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I think in one of her interviews she says she’s taught children’s classes in the past, I want to say it was yoga or art. Maybe both? But she clearly has experience handling kids getting frustrated and it shows.
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I think all the comedy from this is over tbh. Wonka got milkshake ducked, it seems like the Loompas were just people in their 20s trying to make ends meet and making the best for the kids, and the guy who arranged it is clearly some Ai huckster who won't learn his lesson and will be back to GBS in a couple of weeks. It was really funny while it lasted and I hope I never learn anything else about the part-time actors involved, and that they move on with their lives and have learned from the experience. 
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Bicyclops posted:Wonka got milkshake ducked i know what this means but lmfao at this phrasing
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Mar 8, 2024 20:37
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the unknown still hasnt gotten her bag yet
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Alan Smithee posted:the unknown still hasnt gotten her bag yet Her own fault for hiding in the walls IMO.
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Mar 9, 2024 19:18
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This Black Flag parody shirt is too much.
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Mar 9, 2024 20:45
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Disco Pope posted:This Black Flag parody shirt is too much. 
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The Unknown is only 16. I hope she doesn’t get screwed out of her bag and flowers for this.
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Disco Pope posted:This Black Flag parody shirt is too much. Ha ha! Holy poo poo, nice catch!
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I think part of what gets me is that £35 per entrant really isn't enough to fund or subsidize what was promised, which really should have been the first red flag. 100 people makes it £3500 which covers the price of renting a venue, but assuming you're actually paying staff that doesn't leave a lot left over for decorating tbh. it kind of feels very clear that he pocketed 2/3rds and tried to do the event on the rest of the budget, lol. alexandriao fucked around with this message at 20:50 on Mar 11, 2024 |
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Mar 11, 2024 20:38
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alexandriao posted:I think part of what gets me is that £35 per entrant really isn't enough to fund or subsidize what was promised, which really should have been the first red flag. lol, that is very little money.
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alexandriao posted:I think part of what gets me is that £35 per entrant really isn't enough to fund or subsidize what was promised, which really should have been the first red flag. He got around it by not paying anyone.
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....you nay wanna double check your math there
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bunnyofdoom posted:....you nay wanna double check your math there 
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bunnyofdoom posted:....you nay wanna double check your math there Yeah i went back and edited it when i realised but of course everyone is fast on the draw lol
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Fyre Festival is still my favorite disastrous event, but second place is pretty close now between DashCon and Willy's Chocolate Experience. Just amazing, amazing trainwrecks. DashCon 2014 - Disorganized, mismanaged disaster - Short-term cancellations of performances and panels people had paid money for - People singing "We are the Champions" while they are being scammed - "An extra hour in the ball pit" as compensation - Attendees and staff taking the piss afterwards - Organizers crying while apologizing on camera Willy's Chocolate Experience 2024 - Disorganized, mismanaged disaster - Abandoned warehouse with cheap props and costumes ordered from online stores - AI-generated website and event script that was quickly abandoned - Meth Lab Oompa Loompa - The Unknown scaring children so badly they start to cry - Attendees and staff taking the piss afterwards - Organizer crying while apologizing on camera
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alexandriao posted:I think part of what gets me is that £35 per entrant really isn't enough to fund or subsidize what was promised, which really should have been the first red flag. Yeah, it doesn't seem like a scam to me so much as a guy who underestimated how difficult other people's jobs are. Event planner is one of those jobs where if you do a great job it looks like you didn't do anything at all. Get AI to write you a script and mock up some advertising. Book an inexpensive venue. Rent some decorations. Hire a few entertainers. Buy a few bags of jelly beans and some store brand lemonade. Easy peasy. He probably lost money even before the refunds. Math is clearly not his strong point since he ran out of jelly beans. There's no excuse for that. He should know how many tickets he sold and be able to determine approximately how many jelly beans are in a bag and therefore how many bags he needs to provide every kid the promised Tasty Teat of 2 jelly beans.
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OP reminds me of the Mr.Show skit where they start a Make a Wish and the kid wants to see snow, their water is turned off, so they just pour some cola in ice cube trays lol
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Less Is Definitely posted:Fyre Festival is still my favorite disastrous event, but second place is pretty close now between DashCon and Willy's Chocolate Experience. Just amazing, amazing trainwrecks. Did anyone ever get to the bottom of the deal between the venue and the dashcon organisers? I remember there also being some really weird poo poo where they had to raise $20k or so within 24 hours or the venue was going to cancel the event halfway through. I'm honestly 50/50 on this being the organisers not reading their emails properly and getting the cost of hire wrong, or the venue scamming the organisers/attendees.
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alexandriao posted:I think part of what gets me is that £35 per entrant really isn't enough to fund or subsidize what was promised, which really should have been the first red flag. Wait, were there only 100 tickets sold? lol There was some discussion some ways back that this is essentially the same formula as a little kids' haunted house setup: you hang up some black curtains and dim the lights, set up some backdrops and props, put up some funky lights, hand out some candy. Not terribly convincing but the kids aren't really going to complain because they're 5 and they just got candy. Doesn't take much budget and can make some decent money, but probably depends on getting more than customers through than that unless you own the building and are just doing it for kicks. Still hilarious that the guy couldn't even clear that low bar.
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There were 850 transactions, that's not tickets sold but transactions so the number is probably about 1700 tickets sold so like 60k
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Yeah, but when you have to give three jellybeans and a quarter of a soda can to every kid the expenses start piling up.
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Just order the candy in bulk from a restaurant supply store, 25 pounds of reeces pieces is $100, that should cover a lot of kids
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Less Is Definitely posted:Fyre Festival is still my favorite disastrous event, but second place is pretty close now between DashCon and Willy's Chocolate Experience. Just amazing, amazing trainwrecks. The recent Bored Apes NFT convention where the attendees got eye damage from unshielded UV sterilization lamps has far exceeded any possible contender.
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Klyith posted:The recent Bored Apes NFT convention where the attendees got eye damage from unshielded UV sterilization lamps has far exceeded any possible contender. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DlfLthx89E
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Tarkus posted:There were 850 transactions, that's not tickets sold but transactions so the number is probably about 1700 tickets sold so like 60k holy poo poo i take everything back he definitely pocketed the money and ran was it a rich area of glasgow? maybe we can frame him as ai man robin hood
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Tunicate posted:Just order the candy in bulk from a restaurant supply store, 25 pounds of reeces pieces is $100, that should cover a lot of kids What the hell, don't tell me this! My weight is bad enough already!
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Facebook Aunt posted:Yeah, it doesn't seem like a scam to me so much as a guy who underestimated how difficult other people's jobs are. Event planner is one of those jobs where if you do a great job it looks like you didn't do anything at all. Nah, it's still definitely a scam. Guy's been looking for ways to scrape money into his pockets while doing as little work as possible for years, and I think the actors haven't gotten paid. edit: should clarify that there's nothing wrong with trying to get paid for doing very little, unless you're doing it at the expense of kids and people dependent on social programs. davidspackage fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Mar 12, 2024 |
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alexandriao posted:holy poo poo i take everything back he definitely pocketed the money and ran Absolutely not. I get the impression for most of the folk affected that £35 is a lot of money.
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davidspackage posted:I think the actors haven't gotten paid. According to “Immersive” Willy Wonka Exhibit Somehow Worse for Kids Than Original Chocolate Factory, someone claimed that the actor's contracts were written in erasable ink. I hope the exposure is worth it for them.
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Peanut Butter posted:Absolutely not. I get the impression for most of the folk affected that £35 is a lot of money. 30% of Glasgow households have an income of less than £20000 a year. We are not a city of rich people by any measure, and Whiteinch, where the venue was, is an old industrial estate, rather run down and shabby, like so much of this grand, decaying city. That £35 per head would have been the major/only half term treat money for many of the children who went, and the bloke who organised it would have known that very well, the grubby little fucker.
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Irisi posted:30% of Glasgow households have an income of less than £20000 a year. We are not a city of rich people by any measure, and Whiteinch, where the venue was, is an old industrial estate, rather run down and shabby, like so much of this grand, decaying city. God I didn't know the actual numbers, that's awful. I grew up in a really deprived part of Fife so I know what working class deprivation in Scotland is like, but Glasgow seems to be something else. I remember in one of the videos a parent was complaining to the wee rat Coull that this was the main Christmas present for their kids. Absolute shitebag, I hope he gets his.
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davidspackage posted:Nah, it's still definitely a scam. Guy's been looking for ways to scrape money into his pockets while doing as little work as possible for years, and I think the actors haven't gotten paid. The guy should be banned from operating or participating in non-profits at a minimum. Good example of humanity at its finest really.
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I want to see this movie.
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Its called Fyre, available on Netflix
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The Sausages posted:The Unknown is the baddest villian of 2024 and as far as I can tell they've been sharted out by AI straight into the public domain, people are having a ball with it. I honestly just want to learn more about The Unknown's lore. We know The Unknown is played by a girl, but does The Unknown actually consider itself to be a girl? It gives off more of a masculine or possibly even sexless energy. I feel like 'it' would be The Unknown's preferred pronoun because 'it' sounds mysterious. And how exactly does The Unknown 'live inside the walls of the factory?' Is there like a 3 foot gap between a couple walls where it sleeps in a pile of knitted sweaters, or does it just kind of phase into solid walls like a ghost entering the spectral realm? Is the Unknown a magical entity or just a regular trespassing weirdo who watched too many sov-cit YouTubes about squatter rights? And what is the scope of it's confectionary interests? Does The Unknown seek to innovate the same kind of delectable treats that interest Wonka, or is it some sort of anti-confectioner making goober drops and snot dollups? Does it sneak out of the walls to use Wonka's kitchen in the dead of night, or did it construct its own private candy lab between the walls in violation of local fire codes? I need answers.
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Stunt-Puffin posted:I honestly just want to learn more about The Unknown's lore. That’s the magic of AI hallucinations: you’ll never get a satisfying answer because the algorithms that birthed it up don’t know anything, and drew connections to something wholly unrelated to Willy Wonka and barfed up The Unknown. Make up your own cosmology, have fun with it, there is literally no one and nothing to tell you that you’re wrong.
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The best part of the AI script, and a bunch of other AI "creative" bullshit, is where I can't tell if it's regurgitating the scripts for children's TV shows, or internet posters writing poo poo that parodies children's TV shows.
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