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| 1 2 3 4 5 6 | UER Forum > UE Videos > Camping at Abandoned Disney Theme Park (Discovery Island) in the Heart of Disney World (Viewed 24104 times) |
Be.safehave.fun
Total Likes: 34 likes
| | | Re: Camping at Abandoned Disney Theme Park (Discovery Island) in the Heart of Disney World < Reply # 20 on 4/19/2020 1:27 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Max Power @strangeplaces
^THE SPOT HAS BEEN BLOWN-UP FOR YEARS NOW. . There are at least 50 Youtube videos (racking-up millions of views across the entire world), and dozens of articles about the island, and the explorers who have been there. There have been reports about explorers visiting the island on local Florida TV networks. Not to mention the MILLIONS OF PEOPLE who remember visiting the island before it closed. Its one of the most famous abandoned places on Earth. This isn't some obscure power plant, or house in the middle of nowhere. This was a giant tourist trap that has been written about the past two decades. And to the people who say urban exploration is about "preserving history," how are you preserving history by hoarding photos and videos that you took at abandoned locations? That's like taking all history books in schools and throwing them in a vault and not letting anyone look at them. We document history so that people can know, and understand what happened in the past. If you want people to appreciate the history of abandoned places, you have to first teach people the history of the locations, why it's significant, what happened there, and what's left of it. Say what you want about my channel, but my videos have actually educated hundreds of thousands of people on the history of some abandoned places. The photo/video hoarders have not educated anyone. So you want people to appreciate, and respect abandoned places, but you don't want to tell anyone about abandoned places. Tell me how that makes any sense. And btw, the best way to ensure that historic places aren't demolished is by showing people how incredible and important a location is. That cannot be done by hoarding photos, and being anti-social. And yes, I make my videos fun and entertaining. No one is going to watch a bland-ass video of some guy with a robotic personality walking around an abandoned building. And I don't want to edit and create a boring video. And I'm also not ashamed to admit that I will continue to try and gain followers, and I want to make money off of my channel so I can make money doing what I love: filmmaking and exploring. Furthermore, on a different point: explorers have been exploring, and documenting their findings (and making them public) for thousands of years. From Marco Polo to Shackleton. If it were up to some people on this forum, half the world wouldn't even be on a map.
| Well said. Keep on doing what you love!
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| VAD
Location: Toronto Total Likes: 161 likes
Forgive us our trespasses
| | | | Re: Camping at Abandoned Disney Theme Park (Discovery Island) in the Heart of Disney World < Reply # 24 on 4/19/2020 4:15 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Thinklikefreak Truth is everybody on here does it for the views. All these older generation explorers hating on the younger generations for sharing pictures on Instagram and videos on Youtube are hypocrites. Urban exploring is a sport. The game is who can take pictures of the most insane places and get the most insane photos. Then you post them online and create a explorer identity and try to rack up as many likes followers as you can.
| Man I gotta disagree strongly with this - exploring is about, well, exploring. Some people enjoy taking photos and sharing them and that's fine. Some people do it for the views, and that's fine* as long as they're responsible about it. But many of the best explorers I know usually go without a camera, and just take in the location they're at, in the moment - and thats the true essence of what exploring is, everything else is tangential. We as a community are about exploring, and experiencing the coolest places. If your primary motivation is social media, there's nothing wrong with that, but don't judge people who explore for exploring's sake, and don't try to redefine what exploring is.
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1844 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: Camping at Abandoned Disney Theme Park (Discovery Island) in the Heart of Disney World < Reply # 25 on 4/19/2020 6:00 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by The Viscount Andrew Dalton
Man I gotta disagree strongly with this - exploring is about, well, exploring. Some people enjoy taking photos and sharing them and that's fine. Some people do it for the views, and that's fine* as long as they're responsible about it. But many of the best explorers I know usually go without a camera, and just take in the location they're at, in the moment - and thats the true essence of what exploring is, everything else is tangential. We as a community are about exploring, and experiencing the coolest places. If your primary motivation is social media, there's nothing wrong with that, but don't judge people who explore for exploring's sake, and don't try to redefine what exploring is.
| I can't agree with this more. Most explorers I know are expressly NOT in it for the social media views- rather, they're in it for the adrenaline, the art, or historical interest. Those that do take photographs take them for the sake of sharing their experiences with fellow explorers on small forums like this one or just for the art. Social media fame doesn't even factor into it and shouldn't be a motivation, because increased public attention accelerates the circle of decay. The "chasing likes" mentality is actively harmful to this hobby and the locations we explore.
| "Sorry, I didn't know I'm not supposed to be here," he said, knowing full well he wasn't supposed to be there. |
| xNat
Location: Toronto Gender: Female Total Likes: 40 likes
With Night, Freedom
| | | Re: Camping at Abandoned Disney Theme Park (Discovery Island) in the Heart of Disney World < Reply # 27 on 4/20/2020 2:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by The Viscount Andrew Dalton We as a community are about exploring, and experiencing the coolest places. If your primary motivation is social media, there's nothing wrong with that, but don't judge people who explore for exploring's sake, and don't try to redefine what exploring is.
| Posted by Aran Most explorers I know are expressly NOT in it for the social media views- rather, they're in it for the adrenaline, the art, or historical interest. Those that do take photographs take them for the sake of sharing their experiences with fellow explorers on small forums like this one or just for the art.
| Jumping in to agree with these! Maybe it's the crowd I hang with, but almost none of the explorers I know are in it for the social media attention, the likes, the clout, whatever it's called these days. The photos I take are memories of locations and places, and they're first and foremost for me. I explore because it's interesting and because I like to do it, and claiming that all explorers do so for the "likes" because that's how you view exploring yourself is ridiculous and self-centered, especially when this is a subculture that's existed for decades before social media existed.
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| Max Power @strangeplaces
Total Likes: 224 likes
I do it for the views *Specializes in stealing Nazi VHS tapes from Nazi monuments for the views*
| | | | Re: Camping at Abandoned Disney Theme Park (Discovery Island) in the Heart of Disney World < Reply # 38 on 4/21/2020 2:13 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by uLiveAndYouBurn You see you're right that many people who now advise discretion once bragged about shit in what us old timers use to call "blogs." The big difference, however, is we all learned not to do that the FIRST time it bit us in the ass. But you keep on getting caught and keep on getting charged yet you don't change your tactics. It's almost like you might be rich enough to not face the same consequences as most of the rest of us? Tell me max, how much does your daddy make?
| Alright first of all, I've only been arrested once because of urbex, and my parents don't even know I got arrested. If they knew police pointed ARs at me they would have had a heart attack. I've been charged twice with local ordinance violation level trespassing which doesn't even go on your record. Ya my dad bailed me out of a tough situation in 2017 when the feds (pretty much just a rouge twig pig who had federal authority) were trying to charge me with a whole bunch of bullshit for making a vid on the Joliet arsenal. "yOu KeEp GeTtiNg CaUgHt.." what in the fuck are you even talking about? Last time I got caught was over a year ago, the one time I was arrested for urbex. And save the regurgitated Karl Marx bullshit for another site. We all know you're attempting to construct an edgy persona out of your vapid and dull personality by constantly tying every subject matter to your tired and uncreative political philosophy: essentially copy-pasting swaths of old Lenin propaganda into completely unrelated posts and comments. Who are you trying to be anyway? Pretending to be a radical marxist innovator by sneaking century-old talking points into every facet of your life does not make you a hero, it makes you another idiot with no new ideas of his own, clinging to a political agenda to give him a purpose in life through the process of mentally masterbating to his own "enlightenment" and self righteousness and cuming your drivel onto people who didn't ask for, don't want, and don't care about your opinions.
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| Take nothing but Nazi VHS tapes, leave nothing but footprints, drink nothing but Dos Equis. Stay thirsty my friends. |
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