Oof I feel I've been cursed on this front. Any events I try to plan have invariably had zero participation. A particularly rough one was when I tried asking 6 or so people to join me for a convention, 5 of them had (genuine) reasons for why they couldn't join, and the last one tried their best but almost as if by superstition, their phone died
It's gotten to the point where (in an admittedly superstitious manner) I ask people to plan events on my behalf, and inexplicably that ends up working
-Scientists after discovering General Relativity