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Big ol festival thing in the desert for artists. Used to be small and cool then it got big and it attracted techbros and weirdos.
there were always 'techbros' at burning man, it was started by techbros in the bay area who also were into art and more importantly blowing things up which is why it moved out into the desert wilderness. I used to go in the 90's and this idea that it was some hippie art thing that got coopted by nerds is just a bad history rewrite. It was always nerds.
To be fair, the hippie movement itself, believe it or not, all techbros.
What do people do at it? Art and blowing things up, someone said there is orgy. Drug and alcohol.
All of the art at Burning Man is created by the participants and they bring it there
All the giant structures, the pretty lights, it's all community made, brought over piece by piece and reconstructed at the festival
its thousands of camps of 1-50ish people eso each decide what the theme is for their camp. each year there is an overall theme as well.