Fan conventions are everywhere these days. From Japanese anime to The Big Lebowski, just about every niche interest imaginable offers some sort of forum for likeminded people to get together and geek out with total abandon. But what if, instead of Game of Thrones, your passion is asses? You’d be shit out of luck—until this year, that is!
Yes, 2019 was the year that Butt-Con touched down in New York for what looks to have been a very auspicious debut. Presented by a bidet company called Tushy (why not), the promotional material was as cheeky as you’d expect: “Think Comic-Con…but with way more butts!” Granted, Comic-Con draws upward of 135,000 attendees, but we all have to start somewhere.