Don’t blame the people, it’s just what Americans do. We take beautiful grassroots movements and then corporatize them until they’re gross disgusting husks of their former selves that somehow are completely antithetical to the values they once held. Its the american way. Most of the people who go to festivals like this are usually young and hip in the beginning but by the time they reach their corporate status like with Burning Man or South by Southwest it’s almost exclusively attended by rich out of touch people with their parents money, people who attended in their youth and are trying to reclaim their glory days, and people too young to realize that this is just a brand deal ran by an MBA, squeezed for every penny it’s worth.