#wonka chocolate

[aintinacage]

Do not sell chocolate in this town! Free Day | @monthly-challenge

#springfling2024 #spring fling 2024 #spring fling #monthly challenge #free day #wonka #wonka 2023 #wonka movie #willy wonka #timothée chalamet #timothee chamalet #timmy chalamet #chocolate #wonka chocolate #chief of police #keegan michael key #warner bros #musical #musical gifs #muscials #tw: waterboarding

[multifandomworldsposts]

WONKA REVIEW & RATING

10/10!!!

i thought it was really good and funny at the same time! timothée looked really nice and amazing and thought that he’s acting was really good as well! if anyone hasn’t seen it go watch it! it’s worth a watch!! ❤️🍫

btw, HAPPY NEW YEARS!! 🥳🎉🥂

#timothée chalamet #wonka 2023 #wonka #wonka movie #willy wonka #wonka spoilers #ihop launches colorful wonka inspired menu lineup and customers say they ‘can’t believe’ anyone would eat it #wonka chocolate

[tik-tok-ify-the-tumblbeast]

#amaury guichon #the chocolate guy #if ever i had to pick a real life wonka it would be him

[ktempestbradford]

I have been on a Willy Wonkified journey today and I need y'all to come with me

It started so innocently. Scrolling Google News I come across this article on Ars Technica:

At first glance I thought what happened was parents saw AI-generated images of an event their kids were at and became concerned, then realized it was fake. The reality? Oh so much better.

On Saturday, event organizers shut down a Glasgow-based "Willy's Chocolate Experience" after customers complained that the unofficial Wonka-inspired event, which took place in a sparsely decorated venue, did not match the lush AI-generated images listed on its official website.... According to Sky News, police were called to the event, and "advice was given."

Thing is, the people who paid to go were obviously not expecting exactly this:

But I can see how they'd be a bit pissed upon arriving to this:

It gets worse.

"Tempest, how could it possibly--"

source of this video that also includes this charming description:

Made up a villain called The Unknown — 'an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls'

There is already a meme.

Oh yes, the Wish.com Oompa Loompa:

Who has already done an interview!

As bad (and hilarious) as this all is, I got curious about the company that put on this event. Did they somehow overreach? Did the actors they hired back out at the last minute? (Or after they saw the script...) Oddly enough, it doesn't seem so!

Given what I found when poking around I'm legit surprised there was an event at all. Cuz this outfit seems to be 100% a scam.

The website for this specific event is here and it has many AI generated images on it, as stated. I don't think anyone who bought tickets looked very closely at these images, otherwise they might have been concerned about how much Catgacating their children would be exposed to.

Yes, Catgacating. You know, CATgacating!

I personally don't think anyone should serve exarserdray flavored lollipops in public spaces given how many people are allergic to it. And the sweet teats might not have been age appropriate.

Though the Twilight Tunnel looks pretty cool:

I'm not sure that Dim Tight Twdrding is safe. I've also been warned that Vivue Sounds are in that weird frequency range that makes you poop your pants upon hearing them.

Yes, Virginia, these folks used an AI image generator for everything on the website and used Chat GPT for some of the text! From the FAQ:

Q: I cannot go on the available days. Will you have more dates in the future? A: Should there be capacity when you arrive, then you will be able to enter without any problems. In the event that this is not the case, we may ask you to wait a bit.

Fear not, for this question is asked again a few lines down and the answer makes more sense.

Curious about the events company behind this disaster, I took myself over to the homepage of House of Illuminati and I was not disappointed.

I would 100% trust these people to plan my wedding.

This abomination of a website is a badly edited WordPress blog filled with AI art and just enough blog posts to make the casual viewer think that it's a legit business for about 0.0004 seconds.

Their attention to detail is stunning, from how they left up the default first post every WP blog gets to how they didn't bother changing the name on several images, thus revealing where they came from. Like this one:

With the lovely and compact filename "DALL·E-2024-01-30-09.50.54-Imagine-a-scene-where-fantasy-and-reality-merge-seamlessly.-In-the-foreground-a-grand-interactive-gala-is-taking-place-filled-with-elegant-guests-i.png"

"Concept.png" came from the same AI generator that gets text almost, but not quiiiiiite right:

There are a suspicious number of .webp images in the uploads, which makes me think they either stole them from other sites where AI "art" was uploaded or they didn't want to pay for the hi-res versions of some and just grabbed the preview image.

The real fun came when I noticed this filename: Before-and-After-Eventologists-Transformation-Edgbaston-Cricket-Ground-1024x1024-1.jpg and decided to do a Google image search. Friends, you will be shocked to hear that the image in question, found on this post touting how they can transform a boring warehouse into a fun event space, was stolen from this actual event planner.

Even better, this weirdly grainy image?

From a post that claims to be about the preparations for a "Willy Wonka" experience (we'll get to this in a minute), is not only NOT an actual image of anyone preparing anything for Illuminati's event, it is stolen from a YouTube thumbnail that's been chopped to remove the name of the company that actually made this. Here's the video.

If you actually read the blog posts they're all copypasta or some AI generated crap. To the point where this seems like not a real business at all. There's very specific business information at the bottom, but nothing else seems real.

As I said, I'm kinda surprised they put on an event at all. This has, "And then they ran off with all our money!" written all over it. I'm perplexed.

And also wondering when the copyright lawyers are gonna start calling, because...

This post explicitly says they're putting together a "Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory Experience" complete with golden tickets.

Somewhere along the line someone must have wised up, because the actual event was called "Willys Chocolate Experience" (note the lack of apostrophe) and the script they handed to the actors about 10 minutes before they were supposed to "perform" was about a "Willy McDuff" and his chocolate factory.

As I was going through this madness with friends in a chat, one pointed out that it took very little prompting to get the free Chat GPT to spit out an event description and such very similar to all this while avoiding copyrighted phrases. But he couldn't figure out where the McDuff came from since it wasn't the type of thing GPT would usually spit out...

Until he altered the prompt to include it would be happening in Glasgow, Scotland.

You cannot make this stuff up.

But truly, honestly, I do not even understand why they didn't take the money and run. Clearly this was all set up to be a scam. A lazy, AI generated scam.

Everything from the website to the event images to the copy to the "script" to the names of things was either stolen or AI generated (aka stolen). Hell, I'd be looking for some poor Japanese visitor wandering the streets of Glasgow, confused, after being jacked for his mascot costume.

HE LIVES IN THE WALLS, Y'ALL.

#long post #Willy Wonka #Wonka #Willy Wonka Experience #Willy Wonka Experience disaster #Willy's Chocolate Experience #Willys Chocolate Experience #THE UNKNOWN #Wish.com Oompa Loompa #House of Illuminati #AI #ai generated

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

#willy wonka #charlie and the chocolate factory #capitalism #politics #twitter #tweets #meme #memes #tweet #funny #lol

[nessa007]

#i won’t shut up about this lol #scotland #charlie and the chocolate factory #willy wonka #twitter

[dangeroustonight]

The evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls...

#the willy wonka experience #willy wonka experience glasgow #willy's chocolate experience #the unknown #I'm sorry this is my meme of the day this story is like crack for me

[carricfisher]

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory dir. Mel Stuart | 1971

#willy wonka and the chocolate factory #filmedit #filmgifs #userteri #usertennant #useraurore #usersugar #tuserpris #henricavyll #underbetelgeuse #userconstance #userveronika #usersameera #miatendos #usernia #charlie and the chocolate factory #*edit

[thecurefordepression]

#Willy Wonka #Charlie Bucket #The Unknown #Roald Dahl #Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience #Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

[naidje]

nice of mr wonka to invite us over for a singular jelly bean and a quarter cup of lemonade eh luigi?

#willy wonka experience #willy's chocolate experience #willy wonka experience glasgow #glasgow willy wonka experience #willy wonka chocolate experience #willy wonka #willy mcduff #oompa loompa #the unknown #the willy wonka experience #glasgow willy wonka

[froggos-are-superior]

On the topic of prequels, Willy Wonka could run the Hunger Games but Coriolanus Snow couldn't make chocolate

#willy wonka and the chocolate factory #willy wonka #charlie and the chocolate factory #wonka #hunger games #the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #coriolanus snow

[figmentjedi]

From the AI generated Willy Wonka Experience in Glasgow, this is the Unknown, an evil chocolate maker who lives in the walls, a byproduct of the scripts these poor actors had to read also being randomly generated.

#willy wonka #ai slop #willy wonka experience #willy wonka and the chocolate factory #charlie and the chocolate factory

[heckyeahponyscans]

"Willy’s Chocolate Experience LA"— organized by a collective of local artists unaffiliated with those behind the Glasgow event — had a similar vibe. This time, however, attendees knew what they were signing up for. Held in a worn-down warehouse embellished with a few candy cane props, the one-night only pop-up event stayed true to the underwhelming decor of the Glasgow event, complete with artificial intelligence-generated art. Attendees were even offered two complimentary jellybeans, just like in Glasgow. Paterson, who went viral after a photo of her looking miserable at the Glasgow experience became a meme format, said she was excited to travel to Los Angeles to play the iconic knock-off Oompa Loompa role once again. Jacob Alpharad, 28, was among the attendees who showed up to see Paterson. “I don’t think there’s any celebrity I could meet that would impress my friends more than her specifically,” Alpharad said. “I was just happy to be born at the same time as [the Glasgow event]. It sounds like a skit right out of a sitcom.”

This is incredible. I love this. This is like if someone made a crappy DashCon II complete with ballpit which btw we should do, there's still time.

#Willy Wonka #Willy's Chocolate Experience #Los Angeles #Glasgow

[arcade-conspiracy]

what is that? it’s the unknown!

🪞 🍫 🎭

#I’m sorry #I couldn’t help myself #this creature has consumed my every waking thought #lmaoooo #stim #stimmy #stim gif #stimming #my gif #stimboard #Willy Wonka #willys chocolate experience #the unknown #meme stimboard

[excentricanthropologist]

I'm in a Facebook group for the Willy's Chocolate Experience scam and I think this is genuinely so sweet:

#willy's chocolate experience #willy wonka #willy wonka experience

[stitchwraith-stingers]

this fucking video has been making me giggle so much, the way theres little to no effort into this, the way the unknown was just a made up character by ai that is aparently an 'evil chocolate maker', the way they appear and move, the way it cuts off with the kids crying, the whole fucking ordeal, where do i begin

#calico.exe #willy wonka #Willy’s chocolate experience #what do i fucking tag this with #glasgow