Further reading... ➡ Since creating my video EPH Creative has put out a statement facebook.com/eventprophire ➡ The House of Illuminati has put out a statement facebook.com/houseofilluminatiofficial/

@dftfire

4 ай бұрын

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... 🥺

@dftfire

4 ай бұрын

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

@arostwocents

4 ай бұрын

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?! 👎 👎 👎

@arostwocents

4 ай бұрын

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

@arostwocents

4 ай бұрын

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

Billy Bullshit and the Empty Factory.

@Yellow260

4 ай бұрын

You made me spit out my espresso xD

@dannyrpgninetwooak6434

4 ай бұрын

Best comment I've read from this video XD

@raviolimavioli

3 ай бұрын

Pin this please

@vaporcran4

3 ай бұрын

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

@iplaygamez2553

3 ай бұрын

Don’t forget the depressed oompa lompa

Kids didn't get chocolate, the actors didn't get payment, but at least the world got... The Unknown!

@jamesrule1338

3 ай бұрын

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

@joeberryman3563

3 ай бұрын

pessimist

@Zistheone2

3 ай бұрын

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

@MathewHaswell

3 ай бұрын

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

@empac8631

3 ай бұрын

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

Shoutout to 'the Unknown is an evil chocolate maker who lives in your walls' for being the greatest sentence ever spoken.

@Gleamiarts

4 ай бұрын

Ikr i keep thinking about it

@nonyabiz9340

4 ай бұрын

It's a metaphor for your colon

@joshslater2426

4 ай бұрын

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

@ElleOisin

4 ай бұрын

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

@TheMpo1986

4 ай бұрын

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?

The real chocolate was the single jelly bean we ate along the way.

@Nickelodeon81

4 ай бұрын

Mine turned out to be a Nurofen Express by accident

@lukeGGlee

3 ай бұрын

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

@kematch935

3 ай бұрын

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

@matthewgillis2617

3 ай бұрын

I got a rock

@GenericHandle666

3 ай бұрын

Soviet Russia Willie Wonka

Ngl, The Unknown has to be the funniest thing that AI has produced. Only a machine would decide that a whimsical Roald Dahl story needs a sleep paralysis demon that looks like a shadow from Persona. And only an idiot would take that script at face value and foist it onto the actors. EDIT: Point taken, I guess even the Unknown is still in keeping with Dahl, albeit wrong.

@SuperCosmicMutantSquid

4 ай бұрын

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.

@robokill387

4 ай бұрын

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

@Gatorade69

4 ай бұрын

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).

@francissobotka8725

4 ай бұрын

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

@Gatorade69

4 ай бұрын

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.

Willy Wonka's original factory had children getting turned into blueberries and shit and it still went over better than this.

This Wonka Experience is a real like Ed, Edd n’ Eddy scam. 😂

@redwallfan123

4 ай бұрын

Or mr krabs "krabby land" scam lol

@josephrowe849

4 ай бұрын

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

@AoiUsagiOtoko

4 ай бұрын

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

@AddableStone13

4 ай бұрын

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

@redwallfan123

4 ай бұрын

@@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

"Ball Pit Is Closed"

@XconnerzzX

3 ай бұрын

Aall i was thinking about

@buttbuttson737

3 ай бұрын

Who pissed in it this time?

@MathewHaswell

3 ай бұрын

The pool is also closed.

@aeriumsoft

3 ай бұрын

why are there people in suits around it

@scottydu81

3 ай бұрын

Ball pit closed due to AIDS

I love how NO ONE is bringing up that the Unknown costume is LITERALLY just a Harry Potter Death Eater costume that this guy probably picked up from a cheap Halloween store.

@miciso666

4 ай бұрын

it was a 16 year old girl...

@alexandersean4708

4 ай бұрын

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

@Frederick1483

3 ай бұрын

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

@ChristianAttridge

3 ай бұрын

​@@miciso666a black one

@Damaged7

3 ай бұрын

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

The actor who played 'The Unknown' came forward on Tiktok and I was so sad to find out they're just a 16yr old kid. Some people have been saying pretty horrendous things about the actors, especially the Oompa Loompa actress who has been called a '50 yr old meth head' in twt comments :\ It seems like for the most part people are really supportive of them and the actors are handling it well, but some people are going way too far.

@miciso666

4 ай бұрын

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

@Laribhaven

4 ай бұрын

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

@TomJacobW

3 ай бұрын

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.

@gracekim25

3 ай бұрын

Eee😢

@ScourgeMonastik-oj1uo

3 ай бұрын

Why?! Words mean 0

The kids were afraid of the Unknown without realizing, he was trying to protect them from...that.

You can literally tell ChatGPT to write you shit in script format. He didn’t even try that hard

@Not_Always

4 ай бұрын

he also was very vague given what it put out

@coalcreekdefense8106

4 ай бұрын

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.

@greenaum

3 ай бұрын

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

@BoyBlunder66

3 ай бұрын

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

@Zoomy

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

Basically krusty land from SpongeBob

@Code7Unltd

4 ай бұрын

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.

@toastrave7820

4 ай бұрын

i could've sworn it was called Krabby Land

@ThePerradox

4 ай бұрын

Kamp Krusty more like

@ThePerradox

4 ай бұрын

Hey Kids, don't fear the unknown.

@ThePerradox

4 ай бұрын

You can come out now Banksy.

to be fair the original willy wonka experience had a 20% survival rate for the kids so like. i guess this came out better

The thing that frustrates me the most is seeing this kids who got their hopes up for a day of fun to get ripped off to walk a shitty warehouse.

@theoddbox

4 ай бұрын

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

@toby43078

3 ай бұрын

I think it's hilarious!!! 😂

@danicafugit2697

3 ай бұрын

And only got a single jellybean out of it

@NightmareRex6

3 ай бұрын

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$.

@thecinematicmind

3 ай бұрын

@@danicafugit2697and a quarter of cheap lemonade.

*The Unknown is my favorite Willy Wonka character.*

Those poor kids. On the bright side, this has led to some of the funniest online content in years.

@jamesrule1338

3 ай бұрын

Strong Fyre Fest energy.

@kakashisensei38

3 ай бұрын

High looking Oompa Loompas lol 😂

@sytherwusky

3 ай бұрын

@@jamesrule1338no surprise given the scammers name is Billy

0:23 All of these images include that distinct AI Jank, but the ones with words are especially spectacular because my god, image AI cannot do words. "Ukxepcted twits", "ungirevel", and "a pasadise of sweet teats" fuckign killed me. Nevermind the fact that the AI decided to invent a Long M while trying to spell "performances".

@Not_Always

4 ай бұрын

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.

As someone who has been an actor for these live theatre experiences geared towards children, this makes me really sad after laughing at the absurdity. Seeing how happy those kids were during my run really made the multiple shows etc worth it. I really hope they get an event they deserve and that the actors get some better prospects in the future.

Kudos to the actors and staff who shared their stories here, they deserve medals for what they had to go through.

The worst part about the decorations is that theye were actually okay decorations, there just needed to be more of them. As in A LOT more of them.

@toomanyaccounts

4 ай бұрын

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.

@AndyLundell

3 ай бұрын

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

16:07 "What is evil chocolate?" eh...Nestlé, I presume...

@HO-bndk

3 ай бұрын

Hersheys, definitely Hersheys.

As someone who's terrified of the AI dominated future this story was so comforting. It's like back when it was just "this bot watched 100 olive garden commercials and wrote a script"

@Not_Always

4 ай бұрын

right? GenAI is nothing without human correction and consistency

@ShadowNinetales

4 ай бұрын

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.

@Froggycolouring

3 ай бұрын

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

@idontevenknow9758

3 ай бұрын

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.

@Not_Always

3 ай бұрын

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

“House of Illuminati” says it all.

@aldomeylano9278

4 ай бұрын

Yep, should have been an immediate red flags

I’d love to see behind the scenes of Ashens reading that script, it must have taken ages for him to read bursting out in laughter after ever sentence

@OrgaNik_Music

4 ай бұрын

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

@cpt_nordbart

4 ай бұрын

Antony Stellar Bottom Tile?

@KatastrophicNoodle

4 ай бұрын

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

@Cyntaria

4 ай бұрын

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

@KatastrophicNoodle

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

The sad thing is that Given the price of the tickets and the amount of attendees they 100% could have had a cool willy Wonka themed show possibly with some projection mapping and some of the giant props and given out candy while still making a profit. 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 something special

@nineteenfortyeight6762

4 ай бұрын

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

@toomanyaccounts

4 ай бұрын

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

@kronemerj

4 ай бұрын

@@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

@lasskinn474

4 ай бұрын

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.

@keithmorrison8373

3 ай бұрын

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

You put more effort in this video than this guy ever put into anything in his adult life, apparently. Bravo.

@nengelen

4 ай бұрын

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

@goatprince1

4 ай бұрын

exquisite pfp

@idontevenknow9758

3 ай бұрын

100% agree.

@mr.x2567

2 ай бұрын

Probably because ChatGPT wasn’t used for it

The fact Kara Walker has somehow been dragged into this debacle lifts it to a whole new level of insanity. Assuming it's THE Kara Walker, she's not just some random artist, she's actually one of the biggest names in contemporary art and has exhibited at top galleries worldwide.

@maciejstachowski183

3 ай бұрын

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

@chrisball3778

3 ай бұрын

@@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!

I wanted to have a Wonka-themed birthday party this year, so I might just make a life sized model of the Unknown sitting behind a mirror with a basket of Evil Chocolate as a decoration.

@monkstandinglast

3 ай бұрын

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

@Pipkiablo

3 ай бұрын

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

I'm super sad for that guys 4 year old daughter, (and other likely stories) but one thing that keeps me going is how they will all get to grow up and be like "yeah. *I* was traumatised at willy's chocolate experience"

"The Evil Chocolate Maker Who Lives in the Walls" is going on my resume

"Known as Willy's Chocolate Factory" - zooms in on 'Willy's Chocolate Experience' . LOL. CLassic

@septiquaddoubleyou4019

4 ай бұрын

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

@KasumiKenshirou

4 ай бұрын

@@septiquaddoubleyou4019 "Willy's Wonderland"?

@hypnotised-clover

3 ай бұрын

I don't get it. Explain.

"let's go to the pub". scottish resilience at its finest.

@miciso666

4 ай бұрын

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

I wonder how many of those kids were looking like the Sad Onion after seeing the Willy Wonka experience

@spiderplant

4 ай бұрын

How many sad onions?

@spaceacepl4636

4 ай бұрын

​@@spiderplant 0-3 sad onions

@spooderderg4077

4 ай бұрын

@spiderplant somewhere between not and 3.

Here's hoping they can get Limmy to play Billy in the inevitable Netflix documentary

@ghrayfahx

4 ай бұрын

Maybe Billy Mitchell can play The Unknown.

@TransmissionEpicts

4 ай бұрын

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

@Smartacus420

3 ай бұрын

Hahahahahahahaha

@TomJacobW

3 ай бұрын

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

@Daedalus-YT

3 ай бұрын

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

Whatever the reason, the poor buggers who put on performances for the show are blameless. I hope they are doing okay.

@evandaymon8303

4 ай бұрын

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

@Nilon241

4 ай бұрын

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.

@Hossak

4 ай бұрын

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

@mushyroom9569

4 ай бұрын

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.

@Hossak

4 ай бұрын

Glass houses.@@mushyroom9569

These actors should all get together and do something. I'm really sympathetic to them. The pic of the sad Oompaloompa lady breaks my heart.

I know for a fact there is a group of people actively looking for 'Billy'. They are not interested in a refund.

@count69

4 ай бұрын

Lyle Lanley

@akl2k7

4 ай бұрын

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

@ThereMayBeLions

4 ай бұрын

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

@thedesensitizedsympathizer5307

4 ай бұрын

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

@matthewmosier8439

4 ай бұрын

My guess is he's at an airport

Havent finished yet, but I'm not entirely convinced Billy himself isnt just AI.

@mrcritical6751

4 ай бұрын

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

@Lazy_scorpio

3 ай бұрын

​@cuddles1767Sounds boring.

With some 2d projection mapping , and modern Chinese style lantern sculpture, a qualified crew could put together an event that visually resembles the advertising without breaking the bank, I've seen it done.

@jettesides420

4 ай бұрын

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

@Catmom-gl5nt

4 ай бұрын

@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 😂.

@Cueya

4 ай бұрын

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

@Catmom-gl5nt

4 ай бұрын

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

@kronemerj

4 ай бұрын

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

someone's going to make a messed up movie adaptation of this someday.

@evandaymon8303

4 ай бұрын

Maybe it be horror film and there you go

To be honest, the actors were the heroes in this mess.

Darn, I wanted to hear the "Cartchy Tunes"

@ThereMayBeLions

4 ай бұрын

The Catgacating sounds like great fun as well.

@spaceacepl4636

4 ай бұрын

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

@johnclifford369

3 ай бұрын

@@spaceacepl4636 Pasadise of sweet teats, you mean.

@spaceacepl4636

3 ай бұрын

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

@johnclifford369

3 ай бұрын

@@spaceacepl4636 Valid.

The Unknown should be the mascot of dumpster-fire a.i. laziness.

@kronemerj

4 ай бұрын

I agree 100%

Kinda feels like a demonstration of how good a workforce can be on the fly and how much can management fuck up before they get caught.

@clray123

3 ай бұрын

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

@butchdeadlift10

3 ай бұрын

@@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

3:38 Too bad, cause there would probably be a load of people who would love to hear "I'm DJ Slopes, Welcome to your marriage."

This may be controversial but "the stones... Well, the mainly just sit there, but they do it enchantingly!" Was actually pretty funny.

@TroubleToby3040

4 ай бұрын

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.

@BrigsbyDowers

4 ай бұрын

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.

@Pipkiablo

4 ай бұрын

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.

@matthewmosier8439

4 ай бұрын

​​@@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.

@TroubleToby3040

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

Willy's chocolate adventure sounds like a prostate exam gone wrong

@Sketchnificent

3 ай бұрын

A prostate exam gone wrong or a Saturday night 😏

@Quaxo21

3 ай бұрын

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

I dunno; "A hundred gullible parents' money in my pocket and a hat full of shit" doesn't have the same ring to it

@septiquaddoubleyou4019

4 ай бұрын

How about “A Hatful of Dream AI”?

I love how even after being distorted to near complete incomprehensibility the person you spoke to at Doubletree still sounds absolutely Scottish

I knew that Golden Ticket contest was fake. They made an entire movie just to fool everyone into buying Wonka bars, thinking they'll get to visit the Wonka factory and pet oompa loompahs.

@Morphfiend

4 ай бұрын

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

@Morphfiend

4 ай бұрын

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 😢

Those poor kids. This reminds me of the community events we would have when I was a kid. I grew up in a very rural area. The people meant well, but they were so depressing to go to. But it was understandable since it was free and mostly volunteer run. This on the other hand is just a sick scam

"What is that? It's the unknown!" has now entered my daily use dictionary of phrases.

All I could compare the event with was Dash Con which at least made an effort to include a ball pit. I think one of the actors (the ginger, I believe) actually wanted to be an Oompa Loompa but got the part of Willy Wonka instead.

@Ladywizard

4 ай бұрын

there was a bouncy house(consumer grade)

In 20 years, those kids will be all grown up and have hazy, indistinct memories of a man in a mask coming towards them from beyond a mirror and they're not going to know why.

@justinkianaalfredo6843

3 ай бұрын

Its unknown

I mean, with a bit of tweaking, that script could actually work for a kid's show. Y'know, if it was backed up with a halfway decent area for them to explore while it was going on. It seems like they forgot they actually needed to make the scenery about 15 minutes before it opened XD

The ginger Willy Wonka even said he was confused why he was chosen to be Willy instead of an Oompa Loompa 😭

He used dream ai to make the images. It was a free service where you could enter a prompt and choose a style and it would make an image. (It still exists but it costs money and uses a different algorithm that makes different images) It had a very specific style before the algorithm update. If youre at all familiar with ai generated art youd recognize it anywhere.

@user-jw2it4qf2r

4 ай бұрын

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??

@kurostyx9124

3 ай бұрын

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

@LoveTrueMusic1

3 ай бұрын

@@user-jw2it4qf2r nah, ban AI

@user-jw2it4qf2r

3 ай бұрын

@@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...

I never thought I wanted Ashens whispering in my ear about his garden of enchantment, but here we are.

No matter how much more we learn about this event, it just gets progressively more insane.

People really need to get that this is the most significant thing "ai" as you know it in modern times will ever actually revolutionize. lazy scamming.

@LoveTrueMusic1

3 ай бұрын

Isn't that what capitalism rewards?

@nexus3756

3 ай бұрын

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

The ordained license is an actual legitimate thing. My wife and I were able to get married for cheap because my mom's husband actually went through that program.

@RichardWatt

4 ай бұрын

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

@Not_Always

4 ай бұрын

ive been ordained through them for 15 years

@blujaebird

4 ай бұрын

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

@ThaneBrimhall

4 ай бұрын

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

@lasskinn474

4 ай бұрын

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.

“I know I’m trailer trash, but this is how you become financially free”

@lasskinn474

4 ай бұрын

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.

@MONKEY_BEAM

4 ай бұрын

​@@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

@jackpijjin4088

3 ай бұрын

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

Gotta appreciate a man who visits euro Disney, looks at all the money and effort that go into providing a suspension of disbelief, and thinking to himself.... "Well I can do that"

I've watched a handful of videos about this and yours went above and beyond what everyone else did. Great vid as always.

@slopesgameroom

4 ай бұрын

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

@Gatorade69

4 ай бұрын

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

@randallflagg9498

4 ай бұрын

​@@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.

I feel so bad for the actors. I truly hope they get more roles particularly The Unknown given how much heart they put into that dumpster fire. No script, no schedule and no pay.

Yeah, this entire thing is a scam that reminds me of "The Producers" and thr unknow is the spring time for hizter, yes I have spell it wrong.

0:33 Encherining entertainment. Catgacating, live performances, Cartchy tuns exarserdray lollipops, a pasadise of sweet teats. How the heck did that ad actually *work at bringing people in?*

@dashcamandy2242

3 ай бұрын

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.

Reminded me of that Tumblr Convention that someone made years ago (the one with the small pool full of balls that you seen in several indoor parks like the McDonald's and i heard that several people got infected with ticks when entering it)

@Wote89

4 ай бұрын

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.

@ZeldaPine

4 ай бұрын

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

@eldrichnemo9312

4 ай бұрын

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

@TomJacobW

3 ай бұрын

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

Billy here said it himself. “Anything given away for free is taken for granted” …that’s why Ai “art” needs to be either banned, or ever artist, writer, and photographer whose works were “scraped” to make the tech possible should be getting royalties. (That’s millions of artists by the way.)

Not gonna lie, after I heard it was from a group called "Illuminaughti" I thought Blair Xon was involved.

@Nilon241

4 ай бұрын

I mean the plagiarism certainly checks out

Dirty warehouse and weird posters, Kind of reminds me of free partys at the end of 80s early 90s in a strange king of way, Add a strobe and some acid house and your there lol!

@philip-at-tube

4 ай бұрын

lol

@necronix9947

4 ай бұрын

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

@philip-at-tube

4 ай бұрын

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

@necronix9947

4 ай бұрын

@@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

The Unknown sounds like he has a 7 foot frame , has rats along his back, maybe when he calls your name it all fades to black. Perhaps he's even associated with the sound of falling sand.

This is one of the best mini documentaries on the Willy Wonka experience! So funny and well researched!

@slopesgameroom

3 ай бұрын

Really appreciate it mate

Dude I'm genuinely concerned about your mini arcade machine shelf. It's sagging 😢

I find it hilarious how the AI used for the script expected people to bring extra socks with them to a children's play thing

Billy Coull's greatest mistake was not getting Ashens to play Willy McDuff to begin with.

No mention of the nonexistent supplies of candy? No chocolate and individual jelly beans? Or at least give more than an offhand reference.

Actually the Universal church is an official thing. Crazy as it sounds, they actually even offer services. Like courses on how to properly officiate weddings and etc. Depending on the state, it depends if you need to go too a court to make it recognized by the government. Considering most people use it to officiate weddings for family or friends and to save money. Considering I have family that has a friend, who is a ordained minister officiate a wedding for relatives. Also a state where you need to make it official by a court. But to be fair you can get certificates for anything online.

@wifu2will108

4 ай бұрын

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!

@tazbig

4 ай бұрын

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

@childofcascadia

4 ай бұрын

@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.

@Not_Always

4 ай бұрын

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

@TomJacobW

3 ай бұрын

@@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.

9:03 hol-up ! You promised us sweet teats 👀

@TomJacobW

3 ай бұрын

A pasadise of it no less!

I even had a much better description for the Unknown and didn't even use AI: "The unknown use to be one of these Oompa Loompas from what I heard. But he would always be an outcast. Always in the shadows. Rejected from he other Oompa Loompas. I don't even know why. The other Oompa Loompas wouldn't even tell me. whenever I bring it up, they would always ignore me of it or change the topic. Maybe they were to frightened. So, why does the unknown look like this and not like them? A fateful accident happened one night at the factory. A mysterious one. Some say he got stuck and stretched in the Laffey Taffy machine. That's why he looks like this. Other's say he was trapped in the walls. But this unknown, now we call him, is the ghost of that Oompa Loompa. Always roaming the factory and forever trapped."

If they opened this up in a week with absolutely no changes, it would sell out like crazy.

This is definitely the most comprehensive and in-depth video I’ve seen on this

@slopesgameroom

4 ай бұрын

Wow, thanks!

"they got my e-mail now". The way you said that was absolutely hilarious as the defeated sound of "I fell for that didn't I?"

You did a ton of work into this!! Ive seen a lot of videos on this event, but this is one of my favorites.

Veruca Salt be like: "I want my refund now!"

0:35 a pasadise of sweet teats

That ai generated Gene Wilder is more disturbing than I first realized

@pjbrown4736

4 ай бұрын

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

@SlapstickGenius23

3 ай бұрын

@@pjbrown4736 AI overuse is definitely embarrassing.

thank you so much for this definitive video... this is actually legitimately helpful for explaining and i always appreciate your reporting 😊

@slopesgameroom

4 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

The end result looks like a parent trying to put on a spectacular pinterest level party with a days notice, something that on it's own would be bit sad looking but well meaning. But considering it was an event that they were charging money for it's inexcusable! Here in the U.S. we had something called Candytopia which was a pop up event filled with art made of candy mosaics/statues, interactive photo opts, a foam marshmallow ball pit, and treasure chests full of complimentary candy. I think that's what people who were sold this scam were expecting and it's a shame because it was cheaper for people to go to an official event.

I feel so bad for the kids & the workers

11:35 ah yes, the instantly recognisable dulcet tones of one Stuart Ashen, Psy. D.

@Nilon241

4 ай бұрын

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

@PedroBenolielBonito

4 ай бұрын

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

@Nilon241

4 ай бұрын

@@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.

@Gleamiarts

4 ай бұрын

Til ashens has a phd

Despite that I feel bad for the scamned parents, the sad kids and the actors and staffs that had to suffer the pressure of this fiasco. Darn the jokes and memes that was generated by this event are priceless and comedy gold. 😂

Willies chocolate experience sounds like a video you'd find in a certain curtained off area of a video store.

@Buster_Piles

4 ай бұрын

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

This is such a common tactic for scammers. Theres a woman in Australia who was doing these, kind of sub par events, not delivering on promised entertainment to pocket the costs etc. and eventually she moved to just cancelling the events last minute and claiming reasons that were beyond her control and refusing to refund vendors. I got my money back after putting all her details, including aliases and ABN’s etc up online, but because I never took them down, every so often I hear from someone that she’s doing it in another, state under another name. Disgusting!

This story is absolutely hilarious. It’s so outlandish; it’s hilarious

Wait, those clips of the actors were from interviews with YOU?? Mind blown!

I can’t tell if this should be a moment from Ed, Edd, n Eddy or Spongebob

Glorious. I really needed a good laugh today. GREAT video. Cheers to you and yours from Texas.