>>93074662ConFurence 8 is the granddaddy of all degenerate furry conventions, and was the public's first look at the furry fandom at large (which is where a lot of the initial negative stigma against furries came from, but it didn't really take off until Something Awful entered the scene almost a decade later). Through a series of events that would take several posts to describe, the furry community was becoming more and more deviant (thanks in no small part to Mark Merlino, lead organizer of ConFurence and notorious sexual lunatic). ConFurence 8 was the product of these developments, where art talks from WB animators were called off in favor of "furry auctions", where volunteers were brought up onto a stage, stripped down to their underwear and auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Of course, this pales in comparison to what happened in the halls of the convention, where rampant sex happened both in and out of rooms leading to horrific situations for non con-goers staying at the hotel during that time. For example, one group of businessmen made the mistake of leaning up against the elevator during their ride up to their rooms, only to find that the backs of their suits were covered in semen. Another family was forced out of the hotel because a dude in a fox mask tried to proposition their twelve year old son for sex. The WB animators I mentioned earlier cancelled their panels because of sexual deviancy, as they were approached by a couple of furries asking uncomfortable questions about Tiny Toon Adventures (mostly asking/demanding officially-drawn porno pictures of the male characters of the show), leading to one of the animators getting his ass groped by one of the guys he was talking to.