In case you’re on the level the place you’re rolling your eyes at your social media feeds which were inundated with Coachella posts for the previous week — you’re not alone.
Individuals are fed up with what the annual music competition has turn out to be, because of the out-of-touch influencers who don’t have any regret over flaunting their lavish competition expertise on platforms like TikTok and Instagram for the world to see.
The favored music competition is held in Indio, California, yearly. Sadly, in recent times, Coachella has turn out to be extra of a who’s who—and—who ‘s—carrying—what sort of occasion, in comparison with the way it was 26 years in the past, when it first originated.
The insanely excessive costs of tickets, which began at $649 for the primary weekend and overpriced, inedible $100 meals, have individuals outraged — and so they’re blaming all of it on the wealthy and well-known.
It’s arduous to disclaim that Coachella has turn out to be a maintaining with the Joneses sort of affair — with influencer Alix Earle posting a video of herself sipping champagne on a personal flight to the competition with buddies and TikTok dancer, Charli D’Amelio, posing for a photograph in a lace prime that reportedly value $1,690.
“Influencer tradition has actually ruined occasions like Coachella, the place the artwork and music have taken a again seat. I hope that doesn’t occur within the theme park trade, the place an image of you being there’s extra vital than…effectively…*being* there,” an X consumer shared.
One other particular person equally tweeted, “It’s a shame to see what Coachella has changed into. After I attended 13 years in the past, it was a real platform for rising indie artists, attracting true music lovers.”
“Now, it’s nothing greater than a commercialized spectacle pushed by large-scale programming. Absolute trash.”
Whereas these with deep pockets have glamorized Coachella, many common people have taken to TikTok to indicate the actual aspect of what it’s prefer to attend the competition.
In a single viral video, a content material creator confirmed the ridiculously lengthy line earlier than 8 a.m. for a “tremendous duper bathe,” which is a university dorm-like rest room that solely has a bathe door for privateness.
Opting to keep away from that line, the lady as a substitute took a “common bathe,” which has a curtain, as a substitute of a door, since they have been empty.
She went on to say that she needed to wash her hair and, sadly, forgot a towel.
Nothing about this scene seems engaging.
One of many feedback principally summed up what many people on the East Coast are feeling after watching one of these content material: “No video of Coachella has ever made me need to go to Coachella.”
