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https://news.vice.com/story/fyre-festivals-25-year-old-organizer-this-is-the-worst-day-of-my-life

Jenner promoted the festival in a now-deleted Instagram photo, for which she was paid $250,000, according to a Fyre employee with knowledge of the transaction. Jenner did not label the post as an advertisement.

Is that considered out of the norm for reality/IG stars?

I think some US agency (FCC?) came out with guidelines that it's illegal to not be upfront about making paid ads with your social media accounts. IIRC some YouTubers got in trouble for not being above-board about paid ads.

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Hope Trump's FCC fixes that soon.

I believe it's the FTC

Rather than hold the festival at a venue built to support thousands of attendees, McFarland, who has never thrown a large-scale music festival before, says he and his partners decided to take on the ambitious task of building a city from scratch

lol...

Building a city can't be that hard right guys?

Just look at Rome, which was . . . oh wait.

Hey, Treblinka went up pretty quickly.

Oooooooooohh

Those guys knew how to run a camp

You can do anything ahead of time if you have expendable slave labour at your disposal...

But I have built a city. These festy sluts of Pharaoh will guard its gates, and it shall be the city of Ja Rule's glory.

the-worst-day-of-my-life

These people did accomplish a little bit more than the Trump administration, AND they got a bunch of models to do promos.  They'll have offices in the west wing of the White House next.

Don't worry guys. It's all Trump's fault. Those poor executives couldn't help themselves from grabbing the money and running.

I love that these people are essentially redoing the "Thanks Obama" blanket blame for anything that goes wrong.

It just be wonderful to have such a lack of self awareness..

Make America Great Again

I mean, nobody is actually blaming trump for anyone in that joke...

I'm with them on this. It strikes me as the same kind of fuckwittism.

Promise them a big, beautiful, gorgeous wall festival all up until it actually has to happen, then act shocked at how very difficult no one could have predicted it being, and then promise them the next thing.

Thanks Obama. If you had just lost to Hillary the first time 'round, we might have elected you now.

"Who knew planning parties was so complicated?"

It was obviously just a little joke, no need to get this upset over to my dude

lol

my dude

just be a legend man

I was almost immediately warned not to go near it because of a rampant shark problem.

Didn't the other article mention that there are packs of feral dogs roaming the island? What the fuck is going on with this place?

It's a third world shithole, pretty obvious.

You would think that one of the first things the organizers would check for an outdoor music festival would be that there no dangerous wild animals roaming the venue.

Imagine if it had actually gone off. You'd have people fucked up on E thinking 'hey, wouldn't it be great to go skinny-dipping right now?' right before they get a chunk taken out of their leg.

Or coked out internet celebs trying to take selfies with a rabid dogs.

The island is basically Far Cry 3 DLC

You should probably look up the actual far cry 3 dlc

I did and it gave me epilepsy. 10/10 would seisure again

Didn't the other article mention that there are feral dogs roaming the island?

probably quoting fake twitter posts

Cool user name brah

right back at cha

And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA.

Sweet sign-off.

Your comment is the only reason I actually read the article.

Is it a good idea to talk about this? Event was a clusterfuck i would feel weird hiring someone who goes to blabber to the press so openly.

It doesn't sound like anyone involved at a hiring level was actually involved in the field, so it's not like he's fucking over future employers.

I mean if future employers goggle his name this article is gonna come up.

Sure, but the thing was a clusterfuck of people not involved in the field wanting to pay him less than he was promised, I think those actually in the field will recognise the shitty situation he was put in. I mean, this is already infamous even for people who couldn't give a flying fuck about festivals.

people in the events industry will see this as a hilarious war story and sympathise with him.

I mean in the article it seems like they did all they could do, only quitting once his employer failed to honor their agreed upon wage. I think most people would've bailed after the marketing exec's comment (I would have).

And they will see the dude is smart, will call out obvious scams, and will cover his own ass. That is usually a good thing for the employer

This event is going to go down as a historic example of how to fuck up in this industry. The only thing that an employee of this shit show would be judged for would be being stupid enough to stay on once the writing was on the wall.

Why does everyone keep calling this thing a "disaster" like it was some kind of oopsie! mistake?

It was a scam. Some shady people stole a lot of money.

Hanlon's razor.

i wouldnt be so sure. this happens surprisingly often, it just usually doesnt involve '''''celebrities''''', rich kids etc so it doesnt make the news.

a lot of people seem do a couple of succesful events in nightclubs, and think they can jump to doing outdoor events without really considering what that entails. the fact that they did it in some third world country means there was no licensing authority asking them difficult health and safety questions which would stop this kind of thing in the US or europe before it started.

plus hes a silicon valley exec and you know what theyre like with interpreting their own luck/class advantage as genius.

Dude. Acts were booked, but not paid. Ticket-holders were hounded by email to pre-load their "Fyre Bands" with thousands of dollars before-hand "because it's a no-cash event".

When you book acts with no intention of paying them, and also don't build any of the shit you were charging for and advertising (including the stage), you are really just building the impression that a festival is going to happen so that people (ticket holders) will "invest" in it (give you money before you've delivered a product).

Somebody pilfered a lot of this "Fyre Band" money that went towards festival concessions that don't exist. Guaranteed. Not to mention ridiculous ticket price transactions that have already gone into shady accounts months ago from rich people who can afford to take the hit, and in many cases those people probably won't go through the hassle of chasing a refund or suing. As hard as it is to believe, some people lose 150,000 like you and I lose a nickel in the couch.

ive seen it happen before, multiple times. the promoter, a delusional idiot, starts off actually trying to do an event, takes a lot of money in ticket sales, promises a lot of money to other people, gets halfway through, realises its impossible and theyve bitten off way more than they can chew, and they think:

"hmmm, i could pay back all this money, break all the contracts ive signed with the various bands and contractors, and destroy my reputation forever, but that would destroy my ego so badly i'd literally have to kill myself. OR i could get daddies accountant to help me keep the cash, or use it to pay back my debts from the last time I did a stupid fucking thing like this, and declare bankruptcy and lie my way out of it, which will be really easy because i'm a fucking sociopath."

if theyre not a rich kid then they just skip the country.

people who plan from the beginning to outright steal money dont go to all this crazy effort, they just do tax scams with fake building projects or whatever. maybe some of his investors knew what was really up, but I dont believe this kid planned from the outset to rip people off. i dont think he planned anything at all tbh, beyond “Let’s just do it and be legends, man” because hes a fucking retard.

The line between scam and idiocy is often blurrier than people give it credit for, especially in situations like this where there's helpful servings of both.

seems like they created the website and ad campaign before planning anything, and failed miserably at logistics.

You just described a scam.

People design websites and ad campaigns for time-share resorts that don't exist all the time. It's called stealing money from stupid people.

I was defining scam to mean they ran with the money and made no attempt to throw the festival. Arguing definitions on the internet is very boring though, so I'm gonna stop

Now, I'm sure that what are my chances saying this in this den of solipsism, but if you you try to imagine your proposed explanation from the organizers' point of view, it would look rather like that Key and Peele sketch about robbing a bank, only with them additionally planning to get fired for drinking at work halfway in.

A scam is a scam, you collect your marks' money then disappear into the sunset with it. You don't spend a shitton of effort and those same money on stuff like actually trying to arrange tents and shit after the marks already gave you the money. That's counterproductive.

It was a scam. Some shady people stole a lot of money

That makes them smart.

it's just good business folks

The festival was supposed to be a luxury music retreat where elite millennials could mingle with “influencers” and models.

Should have nuked the island.

How the hell is Ja Rule considered an "Infuencer" at this point?

He's not.

People keep asking for his opinion on every breaking news event.

Who is he

Accurate, I doubt most millennial even know who Ja Rule is.

WHAT'S MY MUTHAFUCKIN' NAME??

(AR YOU EL E)

He's not. By influencers they mean the f list instagram "celebrities" who get paid to shill for shit no one needs and all around be fake as hell.

He isn't. But MONICAAA is

trump should have saved the MOAB

See, I assumed the plan was to build the wall so they couldn't get back in.

Napalm is cheaper and they will suffer more, don't count out good old white phosphorus. We got a shit ton of experience with Willie Pete in Vietnam. Its very efficient.

I can't believe they didn't make any of the staff sign NDAs...

this is brilliant. its a containment island for the worst of the cumskin subspecies. thank god

Should've left them stranded on the island to see how long it took for them to turn to cannibalism.

Should have MOAB'ed the island, I would have donated $1 $1.50 to that cause, who will match me?

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.”

Fucking love it.

I can't believe it didn't work out tbh..

Worked exactly as Mr Marketing called it

It's certainly legendary.

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.

Oh that is even cringier than I imagined.

Yeah rapidly building a temporary city in the desert is super easy, right? Because the army corps of engineers don't seem that organised when they do it, they just wander around in flip flops, making it up as they go along, right? And the cities they build are deluxe-luxury accommodation, not barebones tents, yeah? What could go wrong????

He's shitty at that too.

Not gonna lie, I love watching easily avoidable bad things happen to """elite millenials""" (lol what the fuck) coastal trustafarians my same age and demographic.

This is my fetish.

^ This but unironically

"this is what fyre festival was supposed to look like"

The thumbnail is a man in a bikini... i mean... i guess it looks fun.

the water looked beautiful — but I was almost immediately warned not to go near it because of a rampant shark problem. That was an omen I regrettably missed.

lol!

I always find it funny how people who know stuff will turn out bad never warn others, especially when touting how they never made you sign an NDA.

I'm sorry guys. We failed you. The plan was to take two thousand of the world's most useless people, strand them on an unescapeable island surrounded by shark-flolled waters, and let Darwinism take its course. The sole survivor - the one who had a survival instinct strong enough to shock them out of their pathetic trust-find life - would be allowed to return to society, having learned a valuable lesson.

But we screwed up. Somehow, word got out too soon, before we could spring the trap. We failed you all, and for that, we apologize.

“To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars.”

I mean, you ARE a porn star if you get fucked as hard as every fucking yuppie involved in this.

In the morning headliner and all-around relevant band in 2017 Blink-182 pulled out

Wow rude