The Chocolate Experience

Fiasco of the week Willy’s Chocolate Experience in Glasgow looks slightly worse than the Christmas village scams reported somewhere most years but the use of algorithm-generated pictures and text in the advertising and the script pushes it over the bar. The work of someone who also publishes algorithm-generated conspiracy theory books, it’s a glaring example of how much that sucks impacting on the world outside the net.

It fails as the scam it looks like as well as the event it was meant to be. I’m sorry for everyone else involved - a number of the actors have spoken up about it as well as some of the audience.

It also seems like something that a more appropriate venue and a decent-sized student theatre or LARP group could put on properly and still turn a modest profit.

That said, expect to see an evil chocolate maker called The Unknown showing up in other things as people swipe that.