Editorial overview
I95 in 95 was a fannish joke bid built around the impossible idea of holding a convention along Interstate 95. Like many hoax bids, it used absurdity to comment on real convention politics.
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Its value is not in whether it could have happened. It matters because fandom often uses mock bids to expose tensions about geography, access, cost, and the seriousness of bidding culture.
Context and significance
Hoax bids work because they imitate real bids closely enough to be recognizable while pushing the premise into comedy. They can print flyers, make slogans, recruit supporters, and become part of the social theater of a convention.
I95 in 95 belongs to that tradition. It treated the highway itself as a venue, turning a transportation corridor into a joke about how widely dispersed fandom had become.
The bid also shows fandom’s taste for procedural parody. Fans who understand site selection, committees, and convention logistics can appreciate the joke because they know exactly which rules are being bent.
As fan history, I95 in 95 reminds us that convention culture is not only administrative. It is playful, argumentative, and self-aware enough to mock its own rituals.
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