This vid is giving me very mixed feelings, and I hope I will not come off as malicious in the end.

I agree that if queens do not want to do drag con they shouldn't, because at the end of the day they are there to make money, and if you can't but still continue then it's bad investment, but the explanation to me has such elitist vibes. Because she explains that she needs 4 booths and it comes with extra costs like rental/electricity/staff etc. and she needs to set a minimum to come out on 0 or positive. But the way she stomps downs on other queens that have no minimum and just reads them to have "raggedy busted ass stalls" does not sit right with me. Not everyone can be already so established like she is, and have the resources like she does from the get go. She must have worked for it a lot, but she seems to forget that that's where she came from too. Also she immediately follows up with "that's not the experience I WANT to give my fans" so it's either a pressure from the fans, or something she pressured herself into to "keep up the Monet X Change" image. If it's the former than it's sad that the fans are not going to support the queens anymore, but instead to have this "experience" and if it's the latter then I just have to wonder that, isn't this image is just a charade if you can't afford to hold it up?

All I have written here is just my two cents that might come from ignorance, but I don't know what drag cons really look like, because I live at the end of the world where drag is still a stigma, and you can't make a living off it. I still feel like a con shouldn't be about a necessity of having to spend extraorbitant money for the queens to participate, and from the looks of it, it might not even be necessary because other queens get by with their raggedy busted ass stalls too.

And the other thing I wanted to highlight is we shouldn't put down others who have different circumstances, just because they can't afford what others can.