Though it opened just this past weekend, people have been upset about new San Francisco nightclub YOLO for months now. (Broke Ass Stuart referred to the club as a "douchefest" all the way back in August 2020.)

For live music fans, the fact of YOLO's opening was reason enough to be upset. Slim's, a live music institution in the city for over 30 years, was being replaced by a dance club featuring DJs only. Then, it was discovered that the new owners were Peter Lin and Michael Hu, who own Sunnyvale's Pure Nightclub. And Pure is the kind of place where "sports, recreation [and] athletic attire" are prohibited for club-goers, but female waitresses are required to wear lingerie.

More recently, adding insult to injury was YOLO's social media. It didn't start out great: a series of images focused mostly on objectifying women—disembodied legs in stockings, faceless bunny girls, faceless space girls, faceless side boob. But then the club ramped things up with a motivational meme that told people to "Speak English" and "Spend Arab." (One KQED Arts reader was alarmed enough to take a screenshot and send it to us.)

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