Billy, there ain't gonna be a next year, bruh.

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Reading about Ja Rule's partner and the other backer of Fyre, this tweet actually seems factual

http://gizmodo.com/a-tech-bro-charged-dopes-thousands-for-an-island-getawa-1794739500

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From the opening:

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For us, it was always a battle of pushing the limits. Once we got flying lessons together, we got on these really bad 40-year-old planes and flew from New York to the Bahamas not really knowing the Bahamas very well ran out of gas and landed in the Exumas and both of us immediately fell in love.

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"Hey, remember that time we put our lives in peril because we were too lazy to plan our flight to the Bahamas properly? We should totally put on a multi-weekend luxury concert where we landed."
"Sounds like a lot of work."
"Totally not. And we've got good judgement about stuff."

Lonely Island and Seth Rogan tweeted today that this is actually a movie idea they are already working on: "a music festival that goes horribly wrong", and they joked that they are considering suing Fyre Fest for stealing their idea.

No idea how much of that is BS

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

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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."

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So Wayne's World 2?

This is my favorite story of 2017. I really can't see anything topping this.

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What was the original line up?

Did people really pay through the nose for blink 182 and a promise of many other bands being there?

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First of all... G.O.O.D. Music is not a music group. It's a record label. That's such a gigantic red flag right off the bat for anyone that has even half a brain. And I swear after Lil Yachty, I'm pretty sure some of those "bands" are completely made up...


Read this to see an example of the type of marketing they were making their sales from:

http://www.jenniferdoyle.ie/top-festivals/what-is-fyre-festival/

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Expect five star cabins, suites and villas. This luxury accommodation will feature double beds, living rooms, en-suites, mini bars and swimming pools. The only preview we have of Fyre Festival's accommodation is a cartoon sketch, but we expect it to live up to luxurious expectations.

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The level of stupidity that went around everyone involved in this is astounding.


And here's an article from someone who began working on setting up the festival 6 WEEKS AGO

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

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That night Ja Rule gave a toast.

"To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and ****ing like porn stars."

If Ja Rule is punished for anything perhaps it should be that.

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I love this story so, so much

I wouldn't say I'm "obsessed" with this story, but I can't get enough of it. Every time I open my phone it's to check out anything and everything new about fyrefest.

Everything about this story is incredible. The organizers, the acts, the fact that idiot millennial got ripped off. all of it brings me complete and utter joy

"let's just do it and be legends" is such a terrible and awesome quote I'm all about working that into my everyday vernacular

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"let's just do it and be legends" is such a terrible and awesome quote I'm all about working that into my everyday vernacular

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Unfortunately, it reminds me so much of "Lets wreck this league together"

Man I'd have bought tickets had I known Thugf*cker was performing.

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That idiotic promo should have been the first clue. Nothing about the bands, the accommodations, the foods, the perks, just models in bikinis for two minutes with cliches and catch phrases. Jean-Ralphio really may have put that together.
Anyone dumb enough to fall for the total wannabee-ness of it deserve what they got.

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But the island was once owned by Pablo Escobar!

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That idiotic promo should have been the first clue. Nothing about the bands, the accommodations, the foods, the perks, just models in bikinis for two minutes with cliches and catch phrases. Jean-Ralphio really may have put that together.
Anyone dumb enough to fall for the total wannabee-ness of it deserve what they got.

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But the island was once owned by Pablo Escobar!

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Haha, the organizers threw that in to ride the wave of the popularity of Nacros. I can picture the millenial converstation between a guy and some girl he's trying to impress. guy-"Yeah, this festival is going to held on an island that Pablo Esobar used to own." girl-"Who's that?" guy-"You know that show on Netflix called Narcos?...He's that main bad guy." girl- "Oh yeah, cool!"

I think most of the millenials who went are really rich and like cocaine