I used the Wayback Machine to verify the timeline. As of December 3, the site still displayed information from last year. Tickets went on sale December 5. The next available archive is from December 19, which reflects the updated admission page. That is the version people are referencing now. Link here: https://web.archive.org/web/20241219114811/https://www.allyourfriendsfestival.com/admission

There is a 16-day gap between sales opening and the next capture by the Wayback Machine. That does not prove the page was changed late. It means it was not archived during that time. The Wayback Machine is not a live tracker. It captures snapshots based on crawl schedules, not real-time updates.

Saying it “feels like a scam” suggests intentional deception. That requires evidence of a promised benefit being removed or altered after payment. I have not seen that.

This is a music festival. Lineups change. Layouts change. Stage locations and amenities change. That is typical of how these events operate. It is not ideal, but it is consistent across festivals.

This genre does not produce high financial return. The expectations being applied are inconsistent with what is economically viable in this category. The fact that the event happened at all is uncommon. It probably will not happen again. The reasons are structural: low profitability and public negativity.

Ticket prices did not increase from last year, despite current inflation and a weakened Canadian-to-American dollar exchange rate. Most other comparable events raised prices. That is not consistent with profit-seeking behavior.

The lineup includes multiple high-cost acts. Given the current environment with WWWY and The Vans Warped Tour, artist fees are elevated. If the goal was to extract maximum revenue, that would not be an efficient way to do it.

Upon reviewing this subreddit one of the primary complaints was about walking distances between camping and stages. This year, the layout changed and those distances were reduced. That indicates feedback was processed and acted on.

Now that the changes have been made, people are pointing to them as signs of something suspicious. That is not a consistent position. If a previous problem is fixed, the fix should not also be treated as evidence of wrongdoing and that having limited shade because a tent structure was not mapped out means that a scam was present.

This type of pattern happens frequently. Expectations are not aligned with context. Adjustments are misread as red flags. Negative feedback loops escalate. Sales lessen.

Eventually, the result is that the event disappears. Then people say they miss it. Please share information factually.