Well-known internet personalities like YouTuber Blaire White and The Daily Wire Matt Walsh were among the online trolls who mocked Fat Con, which Wilson said left them blocking and reporting each hateful comment.
Pucks A'Plenty also insisted that the body positivity movement needs to be re-centered around fat people, as in their opinion, it had become a "catch-all" for anyone.
Splashing around at a colourful pool party while donning plus-size bikinis and trunks, happy guests pictures and videos online of the joyous gathering online.
And the diverse audience they'd gathered at Fat Con showed exactly how broad the spectrum of body positivity really is.
They said that the idea of body positivity has become too attached to "white women doing yoga" and got "further and further away" from targeting the discrimination plus-size people receive.