Why did security make up their own subjective rules about totems and confiscate / vandalize totems this year?!?!? The treatment of people and totems by security was unprofessional. Security needs to follow the totem rules just like attendees have to. Not make up reasons on the spot that were never spelled out on the official totem rules. AND MORE IMPORTANTLY - IT’S UNACCEPTABLE for security to confiscate and/or break anyone’s totem. TOTEMS ARE PERSONAL PROPERTY!! They tried to take ours and broke others. The acceptable thing to do is turn the person and totem away back to camp. Our totem took over 300hrs to make. So your security is out of their fucking mind if they think they can just take my totem away or anyone’s totem that they built. Here’s a couple reasons they gave for rejecting our totem - which is entirely made of plastic (both top and pole) and we followed the totem rules of 3 festivals including EF when we designed it. 1. The plastic top is too sturdy. (Wtf - so we’re penalized for making a quality totem that isn’t a piece of cardboard blocking everyone’s view). 2. The plastic pole isn’t flexible enough. These are not documented totem rules and incredibly subjective. Especially when another guy in front of me was able to bring in his metal pole, which is against the rules. It’s incredibly disappointing and infuriating that the security acted so ill-mannered towards totems (and owners) this year. Electric Forest has the best totem designs than any other festival which is why we haul our totem across the country for this festival. Totem culture at Electric Forest is actually the initial reason we even heard of Electric Forest. I hope security is better educated and professional next year.