网红把西雅图猫展当成furry大会到场斥责工作人员 视频播放量超过400万次
位于美国华盛顿州金县的 Seattle 市近日出现一场乌龙对峙：网红 Edward Jacob「Jake」Lang 在11月7日至8日于 Seattle Center 展览厅举行的 Sea-Meow 猫展活动期间到场，指着身穿猫咪服装的迎宾人员斥责主办方，称这是一场 furry 大会。furry 指装扮成拟人化动物角色的爱好者群体。现场视频随后在社交平台疯传，据 GO Magazine 报道，视频播放量已超过400万次，Instagram 上一则转发获得25万个赞。
Sea-Meow 猫展是主办方自称的美国太平洋西北地区最大的猫主题大会。据主办方官网与 Seattle Center 活动页介绍，这场为期两天的活动设有100多家摊位、供人领养幼猫的「Kitten Alley」专区与猫咪主题市集，嘉宾包括养猫达人 Kitten Lady 与 Jackson Galaxy，门票收入的15%捐给包括 Seattle Animal Shelter 与 Seattle Humane 在内的六家动物福利机构。
多家媒体转述的现场视频显示，Lang 称工作人员在「向年轻人灌输同性恋与跨性别观念」，说「这种 furry 的东西不适合孩子」，又称现场人员在「诱导儿童」、把活动比作「软色情」，并称主办方应该被逮捕。工作人员多次向他解释活动性质，其中一人平静地回答：「这是一场猫的展会。」另一名女子对他说，迎宾人员「穿的是小猫服装」。据报道，现场围观者发出笑声，工作人员随后请 Lang 离开主会场入口。
Lang 自己拍摄了到场过程并发布到社交账号，西雅图的另一名内容创作者 Jonathan Choe 也发布了另一段现场片段。视频11月9日起在 X 等平台扩散，11月10日至11日，Emerald City Wire、Bored Panda、DNA Magazine 与 Comic Sands 等多家媒体相继报道。DNA Magazine 指出，Sea-Meow 主办方官网未就 Lang 到场一事发表声明；截至11月11日，公开报道中未见警方就此事发布通报。
据多家媒体报道，Lang 曾参与2021年1月6日美国国会山事件，被控包括袭击执法人员在内的多项罪名，在候审期间被羁押约四年，2025年1月在特朗普总统第二任期第一天获得赦免。同一个周末，他还与他人在 Seattle Center 的另一处场馆扰乱了一场 Diwali 庆祝活动。据《西北亚裔周刊》经 Emerald City Wire 转述，联邦众议员 Pramila Jayapal 在 X 上发文谴责那次扰乱，称这种充满仇恨的展示在 Seattle 与美国都没有立足之地。
Influencer Mistakes Seattle Cat Convention for a Furry Event and Confronts Staff in Video Seen More Than 4 Million Times
An influencer's confrontation at a cat convention in Seattle, King County, Washington, has gone viral. During the Sea-Meow Convention, held on November 7 and 8 at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall, Edward Jacob "Jake" Lang pointed at greeters dressed in cat costumes and accused the organizers of running a furry convention. Furries are enthusiasts who dress as anthropomorphic animal characters. According to GO Magazine, video of the confrontation has since been viewed more than 4 million times, and one repost on Instagram drew 250,000 likes.
The Sea-Meow Convention bills itself as the biggest cat convention in the Pacific Northwest. According to the organizer's website and the Seattle Center events page, the two-day festival featured more than 100 vendors, a "Kitten Alley" area with kittens available for adoption and a cat-themed marketplace, with appearances by cat experts the Kitten Lady and Jackson Galaxy. Fifteen percent of ticket proceeds went to six animal welfare organizations, including the Seattle Animal Shelter and Seattle Humane.
In footage reported by multiple outlets, Lang accused staff of "indoctrinating the youth with homosexual and transsexual ideas," said "this furry stuff is not for children," claimed the event was "grooming children" and "soft porn," and said the organizers should be arrested. Staff repeatedly explained what the event was. One staff member calmly replied, "This is a convention for cats." Another woman told him the greeters were "dressed as kitty cats." Onlookers can be heard laughing in the footage, and staff eventually ushered Lang away from the entrance to the main hall.
Lang filmed his own visit and posted it to his social accounts, and Seattle-based creator Jonathan Choe posted a separate clip of the confrontation. The videos spread on X and other platforms from November 9, and Emerald City Wire, Bored Panda, DNA Magazine and Comic Sands were among the outlets that reported the story on November 10 and 11. DNA Magazine noted that the Sea-Meow organizer's website carried no statement about Lang's visit, and as of November 11 no police statement about the incident had appeared in public reporting.
According to multiple reports, Lang took part in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, was charged with offenses including assaulting law enforcement officers, spent about four years in pretrial detention, and was pardoned by President Donald Trump on the first day of his second term in January 2025. That same weekend, Lang and others also disrupted a Diwali celebration at another Seattle Center venue. According to the NW Asian Weekly, as reported by Emerald City Wire, U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal posted on X condemning that disruption, calling the hateful display something that has no place in Seattle or in the United States.
来源：Emerald City Wire
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图片来源：图：西雅图天际线与太空针塔资料图，Seattle Center 展览厅位于该区（Joe Mabel 摄，CC BY-SA，经 Wikimedia Commons），已裁为16:9，非事发现场。/ Seattle skyline and the Space Needle (file photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons), cropped to 16:9; the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall is in this district. Not the scene of the incident.
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