This is one of ShirtWasCash's most popular designs. (Twitter)

Here's yet another reason to wonder why you ever worked so hard to find a nine-to-five job.

The founder of ShirtWasCash, a site that prints T-shirts with designs submitted by creepy redditors users, announced in a recent blog post that he's already earned $40,159 from his bizarre online company. Now, he's quitting his day job to pursue Internet-inspired T-shirt making full-time.

ShirtWasCash was born on May 19, when the founder — who goes by the name "anon" — discovered a Reddit thread about a series of t-shirts designed by 4chan users. Anon then created another Reddit thread where people could vote on which 4chan-inpsired shirts they actually wanted to purchase. Once he was able to gauge demand for the different designs — most of which were super gross, tbh (NSFW) — anon found a local clothing manufacturer, and lo and behold, he'd created a weird Internet company.

Now, people can submit new t-shirt ideas to r/shirtwascash, where the designs are voted upon and — if they're popular enough — get made into real, live freaky-looking shirts.

Besides announcing his huge earnings, anon also said his site has received 259,594 unique visitors and 549,542 page views in the past two months. The Internet must REALLY love shirts that say "DICK BUTT."

"I have a history in corporate finance and operations at a major casino in Las Vegas," anon wrote in the blog post. "I am happy to announce that I put in my two weeks notice on Friday to pursue this fulltime and finally leave corporate behind."

COOL HAVE FUN.

[h/t Daily Dot]

Ms. Igarashi (Photo via 6d745.com/en-campfire/)

Megumi Igarashi is being held by Japanese authorities on suspicion of breaking obscenity laws, the Guardian reports. Ms. Igarashi isn't suspected of flashing someone, or even sexting. Instead, she was arrested because she scanned her vagina and distributed the code for it to be 3D-printed.

Ms. Igarashi was hoping to turn the code into a vagina kayak, as one does. She considers herself a deco-man, or decorated vagina, artist. In the past, she's made dioramas, bracelets and T-shirts modeled after her own vagina.

A cartoon mock-up of Ms. Igarashi's plan. (Photo via 6d745.com/en-campfire/)

How did Ms. Igarashi get into deco-man? "I had not seen pussy of others and worried too much about mine," she says on her crowdfunding page. "I did know what a a pussy should look like at the same time I thought mine is just abnormal... I wanted to make pussy more casual and pop."

Removing pointless stigma is always a good mission — unless you're the Japanese police, apparently.

As the Guardian points out, Japanese authorities have resisted pressure to ban pornographic images of children in manga comics and animated films — but an adult woman crowdsourcing a 3D-printed boat that's shaped like her own vagina is apparently a criminal.

Ms. Igarashi has reportedly told the authorities that she doesn't consider a few lines of code to be obscene, and that she didn't send any photos of her genitalia, the Japan Times reports. As of the most recent reports, she's still being held.

We're left wondering, though: does this mean that in Japan, it's illegal to photocopy your own butt?

2014! (Photo: Facebook)

As the violent conflict between Israel and Gaza continues, Israelis are passing time in the most 2014 way possible: They're taking selfies.

The new phenomenon, dubbed "bomb shelter selfies" as reported by the Jerusalem Post, is a group picture of smiling people waiting out their time until the missile warning sirens stop emitting their terrifying noise. A Facebook group dedicated to the trend has amassed more than 1,500 likes in the past few days.

Even Israelis are confused by the concept of the "selfie" since some of the posts are just mere pictures, but the proper selfie snapshots show a unique look at the situation over there.

A picture posted by one user mused that one meets the "nicest people when you run for cover." At least nobody is twerking -- yet.

This one's cute.
(Photo via Etsy)

Did you think Russia was the only country paranoid enough to revert to using typewriters to get the NSA off their backs?

Think again, because the Germans are also mulling a switch back to the primitive machines. The news came during a TV interview, when German pol Patrick Sensburg said higher-ups had considered typewriters — "and not the electronic models, either," the Guardian quotes him as saying.

The suspicions come from speculation that the CIA might have spied — sorry, "collected data," as Veep's Selina Meyer would say — on German intelligence agency Bundestag, the Guardian reports.

Typewriters aren't NSA-proof either, though. They can be hacked in a sense, the Telegraph reports, but that would mean X-raying the physical machines, which requires a lot more stealth than hacking into someone's phone from an air-conditioned office in Arizona.

The switch would certainly make Germany's intelligence offices a lot quirkier. Mr. Sensburg, have you considered ordering the machinery from Etsy? They've got great vintage pieces.

Miss you. (Photo: flickr.com/jamiesrabbits)

Believe it or not: Netflix still delivers DVDs via something called the mail.

It was a revolutionary concept when the company launched in 1997, but fast forward to now and it's not something that we really need — especially since everything good is streaming on its site. In early June, Netflix quietly ended shipping discs on Saturdays and it took weeks before anyone (besides a group of astute observers) noticed the change.

A Netflix spokesperson confirmed to Engadget that it has indeed eliminated delivering DVDs on Saturday. Members from the Netflix Community were, nonetheless, peeved by the company's cost-cutting move. Per Uproxx:

Not wanting to miss out on an opportunity to increase profits by 15%, Netflix has gone ahead and ended Saturday deliveries on their own. I did not learn of this change from the media. I did not learn of this change through an email from Netflix. I learned of this change while speaking to Netflix Customer Service about a problem with their website. They told me that Saturday deliveries were discontinued.

This is your time to shine, Redbox!

It's as easy as paying US$164 and spitting in a tube! (Facebook)

What to know what the future holds for your fab new Tinder boyfriend? A Canadian company is claiming they've devised an at-home test that can scientifically predict whether you and your partner are destined for long-term happiness.

The Couples Kit, created by Ontario-based Instant Chemistry, has couples participate in genetic and psychological tests to determine their compatibility, the Daily Mail reports.

"Through intensive research scientists have found that long-term relationship satisfaction stems from two constants – your DNA and core personality – and how those match up with your partners," Instant Chemistry's chief science officer, Sara Seabrooke, is quoted as saying.

After paying $164 for the kit, daters each spit in a tube, and send it back to the company. Scientists then analyze the spit to determine if the daters' genetic make-ups are compatible. They also investigate how each dater's brain processes seratonin, which can indicate how couples have contrasting emotional reactions to different situations.

The couples are also asked to fill out an online test, which determines their personality compatibility.

If Instant Chemistry senses a couple is headed for disaster once the tests are complete, they'll give the couple advice on how best to improve their relationship.

"Most couples who take the Instant Chemistry test obtain an overall compatibility score between 60-80%," Instant Chemistry's FAQ page says. "Depending on your scores we’ll also provide tips to help you nurture your relationship and help it grow. Never before has science been so useful for helping you improve the most important aspect of your life: who you choose to share it with."

Sadly, Instant Chemistry's Couples Kit is only currently available for heterosexual couples, but their site says they're "running a research trial to find out" if they could apply the same science to LGBTQ couples.

WunWun says they can get you anything you need in just one hour. (Photo via Gideon Tsang)

Delivery app WunWun can be used for delivering anything: groceries, ice luges, boat batteries, a Jeep for Rosie O'Donnell —  but every time those orders came in, people were paying for the delivery. No more.

As of this morning, WunWun will now deliver anything you want from a local store or restaurant for free, as long as what's being delivered actually cost something to begin with. The previous delivery fees were around $10 to $20, but WunWun CEO Lee Hnetinka told Betabeat that they want to cut away more and more costs in order to be the "best option on planet earth" for deliveries.

"UberX is now lower than the cost of a taxi, and it's the best option in the city," Mr. Hnetinka said. "We want to do that for delivery."

So if you never have to pay for a delivery, how do that actual delivery people make money? Well, the WunWun team knows that most of its users are asking for groceries from places like Trader Joe's and Whole Foods, or ordering for a burger from Shake Shack, so they've been developing backdoor relationships with certain stores to charge them a 20% premium to pay the deliverers. Mr. Hnetinka says it's a "marketing fee," but WunWun doesn't actually market specific stores' products. Yet.

Ultimately, that model becomes a gamble. If over time people start shifting their buying habits over to stores where WunWun doesn't have partnerships, the service won't be sustainable. But that, Mr. Hnetinka says, is why you hire a good data team: to tell you that even when you start giving away massive services for free, everything's going to be okay.

Other than deliveries from a store, WunWun can also take orders to deliver things from one person to another for $10. But will delivering things via messenger from your phone eventually be free as well?

“Absolutely not,” Mr. Hnetinka said.

Cory Booker's selfie with Senator Paul Rand. (Photo via Facebook)

While selfies are commonly reserved for tween girls and Israelis in bomb shelters, everything comes with an exception.

Cory Booker's recent Instagram series, "Selfies with Fellow Senators," has him taking the photos all over Capitol Hill. The New Jersey politician is on a quest to take a selfie with every U.S. Senator.

Today, Mr. Booker took his 11th photo of the 99-part series with Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy. The photo (and each of the others) is accompanied by a thoughtful caption where he gives a tip of the hat to the senator. The bits acknowledge the senators' work in Congress and, in many cases, how they've inspired him personally, both on and off the Hill.

"He is also hands down in the best shape of all the Senators. 8 years my senior, his work ethic in the Senate gym shames and inspires me to get in better shape," Mr. Booker wrote of Senator John Thune of South Dakota.

As if the IG selfie series alone didn't make him hip enough, Mr. Booker is also quite the fan of inventive hashtags — #ConnecticutCourage, #BreakfastBrother and #DudeAreYouSeriouslyLiftingThatMuchWeight, to name a few.

Eleven down, 88 more to go.

(h/t The Verge)

Important. (Photo: Twitter)

To celebrate its birthday, 7-Eleven had this genius idea of asking people to download its app in order to score free food. It was supposed to work like this: download the app, get free coupons that were redeemable for snacks like Doritos Loaded pockets, and leave the store only mildly annoyed that you wasted your cheat day calories.

It didn't work.

Customers complained on Twitter that their coupons for free junk like Big Gulps and other treats didn't load. A 7-Eleven spokesperson told USA Today that "high demand" caused their servers to experience "some technical difficulties."

To make up for this unthinkable disaster, 7-Eleven says the deal (which includes a free small Slurpee, M&M Birthday Cake candy, and Snickers!) has been extended until July 24. And they promise the app works this time, which is good news since we're broke.

It was basically a dinosaur version of this. (Wikimedia Commons)

If you thought cockroaches were bad, thank god you didn't live in the days when four-winged flying reptiles roamed the Earth.

Scientists have discovered fossils in China belonging to a terrifying-looking four-winged dinosaur, the Guardian reports. Measuring 1.3 metres, or a little over four feet, the Changyuraptor yangi is the largest four-winged dinosaur ever found, and is 60 percent larger than the four-winged dino in second place (suck it loser).

"Four wings? That sounds greedy," our coworker said when we announced the dinosaur's discovery.

It sure does seem greedy, but the 125 million-year-old dino apparently used all those extra feathers to help with flight control, "in particular allowing the animal to reduce its speed to land safely," according to the Guardian.

"C. yangi was [like] a big turkey with a really long tail," Alan Turner, who wrote about the dinosaur, is quoted as saying. "We don't know for sure if C. yangi was flying or gliding, but we can sort of piece together this bigger model by looking at what its tail could do. Whether or not this animal could fly is part of a bigger puzzle and we're adding a piece to that puzzle."

We'll leave you with the super fun fact that its back set of wings are called "hindwings." Bye!

All the credit goes to him. (Photo: YouTube)

John Oliver is going to be thrilled about this. The Federal Communications Commission said that an "overwhelming surge" of last-minute comments about net neutrality has prompted the agency to extend the deadline to accept messages from tonight to until Friday at midnight.

More than 647,000 comments regarding what the future of the Internet should look like were delivered as of last week, says FCC Commissioner Tom Wheeler. Some of that astounding amount of responses is credited to outspoken HBO host who delivered an amazing rant against the proposed ideas in early June. He's even credited for crashing the FCC's website at one point.

Under the FCC's controversial proposal, the agency would let Internet giants pay for "fast lanes" in order to get their content faster to subscribers. However, that would place smaller companies at a disadvantage because they wouldn't be able to afford to do that. As the Verge notes, it's still going to be "some time" before the FCC decides on anything official.

A portrait of the reporter blinking with Kim. (Photo via Kim Kardashian: Hollywood)

When we first broke the news that reality empress Kim Kardashian was working on a mobile game, we knew it would be popular — just not this popular.

Kim Kardashian: Hollywood (guess her native Calabasas doesn't have as nice a ring to it) is now the second most-downloaded free-to-play game on the U.S. App Store, Bloomberg reports. And it's on track to pull in $200 million in revenue in its first year.

This is a boon for parent company Glu Mobile, which has also published four mobile iterations of Call of Duty as well as games inspired by Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Ice Age and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, among others.

In Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, players are tasked with navigating the social structures and professional hierarchy of Hollywood. If you've ever wondered what it's like to flirt with an oddly sexy cartoon dental hygienist or get reamed out by an evil entity known as Willow Pape via Twitter as you ascend the ranks from unknown to A-lister, well, this is the game for you.

That is, until you've finished playing all the free parts and it starts prompting you to buy a bunch of virtual coins stamped with K so that you can buy new clothes and get access to other parts of the game.

You have to give Ms. Kardashian and the game's designers credit, though. It shows a pretty self-aware side of the superstar as she counsels players on how to get a momager and pose for photos. At one point, the game even reminds you, "Make-up is the photo shop [sic] of real life."

The game has five stars in the App Store, Bloomberg reports, which is the highest possible amount of stars. What else would you expect, though, from a mobile game starring one half of the #WorldsMostTalkedAboutCouple?

Bow down. (Photo via Kim Kardashian: Hollywood)

Ever worried that everyone in your social graph was living a more magical life than yours? Has your FOMO gotten the best of you? Are you looking for a way to prove that your traveling experiences are as interesting as everyone else you know? No worries, Snapchat has heard your call: now with just a couple of swipes, you can add custom filters to your snaps that are only available in specific locations.

Snapchat announced the new feature in another ad-laden, heavily branded music video this morning. To add the stickers, you simply navigate through your privacy settings for an eternity to give Snapchat geolocation permission, then search for the filters in the Snapchat settings to turn them on. It's a tough enough process to make us think that our iPhones are trying to protect us from ourselves.

Now we can show everyone how crappy the weather is in NYC right now. (Photo by Jack Smith IV)

The move is likely a desperate ploy for money — many have snubbed Snapchat's $3 billion valuation, and selling stickers are the lifeblood of its competitors in the battle for messaging app supremacy. Stickers like the new Disneyland options shown in the video above could rake in ad dollars by turning your selfies into branded billboards.

At least they promise on their blog that they're not saving your location to sell your data off to marketers, which is a much more popular method of alienating your users.

This week in celebrity drone stories, it appears that Mia Farrow and her son, Fletcher Previn, spent the afternoon flying (or at least looking at) Mr. Previn's drone. The actress sent out this rather awkward, stiff-sounding tweet this afternoon:

https://twitter.com/MiaFarrow/status/489152998418186241

Mr. Previn, who works for IBM and is Ms. Farrow's son by her second husband, André Previn, also tweeted out the same photo, but with different text. They seemed to be having quite the rollicking drone-centric gathering!:

https://twitter.com/fletcherprevin/status/488019360540557312

Upon further inspection of his Twitter feed, Mr. Previn seems like quite the drone enthusiast. "It is my greatest dream to experience Amazon's drone delivery service. But also my greatest nightmare..." he tweeted last week.

We like to think Ms. Farrow and Mr. Previn are frolicking around in the grass flying the drone and taking gleeful aerial photos as we speak.

Plotting. (Photo: File)

Time Warner just saved us from having 20 more FX channels. Rupert Murdoch's media empire Twenty-First Century Fox made an $80 billion bid to buy Time Warner within the last few weeks and create a "corporate super-monster," but the offer was rejected scoops the New York Times. 

The proposed mega-media company would have a combined revenue of $65 billion and bring several high-profile entertainment channels, such as FX, TNT, HBO, and other huge publishing, movie and tech outlets (i.e. Twentieth Century Fox studios, HarperCollins, and Warner Bros.) under one roof. Also, Murdoch said he would sell off CNN to "head off potential antitrust concerns” since it doesn't play nice with Fox News.

There would also be a ton of layoffs, too. Fox estimated that the two companies could save $1 billion in cutting sales staffs and other back-office positions. The Time Warner board reportedly mulled the proposal "at length," but decided to remain independent.

Representatives from both companies didn't return the Times' request for comment.

This is not necessary. (Photo via Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation)

Just as you were growing concerned with millennial's obsession with selfies, someone threw them right in with the most important meal of the day.

A company is taking custom orders so you can get a selfie branded onto your multigrain and literally eat your face for breakfast.

"You don't have to be famous or Jesus to get your face on toast," reads the Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation's site.

According to the site, all it takes to "create fun breakfast memories" is $75 and a high resolution photo. Common sense says it could be of anything or anybody, but c'mon — even Cory Booker is doing a selfie series.

Choose wisely if selfie toast is truly high up on your priority list, though. The company acknowledges that high res photos don't translate too well to bread and will cancel your order and refund your money if they "squint and can't see your face."

Sounds promising. Hopefully this is as far as the union of food and selfies will go.

A screengrab from Mr. Correira's game, Paintball!. (Screengrab: YouTube)

Josh Correira will start his freshman year at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute this fall, but already the 18-year-old is raking in up to $4,000 a month — all because he programmed an online video game.

Mr. Correira has been making money through ROBLOX, an online platform where users — typically kids and teens — create and play games featuring blocks of different shapes, sizes and colors. ROBLOX launched its Developer Exchange program last October, wherein creators can convert the virtual currency earned through their games — called ROBUX — into real live cash.

In an announcement this morning that ROBLOX has debuted on Android, the site also said they've doled out over $315,000 combined to its developers.

"I've been using it as my job," Mr. Correira told Betabeat.

Mr. Correira, who goes by username Daxter33, started playing ROBLOX six or seven years ago. "It looked like a fun game to play, and it was fun. I continued to play because I can make games on it," he said over the phone. "I’m actually playing a game right now."

He created his Developer Exchange game, Paintball!, at the beginning of 2014. In the game, players are divided into two teams, and face-off in a paintball battle. When asked how much he earns through the game, Mr. Correira said, "recently it's been $2,000, occasionally it's $4,000" — pretty substantial earnings for a kid who only just finished high school.

"Some [developers] are in college, some are in high school, a few are younger than that — probably in the 13- or 14-year-old range," ROBLOX founder and CEO David Baszucki told Betabeat. "Some of them are getting 2, 3, 4, 5,000 a month. Once you start to hit 5 or 10,000 a month, it starts to be a pretty interesting job to do while you’re in college instead of going and going something else."

We were skeptical about whether kids younger than high school were responsible enough to be potentially receiving thousands of dollars over the Internet each month.

"We have to validate all of their information," Mr. Bazsucki said, "As far as taypayer ID, we figure that out — we don’t just send them a big PayPal check. Their family gets involved to the extent that it needs to. We need certain information before that money can change hands."

Does Mr. Baszucki see developers skipping college to pursue ROBLOX programming full time, we asked?

"I think more they're realizing how talented they are at an early age, and a wide variety of things, whether it's game design, development, writing code, creating digital assets [or] marketing," he said. "[It's] more of an inspiring thing that might drive someone to get excited and try to get a great computer science degree, or go to art school. I view it as more of an inspiration than a quit college early engine."

Though Mr. Correira plans on majoring in Chemistry so he can go into medicine, he definitely plans to continue making games on the side.

"I recently just bought a new computer," he said when we asked if he'd spent any of his earnings, "because mine’s getting old and doesn’t run games very well, which is basically what I do all day."

(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A 13-year-old was arrested Monday for allegedly writing on Facebook that she wanted to kill every single person — including a child fighting cancer — in her hometown of Splendora, Texas. 

Police say she used a fake name on the social network to post the threats, which quickly attracted the attention of concerned residents who bombarded authorities with phone calls. Investigators contacted Facebook who reportedly helped them track down the terrible teen. Her name was not released because she is a juvenile.

"Kids are gonna be kids," said Constable Kenneth Hayden to KHOU-TV. "They're going to make mistakes. This is a very serious mistake, and we're hoping this person is gonna learn from this and be able to move on with her life."

Her attorney, Bill Pattillo, said she was ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation and doesn't know why his client made the threats. She now faces a felony charge of making terroristic threats.

Airbnb just revealed it's new logo and it's certainly...something. At a press conference earlier today, CEO Brian Chesky told users that the refreshed brand's ethos is to build a sense of "belonging" since a home is where you feel the most comfortable.

“If we are to be understood as a brand — and more importantly as a community — we need to communicate this idea of ‘belonging’ to the world," said Chesky before leading everyone into a communal prayer circle. That last part didn't happen, but the company claimed the new logo represents three things: people, places, and love.

Twitter users, on the the hand, interpreted it as a dick, vagina, boobs, a butt and even ET's head.

The new @airbnb mark is totally ET's head. pic.twitter.com/yufGv2Cj7m

— Josh Laincz ⍟ (@zohf) July 16, 2014

QUICK housing rental company or brit + co vertical? pic.twitter.com/wJwyz6j5FA

— Dianna McDougall (@DiannaMcD) July 16, 2014

Let’s be honest: new Airbnb logo looks like DoubleDickDude.

— David Weiner (@daweiner) July 16, 2014

I'm no designer, but why is airbnb's new logo Old Geena Davis from "A League of Their Own"? pic.twitter.com/3oH7MeRBbW

— bobby finger (@bobbyfinger) July 16, 2014

Come on guys, the new Airbnb logo clearly looks like a bunny butt pic.twitter.com/hNqD1Hujii

— Rose Pastore (@RosePastore) July 16, 2014

exclusive pic of the new AirBnB logo: pic.twitter.com/LtkunRUhVo

— Ross Neumann (@rossneumann) July 16, 2014

i would feel better about the airbnb logo if this photo didn't exist pic.twitter.com/6wvRYI5kN9

— Heather Schmelzlen (@anchorlines) July 16, 2014

what you think the new airbnb logo looks like says a lot about you

— Amber (@missambear) July 16, 2014

@justabide show me on the AirBNB logo where the bad man touched you.

— Kevin Collins (@voxkev) July 16, 2014

Luxe. (Photo via emmagrant01/Tumblr)

A recent Tumblr-fan-targeted convention sounded like a dream come true for Tumblrites, be they brony, Potterhead, SuperWhoLockian or just teens with lots of feelings.

Unfortunately, the convention turned into a shitshow pretty quickly; the organizers were really putting the "con" back in convention.

Originally dubbed Tumbl-Con USA, organizers changed the name to DashCon to avoid copyright infringement. Funding for the event was gathered on Indiegogo, and people had high expectations for the July 11-to-13 convention held in Illinois.

Sadly, it turned into a scammy affair: it consisted of a few actual convention-like events and an empty room with some crappy inflatable rides, but apparently cost $17,000. The community scraped together a pretty solid meme inspired by the Con, but it came at a pretty steep price.

In the spirit of learning from our mistakes, we've assembled a list of tips for avid Tumblr users to spot scams in the future. It's kind of hard to deal with the outernet when you're so used to online life, after all.

How to Tell That the Convention You're Attending Is Kind of a Scam

1. It is located in Schaumburg, Ill., yet still costs a whopping $80 for admission.

2. The convention's organizers said they were  “partnering” with a charity, and that charity later refuted said partnership.

3. The convention's "game room" consists of a single console. This is a good indication that the game is you. You are the game.

The game room: a TV, a console and some tables. (Photo via kirbeh/Tumblr)

4. The convention-runners tell everyone in the middle of the convention that the hotel (the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel, owned by Marriott, so a fairly legit establishment) would shut down their event if they did not receive $17,000 immediately - as in, by 10 p.m. – despite the fact that they’d booked the hotel in advance and general convention protocol is to pay the hotel its money upfront when booking is happening.

5. There's a very official nondescript sack that they hand around so everyone can have the unique experience of burgling themselves. Also, you might spot a sepia-toned man twiddling his mustache maniacally near some railroad tracks.

6. The convention runners actually has the chutzpah to claim in a now-deleted plea for money on their site that “We suspect the demand for more money is due to the fact that upper management doesn’t like the people at the con.” DashCon, no. DashCon. That… that’s not a thing.

7. The convention reaches its $17,000 in an absurdly short amount of time and then goes, “Golly shucks, guys, it was actually $20,000. Our b.” (Disclaimer: not necessarily verbatim.)

8. The official convention explanation over the money thing has glaring errors and lacks logical sense. And the letter from the hotel, the supposed “proof," seems ridiculously easy to fake. (Also, the hotel reportedly has been contacted and had no clue that this was happening.)

9. Hotel mints are being used as contest prizes.

10. Moderators are somehow failing to show up, so panelists are modding their own panels.

11. Many panel speakers at the event are being denied payment.

12. Participants in the main event — a Welcome to Night Vale panel – duck out because they're also being refused pay for travel costs and performing.

13. And the solution to the Night Vale debacle is for con-organizers to allow attendees an extra hour in their broke-ass ball pit. Which holds a maximum of six people at once.

Looks like a blast. (Photo via themonsterghost/Tumblr)

In spite of everything, we'll all miss the ball pit. It's an underdog you just have to believe in. According to attendees, it deflated sometime shortly after this picture was taken. Good night, sweet prince.