fyre festival is going well

I have this long conspiracy theory that some dudes look 35 at age 25 and it's a quick slide downhill from there, so male actors who actually look decent at 35 end up playing 25 year olds, or at least opposite women a decade younger

and somehow being in a fraternity or in investment banking or other scams (see this guy, also I think there is an overlap) makes it more likely you'll be in the "looks like a greasy 40 year old at 25" group

can't believe the dude from Workaholics fell this far

schadenfyre festival

http://edmsauce.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Billy.jpeg

Hearing about all these 'special access' ticket/card scams this guy was running, it reminds me of Adam Scott on Eastbound bragging about his Platinum Plus card: "Platinum gets you front row at the Jonas Brothers concert; this gets all three of them to suck your dick backstage!"

It was the WORST day of their lives but you won't BELIEVE what happened next!

"Then something amazing happened: venues, bands, and people started contacting us and said they’d do anything to make this festival a reality and how they wanted to help. The support from the musical community has been overwhelming and we couldn’t be more humbled or inspired by this experience. People were rooting for us after the worst day we’ve ever had as a company. After speaking with our potential partners, we have decided to add more seasoned event experts to the 2018 Fyre Festival, which will take place at a United States beach venue."

that's the thing, legit cards like the higher american express tiers do offer concierge services but they generally cost more than a couple hundred bucks a year -- and if they don't, then they require that you charge above a certain amount to the card per year. this guy's brand is that he'll give you all this shit for a price that sounds appealing and might work if they had tons of members, but there's no way he's not just burning through cash trying to provide services at this small scale

both the magnises scam and the fyre fest scam seem too cheap! I don't think they actually sold ten thousand tickets to this thing, and if you go with $50 million as a ballpark figure for getting it done in that time period -- the number thrown out by the coordinator who quit and wrote an article -- the numbers just don't line up. Festivals with the ridiculous concierge-level, on-site luxury lodging are charging nearly as much for their top VIP tiers and they're in areas with transportation infrastructure and companies that can drive up and service the toilets.

http://web.archive.org/web/20170405151247/https://www.fyrefestival.com/packages

xpost -- that whole mea culpa is amusing.

https://www.fyrefestival.com/

I note they are no longer claiming the weather as an excuse.

"lol ok you got us but c'mon man next year we're gonna have Mumford and Sons print it and sell it"

really disappointed there's no photo of Ja Rule w/ single tear yet

mutual interest in technology, the ocean, and rap music

this unique combination of interests

Every generation deserves its own particular Altamont.

i'm still haunted by the moment yesterday when i'd posted that tropical house john mayer abomination link to the thread having listened to it on my phone at work, got in my car, and it started again from the top. i got to the end of the block before the horror really sunk in, terrifying driving experience

Chuck Tingle as always with his finger on the pulse:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-q1choUAAY8Qn8.jpg

Altamont's catering was was horribly mediocre

has anyone actually read a Chuck Tingle book? Like what is inside of them

You can read excerpts on Amazon. For example, a bunch of his more politically themed works have been anthologized in Pounded By Politics: Nine Tales of Civic Butthole Diplomacy. Just click on the cover to sample the prose.

they're all like 10 pages long

Yeah, "books" is definitely a stretch.

http://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/in-the-wake-of-fyre-festival-fiasco-will-the-effectiveness-of-celebrity-influencers-take-a-hit/

Celebrity influencers only need to impress venture capitalists and advertising executives, who will be as reliably stupid tomorrow as they were three days ago

I guess there has to be some subset of people following celebrities on instagram who really want to buy protein supplements, juice cleanse diets, and shady grooming products but I don't think I know any

i am constantly baffled at who exactly influencers are influencing, like i feel so sure it must be strawpeople who don't actually exist but i know that i'm probably wrong

you're my favorite influencer

I have family members who are 100% vulnerable to celebrity influencers and try to imitate them on IG

which they do because they think that might result in some magic windfall of money at some point

that's the fallacy of imitation -- you think you're going to be rich and successful by imitating the juice cleanse and expensive skincare routine, but you should be doing what successful influencers did before they were big: illuminati sex magic and spirit cooking

just listen to your fav RHCP album until you become famous

I have family members who are 100% vulnerable to celebrity influencers and try to imitate them on IG

Well get back to parenting man

Dang

lol

https://i.imgur.com/6aeVgj6.jpg

lollll

i am constantly baffled at who exactly influencers are influencing, like i feel so sure it must be strawpeople who don't actually exist but i know that i'm probably wrong

― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Sunday, April 30, 2017 4:50 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

isn't this a whole thread about them

i am constantly baffled at who exactly influencers are influencing

i am like this with car commercials. who ever sees a car commercial and is like, shit, let's go buy a new car!

Read some report saying McFarland was arrested in the Bahamas but zero corrobation on that. Still, that would be amusing.

http://ibankcoin.com/zeropointnow/2017/05/01/ja-rule-and-fyre-festival-slapped-with-100-million-lawsuit-for-multiple-counts-of-fraud/

More Billy McFarland mumblings

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/big-risk-failed-fyre-festival-founder-speaks/story?id=47122120

have any artists weighed in on this other than the ones who publicly cancelled leading up to the date?

haven't seen any but maura found this:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/05/fyre-festival-pitch-deck

To pull off the 300 million impressions, McFarland and Ja Rule partnered with a P.R. agency, a creative agency, and Elliot Tebele, a once-random nobody who has created a social-media empire by siphoning other people’s jokes into the Instagram account @FuckJerry.

Honestly I'm surprised the account wasn't @JuckFerry.

all the once-random nobodies, where do they all come from?

Lol that bilton guy trying.so.hard. The call is coming from inside the house, man.

Has 50 Cent weighed in? Ja Rule is now destroying his own credibility in ways 50 and G-Unit could have dreamed of back in the early 00s

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7777000/50-cent-ja-rule-fyre-festival-meme

bless

tbh the "rapping with myself" parody on an old mixtape might have been the peak

lol amazing my friends follow that FuckJerry guy and yeah it's just recycled memes