The Truth behind the Willy Wonka scam | The Full Story (feat  

There's an article on ThisWasTV by Prabisha Manandhar dated yesterday titled "Is Willy Wonka Actor a Nonce?" 😱 Can anyone confirm if this has been mentioned anywhere else? I'm hoping it's not true... 🥺

Same article also on a site called NewsUnzip by Ankit Verma, published today

God i HATE the fake youtube accent. Why do the channels with the BEST content all put on a ridiculous fake accent that is cancer to listen to? Wtf is wrong with people? Noone in the world talks in this idiotic accent. Noone on tv talks in the ridiculous fake accent with emphasis in all the wrong places- there is a reason for that. Its deeply unpleasant to listen to. You create amazing content so why not just talk like a human?! 👎 👎 👎

The good kind of AI delivery is genuinely better than the delivery with the wrong and over exaggerated emphasis

"the venue was ALLLLLLLLEGEDDDDDDDLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEE never even BOOOOOOOOOOOKED" Honestly - WHY do you do this? 🤢

When you put it that way it still sounds pretty bad.

pessimist

And now Hollywood is trying to make a movie based on them

@@Zistheone2 Some piece of AI generated content was bound to be the basis of a horror movie, eventually.

The two OL girls did get paid, by “the willy wonka of RU-vid” himself, Mr Ethan Klein. Family.

Mine turned out to be a Nurofen Express by accident

It wasnt any old jelly bean that the kids got that day. No it was a bean stock!

BETRAYAL! BETRAYED ME! THIS EVENT SUUUCKS! it has NOTHING to do with Willy Wonka!

I got a rock

Soviet Russia Willie Wonka

Ikr i keep thinking about it

It's a metaphor for your colon

It’s been 4 days since I first heard about it, and I still can’t get over the Unknown’s introductory sentence.

Deffo think in my house it would be the 'unknown is an evil chocolate THIEF who lives in my walls' I'm not lucky enough to have someone making chocolate in my walls xx

so he makes chocolate IN THE WALLS? Wouldn't it be easier to just use the regular factory? What machines can you fit inside the walls? and why?

You made me spit out my espresso xD

Best comment I've read from this video XD

Pin this please

Instead of getting the golden ticket, you get the AI-generated ticket

Don’t forget the depressed oompa lompa

Aall i was thinking about

Who pissed in it this time?

The pool is also closed.

why are there people in suits around it

Ball pit closed due to AIDS

it was a 16 year old girl...

@@miciso666 I meant the guy setting up the event.

I thought it was one of the “immortals” from 300

​@@miciso666a black one

Um... that doesn't really mean anything when the Death Eaters also looked like they were dressed in a $20 haloween costume.

Or mr krabs "krabby land" scam lol

South Park should totally do an episode of that with Cartman and Butters behind it all.

that's the perfect way to describe it 💀 the spongebob comparisons are valid but this feels like a specifically eddy type of scam nonsense lmao

Ed, Edd, & Eddy put a hell of a lot more effort into their scams.

@@AddableStone13 not to mention their scams were small amounts of money like a quarter to a few dollars for their jawbreakers... yet still they put more effort than this guy did

To be honest, a lot of things from his books were already sleep paralysis demons. This just brought the most horrific of them to life. The Unknown was just the Grand High Witch's life confused cousin.

I mean, the original version of the book has Willy Wonka enslaving a tribe of African pygmies, paying them only in cocoa beans.

Have you ever read Ronald Dahl's books, especially Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator when it comes to Willy Wonka ? Roald Dahl often used kind of scary stuff in his books (and short stories), like the vermicious knids (look em up on Google Images).

Fear of the unknown has been turned into a tangible monster.

Roald Dahl books are often filled with scary stuff. Like the Vermicious Knids in Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator. The AI probably picked up on his usage of scary things.

people who insulted the actors should pay them... jackasses. they just assume the crew was part of the scam.

The actors absolutely do not deserved the abuse. They were scammed themselves, since they were not paid a dime from this shitshow

It’s just banter towards the whole situation; people don’t see/think about the individual people behind the thing. Few people mean this in an actively hostile/mean way. well… also twitter brainrot.

Eee😢

Why?! Words mean 0

Strong Fyre Fest energy.

High looking Oompa Loompas lol 😂

@@jamesrule1338no surprise given the scammers name is Billy

Hersheys, definitely Hersheys.

Yep, should have been an immediate red flags

he also was very vague given what it put out

I would love to see the prompt he used. I wonder if he actually gave it multiple tries, or if he just took the first draft.

@@coalcreekdefense8106 He'll have gotten GPT to write the prompt for him.

That's the crazy thing, even the AI stuff is badly done.

@@coalcreekdefense8106 Given the art in the adverts had things like "exarserdray lollipops" and the script had audience reactions written in I'd be surprised if he even proofread the script.

It's more like Dismaland without the various art pieces. And even that was a commentary on society at that time *and pop-up events like this,* wrapped in the facade of a post-apocalyptic Disneyland.

i could've sworn it was called Krabby Land

Kamp Krusty more like

Hey Kids, don't fear the unknown.

You can come out now Banksy.

that entire website was sooo low effort, I am amazed anyone bought tickets to this. I had aI create something for me, but it took me a few days to revise it in photoshop.

Those kids would probably have more fun wandering around the warehouse I used to do kitting for

I think it's hilarious!!! 😂

And only got a single jellybean out of it

company nammed ILLUMINATI, need get dose kids ready to be slaves in factorys to make iphones for 10$ so apple can sell them for 2000$.

@@danicafugit2697and a quarter of cheap lemonade.

😄👍. Kudos from me as well, the massive effort put in your videos really show 👌

exquisite pfp

100% agree.

Probably because ChatGPT wasn’t used for it

He'd weirdly good at reading complete nonsense, so I don't know. Could easily be a first take.

Antony Stellar Bottom Tile?

I KNEW it was Ashens. There's no credit so I had to think a bit.

​@@KatastrophicNoodle the credit is in the title and has been since before your comment 😅

@@Cyntaria Ohhhh right. My brain must automatically block out blue thinking its hashtags. Still really weird it's not in the video or the description.

How many sad onions?

​@@spiderplant 0-3 sad onions

lets get to the pub. until this all blows over vibes.

Maybe Billy Mitchell can play The Unknown.

YES! OR...Limmy's character "Falconhoof" ends up working at the event and getting a bunch of shit for it. 😆

Hahahahahahahaha

The boe tarned into a blueberrey; he trapped oop the perple bergler elarm!

@@TomJacobWHe trapped oop the pur-.. the pourple borgl.... Pourple burgl-... Whae?

Go to what is in the pinned comment. feb 16th the prop rental company had a willy Wonka event showcasing what they could when hired.

They would have been perfectly serviceable decorations for a mini-golf hole.

I think he was going for a running joke? He keeps changing the last word of the title throughout the video. “Willy’s Chocolate Factory,” “Willy’s Chocolate Adventure,” “Willy’s Chocolate Fantasy”, “Willy’s Chocolate Event”, “Willy’s Chocolate Shop,” etc

@@septiquaddoubleyou4019 "Willy's Wonderland"?

I don't get it. Explain.

right? GenAI is nothing without human correction and consistency

Don't be intimidated by their superficial ability to crap out 'human' ideas. They really are just dumb robots going beep boop and mindlessly copying humans' homework. They've just had a lot of tweaking and 'training' done to make their output look coherent on a very superficial level. They're good for a cheap laugh and nothing more. I'm sure there are some humans stupid and incoherent enough to sound like dodgy AI, but no actual AI can replicate the mind of an intelligent human with any accuracy at all.

a future where ai makes all the art and humans work away at boring jobs is really terrifying…

I'm a writer but I can tell you the biggest give away if how overblown it sounds. "The magical, the extraordinary, and blah blah blah." It's so over the top. It would make sense for a line or two if the character is doing a bit, but the script had three adjectives almost over and over." So, if you're reading something and it seems to repeat itself too much that's a giveaway. The other is of course the audience interaction like how an audience could interact if you have no idea what they would do.

@@idontevenknow9758 I am just confused how that website made people think this was legit and bought tickets

The Catgacating sounds like great fun as well.

and let's not forget the "paradise of sweet teats"

@@spaceacepl4636 Pasadise of sweet teats, you mean.

@@johnclifford369 either way sweet teats were advertised at this children's event no wonder they called the cops lol

@@spaceacepl4636 Valid.

Skynet is real, just turns out it’s more interested in scamming people than it is with destroying us via nukes and Terminators

​@cuddles1767Sounds boring.

Lyle Lanley

They can get more money from him if they sell his organs on the black market.

This guy's going to be found in a ditch somewhere in Glasgow after the end of all this.

Good. Billy has been doing this for far too long. He needs to pay in some way?

My guess is he's at an airport

Yeah I was thinking about projection, that would be perfect for this.

If you go to the eph creative in the pinned comment they show their company can do a proper willy Wonka exp.

@@toomanyaccounts oh yeah they definitely could've. Even with what actually took place the giant props rented from them are definitely the most impressive part of this disaster

no way to make profit with a single showing like that if you don't do all the work yourself. it's the bit where he needs to pay others to make it happen that makes it a negative.

One of these days some actual company is goona make an actual interative experience and no one will go to it

Seems to be a different Kara Walker - there's a person with that name that does mushrooms and other more "whimsical" commissions.

@@maciejstachowski183 OK. Hope you're right. The original Kara Walker has done a bunch of installation pieces that have included sculpted foam elements, so it seemed very possible it was her. None of that makes ripping off any Kara (or Cara) Walker OK. That child-exploiting, anti-artist, AI-worshipping ghoul is still a horrible person, regardless of how famous the artists he ripped off are!

Give it time for the oppa loompa girl to be forgotten as a meme. She still being made fun along with the event

I'm impressed most people have realised the actors had nothing to do with the quality of the show. If anything, they'll all get some fame out of sheer sympathy.

Awesome! They really showed that they will soldier on and keep the show on the road - good on them!@@Nilon241

Is a hitman blameless just because he isn’t the one who orders the hit? I hope this will make them think twice the next time they get a gig that’s obviously a scam.

Glass houses.@@mushyroom9569

Maybe it be horror film and there you go

Lol, I thought that myself was everywhere. A man of culture I presume?

@Cueya Heck, if they threw enough chocolate and candy at the kids, they would have been happy. How do you have a chocolate extravaganza with no chocolate? My aunt went to a Hawaiian onion festival that hah literally one stand with a few onion samples. That’s it, everything else was basically cheap food fair. She still laughs at it 30 years later. A chocolate festival kinda has to have, you know, chocolate 😂.

@@Catmom-gl5nt a huge pile of candy would work for me

@Cueya If it didn’t I’d worry 😂 Who could be sad with candy?

Given the price of the tickets and the amount of attendees they 100% could have had a cool show with projection mapping,kept some of the giant props and given out candy while still making a profit. A better venue and script would Also probably help. If they had set out to do something cool and creative instead of trying to scam people while putting in as little effort as possible this could have been really cool. I feel like there's a lot of missed potential in this concept

and a sneaky pulley so it scrolls out from behind😁😁

@@monkstandinglast You know what, I like how you think.

I agree 100%

A prostate exam gone wrong or a Saturday night 😏

@@Sketchnificent??? What do you mean????????

there was a bouncy house(consumer grade)

I just found out after buying over 9000 chocolate bars...

I had heard you got to choose a oompa at the end to take home with you after signing adoption papers. Can't believe the lengths they went to scam 😢

The answers being "not very" and "not much"?

@@clray123 I should have rephrased the former question: The work force could not DO much with the shit they were given, but they did put in a hell of a lot more effort than it deserved

At this point the use of AI itself seems less damning than the fact not a SINGLE LINE of these generations was proofread or edited at all, he just slapped nonsense garbled text all over this thing and people still fell for it??

@@user-jw2it4qf2r people who arent used to being online and see those stuff wouldnt know the difference

@@user-jw2it4qf2r nah, ban AI

@@LoveTrueMusic1 You can't close Pandora's Box after it's been opened But you can take some solace knowing that AI users are AI's own worst enemy, what with them using it to scam friggin' children...

How about “A Hatful of Dream AI”?

I mention this elsewhere, but the AI script, while bland and uninspired, is just... Okay. It isn't terrible. If your church put on an Easter play, you'd WISH it was this good. They are exaggerating how "awful" it is. One man's humble opinion.

I personally think it started to go down hill at the “Does anyone speak Squirrel?” bit. Everything I read up until that part was actually kinda a banger.

ChatGPT can come up with some funny things, the entire concept of the Unknown being one of them, but it's really better as a prompt you gave it because you were bored than as a way to generate books and scripts. I had it generate me an entire 50 page epic of a video game character lost in the Backrooms once because I was bored and it was hilarious. It was funny to read because it came up with some ridiculous scenarios including the character punching a Smiler in the face and being forced to do the Chicken Dance for some reason, but would not have been as funny if I tried to pass this AI generated garbage off as an actual piece of human creativity, though.

​​@@BrigsbyDowersThe script was not the main problem imo. You can sell a subpar script in a situation like this (opposite of how you can ruin a great script with poor presentation) but it was the visuals which caused the problems. And when I saw those prices on the props website, I realized that this whole idea was toast from the get-go. A single prop costs you 3 admission tickets worth of money. The only way to fix that would have been some clever shrinking of the exibit down into narrow winding pathways (limiting the number of props needed to make the space feel crowded with scenery) and to lower the lights in certain areas at the edges to emphasize the stuff close to the audience and capture the bright atmosphere from the film factory while not emphasizing the sparseness of the decorations further out. Do that, add some music in speakers disguised around and give the actors a couple of days to practice, and you might be able to provide something that people could enjoy. But that would require creativity (that's not an insult of the guy who put it on, I mean it actually would take a person using art to get the most out of a low budget) Using AI for everything pretty much guaranteed that he wasn't in the right mindset to pull this off.

@@Pipkiablo My notification regarding this remark gave your handle as "Pie is better than cake fight me"... But NOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW, it's different! 🤨 Anyway, pie IS better than cake, so, no fight. Unless it's rhubarb pie vs. cake. Then cake.

Its unknown

Isn't that what capitalism rewards?

Thats completely irrelevant to my point.But. Not exactly I would argue. Capitalism rewards innovation. Sure you can get by being lazy in a popular new thing. But not for very long. Someone else who actually innovates is going to get way. way. way more successful than you are. Fortnite revolutionised the battle royale genre by making it more accessible, adding a very unique concept and implementation of building in a third person fps at the time and going with a much more low spec friendly art style over fidelity approach. every game thats come after trying to duplicate aspects of it. have either failed. or will never reach the heights fortnite did. That's video games of course. but its a good example. what we are in now is very much not that. It's big corporations basically making the rules with government. It's not a free market. How we got here is kinda irrelevant. and in fact if you look at alot of spaces like games I'd say the whole "corporations take over" thing is kinda looking pretty incorrect with how hard these big overbloated corporations are falling. going back to ai which is what I was talking about. not capitalism. in fact ai is not at all capitalistic right now in its development considering its mostly just "non profit" funded by super big corps and government inititives and such. just blindly rushing in because fomo. Sure theres some competition. but the result is its not at all something that is being tested in a free market. Its just being funded and made independent of it. like with open ai. Well. That's really all I feel like investing into your point which was admittedly more than I thought I would. I still dont at all get how you wanted to plug this sudden economic debate point into something that was completely irrelevant to my comment. @@LoveTrueMusic1

One of our local radio presenters is an ordained minister: I think he did that in Nevada, IIRC.

ive been ordained through them for 15 years

My mom has this and is going to marry me to my fiance :)

Yep, definitely works in the United States. Not sure about the rest of the world though.

it doesn't work elsewhere than some places in usa. you can just register your marriage for very little money in most countries.. it's just the hassle of getting the papework. you can however just have whoever bless your marriage of course in the party proceedings.

You're thinking of Dashcon and as far as I've ever heard, that last part and similar rumors were basically just a fabrication of the Internet grapevine.

I was on tumblr as dashcon was going down live, no one got ticks, but someone DID pee in the ball pit.

To their credit the Dashcon organizers were totally inexperienced and had big dreams but had no idea how much goes into setting up even a tiny convention. And it was genuinely not a scam attempt, unlike Coul's Wild Willy World

@@Wote89i heard someone found a severed eyeball in there and got type-2-anthrax!

basically history of get rich books. first prominent book as well from pre ww2, the author was basically bankrupt and got lucky with his book being a hit. the book was basically just generated stuff he made up too.

​@@lasskinn474i always imagined all those "how to make money quickly" books just said "sell overpriced nonsense to gullible people and run away" and all the other pages were blank

As someone who lives in a mobile home, this man is just "trash".

Really appreciate it mate

Really appreciate it, sadly I may be a little behind the curve by this point. But it's worth it in order to find more information rather than just re-spewing the same daily mail article

​​@@slopesgameroomYeah, I had only seen a couple videos on this but yours was definitely the best, actual interviews and actual research.

​@@slopesgameroom This is why I keep coming back and watching your videos man. You focus on actual quality, rather than rapidly jumping on any bandwagon and sacrificing depth. Keep doing it your way, it really shows and we appreciate it.

The human brain is rather good at AutoCorrect. Case in point, those "if you can read this, you have a strong mind" things shared on social media platforms. I'm assuming most of the errors were overlooked because of this.

I mean the plagiarism certainly checks out

lol

@@philip-at-tube I miss those days, lol

@@necronix9947 Maybe those days are coming back: Willy Wonka's Ecstatic Extravaganza featuring Unknown E's cooked up by a green-haired Oompa-Loompa (!)

@@philip-at-tube I never stopped doing it, Just not the same any more, green-haired Oompa-Loompa featuring Unknown E's is probably not far how it is now lol

A pasadise of it no less!

Wow, thanks!

I dabble in AI, but only for fun. The gross abuse of AI involved in this scam is frightening.

@@pjbrown4736 AI overuse is definitely embarrassing.

Glad it was helpful!

Wilbur Wanker’s Fucktory

I forgot Stuart's a doctor! Psychologist, right?

@@Nilon241 yep. Hence DR. Ashens (even if that way of referring to him is now out of fashion.)

@@PedroBenolielBonito yeah I figured it a while ago, when he had an oddly well spoken and researched description of OCD and its symptoms in one of his videos.

Til ashens has a phd

Willy Wankah & the Hot, Dirty Chocolate Box is available online.

This and others like The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster started this very legit program to fight some US states (including until recently my own state of AL) requiring that you had to have an ordained minister to have a wedding ceremony. Even the justice of the peace (the person that performs courthouse weddings) were ordained ministers. Sadly it was only changed because my homophobic government didn't want to have to perform wedding ceremonies for gay people. Now it's just a simple form that the bride, groom, and 2 witnesses sign and you get notarized. Anything else now is just ceremony and/or tradition. So congrats @Slope's Game Room! You are now an ordained minister!

i'm a minster through them. I used my card to be able to see my grandmother in hospital. Religious council is allowed access.

@wifu2will108 Huh. Thats bizarre. Im not a christian or any other religion and I dont want some minister (even if they are a judge) performing the ceremony. In my state, either an official of any religion (including FSM, Universal life church, or whatever) can officiate, or a judge or magistrate. I paid a judge $100 to witness my and my spouses vows, witness us and our 2 legally required witnesses signing the state marriage certificate, then she signed it and sent it to the state. That part took 30 mins. It was pretty cool.

no state requires legal or court ordered recognition to be ordained, due to that pesky separation between church and state thing.

@@Not_Alwaysnot ordination, but the marriage itself. Religiously you can of course create any marriage you want - not the governments business - , but for the civil marriage aspect to take effect (taxes etc.), I think religious personnel needs some form of registration, so they‘re two-in-one-ing this thing. Of course it‘s the us, so every state will be different and complicated. 😅 Am I wrong? Over here in Ger there‘s only civil marriage, so religious ceremonies are only relevant for the religion; after that you hop over to the whatever-that-office-is-called, sign a thing in front of a bureaucrat and you‘re legally married.