fyre festival is going well

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

also: Pizza Chain Introduces $25 'Festival Pyzza' Slice

https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/gyaq43/pizza-chain-introduces-dollar25-festival-pyzza-slice-that-is-intentionally-as-shitty-as-fyre-fest?utm_source=dmfb&fbclid=IwAR1q-eaB2QEDP1fy092pTdFNJ0DYe36XojE7PhJJa3nMVGEvaxDRHTJbxWA

now that I am not at work I can post this https://www.oglaf.com/gifted (NSFW)

I extremely enjoyed this doc and look forward to the next dumb thing that happens

Also I sunk 20-30 minutes into the oglaf comics and they're good too

This is the correct take

I think my fave part in the Hulu one was where McFarlane mumbled something about how Magnises was "spelt wrong or something, I guess?" with this guileless look.

Saw the Netflix documentary a couple of nights ago - like pretty much everybody, I found the Evian story to be a real "jaw hitting the floor" moment, but the part of the documentary that made me the angriest was when that entitled fuckwit was bragging about pissing on mattresses and flipping tents. What a cunt!

does absolutely everything have to go on forever & ever now

remove bookmarks from life

Please do.

time is an illusion, we all died on december 21 2012 iirc

Anyhow, given that it took me an eternity to get around to watching the Netflix doc, unsurprisingly I haven't seen the Hulu one yet - might check that out in a couple of days when I'm not so busy. From what I've read here, sounds like a treat.

rare footage of all of us, right now
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/5f/ed/415fed8a999bb8d00490d23df77663c5.jpg

Can I be the one with the club

it me
https://i.imgur.com/xaB1ur8.jpg?1

Oh you don't say

https://newrepublic.com/article/153095/fyre-festival-huge-scam-netflixs-fyre-documentary-scam-too

It’s scary to think about how Fyre Festival would have been portrayed if Hulu hadn’t rushed its movie out.

... no it's not

glad someone summarized this thread with an article though

There are some interesting details:

Purzycki also told me that McFarland was originally supposed to appear in the Netflix movie, according to a deal cut with Jerry Media for 12 percent of the film’s backend revenue to pay back ticket-holders, but he failed to show up at the last minute.* Vice confirmed the proposed arrangement, undermining Smith’s accusations of unethical behavior by Hulu.

Confusing as hell, but I hate all of these people, unconditionally.

It's hard to feel sorry for anyone who was "defrauded" here other than the vendors and workers who didn't get paid.

time is an illusion, we all died on december 21 2012 iirc

― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara

Not according to ilxor

Will the World End in 2012?

This story is amazing down to the last sentence.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/05/billy-mcfarland-is-writing-a-memoir-about-fyre-festival.html?utm_source=tw

the arystocrats!

looool at that last sentence

I was preparing to highlight stuff like McFarland wanting to call his book Promythus: The God of Fyre or the existence of a company called Dog Shit Media but then I got to the sentence about Billy expecting there to be a narrow window to put the book out before his next festival made him a success again (and even that's not the fabled "last sentence").

the whole situation continues to flush out people who have a much different sense of reality than my own

Did he meaning to write "Promytheus" or was he trying to get too clever with "Pro-myth-us"

“Pro-legends-us”

"it’s happening again"

what a doofus

But the company he keeps!

Um, Michael Cohen will serve time in the same facility housing Jersey Shore's Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino and Fyre Festival's Billy McFarland https://t.co/YpY0nMTOPx pic.twitter.com/Xo6XT0MVIB

— 1010 WINS (@1010WINS) May 3, 2019

^^^ I see a reality show in the offing...

“I am Pro-myth-us, the god of hellfyre and I bring you...”

He seems to have an uncontrollable compulsion to rip people off, even if it ends up actually costing him money. Like a hobby, I guess. A man needs a hobby, so maybe it's harmless enough. Maybe he and Cohen can swap tips? On what, I have no idea.

Mm.

https://themuse.jezebel.com/ja-rule-insists-he-knows-what-fraud-means-and-fyre-fes-1835274674

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1nhfV2YANk

lol