Children “In Tears” at Disastrous Wonka Factory “Experience”

Willy's Chocolate Experience, a two-day event in Glasgow, Scotland, drew hundreds of families with AI-generated marketing images that did not match the real event. Ticket buyers, who paid £35 (~$44) each, reported children given only a couple of jelly candies and a quarter cup of canned lemonade in a sparsely decorated warehouse, and police attended the site. The event was shut down and canceled, and the creator, Billy Coull, whose company House of Illuminati was created last November, has promised refunds, though Coull did not respond to Hyperallergic's request for comment.