fyre festival is going well

It bothers me that they keep saying Billy was very charismatic and convincing when everyone involved was simply blinded by greed.

This all makes me wonder when we're going to get the tell-all ATP doc, the final word on the UK's own lo-fi Ponzi scheme festival.

and let's not forget the other UK based entitled generation festival story :

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/festival-fraud-aristocrat-still-paying-355k-back-to-parents-a3591381.html

went to one of the earlier ones before the fraud was revealed.
we were the only people (with kids no less!) drinking beer, the bar was mainly stocked with bottles champagne.

Come on guys, this is clearly the UK analogue: http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/08/cheese-festival-disaster.html

Some justice. And a kicker of a final paragraph.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/22/world/americas/maryann-rolle-fyre-festival-gofundme.html

As in new Gawker

Of course this photo of Gawker's editorial director with Fyre Festival organizer Billy McFarland exists. Of course it does. pic.twitter.com/Bn8PFfF5LC

— Kim Bhasin (@KimBhasin) January 23, 2019

And if you want an update on that person:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gawker-writers-quit-over-editorial-director-carson-griffiths-offensive-tweets-workplace-comments

fyre media is going well

It bothers me that they keep saying Billy was very charismatic and convincing when everyone involved was simply blinded by greed.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 23 January 2019 03:23 (fourteen hours ago) Permalink

When will the NYT stop calling McFarland an entrepreneur and start calling him “convicted scam artist” or “jailed con man”?

When he stops being rich and white

The first is more likely imo

only one man can end the government shutdown pic.twitter.com/zcxHKZeOeZ

— #TheRamsistance 🐏 (@MilesKlee) January 25, 2019

haha he did like mushrooms

yeraC wrote:

AA had apartments in certain cities for all the photogenic salespeople that were favorites to crash at and hang out.

I used to live across from one of these, it was nuts!

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This seemed very much in line with the Madoff phenomenon of scamming people by making them believe they are in on a different kind of scam

It seems like a disaster even as a scam/con, though. How could you invite rich and well-connected to an event, charge them through the nose, not deliver, and then expect no consequences? My partner compared the doc to Moby Dick, where all these people were on this quasi-suicide mission led by a madman with a singular, but insane, vision.

Netflix doc was better probably. Nthing that the footage from the NYC VIP Access apartment was fuckin nuts.

This thing cost me $300 and it’s an empty box pic.twitter.com/gJ9T6arw1m

— adam.the.creator (@AdamPadilla) January 27, 2019

the Netflix doc was really good. Having been involved with at least one project where it got a jump-start via a slick, well-produced video and then turned into (on a much smaller scale) a mini Fyre Festival-type disaster, I can understand where all of the involved parties are coming from. If someone is doing a job, even if they think the people above them are fucking up completely, there yet remains a stubbornness at play, in that they want to see it through and do their part and not abandon it. And only later after the fact do a lot of people really see the full scale of the disaster. My particularly disastrous job involved a bit of embezzlement and con artistry and complete unpreparedness and lawsuits as well. Fortunately I was a freelance hired hand who wasn't involved in any of that, and they sent me off in the same way they sent the pilot off in this documentary.

Can u dish further

sounds a little like a certain presidential administration we all know /trench

lol, remembered and found this fb update I had posted:

J_________
September 11, 2015
I keep seeing ads for "Magnises." Is that the latin word for assholes?

9/11 never forget

yeah hate to make everything about this asshole but the whole doc felt like an incredibly specific parable about the Trump era and the SV-style "think big and fail fast!" style of management

Can u dish further

― Norm’s Superego (silby), Monday, January 28, 2019 9:31 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very minor, very small scale compared to Fyre. and not a festival, it was TV. the vague details i can give is it was a TV show that literally no one saw, one the company tried to save by stealing money from another show they were producing for a competing network, but that just led to both shows being canceled and the company folding. the head of the company was similarly a panicky sociopath who put on a good front but was a total failure.

If I were Ned I would post this and say

"I have questions"

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x9wvb/blink-182-matt-skiba-fyre-fest-witchcraft-cancellation?utm_source=vicefbus&fbclid=IwAR0orbNaV3323tb2BJk9nX4BslkNEyPSjWTTJjJjlv3Ok-GYoWVIOcwNwSw

I put all the electricity and energy in my body against that thing happening

The good news was that so did its founder

xpost -- Accurate.

Not quite.

fyre festival is going well

lmao

Astounding!

grjaertgj;asertgjsergmnrsegsertfgwer!

Andy King has seen all of your FYRE Fest memes — and he loves them! pic.twitter.com/mCNgDoHpjW

— Netflix US (@netflix) January 29, 2019

But you know, credit to the guy, he's also using it to promote this newer GoFundMe

https://www.gofundme.com/the-exuma-foundation-for-victims-of-fyre-festival

sorry dude, you are the blowjob king of the world forever and are headlining coachella
i'm surprised HE'S the guy who started the gofundme! good for him!

My first thought when he popped up in the movie was, this guy has been dining out on this story ever since. And he just extended its shelf life.

If he's not in the next Evian commercial they should fire their marketing staff immediately

their 501(c) is too new to be on charitynavigator or whatever so.. hopefully they don’t have 40% admin costs

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lostinshowbiz/2019/jan/24/netflixs-fyre-festival-masterclass-influencers

The only surprising thing is that some social media manager at Evian hasn’t themselves tried to turn this into some kind of influencer campaign. Imagine a couple of makeup vloggers, a Jonas brother and that egg that has the most Instagram likes, all staring moodily into the camera clutching a bottle of the clear stuff with the hashtag #idsuckdickforevian. It would certainly be one way to steal the limelight back from the Fiji Water Girl.

https://www.adweek.com/creativity/shutterstock-recreated-the-notorious-fyre-festival-promo-this-time-using-only-stock-video/

There’s an, um, fyrewall.

https://youtu.be/E5mz0wb7wi4

Thankyre kindly!

Love how on the original Fyre trailer the music is still some predictable, hack piece of shit even after that idiot Margolin's ridiculous brief.

I want to read Grant Margolin’s livejournal

Has anyone watched both docs? I've heard the Netflix one is much more favorable to the FuckJerry people than the Hulu one.

some of my favorite edits in the Netflix Fyre doc involve Grant trying to play tough and cocky but looking extremely desperate and terrified.

the netflix one has a lot more behind the scenes footage due to the collaboration and they play it off as "hey we're just the marketing company, we weren't there to vet things" and their soft exit is the day of the festival when the fyre dudes ask for control of the social media accounts

the hulu doc has a lot of stock footage but overall better analysis of the entire clusterfuck. and you get the billy interview, where it's clear he's incapable of making it through a conversation without making shit up on the spot

Has anyone watched both docs? I've heard the Netflix one is much more favorable to the FuckJerry people than the Hulu one.

there's a thread on some messageboard where people who've watched both discuss them

ban irony

https://www.metrotimes.com/the-scene/archives/2019/01/29/yes-a-fyre-festival-larp-on-detroits-belle-isle-is-apparently-really-going-to-happen