A boomer in my local news FB post said people were “expecting too much” and “in the Great Depression people would have been grateful for this” like if you’re comparing it to the GREAT DEPRESSION you’ve found the point and immediately lost it

The fact that the Oompa Loompa actors got their scripts the night before and their costumes were the SEXY versions 😭

Danny, the unknown wasn't an actor, he lived in the factory and they just had to write around that.

fun fact- you cant legally copyright anything generated by ai. meaning you can use the unknown for whatever you want (including profit) with no legal repercussions

The madman used ai to write his apology for using too much ai. Genius.

Is it not accurate to Willy Wonka for children to be promised a joyous experience, only to be met with abject horror that leaves them scarred for life? Frankly, I think this is as genuine of an experience as you can get

the fact that the unknown was played by a 16 year old girl at her first acting gig also makes this somehow funnier and sadder at the same time. hope she’s doing well.

There were actually no fog machines. The oompa loompas were just vaping so much to take the edge off.

He 100% wrote that apology with ChatGPT. There are words, and they each make sense, but they're gibberish. "Holographic paper technology" "We had every intention of holding the event" what?

Bold of you to assume that the Unknown was actually an actor playing a character and not a being manifested out of the fear and sadness of all those children.

This gives me hope that AI wont be able to conquer the world if it cant even plan a children's event.

2:45 I will never get over this image. It's like a Breaking Bad + Willy Wonka crossover. Call it Willy's Blue Rock Candy Factory

The solidarity between the actors & the people who got scammed is actually pretty heartwarming

The apology at the end was 1000% also ChatGPT

They literally gave kids one jelly bean and still ran out.

the organizer of the event actually tried to commission an artist to do the art, but when told the price of the art he went on a full temper trantrum and said he'd only use AI art going forward, blaming the artist that shot down his commission because he lowballed the shit out of it. This was a total scam from the very start, the organizer never had any actual intention on making this experience realistic. It's simply a cash grab.

I saw a different photo of the oompa loompa girl interacting with a child and she was actually smiling and seemed very engaged with the kid. I also heard that she was really upset with the organizers and was trying her hardest to make it a decent event for the kids despite everything. she seems like a good egg

Actually I think the Willy Wonka experience being disappointing and traumatizing for kids is actually super on brand for that weirdo

8:35 ISTG RIGHT WHEN HE SAID HE SHOT THE OOMPA LOOMPAS I HEARD TWO GUNSHOTS FROM OUTSIDE MY HOUSE💀💀💀

This Unknown felt straight out of an Eric Andre skit

the unknown ended up being a 16 year old girl on her first acting gig 😭

I think it's worth noting that the oompa loompa lady actually really tried her best to make the event enjoyable for the kids. I've seen some of the parents talking about how they really appreciated her going out of her way to make the kids smile

I'd like to think literally nobody hired the Unknown. They simply were.

im not sure why but a "pasadise of sweet teats" had me rolling

"What is that? It's the unknown!" kills me every time like the unknown did to those children's dreams

"did you see the innocence leave their eyes?" Is a CRAZY question 😂😂

Holographic paper is just shiny paper that reflects rainbows similar to an upsideown CD😭

7:26 Actually yeah, that happens quite often. If you ask ai to make a story about something, they'll pull up the most generic storytelling ever, which most of the time includes villains. so I'm pretty sure that's how Unknown was born. They never checked whether the story itself was good or not, I bet they generated only ONCE and they were like "okay we're going with this"

That apology is 100% AI generated, the whole thing seems like it was

The Unknown actress actually just posted a Tiktok about it! She's 16 and just tried to "act like a creepy man who lives in the walls." I honestly thought she did pretty well, considering what she was given.

Dude ai generated an apology

1:18 Shit looking like something you'd find in the Backrooms.

“Did you see the innocence leave their eyes” is a crazy thing to ask someone

Huge respect to the actors for trying their hardest to make this shitshow as enjoyable as possible for those children.

according to the actor of the unknown, she was originally casted as one of the wonkas but then read the script and thought it was so bad she requested another role and was casted as the unknown

3:40 love the implications of this phrasing so much

Don't think Danny mentioned it but the Unknown was actually meant to be defeated by being sucked into a vacuum by Wonka, but the event organisers didn't actually provide a vacuum and just told the Wonka actor to mime it

dashcon walked so the willy wonka experience could run

It’s like dashcon younger and much sadder stepbrother

the kids being visibly confused and upset going "nooooo" after seeing the unkown gets me every time 😭

I find it fascinating that the AI script couldn’t comprehend the lack of a trope villain and had to create its own. We all know Grandpa Joe is the villain of the story.

Here in Brazil (and I believe in many other places) we have an amusement park that is chocolate themed, it was so magical for me as a child, it had chocolate fountains, gnomes and crystals. It’s so sad that these children can’t have the same experience.

the bouncy castle is giving serious dashcon energy

The Willy Wonka actor actually sounds like a funny guy "I'm not gonna do the Willy Wonka voice, because I think I've embarassed myself enough"

A lot of attendees voiced great support for the girl working as an Oompa Loompa. That was like the one bad photo of her, they shared lots of photos of her being all smiles and nice to the kids and trying her best given the circumstance.

The "sweet teats" give off major Steve Terreberry vibes.

I read a theory that the whole thing was made by an artist to prove that AI cannot replace human artists, and it makes a lot of sense to me

I'm a bit surprised they were able to find those big candy props. They're by far the most impressive pieces in the whole set. It makes me wonder if they just found the giant candy props first, and were then like "hey I bet we can make a whole thing around these!"

I love that they just threw in their OC

Canonically the Oopma Loompas are paid in chocolate which is not much better 😂

8:50 it is said the actor of the unknown kept on going with a job of scaring children in a haunted house xD

CEO’s “apology” was absolutely AI generated

10:29 Was this response AI generated, too? "...holographic technology in itself is absolutely fabulous technology..."

The unknown is actually not a bad idea for a kids villain concept, but idk wtf that shadow person was lmao

A 'the unknown, an evil chocolate maker' is also such an AI thing to 'invent'. Maybe they did prompt the machine to insert a villain but I doubt it. A simple story with a good chocolate maker and an evil one, mix in some generic evil ubiquitous force behind it as has been a trend for quite some years at this point. It might as well have been called 'the corruption' or something

"it's the unknown!" gets me everytime 😭😭

I really need parents to gain more media literacy because how do you see a website littered with spelling mistakes and AI images and think “let’s take my child to this abandoned warehouse!!”

Just turned on notifications! I love you Danny, even if I feel down or depressed you always entertain me!

ive been watching for years now but im just now realizing i never subscribed!! i just subscribed that time and turned on notifications for your main and 2 danny 2 furious! i absolutely adore your content danny i hope you’re still making videos for years to come💗

I wanna direct y’all to the fact that the AI generated a vulva on the teddybear at 6:13

I can't believe Danny didn't even acknowledge the actor being like "the first red flag was when I was cast as Willy Wonka and not an Oompa Loompa, I give off major Oompa Loompa energy" 6:54 because that was hilarious 😂

Thank you so much for making a video about this! It fascinates me.

I'm reminded of my last experience with the San Francisco Flower and Garden show (unironically has never been in San Francisco in the years I've gone). It's one of those vendor type events where they got people selling everything from dwarf trees, to seeds, to fancy branch pruners, they'd have various speakers throughout the day telling you tips on how to gardening stuff to keeping chickens in your backyard (i.e. everything you can just see on youtube these days), everything you'd expect in a show like this but the pièce de résistance was the actual gardens that they'd set up, where there would be a dozen or more different gardens that were setup to give you a feel of "wow, this is cool" some where artistic in flavor, some were functional, and some where just relaxing as all hell such that you would love to have that and just relax in all day. Well one year the major sponsor, a dirt/rock company (Lings0 if memory serves) had supply issues, and they did not have any soil, stones, or anything to deliver. Now this was a huge deal, because quite literally ALL the gardens were built from this material that they deliver, so as a result there were zero gardens at all. The absolute sole reason for coming to this event, and paying to see it, was these gardens and there weren't any. Now you'd think they'd alert everyone who pre-bought tickets and say "hey the shows kind of cancelled since the main event isn't here, here's your money back" or some mention on their webpage, but no. Luckily I did not pre-order tickets, because you save like $2 but then get hit with a $1.99 convenience fee (per ticket) so why bother. We get there, the ticket booth tells us about it all, says "sorry there's no gardens" but WTH, we already paid the non-refundable $15 parking fee, so what's another $40 or so... how bad could it be, oh yeah they still had it for the same full price that it was, with no discounts. I mean what the hell how bad could it be... well as it turned out like 90% of the vendors didn't even show up either because why bother, there were zero speakers going on ... and about the extent of what we did was to do an art project with my 2 year old at the time, and I was completely focused in "Dad mode" to make sure he had a good time in some way. JFC, it was a train wreck and they didn't even offer a refund because "we were warned" ... we were told there was no gardens, not that 90% of the show wasn't there. It was overall so horrible, and I felt so pissed from it I never went back... and this experience looks way worse!

I got a bit of insider knowledge from my Glaswegian friend (in his own words): 1. The company booked a hell of a lot of high end props, sets in fact. Then didn't pay. Some genius thought "that's ok, we'll pay them from the profits" without actually talking to the prop company. The prop company, (still awaiting payment) did not send anything. This left the staff three days to frantically build Something. This also gave them no time to rehearse. 2. There was meant to be a sponsorship with a local artisan chocolate company, who went bust almost two months before the show opened. Somehow that went unnoticed. 3. Likewise a deal with Barr's for soft drinks fell through after the manager of the event's company was insulting to Barr's.

There’s something very heartwarming about this, which shows a perfect contrast to relying heavily on ai generated products that are being described as “the future of art.” And yet the event failed horribly and the thing we liked the most was the actors, the humans, playing a character. The AI may have come up with the unknown, but the costume and person behind it having to be creepy and scary in the videos, hiding behind a mirror was what was funny to us.

The unknown has spoken now! Her name is Felicia. Channel 5 in the UK has done a doc

This is already my favorite meme of the year.

Willy Wonka/The Unknown fics are already starting to pop up on ao3

That official statement from the organiser at the end was definitely also written by ChatGPT

Thanks for being one of the only UKpostsrs covering this who don’t pronounce Glasgow like “glass cow”. You did good, Danny

That picture of a woman ompalopma is never gonna go away! And I love it!

the unknown is so unbelievably funny to me. i saw a video of a little girl hissing at it as it cowered in fear and i haven’t stopped thinking about it since

I saw someone say maybe the AI messed took the line where "everyone's greatest fear is the unknown" (probably getting that wrong, my bad) and decided "the unknown" was a character. Also, the actor for Willy said when he arrived, his heart dropped. But he and the other actors talked and agreed to stay to try and make it better for the kids. I feel so bad for them.

Great video! I already thought the story was funny to follow, but now it got even better by Danny explaining the whole thing.

1:43 I couldn’t have explained it better myself😭. This man is hilarious😂.

"I'm really shocked that the event had fallen short of the expectations of people on paper." That is SUCH an AI generated line. This bastard used AI to write his APOLOGY as well.

3:50 Fun Fact, this isn't Willy Wonka. He's "Willy McDuff" to avoid being sued, despite the Oompa Loompas being called "Wonkiloopas", obviously derived from Wonka.

Those pictures were honestly very depressing and i feel so bad for any parents with 6 year old kids.

"Did you see the innocence leave their eyes?" What a weird question to ask what-

One jelly bean per child?! Mr.Krabs getting some competition.

I urge yall to look at the other images of the "high" oompa loompa bc she genuinely seemed like she wanted to try her best to give the kids the best experience possible given the circumstances. theyre honestly really sweet/cute photos

This looks like the nightmares I had as a kid the night before I went to an event where the event was so disappointing it would literally make me cry

It should have been a dead giveaway that nowhere on the ads did it mention 'Wonka', it was just "Willly's"

dude i feel so bad for these poor actors but im glad that at least the people sympathized with them and understood that they were also victims of this whole situation

10:25 I am like 90% sure every quote from the "director" there was written in chat GPT. It's all so vague and keeps repeating points using unnatural sounding words, plus just awkward grammar that wouldn't make sense if said out loud or written

The company’s statement was definitely ChatGPT also 😂😂

This literally reminds me of DashCon and Krabby Land combined, it looks like it’s under construction but incomplete.

As a scare actress who cackles like a maniac after having terrified people during haunts, I feel for the actor playing the unknown, because when a child enters a haunt, they and the parents know what they’re getting into, so when you enter an event that’s supposed to be magical and wholesome, you don’t expect your child to be absolutely traumatized by something that wasn’t even in the original story

11:07 Danny, the apology itself is AI-generated. Everything here is AI. The organizer of the event might _actually_ be AI

this video made me fall down the stairs. thanks, danny!

a perfect video to watch while stoned out of my mind! the unknown will be following me into my dreams tonight!!!!

Imagine if Hank discovered that Willy Wonka was the REAL mastermind behind the drug empire

This happened where i live LOL Also ! The actors, including the oompa looma actress, have not been paid as far as im aware ! Parents said the actors were all trying really really hard to make it less horrible for the kids hut they ended up having to ration jelly beans since the "jelly bean room"... Ran out of beans. Children literally got 1/4 of a cup of lemonade and 2 jelly beans each. The oompa loompa actress said it was absolutely mortifying and they only had the night before to learn the 'script' (which was written by AI) and thr costumes seemed pre-used and really horrible quakity. She wasnt even given face paint to make herself orange. She said she really despises that photo of her and hates that its been spread around but is fine with people finding it funny because the whole thing was ridiculous.

The "unknown" is definitely something that would come from an AI script. ChatGPT has a very hard time generating scripts that are based on pre-existing characters or stories. If you ask ChatGPT to generate a story based on a movie you like, it won't actually generate anything based on that movie; it will instead generate a completely unrelated story that uses names or locations from the movie, but they'll be completely out of context. That's probably what happened with the Willy Wonka experience, and that's probably how a character like the unknown made its way into the script.

honestly gotta say this is THE BEST dannys hair has looked love this new style

the image of the Oompa Loompa is INSANE like she is fr cooking crack

"... goddammit, I gotta traumatize another kid." I'm in tears

Danny the term Smoky Oompa gotta be the funniest thing I’ve heard in a while. 😂

That Oompa Loompa with the MDMA set up is about to become meme of the year omg

“WHAT IS THAT? ITS THE UNKNOWN!!” 🗣️🗣️🔥🔊