Anybody been tracking what's going on in the Bahamas at "Fyre Fest"? The "luxury music festival", put on by Ja Rule and a private investor, and promoted by lots of models, has sunken into chaos in the last 24 hours.

http://www.thefader.com/2017/04/28/fyre-festival-bahamas-cancelled-report

According to multiple reports, the festival was nowhere close to being ready when people started showing up. Super expensive "beach cabanas" turned out to be relief-effort-style tents, celebrity chef meals ended up being bread and cheese and some lettuce, and the artists started dropping off the bill one by one until they just cancelled the thing. Many of the attendees who were flying out of Miami on chartered planes yesterday were informed on the runway that the festival/island had notified the airline not to send anybody else. It sounds like absolute chaos. And pretty hilarious (as long as nobody gets hurt).

The festival was said to be located "on a private island previously owned by Escobar", but is actually just a Sandals resort on an island with thousands of residents.

Tobias Funke said:

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put on by Ja Rule and a private investor

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First red flag

WOW. I'm sorry I'm not sorry those morons blew thousands of dollars on this boondoggle.

Even if it ran perfectly, that sounded like the most pretentious and douchy festival I've ever heard of.

The fact that it was a complete disaster makes it all the better.

Great compilation of tweets that tells the basic story. So fascinating...

https://twitter.com/i/moments/857902104681361410

I honestly hadn't even heard of this thing 'til I woke up this morning. Anyone I know who goes to things like this just goes to Coachella, but even that feels like my friends and I are getting too old for it (personally, you couldn't pay me to attend Coachella or really any big music festival).

Tobias Funke said:

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One of my buddies had tickets for weekend 2. Interested to see if he gets his money back.

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Wait, this ****show somehow was a 2 weekend event? How glorious.

Quote:

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Ashanti town

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brilliant

Sponsored by United Airlines and Pepsi

The second week apparently features an all-inclusive refugee treatment package.

Never heard of it before this thread, but thanks for the epic schadenfreude

I would bet the plan wasn't as elaborate as it was portrayed but not near as bad as it ended up.

Like I would guess they didn't plan to have porto potties but it got to be too late for infrastructure so they just threw some (eh...one) down.

They may not have meant to do such a bad job but they were clearly in over their heads.

It's basically a kids' inflatable pool filled with balls. What's not funny about that? It's like the most half-assed thing ever.

This is insane. I love that privileged dbags wasted money on this.

Tobias Funke said:

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What's the joke with the ball pit?

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I think it's photo-shopped from the infamous Dashcon.

TCTTS said:

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So what was the endgame here on behalf of the festival owners/promoters? I don't get it. At best, attendees were going to pay a lot of money only to discover the sh*ttiest music festival known to man. Say they had a few more port-a-potties, had a decent amount of (albeit terrible) food, the tents were at least serviceable, some of the bands showed up, etc. Even then people would be demanding their money back. But now, it's obvious the whole thing was a ruse (I think?), and I could easily see there being criminal charges, full refunds, etc. I just don't understand what the owners/promoters thought they were doing or would get away with. Unless they're really THAT bad at this, and were somehow in too deep to call it off?

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You know how Instagram is full of spoiled but useless people? I'm guessing one of those spoiled people wanted to be a festival organizer and proved to be useless.

Man the replies to that tweet are awesome.

And I love releasing an official statement without any resemblance of correct punctuation or grammar.

Right on par with what I expected.

wessimo said:

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Assuming this is legit, the planner hadn't even visited the site as of a couple of weeks ago.

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The Dunder Mifflin party planning committee would've done a better job than these knuckleheads.