#ncs2024

The NärCon discord is full of terrible mods. I can't believe they let a power hungry bully mod ban multiple people just for standing up to him LITERALLY lying, threatening people, and spreading misinformation. The mod called Svalan/Thomas at NärCon is such a massive douchbag it's unreal. I was silent the whole time and just left today after watching the shit show go down and finally realizing... these people are terrible. Genuinely bad toxic people, if I'm around them I might end up toxic like them. I don't want that. Another member posted they're leaving because they were scared of the mods oppression, and I agreed with them in my head and left too. I regret a tiny bit not leaving a message too, but we all know NärCon deletes any and all criticism they get in seconds so what's the point? They're not gonna care. He was joking about how he banned them instead of using time out or warning them. He clearly just wanted their messages calling out his disgusting behaviour out to be gone.

I believe EVERY person who called Svalan/thomas out has now been banned by him. Weird huh? NärCons mod Svalan/Thomas is manipulative and scary. No space is safe if he's in it. I truly fully believe that.

And the other NärCon mods and staff/"pandas"? One panda named Eskil admitted NärCon KNOWS pedophiles go there he even said they are "guranteed" to be at NärCon! He didn't see it as an issue or even a stupid ass statement to make?! Insane how little they care about kid's safety. And this guy works as a teacher?!?!?!? RED FLAG.

I don't know all the mods I dont think, but I know 2 more. The one called Sora can't tell sexual from non-sexual and thinks HIGHLY inappropriate sexual material should be shown to kids. Squeezing a woman's breast is serious sexual harassment, but Sora can't see why encouraging young kids to squeeze the foam tits of a drooling anime toy is fucked up? Like really really really fucked up… and Sora is the panda in charge of telling others what is and isn't allowed regarding sexual levels, so that's clearly a terrible job match. NärCon has no safeguarding for kids AT ALL.

NärCon sommar 2024.

Multiple visitors at närcon questioned why Närcon 2024 staff let a body pillow of a 5 year old character (image taken from their creative discord) be sold in child friendly areas (or at all, at a child friendly con).

Staff members and mods in their discord confirmed närcon does not see dressed child or loli-characters as sexual enough to warrant the removal of said products, nor the banning of them being sold even if on bodypillows. Bodypillows at närcon are NOT allowed to be displayed openly and must instead be a on a rack as they are seen as inherently a type of sexual product.

A panda/staff/mod by the name Cartago/Eskil went as far as to say (paraphrased summary, original text below in swedish taken from the creative discord) "bodypillows do not create new pedophiles; therefore we choose to let them be sold here". He also admitted "there are guaranteed to be people with pedophilic thoughts at NärCon" much to many onlookers horror as he proceeded to conclude that nothing can be done at kids should see sexual images anyway.

Another NärCon mod then proceeded to delete the post asking about the pictures (this and others of questionable nature) stating they were “nsfw” and banned the users who raised the alarm. This banning mod was named Svalan.

NärCon sommar 2024.

Multiple visitors at närcon questioned why Närcon 2024 staff let this artist display giant pictures (images taken from their creative discord) of butts openly in child friendly areas. Som are in sexual poses or wearing "fetish" clothes and straps.

The staff member responsible for handling 18+ material in artist alley called publicly Sora confirmed that while the rules states the following is NOT allowed openly at närcons artist alley: -naked characters -sexually posed images

The sexually posed naked butts seen here are, according to närcon, not naked nor sexual enough for them to take action and fully child friendly.

MANY, many, visitors of närcon have for YEARS been saying they do not wish to do their post-con email survey because it's not anonymous enough. People fear närcon will find out and punish them for daring to speak up or for having a negative opinion, which staff often demonstrates is a thing they really do (yet of course they refuse to admit openly). So we aim to have this blog be a safe space for people to say what they REALLY think about NärCon and how they run things. Just submit an anon ask or post and we'll get to it eventually.