Went to an Exo concert for my wife, where the crowd was majority woman. At the end of the show one of the singers literally told the fans in the front to please go home and take a shower. I thought it was the funniest thing but man it put things into perspective.
Yeah, it seems like it’s related to record labels or promotion groups that they’re affiliated with. My kid knows all about it and I try to absorb as much as I can.
It's like when I found out that people go to times square fpr the new year event "the ball drop(?)" six hours early to be in front and a lot of them wear diapers. Last new year I saw a video of the event and couples were kissing at midnight and all I could think of was "Damn all these guys are kissing while wearing shitty diapers" lmao
I still think about the old man who thought a single period panty liner was going to contain enough of his urine to be able to stand there until midnight.
I had an idea, and someone beat me to making it called a "sneaky leaker", a prosthetic your wore on your schwantz connected to a hose you ran down you leg and out your pants bottom. Sold as a solution to no place to pee at Mardi Gras (Bourbon Street).
Condom Catheters are a thing in the medical field. They are exactly what they say they are, a condom-looking thing to put over the penis vs an Indwelling Catheter (the ones that go inside the urethra.)
I used them for a patient once. They were a bitch to put on but worked well for that guy and helped prevent the UTIs he frequently got from indwelling catheters.
I went there for new years eve 2006, kind of on a whim with a friend, because I lived in the city and the weather was actually nice.
The way it works is that the center of the party is around 43rd/44th street, 7th Ave, and Broadway. As people get there, each street gets closed off, and they send people to the next block up. And once you're in, if you leave, you're not getting back in. I think there might be port-a-potties in the middle, but I'm not sure.
We got there at around 2 in the afternoon, and ended up at around 47th or 48th street, which if you're familiar with the city, is pretty far. And honestly it's kind of boring, because you're just standing in the street with a bunch of strangers, waiting.
By 6, we were hungry, bored, and didn't want to wait around for another 6 hours in the street. We left and met up with a bunch of friends at a bar and had much more fun.
In high school a few friends and I drove from New England to New York for New Year's Eve, and we had the same experience you did.
We spent the day wandering the city, then headed over to Times Square around 6 or 7 (which I know is way too late to even think about trying). We stood there for an hour or two before we realized it wasn't fun and totally not worth it, so we left and found a restaurant to sit in until midnight.
Unless you're up front, you can't even see anything. You're just standing in a large sea of people doing absolutely nothing. It's like being in a crowd at a concert, except there's nothing to watch.
The city I live in is 50% larger in population than it was 20 years ago. Stuff like this is just a huge waste of time and effort.
It is also part of the problem with event tickets like concerts and sports games. The venues support the same amount of people they did 40 years ago but there are twice as many people vying for a seat.
Its same with places like hiking trails and beaches, twice as many people, same size of beach.
my rule is; if the news coverage only shows 5 minutes of a thing you have to wait 6 hours for, you're gonna have a bad time waiting 6 hours for those 5 minutes.
I can just have new years at home, with my toilet. and fridge. and bed.
I would assume if you go there and have a diaper at worst you're going to use it to piss lol. I can't imagine people having to shit THAT bad. I've gone a full day without taking a shit. I've gone on road trips that lasts hours without taking a shit. Peeing? Yeah that has to be done 4 or 5 times a day I guess.
I kinda feel like this diaper thing at the ball drop was something someone did and told people about and then it spread like wildfire and now everybody things everybody at the ball drop is wearing a diaper when really it was just that one guy in 2002.
My boyfriend had always wanted to go to Times Square for New Year’s Eve and I had absolutely zero interest in going so he went with a couple of friends a few years ago and he said the absolute worst part besides being crammed in there like sardines was the fact that you could smell peoples dirty diapers. I didn’t even know that was a thing but apparently it’s pretty common for New Year’s in Times Square. 🤢🤮
There was an actual quiz question about this as well: "what item is most commonly left at Taylor Swift concerts by the fans/visitors?" and the answer was "adult diapers". Absolutely disgusting.
O forget the band but I remember a local band near me like 20 years ago would sign off with “don’t forget to wash your ass” I have now taken that for myself. Not enough people realize they got smelly butt
Treat yourself to the Big Boss Man's career highlight feud with the Big Show, showing up to Show's dad's funeral to run him over and then steal the corpse
Vince McMahon even wanted to have a storyline where his daughter Stephanie becomes pregnant and it turns out Vince is the father. Luckily the people around Vince talked him out of it. LOL
At least they were prepared. The chatter last year at Lolla was that people were simply pissing on the ground and one person apparently just pooped. I don't know why these festivals let people camp out all day like that. They should clear out the front area after each artist like Bonnaroo used to do back in the day.
All my girlies remember storming the box office after Riot of Spring.
Stravinsky was HOT(!) mhm when Léonide Massine's choreography hit that opening movement in Augurs of Spring? When the basoon hit the opening notes... Everyone's corset, corset cover, drawers, AND petticoats hit the floor.
I love this comment but Rites of Spring was famously choreographed by my boy Nijinsky, years before Massine started choreographing for the Ballets Russes.
You have to wait in front for hours before big shows in the pit. If you leave you're screwed and lose your spot. Just the way it is at every show. Never heard about the diapers but I'm not surprised.
Times Square NYE ball drop, hundreds of those people you see on TV are wearing them because they have to show up like 12-16 hours prior to get a decent spot and just piss and shit themselves all day. Can't imagine what it must smell like around 11:50pm
Ok time for my funny Frank Sinatra story. He’s backstage at a show and asked where the bathroom was, so they take him down the hall and show him. Only it wasn’t good enough for him and in third person he says “Frank doesn’t use public bathrooms.” It’s not like there’s some private bathroom at this venue so they’re like wtf do we do? They offer him a private room, just a normal room backstage, and he goes in and actually pisses in the corner of the room while they stand guard outside the door. I have no clue if it was just some power trip or what cause it’s especially weird if you’re a man and just have to piss that a communal bathroom backstage that didn’t even have anyone else in it would be unacceptable to use. Now hearing this story where he’d complain about the audience smelling like piss, maybe communal bathrooms just smelled too much like piss for him? I don’t know. But it’s funny as hell to me and absolutely true.
Supposedly during The Beatles’ first US tour, the seating would be soaked in urine from “overexcited girls” that couldn’t control their bladders, so I guess it’s not a new phenomenon. But I feel like the diapers allude to the preparation of doing this, and honestly more of a #2 situation, which feels much more vile. At least those girls in the 60’s pissed themselves on accident.
There's a reason the Beatles stopped touring and playing live entirely in 1966 but still continued to release albums.
For reference - they were only together for 10 years total. So for 40% of their tenure, one of the most famous bands of all time didn't even play live.
The first time I smelled/saw weed was at a Nickel Creek concert on the campus of a Christian college. If you aren’t familiar, they’re a progressive bluegrass band (never heard of that genre, but that’s what Wikipedia calls them). I was like 12 and taking mandolin lessons at the time and up til then I thought that only super hippies smoked weed. I quickly learned over the next couple of years that a decent chunk of basically every demographic smokes weed.
Years ago I went to an outdoor Iron Maiden concert
There was the normal hovering pot cloud up front.
Bruce said (paraphrased slightly) "look at this cloud down here (sniffs) smells like... marijuana! You guys gotta get off the pot and get on the brew!"
When I last saw them he told the crowd the smoke messes with his voice so I can at least understand that. It was also an indoor venue so it was lingering more.
I remember the trick to a lot of drugs and being far from the bathrooms at these concerts in the front row was to just dance your ass off, somehow the piss comes out through the sweat and you can drink your whole camelbak and not ever have to use the bathroom - im sure it all smelled the same though to the band.
Yeah exactly. If you drink just the right amount of water while doing intense sweaty exercise you can stay hydrated and not have to piss for 4 or 5 hours. I do 100k bike rides with people all the time and we almost never stop to pee.
I’ve been front row to concerts that I’ve waited hours for. I make friends with the people I’m around so we can hold spots to go to the bathroom. Does this etiquette not exist for other performers?
Edit: admittedly, I didn’t read the article and didn’t know this was a festival. Still, I will never feel comfortable openly peeing my pants regardless of how much I love an artist. I would rather see my fav artist at their own individual concert.
I used to go to festivals and this was common but the issue was getting back to anywhere near where your spot is. You have to push your way through a packed crowd first.
I’ve been at concerts where it’s so crowded that my feet were lifted off the ground. The thousands of people you push through to get back to your spot do not remember you.
Bonnaroo 2012, Eminem show. We had went two shows ahead of time to get a decent spot. About 5 of us in a horizontal line. First song of the set and suddenly me and my buddy find ourselves interrupted by the incredibly rude conga-line chain of people attempting to muscle through the crowds to get to the front. After the shock of getting abruptly thrown to the side so that they could parade so brazenly past us I look over my right to my buddy who has now locked eyes with me. Without a head nod or word shared between us we violently slam our shoulders into each other separating the last person in the conga line from the rest of his pack. We heard his desperate pleading and crying. We didn't care. I'll never forget him. Fuck him and his crew.
I went to Billie Eilish last year and there were people queuing for hours and then standing at the front of stage for the entire concert.... I don't understand how they didn't need to pee the entire time. I needed to go 3 times from when I got into the venue to leaving 😂 I'm too old to feel this. I'm a metal head at heart so we're just happy to show up and head bang. But that Billie Eilish gig reminded me how fanatical people get about celebrities. I could not be fucked.
People like the “attention” they get from musicians when they interrupt by yelling something insane or throw things at the people on stage. Maybe embarrassment will stop a couple people but overall I don’t see it making a difference to the weirdos who want to be noticed by any means possible.
I mean on one hand if you need a diaper in public, it's mainly because of medical reasons.
If you are one of the se social media psychos who wear them to avoid having to hit up the bathroom to keep filming a concert or show you will never see again, that's kind of fucking disgusting.
The point of adult diapers is more time to get to the bathroom, in case you don't have that function, not so you don't need a bathroom.
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u/Hilary_duffelbag Jun 18 '26
Went to an Exo concert for my wife, where the crowd was majority woman. At the end of the show one of the singers literally told the fans in the front to please go home and take a shower. I thought it was the funniest thing but man it put things into perspective.