Flybrary by Christina Sporrong of Taos, New Mexico is one of the works at Burning Man 2019, North America’s largest outdoor arts festival, held in the Black Rock Desert of Gerlach, Nevada.
Jane WhoEnthusiastic Burning Man attendees will have three equally enthusiastic haters waiting to tweet about those who chose to spend the week in the playa.
And this year, after COVID-19 made Burning Man a digital-only festival, the festival is back in full force, and so are dunks for attendees.
A new level of outrage has unleashed in recent years, not against the hippies and trust fund kids who made Burning Man a libertarian-leaning cultural phenomenon. VCs and tech brothers who are fest-obsessed. After all, a $2,500 entry fee is probably worth nothing to a startup founder who has raised millions in seed-stage funding, or to a VC funding a startup founder. .
Even if the tech industry is responding quickly to economic problems, it doesn’t seem to have stopped the 1% of Silicon Valley companies from declining. San Francisco residents and tech industry watchers have been watching how empty the city’s streets are or how quiet Twitter is this week.
Below, see some of the best Burning Man tweets from locals, critics, and even Conan O’Brien.
