They need tro fix this.
I will not get over 10 months of anticipation in one day. I will not pretend like watching everyone else get to see what seemed to be an impossible lineup is not killing me inside. I will not pretend like I am not human and this isn't the biggest let down of my entire. Fucking. Year.
This is not acceptable. This is not OK. I am fine with them canceling it due to high winds. I was there. I wasted 2 fucking days of my life to get there and back because I was given nothing but empty promises from When We Were Young. They did nothing but tweet out constant hype, post on their IG page that THIS WAS HAPPENING, and absolutely spam the SHIT out of my email with how to make yesterday the best day possible.
I am NOT OK with how this was handled at ALL. They knew for an entire week that the wind warnings were SEVERE. Yet they did nothing to address this. They did nothing for the people who worked their asses off full time to even get there who could only look at the weather to guesstimate what it would look like. I can admit I didn't do an indepth analysis of what the weather would be like, but my app didn't show me anything but sunny/cloudy skies and when I woke up that morning all seemed well. But who isn't busy these days trying to work their asses off to pay for things??? Groceries are expensive. Pet/baby sitters are expensive. Gas is expensive. Hotels are expensive. We worked for 10 months of saving to just get told *tough?*
They did nothing to address the potential of this being canceled. After being there and knowing for an ENTIRE WEEK. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous. If I had the option to refund my hotel on Oct. 21 (Guess what, I did, free cancelation fee) I would've been blaming no one but myself for making the trip all the way down there. If they had just let us know they were monitoring the situation, that there was potential it could be canceled because of something they knew about for AN ENTIRE WEEK, I would feel so much differently. I know it's an outdoor venue and this can happen, but we would feel a whole lot differenlty if this was something out of the blue and unexpected. This is a million dollar company with people on foot who are there setting shit up. People knowing how bad its been in the past and what a disaster this would've been.
The kicker is though, if the fire marshall's HADN'T said anything, can anyone even imagine what yesterday would've looked like? They said themselves it wasn't up to *them* to cancel it. It was because of *The City of Vegas.* These people do not give a shit about our health or safety at all. They did not give a shit about the wind conditions at all, from start to finish.
There is too much lost for people for this to just be refunded and them spam the shit out of their IG about how cool today was. People lost thousands and thousands of dollars to come to this shit. To that depressed, sobbing, emo who used the last of their pennies to come to this and make this work. I see you. To that whole family who came ready to make this an experience to remember, I see you. To anyone who was looking forward to their first concert ever, I see you. To anyone who had the roughest year of their lives and this was just the cherry on top, I see you. To anyone who came here for literally just a good time, I see you. I literally address anyone and everyone who needs a place to vent, be sad, or just find anyway to cope with the literal unrecoverable time of your lives because WWWY will not.
I am making this a safe space to just get it all out because this is just *too* *fucking* *unfair*. I do not want to hear anyone saying At LeAsT iT wAs In VeGaS. I hate Vegas! It was no fun! The amount of money that I spent trying to make it fun was literally like triple the amount of what I would've spent at the festival. Ubering literally everywhere. Buying admission tickets to get in to places. Feeling like a trip to the stores was just another day at the mall. All the money on food and (extra, extra)drinks.
I am so bummed to be home with no stories except how shitty this experience was. I get to come home and do... nothing... And I spent the weekend doing... nothing... Looking forward to a trip all year that was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime. I am so bummed that I have to tell all my friends and coworkers what had happened and relive the same shame and embarassment I feel for, idk, being excited about an event that was canceled from literally everyone saying be happy for others and it happens? I am so bummed that people who doubted this for months get to be proven wrong, but I'm so upset we trusted WWWY from start to finish and all those doubters are proven wrong with everyone there today.
I want to feel seen. I want to feel heard. I want to feel like we matter. I applaud all the bands who tried anything to make it work last night. And no. Of course I don't wish any hate or negativity on the people there today. Can't I just be jealous and bitter? Why do I have to be bigger than a whole company and suck up 10 months of expectation?
Realistically and rationally, of course we will all move on and I guess in a way forget this happened. Forget to a point where it maybe doesn't hurt *that bad* when we think of it. But right now I don't feel this way and something needs to change.
I'm really sorry for the long as rant. Again, just looking for people to share in the pain.