Fyre Festival - laugh long, laugh loud
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Bahnhof Strasse
Met up with Hannah Courtoy a week next Tuesday
Being poor involves terrible accommodation, lousy food and the booze running out but all the time, people attending the Fyre festival have been told.
Attendees of the Fyre festival, who paid more than ten grand to attend a festival headlined by early 2000s west coast pop-punk bands, discovered that the luxury camp they’d been promised was half-built and that food was in short supply.
The hellish existence being experienced by the rich kids in the Bahamas is available in most refugee camps and doesn’t cost $12,000, according to reports.
People at the camp in the Bahamas have described being flown there in coach class as ‘hellish’ and ‘Like being trafficked by Chinese snakehead gangs’.
Survivors of the festival told us of sleeping in a tent and getting a cheese sandwich for lunch as if that wouldn’t be a major step up for most of humanity.
Blink 182 not playing as advertised is being recognised by most as an improvement to their circumstances, although the hellish life of refugees was partially replicated by Jared Leto turning up and patronising everyone.
“Yah, it’s like totally Lord of the Flies here but with attractive people and snapchat,” attendee Simone Williams told us.
“I had to eat, like, a cheese sandwich which I’m told poor people would kill for. Well, why don’t they come here? They could have had mine.
“I mean, being poor, like, sucks. They should totally stop doing it. A single weekend is enough to last me a lifetime.”
Kim Jong-Un has told North Korean dissidents that if they don’t pipe down he’ll put them on a plane to the festival and then they’ll be sorry.
newsthump.com
Attendees of the Fyre festival, who paid more than ten grand to attend a festival headlined by early 2000s west coast pop-punk bands, discovered that the luxury camp they’d been promised was half-built and that food was in short supply.
The hellish existence being experienced by the rich kids in the Bahamas is available in most refugee camps and doesn’t cost $12,000, according to reports.
People at the camp in the Bahamas have described being flown there in coach class as ‘hellish’ and ‘Like being trafficked by Chinese snakehead gangs’.
Survivors of the festival told us of sleeping in a tent and getting a cheese sandwich for lunch as if that wouldn’t be a major step up for most of humanity.
Blink 182 not playing as advertised is being recognised by most as an improvement to their circumstances, although the hellish life of refugees was partially replicated by Jared Leto turning up and patronising everyone.
“Yah, it’s like totally Lord of the Flies here but with attractive people and snapchat,” attendee Simone Williams told us.
“I had to eat, like, a cheese sandwich which I’m told poor people would kill for. Well, why don’t they come here? They could have had mine.
“I mean, being poor, like, sucks. They should totally stop doing it. A single weekend is enough to last me a lifetime.”
Kim Jong-Un has told North Korean dissidents that if they don’t pipe down he’ll put them on a plane to the festival and then they’ll be sorry.
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DJWrongspeed
radio eros
This is from the promo video , it sure was
Cloo
Banana for scale
$100 million class law suit apparently: Mark Geragos Files $100 Million Suit Against Fyre Festival
This one's gonna run and run!
This one's gonna run and run!
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
It's all a bit Lapland New Forest.
Cloo
Banana for scale
And now, their 'pitch deck' for investors: Exclusive: The Leaked Fyre Festival Pitch Deck Is Beyond Parody
One interesting aspect of this is it *could* see legal kickback to those 'online influencers' who gave their backing to this shitshow.
One interesting aspect of this is it *could* see legal kickback to those 'online influencers' who gave their backing to this shitshow.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Hold on a minute - they got fuckjerry to do their pr? i.e someone whose talent is sharing memes?
pesh
Well-Known Member
well that explains what made them want to do it there... they gave them the fucking beach.
hard to tell if thats $8.4m or just under 10cm though.
Johnny Doe
Well-Known Member
phillm
Trolling through Life (TM)
well that explains what made them want to do it there... they gave them the fucking beach.
hard to tell if thats $8.4m or just under 10cm though.
I now know of Iggy Azalea - who has a rap record cover of 'Lilac Wine' out featuring Roddy Rhododendron.
Hang on a sec - the PR is the one thing that worked (!)
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
I think its a great analogy though, the only thing they could get right was the non material hype thing. Fuckjerry has made a career out of meme sharing. They tried to make an entire festival out of bullshitting and it didn't work, surprise surprise.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
what is a fuckjerry?
Who.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
who is a fuckjerry?
No idea, mate.
pinkmonkey
2.4 hour party person
Instagram account that shares memes and is popular for it.
Cloo
Banana for scale
Yes, that is interesting, that they could generate such masses of hype, especially as it was through people who weren't going to check whether the organisers actually had a fucking clue what they were doing before associating themselves with their 'event'.
Only just seen this thread. I was going to start one about it myself.
We spent far too much time last week cruelly and callously laughing our heads off at this beyond-parody festival of incompetence .... scarcely believable, but all too true ...
We spent far too much time last week cruelly and callously laughing our heads off at this beyond-parody festival of incompetence .... scarcely believable, but all too true ...
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It seems that this festival is just a subset of 'fyre' which seems to be a platform for marketeers to connect with 'influencers' (i.e celebs and people with big social media followings) and allow them to buy their 'influence'.
I think their beacon event backfiring is probably a much better thing then we could imagine and even better it seems that these 'influencers' have broken FCC rules by not disclosing that their promotion was actually advertising as well as pissing off some of their followers.
ddraig
kicking against the pricks...
2hats
Dust.
To be fair, the Koryo Burger is perhaps one of the better DPRK food options (and more flexible for veggies since the meat is easily identified and removed).
Cloo
Banana for scale
Sadly it is looking like it wasn't all 'rich kids' - this article suggests that most people didn't buy super expensive tickets, as they had to discount them to get anyone to buy them https://news.vice.com/story/fyre-fe...oney-months-early-on-models-planes-and-yachts
So probably quite a lot of fairly ordinary folk who thought they were buying into something awesome got ripped off.
Apparently the guy behind it only had the idea in October last year
Unsurprisingly, sounds like a nasty bunch of fuckers who apparently flew out to the area at weekends in the run up, with the only girls allowed (and apparently the only entertainment) being models. The humiliation and massive lawsuit couldn't happen to more charming people.
So probably quite a lot of fairly ordinary folk who thought they were buying into something awesome got ripped off.
Apparently the guy behind it only had the idea in October last year
Unsurprisingly, sounds like a nasty bunch of fuckers who apparently flew out to the area at weekends in the run up, with the only girls allowed (and apparently the only entertainment) being models. The humiliation and massive lawsuit couldn't happen to more charming people.
spanglechick
High Empress of Dressing Up
Minimum £500 plus flights? It's still going to be fairly rich kids.Sadly it is looking like it wasn't all 'rich kids' - this article suggests that most people didn't buy super expensive tickets, as they had to discount them to get anyone to buy them https://news.vice.com/story/fyre-fe...oney-months-early-on-models-planes-and-yachts
So probably quite a lot of fairly ordinary folk who thought they were buying into something awesome got ripped off.
Apparently the guy behind it only had the idea in October last year
editor
hiraethified
Anyone who buys into an 'exclusive' festival full of supermodels and rich cunts won't get any sympathy from me.Sadly it is looking like it wasn't all 'rich kids' - this article suggests that most people didn't buy super expensive tickets, as they had to discount them to get anyone to buy them https://news.vice.com/story/fyre-fe...oney-months-early-on-models-planes-and-yachts
So probably quite a lot of fairly ordinary folk who thought they were buying into something awesome got ripped off.
Apparently the guy behind it only had the idea in October last year
Gromit
International Man of Misery
£500 plus flights is budget compared to a week in Ibiza.
editor
hiraethified
I think the Glastonbury offers just a little bit better value for money, given that you're paying to see the ten zillion bands and entertainments on offer, and not going for a 'unparalleled best in music, cuisine, design & hospitality on a private island.'
