@LilahJane
Lilah Klein
@LilahJane · 4:08

Astroworld?

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Yeah, I'm just curious what everyone thinks about this. I know it happened pretty recently, so not everything is clear. He hasn't even put out a statement yet. I don't even know what that's about. I know that the last two days of the festival were canceled, and yeah, I'm just curious. I don't know if this is like a result of postcoded excitement in a sense or like not knowing how to react. You know what I mean?
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:19

🧐

Lot. Thanks so much for posting this. I think we have to all kind of connect in and talk about this because there's so many levels to it. I think the highest level for a lot of us is what kind of culture exists where when even one person is sick, people don't just stop and say, let's give space, let's give a moment and let this person find it his way or her way out to safety
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@Taylor
Taylor J
@Taylor · 4:34
I have been to major metal festivals where I have seen mosh pits around gigantic burning piles of trash, of course, the infamous Wall of Death, where the crowd parked into and then basically on the countdown run into each other from separate parts of the venue and probably 500, 600 metal shows in my life. And I've never seen the level of chaos and injury that we saw last night
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

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@JLMcMillan
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 4:55

Crowd science and bad apples https://s.swell.life/SSo2Na1fE5bCGrW

And the idea of expanding to a larger venue like Taylor was mentioning, sounds wonderful to me, but I'm just really leery of really large events, and I have been for a really long time. I've definitely spent my time in Marsh pits and in the front, but I guess I came out unscathed and lucky and they tended to be smaller venues. I like to stick to music festivals that are smaller or have smaller stages with lots of area around it
@JLMcMillan
Jessica McMillan
@JLMcMillan · 0:09
Lila. I just wanted to say sorry for mispronouncing your name. I've been tongue tied today, and I've been saying the most simple words incorrectly. So please forgive me
@Noalily
Noa Lily
@Noalily · 1:51
Hello just wanted to respond here quickly. Obviously, some time has passed since this has happened. So Travis Scott has, like, released a few statements, but just just a very shocking event
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@OKRL
Oscar K
@OKRL · 1:51
And it's difficult because obviously it's important to look into specifically why it happened at this venue. And, like Noah said, not outside lands or stuff. But yeah, it's because part of the appeal of being in a crowd is sort of moshing and the craziness of it. And that is part of the appeal. But you are riding a fine line there where there are so many people in one space
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@chlomonsta
Chloe Kaminskas
@chlomonsta · 3:50
I feel like I'm getting nervous in group settings again, which is like, weird because I don't think I've felt that for a really long time, because I've been so isolated for so long. But if you remember, I remember being really scared to go to concerts because of that incident. And now I'm kind of like, kind of re remembering, like, oh, I used to be afraid of going to concerts for that reason
@lissahoop
Melissa Mccarter
@lissahoop · 1:44

Not sure

Interestingly. I have family in Houston, and two of members of my family actually went to the concert, and they were not injured, but they were had to basically escape the crush of people, and they could have been an injured if they hadn't gotten out as fast as they did. So I found out about it in that context. But I saw on the news something today about how Travis Scott has made some kind of comment or something
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@LilahJane
Lilah Klein
@LilahJane · 1:14

@lissahoop

So, yeah, it's just obviously a very unfortunate situation and definitely something that could have been prevented. And it does not seem like he's very sorry. I don't know. I feel like there's lots of better ways that he could have handled this than going on Instagram stories and more professional and more like effective things he could have done. But, yeah, that's just my little insight based on what happened so far. Obviously, there's a lot of moving parts to this situation
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