Teens On TikTok Have Discovered Berghain And Have Dubbed It ‘The Club That Vibe Checks You’
Berghain Trainer has teens stuck trying to pass virtual Sven's "vibe check".
Infamous Berlin nightclub Berghain is notorious for being just so incredibly difficult to get into.
And last week, a bunch of American teens on TikTok randomly stumbled upon the club’s existence thanks to Berghain Trainer, a site that uses your laptop’s camera and microphone to analyse your body language.
Once you give the site access to see and hear you, you’re put through a simulation of the club line and are asked three questions to see if you’d actually be let in by Sven, the bouncer. The site then tracks your facial expressions through four main categories (anger, sadness, euphoria and amazement) and analyses your voice and answers to assess whether you’re worthy of entering.
dam berghain making it to tik tok was something i was NOT prepared for
— ricardo willalobo (@baharkhadem) May 18, 2020
Berghain Trainer was originally shared to TikTok by @pjsorbet, who described Berghain as “the most exclusive club out there [that’s] known to turn away celebrities and cover your phone cameras when you get inside so you can’t take pictures”.
Continuing her description of club, Pippa explained that “the way that they judge you to get into the club is solely based on your vibes. They vibe check you.” Which is probably the most 2020 description for anything ever.
But after Pippa shared the “vibe check club” and the online simulator to TikTok, everyone started trying their luck at getting into Berghain — a club likely none of them would ever be prepared for or actually want to go to. But you gotta do what you gotta do for the ~vibes~, I guess.
Eventually the kids did learn what actually goes down at Berghain, but that didn’t stop them from going at the website so hard that they literally crashed it. With the creators having to place a one play a day limit on the site, Berghain Trainer now reads “unfortunately our server costs are exploding.”
“We started the berghaintrainer as a fun project but to keep it running, we’re currently paying $100 a day as we have thousands of users simultaneously,” the site says. “We will open the trainer again when 300€ are collected via the below Paypal money pool.”
If you want to try your own luck against virtual Sven, you can play Berghain Trainer here.