Fyre Festival - laugh long, laugh loud

[beesonthewhatnow]

A 'luxury festival' backed by celebrities descends into chaos as one guest calls it 'Rich Kids of Instagram meets Lord of the Flies'

A new music festival set in the Bahamas has descended into chaos amid reports that guests have been stranded at an unfinished site, where headliners have pulled out at the last minute.

Fyre Festival, a luxury event organised by Ja Rule and due to feature performances from Blink-182, Skepta and Rae Stremmurd, was advertised on social media as a glamorous party involving supermodels including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski.

The price of a ticket to the event ranged from $4,000 to $12,000. The event was due to start on 28 April and run over two weekends, billing itself as a "cultural moment created from an alchemic blend of music, art and food".

However, fans trying to get to the festival were met with delayed flights. On arrival, they reported half-built 'cabanas' that were "actually disaster relief tents", poor food and drink offerings, and mountains of rubbish.

 

[Indeliblelink]

oh dear

 

[Yossarian]

Going to be interesting to check back in a year and see what kind of society they've built for themselves.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

There is some amazing stuff on the hashtag but dunno what is fake or real... sounds like a mess though!

 

[Supine]

Haha, was reading the hashtag earlier. Sounds like a fun festi lol

 

[ddraig]

been chortling about this all day!

 

[editor]

What kind of utter knob forks out for a festival 'full of supermodels' ? No need to answer that by the way.

 

[ddraig]

Cancelled!! No shit
Ja Rule's disastrous Fyre Festival now “fully postponed” after "refugee camp conditions" allegations
E2a "fully postponed" not cancelled

 

[wiskey]

This has amused me so much today

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

been chortling about this all day!

Tweet of the year

 

[Fez909]

All new articles should end like the one in the OP, in honour of those who died in the Great Fyre

Ja Rule has yet to comment on the ongoing issues.

 

[wtfftw]

I've been enjoying this timeline William N. Finley IV (@WNFIV) on Twitter

 

[xes]

doesn't look that bad from this little walk around

 

[phillm]

There is some amazing stuff on the hashtag but dunno what is fake or real... sounds like a mess though!

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Probably FEMA torture camps left over from a Gitmo black-ops prison.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I was secretly hoping it was all done on purpose as some sort of political art installation and all the rich cunts' money was going to refugee charities.

Unfortunately it was just rich cunts taking money from rich cunts to keep for themselves.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

 

[Thimble Queen]

Rich kids of Instagram? STRAIGHT TO THE JA RULAG.

 

[Gromit]

Who says festivals are struggling to make money. Here is how you do it.

£10k a ticket.
Row em to an island.
Abandon them with some tents and bread.
Leg it.

Plenty of a head start as they can't get off the island.

It's genius really.

 

[DotCommunist]

I wasn't laughing until I saw the cheese sarnie inna polystyrene box. Even chips kebab meat and cheese in a box is better than that and for all that money. Some of these people will be rich enough to sue as well.

 

[Vintage Paw]

 

[twentythreedom]

It'll probably leave Ja Rule a bit short

 

[sunnysidedown]

The rich eat themselves

 

[Gromit]

Think of all the extra money therapists are going to make out of this.

"They didn't even have any cucumber eye masks! *sobs*".

 

[Thimble Queen]

Dumpster Fyre Fest

 

[belboid]

Suddenly Safe as Milk feels a positively sensible decision.

 

[Badgers]

#fakenews

 

[DaveCinzano]

I Worked at Fyre Festival. It Was Always Going to Be a Disaster.

I cannot explain how or why the bros running this festival ignored every warning sign they were given along the way. The writing was on the wall. I saw it firsthand six weeks ago. They overlooked so many very basic things. And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Also:

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.”

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[DaveCinzano]

Reminds one of the Koryo Burger stories recently doing the rounds