Depends on the circles you live near. I’ve never heard any problems in my area, but some places will take something as harmless as a furry con may be and try to convince one of the organizations partnering with the con to pull out, despite getting hefty donations.

Cannot remember the exact con or organization, but happened at least once in the past couple years in, I wanna say, either Ireland or Britain. Relatively innocent enough 18+ only convention had people trying to pull the “won’t somebody please think of the children” card, IIRC, and had concerns about the dead horse stereotype of furries being zoophiles ( untrue* and zoophiles are outed from the fandom real quick if you’re revealed to actually be one ).

*as with all fandoms, there are degenerates that go undetected

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Pretty sure the nose on mine might not withstand repeated boops, but depends on what they’re made out of. Someone already pointed out something to the extent of how there is more choice in what material is used to make the suit. So, kinda depends on material used.

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen in the past at least a few suits on the more expensive side using actual hard, boop resistant, materials for the nose. Couldn’t tell you the material since I’m not an expert.

Edit: more about 3D printed suit bases instead of just more materials. Whoops.

Any time I use the internet, regardless of what connection, I basically always keep it on. I may swap servers in some most likely ineffective way of keeping myself safer from tracking, but otherwise it normally stays on. Only other exception is when flarpak isn’t allowing updates to come through.