fyre festival is going well

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

the ball pit kills me

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

Wait, that's not a photoshopped Dashcon joke??????

It is a photoshopped etc.

"We bought an ambulance in New Jersey and drove it down to Florida then took it over in a boat to get here." i'm imagining it arriving and the fyre people tryna turn it into an onsite mobile bar (with siren!) or something.

xp: I was all ready to be like "real life is trying to make up for all of the reminders of how most authority figures would prefer it if I was dead by delivering this beautiful slice of synchronicity"

that ball pit started life as an emergency raft. the fyre people party with all the emergency equipment afaict.

now i can only see attendees floating to rescue in a ballpit in some reno 911 style hijinks.

as much as i feel a tiny bit of sympathy for the attendees of this generational vietnam i also think everyone needs a memento mori once in awhile

Had missed this from yesterday

http://www.tmz.com/2017/05/01/fyre-festival-riots-violence-lawsuit/

The people who are bellyaching about the Fyre Festival may be inciting civil unrest and even riots, and if they don't stop grousing they're gonna be in big trouble ... so threaten the festival's lawyers.
Attorneys for Fyre have fired off a cease and desist letter to at least one of the people who flew to the Bahamas for the festival. The person complained on social media ... communications on the island were non-existent and there was nothing but disaster relief tents that were on the verge of blowing over.
The lawyers said the statements were untrue and what's worse, could "incite violence, rioting or civil unrest."
And there was this warning ... "If someone innocent does get hurt as a result [of your postings] Fyre Festival will hold you accountable and responsible," adding, "Inciting violence crosses the line."

well, now we know how they're spending the rest of the money they have left: lawyers

http://i.imgur.com/hIi3fyE.png

hyper colonialism