@Background Pony #E6D
 

Little sad i didn’t attend but at the same time i’m not buying a plane ticket to baltimore for a convention lul. What would have made it any better than the shit show of going to a convention with “friends” lul (Looking at you EQLA 2013 and you garbage huemanns that i went with)

@Background Pony #90D5  
And?

Not Funny + Not Funny = NOT FUCKING FUNNY!

@Alex  
Thanks for the detailed answer, I appreciate it :) bit sad I never got to go to Bcon but there’s always HarmonyCon for me which is closer

@Alex  
Hmm. Maybe. Even then, hayday’s over. Pop culture afectionados have other things to atend to. Like blockbuster movies and live action TV shows.

@TheSultanAkbar  
No. Contracts. They would have continued if they were able to move to a new venue.

@Alex  
So, yeah, in essence dwindling interest and attendance.

I can tell you the exact reason why they stopped. On the surface they said that it was because they wanted to go out on their terms, not dwindle out. But the fact is that there were a lot of people willing to continue the con going forward. However, there was one big problem in the way.  
Contracts.  
They signed a contract with the Baltimore convention center to host the convention for five years. That was in 2013. They renewed the contract for another five years in 2017 for another five years, so they were contractually obligated to run the convention at the Baltimore Convention Center until 2022.
 
The problem is that their attendance dwindled, they didn’t expect the show to end and they assumed (probably correctly) that attendance would drop even more after that. They were already at the point where they were just barely breaking even given the lowering attendance that they had, so they had two options on their hands.  
Continue to run the convention, get lower attendance numbers and end up going bankrupt or end the convention in 2019 and finish it off with a great big party.
 
If the contract wasn’t in place they would have moved to a smaller convention center but that just wasn’t an option for them. So they made the right decision to quit while they were still ahead.
 
 
Source: I’m a former convention owner myself and I know a lot of people who run these things. Whenever they make big decisions like this they talk to a lot of people for outside advice on how to handle it (better to work together after all). I don’t know if my input had that much of an effect but I get the feeling that pretty much everyone with convention experience was telling them the same thing.

@The New Pony  
They say you are what you hate but they also say birds of a feather flock together, so I’ll say I don’t exactly like to label anyone. Even though I just stereotyped a group of people. Oh well.

@Th3BlueRose  
Attendance dwindled year after year.

@TheSultanAkbar  
Others of the same nature🤔

@Th3BlueRose  
Cause no one gives a SHIT no more! Man, who really wants to go visit a bunch of sweaty spotty faced teenage geeks?

So… what exactly caused Bcon to stop at 2019??

Bronycon staff got real screwy at the top. Spoilers.