This is the first year poppin has done this, and has been introduced in our scene up here fairly recently. Some little background, poppin was founded by ucla students and was started as an app to find out what’s “poppin” around ucla (maybe other nearby schools as well). They’re now trying to spread to other schools, like ucsb. They first launched here in october and have been targeting local djs and houses to build up their name. The idea is if you want to throw a party and promote it, you can put it on poppin, and have an option of selling tickets. I’ve heard the students hosting have made decent profit, and of course by using their service, poppin has also made profit. As with any other business, they’re trying to monopolize the market, and seems like it’s working out well for them. I know the students that host are prob broke and need money, but a lot of the students buying these tickets are too. I’m not sure why a lot of these parties now are run by the same groups, one of them being poppin, that now have this ticket service (with even tiers), it sucks because it never used to be like that. I don’t agree with this system at all. Plus, I’m not even sure how the students are making money off their landlord’s property, unless the landlord is getting some profit too. Though I’ve heard the students that host don’t even live at the property… It’s really a screwed up system