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MouseRat_AD t1_j56j6hj wrote

Who's 'taking one for the team' this time?

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shakycam3 OP t1_j56jg67 wrote

Please let this influencers fall for it again. Pleeeease.

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brownsfan760 t1_j56l7u1 wrote

Anybody who gives a penny to this grifter deserves everything they have coming.

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Combat_Medic t1_j56mz1w wrote

Replying to shakycam3 (#1,419,340)

As I recall it wasn’t influencers though. The tickets were relatively cheap for what they were offering, so wasn’t it mostly ‘normal’ people who went? (Going off of an Internet Historian video)

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chaseinger t1_j56wgds wrote

Replying to Combat_Medic (#1,419,585)

it wasn't influencers, those were bought (mostly victoria secret models). it was the wannabe influencers and hedge fund kids.

tickets started at $1200, and you still had to travel there. not for the super rich, and quite cheap for what was promised, yet still not exactly every day joe's territory either.

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blahbleh112233 t1_j578j5z wrote

Replying to chaseinger (#1,420,166)

I don't even think it was those. As far as we can tell, no one bought the VIP packages and the basic package was pretty much a steal for room, board, and entertainment on a tropical island. Ironically, McFarland fucked up by pricing below cost

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L48R4T t1_j579jpg wrote

He should have gone for a horror escape island instead. He's pretty great at that.

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Nostrildumbass9 t1_j57b1xh wrote

A party that's never gonna happen featuring internet influencer's. Should be a real hit.

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WizardRockets t1_j57fyt1 wrote

Is it on the glass onion island that’s for sale for $450million?

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VillageRich3020 t1_j57ge5h wrote

Imaging getting scammed by this dude twice in a row. I keeping thinking about Charlie Brown and Lucy with the football for probably no reason.

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one_of_the_millions t1_j57lex2 wrote

Apparently McFarland still thinks that people will fall for something if it's spelled with a "Y" instead of an "I". Sadly he might be correct.

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BarAgent t1_j57nuu9 wrote

Was the Fyre Festival fraud or just gross incompetence? I don’t remember.

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formerNPC t1_j57ox8p wrote

As long as Ticketmaster gets involved then it will be an official shit show!

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willpowerpt t1_j57qxvg wrote

Anyone who decides to blow obscene money unironically this time around absolutely deserves whatever befalls them.

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FullyStacked92 t1_j57v7n5 wrote

"It was basically, the promises that got him last time"

Lol yeah if thats what you want to call advertising and selling rooms in Villas that didn't exist then sure thats what got him.

He should fire ahead though, anyone who buys anything from him ever again deserves to be parted with their money

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PhAnToM444 t1_j57x837 wrote

Replying to blahbleh112233 (#1,420,988)

I think you could do it all-in for less than $2500 which isn’t cheap but is very affordable for an island vacation in the Bahamas. Plenty of “regular” people could do that, especially for the kind of once in a lifetime experience they were promising.

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wormrake t1_j57xs2r wrote

Ok. Now hear me out...

If this becomes Fyre Fest X 10, then all of biggest "influencers" will flock to a remote island.

Once there, we can blockade the island and cut off all internet connection to the outside world.

BUT, we can let them post content for each other and fight to the death for attention.

Then the world can begin to heal.

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Rosebunse t1_j57y91p wrote

It's easy to joke about that festival, but real small businesses were wrecked because they weren't paid. And people could have gotten hurt or sick.

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shakycam3 OP t1_j583xwh wrote

Yeah. He won’t answer. He has slipped back into obscurity.

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pimp_juice2272 t1_j585vhd wrote

Couldn't this have been salvaged to a decent/slightly below average festival of he had just went with the cruise ship? Or was all the money gone by then?

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thatoneguy23000 t1_j58mrer wrote

Replying to shakycam3 (#1,422,202)

Actually, there's no proof anybody paid for the highest tier ticket for Fyre Festival, what we do know is they were giving out tickets at a massive discount, think $1,200 covering a full week vacation in a private villa with 5 star food and concerts from your favorite bands. That's ducking dirt cheap for what they were advertising, and a lot of blue collar people thought they were basically winning the lottery.

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ctrl_alt_excrete t1_j58w3ya wrote

He's calling it PYRT (pronounced pirate)...is this a joke? Dumb spelling aside, he's naming it after people who famously steal money and are stereotyped to leave victims stranded on desert islands...this has to be an ironic bit, right?

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theonlyonethatknocks t1_j5918z3 wrote

I’m going to get this music festival to work, even if it costs you everything you own.

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nezrm t1_j5954gu wrote

‘You can crawl in a hole and die, or you can go and try to do something and just like not promise any results,’’’ McFarland said in a recent interview with NBC News.”

So he’s going to tell everyone its going to be shit before they buy the tickets. Genius.

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escape_of_da_keets t1_j59a7j1 wrote

Replying to wormrake (#1,422,598)

Make their social media accounts interact with an alternate version of the app that still shows all the news but nothing about the island so it looks like the rest of the world has forgotten about them.

Also replace all their followers with bots that engage with all their usual posts like normal, but question when they call for help and call it fake.

Then make the bots slowly turn on them and decrease their follower count every day until they fade into irrelevance.

That will really make them go insane.

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kur4nes t1_j59xddl wrote

The guy who called the first fyre island escabor island after being tols by the owner to not call it that is now planning a festival in the bahamas where he is banned for life. Figures.

Not the smartest tool in the shed.

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sau1itud3 t1_j59yj3w wrote

If he just hires that George Santos dude in promotions, and then just pretend like the Fyre Festival happened and was amaze balls. People seem to line up for that sort of shit nowadays.👍🏼

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TheDeadlySquid t1_j59z9un wrote

Well, at least he’s being upfront by calling it “Pirate”.

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UsernameTaken93456 t1_j5a5kqu wrote

Fantastic. Everyone who wants to become a #influencer should go to this island.

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obidie t1_j5aegy9 wrote

"or you can go and try to do something and just like not promise any results,’’’

Yeah, that's how you inspire investor confidence.

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TheloniusDump t1_j5afdsm wrote

"you can go and try to do something and just like not promise any results,’’

Dude is capitalism embodied.

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PNWCoug42 t1_j5afytz wrote

Can't wait for the ensuing PYRT documentary.

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lendmeyoureer t1_j5aqpd2 wrote

Yer man couldn't even organize a kids birthday party. 🤣

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czguris t1_j5b06s4 wrote

"Not promise any results" does make it a bit more practical, though. You are buying non-refundable tickets to a concert featuring Blink182 on a gorgeous island once owned by Pablo Escobar, where models frolicked nearby (or something.. swimming pigs..) but there is no promise -implied or stated - that the concert will take place, or the Blink 182 will show, or that it's Escobar's island (or any island).

Really, Billy just needs orange tiles on twitter, a payment processor, a (foreign) bank account, and a website.

BOLD, #FyreV2IsHere

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MJLDat t1_j5b2lmz wrote

I’ll supply the water!

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techsconvict t1_j5bbdzn wrote

"I'm an ideas man, I think I proved that with [bleep] Mountain."

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