fyre festival is going well

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

they promised us feral dogs, but it was just big rats

you finished eating that rat?

Mumford & sons come onstage playing the worlds smallest most overpriced fiddle right

luxury yurt company went into liquidation

sucks when your yurt is suddenly liquidated

Yurty deeds done yurt cheap

whenever I see stupid little rich kidults getting totally fucked over by fly by night yurt rental scammers. Suddenly I find myself remembering Baden Powell more fondly. Or even just feeling just more happy about life for a few moments.

BT only and no credit card option should be a huge red flag.

Corsham, appropriately home to the Sham Ruin

Such skill

https://www.stereogum.com/2314571/fyre-festival-is-now-being-auctioned-on-ebay/news/

The make-believe festival boasting Glastonbury headliners planned by a convicted fraudster

this could have been such a fiasco. i feel cheated that this fraud will never blossom like it should have.

BBC Radio Wales would broadcast the festival live and a cannon would even fire bacon butties into the campsite in the mornings, or so he claimed.

remember the sad cheese sandwich from fyre? its spiritual successor, the cannon-fired bacon butty (a.k.a. scraps of raw bacon glumly handed out by the tired oompa loompa girl, probably) will never see the light of day. this is a tragedy.

Reread some of this thread today and was surprised to rediscover "let's just do it and be legends" came from fyre festival, my brain had subsequently tucked it away as a brexit thing.

Talking of disasters.

*These guys apparently have an £8m budget to do this music festival and he looks like he's just walked out of Wetherspoons," he said.*

Harsh!

Well...these are words:

https://www.stereogum.com/2322269/taika-waititi-producing-fyre-fest-the-musical-stage-show-with-music-by-paul-epworth/news/

Hilarious but probably means some of the OGs got a bit of cash from the proceeds of buying the rights to the name, which sucks.

https://www.punknews.org/article/86927/billy-mcfarland-announces-new-festival-tickets-run-200-500000

McFarland: "To everyone saying play it safe, we got the islands. To all the internet NPCs claiming they live life, we are out here really doing this. To the people saying get a job, we are paying people back and supporting every f***ing island we touch. To the ones saying this is a normal vacation, you haven’t done a trip with me. To the ones saying this is delusional, wait until we drop the lineup. Let me show you Island Billy. Come live."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz6OGVCdov8

Islands falling out of his ass

we ride it together, oh yuck