www.ticketnews.com: Openstage has introduced Ticket Unlocks, a new artist-controlled ticketing access system designed to prioritize verified fans and reduce bot and reseller activity during high-demand on-sales. The system, previously used by major acts including Radiohead, Oasis, Bad Bunny, Lana Del Rey, and Hayley Williams, is now available to all artists on the Openstage platform.
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I feel like being beneficial to the fans is only a lie to the good side of this system. Since people have to prove themselves as fans to a celebrity, the power of the celebrities that can manipulate their fans is growing. People have to invest more into their favored celebrities on a daily basis in order to be considered a fan who can get pre-sale access to a show. That is hilarious! People are now teaching themselves how to be a fan in order to support their favorite celebrities. The nature of people appreciating others’ work and talents is not to be measured in a fixed way, or measured by how much devotion they put into supporting the celebrities daily. The fans could be most of the customers who are going to pay for the shows, but still they are ordinary people who can choose to be any kind of fans they want and still be classified as fans.
As other commenters have mentioned, this system definitely seems fishy in its nature. A lot of software before that has been referred too as open. Has that defintion because it isn't owned by a company or specific person, and the programming that makes it up is actually entirely public and open source. But this seems to give more control to the celebrities rather than the audience members. We've already seen how something like this plays out before. For example, Donald Trump pulled something similar. In which he created a system where you get an invite to his dinner, only if you proved you were a big fan. By buying a ton of his weird Trump Coin crypto currency. Of course it was later shown that it was likely a crypto scheme. Designed in order to get the Trump family profit. But it definitely shows that most celebrities are probably not on the side of the people. They are on the side of being pro-money.
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