The Deep Lore Of The Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience

[@michaelchoi4266]

Little update, the girl who played the Unknown actually landed an acting role in the London Dungeon, a tourist attraction in London, thanks to this whole thing. So another silver lining I guess.

[@dubuyajay9964]

Link?

[@dannywolfpero]

What is that?

[@Cinnaschticks]

Not gonna ask for a link, yt moderation considered, but it would be lovely to have a source of some kind. ^^

[@mrcritical6751]

@@dannywolfperoit’s a horror based attraction in London where you take a tour of horrifying set pieces

[@evie-rd8tc]

@@Cinnaschticksit's on the london dungeon website! just google "london dungeon the unknown" and you will find it :)

[@noondaze]

The actress of the Unknown is actually super talented. I'm both horrified and genuinely impressed by how quickly children started crying as soon as she emerged.

[@SuitedSkaterLion]

I'm 27 year old and literary nearly cried too, bruh her movments are so good and scary. Nouu

[@ragdollrose2687]

Tbh, as a former amateur actress, these type of characters are a lot of fun to play! Little to no lines to learn and you get to freak out people with very little gimmicks (no gore or violence), it's a good time 😊

[@factoryyshowroom]

Tbh, as a former amateur actress, these type of characters are a lot of fun to play! Little to no lines to learn and you get to freak out people with very little gimmicks (no gore or violence), it's a good time 😊

[@matttran7161]

She's still a kid! And that's her real hair. The actress signed some kind of real deal and revealed her identity and turns out she's like 16.

[@gelato345]

Tbh, as a former amateur actress, these type of characters are a lot of fun to play! Little to no lines to learn and you get to freak out people with very little gimmicks (no gore or violence), it's a good time 😊

[@amyrose7727]

imagine fucking up so bad you accidentally create a cultural icon that is what the unknown is

[@SuitedSkaterLion]

The unknow is the best thing, actualy imagine if everything worked as it was planed, we would never had the Unknow ... That's sad lol. Nooooooouuuu

[@TheMaestroMizerous]

*Children crying*

[@vermillion6159]

*unknowh

[@Jurgir09]

“Unknown” is the character from Tekken.

[@yesterdaysrose5446]

And the best part? Willy Wonka is still under copyright. AI generated art is uncopyrightable. Ergo, The Unknown is The People's Antihero.

[@darkunykorn404]

the unknown being a 16 year old girl is almost poetic really

[@yvaincallipso84]

Reminds me of how an X Files episode hired a bunch of little girls to play aliens in the episode One Son, and Steven Spielberg in his Encoubters movie. Both said that when they had little boys on the costumes they kept playing with the costumes and hitting each other with them, but that what they had little girls try them they would instantly get unto character and give these unsettling and incredibly convincing performances. Lol

[@darkunykorn404]

@@yvaincallipso84 i can 100% believe it if there's one class of people who can be effortlessly creepy when they want, it's little girls, lol

[@kikiscribbles]

Boys have their times when they get to shine as the creepy ones, but when girls are offered the chance to appear freaky they TAKE IT. Being terrifying is something both and neither feminine nor masculine, and girls seem to be much more drawn to that aspect of terror (source; I'm a girl)

[@gh.stb12rd]

​@@yvaincallipso84little girls are born with the desire to be horrifying and cause terror but then they are taught they should want to be pretty instead its so tragic

[@J0seph13]

​​@ville__ some indian will probably gonna call you out for fear mongering

[@MedioPlague]

The dude who made the “Experience” Used AI to write the apology letter, it mentions things like “Holographic Paper”. this guy can’t even write an apology on his own

[@bushybeardedbear]

I don't doubt that he wrote the apology with AI, but Holographic Paper could be referring to transparent rainbow celophane sheets.

[@BelBelle468]

He also made a BS meme apology with a weird unknown accent as a joke. Hes pretty lame.

[@audiovisualcringe]

@@BelBelle468I thought that was confirmed to be a parody account

[@SunBusting]

​@ville__boooo

[@xemiii]

The funny part is that writing isn't even that hard. Good writing is difficult, but doing the bare minimum of stringing words together is pretty simple. Whatever algorithm he's using can't even do that, so why even bother with having any words at all? I guess this guy is trying to scam people and seem legit so he needs written stuff for the advertising and apology, but still.

[@Aickelodeon]

Ironically, there *were* no cartchy tuns.

[@FuzzPuzz]

And I wouldn’t say a single jelly bean is a paradise of sweet teats..

[@aribantala]

@@FuzzPuzz Pasadise* Which, I assume, is exactly as described

[@Cinnaschticks]

​@@FuzzPuzztunless and teatless... 😔💔

[@Sleipnirseight]

​@@Cinnaschticksomfg 😂

[@FuzzPuzz]

⁠​⁠@@Cinnaschticksand no catgacating 😢😢 I hope they get sued for what they did 😭😭

[@MeisterBeyondTubler]

The meme of the oompa loompa's expression conveys so many emotions that can not be described in anything other than anguish

[@someguy9256]

​@ville__can you please remove yourself from the physical plane

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I hope the oompa actress gets new roles too.....

[@L1nus16]

@ville__2010 called. they want their cringe back.

[@luna10617]

@ville__ you joined youtube 6 years ago and have only managed to gain 1k subscribers with this cringe tactic. i think maybe you should move on😐

[@larissabrglum3856]

She is all of us

[@spiceupyourafterlife]

No joke, the fanart of The Unknown is legitimately awesome. They make the character look like something out of a Neil Gaiman story!

[@Worm_Void]

To think, this whole event was created using the jumbled milkshake That is AI. and the one original thing that they added to the mix, The unknown. is the one thing that's getting the most appraisal. (Aside from princess Diane Unpa lumpa.)

[@werecatqueennic864]

Yeah but as someone in the Willy Wonka fandom I really wish they didn't clog up the CatCF tag.

[@meilinrivera1]

​@werecatqueennic864 what is that? (Im not in the fandom)

[@wolfetteplays8894]

Same

[@werecatqueennic864]

@@meilinrivera1 CatCF is an acronym for Charlie and the Chocolate Factoty

[@StomeAura]

This is literally that one part of Diary of a Wimpy Kid where Greg and Rowley planned and drew a huge haunted house and then procrastinated and just did everything in rowley’s basement with nothing but a kiddie pool

[@chessecontainment]

Core memory unlocked

[@Topdoggie7]

Very specific memory there.

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

😂 I remember that from the book!

[@hannahb2306]

The single jellybean ration takes me out like I cannot stop laughing

[@audiovisualcringe]

mickey and the beanstalk ahh serving size

[@EvilGayCat]

@ville__ So you’re telling me I’m about to die? OMG!!! Thank you so much!! You don’t know how long I have been waiting for the sweet release of death!!!! You’re a hero!

[@lemmymeringue8528]

​@ville__ bro, shut up

[@CommanderWiggins]

They must have bought exactly one bag of jellybeans or something for the rations to be that tight.

[@lenaboyer6981]

This comment made me wheeze 😂 they really did dole those beans out like they were under siege

[@redwaytoo]

For some reason it makes me incredibly happy that AI generated art is associated with scams now

[@toomanyaccounts]

remember nft art is ai generated on a premade template

[@zoeb3573]

is nature healing?

[@MythicMachina]

​@@zoeb3573Not yet unfortunately.

[@maiam388]

@@zoeb3573we can only hope…

[@NoxDolore]

yeah, as an artist it makes me feel better tbh :)

[@st-hugs]

Felicia (The Unknown) got a gig at The London Dungeon after the whole thing which is honestly the best thing to come out of this for me, good for her

[@DrawciaGleam02]

YES!!!! Get em girl!

[@AshNRoses4409]

LET'S GOOOO, I'm so glad this made a 180 and ended up giving her more opportunities

[@jazzycat8917]

Oh lets go girl! A horror icon in the making!

[@vattmann1387]

That's good to hear :)

[@freshpetrichor]

WHAT that's so cool!! I'm going there in a few weeks for a school trip can't wait to meet her

[@eiriksundby]

This event is a good demonstration of the mind of an AI techbro. They have such a fundamental misconception of what art is, they see it as a source of revenue and don't actually even seem aware of the fact that it takes effort and craftsmanship. So they try to create things like this and then go "oh shit this isn't as easy as typing words into chatgpt..."

[@aribantala]

This. Exactly this. The idea that the current "Content Aggregator" state of "AI" is this soulless, money making, creative work spitting machine is the reason why everyone hates it so much. I make arts in my spare times, and I am also a Computer Engineering graduate. AI has created a Hellscape on both fields that I am so passionate about. It's incredibly frustrating

[@MythicMachina]

​@@aribantalaWhat do you meeeaaan art is just "pressing the art button?" That's how digital art works, riiight?

[@wolfetteplays8894]

That is why I paint physical art, someone will always be there to buy it

[@dubuyajay9964]

Guy's too lazy to even do basic proofreading for grammar!

[@than7831]

Only real intelligence makes real art, artificial intelligence can only make artificial "art"

[@RaiRaiRaven]

You know, its impressive how much this event looks like a backrooms experience

[@Brianna-eo8nu]

It even comes complete with its own Creepypasta-esque entity.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

AVOID THE MIRRORS 💀 has to be messily scrawled on a wall shortly before the first encounter with the Unknown

[@charaxiphare]

@ville__ To all those with anxiety and OCD (like me) I provide an anti curse comment. By reading this comment you will now be fine and do not have to subscribe to any channels and are not in danger at all :) this guy is bs and cannot do anything. lame.

[@EagleTimberWolf]

Slightly off-topic, but I'm kinda surprised I haven't heard of anyone trying to make a liminal space-themed event. That aesthetic is popular enough by now that you'd think somebody would've at least thought of it.

[@aribantala]

​@@EagleTimberWolfTo be fair... House of Mirrors are basically a Carnival staple. It isn't exactly liminal space, but it's pretty close. It would be cool to see a combination of both though

[@stevengoomba6490]

the Unknown scaring children is one of the funniest things ever to me, Felisha seems so sweet in comparison!

[@Ozzedwall]

​@ville__ PENIS BLAST!!!

[@biyigagoupolos827]

​@ville__was... was that supposed to be scary...?

[@ZaynIsLameish]

@@biyigagoupolos827he thinks he's intimidating 💀

[@mrcritical6751]

The Unknown is pretty damn adorable as well of I’m being honest. The thing gets defeated by kids doing funny faces at it, poor thing is fragile

[@justaghostinthesea]

​@@mrcritical6751 Aww, that's cute!

[@teamknuckles54]

the unknown has permanently altered how i see life

[@Mossymoss69]

The unknown stole my lunch money 😔

[@pringlecontainer2528]

The unknown hit me with his car

[@Just_Some_Dude73]

the unknown killed my dog and kissed my girlfriend

[@OMG_ITS_MAY]

the unknown burned down my house

[@themelnova]

the unknown sold me fentanyl behind 7/11

[@calpalsworld]

A lot of older people don't know about AI. That's probably how they got scammed.

[@foxpearlwilder]

or they know but don't know enough about it/how it works/how it looks.

[@chelseahindle3645]

It’s funny because the same generation who told us not to believe everything on the internet now fall for every AI image they see.

[@Leahablo]

As someone who used to live in Scotland, Scottish adults are scarily under educated, knew several 20+ year olds who couldn’t read

[@gingermaniac5484]

@@chelseahindle3645 long comment ahead that's because when they told us that, we were kids who couldnt be trusted with nuance yet. the modern internet was also more or less new, new is scary. nowadays it's much more accesable than purchasing or borrowing a billion encyclopedias. and it's necessary to use now. forget about the lonelyness epidemic from the lack of a "third place", if you want information, or to buy things like groceries or banking if your overworked, sick or disabled, or hell, get or maintain a job to buy those groceries, you want any of it, you need the internet. the once new scary place is now not new and very necessary. but because they put off learning to HOW to trust the internet and balance it with skepticism for so long, (something our generations even have trouble with, ie mlms) and they didnt live through the wildwest era of the internet, they assume every site is as trustable as wikipedia, which in theory should be as trustable as your local library. couple that with the fact a lot of their childhood friends are dead due to age, empty nest syndrome and youve got a lot of desperate lonely people who dont have the proper tools even with a sharp mind not yet damaged from things like dementia. please dont judge them too much.

[@maddieb.4282]

⁠@@Leahabloilliteracy especially connected to poverty is an issue in every country

[@sirshauniv511]

Only by relying so heavily on generative AI could someone screw up so badly.

[@MedioPlague]

The dude even used AI to write his apology letter, You can’t make this shit up

[@hannahb2306]

Nobody appreciates a pasadise of sweet teats anymore 😔

[@fluttermorp]

if wonka, then only willy!

[@dyrr836]

I'd love if this whole thing became a cautionary tale that set AI bros back and discouraged any more of this crap.

[@Zman201]

​@@dyrr836Hopefully, but who knows AI bros are so delusional and care only about money I doubt this would scare them too badly

[@50possumteeth86]

I feel like the Unknown was the AI trying to write Slugworth. He’s also a mysterious, scary rival chocolatier that is trying to steal a recipe from Wonka, even if it is all a setup by Wonka.

[@getsouped]

i had the same thought, but my friend and i made it into an inside joke that the unknown was just the ais self-insert willy wonka oc

[@earthquack30]

I also cannot get over the "lives in the walls" part Like that's just an internet meme that's been floating about for some time.

[@aribantala]

You're 100% right. It's just the AI aggregating all the information about Willy Wonka's story. Slugworth, being the Rival Chocolatier that wants to steal the Everlasting Gobstopper is literally written there as seen on the script but the AI, for some reason, picked up some information that 1. Slugworth's identity is technically _Unknown_ ... Therefore he's called "the Unknown" 2. the Everlasting Gobstopper is a cleaning product (literally what?)

[@SheilaDeBonis]

In the book Slugworth isn't really Wonka's primary rival, just one of them, and there's lots of others. It might've been trying to make a Slugworth character but he doesn't live in the walls. Was it supposed to be a Vermicious Knid or Schnozwangler? Or the lickable wallpaper? It was probably just parsing pieces of all those things.

[@CarysCreatesThings]

I just commented the same thing before seeing your comment!

[@k1zm3t]

WHAT IS THAT. IT'S THE UNKNOWN! nooooo :(

[@DrawciaGleam02]

Yes! Wondered when someone would post this!

[@freshpetrichor]

oh no. What is that? It's the _unknown.._ *noOoOo!-*

[@AceSpadespoken]

aaA

[@fr4nkensk4nk]

i absolutely love that clip. the way "willy wonka" says it, the way The Unknown slinks out from behind the mirror in that cheap mask, the way the children start wailing, the way it cuts off... perfect clip

[@cinnamonbunz4ever327]

The Unholy Trinity Dashcon-The Father Fyre Festival-The Son Willy Wonka Experience-The Holy Spirit

[@wolfetteplays8894]

I'm a christian and this is funny as shit lmfao

[@dubuyajay9964]

​@@wolfetteplays8894 Truly the Satanic Trinity of the AntiChrist. 😬

[@jazzycat8917]

@@wolfetteplays8894 Of course the Christian is the one in other comments telling people that grooming doesn't exist and its fine for a man in his 20s to romance a child. Very Priest-like of you.

[@RubyChocoCookie]

Scamen. The prayer ends with this.

[@cinnamonbunz4ever327]

​@@RubyChocoCookie Are baptisms (scamtisms?) performed with Belle Delphine's bath water lol

[@aibhse460]

I went to a comic con in Glasgow recently and like a third of the people there were cosplaying as the unknown

[@Rdott82]

Source

[@aibhse460]

@@Rdott82seen it with my eyes

[@jennifertingelof-truecrime5890]

Thats badass

[@karayura10]

​@@Rdott82local man discovered personal experience

[@crossbones116]

"Oh no it's the Unknown" is my go-to saying whenever things go wrong for me now.

[@fhrog]

I can never get over that oompa loompa picture. it has a certain energy that can never be replicated by anything or anyone ever again

[@twotruckslyrics]

it gives dashcon ballpit energy

[@aribantala]

​@@twotruckslyricsI hate it that you're absolutely right about this

[@ingridienteh]

​@@twotruckslyricstwo trucks having sex 🗣️🔥🔥

[@CGFillertext]

It reminds me of Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère"

[@BUMMY105]

imagine being so greedy with money that you could only allow children to have ONE jelly bean and an 8th of a cup of cheap store bought lemonade. That's a level of child cruelty I despise and envy out of anything on this earth.

[@aribantala]

I mean, it's to be expected honestly... Mans doesn't even hire professionals to work on the Website and Location. Knowing all of that, mans issuing just one jellybean and a store brand 1/8 cup of a lemonade made perfect sense

[@mrlaz9011]

Roal dahl's ghost will haunt his ass for the rest of his life.

[@larissabrglum3856]

It's like that old Disney cartoon where Mickey, Donald, and Goofy were so poor where they had to share one bean

[@gingermaniac5484]

.. envy? H O W ?

[@maddieb.4282]

Not giving a child candy is not cruel, even when they think they’re going to get candy 😂

[@julesrules7297]

I feel so bad for the staff. I can't even imagine how stressful that was.

[@Lin1Lin2Lin3Lin4]

Dealing with angry people when you know what’s going on is hard. The staff was thrown to the sharks

[@bakl3467]

Dont talk to this ​@ville__fella. Werido fking said he watch Daisy destruction. Which is cp or in modern term Child sexual exploitation material. If you check their channel its a huge rabbit hole. Also they're 30 yr old.

[@desuva1t]

I've seen some of the staff talk about it on tiktok, most of them said they only stayed because they felt bad for the kids

[@mrcritical6751]

@@Lin1Lin2Lin3Lin4what’s kinda hilarious is that Michael Archibald apparently used it to his advantage and pointed all the parents to Billy

[@visageofeyes]

The one thing about the AI-generated images in particular that I haven't seen anyone mention, but always makes me lose it when I think about it, is that bottom bit with all the wonky text of the "Twilight Tunnel" image was definitely generated from color palette art challenge posts

[@j.2512]

often it throws something that is 99% a plagiarism of a single image making it more obvious what a scam AI "art" is. Like, i got an "ogre" prompt that just game me a literal still frame from Shrek except he had a wig and a weirder face. Its a literal frame you get when you google shrek lol

[@thedeliveryboy1123]

heehee... wonky...

[@ArturGlass.C]

Thanks it was driving me crazy.

[@thederpypikachu9873]

​@@j.2512yep. Ai "art" programs are easy to prove as just theft programs. People have done things like just copied anti ai images in art apps and softwares and the ais just spit out images with those exact anti ai bits in them. There's also numerous cases where you can see copyright and signatures in ai art. Even big retail companies sell ai art, as someone who works for a retail store and was the only employee to realize this past summer that multiple fall items we got were ai art.

[@splendidsimp]

2:54 Really setting themselves up here by advertising their event using what looks like someone threw a paint bucket at a junji ito drawing. It truly encapsulates the pure horror of their creation.

[@Silvery_jade]

Holy shit you described the uncanniness of the images perfectly. It DOES look like a bastardization of something Junji Ito would make.

[@pastelfan9730]

Hey that’s not nice, that’s an insult to Junji Ito lmao

[@aribantala]

At the very least, Someone can actually figure out what Junji Ito drew...

[@springfaux6991]

Yeah yeah it kinda does look like if someone tried to mimic junji itos style for a cashgrab

[@mrlaz9011]

It's the spirals, isn't it?

[@Algrenion]

as a native Glaswegian Scot i need it known that we are viewing this as our own personal Dashcon

[@smuttyberry]

I hope the girl who played the unknown is able to get SO MANY acting gigs. They played that role amazingly and were able to be scary with such a simple costume

[@Xadaj127]

Here's hoping one day she'll take home an Oscar.

[@juliancalero8012]

Honestly I hope all the actors find success with actual good gigs because they did their best to make *something* out of the thick air they where given. The fact that they weren't the target of the justified hate is a good sign that they have talent

[@SuitedSkaterLion]

Nooooooouuu....

[@spiceupyourafterlife]

@@juliancalero8012 Same. Because, bless their hearts, they did their best.

[@BadgerOfTheSea]

That this was her first paid acting job is iconic.

[@remixsolo]

That dejected Oompah Loompah lady is right up there with Left Shark and the girl who may have set that house on fire. Immortalized for all time. By the way I can't wait for the Unknown to show up in Dead by Daylight.

[@jadegreenleaf781]

New survivor: depressed oompah loompah

[@peachbubble8652]

Describing her like Left Shark makes so much sense

[@sgatcha1443]

​@@jadegreenleaf781Unique Perk: "A single jellybean" Gives out 1 bean to any Ally,They can eat the bean to heal themselves

[@dannywolfpero]

Wait. Isn't that already a killer in DBD? The crooked dude?

[@sabis6111]

The funniest thing is that a character called the unknown literally was just released for dbd

[@MiloKuroshiro]

I'm glad that everyone understood immediately that the actors had nothing to do with how bad and scammy everything was.

[@anya6955]

the willy wonka guy who ‘got outed as a nonce’ is someone i know (not personally but is a close friend of my brother) and there was a big issue with him dating annie in the past and he also sent a lot of creepy messages to my sister at the time. i rlly don’t know what to think of everything but i’ve heard he is not dealing with it very well lol

[@alexbennet4195]

Yikes, nonces belong in prison

[@j.2512]

Good, he should seek MAID in Canada if you know what i mean

[@DerClouder]

* Insert "Annie are you okay" joke here *

[@AiLoveAidoru]

While I don't condone his actions, I do hope he's able to better himself from this. If there's anything we know about twitter and tiktok, its that they often don't believe in redemption.

[@anya6955]

@@AiLoveAidoru yeah, since social media (including me) hasn’t heard from him and only annie addressing the situation which happened over 6 years ago we don’t know if he’s gone on that journey to better himself yet or not , i just hope he takes accountability for it now because as far as i know he pretended it never happened

[@MrOakridge]

If this is what the AI "revolution" is leading to, creatives have nothing to worry about. We all just have to stick it out until the market crashes and creator-owned studios rise from the ashes.

[@sandwichmonster7067]

This is just the consequence of new technology being popularized. AI has a lot of potential for good, but people are going to use it in the trashiest and laziest ways possible while it's still hot.

[@Starving_indev]

You know, introducing the "unknown" makes this surreal experience even more surreal and post-modernistic, in a way

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

At first I passed off the idea of parents calling the police as silly but then I put my mom mind on and realized this; >Be a parent >Take your kids to this supposed activity that's only about 40 bucks >Get there and it looks like a fake setup that's a trap for organ harvesting/trafficking. Yeah, I can see why some fingers were itchy for pressing 911. I will give the Unknown actress her dues though. The way she went goblin mode while not knowing the full context of her character will never stop being hilarious.

[@Rdott82]

999 in Glasgow

[@maddieb.4282]

Seems like you highly misunderstand the black market and trafficking 😂😂

[@angelakovacs7101]

Girl, the Glasglow yuri experience animation and the multiple ASMR roleplays of this, I am obsessed

[@BelBelle468]

Besides the fact that animation refers to the factory as Wonka rather than Willy McDuff (or whatever the script called her), that animation is gold. Would love a full story on it haha

[@vickypedia1308]

​@ville__bro I'm a bit disappointed in you this isn't even the fun kind of trolling

[@MissEvieYT]

​@ville__you promise?

[@charaxiphare]

@@vickypedia1308To all those with anxiety and OCD (like me) I provide an anti curse comment. By reading this comment you will now be fine and do not have to subscribe to any channels and are not in danger at all :)

[@greenbeansrtasty]

​@@MissEvieYTm8 u alright?

[@darlingdesperado]

personally my favorite thing to come out of this whole mess was when an incredibly talented person made a full-blown animatic on twitter and youtube shipping the tired oompa loompa lady and the unknown. its legit title is "the glasgow yuri experience." only the most unique disasters can spawn something as beautiful as that imo

[@trixxart777]

Honestly Slugworth was already an evil choclate maker so I am kind of suprised they just cloned him and called him snakeworth or something

[@ninjabluefyre3815]

I like to think of the Unknown as Prodnose's daughter adopting a Scooby Doo villain identity to try to run Wonka out of business, but she's not very good at it. She's too friendly to be a legitimate threat.

[@Ozzedwall]

​@ville__PENIS BLAST!!!

[@aribantala]

That's because the AI that wrote the script isn't a creator... It's an aggregator of ideas and contents. I am 110% Certain the name "Willy McDuff" is just the AI misinterpreted some content that it took to come up with that name... Probably an Author's name of an article about the story somewhere. And Slugworth is called "The Unknown" because he is written as one, since he uses spies to steal from Wonka... Plus the AI probably aggregated Charlie and the Glass Elevator too and taken the Vermicious Knids to that

[@GlobalsoftPirka]

@@ninjabluefyre3815I don’t even know if I have the words to describe how much I love this idea. 😂

[@dubuyajay9964]

Ty. I said something similar in a different vid. "Unknown" just screams computer code for an output via a lack of information (very little is said of the corporate spies in the book or films).​

[@Eileeleedon]

If I lived in Scotland and saw this, I would have bought tickets knowing full well it was a scam. I would have needed to know. Curiosity doesn’t kill the cat, it kills my wallet.

[@PurpleWaterfall]

Same! I do live in Scotland so I'm gutted I never spotted this before it happened.

[@Rdott82]

Send me 100 bucks

[@Rdott82]

Both of you I have a bridge for sale in Glasgow going cheap

[@NyxTheRandomPerson]

I love looking at ai trying to make words. ‘Pasadise of sweet teats’

[@HeyItsJoeB]

The crazy coincidence that The Unknown from this event became a meme right before Dead by Daylight would release their new, unrelated killer, The Unknown

[@thehermitwizard]

That's how I found out about this whole mess, suddenly just tons of people going "omg can we get this as a skin?"

[@strangetowngirl]

my mom is from Glasgow and when i told her about this she said that it has a reputation for terrible "events". She took my sister to a "teddy bears' picnic" in the late 80s that was about the same level of quality as this.

[@clarimm6675]

"Not so Coull now" whoever wrote this article about the scammer behind this, Billy Coull, deserves a raise, 10/10

[@bubblegum03]

What really hurts is that some of those decorations look like they were not cheap and had a lot of thought put into them. Someone in this clusterfuck was truly trying their best and putting everything they had behind a doomed event. I hope they get all the blessings they deserve.

[@bnuuuyy]

most if not all the decorations were rented, you can probably find them online if you search up i only feel for the actors and people who paid for this event lmao

[@MizukiNoDoragon]

the decorations are rented, the organizer didn't try at all, they're a scammer, which is evidenced by them selling AI generated books on trending conspiracies for a quick buck the only people who cared were the actors, who were also scammed by the organizer

[@charaxiphare]

@ville__To all those with anxiety and OCD (like me) I provide an anti curse comment. By reading this comment you will now be fine and do not have to subscribe to any channels and are not in danger at all :) this guy is bs and cannot do anything

[@fearsomefiredragon]

@@charaxiphareyou’re a good person. Thank you

[@charaxiphare]

@@fearsomefiredragonYou're wlecome. Chainmail/stuff that preys on anxieties is always so awful. I hate that people do that shit for clout.

[@lolme7710]

I live right beside where the event was held!! my friend was over the day of Willys experience and we heard lots of screaming and shouting until about 9pm This area tends to be fairly chaotic and loud so I didn’t question what was going on. We genuinely blamed it on the full moon.

[@josepheridu3322]

So sad for the actors, who are people who genuinely like working with children. I think the scam was probably sold because people only relied on social media and did not explore the site.

[@alicethemad1613]

Except for the guy who likes working with children a little TOO much if you know what I mean

[@tacodraws5012]

Ayyye, that's my art at 10:05! Thanks for including me, that was a nice surprise ^^

[@tiacat11]

You did a fantastic job! Really captures the eerie nonhuman aspect.

[@alternatealt5900]

I swear, this would be such a perfect episode for Always Sunny in Philly.

[@robineras477]

I hope they do an ep about it. Because it would be a perfect scheme for the gang

[@audiovisualcringe]

Charlie would be in charge of buying the props (including the nonexistent “holographic paper”), Dennis would insist on being Willy Wonka to hit on the guests but come off as extremely creepy, Dee would probably be forced to be the oompa loompa and ration out the sack of expired jelly beans that the gang found outside, Frank would rent out the abandoned warehouse and ignore all safety hazards, and Mac would either desperately try to stop the scheme or double down and write the script with Charlie to include stuff like the anti-graffiti gobstopper and the unknown bonus points if Cricket gets hired as the unknown and traumatizes the children before even getting into costume

[@kososka]

"The Gang Makes Children Cry"

[@ApathyandAestheticxs]

I'd pay to see this 😂

[@tyh8196]

That would explain the terrible spelling on the poster. Charlie must've written it.

[@DogWithAYoutubeAccount]

What gets me is how obvious it is that the unknown is just an AI generated character that ChatGPT put in the script lmfao. I use ChatGPT for fun pretty frequently and the unknown is literally the epitome of ChatGPT creation. This whole thing is so fucking hilarious

[@vibc-png]

I think maybe it took the concept of the guy from the willy Wonka movie from the 70s that tried bribing charlie into stealing the gobstomper recipe for him but turning out to be one of Wonka's workers. since for a majority of the movie the audience didn't know who he was, I guess that's where the AI took the idea of "the unknown". I'm guessing the part of "living in the walls" or something was when in one of the Wonka versions (forget which movie/book), willy Wonka mentioned that he shut down the factory because spies would come in to try and steal his recipes. not sure tho.

[@grumpykitten4566]

It says that the unknown lives in the walls. It's basically ai not knowing that people don't just say that in real world or make a character that lives in the walls unless it's an absurdest joke. Sometimes you just got to read the text to figure out that it's ai. Hell I'd say that the quote is more ai than her summary.

[@gingermaniac5484]

@@grumpykitten4566... what about bruno?

[@tiacat11]

@@grumpykitten4566 Someone hasn't seen The Boy lmao

[@DogWithAYoutubeAccount]

@@vibc-png that’s actually a really cool idea and makes a whole lot of sense lmao!

[@neonradius]

I’m happy that (at least from what i’ve seen) it doesn’t seem like the parents took out their anger on the actors. It seems really shitty for the organizers to completely screw everyone over and leave the actors as the face of the event. As a cashier, i’ve often had the experience of managers and corporate passing down horrific policies, but because they’re in the back I’m the one who gets yelled at even though I have no control over it. I’m glad that for the most part, it seems like the parents recognized the effort the actors were putting in and not treat them like they were the ones at fault

[@wolfetteplays8894]

That is why you need to rebel for the sake of improving class consciousness

[@alicethemad1613]

I’m floored more people aren’t talking about how a child predator was put in charge of a bunch of little kids in a shady warehouse literally tempting them with candy. That’s a full step above a white van.

[@ZeoR95]

From what I saw, this event was advertised on a local website or FB page (can't remember which) that has a lot of family events on it, and people bought their tickets from that. Basically, if you're asking "how could anyone who had seen the website not realise what this was?", the answer is that they didn't see it, and being on a trusted place to get tickets lent them an air of legitimacy.

[@alahos]

No child was kidnapped, I consider this a success

[@larissabrglum3856]

Say what you want about the chocolate river, no one fell into it

[@davidwallgren7575]

Why bring up kidnapping?

[@chellyfishing]

Couldn’t put my finger on why these images made me feel vaguely ill, thought it was just the uncanniness of the AI, but you nailed it, it’s a trypophobia nightmare. In addition to all the other ways this thing was a nightmare.

[@DrawciaGleam02]

What's trypophobia????

[@densetsugojirin5518]

@@DrawciaGleam02 Trypophobia is an aversion to the sight of repetitive patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps

[@dhamotl7607]

Not tryina sound overkill but this experience is exactly what I think about AI. AI did a generic, souless, nonsensical garbage, scamming a lot of adults and kids of their money and providing stress for everyone. But then 18:03 humans were able to take that experience and actually make... art! Something that AI could simply never and it's something that makes us human. I love this.

[@maddieb.4282]

Nah….. a human used AI as a tool to scam people. A human is always behind all of our issues lol.

[@susieboo22]

The Unknown jumping out and scaring crying children makes even more sense when you learn it was a teenager in there. Glad to hear the actress is doing well!

[@Ivytheherbert]

"Hmm, you know what this fantasy, whimsical story needs? Noh-face from Spirited Away, crawling out from behind a mirror and haunting some three year-old children!" I get that the script was AI generated, but it took real humans to think this was an idea that should be dragged, kicking and screaming, into reality.

[@RobbieIsntAmerican]

Izzzyzzz talking about Glasgow is surreal

[@RandomPerson-wl5id]

No one’s going to see this but I dressed up as the unknown for comic con this year at Glasgow! :) it was really fun!

[@MichaelDavis-mh8bb]

Say it with me folks. “This 👏 is 👏 why 👏 we 👏 hire 👏 set designers 👏” Literally, any skilled designer could have made this work. Sculpting foam, backdrop painting…. There’s so many artist out there, and this is what companies choose to do. Damn.

[@Darkfyyre]

the guy couldn't even pay his first-time gig actors some rip-off rate, do you think he'd spring for industry pros who know what they're worth? you're not wrong tho, he's far from an outlier in a general sense, and doing the bare minimum is becoming far too widespread. really feels like there's no appreciation for true creatives who have worked hard to master their crafts, such as set designers. it's not difficult to find passionate and skilled people able and willing to put in the good work, but they'll never be cheap enough for event "organizers" like him to be worth it.

[@Reverse_Cowgirl-cat]

That costs money tho. I wouldn't be surprised if those props were rented, lmao.

[@rainyrouge5123]

I used to be in Girl Scouts. When I was in high school, my troop used to put on a ton of events for younger girls. My mom and I were talking about this and she said it looked like an event my troop would put on and I got offended. We gave the kids way more than one piece of candy. Also, we weren’t charging parents that much, I think we charged $10 at most.

[@girzarro]

OF COURSE THERE ARE GROOMING ALLEGATIONS INVOLVED WITH THIS THING. WHAT IS HAPPENING. IT KEEPS GETTING WORSE

[@ButterFlyGardenBlossom]

It’s kinda a shame cuz I loved how he said “what is that? It’s the Unknown!” Hopefully the other two Willys were better people.

[@SamVision]

@@ButterFlyGardenBlossom That was a different Wonka

[@Flowerfairyy27]

The ai script had potential for a horror attraction. You thought you were going to get a wholesome Chocolate Factory tour until the Unknown busts out of the mirror dimension, just like in the movie ofc, and chases the guests around and they have to stay still or they'll be dragged into the mirror world. The kids are gonna love it.

[@CountGremlin]

Shout outs to the actors that tried to make the experience worth it for the kids 😂

[@Kilroyan]

How inspiring to know that some of the most cutting edge technology currently available can be applied to one of humanity's most ancient traditions, scamming. What a time to be alive!

[@cameravice1825]

As someone from Scotland I am so glad a city in my country now has its own “incident” that’ll live in infamy alongside the famous ball pit

[@g.peacharts3674]

Imagine being a child, your parents tell you they will take you to a fun event based on the chocolate factory and its this. 10 years later that kid will be thinking about it as a fever dream. Did it actually happen or did i imagine it?

[@GlobalsoftPirka]

To be fair, that seems pretty on brand for Wonka’s factory

[@rachvf5727]

As someone from Glasgow it amazes me to see so many people talking about this! Thanks for the great video as always Izzy :)

[@caitlinabbott7895]

0:35 8:58 18:07 "It's the unknown!" "Nooooo-!" 6:30 "Come with me, and you'll see, this wall with a, poster of a AI generated picture!"

[@Foofle]

Dude, come on tho if I’m not gaining a unexplainable trauma in a Willy Wonka experience is it truly a Willy Wonka event?

[@Hatsune-Miku_Fan]

The internet forgets so quickly because absolutely no one mentions or talks about this anymore

[@purpleskelet0n412]

I like to imagine The Unknown wasn't invited he just manifests like a ghost when he senses a disturbance in creativity

[@angryalice9698]

People didn’t necessarily see this website when booking tickets, there was originally a tickets website where you could book tickets for Glasgow events, this event is no longer up there but it had proper descriptions presumably sent by the organisers.

[@slyar]

1:59 The color bars on the bottom look more like the color palette to me

[@xJazzyAppy]

I’m obsessed with how a 16 year old girl walked into total chaos and walked out an icon

[@gab.bee123]

the quentin blake-like illustration with charlie being the kid who said "nooooo" and started crying is making me laugh So Hard

[@jackwolfe338]

last time i was promised "mind expanding illusions" it turned out to just be acid

[@nanisgoated]

omg i’ve never seen an izzy video 20 seconds after it was uploaded 😭

[@LuxuryPossum]

My theory is that if the script was written by AI, the Unknown was the AI basically personifying the infamous Tunnel scene from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory movie. That's the only thing I could think of that would cause AI to insert an ominous and dark character like the Unknown in an otherwise whimsical experience.

[@aribantala]

You don't have to theorize because it's true. The script is literally just ChatGPT spitballing of what the 1971 Film supposed to be

[@LuxuryPossum]

@@aribantala I don't know enough about AI to try and confidently say that AI created the Unknown based exclusively on the Tunnel scene from the original movie. It could be equally possible that the character is just an amalgam of all of the dark moments across all adaptations of the original book.

[@spoopyweeb326]

Its such an absolute whiplash to see one of my favorite content creators talk about something from my Country.

[@lemmymeringue8528]

Izzyzz is a New Zealander though, no? Is it really surprising they'd mention Australian stuff?

[@spoopyweeb326]

@@lemmymeringue8528 Australian? What do you mean?? Glasgow is in Scotland...

[@aribantala]

​@@lemmymeringue8528 My Brethren in Christ, Glasgow is in Scotland ☠️☠️

[@katm8128]

@@lemmymeringue8528what 😭😭😭 Glasgow is in Scotland

[@aftonstan5494]

Even if you somehow couldn't tell it was all AI generated, would it not set off red flags that there was only ONE actual photo? And you have to work to find it too... the rest is literally all concept art

[@jami.j2044]

I like to tune in to Izzys chanel from time to time just to see how much the Garfield pile has grown.

[@davidhong1934]

I'm still waiting for the inevitable war between the Garfield plushies and the Monster High dolls

[@vinny1883]

Making the whole website with ai, writing the scripts with ai and the APOLOGY with ai, makes me wonder how the creator of this manages to get dressed in the morning.

[@M82_galaxy]

They make ai paint clothes on his body

[@tallybarnie5453]

Not trying to be mean but how did multiple ppl see that website and say “this looks legit let me give it $40” is beyond me

[@soirema]

Most people that have families arent on youtube 24/7 like we are and they dont even even how AI generated stuff look like

[@CarterDeLeo]

Art issues aside, it had tons of misspellings.

[@horriblehistoriesfanaccountie]

They didn’t book it on the website. There were local leaflets with activities for families to do during half term and the Willy wonka experience was advertised on them.

[@nooneofnote8453]

@@horriblehistoriesfanaccountiebacking this up, someone on a forum shared a coworker of his saw it in the flyer and booked the whole family. I think most people who attended didn’t even see the AI ads

[@Questioningbasics]

Boomers man

[@tmantonytv1166]

This event should be recorded in history as the 'Glasgow Incident'.

[@witchywoman2008]

As a Scot, I have truly never been more proud of my country and of Glasgow lmao Also about the Halloween costume… there was a comic con in Glasgow this month and people were dressed as the Unknown and the Wonkydoodles. It was fantastic.

[@kappapride6332]

This is the future AI bros want

[@thebuilder5271]

Ong

[@Yipyipyay]

Can we talk about the AI generated tooth rabbit monster in the background of the candy forest 💀

[@philipdarrenellwell1994]

I think the "Unknown" was meant to be a sort of Dollar Store Vermicious Knid

[@aribantala]

Mixed with the motivation of Arthur Slugworth

[@philipdarrenellwell1994]

@@aribantala Exactly

[@y0Gi_b3AR]

the unknown is the best part tbh

[@IsabelMiller-zl5yd]

real

[@Bajanip]

This is so surreal to me tbh. Its a very specific link, but I'm the cousin of Annie, the person who the Willy actor groomed. Never would i expect someone I know to show up in an Izzyzz video. It's vague and barely there but I still feel some weirdly personal link to the Wonka Experience because of it. I'm going to visit Annie soon, I hope theyre doing ok :))

[@Katie-mw7pd]

“The actor who played Willy was exposed for grooming a 16 year-old girl” 2 mins later… “The actor playing The Unknown was actually a 16 year-old girl” With that information in mind, I am so glad the actors never had the chance to get to know each other.

[@CroweCollects]

My fav part is the fact that the guy who made it used AI to write the apology

[@lizabey]

I really want the Unknown to be officially added to Wonka lore... She and Oompa-chan are so cute?? I want them to be happy.

[@fizzymilk2246]

as a scot i can confirm this is now our single greatest cultural export, just barely surpassing the telephone through sheer magical wonder

[@vattmann1387]

Speaking as a Northumbrian it was just missing haggie/ haggises ? strapped to roombas roaming about the event

[@irregularstuff5290]

Looks like AI finally entered public conciousness not like "artificual intellegence", but as scam tool it is. My condolences to those who got scammed.

[@ratboygirl]

the way the scripts given to actors feature the audience's reaction is killing me. like there are no stage directions, it's written like a story. and i've read enough chat gpt bs to know that is EXACTLY how it writes

[@PatronSaintOfFun]

I hope the actor who played the unknown does haunted houses or something cause she was damn good. It's impressive how quickly she freaked those kids out.

[@louisedurham3764]

I saw on tv she got a job at the London Dungeons, which is awesome 🤣

[@mitkitty]

If the creator WASNT a well known scammer id assume this was an elaborate art piece to highlight the shittiness of AI art