{"id":38985,"date":"2024-01-25T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/?p=38985"},"modified":"2024-01-27T17:21:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T01:21:52","slug":"nachogate-the-kerfuffle-the-fallout-and-why-were-all-doomed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/vitalvegas\/nachogate-the-kerfuffle-the-fallout-and-why-were-all-doomed\/","title":{"rendered":"Nachogate: The Kerfuffle, The Fallout and Why We’re All Doomed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you don’t spend a lot of time online (especially on Twitter), you probably live a life of bliss and mental wellbeing. You also may have missed “Nachogate.”<\/p>\n

Nachogate has broken the Internet, and we have all the details, as we were one of the people who enabled the breakage.<\/p>\n

It’s a story both confounding and profound, a story both about Las Vegas but also the world we currently live in. It’s a story of nachos and social media virality and copious WTF and happy endings. Sort of our sweet spot, so let’s go.<\/p>\n

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Inside baseball: Any story where we use a featured image of something exploding gets more site traffic, so.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Nachogate saga began with a simple, seemingly innocuous Tweet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yes, we still call X Twitter and Tweets what they are, Tweets.<\/p>\n

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Food photography is an art, but that’s for another time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Tweet that launched a million jokes was posted on Jan. 22, 2024, a day that will live infamy, especially for Fontainebleau, the casino resort that opened on Dec. 13, 2023.<\/p>\n

What many missed is the post was made by a casino executive, Mike Herman. Herman is the Director of Slot Operations at the off-Strip Rio casino. The plot already starts to thicken.<\/p>\n

When the Tweet went live, we were tagged (as we often are), but didn’t think much of it. We see dozens of Tweets a week from disgruntled customers talking about their experiences at various Las Vegas casinos.<\/p>\n

We eventually shared it, noting the item might need to be renamed.<\/p>\n

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They should probably call it something else. Maybe Adobo Poulet Smidgens.™️ https:\/\/t.co\/8B2QELwv2C<\/a><\/p>\n

— Vital Vegas (@VitalVegas) January 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n