rant · moment 10 of 24
Quitting the San Vicente Bungalows
from Tim Walz The Funnel Cake Dad | The Tim Dillon Show #404 · #404
6 min
Tim explains why he canceled his membership to the exclusive San Vicente Bungalows club, arguing that physical social clubs and scenes are pointless now that everyone's status is measured by social media followers instead of in-person cachet.
- Tim quit his membership at the San Vicente Bungalows in Los Angeles after realizing it was pointless despite the $5,000 yearly fee.
- The club puts stickers on non-members' phone cameras to prevent them from photographing famous guests, treating them like animals.
- Tim argues these exclusive clubs no longer matter because everyone already sees what celebrities are doing online—there's no whisper campaign that starts at the San Vicente anymore.
- These club memberships are dilettante spaces where people who aren't creative want to be around creative people, all of it an act of desperation.
- Modern Hollywood status is purely digital—who has followers determines who's in or out, making traditional agents and managers irrelevant.
- Agents and managers who used to hold real power now wander around like corpses, comparing them to a line from The Ferryman about undead souls waiting for the ferryman.
- These industry gatekeepers have become the undead wandering Earth waiting for the ferryman to take them to the underworld because they serve no purpose anymore.
- Everything in entertainment is now controlled by algorithms and numbers, with no meaningful conversation possible outside of pointing at a phone and showing who you got.
- Occasionally a brand deal gets cooked up over mocktails, but that's the extent of what these people do anymore.
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