Fyre Festival - laugh long, laugh loud

[DaveCinzano]

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

A great opportunity for BBC America to locate its own Ben Fogle

 

[fucthest8]

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

... and for completeness, read this for what people thought they might be getting

 

[fucthest8]

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

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

The fourth. The fourth posh twat with the same name. Fucksake.

 

[DaveCinzano]

... and for completeness, read this for what people thought they might be getting

Dozy mugs

 

[Gromit]

Bet you'll still get wristband wankers wanting you to know that they were there.

 

[spitfire]

It's ok don't panic next years will be off da hook bro.

Fyre Festival Head Billy McFarland: 'We Were a Little Naive'

 

[Miss-Shelf]

Already regretting assigning J.G. Ballard to cover the Fyre Festival

JG Ballard reports on fyre festival

 

[Cloo]

I will never cease to be amazed by people's sheer fucking inability to own up to a mistake. What the actual fuck were they thinking going ahead and somehow thinking that would be OK?

Funny as hell, though, if you weren't there.

 

[DaveCinzano]

via

 

[DaveCinzano]

Fair point...

 

[magneze]

A guy from the marketing team said, “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”

Job done tbf.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Job done tbf.

There's a bit of a difference between a bell and a leg, mind

 

[Dom Traynor]

 

[Gromit]

Job done tbf.

Although 'infamous' is more accurate.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Already regretting assigning J.G. Ballard to cover the Fyre Festival

JG Ballard reports on fyre festival

Genius.

Now that everything had returned to normal, with most of the rich kids cowering in the airport and the ostensible proprietors begging Twitter for forgiveness and mercy, he was surprised that there had been no obvious beginning, no point beyond which lunch had moved into a clearly more sinister dimension. In the middle of the field, a girl in an Afhan Whigs tee shirt screamed about gluten in the rye.

 

[Yossarian]

Get ready for Fyre 2018!

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.

Fyre Festival Organizers Promise Refunds, Charitable Donations & 2018 VIP Passes for All

 

[Supine]

Will nobody think of those poor helpless models. Stranded in just their bathers.

 

[editor]

Get ready for Fyre 2018!



Fyre Festival Organizers Promise Refunds, Charitable Donations & 2018 VIP Passes for All

And that's how rich cunts continue being rich cunts, sailing from one colossal fuck up on to the next while other bored rich cunts throw money at them.

I'm going to spend my time till the next festival trying to mind-meld an asteroid to crash on their island.

 

[JTG]

Christ knows what they would have made of Glade 2007

 

[editor]

 

[Vintage Paw]

I can't articulate it very well but I can't help seeing all this Fyre stuff and juxtaposing it somehow with all the images of the Calais Jungle and other refugee camps from the past few years and it just keeps making me feel more and more sick.

 

[SpookyFrank]

I can't articulate it very well but I can't help seeing all this Fyre stuff and juxtaposing it somehow with all the images of the Calais Jungle and other refugee camps from the past few years and it just keeps making me feel more and more sick.

Yeah some very familliar images there. The polystyrene pots of food in particular look a lot like the one meal a day of anonymous slop people were getting back when charities were still allowed to distribute food in Calais town.

 

[Vintage Paw]

It's when they were talking with such consternation about the "rows of disaster relief tents" like it was literally the worst thing in the world to have to slum it like that, with zero awareness. The lack of running water and electricity. The shitty food. The mud.

The only way this whole thing could be in any way retrieved is if it had all been an elaborate political art installation, with the money going to refugee charities (which is why I mentioned that yesterday). $12k for the most expensive tickets, and the fucking entitlement of these cunts when they're faced with the reality thousands of others have to deal with daily - and no awareness that they're part of the fucking class that creates these conditions.

I mean, I'm laughing at them too. I'm not entirely po-faced. Just... arrrrgggghghghghh.

 

[Gromit]

Get ready for Fyre 2018!



Fyre Festival Organizers Promise Refunds, Charitable Donations & 2018 VIP Passes for All

VIP passes for all?!

They just don't get it do they?

If everyone is VIP then no one is VIP!

 

[Yossarian]

I wonder how many Fyre attendees struggling with the desperate conditions made it the 200 meters or so to the nearest pub. (Fyre site is white area at top.)

 

[Cloo]

But... but... festival concierges were supposed to be bringing them food and drink. Luxury, curated food and drink.

 

[Nylock]

A lot of them didn't bring any money as they were told it wasn't needed cos of the rfid wristbands they were to be issued for their "all inclusive" experience

 

[spanglechick]

Has made me question whether taking over a low season luxe resort for a festival wouldn't have yeilded enough profit.

But this is funny. It's like the whole thing was planned by my sixth formers. I'd feel some compassion were it not for the obvious levels of disposable wealth by the attendees.

 

[Nylock]

Has made me question whether taking over a low season luxe resort for a festival wouldn't have yeilded enough profit.

But this is funny. It's like the whole thing was planned by my sixth formers. I'd feel some compassion were it not for the obvious levels of disposable wealth by the attendees.

You do your sixth-formers a disservice.... I reckon they could do a much better job of organising it!

 

[Fozzie Bear]