Influencers are turning to TikTok after they state a brand’s Coachella occasion resulted in “shoving,” long wait times and hazardous conditions — and the brandname is reacting.
Online high-end merchant Revolve’s yearly music celebration took location Saturday and Sunday at the Merv Griffin Estate in La Quinta, California, near the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio. The two-day exclusive, invite-only celebration — including members of the Kardashian family and Timothée Chalamet in the crowd and efficiencies by Jack Harlow and more — was meant for developers and influencers to network and produce material together.
But TikTokers are now comparing this year’s occasion to 2017’s unfortunate Fyre Festival.
Influencers throughout TikTok claim they were left stranded in the heat with no food or water choices and little company as they waited to gainaccessto the celebration.
“I saw 3 individuals pass out in line myself,” TikTok user Hannah Kosh said in a video.
TikToker Amber Read captioned her Revolve Festival TikTok: “It’s offering Fyre Fest.”
“As the celebration was reaching capability late Saturday afternoon, shuttlebus gainaccessto to the place was restricted in order to stay in compliance with security requirements, triggering longer wait times for entry and resulting in some visitors not being able to attend the celebration,” a Revolve agent informed E! News in a declaration Tuesday. “The security of our visitors is of the utmost significance to us and we will constantly make that a toppriority.”
USA TODAY has reached out to Revolve for remark.
The Riverside Police Department informed USA TODAY they were “not familiar” with the celebration.
Coachella’s most remarkable minutes, including Harry Styles and Shania Twain
Billie Eilish delivers effective, polished set at Coachella Weekend 1
The influencers in participation highlighted the resemblances inbetween the Revolve occasion and Fyre Festival, which was promoted in 2017 as a elegant music celebration where tickets went for as much as $13,000.
Fyre Festival offered the concept that prominent individuals would be in presence, including Kendall Jenner, who likewise participatedin the Revolve occasion. Influencer Averie Bishop shared a TikTok video of Revolve celebration, in which she and a goodfriend call it “Fyre Festival 2.0.”
Bishop informs USA TODAY Revolve offered welcomed visitors $2,000 worth of totallyfree clothes to wear throughout the weekend as well as a guest pass for a plus one. Revolve likewise needed influencers to take the offered transport, according to Bishop, and the brandname did not permit for drop off or trip share choices like Uber or Lyft to get to the celebration.
Coachella headliners: The Weeknd, Swedish House Mafia gamely co-headline Coachella 2022 after Kanye West’s exit
TikTok influencer Kristi Howard in a video stated she waited in line for hours at Revolve and was still notable to get into the celebration.
“After flying throughout the nation&standing in line for 5 hours I’m out a couple thousand $$,” Howard captioned the video.
“Ubered (for) $50 simply to get out of this mayhem,” Howard stated in the vi