Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Fiasco 

Sounds like a class action lawsuit.

I feel really bad that they had to live this whole debacle down. They both seem like cool people, and Michael in particular struck me kinda hard since I’m close to his age, along with being an artist myself. Which brings me to another point- I HATE AI generated stuff. I mean it looks cool, but the prospect of it taking jobs away from actual people terrifies me, especially with AI art. And this whole scandal is an exact example of my fears.

Thankfully, they all seem to have a good sense of humor about the whole thing.

The main Willy Wonka actor was exposed for grooming an underage girl so

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse, the main Willy Wonka actor got exposed for grooming an underage girl when he was a teacher.

that’s a pretty hefty claim, where did you hear that?

​@@chappellgroanI'm going to need a source for that

the sad thing is that everyday people really can't spot the difference often

I find this so baffling! People thought those images, which completely looked like paintings/cartoons, were photos of actual events?!

Even if they know it's ai generated, many people still feel amazed and like it's going to be a faithful representation of what they'll find

Honestly, my first clue was the company producing the event being named after the Illuminati.

People need to start to learn and train their eyes. As a digital artist, I'm baffled by the lack of artistic insight from so many people. The moment I see AI imagery on companies' websites and social media, in my book, this is a sign of total lack of professionalism. Anyone can generate AI imagery.

It’s worse cause there’s a rumour Billy and the rest of the cast just completely forgot she was there. Apparently after a while all the Willy actors bailed, leaving people to just explore on their own and stumble upon her with zero context as to what she was

I don't think it was entirely about race, but you're not wrong. =\

Also, not to mention the fact he hired a groomer as one of the actors who played Wily Mcduff

@@mrcritical6751 oh wow oh no really?!?!

More like Billy Cruel

The best Caddicarus joke Caddy hasn't written yet lol.

If you don't quit!!!

Unfortunately his parents were evil and decided to name him Roald Dahl. There is no 'n' in his name

@@pleasantox7655That was the only 'wrong' thing you noticed in my obviously joke tweet? Come on, man.

​@@ujustgotpwned2008missed the joke blind, they.

We need to release him!

Like beggar

Free him

@@LARKXHINthe unknown actually uses they/them pronouns

​@@Phoenix-ov5gg Actually it.

Yeah, and at the end it's mentioned that not only were all of the actors underpaid, but the women were MORE underpaid than the men. Dude's gotta be a scumbag.

And then pays her and the other female actors less than the male actors 🙄

Exactly my thoughts!!!

I don’t know the 4 he chose were pretty diverse, like all 4 of completely different backgrounds.

@@acksawblack It's the fact that, at least according to the video, he made a big deal about her specifically.

To be fair to Billy, he was hiding out as a tech guy apparently. You can see him in the background working a computer during a clip of Michael Archibald’s Willy McDuff introduction. He would have likely been able to run if Michael hadn’t pointed him out

I'm getting that as a tattoo: "If you're gonna scam, don't stay to get punched in the face." I'm always on some bullshit

@@barbraseville8984 give Billy McFarlane some credit. When Fyre Festival went tits up, HE RAN!!!!

@@mrcritical6751 This Michael fellow really is a born leader isn't he? I'm catgacatted by his candor.

Well I get the sense that this guy might be a bit full of himself.

I bet he has some kind of learning disability and thought AI would be his saving grace at some point in his life. Or he’s just incredibly lazy, maybe a combination of them. Either way it’s pretty sad

Ikr 🙄😒🤦‍♀️

What a plonker

and The Unknown will be played by Doug Jones

Weird opinion, as bad as this entire experience was for both audience and actors... I believe the Unknown could've been a great new character to the Wonka lore if they actually explored it. Like the concept was "A man who wanted to steal Wonka's chocolates for himself?" okay that could be interesting and could be explored, was he a former employee of Wonka that had an accident and now living in Wonka's walls looking for chocolate? It's just a shame this wasn't actually thought through.

Wonka 3. Unless they work it into The Great Glass Elevator. (Makes me wonder why the second book never got a movie actually.)

​@@PhantosTheHedgehog The Unjones.

@@maryann778I actually thought about that earlier. My thought was, make him a competitor who found out about Wonka building this prototype anti-graffiti cleaning gobstopper and decided to break in and steal it. But because it was a prototype, it ends up backfiring when he tests it out for himself and it results in the thing cleaning his face off, leaving him as a faceless creeper in a mask, hiding out in the factory and vowing revenge

Awesome stunt he pulled there throwing Billy under the bus; must have been so cathartic.

Gee it’s almost like putting actual artistry and effort into something is a sure fire way to make something look good

I bet the actors are probably not putting this in the portfolio

the only positive thing I’ve heard about this is the actors being lovely. A cascade of Worst Possible Things happened, and they managed to hold it together. Imagine what they could do in a functional workspace. Any smart themed entertainment company would hire them on the spot.

This is definitely not making the CV 😂

Hit the nail on the head

Or they're lazy

And they're con artists

Noooooooo! 😭

**sounds of children crying ensues**

the villain name itself sounds a bit generic surely they shouldve come up with something more creative than that

They were likely not interested in creativity - they probably asked AI for a Wonka-centric plot, changed WW's name, and went right into their scam.

@@magicalstarruby it was literally ai generated 😭😭

@@chekhovsgunn i already knew it was probably ai generated if i had to guess they likely used chat generative pre-trained transformer to generate the name of the antagonist

@@magicalstarruby yeah most definitely

Honestly I’m looking at this and imagining ways it could be improved. Even thinking of ways to make The Unknown and the bizarreness of The Anti-Grafitti Gobstopper work

​@mrcritical6751 for $1000 bucks, a space to host it, and enough prep time, I could easily whip together a fun, colorful walk through for little kids, and goody bags on the way out.

@@CinnamonGrrlErin1see my mentality was use a location like the Excel Centre in London. Put up temporary walls that take up half of one of the convention halls, turn that into this giant chocolate garden, the kids can explore for an hour and stumble upon little sub-plots involving Oompah Loompah’s, find little games to play, get hints to the wider lore and see stuff like Oompah Loompah’s performing or Willy choosing some kids to help him collect some ingredients, make it real interactive. Then make the other half of the hall be made up of a spiraling and looping Twilight Tunnel that’s a giant plastic tube with decorative lights and projections all around it, maybe have little portholes where you can look in at small sets where the Oompah Loompah’s are doing stuff. As they are journeying down, have Willy use a microphone to help explain the backstory of his factory, to the guests, have a few jokes with them, have fun with it. Then at one point, Willy stops, and gestures for the children to gather in close, where there is some evidence of The Unknown’s presence, like a logo scratched onto the wall or a little crack leading into the walls. He explains who The Unknown is but assured the children that as long as he is there, The Unknown won’t be causing any trouble before he moves on. Then the tunnel leads into the other convention hall on the other side, where half of it has been turned into this giant imagination lab full of lab and sciencd based interactive games for the kids to play. But before you can go wild, he shows off his new gobstopper to the audience, where using projectors, he gives an example of his anti graffiti abilities, then he lets you go wild, but not before you can briefly see The Unknown slip out from behind a table and snatch one of the gobstoppers. The kids get to play games and interact with Willy and the Oompah Loompah’s for a while, but then the time comes to move on to the final part of the tour, which Willy tells the kids he is going to go ahead on his own to do and they shall join a little later. The kids move on into this massive play and prize area where there are meant to be snacks, games and a bouncy castle, but it’s been destroyed. The cups of lemonade are on the floor, the bouncy castle is deflated, graffiti is everywhere and out comes Wonka on an elevated platform, warning the children to stay back because The Unknown has the gobstopper. Cue a fight on the elevated platform between him and The Unknown, using projectors to help create these special effects and it ends with Wonka, close to defeat, telling the kids to help him by eating their own gobstoppers. An Oompah Loompah comes out with a load of them and hands them to the kids, they all eat them and are told to do what Willy did earlier when he ate his. It results in Willy and the kids stopping The Unknown and forcing it back into the shadows. Wonka thanks the kids and he makes a big display as the bouncy castle is replaced with a new one, an Oompah Loompah comes out with lemonade and chocolate, the graffiti os gone and now the kids get to go nuts in there, playing, eating and getting some free chocolate before they leave …I wrote that in like ten minutes, why Billy needed AI, I have no idea

There is a team at the Vaults Anthony Spargo and Oliver Lansley could do it easily. They have done Alice in Wonderland, The Twits, The European Capital of Culture. The thing is... i'd actually not want them to do this one. Willy Wonka is being over focused on at the moment. It's becoming boring. There are so many Dahl novels to cover. I would bet my bottom dollar Coull tried to copy Spargo's work from the Vaults and then threw it in an AI machine. Even from the jump, I thought something had gone wrong at The Vaults. Yep, their work got copied

Maybe in a few months, perhaps Christmas, a legitimate company will create a better Willy Wonka experience, as a way to say: “Take that!”

You can buy the Gene Wilder movie for cheaper, hell you can go down to the cinema and watch the Timothee Chalamet movie with a little bag of chocolate as a snack for cheaper

They are definitely going places after this. Each of them has become overnight social media stars.

Billy is absolutely on drugs and used the Wonka 'Experience' to try fund his now canceled wedding lmao 😂

@@ChibbykinsWas there actually anything involving a wedding or did he just AI-generate the apology?

​@@BabyCharmanderI'm positive it was AI generated. Billy Coull can't do anything by himself without help of AI apparently

@@BabyCharmander there was a Facebook post on the House of Illuminati page that randomly mentions a wedding being canceled due to 'personal reasons'. So I'm thinking in his addled state of mind he either wrote the whole thing himself and accidentally included that information. Or he got a chatbot to do it and that was included, true or not.

Well according to people who’s investigated Billy, he does apparently have a fiancé. So him using this to fund his wedding does sound likely

That's such a "cartchy" song

@@nunosousa3540 Indeed a cartchy tun!

Dashcon sends its regards

The ballpit will always be there. Watching. Waiting.

@@Glacial11 does it offer an extra hour in it?

Bruh I think I saw that in DSAF 3

there were crying children there, that's karma you don't want to be caught by

Tbf Roald Dahl HATED nearly every adaption of his work apart from the animated bfg movie - in particular he hated the original Willy Wonka movie so if anything he'd probably be cackling at this event's demise.

​​​@@MsSarahJosephine I doubt very much Mr. Dahl would be "cackling" at the idea of someone taking one of his beloved properties without his permission, turning it into utter trash, scamming families and making money off it...whether he liked the film version or not.

Roald Dahl would have sued Billy right to the ground for this humiliation of his work. He would have issued the public apology himself despite not being attached to this.

He could maybe excuse it as an art experience lol.

It's New Forest Crapland 2.0

Guess they couldn’t find any in the skip lol

I’ve heard it compared to an Ed Edd n Eddy scam, especially Smileyville. And another fun nickname I’ve heard is Billy Bullsh*t and the Empty Factory.

Yup theres a low budget horror film being made about him

@@MortexBerriplease please tell me there’s a human scriptwriter involved

@@alexhead2645 idk

The Unknown is honestly the only good thing that came out of this.

Oh the fanfics and fanart are already accumulating - particularly the UnknownxWonkidoodle pairing (I have already seen genuinely wholesome animatics)

From what the actors were saying, it seemed like Billy Coull never even read what ChatGPT had spat out. He didn't seem to even realise a script would be needed until just before the event and the actors were asking for it.

It was a scam, but I'm actually unsure if Billy intended it to end up as such. I've a suspicion he's more of a incompetent fantasist than a con man. Fantasists want to be something, but lack the talent, ambition, moral fortitude or resources to actually become it. So they shortcut their way to it instead. Just like Billy with his books - he wants to be a celebrated "key to success" self-help author, but doesn't actually know how, so gets ChatGPT to make his dream come true. Not that this should make excuses for him. Fantasists are immoral cheaters and can cause a lot of harm. But I wouldn't be surprised if he thought all he had to do was set up this event and somehow the magic would just happen. Con artists are usually way more savvy. They ghost when the scam is exposed and they're usually already in the Cayman Islands with the cash when people get angry.

@@CountScarlioni you put into perfect words what I thought was happening but couldn't wrap my head around! It's good to have a word for " someone who thought they could do something big and impressive without doing any work or spending money" because it happens a surprising amount.

The confidence of a man who thinks using an AI makes him a legendary artist.

obviously oompa loompa is copyrighted

@@simhthmss see id almost believe that if he hadn't run several scams before and "written" those AI books. He clearly knew what AI was capable of yet he did this anyway.

Hope it was worth the wait!! ❤

And by the way, is it me or was that a bit much? Like, I get being mad, I totally get wanting to give this asshole what for, but if things got so out of hand that the police had to be called, is it me or did things go a bit too far?

I Don't think ANY artist would want to be associated with that kind of event, and they probably wouldn't have been paid anyway.

Couldn't have done it without the Panera charged lemonade 😂

@WaitintheWings Hopefully more than a lil shot of lemonade and 2 jelly beans... 🤣

This is such high praise. Thank you so much :)

@@WaitintheWings Don't mention it!