DashCon 2
annual Tumblr convention in Toronto
DashCon 2 is a fan convention held annually since 2025 in Toronto, Canada, themed around the culture of the social media website Tumblr. It is named after and themed smiliarly to the 2014 convention of the same name but is otherwise unrelated and has been received significantly more positively.
Background
The original DashCon was a fan convention catering primarily to users of the blogging platform Tumblr, with a particular emphasis on fandoms. The convention was planned to be hosted during the weekend of July 11, 2014 at the Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center Hotel in Schaumburg, Illinois. The event was widely considered a failure, due to multiple allegations of mismanagement, corruption among the organizers, and the abrupt demand to pay upfront in order to hold the convention at the hotel and use its facilities. The convention's founder, Lochlan "Nessie" O'Neil, later described the event as the worst days of her life, receiving death threats from strangers long afterwards.
In the following years, there were various failed proposals to launch similar conventions, including Emoti-Con and DashCon 2024.
Development
DashCon 2 was announced by co-directors Avis Petrie and Simone Miller in 2024, 10 years after the original DashCon. Both are Tumblr users with experience in conventions and are unaffiliated with the organizers of the original DashCon, and they stated that they have "no intention of repeating DashCon's mistakes".
History
2025
The inaugural edition of DashCon 2 was held in Toronto on July 5, 2025.
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