Pearl - Obese People Throw a 'Sexy' Convention to Celebrate Unhealthiness？!

00:00:00.000 one thing that i i never actually thought i would ever see is a obesity convention maybe we should

00:00:07.920 go and pass out ozempic they made this event sound sexy oh my god this picture paired with

00:00:15.040 sex you've got to be kidding me strange individuals doing just about the most odd oh my type of things

00:00:23.200 you could ever think of they're literally there too oh that's uh there are conventions to celebrate

00:00:31.440 everything sci-fi guns anime you name it in 2024 a bunch of obese people decided to get together

00:00:38.880 and create a convention called fat con it's a celebration of obesity and obese people i didn't

00:00:45.280 think it was real at first yes it's a real thing and guess what city it's in try and guess that's

00:00:51.920 right it's in seattle of course it is let's look at fat con fat con 2025 puts fat liberation front and

00:01:01.920 center now it's in its second year fat con is back once again to put the fun in fat within extensive

00:01:09.120 schedule of events centering around celebrating the fat community founded by lauded burlesque performer

00:01:15.920 and advocate mx pucks aplenty the three-day convention is bringing together speakers athletes

00:01:22.800 performers from all around the country for workshops performers markets and pool parties all with the goal

00:01:29.200 to uplift fat liberation as praxis and practice from january 31st to february 2nd fat con will take over

00:01:37.600 king street ballroom at the embassy suites in pioneer square it's the biggest convention centering fat

00:01:44.160 people on the west coast with over 300 hours of programming attendees will have the chance to

00:01:50.480 listen to keynote speakers hiker and mental health advocate andy neil motivational speaker mermaid che

00:01:57.280 monique and size inclusion expert andrea kelly fat con sibling event also produced by pucks production

00:02:05.200 company puckduction fat less fast northwest will happen in the evenings january 1st or january 30th to february

00:02:14.080 1st giving con attendees something to do both in the day and in the evening the idea for fat con

00:02:19.680 came to pucks back in 2022 as someone who straddles both the burlesque and con spaces puck knew that

00:02:26.320 they wanted to bring together a series of activities for fat people in the region with nighttime entertainment

00:02:33.440 for years pucks has been an act activist for queer black and fat artists organizing events like

00:02:40.800 what the funk and all people of color burlesque festival as a means of community building a

00:02:47.360 convention specifically celebrating fat joy liberation seemed like a natural extension of previous work

00:02:55.040 over the years the body positivity movement has kind of backed away from really uplifting the

00:03:01.120 experiences of fat people and become more of a catch-all for anyone said pucks in a recent interview

00:03:06.320 you were noticing lots of white women doing yoga being the body positivity it was getting further 1.00

00:03:11.440 and further away from the discrimination that folks receive and just the rampant fat phobia that's out

00:03:17.920 there fellas would you do it on a slow tuesday a slow tuesday are you guys gonna any woods in here

00:03:25.680 any woods all right this is do you know what it's unfortunate because some of these women would probably 1.00

00:03:30.720 be hot if the fatness wasn't there well all right fat con comes as the country reckons with ozempic we

00:03:38.000 govy and other semaglutide drugs which were originally developed for people living with diabetes and which

00:03:46.080 are now being used by thousands as a quick way to lose weight fat and plus size celebrities social media

00:03:51.440 influencers and regular people begin to shrunk before our eyes and what can be seen as a pointed backlash

00:03:57.440 against body positivity or neutrality and self-acceptance events like fat cons serve as a space for fat

00:04:03.840 people to remember they aren't alone the idea is that a good body is a thin body and it is not true

00:04:10.080 you can be healthy in a fat body and you can be radically unhealthy in a thin body and everything in

00:04:14.880 between reflected pucks our society is really good at making marginalized people feel like it's all in 0.96

00:04:20.080 their head they're all alone they're separate from and that's not true at all i think one of the most

00:04:25.120 beautiful things about fat con is that it's a chance for people to make fat friends simple as that

00:04:30.400 despite the events joy-centered nature last year's iteration received some backlash online my northwest

00:04:37.040 a local conservative website dubbed the event an incredibly dangerous backward movement that harms

00:04:42.560 the very people it pretends to liberate and the concept of fat liberation demands that society

00:04:48.000 and institutions pretend there are no significant health consequences of obesity pucks and their

00:04:53.200 fellow fat con organizers a organizer saw the outcry as an excellent promotion they made this event 0.98

00:04:59.360 sound sexy oh my god this picture paired with sex you've got to be kidding me they said however fat

00:05:06.160 con did receive a lot of hate emails and people lashing out on social media there was this extreme

00:05:11.120 hatred for us being like cool we'll throw an event where we can just hang out it was upsetting for them

00:05:15.680 and the fact that we want to be together and talk about things that are of interest to us

00:05:20.640 fat con will feature tons of themed meet and greets for people to link up with fat people of different

00:05:27.360 backgrounds pilates and yoga down they can do yoga at that size i can barely no way this one's in a

00:05:35.120 wheelchair no way guys it's time to hit the treadmill oh my gosh okay it is an immersive event that pucks

00:05:42.160 hopes will serve as a launch point in the future at the end of the day we want people to leave the event

00:05:47.920 being like i got the phone number of one person i can call and i'm not going to feel like i'm doing

00:05:52.400 this all on my own but you are doing this on your own i mean you guys could like celebrate being fat

00:05:58.080 together for a little bit but when you go home you're still like you are going to stick out even

00:06:03.600 in america do you know fat you have to be to stick out for being fat in america you can be pretty chubby

00:06:09.040 and be considered somewhat thin in america but if you're sticking out as a fat person in america you 0.82

00:06:14.880 have problems okay so now i'm going to look at their ig oh wow you there oh my gosh i need to

00:06:22.240 go i think this would be hilarious should i buy should i buy a ticket should we go and bring a

00:06:26.960 camera crew somebody's watching me is my anxiety fellas would you would you do it i actually think

00:06:39.040 you guys wouldn't do you know what i give you guys a lot of i think this is too big even for

00:06:43.840 you guys oh god that's so fat well it's impossible to pick one thing that was my favorite part about

00:06:57.360 fat con the whole weekend has been amazing we've had come with me on a big fat road trip to fat con

00:07:02.960 there were signs all along the way that we were headed in the right direction what a gorgeous three

00:07:08.400 day drive with some important business stops along the way we made it to seattle and it was time to

00:07:14.800 start setting up for fat con but look at this gorgeous room we got to stay in all weekend ah after

00:07:20.800 a busy night of setting up in the vendors alley i was ready for y'all and you were ready for me thank

00:07:27.360 you so much for the support it was such a treat to watch everyone try my pants on so cute ah fat joy

00:07:35.040 everywhere there were so many activities and i got to participate in a few the print making was back

00:07:40.480 and here's me having my little avril levine moment of course there was a oh my god party and people

00:07:47.920 were wearing in my suits which i love bingo no i didn't win fatties after dark with an ice cream social

00:07:54.400 here are my gorgeous models for the plus size fashion show you can be my melody or karomi in my

00:07:59.840 cargo pants watch out we're back on the road and i am selling pants out of the back of our van we had

00:08:05.760 a lovely pop-up at i want seconds in portland thank you to all who came out and on the last day we had

00:08:11.200 a rainbow yay come with me oh my gosh all right then we got a video here celebrate things for fun we

00:08:18.880 have all sorts of conventions in the world where people come together to celebrate the thing that they

00:08:23.920 enjoy typically it's car conventions bodybuilding conventions fitness expos i mean you name it gun

00:08:30.960 expos i mean there's tons of stuff all out there one thing that i i never actually thought i would

00:08:36.800 ever see is a obesity convention you know this isn't uh this isn't a convention about getting away

00:08:44.400 from obesity this isn't a convention about health maybe we should go and pass out ozempic

00:08:50.400 guys all right if you guys want me to go i want from this video i want a thousand signups

00:09:01.600 yeah a thousand of you to get my ten dollars a month membership okay and i will go to fat con

00:09:07.520 you know i'll be nice we'll go down to 500 and i will go to fat con and i will pass out ozempic and

00:09:14.080 maybe workout and diet plans than trying to embrace a better lifestyle or free resources

00:09:20.080 being available to the general public to improve their health quite you know i could say one thing 0.69

00:09:25.600 when fat women dress slutty they're really committed to the cause because modesty only counts if you got 1.00

00:09:31.280 something to show off so these women are straight hoes i mean because they got nothing to show off and 1.00

00:09:36.720 they still want to do it they just do it for the love of the game the opposite you know what this is is an

00:09:42.080 embracing of obesity and not just the small amount of obesity this would be like a crack convention

00:09:49.360 like that's the equivalent of an obesity convention would be like if a bunch of crackheads got together

00:09:54.400 and just said we're happy being crackheads they kind of do on the streets of london i won't lie to you

00:10:00.160 they would where i lived but you know talking preposterous huge gargantuan people today we're

00:10:07.120 going to talk about fat con and it might get me a lot of unsubscribes which i'm i don't know i guess 0.96

00:10:13.600 sorry this shit's just crazy i have to talk about it and it is exactly everything that you would think 0.96

00:10:19.920 it is a group of really really overweight strange individuals doing just about the most odd 0.97

00:10:29.840 oh my type of things you could ever think of they're literally there oh that's ah

00:10:39.280 but which one of you is doing it the only reason she has the confidence to be that naked is because 0.99

00:10:44.320 one of you is doing her i don't know who it is i don't know who it is but one of you who celebrate

00:10:49.680 being unhealthy to celebrate being obese and overweight as if it's a righteous thing talking about it

00:10:57.600 dancing about it and doing i guess anything you can do with obesity uh the weird thing is that

00:11:05.040 in these videos you'll catch every once in a while just a random guy standing there out of several

00:11:10.560 people mostly comprising themselves of women there's just you know some guys and they're just kind of

00:11:16.400 like realizing what they got themselves into at this point i'm surprised they were even able to find a

00:11:21.040 room to fit all of these people in let alone a space in which the ground could actually support the

00:11:26.720 amount of human mass in any one given location at a singular time i mean i just have to wonder that

00:11:31.920 there is absolutely a architectural disaster waiting to happen here they do a little runway

00:11:37.440 show where all of the obese people get on stage and do the obesogenic activities showing off their

00:11:44.080 obesity to obese people clapping at other obese people being obese and it's great people are having

00:11:50.880 an awesome time somebody's gonna have a heart attack i'm i'm sure it's lovely but the practice

00:11:57.440 of celebrating this is so so wrong because the reality is this kind of stuff is just embracing

00:12:06.000 people who are unhealthy who are morbidly obese who are going to cause massive impairments to their

00:12:12.720 lifelong ability and not to mention the health care system so in the uk health care is free right

00:12:19.680 i think if you get this fat we should not have to pay for you

00:12:24.800 now you know i have a friend he's jack i have two friends actually both jack came down with cancer

00:12:30.160 there was nothing they could have did they both had six packs but if you get sick and you look like this

00:12:38.080 that's officially on you that is your fault ability to just live and what is that guy doing there the

00:12:44.800 guy in the orange jumpsuit literally what do you i think we know what he's doing there come on brother

00:12:50.880 morning y'all i'm tigers i'm the executive director of nafa the national association to advance fat

00:12:55.520 acceptance yeah you do look like the director of nafa the national association to advance fat

00:13:02.080 acceptance i mean why do we even need something like this and i am at the airport at five o'clock in the

00:13:08.480 morning because i am on my way to seattle for the fat con and i can't wait to see all the beautiful

00:13:15.440 plus size people who are traveling from all over the country to be in community together and as i

00:13:20.720 always do when i am traveling domestically i am flying on southwest because of their customer of size

00:13:26.000 policy but as i have been for many months now since southwest announced some changes to their

00:13:32.640 seating procedures i'm feeling a lot of anxiety about the future of this policy

00:13:37.920 southwest has told travel influencers and some of our journalist friends that there won't be any

00:13:43.200 changes to the customer size policy but the problem with that is if there are no changes but the rest of

00:13:49.440 the seating procedures change we don't know how that's going to affect the availability of second

00:13:54.160 seats for people who need them they even have an accessibility description on the video which it says

00:13:59.200 this video features an naafa executive director tigress osborne talking about southwest airlines customers 0.98

00:14:07.040 of size policy tigress is a fat black middle-aged woman i think if you're fat and your blubber is on top 1.00

00:14:13.680 of me it's time for you to get a second seat okay it is not my fault look i love a good culver's 0.99

00:14:22.240 fried chicken sandwich like the rest of us okay i love ice cream i love dessert i love cookie like

00:14:29.040 i am a fat girl at heart okay but i torture myself daily okay i really do i get up every day and i have

00:14:37.040 to go run her workout and i torture myself that way and then i go toward like it's torture you have to eat

00:14:42.880 this like chicken breast and rice okay and i do that because i don't want to die someday if something

00:14:49.840 stupid i'd be so mad if i went out because of like a liver disease or something you know what i mean 0.78

00:14:55.680 like a heart i would just be annoyed like if i want to go out i want to go out in a way that's cool 0.99

00:15:01.840 like a plane crash or something but not not now when i'm like old right if i'm 70 and i go out in a

00:15:07.600 plane crash that's kind of cool you know what i mean like 75 you live a good life right but if you

00:15:12.880 go out because of something that was preventable what an owl with brown skin and freckles she's 1.00

00:15:20.240 wearing a black dress and a black and white hat and a pink canine 95 mask dude i can't oh she goes on

00:15:28.400 to say that the southwest airlines changing their seating procedures is going to ruin what is the only

00:15:35.600 airline left for fat people and she's disturbed and anxious because she doesn't know how it's going

00:15:41.440 to work i just don't understand where this argument comes from you are going can you imagine these

00:15:48.080 people explaining this they're like problems to people in poverty can you imagine like i went to

00:15:54.000 india when i was younger and they have very extreme poverty there can you imagine this fat woman like 1.00

00:15:59.760 explaining to someone in poverty that her life is really hard because when she buys a seat she's so fat

00:16:05.200 she now has to pay for two i just can't imagine i would pay to see it though i would love i'll set it

00:16:11.920 up to be sitting in a plane that's fit for biologically normal people people who aren't morbidly ill okay

00:16:21.360 it's not their choice that they're healthy well jk it is and it's your choice to be unhealthy you could

00:16:27.440 simply laterally move your lifestyle over to be slightly more healthy i don't know you stop drinking

00:16:33.520 calories or something and then you'd be able to fit in the normal size seats and you wouldn't have to

00:16:38.160 worry about things such as this when inevitably the airline realizes how much value it's losing

00:16:44.480 and accepting people like yourself and ditches you because they don't care they care about the paycheck

00:16:50.160 that's literally all that matters and of course this place isn't all just about fat acceptance they're 0.90

00:16:54.880 doing kinky as well and this just looks sick what the hell it's like the reverse like 50 shades of 0.81

00:17:07.760 gray stuff oh extremely painful someone's in ropes being choked with a obese person on top of them and

00:17:17.360 they're obese i can't imagine the amount of strain that's going through their skull with the intracranial

00:17:22.640 pressure caused by the excessive amount of atomos tissue right now and they're selling tickets for

00:17:28.320 one thousand five hundred we need to we need to throw some events and raise our prices they can

00:17:34.240 charge a thousand five hundred for this dollars to celebrate being fat i i don't think anyone realizes

00:17:42.160 the fact that they're literally just paying someone to celebrate their own downfall and that person is

00:17:48.080 gaining a large monetary amount of value from them celebrating that it's just radical when postmates

00:17:55.760 delivers six times the amount of ice cream you ordered you have no choice but to share 0.99

00:18:07.600 this is all fat women coping oh my gosh can you i can't even imagine being that fat like you probably 1.00

00:18:13.600 get you probably try to sleep with guys and they turn you down oh my gosh you probably have to beg for 1.00

00:18:19.280 sex oh yeah are you even at fat con i knew my fellow fatties would appreciate some gourmet ice cream 1.00

00:18:27.360 and they sure did you guys what's all this trash about we have to pick up our trash we can't have all 1.00

00:18:34.160 this do you know what when people say they're big boned or like they don't know why they're fat 0.96

00:18:38.960 i'll tell you what so like i'll leave i'll even use myself so a couple of years ago i tried to lose

00:18:46.000 20 pounds and i was like this will not this i'm working out every day this weight won't come off

00:18:50.240 of me and do you know it was it was these giant like pure sugar drinks that i would have every morning

00:18:58.160 and i never counted count you really got to count calories if you're gonna lose weight like there's

00:19:02.880 people that cannot do it but those people were raised to eat healthy and if that's not you

00:19:08.320 you got to do it for like one to two months that's what i learned i was like i always avoided it i'm

00:19:14.160 like maybe i'll just do this diet or that diet no you got to count and you got to know exactly what

00:19:19.440 you're eating anyways long story short it's never like a secret like if you're fat it's because you're

00:19:26.960 like it's never you know people that are just naturally thin they just naturally stop eating right so

00:19:34.960 they there's some people that have to work at this where they they just like um like they just have 0.69

00:19:40.720 this inside of them this intuitive eating bullshit if you weren't born with that it's never going to 0.84

00:19:45.760 happen you got to train it like it's just yeah so it my friend works at a restaurant he said like 0.99

00:19:53.600 these super obese people would come in and they would just eat so it's like it's never a secret it's the

00:19:59.200 size of the place thought he's leaving a bunch of trash very demure very mindful very demure very

00:20:07.040 mindful very demure very mindful there's absolutely nothing mindful about this group of people except

00:20:15.120 their ability to be mindless with how their body is shaped and what they're doing to it actively as we

00:20:22.480 speak hey to our beautiful fat community out there if you've been on our socials you've seen we've had

00:20:30.000 a little bit of a popularity spike this past week your fat con team loves this because that means the

00:20:37.840 message of fat joy is getting spread around like glitter in a craft project that means it's on every

00:20:44.720 surface and you'll find it still stuck to you three days later but we realize this popularity

00:20:50.880 is triggering to our culture and brings out the worst of fat phobia it's important that you know

00:20:58.720 your fat con team has been working hours every day to moderate our comments section it's so important

00:21:06.640 to us that our social channels not contribute to the trauma that our fat community experiences online 0.96

00:21:13.920 so we block every hateful demeaning and dehumanizing comment now we only have full control over the posts

00:21:24.720 that directly come from fat con we have a little control over the posts that are collaborations with

00:21:31.600 other individuals and businesses in our community and we have no control over posts that fat con gets tagged in

00:21:39.680 that is not to say that we don't want to collaborate and we don't want people to tag out but that is to

00:21:46.960 say that we want our community to remember that we don't owe anyone our shame say it with me this time i don't

00:21:57.920 owe anyone my i mean you're gonna have it when you look in the mirror because if you looked like this

00:22:05.600 i mean i felt shame when i was like 20 pounds overweight i can't even imagine these people

00:22:10.560 hate them there's just no way they don't okay especially if they used to be hot i bet some of

00:22:15.120 these women used to be hot that's why they say a lot of the guys will say you got to hook up with 1.00

00:22:19.200 the girls fast because they get ugly really fast shame preach we want you to know we are fighting with

00:22:26.160 you and we are fighting for you and we love you so damn much yeah and so the owner comes on here and

00:22:32.400 talks about how the social media influence that they've been having is crazy because their videos

00:22:38.560 are going viral because clearly it's wildly abnormal and people are commenting about it and so they're

00:22:45.680 having to police all of their comment sections to make a safe space for fat people which the reality 0.87

00:22:52.640 is what she's defining is anyone who is in defiance of agreeing that fat is healthy is going to get

00:22:59.760 banned or their comments removed so people just being logical and sensible and maybe even compassionate

00:23:05.760 about the health of others are going to get removed and banned because they simply have a difference

00:23:11.040 of actual factual knowledge not even just opinion like this is objective information and look i'm not

00:23:17.040 here to sit and talk about how shitty other people are because i'm not the best person in the world but

00:23:22.640 i think when it comes to fat and obesity i think it's a pretty clear delineation or stratification to 0.87

00:23:29.200 make what is healthy and what is not and if you talk to the average populace like just walking down

00:23:35.200 the street and you pull someone aside and talk to them and said hey do you think being obese is healthy

00:23:39.440 they'd probably say no that's really terrible like don't be obese what it makes no sense to be celebrating

00:23:46.320 obesity as if it's a good thing and i get like fat acceptance or being accepted into a group i don't think

00:23:52.480 fat people should be shunned away from opportunities or people or friend groups but it doesn't mean

00:23:58.080 that we should accept it and even i don't know i think it could maybe be helpful for them now

00:24:05.360 like because if you're that big there's just no way this doesn't trickle into every area of your life

00:24:10.800 like some of these people were in wheelchairs you're so fat that you have to inconvenience everybody 0.95

00:24:16.960 around you now like you have to inconvenience the person next to you on the flight you have

00:24:22.560 to inconvenience your family who is going to have to take care of you when you start dying you you are

00:24:28.320 literally inconveniencing every single person in your life so i mean that's my two cents i can't believe

00:24:33.840 this is actually a real thing um but hey if you guys want to go to fat con i guess enjoy yourself um and

00:24:40.800 if we get 500 signups from this video i will at the audacitynetwork.com the links in the description

00:24:47.440 i will go to fat the next fat con and i will interview people like the video and i'll see you next time bye

Pearl - April 15, 2025

Obese People Throw a 'Sexy' Convention to Celebrate Unhealthiness？!

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