Willy's Chocolate Experience
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I just learned about this amazing web of clusterfuck that happened this past weekend.
tl;dr: A one-man show called The House of Illuminati started a popup event called Willy's Chocolate Experience with an entrance fee of £35. The website looks legit enough until you focus your eyes especially on the imagery and find that it was either written by someone who was experiencing a debilitating stroke or Skynet was involved. The colorful immersive designs advertised turned out to be just a few homemade props, cheap dollar-store plastic backdrops one might use for a Willy Wonka themed birthday party for their 6 year old child, and some of the most miserable desperate actors who just had to withstand this weekend to get £500. The actors were actually the best part, according to the swindled parents, at least in the sense they tried their best to make such a horrible event somewhat palatable.
A Willy Wonka-inspired experience ‘scam’ was so bad that people called the cops
“I thought, this is where dreams go to die,” said one actor who was hired to work the event.
Other highlights:
- Most of the script given to the actors were completely written by AI and apparently not even using the best LLM.
- One of the things the too-creative AI came up with was a villain called The Unknown, who was a man with a silver mask that "lived in the walls making chocolate." He wound up scaring kids into sobs.
- The staff were instructed to give each kid one jelly bean each, and a quarter-cup of lemonade.
- Their centerpiece was an out-of-theme bouncy house that once again screamed "parents' last-minute-planned birthday party"
- Other attractions included a bridge covered in astroturf that went over a 'chocolate river' which was really just a static plastic brown tarp that 'looked like chocolate,' a bunch of random beakers and bunsen burners that looked more like a meth lab than a chocolate lab, and just a bunch of random props laid out haphazardly that looked like they came out of an elementary school production of Willy Wonka.
- The actors who were similarly swindled spoke out saying they were given these jobs last-minute, and were ill-prepared for the event. But did their best to entertain the kids against low odds. The parents admitted that these actors did seem to be the only genuine parts, at least in the sense they were actually trying their best. Most of the parents' rage were focused on the organizers of the event.
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I read the thread title and thought of something that would belong in the NSFW thread.
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@HardwareGeek said in Willy's Chocolate Experience:
I read the thread title and thought of something that would belong in the NSFW thread.
I was disappointed it didn't involve Nicolas Cage somehow
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@The_Quiet_One and naturally the website imagery was AI produced.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Willy's Chocolate Experience:
No relation to the folks who allegedly caused 9/11 or faked the moon landing
That's exactly what the folks who caused 9/11 and faked the moon landing would say!
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It is indeed amazing stuff, and meme-worthy.
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Scottish children were anticipating a world of pure imagination, and got a world of disappointment instead.
Although the Oompa-Loompa girl seems to have won the hearts of the internet by both capturing the misery in a very iconic photo and for trying her best for the kids despite the circumstances.
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@Atazhaia said in Willy's Chocolate Experience:
It is indeed amazing stuff, and meme-worthy.
What Was The Sad Glasgow 'Willy Wonka Experience' And Who's 'Billy Coull'? The Disastrous Event Explained
Scottish children were anticipating a world of pure imagination, and got a world of disappointment instead.
In the wake of the disastrous event, a ... group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong,
...Now things are gonna get interesting!
In the wake of the disastrous event, a Facebook group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong,
