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A Willy Wonka pop-up event in Glasgow had attendees calling the police after they paid £35 and the event didn’t deliver what was promised.

Event goers were promised a whimsical adventure all themed around something Willy Wonka might create in his factory.

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The keen-eyed amongst you might have noticed something a little bit…wrong.

Imagnation Lab. Encherining Entertainment. Catgacating. Live perforrmances. Cartchy tunes. Exarserdray lollipops. And my favourite “A pasadise of sweets teats”

But what did the event actually look like? WELL.

Feel like the marketing team got a bit carried away.

so because i don’t feel like doing my job today, i started looking deeper into this and i am obsessed

i know that the “any resemblance is coincidental” spiel is a typical legal disclaimer, but it’s definitely a bold claim for this company to make when they previously marketed this event as being specifically wonka-themed

it makes sense that they wouldn’t know how trademarks work, though (neither of these are trademarked)

let’s take a look at the “house of illuminati”’s website…

hm, there’s no reference to any knock-off harry potter events on their website. let’s google lens that crusty jpeg

somehow i doubt this real event in florida is related

but what events DO they put on?

no specifics, a lot of vague catchy wording, coupled with AI art. great sign.

no i will not “imagine a secrete of clamdiciret luxury” in any of your undisclosed locations, thank you

there’s way more to unpack but mobile has a 10-picture limit, stay tuned

sorry for the poor visibility on some of these screenshots, my phone is also refusing to allow me to alt-text or copy-paste anything into the post, so that will have to wait till i get home. but let’s continue:

every picture on their website (with seemingly one exception) is either stolen or AI-generated (aka stolen with extra steps)

this is the only one that…….wait.

that’s an awful lot of glasses for a table setting. yeah, this one’s almost certainly AI, too.

using a shitty picture stolen from a licensed halloween costume listing to advertise is also very funny

(their mobile website is also a pain in the ass to navigate and read)

several of their blog posts (all of which they bulk posted in batches on December 4th, 12th, and 16th of 2023) also have this placeholder text at the bottom:

kinda hard to show pictures of an event in progress when you haven’t hosted any events

“this event is gonna be terrible for your shitty toddlers. please bring them.”

their shitty AI art promo pics in all their glory

someone help these poor people morphing into instruments :(

“ok yes it sucked and i’m sorry but you cannot deny we put on an event. an event happened. that counts for something”

ah of course, if only the holographic paper had arrived on time. that would’ve fixed everything

this cardboard sign might be the company’s only original asset

When the whole party is down but your bard is up

jack had absolutely no right to go this hard

um excuse me Jack not only may but must go this hard

I love the moment where the band is like “oh, yeah, let’s pick this up!”

Everything he does is joy

Always reblog…

quirk swap nejire! she has dark shadow, but called it shadow friend! the actual shadow probably has a name too. they play pranks together!

click for quality // rbs > likes

Confession of a grieving Palestinian, forever away from home.

(For the record, hopelessness does not mean giving up. When you feel like you can do so little, just do what you can. Donate. Protest. Scream the truth.)

i think if bruce saw clark deliver this line it would awaken shrimp emotions in him

It took me a moment to process what is happening, bloody hell.

When absolutely 0 of Biden’s accomplishments have made any kind of news, and we’ve been fed a steady diet of fear and panic for 3 years, no one gets to be shocked when he loses the next election to Donald 2.0.

Posting anything positive about the president here will get you called a capitalist bootlicker.

What do we expect to happen?

Anger sells better. Anger feels better, it feels righteous.

It’s easier to protest against a president you don’t like then to actually remain in charge and keep pushing ahead, even if small, consistent accomplishments are all you receive.

I know I’ll never be missing an election in my life again (barring some kind of major medical event).

I just wish it weren’t so damn frustrating, feeling like you’re screaming into the void constantly, fighting against apathy.

CMS just announced that the government will start taking high-cost drugs that were developed with taxpayer dollars and start pulling patents to force competition and low cost generics. That’s fucking momentous.

I saw 1 news article on it. I wouldn’t have known it happened if I didn’t read the news every day. This should have caused the kind of celebration that erupted when companies started announcing $35 insulin caps. Why didn’t it?

Low cost hearing aids, lower and $0 student loans, concrete investments in green architecture…there was an announcement like 2 days ago to replace all leaded pipes out of US cities over the next 10 years, which will be an absolute boon in jobs for construction workers and can make our homes safer for kids. I’m sure I’ll see a headline in a year, “Biden’s lead pipe program causes drivers traffic headaches.”

Republicans want 20 foot concrete barriers topped with barbed wire across the entire southern border, and Democrats want amnesty and ease to citizenship for just about anyone who crosses, and it really seems like until a compromise is made somewhere in there, Republicans will continue to turn out in massive numbers to elections because God told them to, and Democrats will continue to stay home because the last president didn’t accomplish 100% of their goals and voting for an imperfect president is a personal and ethical failing.

Now take that mentality and spread it over every single social and economic issue.

I remember how utterly scared and angry we were sone years ago when Trump was trying to bankrupt the USPS. People were talking about it left right and sideways, asking people to buy from the USPS gift shop, start a stamp collection, anything. Then, Biden got elected and put a huge stop to that by getting rid of the unfair laws that only the USPS had to abide by. Overnight, the USPS was saved, and how did everyone react?

They didn't. It was hardly mentioned. Not a blip.

Same exact thing when it came to net neutrality!! It was DEVASTATING when it was killed. People died in wildfires because Internet providers throttled data of firefighters. Xfinity actually stole identities in order to make it happen.

About a month ago, BAM, it was restored because Biden appointed a Democratic leader to the FFC. Did anyone talk about it? Nope. I saw ONE post.

Adding to this list, the Biden-Harris administration has also:

And honestly, this administration has done so much more that I don’t have time to list - with wide-ranging effects that won’t be fully felt for another few years, but are MONUMENTAL for our country, our healthcare, our environment, our jobs, and our futures.

Please don’t allow shills and bots to convince you that voting doesn’t matter or that your vote is inconsequential.

Please register and vote in 2024.

YOUR BODY IS BEAUTIFUL IF:

I was unprepared.

happy birthday gromit

it’s february 12th happy birthday gromit!!

@transwiththeplans hi! I’m not sure if you’re ever gonna see this, but I just wanted to say I really loved your fanfic! It was such a fun read.

I ended up drawing them against my will so they’re my new favourites now

All-Out Attack | Persona 3 Reload

The Perfect Explanation of Privilege – In One Powerful Punchline

“The Pencilsword” is a comic strip by Toby Morris, an illustrator from New Zealand. His most recent comic, “On a Plate” hits hard at the heart of the issues of concerning wealth and privilege.

How many times have you heard the “I’ve never been handed anything on a platter” argument in regard to social security and other social benefits?

Toby wrecks this argument by showing how two children can grow up, be loved and supported, and yet still have two very different outcomes.

Make sure to follow all the way to the end for the powerful punchline. This comic is an increasingly sad reality for far too many of this nation’s children and families.

Heads up streamers on tumblr, if you have been contacted by Brandfluence (fka Softgiving) about forming a partnership and doing charity streams with them, DO NOT ACCEPT. Recently published tax documents show they have been stealing millions of dollars in streamer donations for the last 2-3 years at least. DO NOT donate to a charity stream involving Brandfluence, half of the money WILL be stolen.

A few sources @blackboxwarrior

nimona (film that was saved by netflix after disney canned it along with closing the studio that was making it) and the boy and the heron (2d animated movie, the type that disney doesn't make anymore due to "limitations with the medium") getting animated feature noms at the oscars this year and not wish... bro that's funny

Lilo & Stitch is a great example of a story that has no villains. It has antagonists, sure, but most of them are well-meaning. The worst person in the film is that little shit Myrtle, but she’s not in the film that much anyway.

Since this post is getting traction I want to clarify how not-villainous the antagonists are:

The "villain" of Lilo and Stitch is, rather directly, societies and social systems that write people off and do not provide support and care.

It is obvious to the audience -- and deliberately presented this way by the film -- that it is better for Lilo to stay with her sister, even if her sister is a bit of a mess and not financially stable. Mr. Bubbles is not evil. He is there because he wants what's best for Lilo, and he is not unreasonable to think that the sister without a job who leaves the stove on and whose house nearly burned down two days later is not it. The solution is not to "defeat" Mr. Bubbles; the solution would be for society to help Nani succeed, rather than watch as she fails.

Similarly, no one provided any help to Stitch when he was created and discovered. They wrote him off as an abomination, something too dangerous to be destroyed. They weren't evil, and it wasn't unreasonable to think that the experiment created to be an agent of destruction would be better off scrapped. But what would have happened if they had at least tried?

Lilo and Stitch are two characters who were caught in systems that were cold, uncaring, and unsupportive, even if the people in them were not evil and were, in fact, just doing their best.

It's a movie about people who have been written off finding one another and building a found family where they can get and give the support and care they didn't get from the people with authority and I love it so much.

SORRY FOR THE VERY PERSONAL COMIC!!

This is my half of “Unhealthy”, an essay comic double header with the lovely and talented Sarah Winifred Searle. She and I both wrote about our personal experiences as overweight ladies with eating disorders, and her story is breathtaking! You can buy a physical copy of the book here: https://topatoco.com/collections/abby-howard/products/ah-unhealthy

Or buy a digital PDF here: https://abbyhoward.itch.io/unhealthy

A comic by an inspiring woman, whose story mirrors much of my own. -ATL

Time to re-up this one. Virtual hugs to everyone out there who has been told they shouldn’t live unless they are ashamed of being fat. You should. Please, live.

-ATL

Everyone should take the time to read this- but especially thin allies in the body positivity movement to end fatshaming who sympathize but haven’t experienced fatphobia directly. Great insight into the mindset of fat people who want to be healthy, but have bad relationships with food that have been pushed on them by society.