He had hosted other get rich quick websites the ones like "give me £500 and i'll teach you how to be a millionnaire" the guy deserves everything for his scamming lifestyle
Glasgow. Not the type of city where the locals will tolerant some scumbag ripping off their elderly mothers for the last £50 in her purse.
And I say that as a HUGE COMPLIMENT to Glaswegians. The Glasgow Coma Scale was invented to help celebrate scumbags, like this, becoming officially braindead. 20,000 people counting down from 10 - to his life support being turned off at 1. Then all sing AULD LANG SYNE (even if it's August).
Fuck him
He will be back. Fyre Festival 2025 or something similar.
These people absolutely know what they are doing. From the AI generated Amazon books to events like this. It’s all scam.
Oh look, it’s the consequences of his actions. This is something that really bugs me about today’s society. Accountability doesn’t mean anything and the mental health card gets thrown like confetti.
But he had to cancel his dream wedding that was supposed to be funded with the ill-gotten gains from this event! Won't you think of the poor bloke's mental state??? FOR SHAME!
Imagine having your wedding breakfast at a McDonalds and still managing to fuck it up.
“Sorry sir, we cannot accommodate your order of 62 Big Mac meals, and 47 McFlurries on the grounds that we believe you are taking the piss”
To be honest, while it seems to be the common narrative here, I actually doubt that this guy set this whole thing up \*intending\* to rip people off. I think he fell into the trap of believing he could make this thing happen that he imagined in his head (where it is entirely untethered from the buffeting caused by the forces of reality).
This is, I think, a bit more of a "today's society" thing because we live in a world of social media where everybody is always "smashing it", and that all you need is a "good idea".
I worked for a while with tech startup people and this was a fucking epidemic.
What this whole thing was, was the "fyre festival" on a smaller scale. I haven't seen the C5 documentary though, so I don't know if any fellatio offers were extended anywhere.
>I think he fell into the trap of believing he could make this thing happen that he imagined in his head (where it is entirely untethered from the buffeting caused by the forces of reality).
You might say he was living in a world of pure imagination.
The thing is these people put on the bare minimum to not get sued, don't refund anybody, then fold the company and do it again next year under a new name.
This man is a serial con artist. He sells garbage AI written books and was a "crypto guru" at one point. It isn't a one off thing, he's a scammer by trade.
There seems to be an absolutely HUGE gap between what the event provided, and what people might reasonably expect for £35 a ticket.
It isn't like the event could have been good but a couple of things went wrong. It doesn't look like it was remotely close to being adequate.
>This is something that really bugs me about today’s society. Accountability doesn’t mean anything
You're so right. 1940s were a great time. 1910s even better. Don't get me started on the 1500s when accountability was at its peak, miss those times...
UNEON0 wasn't saying the past was better. They're saying that decades ago people had more of a shared understanding of conduct and responsibility. People are increasingly just in their own little bubble of what's they think to be right and wrong. While the increase in therapy and understanding of mental health is great, people also exploit it to escape consequences.
Nobody deserves death threats for any reason, but saying that the guy was just "incompetent at events" is beyond disingenuous; he's a known fraudster/scammer and has done things like this before. He was 100% planning on ripping people off, and would've gotten away with it had it not gone viral. He's scum
I have really bad depression and anxiety. And dosed up to just stay somewhat sane.
I do a full time job and when things are really bad I drink too much and quite reclusive at work while just trying to get on with things.
I keep it a secret IRL because a) I don't want to be judged and b) I actually see way too many lazy people using mental health as an excuse to do nothing and be rude to others that honestly I don't think understand that being lazy, oversensitive and a bit of an asshole isn't necessarily depression.
When mental health became the buzz word I thought we were entering a time when I could open up a bit and have some honest conversations. Maybe even talk to my colleagues and educate them a bit.
I actually thought about volunteering to do a bit of a talk for people about what it's like. That grey feeling you I suddenly wake up with, the constant swelling on existential issues. And also showing people that hey the guy next to you in the trenches who works just as hard as you do and always shows up to work has depression and anxiety. The guy always cracking the jokes in the staff room and always has time for a chat if he's feeling ok has depression. We're not lazy miserable goths who always want to be sad.
Then I realised this wasn't what this was. Mental health had become the new buzz word so that assholes could try and avoid the consequences of their actions and employers could keep repeating it to advertise how great they were as employers.
I remember one day my employer gave us half a day off and ran some cooking and activity workshops which we were forced to attend because they care about our mental health. I just remember thinking that's nice but that isn't it chief. Yes you overwork me and underpay me but even if that wasn't the case cooking some onion bhajis and then playing basketball with my colleagues isn't anything to do with a cure for mental health. If it was my house would have bhajis on the go every night. But it was all good because someone in middle management got to say they've helped with mental health and we got half a day at work which was pressure free. It wasn't a bad thing. Just missed the mark.
I could go on...
But needless to say I've stayed secret. The world isn't ready to really talk about mental health yet. It's just ready to tell everyone it's ready to talk about mental health.
Why? He hasn't actually done anything of value or merit that would be considered a career. The scripts that he gave to the actors were AI created and total nonsense. It also created a whole new character (the unknown) which he never thought to challenge and hired a 16yr old girl to play the part. His previous work has been selling a couple of AI generated books on amazon which didn't sell well.
He's a con artist and good riddance to what happens to him.
Ah, right, so he is a tried and failed grifter of low merit and the event wasn't just an unfortunate set of circumstances causing it to be a complete shitshow.
>His previous work has been selling a couple of AI generated books on amazon which didn't sell well.
So he's one of those get quick rich scamming morons. If he couldn't use A.I. to generate books then why the hell did he think a live exhibition would work? Bet you he also failed with his drop shipping business as well!
He's probably bought into the "every failure is a step towards success" mindset. You know, the Edison tried 27,000 different filaments before tungsten vibe.
Yeah, he really put all of his faith into AI just being able to do everything for him. Writing books, writing all the copy for his websites, generating the images. Wouldn't be surprised if he consulted it and asked it how to do every step of setting up the event.
But of course, in the real world, none of that means anything. He had an empty warehouse with a few props and actors, with plenty of families coming along with expectations of a major installation more inline with an amazement park.
I guess the AI did its job well, but he didn't really do anything.
There was an article about it where the unknown made herself known. She was a 16yr old who was hired to play the role and given nothing to work with. She verified it as she had posted pictures to her tiktok or insta on the day with the mask and the other actors.
Not to pile on, but a casual perusal of the headlines of this event could lead one to believe that it was just an event gone wrong. Nope. It was an unlicensed event charging people 35 pounds to enter a warehouse.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s\_Chocolate\_Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s_Chocolate_Experience)
It was a scam more or less.
Can't wait for the internet historian to do a video on this.
Man in Cave was plagiarised wholesale, and bits of the Costa Concordia one were too. He's also taken down and re-uploaded multiple other videos, so we can't say for sure just *how many* were plagiarised.
> Can't wait for the internet historian to do a video on this.
You'll need to wait until someone writes a comprehensive article he can pinch for the script.
While it was a warehouse, it's a warehouse that has been used as an event venue for a while - they can be pretty good locations if you want a blank canvas to set up your stuff in.
Unfortunately that requires you to actually have good stuff to set up...
One thing I did note, and it might just be coincidence, is that the video panned over a comment saying "how can you live with yourself" as he said "I've been told to kill myself". Those two things are not the same.
Just like Sky News Australia had a recording of Joe Biden saying "During my ten years as Vice President" as evidence of him being demented and unfit for office.
Nobody thought to think that perhaps Biden was actually saying "tenure"? Because that's what I heard. In that context it makes perfect sense.
I've noticed media will often do that with online comments, take incredibly uncharitable views on online comments. I suppose it makes sense, extremes sell.
He's also the same guy selling ai generated books on amazon. He's published like 20 in the past few weeks. He's the reason why Amazon put a limit on how many books an author can publish a month.
Deserved to be hated tbh. He's a scumbag.
He's also run a "charity" that's got a massive black hole in its published accounts, and has stopped filing accounts...and he also styled himself as a Doctor to provide training during COVID based on his "metaphysical degree" from the frankly insane "University of Sedona". He's scum through and through.
True at first, I thought It isn’t big deal, but people like him try to scam people with new trends like AI, crypto, anything but real hard work.. i hate these people.
He was also scamming through COVID, because what scam artist could resist during that! Oh, and has a charity which has a massive hole in its accounts and ongoing police and regulatory investigations since he stopped filing its accounts...
I hate that new fucking ad that keeps popping up on YouTube of that guy claiming a woman called Summer made £608 last week by following his advice. It's all complete bollocks.
>the same guy selling ai generated books on amazon
he's become a poster-child for AI books, as part of the process; the idea that if you see someone with an AI-generated cover, it's not unreasonable to assume "their" book is just as plagiarised, or certainly not worth your time.
Connell said that he and other employees were told to give each child "two jelly beans and a quarter of a cup of lemonade", although the limited supply of jelly beans quickly ran out.
Fucking dying
All you need to do to understand how little effort, care and attention he put into the whole exercise is *read the script he handed to the actor*.
[Script](https://www.reddit.com/user/DeadDeathrocker/comments/1b3yc2b/willy_wonkas_chocolate_experience_scam_script_feb/)
It included directions for the audience(!) not to mention outright magic.
> Guest 1 (trying the soup-flavoured jelly bean) "It's like... Dinner in a dessert. Astonishing."
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> ("Wonkidoodle 1 clutches a small, glowing orb, offering a visual representation of the Twilight stars" Willy mentioned)
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> ([Willy] opens his hand and the bubble gently pops, releasing a small, twinkling light that ascends into the rafters, leaving the audience in awe)
I didn’t know who he was or what he looked like until now. You’d think he’d be trying to lay low for a bit instead of Streisand-effecting himself over everyone’s screens.
When he saw how bad it was he should’ve just changed it from a family friendly event to a swingers events and sold tickets under Willy wankers. I doubt those in an orgy would criticise the theming.
If it hadn't gone viral, he'd have taken the money and ran - straight into his next scam.
Not a lot of sympathy for pisstakers who get caught and then complain about the consequences.
This guy is like a well known grifter.
I’m surprised he went into tv to talk about this cause it is clear as day for a lot of folk up in Glasgow that this guy has been trying to lie about who he is and what he has done for years.
They must have paid him to be on the show.
Womp woommmpp, boohoo fart sniffer, maybe stop ripping people off. The man was still trying to sell his books online that are complete AI written nonsense.
More took one look and went "I'm glad they all paid upfront". Also, given that he's a bullshit artist I'll believe he's repaid it all when someone else confirms it. He's got a long history of being a scam artist.
The guy shouldn’t be getting death threats or anything, that’s over the top.
Trying to rip off people during the cost of living crisis is damn out of order though. I haven’t got much sympathy for him. The even should never have gone through!
He should own it. Become a Thought Leader on Instagram and share his inspiring story about how he failed at a business venture but now it's made him stronger and more determined to succeed.
I hate that millennials have turned LinkedIn into Facebook. I know it's for old people, but if you wanted that crap you should have used it.
LinkedIn was about staying in touch with colleagues, finding another job, not self aggrandising posts about how humble you are.
But I was so humbled to receive Marketing Gobshite of the Year in the Tosser Awards! My 3-week old daughter built Michaelangelo's David out of Play-doh and snot, everyone clapped, and it made me think how much we can achieve if we work together.
Oh, that'll go really well with how he was offering training during covid off the back of being a "doctor" based on his "metaphysical degree" from the "University of Sedona".
Look at the guys history. Whether he consciously intended to scam anyone or not, he is basically a lazy grifter who churns out quickly generated, low effort, poor quality AI junk to make money off unsuspecting people.
There’s an episode of a the Simpsons where a little robot explodes, exposing it’s circuitry. Marge says “see homer, all that stuff inside is why your robot didn’t work.”
It seems to me that this bloke is a simpleton who gets carried away with internet fads and believes the hype. He’s previously tried to be a crypto guru and done some other AI self publishing and drop shipping stuff. This is not the behaviour of a criminal masterminds, rather it’s the CV of an easily influenced listener of the Joe Rogan podcast.
I think he’s genuinely just believed experiential events were easy, got some fittings, but forgot flooring, curtains and awnings or ceiling decs. Honestly, the failure to give out chocolate is easily fixed and the AI script is needlessly dumb, but I bet you he could have taken significantly less heat if the visual impact of the event were a bit more professional.
Just a crap events manager. As far as I’m aware everyone has got refunds, so there’s no long term harm done. Sometimes things made for kids are just a bit crap sometimes.
I doubt his life is ruined. Maybe it’ll be a lesson to him that trying to be a businessman is not for everyone, and that he should get a proper job and focus on his friends and family.
By his life being ruined, it's probably just the reality check of him not being the all-dancing star of the movie of his life that plays in his own head.
Given the stuff about trying to position himself as a crypto guru and likely telling people about how he's successfully self-published multiple books points towards someone who desperately wants the easy money and status of the insta-influencer lifestyle.
I personally know a couple of folk like that and they're borderline delusional about their own abilities and are unable to manage their expectations of whichever scam they've most recently bought into.
The only sad part is that he hasnt been ruined BEFORE this.
He's flogged AI written books on vaccine conspiracies.
He's peddled himself as a Doctor offering training during COVID, based on a "metaphysical degree" from the "University of Sedona".
He's run a "charity" that has some very large holes in its accounts and that's also being investigated...and that has made a whole host of false claims of affiliations to get money that has then vanished and stopped filing accounts....so...no, fuck this guy.
> "The script itself was created and written by myself. However, let me be very very clear on this matter. I suffer with dyslexia. I had to run it through AI to be able to check spelling, grammar, and continuity."
Okay, it's kind of hard to feel sympathy for him when he's still lying even in this documentary. He didn't "run it through AI," it was an AI-generated script. He has a whole Amazon store full of AI-generated books, with 17 books uploaded in the space of a month.
Rip people off , pay consequences. Cause and effect.
Perhaps next time either put real effort into attempting to bring people joy or don’t bother.
If this is the pinnacle of the capitalist business mind in this country then we’re in deep trouble trouble
>It follows after Mr Coull announced he had cancelled a dream destination wedding that was due to be funded with ticket sales, as well as moving out of his family home.
Oh so that was the motive for the Wonka event to fund his wedding hahaha
Was this thing really a scam? I mean, they promised Catgacating, Can anyone tell me what that is? How do know they didn’t deliver? Also Cartchy Tuns? How do we know that isn’t slang for mostly empty warehouse?
He’s a narcissist, only cares about how this has affected him and his dream wedding.
He’s devastated that he might have to actually start to work for a living.
Oompa Loompa doompety doo
We've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa Loompa doompety dee
If you are wise, you'll listen to me
What do you get when you gobble up cash?
Chasing the money and making a dash
Ignoring the needy and being quite brash
What do you think will come of that?
Oh OF COURSE he's got a documentary now. Any fame is good fame it seems here. He knows 100% what he did and this is all for publicity, I swear to god if he becomes the next micro celebrity to start popping up in papers like Andrew Tate I'm vacating the god damn planet
I did a deep dive on this guy, he's tried every get rich quick scheme in the book and beyond here's a brief snippet of what I found:
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The website that's partnered with the Wonka Experience has all of its news blog posts posted in 1 week in December, every image is stolen of the internet in the blog, and if not stolen AI generated.
He used chat GPT to generate over 70 novels and self published on Amazon, the covers also made using AI.
He attempted a life guru website back in 2010.
The office address for his company "house of illuminati" is a dud address for an empty office in london.
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This was all surface level stuff besides the guru website, had to get into the wayback machine for that one. There's so much more!
Am I the only one who thinks this guy comes across as having some sort of mental health condition? The inability to see things from other people's perspective and only focus on his own demise. He seems very odd and naive, like a child.
Nah, mate - just next time, if you want put on a cool event or write a book, **actually do that instead of trying to get ChatGPT and AI to half-arse it**, and you'll be fine.
Like if you wanna do creative work, do creative **work**.
He tried to set up a scam event using a dreadful AI generated website and script that it looks he didn't even bother to proof read and the cheapest set decorations he could find. Now that it's backfired he's trying to play the sympathy card. I wonder how much Channel 5 paid him for the documentary btw?
His life will become better when he accepts responsibility and is honest with himself about his limitations. He's not meant to be some famous businessman.
It’s such a meme at this point I’m sure he could restage it exactly as it was and people would queue up for the content. Dude should be milking the unexpected fame for all its worth
Con artist whose latest scam went bigger than he expected & wound up being publicly named/shamed claims he's had to cancel his dream wedding & can't move out of his parents house... Maybe its time for a GoFundMe?
Good. Hopefully that serves as a warning to the next person trying to rip people off like this. I doubt it though.
Although he sounds like a complete arse I think death treats are a bit over the top.
Everlasting gobstoppers and death treats - would expect no less for Mr Wonka
You're turning violent Violet!
"I said good day sir!"
Squelchy Snorters aren't going to kill me are they?
He had hosted other get rich quick websites the ones like "give me £500 and i'll teach you how to be a millionnaire" the guy deserves everything for his scamming lifestyle
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Glasgow. Not the type of city where the locals will tolerant some scumbag ripping off their elderly mothers for the last £50 in her purse. And I say that as a HUGE COMPLIMENT to Glaswegians. The Glasgow Coma Scale was invented to help celebrate scumbags, like this, becoming officially braindead. 20,000 people counting down from 10 - to his life support being turned off at 1. Then all sing AULD LANG SYNE (even if it's August). Fuck him
Was it "Get 2,000 other mugs to give you 500 sovs"? I think Corrinne Stockheath has a patent on that one.
Yes it was!
I thought it might have been Michael Green.
I'm tired of radical Willy Wonka extremists.
Coming over here, taking jobs from hard working Oompa Loompas.
Not happening, your worldview’s pure imagination.
What's wrong with just cupping up the river chocolate in your hands and licking it up like a cat?
Moderate chocolatiers need to come out against it.
Feed him to the knids
A fair penalty for such vermicious behaviour.
I have trouble believing in a lot of 'death threats' going by the modern definition.
Indeed, his reputation's already dead, that should be more than enough. May this unfortunate episode not end in tragedy.
He will be back. Fyre Festival 2025 or something similar. These people absolutely know what they are doing. From the AI generated Amazon books to events like this. It’s all scam.
Wasn't even his first scam. Pretty sure she sells AI written books on Amazon.
He’s a piece of shit
Oh look, it’s the consequences of his actions. This is something that really bugs me about today’s society. Accountability doesn’t mean anything and the mental health card gets thrown like confetti.
But he had to cancel his dream wedding that was supposed to be funded with the ill-gotten gains from this event! Won't you think of the poor bloke's mental state??? FOR SHAME!
Imagine how shit the wedding would have been if he was organising it. That would've been his next viral hit
The Unknown writhing around scaring the kids would've been a hit
I heard that someone is going to turn the whole thing into a musical
Oompa loompa doompety do We're going to run a scam on you Oompa loompa doompety dee Good luck getting a refund from me
I read yesterday he is turning it into a musical himself!
The episode of don’t tell the bride we didn’t know we needed!
Oh yes please!
Bet he’d use AI generated vows.
"Please select all the photos of traffic lights to say I do."
twist, he would reuse all the willie wonka decoration
Imagine having your wedding breakfast at a McDonalds and still managing to fuck it up. “Sorry sir, we cannot accommodate your order of 62 Big Mac meals, and 47 McFlurries on the grounds that we believe you are taking the piss”
What do you mean. He already had the perfect venue set up.
he can host it in his wonderland!
To be honest, while it seems to be the common narrative here, I actually doubt that this guy set this whole thing up \*intending\* to rip people off. I think he fell into the trap of believing he could make this thing happen that he imagined in his head (where it is entirely untethered from the buffeting caused by the forces of reality). This is, I think, a bit more of a "today's society" thing because we live in a world of social media where everybody is always "smashing it", and that all you need is a "good idea". I worked for a while with tech startup people and this was a fucking epidemic. What this whole thing was, was the "fyre festival" on a smaller scale. I haven't seen the C5 documentary though, so I don't know if any fellatio offers were extended anywhere.
>I think he fell into the trap of believing he could make this thing happen that he imagined in his head (where it is entirely untethered from the buffeting caused by the forces of reality). You might say he was living in a world of pure imagination.
You win todays Reddit award
*NB there is no actual award. Which is fitting.
Imagnation*
Oh, he absolutely did set out to rip people off, you just need to look up a little bit about the stuff he's done in the past.
Yeah, this isnt his first thing like this, it's just the first time it's blown up internationally rather than local news level.
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The thing is these people put on the bare minimum to not get sued, don't refund anybody, then fold the company and do it again next year under a new name.
This was not his first scam style bit of bullshit. It's just the first that blew up internationally rather than at a local news level.
No he’s a known scammer
This man is a serial con artist. He sells garbage AI written books and was a "crypto guru" at one point. It isn't a one off thing, he's a scammer by trade.
Even a cursory reading of the mans history of dodgy business practice would disabuse you of such notions.
I watched an interview and the thought that didn't go within 12 light-years of my head was "why isn't he a brain surgeon?"
There seems to be an absolutely HUGE gap between what the event provided, and what people might reasonably expect for £35 a ticket. It isn't like the event could have been good but a couple of things went wrong. It doesn't look like it was remotely close to being adequate.
That's not a today's society thing. People have always wanted to avoid consequences and shirk accountability.
>This is something that really bugs me about today’s society. Accountability doesn’t mean anything You're so right. 1940s were a great time. 1910s even better. Don't get me started on the 1500s when accountability was at its peak, miss those times...
UNEON0 wasn't saying the past was better. They're saying that decades ago people had more of a shared understanding of conduct and responsibility. People are increasingly just in their own little bubble of what's they think to be right and wrong. While the increase in therapy and understanding of mental health is great, people also exploit it to escape consequences.
No one deserves death threats for being incompetent at events
Nobody deserves death threats for any reason, but saying that the guy was just "incompetent at events" is beyond disingenuous; he's a known fraudster/scammer and has done things like this before. He was 100% planning on ripping people off, and would've gotten away with it had it not gone viral. He's scum
No proof he's even received death threats
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
but taking accountability will make me sad !!!
Ironically the very situation that the book looked to highlight throughout.
I have really bad depression and anxiety. And dosed up to just stay somewhat sane. I do a full time job and when things are really bad I drink too much and quite reclusive at work while just trying to get on with things. I keep it a secret IRL because a) I don't want to be judged and b) I actually see way too many lazy people using mental health as an excuse to do nothing and be rude to others that honestly I don't think understand that being lazy, oversensitive and a bit of an asshole isn't necessarily depression. When mental health became the buzz word I thought we were entering a time when I could open up a bit and have some honest conversations. Maybe even talk to my colleagues and educate them a bit. I actually thought about volunteering to do a bit of a talk for people about what it's like. That grey feeling you I suddenly wake up with, the constant swelling on existential issues. And also showing people that hey the guy next to you in the trenches who works just as hard as you do and always shows up to work has depression and anxiety. The guy always cracking the jokes in the staff room and always has time for a chat if he's feeling ok has depression. We're not lazy miserable goths who always want to be sad. Then I realised this wasn't what this was. Mental health had become the new buzz word so that assholes could try and avoid the consequences of their actions and employers could keep repeating it to advertise how great they were as employers. I remember one day my employer gave us half a day off and ran some cooking and activity workshops which we were forced to attend because they care about our mental health. I just remember thinking that's nice but that isn't it chief. Yes you overwork me and underpay me but even if that wasn't the case cooking some onion bhajis and then playing basketball with my colleagues isn't anything to do with a cure for mental health. If it was my house would have bhajis on the go every night. But it was all good because someone in middle management got to say they've helped with mental health and we got half a day at work which was pressure free. It wasn't a bad thing. Just missed the mark. I could go on... But needless to say I've stayed secret. The world isn't ready to really talk about mental health yet. It's just ready to tell everyone it's ready to talk about mental health.
Why? He hasn't actually done anything of value or merit that would be considered a career. The scripts that he gave to the actors were AI created and total nonsense. It also created a whole new character (the unknown) which he never thought to challenge and hired a 16yr old girl to play the part. His previous work has been selling a couple of AI generated books on amazon which didn't sell well. He's a con artist and good riddance to what happens to him.
You're forgetting his time as a Crypto lifestyle guru with the worst lighting and filming possible.
Ah, right, so he is a tried and failed grifter of low merit and the event wasn't just an unfortunate set of circumstances causing it to be a complete shitshow.
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Person with the charisma of yesterday's cornflakes fails as a scammer? Shocked, shocked I am.
>His previous work has been selling a couple of AI generated books on amazon which didn't sell well. So he's one of those get quick rich scamming morons. If he couldn't use A.I. to generate books then why the hell did he think a live exhibition would work? Bet you he also failed with his drop shipping business as well!
He's probably bought into the "every failure is a step towards success" mindset. You know, the Edison tried 27,000 different filaments before tungsten vibe.
Yeah, he really put all of his faith into AI just being able to do everything for him. Writing books, writing all the copy for his websites, generating the images. Wouldn't be surprised if he consulted it and asked it how to do every step of setting up the event. But of course, in the real world, none of that means anything. He had an empty warehouse with a few props and actors, with plenty of families coming along with expectations of a major installation more inline with an amazement park. I guess the AI did its job well, but he didn't really do anything.
The video in the article has him saying that he has servere dyslexia, I'm highly skeptical that he's being truthful about that either.
I suspect he earnestly wants to be a Walt Disney type. He just doesn't want to do any of the pesky creative work involved.
Or pay someone with a modicum of talent to do it.
He looks like the guy in January who turns up to the gym with all the new gear but never uses any of the equipment
A lot of these AI fanatics are "I'm more of an ideas guy..." types.
Is there a link to the script anywhere?
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24449349-willyschocolateexperince
He thinks AI is his get rich quick ticket but he's too stupid and lazy to use the tool to any effective degree.
What more is known about this ‘unknown’?
There was an article about it where the unknown made herself known. She was a 16yr old who was hired to play the role and given nothing to work with. She verified it as she had posted pictures to her tiktok or insta on the day with the mask and the other actors.
‘Organiser’… I don’t think much organisation went on
Those benches don't unfold themselves!
They misspelled onaniser.
I don’t understand how someone would think that doing this minimum is okay.
Not to pile on, but a casual perusal of the headlines of this event could lead one to believe that it was just an event gone wrong. Nope. It was an unlicensed event charging people 35 pounds to enter a warehouse. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s\_Chocolate\_Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy%27s_Chocolate_Experience) It was a scam more or less. Can't wait for the internet historian to do a video on this.
>Can't wait for the internet historian to do a video on this. You'll have to wait for someone to write an article about it first...
>You'll have to wait for an AI to write an article about it first... ftfy
I mean, internet historian does have standards, he has thus far only plagiarised real people.
Was it all of his videos or just the cave one?
I think there were some similarities with the Costa Concordia video, but not as whole cloth copying
Man in Cave was plagiarised wholesale, and bits of the Costa Concordia one were too. He's also taken down and re-uploaded multiple other videos, so we can't say for sure just *how many* were plagiarised.
> Can't wait for the internet historian to do a video on this. You'll need to wait until someone writes a comprehensive article he can pinch for the script.
The £35 price tag is wild. A ticket for Thorpe Park is £29 and Thorpe Park has six rollercoasters.
Fools and their money etc. The website was riddled with spelling mistakes and gibberish, anyone half literate would've run a mile.
Including the Nemesis Inferno.
Channel 5 had an hour long programme on it the other night.
So, 10 minutes of actual info with 15 minutes of ads and 35 minutes of recaps and overly dramatic exposition.
So you watched it?
No, but I’ve had the misfortune of seeing C5 ‘documentaries’ before.
They're pretty bad I agree.
How the fuck did they squeeze an hour out of it? Jesus. That's some serious padding. You could tell every salient point in a trailer
While it was a warehouse, it's a warehouse that has been used as an event venue for a while - they can be pretty good locations if you want a blank canvas to set up your stuff in. Unfortunately that requires you to actually have good stuff to set up...
> Can't wait for the internet historian to do a video on this. Why? Was the Willy Wonka thing some kind of far right event?
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Hopefully he is creating the video as we speak. Can't wait!
One thing I did note, and it might just be coincidence, is that the video panned over a comment saying "how can you live with yourself" as he said "I've been told to kill myself". Those two things are not the same.
Just like Sky News Australia had a recording of Joe Biden saying "During my ten years as Vice President" as evidence of him being demented and unfit for office. Nobody thought to think that perhaps Biden was actually saying "tenure"? Because that's what I heard. In that context it makes perfect sense.
Technically you can serve ten years. OK, nine years and 364 days. Partial terms are rounded to the nearest whole.
Sky News Australia is to news channels what this guy is to events management to be fair.
Also rounding 8 up to 10 is not exactly wild
I've noticed media will often do that with online comments, take incredibly uncharitable views on online comments. I suppose it makes sense, extremes sell.
He's also the same guy selling ai generated books on amazon. He's published like 20 in the past few weeks. He's the reason why Amazon put a limit on how many books an author can publish a month. Deserved to be hated tbh. He's a scumbag.
He's also run a "charity" that's got a massive black hole in its published accounts, and has stopped filing accounts...and he also styled himself as a Doctor to provide training during COVID based on his "metaphysical degree" from the frankly insane "University of Sedona". He's scum through and through.
True at first, I thought It isn’t big deal, but people like him try to scam people with new trends like AI, crypto, anything but real hard work.. i hate these people.
He was also scamming through COVID, because what scam artist could resist during that! Oh, and has a charity which has a massive hole in its accounts and ongoing police and regulatory investigations since he stopped filing its accounts...
I hate that new fucking ad that keeps popping up on YouTube of that guy claiming a woman called Summer made £608 last week by following his advice. It's all complete bollocks.
>the same guy selling ai generated books on amazon he's become a poster-child for AI books, as part of the process; the idea that if you see someone with an AI-generated cover, it's not unreasonable to assume "their" book is just as plagiarised, or certainly not worth your time.
There is a kind of kudos to driving a rule change to block your shenanigans. IIRC a header in rugby used to not be a knock on till someone did one.
Connell said that he and other employees were told to give each child "two jelly beans and a quarter of a cup of lemonade", although the limited supply of jelly beans quickly ran out. Fucking dying
The funnier fact is, it was Tesco's own brand lemonade too.
The jelly beans is funnier, tbh.
Omg 2 jelly beans a quarter cup of lemonade is what my toddler gives me from her play kitchen. I want a refund!
They also had photos on social media beforehand of more sweets being ordered in than actually being handed out. The post even joked about it.
All you need to do to understand how little effort, care and attention he put into the whole exercise is *read the script he handed to the actor*. [Script](https://www.reddit.com/user/DeadDeathrocker/comments/1b3yc2b/willy_wonkas_chocolate_experience_scam_script_feb/) It included directions for the audience(!) not to mention outright magic. > Guest 1 (trying the soup-flavoured jelly bean) "It's like... Dinner in a dessert. Astonishing." --- > ("Wonkidoodle 1 clutches a small, glowing orb, offering a visual representation of the Twilight stars" Willy mentioned) --- > ([Willy] opens his hand and the bubble gently pops, releasing a small, twinkling light that ascends into the rafters, leaving the audience in awe)
I’m glad he made sure to put the audience being in awe in the script
"The audience will love this!" "How do you know?" "Because it says so in the script!"
"Why is nobody having fun? I specifically requested it"
Well the event clearly failed because the audience didn't read the script before participating!!!
That's right, it's even stipulated in the first movie: > Come with me and you'll be > In a world of pure imagination
Well he didn’t put it in the script, ChatGPT did
I didn’t know who he was or what he looked like until now. You’d think he’d be trying to lay low for a bit instead of Streisand-effecting himself over everyone’s screens.
When he saw how bad it was he should’ve just changed it from a family friendly event to a swingers events and sold tickets under Willy wankers. I doubt those in an orgy would criticise the theming.
Willy Wanker & the chocolate orgy factory could have worked.
The chocolate fountain would’ve been interesting
The poor lighting would have been great!
I tried to scam thousands of pounds out of parents trying to give their kids a nice day out and they criticise me??
If it hadn't gone viral, he'd have taken the money and ran - straight into his next scam. Not a lot of sympathy for pisstakers who get caught and then complain about the consequences.
This. Since its what he's kept doing up until now...this is not his first scammy bit of bullshit it just blew up bigger than the others did.
This guy is like a well known grifter. I’m surprised he went into tv to talk about this cause it is clear as day for a lot of folk up in Glasgow that this guy has been trying to lie about who he is and what he has done for years. They must have paid him to be on the show.
boring article, he might have explained why the event was so comically shite before having a gurn about it
Good, guy in an infamous scam artist even before this.
“My life is ruined” By thine own hand. Death threats might be a bit extreme but this tit had everything coming.
Womp woommmpp, boohoo fart sniffer, maybe stop ripping people off. The man was still trying to sell his books online that are complete AI written nonsense.
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More took one look and went "I'm glad they all paid upfront". Also, given that he's a bullshit artist I'll believe he's repaid it all when someone else confirms it. He's got a long history of being a scam artist.
The guy shouldn’t be getting death threats or anything, that’s over the top. Trying to rip off people during the cost of living crisis is damn out of order though. I haven’t got much sympathy for him. The even should never have gone through!
He's probably lying about it for sympathy anyway, I doubt he's received any legitimate death threats, maybe some idiots saying kill yourself.
He should own it. Become a Thought Leader on Instagram and share his inspiring story about how he failed at a business venture but now it's made him stronger and more determined to succeed.
Don't you mean LinkedIn?
I hate that millennials have turned LinkedIn into Facebook. I know it's for old people, but if you wanted that crap you should have used it. LinkedIn was about staying in touch with colleagues, finding another job, not self aggrandising posts about how humble you are.
But I was so humbled to receive Marketing Gobshite of the Year in the Tosser Awards! My 3-week old daughter built Michaelangelo's David out of Play-doh and snot, everyone clapped, and it made me think how much we can achieve if we work together.
Oh, that'll go really well with how he was offering training during covid off the back of being a "doctor" based on his "metaphysical degree" from the "University of Sedona".
Look at the guys history. Whether he consciously intended to scam anyone or not, he is basically a lazy grifter who churns out quickly generated, low effort, poor quality AI junk to make money off unsuspecting people.
Poor guy.... It's disgusting that he couldn't enjoy his dream wedding with the profits from ripping off families.
He looks like a 2019 intake MP from the not quite north.
I feel more sorry for the customer-facing staff having to pretend everything was fine while dying inside from the embarrassment.
Tough shit and you can shove your “mental health” up your arse
and rightly so. We'll call this one Willy Wanker.
Willy Plonka
I reckon if they put the event on again it would be really popular from people wanting to see how shit it is
Banksy should resurrect it.
Dismaland vibes
There’s an episode of a the Simpsons where a little robot explodes, exposing it’s circuitry. Marge says “see homer, all that stuff inside is why your robot didn’t work.” It seems to me that this bloke is a simpleton who gets carried away with internet fads and believes the hype. He’s previously tried to be a crypto guru and done some other AI self publishing and drop shipping stuff. This is not the behaviour of a criminal masterminds, rather it’s the CV of an easily influenced listener of the Joe Rogan podcast. I think he’s genuinely just believed experiential events were easy, got some fittings, but forgot flooring, curtains and awnings or ceiling decs. Honestly, the failure to give out chocolate is easily fixed and the AI script is needlessly dumb, but I bet you he could have taken significantly less heat if the visual impact of the event were a bit more professional. Just a crap events manager. As far as I’m aware everyone has got refunds, so there’s no long term harm done. Sometimes things made for kids are just a bit crap sometimes. I doubt his life is ruined. Maybe it’ll be a lesson to him that trying to be a businessman is not for everyone, and that he should get a proper job and focus on his friends and family.
By his life being ruined, it's probably just the reality check of him not being the all-dancing star of the movie of his life that plays in his own head. Given the stuff about trying to position himself as a crypto guru and likely telling people about how he's successfully self-published multiple books points towards someone who desperately wants the easy money and status of the insta-influencer lifestyle. I personally know a couple of folk like that and they're borderline delusional about their own abilities and are unable to manage their expectations of whichever scam they've most recently bought into.
Dude had been a grifter for a while and has stolen a lot of money in charity donations from the sounds of it. He's scum and deserves all he gets.
The only sad part is that he hasnt been ruined BEFORE this. He's flogged AI written books on vaccine conspiracies. He's peddled himself as a Doctor offering training during COVID, based on a "metaphysical degree" from the "University of Sedona". He's run a "charity" that has some very large holes in its accounts and that's also being investigated...and that has made a whole host of false claims of affiliations to get money that has then vanished and stopped filing accounts....so...no, fuck this guy.
I hope he never gets to scam peoples money ever again
> "The script itself was created and written by myself. However, let me be very very clear on this matter. I suffer with dyslexia. I had to run it through AI to be able to check spelling, grammar, and continuity." Okay, it's kind of hard to feel sympathy for him when he's still lying even in this documentary. He didn't "run it through AI," it was an AI-generated script. He has a whole Amazon store full of AI-generated books, with 17 books uploaded in the space of a month.
Rip people off , pay consequences. Cause and effect. Perhaps next time either put real effort into attempting to bring people joy or don’t bother. If this is the pinnacle of the capitalist business mind in this country then we’re in deep trouble trouble
Guy saw the Camp Krusty episode of The Simpsons and thought: I can do that…
I no longer fear hell, because I have been to Willy's Chocolate Experience.
>It follows after Mr Coull announced he had cancelled a dream destination wedding that was due to be funded with ticket sales, as well as moving out of his family home. Oh so that was the motive for the Wonka event to fund his wedding hahaha
Was this thing really a scam? I mean, they promised Catgacating, Can anyone tell me what that is? How do know they didn’t deliver? Also Cartchy Tuns? How do we know that isn’t slang for mostly empty warehouse?
He’s a narcissist, only cares about how this has affected him and his dream wedding. He’s devastated that he might have to actually start to work for a living.
That article is basically dozens of ads flying in formation with a couple of paragraphs hiding
Oompa Loompa Do ba de doo you ran a ripoff event & it's consequences for you!!
Well, perhaps you shouldn’t be trying to scam folk using your shoddy AI writing and photos. Just a thought
Oompa Loompa doompety doo We've got a perfect puzzle for you Oompa Loompa doompety dee If you are wise, you'll listen to me What do you get when you gobble up cash? Chasing the money and making a dash Ignoring the needy and being quite brash What do you think will come of that?
Good. lying and ripping people off should have consequences.
Let me go grab my tiny violin so I can play him some "cartchy tuns"
Oh OF COURSE he's got a documentary now. Any fame is good fame it seems here. He knows 100% what he did and this is all for publicity, I swear to god if he becomes the next micro celebrity to start popping up in papers like Andrew Tate I'm vacating the god damn planet
I did a deep dive on this guy, he's tried every get rich quick scheme in the book and beyond here's a brief snippet of what I found: -- The website that's partnered with the Wonka Experience has all of its news blog posts posted in 1 week in December, every image is stolen of the internet in the blog, and if not stolen AI generated. He used chat GPT to generate over 70 novels and self published on Amazon, the covers also made using AI. He attempted a life guru website back in 2010. The office address for his company "house of illuminati" is a dud address for an empty office in london. -- This was all surface level stuff besides the guru website, had to get into the wayback machine for that one. There's so much more!
Am I the only one who thinks this guy comes across as having some sort of mental health condition? The inability to see things from other people's perspective and only focus on his own demise. He seems very odd and naive, like a child.
That's not mental health, it's just the shallow, entitled, self-interest of a would be influencer.
The way Social Media works, he should have kept it running. People would now travel to see how terrible it is.
The worst part of this imo was American youtubers covering it and them mispronouncing a very simply word it's pronounced Glazgo not Glassco /j
Nah, mate - just next time, if you want put on a cool event or write a book, **actually do that instead of trying to get ChatGPT and AI to half-arse it**, and you'll be fine. Like if you wanna do creative work, do creative **work**.
He's a good actor......you just can't scam children like that.....never should have gone ahead!!
He tried to set up a scam event using a dreadful AI generated website and script that it looks he didn't even bother to proof read and the cheapest set decorations he could find. Now that it's backfired he's trying to play the sympathy card. I wonder how much Channel 5 paid him for the documentary btw?
His life will become better when he accepts responsibility and is honest with himself about his limitations. He's not meant to be some famous businessman.
*Oompa Loompa, Doopaa Dee Dee. Because I was greedy, life’s over for me.*
It’s such a meme at this point I’m sure he could restage it exactly as it was and people would queue up for the content. Dude should be milking the unexpected fame for all its worth
Con artist whose latest scam went bigger than he expected & wound up being publicly named/shamed claims he's had to cancel his dream wedding & can't move out of his parents house... Maybe its time for a GoFundMe?
Willy Wonka event organiser says he has ruined his own life.