Fyre Festival: Inside the world's biggest festival flop
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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 13:49    Post subject: Fyre Festival: Inside the world's biggest festival flop
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Fyre Festival was the most talked about festival experience of 2017, but not because anyone had any fun there.

Advertised by famous faces including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Hailey Baldwin, it was billed as a glamorous party on a deserted island.

Tickets cost up to $100,000 (£75,000) and guests who booked were promised luxury accommodation and "the best in food, art, music and adventure" in the Bahamas.

Instead they turned up to mattresses on rain-soaked floors, meals of cheese slices on bread and their luggage thrown into a unlit car park.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-46904445



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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 14:25    Post subject:
Here's a great video about it



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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 14:27    Post subject:
Not sure if this is "news" tbh...but still very interesting. Oddly enough I watched a couple of vids on this subject yesterday Smile


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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 14:43    Post subject:

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Billy McFarland is currently serving a six-year jail term for fraud




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The most famous image from Fyre Festival was of a bad cheese sandwich reportedly served to guests



Should just make him eat those while in there. Very Happy

EDIT: Though an eccentric multi-millionaire planning a real-life battle-royal would have made for a hell of a video. If it had worked out.

Well they were trying to make a festival, for a few weeks and a project that should have taken well over a year I guess realistically for what was expected.

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He's the one man missing from the documentary - Chris says he refused to be interviewed unless he was paid for his time.



Well he is paying now. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 14:56    Post subject:
are there any tickets left? Smile

That sammich looks good.


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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 15:10    Post subject:
100,000 dollars for a rain soaked mattress, bargain Laughing . nearly as good a value as the xmas villages we have in the uk :-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1358322/Lapland-theme-park-Brothers-convicted-1m-New-Forest-christmas-scam.html


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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 15:19    Post subject:
how come these influencers arent also charged with fraud, like them bitconnect influencers who now deleted all their youtube videos and social media and vanished cause they pissing their pants after lawyering up
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PostPosted: Fri, 18th Jan 2019 16:18    Post subject:
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These influencers were paid to promote something. Like an ad, I guess. It's gonna be hard to sue them.
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PostPosted: Thu, 17th Jul 2025 06:37    Post subject:
An update:

Scandal-Ridden Fyre Festival Is Sold for $245,000 on eBay

Billy McFarland, who served nearly four years in prison for fraud, said in April that he would put the beleaguered brand that he founded up for sale.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/us/fyre-fesival-sold-ebay.html
https://archive.is/38sE0
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