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Anyone else following this rather amusing shambles unfolding?
It's a music festival organised on a small island in the Bahamas with a reported entry price tag of approx $12K, luxury glamping accomodation and luminaries such as Ja Rule and Blink 182 performing, all promoted via Instagram models and other beautifuls.
It seems it's gone the same way of those dreadful Winter Wonderland stories but on a much grander and pricier scale. Tales of "Lord of the Flies-esq" behaviour from some compound the poor organisation, partially assembled FEMA style tents and non-existent catering - unless you count the much photographed cheese sandwich.
From the comfort of my armchair it's a humorous story to witness especially given the rather dry and sarcastic responses on the same social media used to promote the event, but I expect it might be a touch disappointing for those caught up in the mess.
Link to BBC report
It's a music festival organised on a small island in the Bahamas with a reported entry price tag of approx $12K, luxury glamping accomodation and luminaries such as Ja Rule and Blink 182 performing, all promoted via Instagram models and other beautifuls.
It seems it's gone the same way of those dreadful Winter Wonderland stories but on a much grander and pricier scale. Tales of "Lord of the Flies-esq" behaviour from some compound the poor organisation, partially assembled FEMA style tents and non-existent catering - unless you count the much photographed cheese sandwich.
From the comfort of my armchair it's a humorous story to witness especially given the rather dry and sarcastic responses on the same social media used to promote the event, but I expect it might be a touch disappointing for those caught up in the mess.
Link to BBC report
Yes also been following this! Very funny! Good article from someone directly involved here.
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exum...
http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exum...
More here 
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4455486/Pe...
I do feel sorry for the guests. They'll not all be mega rich and I imagine some have saved every penny hoping for the experience of a lifetime.
Then they get this
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4455486/Pe...
I do feel sorry for the guests. They'll not all be mega rich and I imagine some have saved every penny hoping for the experience of a lifetime.
Then they get this
Wobbegong said:
More here
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4455486/Pe...
I do feel sorry for the guests. They'll not all be mega rich and I imagine some have saved every penny hoping for the experience of a lifetime.
Then they get this
That looks like an especially shttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4455486/Pe...
I do feel sorry for the guests. They'll not all be mega rich and I imagine some have saved every penny hoping for the experience of a lifetime.
Then they get this
t effort from the dirty takeaway thread.Looks like the millenials are lawyering up big time. 100m class action suit incoming!
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/01/fyre...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/may/01/fyre...
When I was a lad I went to music festivals. People were pissing everywhere, fked on pot or whatever else, toilets got set on fire, people were scrapping, our cheapo tent did not stop the rain.........it was ace!
These fkers got all that AND got to do it in the Bahamas. Then again we did get the music.
Bahamahahahahahahas!
ked on pot or whatever else, toilets got set on fire, people were scrapping, our cheapo tent did not stop the rain.........it was ace!These f
kers got all that AND got to do it in the Bahamas. Then again we did get the music.Bahamahahahahahahas!
https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnnKlein/status/85803...
"Someone just blew into a conch shell and is now the leader"
"Someone just blew into a conch shell and is now the leader"
Bump.
Organiser sent down for 6 years!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-4582715...
Organiser sent down for 6 years!!!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-4582715...
BBC News said:
"Today, McFarland found out the hard way that empty promises don't lead to jet-setting, champagne and extravagant parties - they lead to federal prison," said US Attorney for Manhattan, Geoffrey Berman.
Ouch I watched the Netflix one. Found it difficult to feel sorry for anyone involved really, beyond the workers on the island that didn't get paid.
Seemed like all the people who got caught out trying to attend the thing, had either blindly followed instagram "influencers", or were themselves those "influencers", chasing what was offered to them as another freebie. It really did expose how shallow life is for those that are obsessed with insta.
The only winners out of it all seemed to be the models involved in the original promo video, which with hindsight it is clear to see that they just kept reusing excerpts of that same promo material over and over. Although I see in the news today that moves are afoot to reclaim money back from them and their agencies.
As for that chef guy (I think, been a busy week since I watched it) who was talking about his willingness to head down and give blowjobs to officials to get water or whatever it was out of customs ... yuck.
Seemed like all the people who got caught out trying to attend the thing, had either blindly followed instagram "influencers", or were themselves those "influencers", chasing what was offered to them as another freebie. It really did expose how shallow life is for those that are obsessed with insta.
The only winners out of it all seemed to be the models involved in the original promo video, which with hindsight it is clear to see that they just kept reusing excerpts of that same promo material over and over. Although I see in the news today that moves are afoot to reclaim money back from them and their agencies.
As for that chef guy (I think, been a busy week since I watched it) who was talking about his willingness to head down and give blowjobs to officials to get water or whatever it was out of customs ... yuck.
kev1974 said:
I watched the Netflix one. Found it difficult to feel sorry for anyone involved really, beyond the workers on the island that didn't get paid.
Seemed like all the people who got caught out trying to attend the thing, had either blindly followed instagram "influencers", or were themselves those "influencers", chasing what was offered to them as another freebie. It really did expose how shallow life is for those that are obsessed with insta.
The only winners out of it all seemed to be the models involved in the original promo video, which with hindsight it is clear to see that they just kept reusing excerpts of that same promo material over and over. Although I see in the news today that moves are afoot to reclaim money back from them and their agencies.
As for that chef guy (I think, been a busy week since I watched it) who was talking about his willingness to head down and give blowjobs to officials to get water or whatever it was out of customs ... yuck.
Totally agree, I think Kendall Jenner was the only one that actually took payment, $250k for that one post to promote it, the rest were promised a free holiday and free ride at the 'festival' when it happened. You'd think, as a good PR exercise, Jenner should have donated that fee to the workers on the island who all got screwed, cos that's a drop in the ocean for her right now.Seemed like all the people who got caught out trying to attend the thing, had either blindly followed instagram "influencers", or were themselves those "influencers", chasing what was offered to them as another freebie. It really did expose how shallow life is for those that are obsessed with insta.
The only winners out of it all seemed to be the models involved in the original promo video, which with hindsight it is clear to see that they just kept reusing excerpts of that same promo material over and over. Although I see in the news today that moves are afoot to reclaim money back from them and their agencies.
As for that chef guy (I think, been a busy week since I watched it) who was talking about his willingness to head down and give blowjobs to officials to get water or whatever it was out of customs ... yuck.
I live in NYC, and it was a topic of conversation as you see a few of those guys around and about, no one felt sorry for them. If you're paying several thousand dollars on something you know nothing about, and even people tired warning them, then thats down to you. A fool and their money are easily parted it seems, most were millennials that live off mum and dad, so its not their money essentially.
The guy that was going to 'take one for the team', was mind blowing. Why he didn't pack his bags and leave is beyond me, and he thought so highly of the kid, even after that???
I watched one on this. Don’t think it was the Netflix one.
I came away with the opposite feeling than the two above posters. And opposite to my original thoughts that matched theirs.
Hardly anybody bought the 25k tickets. Some paid $500
Think of it this way you are not well off but can maybe stretch to $500 fir two weeks in the Caribbean, flights,food, lodging and entertainment. Yeah, too good to be true? Probably but it had so much hype about it. It wasn’t a scam, it was real. It was just a colossal fk up.
It wasn’t the rich privileged people that got burned. It was ordinary people.
The influencers were warned off iirc.
fk up all around.
I came away with the opposite feeling than the two above posters. And opposite to my original thoughts that matched theirs.
Hardly anybody bought the 25k tickets. Some paid $500
Think of it this way you are not well off but can maybe stretch to $500 fir two weeks in the Caribbean, flights,food, lodging and entertainment. Yeah, too good to be true? Probably but it had so much hype about it. It wasn’t a scam, it was real. It was just a colossal f
k up.It wasn’t the rich privileged people that got burned. It was ordinary people.
The influencers were warned off iirc.
f
k up all around.Dodgey_Rog said:
A couple of good documentaries about this, one on Netflix and the other on HULU.
What a clusterf**k this turned into, and also, Ja Rule is a piece of sh*t, as well as that McFarland chap.
Watched the Netflix one last night - very enlightening as I'd heard little about it previously. What a clusterf**k this turned into, and also, Ja Rule is a piece of sh*t, as well as that McFarland chap.
What struck me right from the start was how massively gullible people under about 40 seem to be today. How trusting of people they are based on them being a celeb or being able to "influence" celebrities into backing their ridiculous business ideas which seem to be based on f
k all other than being "trendy". The current Mrs AJL308 is quite a bit younger than me and said that she could see exactly why that McFarland bloke got people to following him as he's the type which appeals to the Instrgram/Twitter brigade. I got the feeling of him being an utterly seedy, greedy, squinty-eyed and incompetent fool right from the outset. Then, at the very end, after it had all collapsed, he was found to be using the Fyre Festival email lists to promote another celebrity culture based scam and had found some mug to put him up in the penthouse suite of a New York hotel WHILST ON f
kING BAIL FOR THE FYRE DEBACLE! I mean, FFS! Complete sociopath.I wouldn't trust him to run a bath, never mind a start-up festival in the Bahama's for 10,000 people that everyone in the industry told him would not work.
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