fyre festival is going well

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'.

He actually uses the word "oldsters". . . a lot.

eating pussy keeps him young.

jut had a bad michael douglas flashback

wouldn't wish cancer on anyone but tbh lefsetz is kind of a walking cancer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4ZQVxyr2H4

--Bob Marley

This is kind of the perfect scandal where you can hate the scammers and the marks equally

yes it is like a slow motion car crash where nobody gets hurt

That one lady got a really bad sunburn

that was one of the promised "solar tattoos"

This feels...wrong....but......Lefsetz OTM???

It’s a professional business, a skill, requiring boatloads of money and relationships. To believe you can become a successful concert promoter overnight is to believe you can shoot hoops in your backyard and instantly start for the Warriors.

i think it's hilarious that they're trying to continue the scam, offering tickets for the future non-existent Fyre 2018 instead of refunds.

I keep thinking of the good old boy network that basically boils down to "I know a guy" or "Hey buddy, do you know a guy?" when it comes to this stuff and the problem is these dudes did not know anyone, and the people they did get they didn't listen to

might have even worked, if they didn't try to find their guys two months (!!) before the concert date

like their concierge club card scam was failing because they were obviously just getting broadway show tickets via stubhub and other perks via similar services and instead of checking availability they were just like "uhh yeah we can get you a flight/concert ticket" and then calling to say it didn't work out later

this really does seem like a cross between that VNYL record club scam and Kamp Krusty

has anyone made a kamp krusty edit where it's a recording of ja rule introducing "billy" instead of krusty introducing "mr. black"?

Third lawsuit's been filed.

has anyone made a kamp krusty edit where it's a recording of ja rule introducing "billy" instead of krusty introducing "mr. black"?

shockingly no! can i steal this idea w your permission? i will give you a shout out on AV Club