Burning Man Sucks
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- Thousands of Burning Man attendees are stranded in the Nevada desert: www.npr.org/20...
"I went to Burning Man. The celebrities who fled the mud this year didn't understand the true spirit of the event."
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I don’t care about Burning Man. Bring back Club Penguin.
G Billy, Petey K, Stompin' Bob and Franky are the only act I need to see live
I was going to say club penguin is for the proletariat but it restricted a significant amount of content behind pay walls so maybe not
I actually want to go to Club Penguin more than I want to go to Club Aqua.
Keep spittin 🔥🔥🔥
Based
"their lives are so free of struggle that they have to create some in the middle of the dessert for no reason" that one got me 😂
yeah, imagine being stranded in the middle of a chocolate lava cake…
BARZ
Absolute GOLD.
It's so ironic for a leftist like Fantano to say such a thing
@@rosameltrozo5889 how is it ironic?
I host my own personal Burning Man every night when I drink a doZen beers and chase it with spicy food. Total environmental devastation the next day but the memories live on forever...
not to mention the rivers of brown sludge
@@xRickAstleyxthe mud if you will
I got weekend plans now
Love this comment! Kudos to you.
How can they make a burning man without putting bees on Nick Cage's face?
Not the bees!
NOT THE BEES!
Also Nick Cage super kicking an old lady in the face
also having a hand candle next to your bed
Facts
Nic*
"The vibe in the orgy dome sounds mid by the way" now that's a brand new sentence
i've been vomiting blood this morning
Epic!
Tell that to the doctor not youtube comments
W
Bruh why are you eating blood
No need to brag
Burning man’s crowd seems like every rich kid i knew at college that larped as poor because their parents only gave them hundreds in spending money and not thousands.
When I was in college I knew this guy who wore thrifted clothes and would complain that his parents bought him a year old Prius instead of a new one. Meanwhile I went a whole year without AC in my car and was stripping parts off junkyard cars to keep mine running lol. I only knew he was larping because we studied at his house one time and he lived in a gated community in the hills.
@@TrentonF505Unfortunately these same rich people have ruined thrifting . For people who actually need those clothes because they can't afford new clothes
Yeah I'm a raver and a pretty avid festival goer and I thought Burning Man was a music festival lol. It's not. I was curious about maybe going so I did some research. Literally everything I learned got progressively worse and worse. Like even when nothing goes wrong the poop stories alone were horrific...
Poop stories?
@@lordofthewasps8583 yeah I've heard the porta potties get gnarly (bad by porta potty standards), and apparently there's a problem with ppl pooping in places that aren't a toilet :/
it is not even remotely like a music festival. that hasn't stopped a lot of plur-ass dipshits from showing up entirely unprepared tho :D much to the chagrin of every person they encounter.
and yes, it's been going to pot for a very long time now. was still fun in 2016, but not worth organizing a life around (which is kinda what you have to do to keep going)
Burning man started as something beautiful and has become diluted
@@tripical Just like everything in this world.
If they only listened to the real “hippies” that blocked the entrance instead of calling the cops
They pulled that shit on tribal land. Dumb AF
I agree with putting hippies in quotes. A majority of the original 60s hippies just became corporate yuppies and middle managers in the 80s. The movement was all but dead by the time Watergate rolled around
Who cares
@@diddlefiggins6557 you do, or you wouldn't reply
yeah 70, 000 people stuck trying to get IN in the desert would be so cool instead
One of the best melon rants ever
bro i've thought burning man was a music festival for 21 years. if its not a music festival why the fuck would anyone go😂😂 you can have sex and do drugs in the comfort of ur own home
you can also do it dangling from a rusty scrapyard "art car", driven by a drunk and high asshole in the middle of a dust storm, while all your friends watch.
and depending on your outlook on life, one of them might be more appealing to you than the other.
@@blarghblarghOh, so it's Mad Max cosplay for what they think the post-apocalypse will be like
it *is* a music fest. along with other things. world-class DJs play every single night. if you're not a fan of electronic music, it might not be for you. but it's absolutely a music fest and so much more.
Mate, at the end of the day festivals are about people co-existing - if you just go to watch bands with a beer you're missing out
My very British and 80 something year old grandad went to burning man a few years ago with his San-Fran hippy girlfriend and loved it. Seeing pictures of him in a loincloth posing with instagram models was incredible.
Good for them! I'm glad they had fun together.
“Instagram models” huh. They have a new code word every year it seems.
That woman at the end is a perfect example of the people going. Influencers, rich snobs, a$$holes. Yeah, I once wanted to go, years ago. Never again. I just came from a week of being in the middle of nowhere. Lake District, England. Sounds like I had more fun hiking, walking and swimming. Also cheaper.
no, it's a cherry-picked example of one of the people who suck at burning man. people suck everywhere. coachella has been overrun by influencer types, and yet i had a wonderful experience there weekend 2 this year - because the music was fucking amazing. it's extremely easy to cherry-pick bad examples to hate, but this is a fest of more than 80,000 people we're talking about... this video is some absolute nonsense
its always Burning Man never Consoling Man
I was extremely shocked when I found out Burning Man wasn't even a music festival?
It's not a music festival, it's not a festival. It's a utopia city that gets built and then dismantled for one week out of the year.
"Why would want to be around a bunch of rich assholes?"
Anthony, you seem to forget I'd be around a bunch of rich assholes _in the middle of nowhere away from civilization._
*Il mangera le riche.*
Just please wash them first, stay safe ❤
there are still laws at Burning man, If you murder someone there either the sheriff's office or the Bureau of Land Management will arrest you
Whatever burning man was .. conceptually .. it ain’t that no mo ..
as someone who’s entire extended family is made up of people from my parents burner camp in the late 90’s - early 00’s it makes me sad to see how much the community there have changed
i haven’t been since i was little when my dad was still working on art cars for it and i doubt i’ll ever go again knowing how it’s going.
As a kid I always wanted to go to burning man as it seemed like a unique experience birth from the Cacophony Society but in the past decade or more it has de-evolved to over priced glamping.
@@popanimation1 Same I had the dream of going to burning man as a child and now the more I see people just going to the festival to take pictures less I want to go there. I hate how most music\ art festivals became a social media thing I dont even take my phone to these events, but I guess I am old fashioned.
Tis the natural course of all the endeavors
There are like 80,000 people there man, not every single person is a diluted hippie or rich tech bro. Obviously the media is gonna favor them when covering the event, have a little perspective.
after that rain, they're all diluted hippies
But if it was called The Burning Wheel you'd love it
BURNER GET READY
The Burning Store
Fantano going from "If you're like me and you watch Supreme Court hearings you know this guy" to "He's got that ITYSL shirt" in a sentence elevated my respect toward him to a whole new level
All festivals have gone to shit. Just extravagent events to make money. Less focus on the music and every day person experience. Over priced, tickets, food, water etc.
Dan Flashes! They cost so much because the patterns are so complicated!
altho i agree with a good part of this, something tells me u dont actually know any burners
I just know about the festival bc of Malcolm In The Middle
what is the point of this video lmao
farts poop
Burning man = 1969 Woodstock + 1893 Chicago World’s fair + the Nevada Desert.💚💚💚
Yes Burning Man is awful and everyone watching this should not go. I repeat it sucks and do not go.
“basically fyre festival” is the most accurate description of burning man
how so? burning man is incredibly well-organized and delivers on its promises every year to the folks involved. fyre festival was a fucking joke. anthony just gave the most shallow and moronic takedown of a massive event attended by so many people that *aren't* rich that i can't even take this seriously. i agree that rich people suck and the gentrifying shit is awful to see - but it's still a tiny minority of those that actually go (about 13% from what i saw on anthony's own provided graph).
Yeah a successful event for over 30 years with people that bring enough to feed an army and build it themselves from scratch. Just like Fyre Fest!
@@masemoney666I'm genuinely perturbed at his worst take ever here. Sadly it's a shit stain that will be lingering in my mind now. I absolutely adore fantano so this has been disturbing.
Sometimes I forget there are people who dont like tramping. For me the light at the end of the tunnel is getting to struggle up a mountain, eat shit food, sleep on the ground then do it all again the next day.
Yeah but you pay thousands to do that at Burning Man
These people have no respect for nature.
Man who has never been to festival hears cringe things about festival, forms negative option about festival, promotes hate about festival. The Circle of Echo Chamber Lyf
The SpongeBob burning Man parody seems cooler than actual burning Man.
Anthony Fantano made a Dan Flashes reference? A man of culture indeed
I will probably never go to burning man but from what I understand the core of the whole thing is some incredibly hard-working and creative artists that create huge amazing interactive installations for everyone to enjoy. I'm sure there are a lot of shitty rich people there too but I don't see why you would criticize the festival itself just because there are some shitty people there.
Yeah, there's a huge misconception online atm about what BM actually IS, vs how the rich dickheads treat it. Like, no Burners want to be around rich douchebags. They go every year to be part of the collective party and enjoy all the weird art and stuff.
fucking thank you. this is a ridiculously shallow take from fantano and genuinely disappointing
I thought the same thing until I actually read something about it and discovered that’s not at all what it is. The festival is ran by a non-profit, it’s not controlled by a massive corp, they don’t sell anything in the festival, almost everything in there is created by other attendees or artists, the attendees essentially trade with each other on a non-monetary bartering system that’s about providing services or gifts… It’s really weird, you’d think someone that’s as aware of alternative lifestyles as Fantano would be less quick to make a completely inaccurate assumption of a whole festival. This just feels like dumb content made to shit on a whole group of people that attend something simply because you think it’s the cool thing to do and you don’t understand it in the slightest. It’d be like someone making a whole shitpost about people who go to hardcore gigs, or people who are ravers
That's why you come over here to Europe where we got the best but also safest Music Festivals, whether it's Wacken Open Air in Germany for Metal or Awakenings Spring Festival in the Netherlands for Techno and EDM.
In my almost 20 Years of going to Music Festivals here i often meet and got drunk with a ton of Americans who often (which surprised me at first) came here FOR the Festival and weren't just here anyway because of Work or Vacation,
Prost & Cheers from the Bavarian Alps
come to the 313 we got some "ghetto demf shit" - blackmilk
@@jadesdedIts Movement now.
@@obsoleteelite8258 both. I haven't been in awhile but Ik there was a DEMF revival a few yrs back coordinated with some OGs
I go to burning man for the fire flow and juggling community not the music. The sound camps are only a piece of the event. Lower income people like myself have to go through a lot of effort to make the experience possible and it wouldn’t be worth the sacrifice if the burn was just a music festival.
I'm sure there are plenty of normal people just going to enjoy themselves
Careful, when the internet gets a snarky hate-boner for something they don't actually know anything about, it's best to just get out of the way and let it run out of steam.
so fucking true, just let these people who go enjoy it., just hating for hating sake @@bretonjohnson
oh no, don't bring nuance in here... what fantano says is gospel! the 80,000 people who go to burning man all suck and deserve no empathy from us fellow humans! fuck 'em and i hope they fucking burn!!
Kinda self righteous sounding
WOAH HOT TAKE OVAH HERE
this was the most hilarious headline i have ever seen
The government should send a search and rescue plane, but instead of rescuing them it seeds the clouds to make it rain more
also they exploit 10,000 employees who volunteer to run the festival for them.. and the festival still profits
I've been to burningman for 10 years. My reason for first going was to go to somewhere where you are free to be as you are. I have since discovered that I can do that at home, but it was a place to experiment and discover the courage I needed to just do that. I also went BECAUSE it is harsh. winds, dust, mud, etc. I push myself to see if I'll break. I went because it forces me to be self sufficient (at least the way I approach it that is), I have to plan for the unexpected (as this year had shown). Finally, I go as it gives me a place to share some structures I have created. All that being said, the changes in burningman from my first year 2008 to 2022 when I last when have not been good. The organization violates it's own principles, there is a large group who go for the clout and likes on their social media. Many people go with comfort in mind and now it has become a large sea of mostly campers, very few of us are left who build their own structures. I miss what it was, but I am glad I have gone for the past years as I feel I have gained a lot from it. I just wish it had not become what it is as it is no longer a place where people can learn and grow as I was able to. This all just means that it is the dead carcass that needs to be left to rot so something new can be created. Will I go again, maybe, but I now go in my own way, which is ironic as my way of going would now be considered unique. I choose what I get out of it and how I go, I don't engage in the concept that seems to be common and is expressed as "I want to be unique in the way everyone else is"
Man Lemon, what would it take for you to give Burning Man a 10?
he did, 10/10 worst festival ever
call it 'To Burn A Man'
Actually going
I’ve been to burning man twice and it was a positive experience. I work a full time job and make a modest amount for myself and just save accordingly. There are some wonderful folks who go the burn. There are some not so wonderful folks. I think it’s easy for folks to create ideas on what they think burning man is, but it can be many things. For me it’s very positive and challenging and rewarding. The news coverage on burning man is always ridiculous.
This is just what I needed tonight lmao
this video is so angry. what am i missing yall, i'm struggling to see why it's appropriate to have this much vitriol about it.
Sadly people seem to be vitriolic about every slight thing they disagree with these days.
stanford is not an ivy league, melon
only an ivy leaguer would care even a little bit lol
Melon will still rate Burning Man higher than MBDTF
I'll be honest anthony i couldnt write a more tired and stale take on burning man if i tried
I've had a problem with it for many years but due to personal reasons. At one point, it was an art festival. everyone I knew who was a burner, was creating mobile installations to haul out there and forming camps of local people. it stopped being that, roughly mid-aughts. (like '03 to 05) Burners weren't hippies. they were art freaks. They used to call people that you describe "tourists", because they were so few. The tourists took over. it started getting ugly in the later aughts, with them disrespecting installations and the increase of rich assholes. RIP
Anthony, you're starting to sound like Hasan.
That's so mean what the heck man ;(
He's right, and pretty often is (except for his Tyler, The Creator takes), so he easily 1ups hasan don't be rude on the internet.
why do people hate Hasan so much? Ive only seen occassional clips but is it his politics? The way he talks?
@@gollossalkitty I appreciate the implication that being compared to Hasan is immediately an insult. Which it is, by the way.
Don't you dare talk shit about Dan Flashes
Ah yes, Burning Man. The only correct response when someone asks how it feels when you pee.
Guarantee Fantano makes more money than 98% of the Burners there. According to the Black Rock census, the average Burner makes $64,000 a year. And there are ways to get free tickets… or discounted. By volunteering to help with a camp applying for a low income ticket.
Hopefully they stay there permanently
have you actually talked to any burners, anthony?
clearly not, given this is one of the most braindead shallow takes he's ever made.
This is such a hater ass rant. lol Comparing it to Fyre Fest is such a wack take.
I've been to Burning Man twice. It's a lot of fun. There's so much to experience and do that it is hard to relay that experience to others. Especially because the festival is what you make of it and different for everyone. There's lots of stages and art cars to dance, dope art installations, lots of camps to explore and meet people, and a temple to grieve over a lost loved one with others who are feeling the same pain. I wouldn't say it's this transcendental experience, but it's one of the best times I've ever had at a festival. There are things that I've experienced there that I don't think I could've gotten anywhere else.
Most people that go don't really use their phones or take photos. If they do it's with a Polaroid. I think that's why BM gets such a bad rap. Most of the media covering it is from cringe influencers. There are weird ass hippies, people who can't separate spirituality from drugs, orgy tents, and other things that people hate on BM for, but those are really a small part of the entire thing. You can also avoid those things easily if you wanted to. Sad to see our Melon fall for the misrepresentation so easily.
Thank you for a far more interesting, nuanced, and detailed look into Burning Man than this cringe ass video provided.
- sincerely, someone who will probably never go to Burning Man
been once myself. when a greater percentage of people every year doing turnkey, it's becoming a bit more pointless every year.
of course you can completely avoid those people. but sometimes radical inclusion looks an awful lot like appeasement.
Sure, because dancing, art exhibitions, meeting people, and grief counseling are somehow more meaningful if you're out in the middle of nowhere.
Eat some mushrooms fantano xx
Oof, missed it on this one. Maybe do some research other than watching the news. Read about the Cacophony Society and transformative experiences.
You're right, it sucks, dont go.
Keep the poors away.
@obsoleteelite8258 as long as enough of the rest of you stay away, then poors like me will have a much easier time getting tickets, lol.
But if it was called The Money Store you would've said it was a 10
That might make sense. It would have a slightly more accurate name, which can, in theory, affect the score.
anybody got a cigarette
I mean the art that people build out there is legit incredible, never been myself and probably never will but a lot of creativity happens there so imo that's cool
"creativity" you mean drugs?
nah you don't understand, because a small minority of folks there are uber-rich people who are glamping, all of that art is meaningless! don't you get it?
That shirt is my EXACT style. I want that one soooo bad.
Elon musk is dumb ?!?! 🤔🤔🤔 that comment seems politically changed
If burning man got rained out then i suppose the man isnt burning
The rant was entertaining, but it does seem a little bit like misdirected class rage. Shouldn't you try something before knocking it?
When the Smithsonian has an extensive exhibit on Burning Man I think it's safe to say the festival has jumped the shark
You really shouldn't care. They didn't seem to mind. Shit happens.
It's filled with people who think doing drugs and going to festivals is a personality trait lol.
Huh, kind of a needlessly sour, misanthropic vid.
Burning man is for people who can’t afford to be homeless.💚💚💚
A couple weeks ago I was working my shitty minimum wage job when a young couple drove in with a super nice luxury RV. They had me refill their propane. I asked what they were up to and they said they were headed to burning man. I asked them if they bought the RV or were renting and the lady said her dad let her take it. So yeah the first impression I got of burning man is that you need a dad who’s willing to lend you a luxury RV to go.
it is not required. but it is a large and growing % of the attendee pool. and is a good reason to not go.
the cool thing is that RV is probably fucked because the mud out there is super corrosive.
Fair enough to get that impression... Most people pitch a small tent. Many thousands of people take a bus into the event. It is still extremely expensive compared to most "music" festivals, but once you realize how mindblowing the countless art installations are and that every camp just wants you to come eat their food, drinks, or hundreds of other activities they are gifting, you start to see how worth it is. I like to tell people that the currency at Burning Man is not money, it's participation. If you are able to offer something that other people are interested in participating in, then you or your camp are considered the richest and most successful people at the event.
@@burmashavetomThe currency at Burning Man is absolutely the dollar when it costs so much to keep the poors out.
Reeperbahn
Very punk, Anthony
80,000 people go to burning man... the two groups you named are a small portion of the people who go... the vast majority are regular people like myself who just want to escape, get silly, listen to great music, see some amazing art, find community, and have an adventure. Yes, it has changed a lot and become more mainstream in the last few years... and yes, it is a profoundly life changing event, but at the same time... it's reallly not that deep.
Agreed it's a huge event with tons of people of all different kinds. It's easy to dunk on if you just go on what you see on social media and the stereotypes but if you haven't been it's hard to understand the vibe. I went 15 years ago so maybe it's actually terrible now compared to then. No doubt there are a higher percentage of shitty people than there were now that it's trendy but I am very skeptical that the average person there represents either of the groups described here.
Yup. People love having hot takes. Saying that "most people who go to burning man and generally cool and nice" is not a hot take.
for real, this take is so shallow and the most obvious criticism you could ever leverage. you can't know if it sucks unless you go there. it's a patently unique experience
Except it is most people? 58% of attendees earn over 100k so if you throw a rock you're probably going to dome a yuppie.
There's plenty of people who just treat it as a festival, nothing more, nothing less. Those people are cool. It's just the assholes who think there's some deeper meaning to it, who are assholes.
Can someone explain to me how the Fyre Fest guy isn't in jail forever..?
1. laws apply differently to people with money
2. the lawbook doesn't say "if a documentary is made about you, one MILLION years dungeon!"
I think they are more reffering to the massive criminal charges not the documentary?@@blarghblargh
No one died
because you don't get life imprisonment for running an awful event (to the extent that it was practically a scam)? i wouldn't want to live in a punitive world where running a fest poorly meant life in prison. but hey, we all want different things for society
Isn’t Fantano a millionaire?
is it a bad thing ?
Uh-oh. At 4:15 I realized Burning Man is just lower tier Bohemian Grove. And then you said it.
I love this. speaking nothing but facts here, Anthony!
damn bro why so salty lol, one day you'll have the chance to go!
I have enough stress in my life! I do not need to pay huge amounts of money to add way more stress. Very hypocritical of the values they want to express!
I been there, it's just camping but dialed up to 11.
It's true though that a lot of people go there not getting that all they're doing is camping.
.....that last part, whoa
would be better if Elon was put in the Wicker Man
Anthony has some points in this video but Burning Man is also something one of a kind that needs to be experienced to be fully understood. You can't judge without actually trying it yourself.
Also, there are rich folks all over the world spoiling good things. Burning Man still has plenty of regular every day people that go just because they love art, music and the desert.
I thought you were talking about the 3EB song
Why are you so bitter tho?
Stick to music instead of doing these lukewarm takes regurgitating news
Burning Man sounds like my idea from hell, and I will never go. Having said that, Anthony sounds like a boomer here who has only read about Burning Man on the news.
for like 90% I agree with you Fantano, but.... there still is a community of artists who are not rich AF (just western civilization rich). these artists did not flea the festival, they helped each other out, didn't have chef cooks and such. these are the people who worked hard to create awesome art installations.
the thing about the CO2 emissions is true, but which other festivals and concerts are friendly for the environment??
Yo this is just a straight up hit piece, I love it
Wow Anthony projecting HARD here
Common Fantano L
cant wait for Burning Woman this year, should be a lot better
Underrated comment
I don’t disagree that it’s stupid and full of frustrating people one way or another, but I don’t understand how they “made it our fucking problem.”
Also, people free of struggle creating some for themselves is less of an argument against rich people at burning man and more of an argument against camping for anyone who is remotely comfortable.
The end of E3 and BM is nigh. Eat the rich.
The only people who hate BM to this degree have never gone. By no means is it as amazing or transcendent as the BM evangelists would have you believe. But I went one year and it was definitely a fun experience and not just a “bunch of rich assholes”. There were plenty of great people to meet, there are definitely cool people in a crowd of 70,000 and it was a memorable week
I agree but you keep saying desert and rain in the same sentence. Add a period or something man like fuck
Some of the art installations are legitimately cool
His McDonald's sign mustache will forever crack me up lol