fyre festival is going well

kudos to the attendee on reddit who said this was run by "a scam artist and an obscure rapper"

Fyre Festival set out to provide a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience on the islands of Exuma

mission accomplished tbf

keep checking in waiting for the first account of somebody resorting to cannibalism

yeah my first thought was that this sounds like it could be the setup to a future dead island sequel

wonder how well the scammers have planned their getaway

I mean, all the supermodel promo images were on a yacht. Obvious contingency plan.

some kind of Blofeldesque rocket hidden in a dormant volcano or gtfo

helicopter perched on the roof of a besieged embassy is a strong look too

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/mypresentation-1111x27223634-phpapp02/95/bermuda-triangle-16-728.jpg?cb=1337133366

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/a6/21/ae/a621aedfba3df94e6c7f7527a176f461.jpg

Not much engagement on that @fyrefestival post for a festival for ~influencers~.

https://twitter.com/DylanACOP/status/857792330006482949

this is wonderful

too hilarious

Reddit Influencer Island

fyre festival seemed like a pretty good plan, cruise some chicks and get a suntan

i think my favourite part is that they marketed it as an 'uninhabited island' when it is in fact an island with a fucking sandals resort

i wish i had that kinda chutzpah

I mean on the one hand that DylanACOP dude has a couple of good points re: a number of the actual attendees, people who saved up to get themselves out there, etc. On the other hand, one look at what was promised in the first place and...how IS that appealing?

(I am also trying to remember that I'm 46 and not 23 or whatever, but I have to say that when I was 23 I wouldn't have found equivalent events any more appealing.)

Their parents are likely doing Kenny Chesney No Shoes Cruises, though.

Here's to more poop ships.

roundup at WaPo

this is the best news I've had all day

all year, really

i love how they were STILL drowning in business speak on their updates only a few hours ago 'we are attempting to get this back on track to deliver a great experience' etc. meanwhile everyone's in tears and they're trending on twitter at number 1.

this is literature https://www.bustle.com/articles/200567-11-things-to-know-about-fyre-festival-because-its-unlike-any-music-event-youve-attended-before

(via murgatroid)

pretty sure this is Ja Rule's way of telling us he's running for president soon

final announcement

After assessing the situation this morning and looking at best options for our guests, we cannot move forward as we hoped we could

hmm, you don't say

cannot move forward as submerging vertically down towards our gold-filled undersea lair

only thing missing is a tsunami

Is noted music biz scumbag Irv Gotti involved with this somehow?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AkukvsDSvg8/maxresdefault.jpg

9. Ja Rule Is The Perfect Collaborator For The Event

The four-time Grammy nominee is not planning the festival on his own, but he is the founder and his connections to the music industry mean the guest list is going to be incredible. If his name wasn't attached, it would be hard to drop so much cash without a firm lineup, but Ja Rule's connections span the music industry and beyond. He is a consummate artist who will help make sure the weekend is one of luxury, fun, and quality entertainment.

according to Ja Rule's twitter he has been busy partying w/Bethenny Frankel.

http://www.thatdrop.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/FYRE-560x700.jpg

probably should host this elsewhere for posterity. how many of these people do you think even made it to the island?

Fyre Fest partner also runs this elite club for millennials

http://www.businessinsider.com/magnises-complaints-from-members-2017-1

there are so many shitty edm artists i've never heard of

surely it's only a question of time before they send Martin Sheen in there to kill Ja Rule

I have been looking up artists I am not that familiar with and I may have found a sentence on wikipedia that truly mystifies me
"Free Fallin Tropical Mojito Remix (John Mayer Tribute)" was produced with fellow tropical house producer Nelsaan and was released on Matoma's 23rd birthday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZiN0O6tI8g

that's some Deep Margaritaville shit

just started giggling at work at that thought

https://soundcloud.com/matoma-official/matoma-nelsaan-free-fallin-remix

what in the

"I bet Eli Roth's fingers are a blur on the keyboard already"

would totally pay to see OTT battle royale/most dangerous game movie starring ja rule and a pack of feral dogs chasing a thousand rich twits through the jungle.

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18194067_10156489445063868_6941025085193034666_n.jpg?oh=5ceaf2956ee14d4cbb7ee76b0f89b22c&oe=59BDC344

lmao

I am nothing if not predictable.

the pack of feral dogs is just the coup de grace here

lol nomar

um, previous nomar

The author's biographical information describes him as an "enigmatic wordsmith from the bustling streets of Glasgow" and a "rising star of the literary world".

Are we sure this isn't Bobby Gillespie?

Oompa Loompa women interviewed on Good Morning Britain.

More scoop from the sad Oompa on her TikTok channel.

The author's biographical information describes him as an "enigmatic wordsmith from the bustling streets of Glasgow" and a "rising star of the literary world".

Looking forward to his next book Shitty Things to be filmed by Tommy Wiseau

https://knowyourmeme.com/news/wonka-actor-from-disastrous-wonka-experience-accused-of-grooming-student-from-time-he-was-a-teacher

just realised i know that lad, he went to a drama school in Hull

As Philip Larkin said, "Hull is other people."

the original wonka thing happened less than a week ago. its impact…. astounding pic.twitter.com/8O4WqNOlYS

— David Mack (@davidmackau) March 2, 2024

The Unknown known.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/unkown-willy-wonka-experience-glasgow-b2506115.html

https://✧✧✧.tik✧✧✧.c✧✧✧@feli✧✧✧.wis✧✧✧/video/7341452364940922145

OK, so TikTok doesn't work like Youtube, now I know.

Monorail Records in Glasgow are auctioning some of the Wonka backdrops a friend of theirs found in a bin, in aid of Medical Aid For Palestinians.

This is real

Glasgow Willy Wonka Experience "House Of Illuminati" orig backdrops, for sale, from us.

Auctioning 2 original backdrops and the Time Tunnel on Ebay. Rescued from the bin by a pal of the shop

All profits to Medical Aid For Palestinianshttps://t.co/HO76Fw7sIh pic.twitter.com/kKksZOot9B

— monorail music (@Monorail_Music) March 7, 2024

let me stand next to ur Fyre

https://www.usatoday.com/story/experience/music/rock/2024/04/11/skull-and-roses-grateful-dead-festival-canceled/73295623007/

A couple other users compared the situation to Fyre Festival, writing that “the world of festival promotion continues to get shadier and shadier. Everyone watched the Fyre Fest documentary and was like ‘Wait, it’s that easy?’"

so say everybody did a chargeback on their credit/debit card, how likely would the bank be to find against the buyer? does insolvency of the seller play into it at all? are 'no refunds' terms actually enforceable, or are they bullshit the same way that parking lot "we take no responsibility for damages to your car" signs are?

apparently some states like California, you outright can't get out of refunding the ticket. I suspect jail time is going to happen, assuming these clowns didn't already hop a plane to a country with a no-extradition policy

It sounds very much like they had no capital and decided to go ahead and try to mount the festival anyway, which is a terrible idea

Let's just do it and be legends man

I mean, they had successfully mounted the festival five times previously, so they'd earned some credibility and some goodwill. Which they burned through.

Was it successfully, or was as it "with mounting debts that we stay one step ahead of", in a Barry Hogan / ATP manner?

Regardless, I think the point is that fans had no reason to suspect they were hucksters (it sounds like they even canceled the “right” way back in 2020). With Fyre Fest, there was an element of “why did you trust this shady Instagram thing”

At the time of Fyre Fest, the other festival that came to mind as having gone under with a problematic refund policy was Sunset Junction in L.A., which has never been mounted since though for years before that had devolved far from its original intent as a welcoming neighborhood festival I didn't do something a bit more exclusionary and disruptive to the local businesses and residents. I wonder if there was any weirdness surrounding this one beforehand that got overlooked because they were able to pull it off.