Is the Las Vegas Sphere Worth It?

As a nevada resident I'd like to point out the fact the same county in Vegas declared a financial emergency stating they couldn't house all of the kids in the city without homes to the point they had to rely on hotel rooms in casinos the exact same week this massive eyesore was unveiled. It was the most dystopian news day for me.

I am so excited for The Sphere 50 years in the future when the panels aren't getting replaced in a reasonable enough time, and it's a horrible, broken monstrosity.

I am being completely honest when i say this, i went to this a few months ago and yes, very steep, insane prices on food/drink and during the show, an elderly woman in front of me was having like a pre seizure or something and people had to shake her out of it and also, when the show ended, a guy right in front of me fell head first two rows down and had to be pulled out. It was absolute chaos lmao

if you wrote a novel about something like this sphere, critics would be like this metaphor is too heavy handed. absolutely wild.

Cyberpunk 2077 being advertised on a giant advertising sphere that can be seen for miles is one of the most cyberpunk things I've ever seen

It’s wild to me that they mentioned climate change in their ads considering the amount of CO2 this thing emits and the amount of money they spent on it

No way that glitchy ass video is actually one of the clips they put on the sphere. That could genuinely kill someone oh my god. I guess no one with epilepsy is allowed to live in Vegas now

im a las vegas local and outside of my apartment bedroom window was a direct view of the sphere (i dont live there anymore so i dont mind sharing) but it was so dystopian to me when EVERY TIME I WOULD LOOK OUT MY WINDOW would be this massive orb. when it was under construction it was strikingly similar to the death star. i couldn’t really tell if people were actually invested in the orb on social media or if the algorithm just picked up that i live here. i hate it, especially the emoji guy.

Incredible that Eddy was crazy enough to go to every single Vegas Sphere in the country

"we were so blinded, that we didn't want to see any light but our own" said by a big giant sphere of lights. I absolutely love the irony and am saddened by it.

It reminds me of that Black Mirror episode where the characters are surrounded by screens in their bedrooms and if they look away there's a blaring alarm telling them they need to look back up at the screens

The artificial canal opera singer thing looked so awkward for the couple. You’re essentially being paddled down a swimming pool that runs through a mall while a loud guy sings and everyone stares at you.

The fact that we've gone from people feeling uncertain about creating radio advertisements because people couldn't just turn a page if they didn't like what they saw, to a multi-billion dollar eyesore that literally forces people to witness ads in less than two human lifetimes is.... terrifying.

as someone who was born and raised here, there are so many aspects to this. when people think “Vegas” they only think of the strip and the entertainment/gambling scene. what they don’t know about is the severely underfunded schools and crippling gentrification of the northern suburbs. nevada is ranked in the bottom five states in education, not even mentioning the increasingly apparent acts of gun violence. and no one does anything. so yes, the sphere is dystopian and the strip is a big billboard, but the cost of that isn’t just paid by the companies buying ads. the community suffers the most. this city feels like a city trying to be a city. people in power don’t care about locals and i wish there was more light brought to this. this video was awesome eddy thank you

i was recently on a flight to SF, and i was taken by surprised when i was able to spot the sphere from hundreds of miles away in an airplane with not the best visibility. i am sincerely so sorry for everybody in Vegas who have to deal with it daily, bcs i could figure that the sphere is an eyesore and incredibly annoying to deal with, but it never really hits how dystopian an idea it is until you experience the sphere yourself

The idea of grandparents sending their young grandchildren videos of uncanney-valley-terminator wishing them good sleep is deeply funny to me.

i am cosmically terrified of the sphere. it evokes a fear in me that i assume can only compare to people gazing upon eldritch beasts and losing their minds

What makes the Sphere feel more dystopian is where it's located. I live in Vegas, which I know a lot of people in the comments are saying but hear me out. When we say Vegas, we mean everywhere around it. Henderson, Summerlin, North Las Vegas, Boulder City, etc. It's a place of millions of people of mostly middle to low class status who deal with terrible inflation in their groceries and gas, constant construction getting in the way of daily travel, a poor functioning school district with a current teacher strike (though apparently they've reached an agreement?), and to top it all off, we have a terrible homelessness and crime problem that is not getting any better dispite awareness and action from multiple organizations. What makes it frustrating to locals is that it has nothing to do with Clark Country (the district Vegas is located in) being underfunded. They have money. The world sees this in the billion dollar epileptic nightmare, and we locals see this in things like our housing problem, where they are constantly building expensive fancy houses yet not doing anything about unaffordable existing homes. Or in our school district where the superintendent keeps getting his salary raised while we are facing a teacher shortage and violence in our classrooms. Yes, I'm aware that the state and local government is not paying for the whole project, but they still decided they'd focus on it before dealling with our other issues. The point is that this project is a dystopia, as also made clear by Eddy's video, because it puts the entertainment of the wealthy, most of whom don't even live in the state, before the welfare of struggling locals. Anyways, great video! Love seeing my home talked about more :)

I really like the way this channel does ads, even though I despise ads. The time at the bottom is very nice and I'm much more tolerant of the interruption knowing it's justifying two unwanted U2 tickets.

That montage at the end was truly incredible, fucking brilliant dude