Byron businesses take a stand against ‘Byron Baes’ show

The series ‘Byron Baes’ - described as a “love letter” to the area, containing “some truly addictive drama” - drew immediate backlash from locals when it was unveiled by Netflix this month.

“We're right, sort of central, we're really well known. We've been here for a very long time,” Dan told“We are a community orientated business. We know the community doesn't want it and we don’t want it,” he said. “200 million people visit Netflix Global. We have enough spotlight, we don't think this kind of spotlight is going to do good things for the community.”Owner of The General Store eatery, Ben Gordon, wrote on Facebook that he, along with several other local business owners, have also declined requests by production crew to shoot the show in their venues.

“It will limit their content drastically and also will continue to send the message that Byron does not want to be portrayed to the world in this way.”Emma Bromet, owner of online breakfast delivery service, Le Petit Brekkie, feels the show will not be a true representation of what Byron Bay stands for.

A petition calling on residents to boycott the series, and for the Shire to strip production crew of their filming permits, has already attracted more than 6,000 signatures., requires local councils to “ensure that requests for location film productions are able to occur, unless there are exceptional circumstances” such as “the presence of an item of Aboriginal significance, or because it is a critical habitat for a threatened species.

Greens candidate for Richmond and long-time local Mandy Nolan has expressed support for businesses opposed to the show.

SBS Why don't those influencers go to some shitty place? Would be more interesting to see if they can look pretty at a dump...

I call them gaslighting BShitters!

Don't they realise that protesting is basically free publicity for the show they've trying to boycott? byronprotest

Can’t handle the truth?

What exactly is an influencer? Do people not have their own ideas and thoughts anymore? Do they have someone to do the thinking for them? Is it a real job? Someone educate me on their purpose please!

That artwork looks very similar to the style davpope did for the fire-affected areas. Did Netflix rip him off?

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