fyre festival is going well

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

We'll find untouched lands and then colonise them with trust fund kids!

^^A True 1%er Fantasy

time to bring in the only people capable of dealing with this threat

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h16/oldeschool17/FIVE_ELEMENT_NINJAS-Title.jpg

Anyone with a passport knows there are no "untouched lands" within taxi fare from an international airport.

AFAICT, this is the Fyre festival site:

http://i64.tinypic.com/15rh4zt.jpg

Ie, quite obviously a failed real estate venture.

BTW, if you're curious why Exuma has a shark problem that prevents swimming in the water:

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

As a scuba diver, fuck these people. ALL of them.

this is all so wonderful

that makes me think the "swim with pigs" company they wanted to hire might have led to a rather grisly incident

or possibly tourist synergy

Fyre festival, brought to you in partnership with the Bluth company.

and Kraft Singles

people get bit by those pigs all the time. they are just wild pigs. it's crazy.

I thought the feral pigs were part of what went wrong with the festival until I saw one of the supermodels cavorting with one in the promo video!

me too

Anyone with a passport knows there are no "untouched lands" within taxi fare from an international airport.

you say this as though the target audience isn't idiotic investors who'll believe anything put in front of them if it's presented with confidence

this festival has been great fun for non-attendees. the polystyrene cheese sandwich photo alone has brought me enormous joy.

And yet more joy!

https://news.vice.com/story/fyre-fest-organizers-blew-all-their-money-months-early-on-models-planes-and-yachts

Fyre Festival employees said planning for the event took on the feel of an extended Spring Break frat party. McFarland and members of his team would fly down “every other weekend for lavish vacations” on nearby islands, but only male employees and models were allowed to go. “Billy would take all the boys down there, it would be boys only,” the employee said. “They talk about f—ing bitches and hoes in conference meetings."

lol lavish vacations from what?

Being 'awesome'

Just wait, guys! Prison will be "epic".

"...hidden treasures accessible only by jet-ski."

Serious logistical planning for the festival didn’t even begin until late February or early March — less than two months before the thousands of people McFarland had sold a luxury vacation on a private island were scheduled to arrive.

The employee said McFarland would often urinate in the office with the door open for employees to see. “It’s a boys club,” the employee said. “They laugh about it.” Another former contractor called the environment “low-key sexist and racist.”

“They were trying to get us to use our own cards for the hotel rooms,” a member of the production team said. “And the owners were just walking around with giant wads of hundreds to pay people off.”

A former Fyre employee said McFarland sold Ja Rule a “pipe dream,” though there’s evidence to suggest the seasoned recording artist should have known better. Video hyping the festival he posted on Twitter and later deleted includes footage of the main stage, which had walk-up stairs and lacked barricades or an exit for EMS. “People would have died,” the production employee said.

this shit is so entertaining. hands-down this is better than Dumb and Dumber.

Lefsetz, he has opinions...

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2017/04/28/fyre-festival/

...and then goes through the looking glass

http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/2017/05/02/more-fyre-festival/

Literally the last person I want to hear on that.

i love how 'WE'RE the party!' is 'the EDM ethos'. he's only about 30 years out of date with that one. pretty typical of someone in their 60s who bangs on about 'oldsters'.