Every convention has its specific culture.

Worldcon attracts cliquey literary types.

San Diego Comic-Con markets directly to Josh Whedon fans and cosplay whores.

Anime Detour is for potheads, PAX (both of them) is for SJWs who think they're edgy and cool, and any con run by R.K. attracts sex pests because it's run by several.

In the case of Dragon Con, it's an 80k person convention where the average attendee is just there to buy some shit, get a photo with the 801st (assuming they aren't IN the 801st), and then get blackout drunk.

There was never a world where Dragon Con could make a literary award and make it have the weight of the Hugo, because of the character of the convention.

Every convention has its specific culture.

Worldcon attracts cliquey literary types.

San Diego Comic-Con markets directly to Josh Whedon fans and cosplay whores.

Anime Detour is for potheads, PAX (both of them) is for SJWs who think they're edgy and cool, and any con run by R.K. attracts sex pests because it's run by one.

In the case of Dragon Con, it's an 80k person convention where the average attendee is just there to buy some shit, get a photo with the 801st (assuming they aren't IN the 801st), and then get blackout drunk.

There was never a world where Dragon Con could make a literary award and make it have the weight of the Hugo, because of the character of the convention.

Every convention has its specific culture.

Worldcon attracts cliquey literary types.

San Diego Comic-Con markets directly to Josh Whedon fans and cosplay whores.

Anime Detour is for potheads, PAX (both of them) is for SJWs who think they're edgy and cool, and any con run by R.K. attracts sex pests because it's run by one.

In the case of Dragon Con, it's an 80k person convention where the average attendee is just there to buy some shit, get a photo with the 801st (assuming they aren't IN the 801st), and then get blackout drunk.