fyre festival is going well

I don't blame rich idiot marks for being suckers but I reserve the right to lol @ them

it would be cool if you could just create a website and marketing campaign and a music festival would just happen. it would be magical!

some dare to dream

The fact that these were the same tents as a refugee camp was a running joke

this is the fucking heart music right here

All of our institutions are crumbling!

The notebook ...
https://twitter.com/WNFIV/status/857826106237497344

I love that notebook.

On Wednesday, Ja Rule arrived for a “site visit.” I don’t know if he actually visited the “site” but he did spend a lot of time on a yacht, according to his Instagram. Meanwhile the event planners were holed up indoors putting together a game plan and a budget. With so little having been prepared ahead of time, the official verdict was that it would take $50 million to pull off. Planners also warned that it would be not be up to the standard they had advertised. The best idea, they said, would be to roll everyone’s tickets over to 2018 and start planning for the next year immediately. They had a meeting with the Fyre execs to deliver the news. A guy from the marketing team said, “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”

At this point it was pretty clear that this was a mess and I shared my concerns with the man I reported to. But he assured me that the Fyre execs were legit, and said some socialite was underwriting the whole thing. The budget was okayed and we were told to carry on with our planning. That night Ja Rule gave a toast. “To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars.” If Ja Rule is punished for anything perhaps it should be that.

Are you sure these aren't excerpts from a POLITICO story about Trump but with names changed to protect the guilty

Billy McFarland (born 1991)[1] is an American entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Spling, founder and CEO of the Magnises black card and mobile app, and partner and promoter of FyreFestival.

Spling is a tech-driven ad platform helping brands increase media engagement and marketing revenue by optimizing their content presentation.

With Magnises, access valuable benefits and members-only offers. Whether it’s a complimentary room upgrade through Magnises Travel, the best seats in the house through SportsPass, or members-only pricing for the city’s best sold out concerts, always live life as an insider.

billy made the terrible mistake of trying to expand his business empire into actual real things

Man i am stoked to see the PR campaign for 18.

3OH!3 is headlining (via Skype)

You will get 50 acres of private land with your own trained guerillas!

We will reveal Biggie and Pac's killers!

This interview with a high school classmate of chief bro says so much

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/327934/high-school-classmate-interview-billy-mcfarland-fyre-festival-founder/

AD: Actually I do have a funny story of bumping into him. I think I exchanged with him a brief amount when he was starting the Magnises thing. He was trying to have some artist or whatever working in those weird little townhouse clubs that he’d set up.

DS: Mhm.

AD: I had some people who were hoping to get a few gigs, so I was trying to see if he’d be interested in having somebody working in those clubs. So I chatted with him once or twice already and then just kind of bumped into him on the street while he was on the phone. It was the first time I’d actually seen him since, I think, graduating high school. Maybe I had seen him once or twice in college. And he was on the phone talking with somebody, and he saw me and then waved and shook my hand very formally in a “How are you doing?” kind of way, and then like turned back around to his phone conversation.

fascinating stuff

Talking to 25 year olds from Bergen County about their peers is a sure fire winner every time

Love the bit about bro's middle school porn server business.

Spling your friends and they can splong you back

Tribune comment: Fyre Festival organisers showed disrespect in clashing with regatta

the Magnises thing is another obvious-sounding scam:

One former member, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said that they bought several tickets for several events — including Beyoncé's concert at Citi Field, one of Adele's shows at Madison Square Garden, and a performance of "Hamilton" — soon after joining Magnises in February 2016. This member claims to have had logistical issues with nearly every event for which they had purchased tickets.

Each time, just before the show (often the day before the event or even the day of) a representative for Magnises would send an email explaining that the startup would no longer be able to provide the purchased ticket and offer to help reschedule the seat for another date.

"They send the same email for every problem, but it's like fill-in-the-blanks for what the problem is," the person said.

Just before Beyoncé's concert at Citi Field in June, the same member said they received the standard email explaining that Magnises would no longer be able to provide the tickets as promised and offered to switch the tickets for a show the following day. After complaining, the member did end up getting tickets to the original show they had planned for, but they were surprised to see that the tickets they were given had someone else's name on them.

http://www.businessinsider.com/magnises-complaints-from-members-2017-1

Delisle, for example, had to reschedule his October tickets for a December showing of "Hamilton," so the friend who needed to fly in for it rescheduled his flight. The day before the show, Delisle received an email that was nearly identical to the first, saying that Magnises would no longer be able to provide the four tickets he had purchased (for a total of $1,200).

"The whole value proposition is providing access to these events and twice they failed to deliver," Delisle said.

He rescheduled his tickets for a third time and made plans for his friend to visit for the show on January 6. By 3 p.m. on the day of the show, he had yet to receive his tickets from Magnises, which said it would send his tickets by email to print out. After waiting at a FedEx location for an hour, Delisle was told his tickets would be at the theater's will call. When he went to the theater, the tickets weren't there.

The Magnises concierge then helped coordinate a drop-off at the restaurant where Delisle would be eating dinner just before the show.

"I did have a good experience talking with the VP of customer service at that point," Delisle said. "She was very professional and sympathetic and said, 'We'll prioritize yours.'

"It's just so stressful because once you start involving other people, the pressure is on you to deliver."

Delisle did end up enjoying the show, as did fellow member Victoria Reitano, the founder and CEO of the social media marketing agency CreatiVix Media.

http://i.imgur.com/yrIXDZ5.png

they later deleted the last comment lol

jesus, i ain't swimming with that pig. feral pigs!

You can’t not give Major Lazer a video wall. It’s literally their whole set.

The column sleeve linked to is grebt

"yucked up our vexation"

Spling is a tech-driven ad platform helping brands increase media engagement and marketing revenue by optimizing their content presentation

lol 'tech-driven'

worse than 'artisanal'

Went to an island party to reminisce with my old friends
A chance to share old memories and hear old songs again
When I got to the island party, I wanted to be sick
My salad had no dressing, I want Ja's head on a stick

the funny thing to me is the staff keeps focusing on the so-called storm that took down their tents and fucked their water supply, as if people woulda been ok sleeping in those garbage tents for 12k even had the bands showed up

http://img.wennermedia.com/article-leads-horizontal/rs-billy-mcfarland-qa-6c4ef770-ddca-447d-af16-f9e6d048a2d2.jpg

lol @ this person being a 25 year old

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