Burning Man CEO Bans "Billionaire Camp" and Tells Instagram "Influencers" to Stay Home by johnvibes

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Burning Man CEO Bans "Billionaire Camp" and Tells Instagram "Influencers" to Stay Home
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<p>&nbsp;Nevada’s Burning Man festival, founded on a philosophy of peace, love &nbsp;and generosity, was intended to act as a temporary example of how &nbsp;people could live and get along without the financial and cultural &nbsp;restraints of mainstream society. Over the years the festival has grown &nbsp;into one of the largest events of its kind in the world, becoming more &nbsp;and more like the outside world that it was seeking to escape from, &nbsp;according to many longtime “burners.” In recent years, elite guests have made headlines with luxurious &nbsp;camps that acted as exclusive retreats for the rich and famous, safely &nbsp;out of reach of the sweaty, dusty and sometimes naked hippies. Humano &nbsp;the Tribe is the most notorious of these elite camps, with a membership &nbsp;cost of over $100,000 and a reputation for causing trouble. One festival attendee who had camped near Humano complained that the &nbsp;tribe grossly disrespected their neighbors as well as the land. The &nbsp;burner&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/burning-man-bans-dollar100k-campers-after-exploding-toilets">explained</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><em>“They were our neighbors. Fuck them. Someone from &nbsp;their camp literally took a shit on our camp one night. They had their &nbsp;entrance hidden so we constantly had sparkle ponies walking through our &nbsp;camp asking us how to get in. They leaked grey water all over the playa. &nbsp;They didn’t have enough space for all their vehicles so they parked a &nbsp;giant </em>rv<em> in the fire lane. Everything about them was terrible.”</em></blockquote>
<p>In response to over three years of serious complaints about the camp, Burning Man CEO Marian Goodell <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6696949/Burning-Man-CEO-bans-campsite-costing-100k-slams-influencers-wake-Fyre-Festival.html?fbclid=IwAR3O5UMJfPKz8WxYvScpikMreB-NsxktAGxI8K8eWFnBZHUqJeNq9jHkID8">announced</a> this week that the camp will not be welcomed back in 2019.&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><em>“After negative reports from &nbsp;participants and nearly every Black Rock City operations team, we told &nbsp;Camp Humano that they are not invited back in 2019 as a placed camp. &nbsp;Humano was a strain on resources, had a poor ‘leave no trace’ record for &nbsp;three years, had a very poor 2018 environmental compliance record &nbsp;including multiple BLM citations, and was the subject of many complaints &nbsp;from neighboring camps.”</em>&nbsp;</blockquote>
<p>Goodell also expressed her disdain for the Instagram “influencers” &nbsp;who were using the event as a photo shoot or opportunity to sell &nbsp;products. She went on to explain:&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><em>“Whether it’s &nbsp;commercial photo shoots, product placements, or Instagram posts thanking &nbsp;‘friends’ for a useful item, attendees including fashion models and &nbsp;social media ‘influencers’ are wearing and tagging brands in their playa &nbsp;photos. This means they are using Black Rock City to increase their &nbsp;popularity; to appeal to customers and sell more ‘stuff.’ Is this okay? &nbsp;How could it be? Posts of gratitude cross referenced with hashtags &nbsp;started off slow and innocently enough, but are now wildly out of &nbsp;control. Failing to make clear what behavior is unacceptable has &nbsp;compounded the problem. I recently heard rumors of more than one product &nbsp;or business launch happening on playa in 2018. Seriously, people. This &nbsp;really isn’t Burning Man.”</em>&nbsp;</blockquote>
<p>Burning man itself is a multimillion-dollar event, so Goodell is &nbsp;selling a product in the form of tickets, which makes her statement a &nbsp;bit odd. However, in the wake of the viral Fyre Festival scandal, there &nbsp;is now a spotlight on social media marketing companies and their &nbsp;relationship with large festivals. Goodell also mentioned that they would be making it easier for people &nbsp;who are on a budget to make it to the festival by offering 18% and 30% &nbsp;discounts. &nbsp;&nbsp;<em>“In our ongoing effort to enable &nbsp;participants with limited budgets, we’re growing the application-based &nbsp;Low Income Ticket Program by 18 percent. There will be one high-priced &nbsp;ticket level, and we’re reducing the overall number available by 30 &nbsp;percent,</em>” Goodell said.&nbsp;</p>
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