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[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 51 points 3 months ago (4 children)

i don't see how anyone can look at the Burning Man Board of Directors and think that it is anything except another fucking corporate shakedown.

i mean, literally 10 years ago the criticisms of how elitist and infiltrated it was were so widespread that even i had heard them.

[–] OptimusSubprime@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

literally 10 years ago the criticisms of how elitist and infiltrated it was

10 years? Shit, those criticisms have around since about 2005, if not earlier.

There was a social media site called Tribe.net that was filled with mostly Burners since Tribe was hq'd in San Francisco. I remember looking in the Burning Man tribe of the site and seeing complaints of how "sold out" the event had become because techbros, going to the desert to drop acid and look at topless hippie chicks, had taken over their art event, and thus the organizers begun charging cash money, ridiculous prices for what used to be a free-ish event.

[–] BobDole@hexbear.net 16 points 3 months ago

Thank you for that link. It was very funny to read through ghoul bios

[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 15 points 3 months ago

burning man
board of directors

pooh-wtf

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Same. Can't imagine it got better during the last decade plus