Three years ago my ex-roommate finished Journalism and invited me to her graduation party. The only food there was was the lemon in the gin and tonics and one of the three toilets in the wedding, communion and baptism room that they rented did not work, which meant that several of them ended up urinating next to the bus that had brought us. Still, it was more like an episode of The Bridgertons than what happened on the night of September 24 in Detroit, Michigan.
For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, this week took place The Queen’s Ball: A Bridgerton Experiencea dance that promised its guests a night full of the elegance and decorum characteristic of the popular British high-class series and that, in short, was to immersive experiences what Borja’s Ecce Homo was to saints.
A multipurpose room, plastic flowers, grass-printed tarps and a woman in an American football jersey serving raw food from disposable aluminum trays were not enough to transport the more than 1,000 attendees who paid between 150 and 300 to the Regency period. dollars per entry (if capital letters existed for numbers, they would be capitalized).
The similarities between the disaster that occurred in Detroit and the past Willy Wonka Glasgow Experience of February are thunderous, not so much in content (Victorian London vs candy factory, respectively) as in form: lighting of a municipal sports pavilion, excess of PVC in the sets, hope leaving the eyes of passers-by, a dizzying resemblance to the escape room and – my favorite – two characters totally unrelated to the initial narrative of both stories.
A ‘Willy Wonka’ “immersive experience” that promised to transport fans into a “magical realm” left kids in tears.
The event turned out to be such a letdown that customers called the police and compared the attraction to a “meth lab.” pic.twitter.com/h0tGykPzzY
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 28, 2024
All brown immersive experiences have their little native mascot, Willy Wonka had to the Unknown; the Bridgertons, to the stripper. And for some reason, I feel like they’d both make really good Mortal Kombat characters.
However (and beyond the price), there is an abysmal difference that separates these two nonsense: age.
While the immersive Willy Wonka experience was geared toward children, the Bridgerton dance was designed for adults.
All this makes it give off a more pitiful and filthy air from beginning to end if possible; There is nothing less dignified than seeing how digital natives are scammed: my contemporaries, my equals, my brothers. I thought we were the generation of reading Google reviews before making a reservation at a restaurant, of getting into the labels and searching for places on Twitter – even on LinkedIn, if the situation requires it –, how are you going to let me blow you 150 euros? a Instagram account with flyers that look like something taken from the Complutense Canarian party.
The girl who wrote the thread viralizing the topic ended the last tweet wishing that the organizers (the company ‘Uncle & Me LLC’) would be sued, since she needed her 300 euros back to pay the medical bills, which makes it clear that the Scam SMEs that organize theme parties taking advantage of the enthusiasm of grown adults is not the biggest problem facing the United States right now.
This is what happens when we leave the market for too long to regulate itself.
There are many ways to approach the question from sociology: have we gone too far with Rietzer’s McDonaldization? Have we reached a point of no return in the liquid society? Can the irony of postmodernity turn the despicable into an enjoyable good? But, in addition to all of them being unspeakable topics, I don’t know how to talk about any of them.
So, in a fit of enthusiasm at the possibility that this article could reach some of the victims and provide light in times of darkness, I have made a list of reasons why the Detroit’s Bridgerton Experience It is objectively much better than any party of the Victorian British aristocracy.
- None of the attendees have smallpox. They can’t even catch it because it has been eradicated since 1979.
- The electricity. Not only do they have electricity, but they also have AirDrop. In fact, since they did not hire any photographer for the dance, someone from the organization was taking photos with their iPhone and airdropping them. Those who had Xiaomi were left without photos, but hey, almost no one in the United States has Xiaomi.
- Women can vote.
- In reality, everyone can vote.
- You can hear the Destrangis of Estopa. In the 19th century in England, no one could listen to any Estopa records.
- Access to firearms is regularized to guarantee the safety of citizens. Well, not that.
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