Coronachella

The long anticipated California music festival, Coachella, has been postponed to Oct. 9 to Oct. 18 due to fears of the spread of COVID-19. However, festival goers are pushing back, arguing that a festival during the fall “just won’t be the same.” Angry Coachella fans have formed something like a coalition, hoping to get their beloved festival back. The coalition is most active on twitter, and their tweets can be found under the hashtag “#coronachella.” This group of twitter users are posing solutions to the issue at hand, hoping to find ways to prevent the spread of illness while still having fun at the festival. Hundreds of people who use the hashtag are pitching in their ideas, and some of them are very creative. Twitter user @protectcoachella, the first user to tweet using #coronachella, proposed a partnership between Coachella and Purell, with free hand sanitizer dispensers scattered around the festival grounds. This proposition sparked many discussions between passionate Coachella fans. Some users have proposed a ban to mosh pits, and others have suggested a limit to the amount of people per mosh pit. Since fashion is such a huge part of Coachella, people have begun to brainstorm fashionable ways to stay safe, whether it be through designer face masks or brightly colored hazmat suits. #coronachella has become a place for passionate festival purists who believe that Coachella should only be a spring event to rant about their festival-related woes. Surprisingly, these purists are more common than one would expect; there were over one thousand tweets under the hashtag in the first hour of its creation.Members of this group have been called the “coronachella clowns” by other twitter users who see no problem with the postponing of the festival. “This #coronachella thing is ridiculous. Just wait until October like normal humans. It should be a music festival, not a breeding ground for viruses. Grow up. #coronachellaclowns,” Tweeted user @buzzkill.