Willy Wonka Experience Glasgow

[Whatsitallabouteh]

This has been my favourite clip.
The poor kids will have nightmares for years to come.

 

[HockyRorror]

I feel really bad for the Oompa Loompa lady. She’s given an interview and hates that she’s gone viral for a horrible photo of her at her lowest. Someone on Twitter said she was really nice and sweet to all the children and posted nice pictures of her interacting with them.

Also, not sure why anybody paid for this anyway. The leaflet was filled with spelling mistakes and words that don’t even make sense.

 

[whoonearthisalice]

This sounds terrible but part of me thinks the people who saw these ridiculous Facebook ads and thought ‘yes, that looks worth money’ sort of need to take a bit of responsibility here. It was as clear as mud from the word go that this was going to be a farce. The ads told the story of what was to come.

 

[bettyswallocks]

I feel really bad for the Oompa Loompa lady. She’s given an interview and hates that she’s gone viral for a horrible photo of her at her lowest. Someone on Twitter said she was really nice and sweet to all the children and posted nice pictures of her interacting with them.

Also, not sure why anybody paid for this anyway. The leaflet was filled with spelling mistakes and words that don’t even make sense.

There is some lovely footage of her interacting with kids. I hope she gets a bit of a platform from this. She seems sweet.

Definitely questioning the media literacy of the general public. I saw an advert on Fb for it and with the briefest of looks knew it would be godawful.

 

[LittleMy]

This story cracks me up everytime I read about it. Don’t get me started on the memes

I saw it advertised ages ago and my first words to my husband were “this has got to be a scam.” The AI posters, no actual details of what it was, very vague, misspelled words like “pasadise of sweet teats”.

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ETA: We did Elfingrove back in 2019 with our kids (a Christmas present from their grandparents) which was also shit though nothing on this level. Lesson learnt.

 

[ot55]

It’s so random. Like they only gave each child 3 jellybeans and half a cup of lemonade, yet they went to the effort of casting and costuming the Unknown. Make it make sense

 

[LittleMy]

 

[Hollaaa]

A bit like Storybook Glen.

QMLAN but in case anyone is not familiar:

 

[OoErrMissus]

Fools and their money are easily parted.

Not sure how true this is, but I saw on TikTok that someone in a Facebook group about this event had started a GoFundMe to “give the kids a nice day out”.. The absolute cretin inside me hopes that’s a scam too.

 

[Scragbags]

I bet if they opened it up again the influencers would pay 100's to go and take selfies. Is it actually a full circle genius business idea?

 

[mochibean]

I'm obsessed with this whole thing, it's hilarious.

This is a wild ride - https://www.rollingstone.com/cultur...coull-ai-vaccine-conspiracy-books-1234976876/

Seems like a conspiracy theorist, bizarrely.

I think we need more restrictions on how people are allowed to use AI. If you're a shit writer with 0 creativity you shouldn't just be able to pump out AI-written garbage and profit from it. I doubt many are reading them though.

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

 

[Miss.Chanandler.Bong]

 

[LittleMy]

This sounds terrible but part of me thinks the people who saw these ridiculous Facebook ads and thought ‘yes, that looks worth money’ sort of need to take a bit of responsibility here. It was as clear as mud from the word go that this was going to be a farce. The ads told the story of what was to come.

Fools and their money are easily parted.

 

[IngressUK]

There really needs to be a tougher stance against shyster events such as this.

We've seen numerous 'Winter wonderland' and children themed events, be nothing more than money making crap, that fall far short of expectations.

Events such as this also have a knock on for other, similar events, as people will be more sceptical to part with their money in future.

 

[Shrekssister]

A Facebook group I'm in for kids days out spent weeks on the run up arguing about this, whether it was real, was the AI just to keep the actual day a surprise etc. It was clearly a scam from the off, how did anyone think that would be achieved? And for two days only?

 

[champagnepinkk]

What is that?

It’s the unknown! I love it.

 

[LaBlonde]

Oompa Loompa lady

Oompa Loompa what did we do, Wonka Glasgow was a nightmare come true

Kirsty Paterson and Jenny Fogarty describe the behind-the-scenes chaos at an 'immersive' Willy Wonka-themed event in Glasgow.

news.stv.tv

i feel for her! based on what she’s said and the other photos of her it looks like she tried really hard to still make it a “good” experience for the kids. i hope she gets work after this.

the memes from this have been outstanding though and absolutely why i will never truly leave twitter

 

[bettyswallocks]

The unknown is making an appearance at Horror Con (horror convention) in Glasgow.

Hope she absolutely rakes it in.

 

[anushorribilis]

This whole thing is insane and needs it’s own thread.

Did anyone here go?

I really hope everyone who attended gets a refund.

The whole thing was made from AI, like the “script” and images for backdrops.
The guy behind it is of course a dodgy grifter.

The less-than-magical Willy Wonka event, briefly explained

The viral fiasco in Scotland that made kids cry — and prompted calls to police.

www.vox.com

This is from the guy who was hired to play Wonka, he seems like a decent guy.




(I couldn’t see one, sorry if there’s already a thread for this)

So over on TikTok this guy has already been outed as somebody who likes young girls and was even dating a pupil whilst working in the school she was a pupil in!