I get the impression that tribal communities are very intricately tied up with online networking, so everyone has something to say to their 1000 tribal friends about this.
TF was set up as a "safe space" for self-proclaimed weirdos and has to this day an outright ban on oriental dance and oriental dance music and (literally) sequins because an oriental dancer was once mean or blunt or insufficiently worshipful of tribal back in the day. Its entire being is based on that mentality. But a lot of big names are coming out with stories of how it ceased to be or feel nurturing and safe for them quite some time ago, and expressing a lot of disappointment in the festival. It seems that this secret group was just the catalyst they needed to start talking about it.
I think the whole "we are a tribe of special different people" thinking has fuelled the powerful levels of distress. Whether it was justifiable or not, people were encouraged to think of themselves as a family, and now the family is destroyed, so to speak.
TF was set up as a "safe space" for self-proclaimed weirdos and has to this day an outright ban on oriental dance and oriental dance music and (literally) sequins because an oriental dancer was once mean or blunt or insufficiently worshipful of tribal back in the day. Its entire being is based on that mentality. But a lot of big names are coming out with stories of how it ceased to be or feel nurturing and safe for them quite some time ago, and expressing a lot of disappointment in the festival. It seems that this secret group was just the catalyst they needed to start talking about it.
I think the whole "we are a tribe of special different people" thinking has fuelled the powerful levels of distress. Whether it was justifiable or not, people were encouraged to think of themselves as a family, and now the family is destroyed, so to speak.