placed a lot of pizza orders, and I saw some shit… the hot tub got closed after the first year or two because diapers were clogging it. I got propositioned to get “pounced” in an elevator. One room had the door open, where a bunch of 60-70 year old men in tighty whities were surrounded a bed with some 18 year old twink in his underwear was standing on. And much, much more. After a few years I realized they found a new hotel downtown and these people were out and about in the community. None of this video surprises me

You mean to say that the people walking around in animal costumes WEREN'T entirely stable and trustworthy? Huh.

The janitors going in must've felt like Doomguy when he decided to stay behind in hell to keep it at bay.

Imagine being a normal person going to Hilton Hotels and seeing THIS.

i work in a primary school and all this is literally what the least behaved 6 year olds do when they feel no one is watching them. it is unbelievable how some people have not grown up even a bit from that age.

Who could have ever imagined that a convention based entirely on some of the most uncomfortable sexual fetishes around would have issues with, well, anything?

Literal children would be more pleasant to have in those hotels than most of the Rainfurrest attendees.

3:14 a vet ambulance... you fucking legend.

This was one of my main inspirations for writing my screenplay for my adaptation of the island of Doctor Moreau, and now that I’ve finished writing it I’d like to thank the internet historian for shedding light on this degeneracy

I had to work on this day. It literally was the worst cause the smells were so awful it made some of the workers throw up

The scariest part is that they're all grown ass adults.

It isn’t an internet historian video without a “pool’s closed” reference

I rewatched this video plenty of times, and keep wondering, who thought placing serveres right under a bathroom was a good idea in the first place?

"And from that day forward, anytime a bunch of animals are together in one place IT'S CALLED A ZOO!" -Soldier from TF2 R.I.P.

Imagine this as a mission in hitman

Rainfurrest hosted most people banned from other furcons cause “this is a con that’s open to all” They should’ve known those people were banned for a reason...

the way the staff speaks to them like a middle school principal gives an example of your average furcon goer

I'm glad IH covers the stuff he wants too. But, I miss when he did stuff like this...

Imagine being an average plumber and then called to fix a broken water pipe at a convention and there's just a bunch of people in furry suits in the main lobby.

im so honored that my town was mentioned as the one who refused to take rainfurrest

we had to pull security for one of these events last april, we kept running the ID’s through the sexual assault registry and it came out to like 30% were on there.

man and i thought i was weird for being a furry, i didnt think it would actually get that bad where people start shitting themselves for fun

Imagine the smell that the hotel probably can't get rid of.

"reasons for termination" "Degeneracy" Well played Hilton, well played

I kinda wish i was there just to watch the entire thing fall apart

I can't even begin to imagine the smell of that room.

You're like Behind the Meme's older, more competent brother. While Behind the Meme was working at McDonalds, you were in college, getting your degree in history.

If I hadn’t have watched this, I would never have learned what crinkling is. I really regret my decision.

Rainfurrest is the reason why not all furries is a nice people.

Totally not a mental health problem...

"The animatronic characters do get a bit quirky at night"

Good job agent 47, you succesfully destroyed the convention. Now find a way out of there

Just because you identify as a wild animal, you still cant act like one

Proof that furies are just bored rich people

This is what happens when all the kids who were never invited to parties get together and throw their own.

Imagine that you and your wife or girl friend are just trying to go on vacation and the next day there’s a ton of drunk furries in the hall way

These people have drivers licenses.

I am 90% sure our school mascot costume was made using the dark arts.

I just realized that if a convention is presented as “Made by [blank] for [blank]” it has a 75% chance of getting destroyed

I think it’s hilarious that they had an Anti-Furry among their ranks.

I love the somber music in the beginning, it’s like you’re making a video about some kind of tragedy. In a way you were, because this was like witnessing a bloody trainwreck.

By now, 2023, most furries have transitioned, which explains their absence.

>destroys toliet and floods floors >disabled fire alarms for vaping >destroys hot tub >shits in pools >sexualy​ assault staff >drug possession and dealing >wears shit filled diapers and throws them on the floor and cars >a whole city doesn't want you WHY DO PEOPLE THINK WE'RE WIERD!!!

Something just kills me about the "We are terminating your contract for the following reasons:" with just "Degeneracy" followed by nine "see above." 4:30

It’s incredible to know that I recognised the guy in 0:14 as someone I knew in high school because I’ve seen sketches of this exact fursona before he left for college

I truly dont understand furries, never have, and i dont think i ever will. This explains a lot.

"And you're pretty much the only person who could've known that" *very clearly stares at the cameraman*

Now I understand why God is so vindictive in the Old Testament.

and you wonder why people hate furries

The book of reasons to hate furry is getting a new chapter

I once went to a nuclear engineering conference in San Diego that had a furry convention next door. Talk about a strange juxtaposition.

I stayed in this hotel and didn’t find out that Rainfurrest was held there until after I left. I shudder to think what could have happened in the room I stayed in.

Hi, I was there. I witnessed some of the absolute horror it was. I tried to warn them at their complaint panel at the end of con. They said " if it gets us attention, we don't see a need to do anything to change it." I was dumbstruck. I was the person who stood on the table to clear the main hall for the paramedics so they could reach the kid ODing on shrooms who'd tried to drown himself in the pool. After I had managed to direct traffic to clear the room. I was holding the door to redirect traffic till the paramedics had finished. I overheard people saying " oh this is a major incident, this means ppl are going to recognize rainfurrest as a major con now." I immediately asked wtf they were talking about and it was explained that every major convention became considered that after the con had a serious major incident where someone got hurt or arrested. I had never heard this before, but a lot of ppl agreed so it seemed that is was a commonly known thing. So I replied and said " that is a terrible thing to aim as the reason for anything to be considered major. I wouldn't want this horrible thing to be what our convention becomes known for... that's going to give furries bad reputation. We struggle with this enough as it is. This convention is supposed to be clean all around fun. " And everyone was just quiet after that some made sounds of agreement and seemed to pause in reflection. After this. I heard this same rumor several times throughout the rest of the entire con. I would stop and tell whoever I heard saying this the same thing. At one one of them said I had a good point and I should bring it up at the hiss and scratch at the end of the convention. I didn't even know they had a complaints panel, but I literally stayed for the rest of the entire convention (which had been an absolute fking literal shit filled nightmare) just to go to this fking panel and bring up my concerns about everything that I had heard and personally witnessed myself. Which was a lot. There were a lot of fked up things a lot of the con attendees aren't aware of that actually happened. Or heard inaccurate rumors of the incident. I know the truth however cus I actually saw what happened or talked directly to the person that had been a part of the incident and got the story directly. I was very passionate about rainfurrest, it had been my favorite convention. I used to do Anime cons, but after I went to RF the first time, I stopped all other cons entirely. I had some of the best times of my life at this con. I felt the most at home with the furry community. I felt like I genuinely could just openly be myself, and rainfurrest was my local furry convention. I re-shaped my entire artistic direction and career off furries becuase of this con. So ofc I was highly sensitive to anything that was going to put a stain on it. However after I got that responce from having brought these things to their attention and that I had feared the conventions reputation with the Hilton, and feared that we might not be able to keep the con here if these things kept happening.. And their responce was to shrug and go "so?" The arrogance and entitlement of the con hosts was quite honestly appalling. After that I heard the convention was shut down and it was so bad that someone had written a letter to ever venue in the state to warn them and there was literally no place that would take them. That sucked for the furry attendees in WA, but served those con hosts right. I told them... I fkin told them...Their ignorance destroyed my favorite con. Shame these were the reasons rainfurrest became a major con... a major example of a majorly bad con. I hate to say I told you so, cus it's never anything good. And thats why I hate when I'm right, cus Unfortunately I have always been right... I never heard on that kid that had been taken by the paramedics though. I hope he was okay. The thing about the towels in the hot tub is incorrect, the reality is worse. First someone shit in the hot tub the day prior having it closed for the day while they did an entire water change. The next day when they reopened the hot tub, I assume the same person who had shit in it shit in an adult diaper and then shoved it into the hot tub filter, which clogged jammed and broke the motor. Having the hot tub permanently out of service for the rest of the convention. Some of the vandalism had to do with some rooms that literally had shit smeared all over the walls like a Jackson Pollock painting. I wish I was joking, however I saw it myself. There were some rooms that were open to the halls like an open room party, but instead you got hit with that horrid human fecal matter smell and discover.... yeah... it was not pretty. And I heard from several others it wasn't the only room that had this happen. The halls smelling like Sh!t is not a joke. The elevator had been broken far worse than mention in that statement. Ppl had broke buttons on the control panel and a large group had decided to jump on the elevator as it was ascending. Causing a lot of wear on the mechanism that pulled the elevator up. Which ultimately caused the elevator to take a really long time. And being the only elevator to the main area of the convention center and suiters unable to take stairs. It was a long wait to get to the main part of the convention center. Eventually they had to limit the amount on the elevator to about 3 ppl each trip and had a staff member on duty riding the elevator to work the elevator and monitor the activity. Before that happened though, a few baby furs had decided to all togeather wait for the elevator to fill up and doors to close before all taking a crap in their diapers. And with the elevator taking like 10-15 mins a trip.. you can imagine what this was like for the other attendees who were trapped in there with them. I know this happened because I saw someone come off the elevator crying and found out what happened first hand, as I had been waiting for someone else to make it upstairs.

The funniest part is when furries get real offended when folks treat them like degenerates when most of the community is. Quite literally couldn't keep your shit together.

I know this is probably mentioned elsewhere, But rainfurrest was made by people who were kicked out of OTHER furry conventions .This con was made to fail before it even started.

Furries: Why are we being hated by many? Also Furries:

The internet was a mistake.

Years later, all I can think is "What happened to that guy who said the con was open? How does he feel knowing he was the one who began this?"

I love the clip of the guy screaming "put your pants on and stop breaking shit" Sums up everything perfectly.

You know who I feel the most sorry for? The hotel workers who already have a hard time doing their jobs and now they have to clean all this mess up that was caused by some degenerates.

4:35 I hope they got a shock out of that. "Dear con-group. You have more than doubled our yearly repair budget."

This was hilarious to watch, PLEASE do Free Fur All next, there's so much amazing tea from that con, so many fuckin p*dos and n*zis

*I feel awful for anyone who accidentally walked in on these people.*

“It’s called crinkling.” I’m hoping for a nuclear annihilation after hearing that.

I would just like to say that Rainfurrest was actually held many times, not just in 2015. It started from 2007, it just came crashing down in 2015. It was actually quite successful in the previous years, as attendance steadily increased. It’s just happened in 2015. I wish I was there lol

It's a tradition for me to rewatch this video because of how this furry convention failed.

The old people in the hotel be like "we went to war for this?"

"47, you have successfully entered the convention undetected. Begin the sabotage. Good luck 47." Primary Objectives: - Sabotage the toilets and destroy the basement servers. - Disable one of the fire alarms to distract security. - Get wet towels and destroy the pump at the hot tub. - Put a fake turd in the swimming pool. - Drill a hole into one of the stalls. - Disable the elevator. - Throw diapers on cars.

And this is why i dont want my niece to be a furry

6 years later and I still come back to rewatch this classic