Disappointing photos show what it's like to go to San Diego Comic-Con in real life

Whether you were entering or exiting SDCC, you couldn't avoid crowds of people.

This is how long a line was for fans to reach a COVID verification tent where you needed to acquire a wristband in order to attend the convention floor.

Mandatory COVID wristbands that needed to be worn to enter the convention every day became flimsy, gross, and faded as the week continued.

Fans had to circumvent train tracks that ran parallel to the convention center, which made it more difficult to get to different activities.

Foot traffic got congested by the entrances to the San Diego Convention Center.

Once inside you had to navigate through even more clusters of people, with limited space to walk the floor.

Attendees sat on the floor to catch a break before security guards inevitably walked by to tell them they weren't allowed to do that because it was a hazard.

Lines to get into popular activations were long and involved waiting for hours outdoors, with the hot sun beating down on fans.

An endless line of attendees camped out for days, sleeping outdoors, in order to get into Marvel Studios' popular Saturday night panel at Hall H.

If you received a ticket from a panel to receive swag, you had to make a 12-minute trek outside of the convention center to the back of a hotel to trade it inside an unsuspecting room.

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