There's an L cosplayer to your left. A free hugs sign to your right. Directly in front of you: a glomp circle. If you've ever wondered about what cons may have been like in the 2010s, this is the episode for you--well sort of.

In this episode, we share our personal experiences from behind the curtain of what it is like being a staff at an Anime Convention from when we started in 2012 to now in 2023. We bring up trends that have since died and should stay dead, tips and tricks for people beginning to go to cons, and what lengths it took to get to this point.

For those of you con-going veterans who were there in the dark times, this should be nostalgic for you as we take a stroll down memory lane in the early days of conventions on the West Coast.