Imagine paying $40 expecting an authentic Willy Wonka experience, but instead ending up in a real life backrooms level with a man who lives in the walls.
From what I've seen, the woman playing the Oompa Loompa there did try her best to make it fun for the kids. Someone managed to get a photo of her looking miserable, but she at least tried
Yeah, from what I read in an interview she was really trying her best and felt horrible that the thing was a scam. By the time she saw how bad shit was she had already signed the contract to work there for the event. Edit: The interview was on a site called "the vulture" for anyone interested in finding it.
I feel really bad for her. Imagine showing up for your job, having your boss screw everyone over, and now you're the face of the entire debacle and everyone's making fun of you. That poor woman.
i hope she goes on to do amazing things. that breaks my heart. i can only imagine how she must have felt putting in so much effort for this disaster. it’s giving “saturday morning comic con in the reading room at the local library; meet elsa and spider man!” and it breaks my heart. i’m sure she was excited to perform for kids in such an immersive experience and realized that if she didn’t at least try with every ounce of energy she had, the kids would have an even worse time in this dusty dystopian warehouse
I'd like to know how gullible some of the people were that purchased tickets. I mean personally, whenever I see something with broken writing and misspelled words to the extent we saw, the first thing that comes to mind is a scammer and at the very least I raise an eyebrow.
@@airraverstazapparently, most the tickets where sold via a somewhat reputable 3rd party site. So either THEY got scammed as well, or they where part of the scam, neither is a good look for them.
I’m convinced the unknown wasn’t even part of the experience, he was just a random guy in the walls. Edit: it being a random 16 year old girl somehow is even more funny💀💀
It's the sheer shittiness of it all. The Wonka actor trying his hardest to salvage it, the air vents blasting in the background, the grey walls and flooring, the random ass Unknown character scaring the kids to the point they cry. The whole thing is art.
I feel embarrassed for the actors. They had nothing to do with the setup. They just get paid to show up on the day, so imagine the sinking anxiety when they pull up and see THAT and realize that they're going to be the "face" of this debacle as disappointed families shuffle past them with unimpressed glares.
The worst is that she became the event's unwilling face. She gets to look at that photo in every article and video. Fuck the money, at that point I'd just want to forget it.
@@Wampa842 Apparently the actors really tried their best to make it as fun as they could for the kids after they turned up and realised the whole thing was a sham.
This thing made me remember a "Jurassic Adventure" in my home city. It charged me 20 EUROS for 10 to 15 minutes of seeing crappy animatronics, some barely functioning. It was also an empty warehouse with no attempt to decorate, and the music - I kid you not - the music was a 45-second (yep, I timed it) rendition of the Jurassic Park theme. When I arrived at the "gift shop," the only dino-themed items were Chinese knock-offs called Jurassic Farm. The cheapest item was a mug for 15 euros, almost the same price as the ticket. I regret to this day why I didn't demanded my money back after the first 10 seconds when I realized what it was - the worst date I have ever had. Thank you Charlie for this memory.
The fact that some people around glasgow, scotland really saw one of the most fake ass ads that is clearly made by ai, and just said "yeah this looks good"
Imagine being the employee, whose job is to entertain children, and having to muster up the courage to give a kid a single jellybean and a quarter cup of lemonade with a straight face.
I’m stage managing a Willy Wonka production at my local theater, and I’m baffled how my crew of seven 13-16 year olds with power tools could make a better “Willy Wonka experience” than a whole ass corporation.
that's probably no corporation, just a shell company for a scammer to hide behind. The company's website is the same AI slop as the wonka promotional material and the main organiser of the event "writes" books with chatGPT.
The guy that created the event is a conspiracy nut obsessed with AI and, by the looks of things, an awful Diet Coke habit. He’s only released conspiracy books online under that company. I’m surprised it wasn’t worse.
Actually the poster didn't say "a paradise of sweet treats", it said: "a pasadise of sweet TEATS" and frankly I'm dissappointed Charlie missed this important distinction
I am CRYING over the unknown character they randomly added to a KIDS SHOW😭. Like babes you didn’t need to add the demon this whole thing was scary enough.
This is accidentally the funniest thing ever. They scammed people in such a lazy low effort way that it’s almost impressive how confident they were that it was going to work. It’s like they tried but at the same time they didn’t
This happens to be very funny. They brought people together in a lazy and powerless way to surprise them with how they hoped it would work. Apparently they tried though
For non UK residents, Tesco own brand lemonade isn’t just bottom shelf, it’s so low in the shelves, it’s winning limbo tournaments. It’s like $0.50 for a 2L bottle.
@@wisdomcoffeewater and citric acid. Water costs like 0.01€/L and citric acid is 1.50€/1kg straight from chem store next door to my work. You use approx 1g per liter, so price is like 0.015€/L TLDR: So 2L costs about 0.05€ excluding packaging, work and distribution. With that included, cost is like 0.10€/bottle. edit: fat-fingered the number in tldr.
@@wisdomcoffee I mean you can knock it, but that shit was the shared drink between the group for every single summer afternoon out on the bikes and playing football. Then if for whatever reason one of you had more money you got that sweet, sweet cherryade.
This is just like that episode of Ed Edd n Eddy where Eddy advertises a fake amusement park to Jimmy, and the second he steps through the doors, it’s literally nothing but an alleyway full of garbage and filth
a singular jelly bean is crazy, imagine hearing your parents say that you are going to a willy wonka chocolate factory experience and getting a singular jelly bean and fuck all lemonade
Why a single jelly bean? Were they really so cheap that they couldn't give a child a small pack of jellybeans? 😂 Do they not have dollar stores in Scotland? Is chocolate hard to get in Glasgow? At least give the kids a pack of M&Ms or even a single Hershey Kiss to keep the chocolate theme! 🍫
@@hope-cat4894 exactly, like a pack of mini m&m's would be hundreds of times better, but then again all the marketing materiel was ai made so what could you really expect?
@@superobotmonkeythe factory looks like a meth lab, Breaking Bad is a show about a dude who runs a meth lab. His brother-in-law, Hank, is a cop who is looking for the dude who is running the meth lab.
An entire bag of jellybeans usually costs only a few dollars at most. The fact that someone had to spend $40 PER PERSON to get into this place and their kid was only given one SINGULAR jellybean is insane. And apparently Tesco lemonade is like the cheapest of stuff, usually it’s only like 50 cents for a 2L bottle and they were given a quarter cup. That is beyond outrageous, that is straight up criminal. The person who ran this is a bigger cheapskate than Mr Krabs!
I just love the pic of the woman behind the table with the Breaking Bad kind of equipment. She looks either high on whatever Wonka’s cooking up or she wants to drown in the chocolate river. Not that I want her to be miserable but it looks like a no context pic
>no context pic Well, someone on 8chan had fixed below that famous 'depressed Oompa-Loompa' a quoted 4chan post stating "if you only knew how bad things really are." Honestly seems like a poignant quote for the picture.
Its clearly cleverly designed by someone with a lawyer who knows how to make sure you keep the money you stole. Now the kids being traumatized, that one could be maybe looked into.
@@NobleNemesis I don't even believe this cokehead could afford a lawyer. Maybe he knows someone who's a lawyer, though, and they agreed to give him a bit of advice on how to avoid getting sued out the ass
3:40 as a PoTO fan i genuinely cackled seriously though i kind of wonder how the Willy Wonka actor managed to say his lines with a straight face and not writhe in laughter on the floor
From what I remember the children wasn't allowed to eat the treats too? One drank the chocolate milk and drowned from it. One had a candy that made them blow up like a balloon. Even Charlie and his grandad had a sweet and almost floated into fan blades?
The thing I find funny is that most people in Britain aren't fussed by this, it's pretty common to have things like this. Britain is unmatched for its miserable children events. The winter wonderland that was a few fairy lights in trees; the £85 grinch; the halloween place that was just pumpkins in a muddy field; the clown that had a fight with the kid's dad; the easter land that was a load of cardboard rabbits that blew away in the wind. Unrivalled.
On google, I found that the guy who did this event is also known for two other things: collecting toys for some sort of donation and then cancelling the event (ie. stealing children's toys), and also for being the author of 17 AI-generated self-published novels which he passes off as being his own work. Seems like this guy is just an all-around scammer who's using AI to push the boundaries of scamming. It's weird, this whole event seems like more trouble than it's worth if you just wanted to scam people for money. It almost seems like a publicity stunt, like he wanted this story to blow up.
@@MK_ULTRA420If this event is anything to go by, people will realize how AI has almost nothing to fight against abuse by bad actors. This shit WILL be regulated one way or another.
It's really sad. Imagine you're a new actor/actress, and you have this opportunity to work in a beautiful event for kids. You can use your years of learning how to act to brighten up the days of kids and make them convinced that they're in a sweet candy land they will enjoy. Then you see the actual event. You memorised a 15?-pages-long, AI-generated script that made no sense for this. You shrug and think "oh well, this wasn't as expected, but I'll try to make the event the best I possibly could for the kids because it's all I can do and I don't want them completely disappointed". But people are still understandably disappointed, to the point there ends up being riots. I'm so glad nobody blames the actors here. They tried their best with what they were given by the person who ran the event.
Let me find out it's the guy who ran it's mom. "mom you are gonna be an oompa loompa in my wonka land scheme or I will never move out of the basement!!!"
@@Wonder907it's apparently not, she's just some person who wanted to make the kids happy even after learning how god awful of a deal she had ended up signing up on
The other awful part about all this is that the people who worked here probably adore the Willy wonka movies, and now they can never watch them without remembering this embrassing experience lol
Reminds me of an event my parents brought me and my brother to when we were kids. It was advertised to be this big superhero event with all sorts of superheroes from Marvel and DC, but when we got there, it was two creepy old dudes in spiderman and batman costumes, a station where you could make a sword out of tinfoil and a bouncy castle that kids were only allowed in for a minute
The fact that this event took two of my big hyperfixations, Willy Wonka and Phantom of the Opera, and transformed them into a surreal horrorshow to scam children 😭
You missed the part about the organiser apparently being a self help guru and acclaimed author, except upon further investigation it appears his books are written by chat gpt also 🤦♂️
I actually went to one of these "scams"... I convinced my parents to go see a "art installation" with me downtown, and I really wish I hadn't. The event advertised itself much the same, but it didn't use AI. It showed amazing art installations and such, but it was all concept art made by artists. When we got to the actual event it was just a empty warehouse with a some stuff spread around. Granted, the black light room was kinda cool, but everything else was a total waste of time. They had stuff for kids too, none of it looked like it was clean or being cleaned though. The ending was a "VR experience" which was just an old Oculus rift that was covered in sweat stain and had some old game you definitely didn't wana try and risk getting diseases to play. Anyways, this was about 4 years ago and the ticket cost was $75 because it "supported local artist" LOL.
The fact they just used an AI generated advertisement with text they never even read is rather disturbing. I feel like there's more to Charlie's suggestion that the whole thing was entirely orchestrated by an AI than we're giving credit.
wait wait yall need to actually look pics of the woman SHE is the one actually doing her best! she did try to make it fun! and her pic show her being smiley and taking pics with kkiddos! she gives total mama vibes! she really needs to work for an actuall kids place because she totally could light up a room!
charlie is so right, my mom puts more effort into halloween than this company did with their event. she made all her own decorations and a lot of them are carnival themed mini games that kids can play as they walk through the yard. way more fun than this.
I’m really glad the actors who were hired weren’t blamed for the scam by the victims or even the majority of the Internet. They had no idea how terrible the event would be, and were just there because they were hired to play a role. I’ve seen quite often people who were scammed be rightfully angry, but take it out on the wrong people who had nothing to do with it. Glad this wasn’t one of those cases and people acknowledge the actors tried their best! Just hate that now their names and faces are associated with this catastrophe.
@Suarez05 sadly we live in the age of "exposing people without proof" its bad. Not saying the guy didnt do it, but i dont believe anything without proof. Everyone is getting fake accusations lately.
Like they intentionally told chatGPT to make something as bad as possible, then made that text their design document But as funny as an AI event is, Fyre festival still takes it for me solely because it was made by humans. Where an actual human being somehow thought these were good decisions
This reminds me of a Santa's Wonderland experience we had in Adelaide, in 2020. Entry was $130 a family, and it was nothing but a bunch of home made cardboard props, a bunch of plastic Christmas trees, and a Santa's sleigh ride, which was just a couple of carts, pulled by an old mobility scooter/rascal.
Approximate budget breakdown: Marketing - $0 Actors - $50 and a bottle of lemonade (to be shared with the children) Decor - $43.97 left on a dollar store gift card One (1) bag of jelly beans - $3.99
>misleading colorful and bright AI posters with blatant misspellings >abandoned warehouse setting >creepy lab with creepy and disheveled actors >giving kids one jellybean and 1/4th a cup of lemonade which I'm going to ASSUME isn't drugged >over priced tickets for a beyond sub par experience You cannot convince me this wasn't a child kidnapping operation abandoned halfway through for whatever reason to make it into a terrible theme park scam. I would've taken my child and ran as far away as I could the second I saw this. This is the stuff of nightmares.
Also the use of Willy Wonka specific imagery that's supposed to further lure people in. Though in that case it might've been too powerful a lure for its own good
Let's not forget the added scare of "The Unknown" which shows a clearly less than benevolent attitude towards the children, and the 'House of Illuminati' name lol. Creepy af
I didn't want to be the only one saying this so I didn't leave a comment until I saw yours. A SINGLE jelly bean?? Nah... The "curtains".... The whole vibe of this is so completely wrong.
This is to show how bad AI can mess up with something and eventually will, making it almost useless for professional use (different than many people speculate) and how the future isn't gonna look bright for the most part, due to how scammers can, and will abuse this tool for their crimes.
That organizer isn't sorry; he's just disappointed that he got called out for his obvious scam. I'm sad to read in one of the other comments that it's apparently pretty common in Britain to hear or even visit scam events like this. That's insane to hear. Why aren't these people fined or even banned from organizing stuff like this?
Probably a common hustle for local gangs or international syndicates to pilfer money off peoples' kids in a way that legally covers them from a false claim.
The thing is, the website is so bad (it's still up!) that I'm amazed people didn't smell a rat. Having seen it, it was obvious it was going to be terrible.
I wanted to go to a jurassic park thing in Slovakia, the posters looked amazing, so glad I checked the videos of the event from people who went to it, it was literally dinosaur toys on little sand hills and the jurassic park theme being blasted out with some dinosaur roars
As someone from Glasgow this is so funny that something stupid that happened here somehow made it to nation wide news and even has Charlie talking about it
@Jgumyjymghjvmhvj u clown reasons cotland doesnt get talked about is cause u american luno scotland into England for example british memes are all English stuff lol u guys never look at other shizz or there will be a video on a topic and the history of the topic coukd take place in Scotland but the touruber doing the vid will complete not add alk that information in and skip it
To be fair, Willy scammed those kids himself in the original movie, they won tickets to his chocolate factory only to get tortured and "taught lessons" even is a theory on how Willy scammed the winning kid by just pawning off his factory to someone else because it wasn't making money...
Charlie inherited all of Wonka's legal fees and fines for violating every kind of labour and safety regulation imaginable. And this was mid-1960s Britain, back when they actually _had_ some safety regulations and labour rights.
Lmfao; you sound like a hippy. Clearly the story involved Charlie being mysterious, yet very successful. It's a story of a billionaire giving his wealth to a have-not who morally deserved it.@@DistractedGlobeGuy
Apparently the guy that ran it is a known scam artist that has done smaller things to scam people. Hes not sorry that the kids had a bad experience, he is sorry he got caught and got major backlash for it
He has a website on way back machine where he has a bunch of crazy made up metaphysics degrees, and he has a bunch of books on Amazon that are probably AI generated.
