{"id":28153,"date":"2013-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/28153\/five-overblown-responses-to-creamfields-being-canceled"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:15:17","slug":"five-overblown-responses-to-creamfields-being-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/28153\/five-overblown-responses-to-creamfields-being-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Overblown Responses to Creamfields Being Canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"The Lebanese love their parties, a point proven all too well Friday by the magnitude of emotional responses to news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/28152\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Creamfields<\/a>, which was set to happen on Saturday at the Beirut Waterfront, is now cancelled. This follows <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/l\/28050\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">a string of event cancellations this summer<\/a>. It also comes on the heels of an announcement Friday that the US Embassy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2013\/09\/06\/us\/politics\/ap-us-us-lebanon-syria.html?partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;utm_source=dlvr.it&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuating all non-emergency personnel<\/a> from its compound in Awkar and advising private American citizens to leave the country.<br \/>  <br \/>  WHY?! CREAMFIELDS. WHY?! [My life is over.] <br \/>  Here&#8217;s a look at the most overblown responses we could find on the Internet:<br \/>  <br \/>  <b>1. Gino&#8217;s Blog, titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/ginosblog.com\/2013\/09\/06\/5-fuck-yous-after-creamfields-beirut-was-canceled\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">5 Fuck Yous After Creamfields Beirut Was Canceled.<\/a><\/b><br \/>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/28153-1.png\" width=\"100%\"><br \/>  <br \/>  <b>2. Social media screams of self-hatred.<\/b><br \/>  <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LebaneseSpring\">@LebaneseSpring<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23Creamfields&#038;src=hash\">#Creamfields<\/a> is cancelled?! Why?!\u201d Waking up to this news makes me hate the fact that am still in lebanon!!!<\/p>\u2014 Areej.Kay (@AreejKameh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AreejKameh\/statuses\/375864109579124736\">September 6, 2013<\/a><\/blockquote><br \/>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  <b>3. This chick, who took her anger all the way to Washington.<\/b><br \/>  <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarackObama\">@BarackObama<\/a> they canceled cream fields in Lebanon I hope you&#8217;re fucking happy<\/p>\u2014 Joanna \u2661 (@30secondstoJoey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/30secondstoJoey\/statuses\/375955478918230017\">September 6, 2013<\/a><\/blockquote><br \/>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  <b>4. Profanity.<\/b><br \/>  <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23creamfields&#038;src=hash\">#creamfields<\/a> kelo khara<\/p>\u2014 bechara (@becharazainoun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/becharazainoun\/statuses\/375915505322061824\">September 6, 2013<\/a><\/blockquote><br \/>  <script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>  <b>5. 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