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Why do anime cons always smell bad?

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I don't know how some people can avoid personal hygiene, it's just incredibly gross I can't imagine not showering for days, or not putting on deodorant etc. I'm a huge socially awkward nerd btw.

I've never been to one of these big cons but if it is smelly then that sucks. I always thought it was just one of those stereotypes people like to overstate like how gamestop shopping sucks, but I don't know.
 
Cons on Sundays smell worse than any locker room I've ever been in. Any con, comic, sci-fi, anime etc.

I'm going to GenCon for the first time in 2012, so I'll let you know how that goes.
 
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I've seen this gif so many times, where is it from lol
 
again, that just means the shit is cheap. too strong, poorly made. If you like, I can recommend you some much milder scents that won't give you a headache.

Thanks for the offer but I am fine without. I have even been complimented on my scent before by random women. A shower a day and some Old Spice Pure Sport deodorant works wonders for me. And along the same line, I don't use hair products.
 
Axe and Tag do have those commercials of women getting horny at the smell of it so the nerds probably think it has the same effect.
 
Imagine if everyone there had on their own favorite brand of cologne. Would most likely smell magnitudes worse than the B.O. festival you attended.
 
Hey, nerds making fun of nerds. This is a great topic.
Comic-con nerds are more like sub-nerds. They rank really low in the nerd chart compared to us. To put it into perspective they are just above sonic fans, and right bellow furries. Although many consider sonic fans and furries to be one in the same.
 
don't know how anime cons smell, never went to one. have been to a, ughh, LAN though. most of the smelly people there were the ones that spoke very highly of games like LoL and WoW. some of them nearly got into fights over the trash talk while playing these games together.
 
I used to go to ACen in Chigago, and yeah, it could get really bad in places. In contrast GenCon has always been a fairly clean event.

ACEN is a damn freaknik.
 
I went to my second anime con ever in my life and all was going well until I entered a battle room where people could play battle each other. The smell in that room was so unbearable that I almost died. Then I go into a panel room and with all the nerds together it was even worse , i felt like an outcast because I seemed to be the only one that put on cologne.


But cologne doesn't make things smell good if they already smell badly. I think what's going on here is that many people who go to anime cons have so much sex that they usually just completed the act right before the convention starts. That smell you cannot tolerate, it's sex, sex, SEX!
 
The only nerd-gathering I've been to is PAX and it really only smelled bad around the Nintendo stuff.

Personally, I made sure to shower in the morning before leaving the hotel room and once more before going out to bars and stuff with the people I was meeting there.
 
Might be a population/location thing. I've been to a couple of cons here in Australia and I've never noticed any problems with smell at all. Of course, our cons are lucky to hit 2000 or more attendance
 
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