The Best of Fyre Festival
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- The best moments from the Netflix, Hulu, CNBC and ABC documentaries. Billy McFarland recently got released from prison, will we see him make a comeback like the other convicted influencers? Also snuck in references from pop culture such as video games and TV moments. Inspired by the novel "Hype: Inside the Fyre Festival and the Golden Age of Grift" by Gabrielle Bluestone; highly recommended if you're interested in this topic!
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he's back
Already sold out 😂🎉
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God I love that movie
@@Roberto-nj5yr I don't think many gays are into attending a festival when there's nothing but scantily clad babes and not one single, hunky, beefcake in their entire advertising campaign.
I will never get tired of watching videos about this dumpster fire
Dumpster Fyre lol
LOL Dumpster Fyre
@@caitlingillHaha. Good one.
You mean fyre......
Same. I even remember where I was when I first heard about it. 😂
Those people saying "we didn't want neighbors so we peed on the other beds" when you're in an environment where there's already not enough tents and beds? Wow.
That's influencers for you, nothing they do is for the good of everyone, it's purely what they want for themselves.
That’s why it’s hard to feel sorry for most of these guests. Because this is the type of people that are drawn to this sort of thing.
Yeah, those are the guys that would hide a zombie bite 😂
@@JimMilton-ej6ziThe "influencers" were in overpriced airbnbs. As usual, it was mostly their followers getting hosed.
“A few bad actors…”
"We felt really bad" cuts to dancing and laughing 😂 kudos, the effort that went into this is top notch
She felt so bad she didn't share that glee-inducing cabana with those who didn't have anything, I bet
@@steffymuzeyou know they locked those cabana doors and windows up tight.
@@LoveK1 and, cut off the lights. 💡
That’s why she was holding back a laugh
I still feel so bad for the Bahamian citizens that worked so hard and lost their own money for nothing in return.
Lol people in the Bahamas always getting taken for a ride. Crazy down here.
Lady said she spent 50k of her own savings to survive. How tf does a borderline 3rd world country outside of heavy tourism even save 50k? I had less than 10 times less than that at the best part of my life when I basically had to pay no rent. They been making cash hand over fist from rich tourists for years. I don't feel that bad for them. The poor ones, sure.
@@Astroqualia I would say if you do live in a country where money in bank= bank can take it any seconds and you have no security. YOu will have a lot of saving, because the first thing you make money from work is to save them then spending will be the next choice. Save up is always first, never seconds. if there is a way to not spending, then don't. It is a different style of living where credit card is non existence.
Facts. I also feel this way every time a global sports event descends upon an unsuspecting populace.
@@Astroqualia you heard what she said, her life's savings. That lady probably works extremely hard and is frugal. She deserves her money back, all the Bahamians do, they were took for a ride, it was almost slavery.
In defense of the cheese sandwich. One gal, and her one little eatery supplied that food to people out of the goodness of her heart. She didn’t have to, and I don’t believe she was ever reimbursed after losing her entire retirement.
I don't doubt that someone was trying to do something good. But that wasn't anything close to what was promised. (Though not her fault)
She got the money back through crowd funding - people came through after seeing what happened and she got paid. TLDR good people picked up the tab for Ja Rule's festival.
@@MichaelWVagg I am glad she got her money back. And still admire that she did what she could for those foolish enough to simply jump at hype.
It’s got nothing to do with her
There was a gofundme set up for her, she ended up OK by the goodness of people's hearts. No thanks to Billy or Ja.
"We're not going to fire you. We're just not going to pay you so you can quit yourself."
How to be scummy 101.
Also super illegal. Not that Billy cared about that, but still...
"We are selling a pipe dream to your average loser" sounds like fraud to me Billy.
At the very least, not respecting the customers paying your payroll and making your profits for you.
Sounds a lot like Donald trump lmaoo
I thought I was the only one thinking about that😮😮😮😮
Right. Doesn’t “pipe dream” mean it’s never happening??
That's not fraud. I would call that uh... False advertising.
To this day I'm still shocked that a partnership between the world's youngest scuba diver and a washed up rapper went this wrong.
And you thought Woodstock II was an abortion.
@@lhasaroadrat9374 that was actually Woodstock III lol
Who would have thought, right?
Probably the most jokes on rapper too. Eminem ruined his career.
@tgust5 and 50 cent! Can't even look at the Ja Rule the same anymore honestly....idc...#cornball
McFarland wanted to deliver an event talked about for years, he got his wish.
Oh ya it will be remembered. Some laughing so hard their eyes water and gotta pause to catch breath and im sure some not so happy
Billy McDickhead
"my friend pissed on some of the beds because we didnt want neighbors"
when society collapses or theres a major war, youre the reason why shoot on sight will be enacted instead of trying to find out if youre friendly first.
I hate those guys. I hope someone really kicks their assess.
Well said lmao
Tells me everything I need to know about that person. Their parents should be ashamed
Created an account just to like this comment
sums up milennials in the mid to late 2000s LMAO
The fact Ja wasn't even headlining his own event says a lot about what he knew.
Meh, nah that just means even Ja knows that no one wants to see Ja as a main event lmao
Agree with both comments
Yup
Oh that's an excellent point I had not considered yet, thank you!
But if he's profited from the 'event', then he should be liable too, to a certain extent.
I do love that one guy who won the trip from his job. He said he had a lot of fun laughing at all the rich people and found it very cathartic
That’s definitely WINNING!!
I’d love to get sent to a tropical island with free lunch and a tent an watch rich people freak out! 😂
most of them werent even rich. the tickets werent that expensive.
@@ohno7153 They certainly acted like rich people. Poor wannabe rich people are the worst.
@gernhartreinholzen3992 so true. They dont realise the wealthy are tucked away in the
castle with the fucking drawbridge firmly up. Suck on that plebs 😮
that one influencer saying she felt bad followed by the quick cut to her literally dancing in glee in her actual luxury villa - that was amazing.
She probably still couldn't use that for publicity afterwards😂
She’s disgusting IMO. How immature and embarrassing. Acting like that at her age!
@@amyeastman8764 Yup, some people just don't have good manners, or attitudes and personalities, I guess. "Ooh, showing off, yay, who cares about other people?"
What did guys expect she is an influencer.
Woah that’s a bit much. It’s not her fault, did you want her to be miserable over someone else’s blunder?
Was she supposed to house them in her villa?
I mean yeah she’s super lucky/prob spoiled and I wish I could live like that for just a day but saying she’s a bad person is a bit far.
They weren’t marketing a pipe dream, they were marketing a crack pipe. 😂😂
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
To be precise: a crack pipe factory
😊😊
or a tail pipe
Or a pipe bomb lol
Stuff like the fact that the entire private island location got cancelled just because billy mentioned Pablo Escobar even though he was explicitly told he could’nt do that is what makes this story legendary to me
It wasn't even actually Escobar's island, it was Carlos Lehder's.
I wonder why no one talks in the comments about that part. Like why the hell did Billy think that was a good idea???
Totally. He might have actually pulled it off if he hadn't violated that agreement. It would've been cooler if folks heard it through the grapevine anyway, but the bro can't keep his mouth shut.
@@Rubycon99 The agony of the irony. OMG. It would've been more interesting as an urban legend, Escobar or an Escobar-like character, but he just had to milk the forbidden cow, violating the first rule of Fight Club.
@@OAlem That’s exactly what I was thinking. It might not even have turned out as a „scam“
Edit: it was still extremely shitty for what they have done though obviously. Very scummy and backwards. Untrustworthy and exploitative
I swear to god…it’s like this “festival” existed for the sole purpose of making me feel better about my life choices 🍿
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#1 comment for me, lol
Even Sky Daddy was like, "Well you aren't learning your lesson. Here is a hurricane. You could have spent this money on something more meaningful."
My heart broke for the poor lady who organised THAT cheese sandwich. Poor lady did her best to give them something to eat and it became the face of failure
That lady’s want good enough.
-spoiled Americans
I hear you but she could’ve thrown some lunch meat on there
@@kristinbeck6659 where was she going to get the lunch meat from? And who was paying for it? Cause she sure as shit wasn’t getting paid.
@@violetscreaming again I hear you. I’m sure she was embarrassed to serve that
She isn't the face of failure, she was one of many victims.
“WHERE IS JAHHH?” Never gets old. 😂
The greatest thing about Fyre was it revealed to the world that influencers and social media in general aren't really important. It just isn't. Overhyped valuations doesn't mean anything.
Definitely overhyped but they're pretty important to reel gullible people in. The Fyre Festival proved that.
...but unfortunately this terrible specie called 'influencers' still exists...
@@jaapspruitenburg6625 And most people always belive them.
@@jaapspruitenburg6625 and it’s going to be quite a sight when shit hits the fan and they can’t get by in the world by preening on a Social Media site.
If only people had learned that lesson 😅 (crypto, NFTs)
Billy actually started out by saying they were building this dream of the average loser, evidently someone told him how tacky that was so he changed the wording. That simple sentence tells you everything you need to know about him and how he feels about himself compared to everyone else.
Which is extra impressive considering how every single company he started wound up being a fraud.
@@nubreed13 I know, right!?! How could anyone not see the clusterf*** rolling straight for them, in broad daylight. It's like stepping on a road flare. It just shows how utterly stupid social media sheep can be.
While becoming the greatest loser of them all.
it wasnt billy. It was that rapper who said this
The real tragedy is that the local workers didn't get paid a cent
Good video... while some people experienced a weekend from hell, I feel really bad for the Bahamians that lost so much money like that one lady that spent $50k
The restaurant lady and workers got paid through Go Fund Me donations.
The people who lost money were Billy’s investors.
@@amandahugenkiss Glad she got paid. She deserves every penny.
@@amandahugenkiss ah that's great news for them, thank you
@@amandahugenkiss *Thank you Amanda! Thank God!*
@@amandahugenkiss not every vendor got compensated
why am I still obsessed with this epic fail lol
Same!! Lol I loved the documentaries about it.
@@COURTNEYVCK A train wreck takes many forms, and this was a big one
Me too
I rewatch the documentaries. It's just so satisifying watching rich people fall apart, and then act like the worst is happening to them. They had a couple days of being uncomfortable and living like homeless people. You think they would take that an extrapolate that to the meaning of life....nope there is a $2000 (insert female influencer) designer shoe that just came out.
schadenfreude of the best kind 😂
ja rule with a suit on pretending to be a business man is HILARIOUS! hahahah
Up there with potus Kanye. Or X or whatever he calls himself now 😂
Billy too
Glasses and everything! Lmfaooo 🤓
The fact he served almost no jail time is disgusting. His* wages for life should be garnished
If Nintendo can force a man to pay a portion of all wages he earns for the rest of his life back to Nintendo because he sold pirated software, there should be a way to force Billy to pay back the people of the Bahamas.
Especially when he still had a luxury penthouse with his expensive cars. That money came from somewhere despite him claiming he had no income.
@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I would rather like to see Nintendo's CEO serving time for illegally taking down emulation videos on RUclips.
For ripping off pathetic, entitled muppets? He should be given an award.
He shouldn't be off the hook until every local employee who put the venue together is fully compensated, perhaps with further financial restitution.
That transition from the influencers bragging about the festival to them coming to grips with it being a scam is so satisfying
Lol right? They all showed their true colors. They began looting and even went around urinating on beds so no one else could sleep on them. Absolute filth trying to pass themselves off as elites.
@phillipgrammer9429
scammers getting scammed, ya gotta love it!
yes!
I was going to say the same thing hahaha
« It’s not fraud, it’s false advertising”. Ja Rule. That twerp isn’t even man enough to admit he was involved with Billy and defrauded people. What an hypocrite and coward, downplaying his shady involvement in this sad endeavour.
He and models NEED to pay that lady who made sure people had food.
The Bahamian lady talking about her ruined credit and lost life savings makes me cry every time. My chest burns for her
She got paid back through a GoFundMe and some other stuff. Also, she didn't say she lost her life savings. She said she lost $50k OF her life savings.
@@skontheroad Dude to a person living in a developing nation that is sometimes the amount of the life savings
@Vin xcxcxcxc Of course! And then some! I am just correcting what someone misreported. This woman is the person everyone goes back to, as the person they feel bad about. And rightfully so! But she didn't say she lost ALL of it. And wouldn't want people to think she is looking for even more from other people who would want to give back.
@Vin xcxcxcxc Also, even to someone in a first world country, $50K is a lot!
@Vin xcxcxcxc Also, even to someone in a first world country, $50K is a lot!
Years on and I'm still disgusted that that talentless scammer Ja Rule got away with having NO consequences!! He should have been locked up with Billy!
No - he should have been locked up with a huge black man named Bubba who was horny.....
Damn right
Kendall Jenner is just as guilty for taking $250k to promote it without knowing a damn thing about it!
22:00 when the girl asks a valid question, and the cut to the Maserati taking off to the lyrics in the background 'asking stupid fucking questions'. I chuckled right there
I think the biggest difference between Fyre Fest and Blue Ridge Rock Fest were how the fans treated each other given the circumstances. Metal fans understood everyone was suffering and did everything they could to share food, water, shelter, and welfare. These pop hop "kids" turned it into a dog eat dog hellscape and showed what kind of people they are in a crisis.
PLUR only when it’s for “the gram”
@@TrinhNguyen-o7k Truth
I worked in music festivals, and the Metal Head are the nicest people out there.
After the show, some helped us clean by making pile of empty can of beer, making the whole process so much faster.
It’s almost as though they hadn’t worked for anything in their lives and had a concentrated sense of entitlement to get by.
I just would have dropped anchor and watched from my boat. lol
How tf is he out of jail? Literally robbed an entire Bahamian island, ripped off investors for 8 figures, bragged about it, and got a slap on the wrist? This sends a great message to youth. 🤦♂️
White collar crime
Note that Elizabeth Holmes's sentence is much longer, and yet she actually started with good intentions.
@@scottcharney1091 she also did a LOT more damage. if her intentions were that good, it would've been a nonprofit.
The courts/ justice system doesn’t care about those people. It’s the rich kids that want their money back is who they wanna “help” cause it brings them money in also.
Simple they would rather have there money and he can't earn locked up.
Poor little rich kids are disappointed for the first time in their lives! Stop the presses!!
🤣🤣🤣
Them not paying their staff while refusing to let them go is honestly worse in my opinion then the festival.
Plus also its illegal to do that to by labor laws.
@@hhds113ur telling me these scammers didn't practice fair employment color me shocked
@@Stopcommentingthesamecomments I HIGHLY doubt they even practice any fair employment. He can lose everything if they take him to court.
The guy who ripped and peed on tents wouldn't last 1 second in the wilderness or on a deserted island lmao he would be eaten first
I am The Wilderness
@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 thx jack me hoff:) I updated it
Yeah, for real screw that guy.
Wait where did that happen? :o And yeah screw him. If i saw it i'd beat the living daylights out of him and then some.
What clip was that
If this was the crowd from the last Woodstock festival, they would have set the entire island on fire with them in it
I used to have a lot of disdain for Fyre Festival, but over the years, I feel like the event itself and its attendees were truly made for eachother.
To be fair though, there were tickets as low as $500 that still included everything, and the average was just about $1,000. It wasn't just rich people that attended.
But a lot of collateral damage was made. It’s not just about white rich kids wanting to hang out with insta models.
@@BlazinVoid59 Plus airfare. Yeah, not all of them were rich but the only poor people were the displaced and screwed over locals
@@BlazinVoid59 "as low as 500$" ... hahahaha, I can feed my family of 4 for 3 weeks with this amount of money.
@@BlazinVoid59 true but all the performers were shit.
I feel bad for that lady that got robbed of all her life savings.
Damn thats crazy…whats your ig
she got her money back and then some. a gofundme was set up for her and raised more than $240k
@@JohnDarksoul69 She deserved every cent.
@@JohnDarksoul69 But imagine the stress and mental anguish she must’ve gone through initially. Absolutely demoralizing.
Even if there were donations for these folks, they didn't know that at the time and not every damage/injury can be fixed simply with money. Who knows how they were surviving till the money came in, negatively affecting their reputations, etc.
The real victims are the hardworking people who gave all they had behind this fraud.
Billy is lucky he didn't leave the island on a stretcher. Standing on that table, in front of ~500 angry people, was a very brave move and almost any other crowd would have punished him for it.
Given he even considers Fyre 2.0 shows that this disaster had almost no impact on him. Well done kids!
He was lucky he didn't get a Fordlandia situation
Yeah he was lucky they were a bunch of spineless trust fund kids, an average crowd of people randomly selected from the population would have kicked his ass at the minimum.
@@Treyman-yi7eiexplain
@@ryleelaking7882 Henry Ford tried to make his own town for rubber tree production in Brazil, but he forced his own values on all the workers and it horribly backfired. He wouldn't let them play football for example and diet was vegan based. And all the trees ended up being eaten by tree blight and other creatures
It was a huge failure and the workers ended up revolting on the management. They never managed to even produce any rubber for Ford cars like they intended
He was definitely stretched out when he was in prison. The inmates couldn't wait to get their hands on a good looking White boy like Billy in prison. It's a treat for prisoner have have someone like Billy being locked up with them. I'm sure they can't keep their hands off him in prison. It rare to have a cute White boy like him in prison, he probably was auctioned off to the highest bidder in prison. It's a treat.
There was something so sweet and special about seeing self absorbed influencers and rich kids having mental breakdowns over the conditions they needed to stay in. I feel terrible for the local community and their people who got caught up in the scam.
I agree and said something similar.
I doubt anyone that went there was actually rich. No rich person would go there on the cheap. That was the whole pitch: get to the tropics on the cheap. I think rich people would see it as a laughable fraud from the get go. Like a fake Gucci suit. There are no 200 dollars shoes with Armani, and there is no going to the Bahamas with 500-1500 dollars lol.
Facts.
WORD!
My sentiments EXACTLY!!!!😂😢
the fact that jarule was a huge promoter and a big part of the festival, but wasn't going to attend or perform, should have been a HUGE red flag. lol
i suspect that Ja had words with \billy after the debacle ad told him in no uncertain terms that he was to take the fall. That interview with Billy, where he says that Ja had nothing to do with the mess, is just ridiculous. Ja got away scot free and should have been behind bars.
I doubt ja rule actually has much to do with the planning of the event itself.
@@nubreed13 well he sure acted like he did . But who knows. He still threw billy under the bus. In my personal opinion, there should have been some accountability for Ja. If not prison time, at least a hefty fine and public acknowledgement that he was involved and not just an innocent bystander
There's something sinister about the one girl in the video who gave out a chuckled when she said she feels bad for the people that got FEMA tents while she got a villa.
she is an influencer and stayed in a nice house during the debacle
Seems like a trash human, posting dance videos showed us who she is
Narcissistic personality.
@@Arkengel Isn't there a saying about beauty only being skin deep?
She is an awful person. She was complaining about the plane too.
Just saw this . Pretty good, but what "massive hurricane" hit the Bahama Islands the night before? There was a heavy rainstorm the night before, but no hurricane. Not even hurricane season.
One aspect of this story that still baffles me is the initial pitch for Fyre: Billy tells this funny story of how he paid some scammers $4000 to book Ja Rule and they stole his money. Ja Rule says Fyre solves this problem by giving artists a legitimate platform to book engagements... but clearly Ja Rule had an agent, a website, and an official email account for business requests (monitored by his representing agency), and all the other existing systems by which we expect to legitimately interface with artists. The fact that no one questioned this is beyond stupid.
He's saying that instead of some randos getting that sweet sweet scam money, why not HIM? That's basically what he realized, not about making the process more efficient.
That's the problem Fyre tried to solve. Every artist and their agents are individual, autonomous, and at times hard to find. Fyre was meant to be a centralized and social pit where all artists could put their feet in to get contacted. It was meant to be a social media hub for searching and booking talent.
Because the story was bs…
@@fallen4life080It was meant to be a scam and you are literally parroting the BS marketing line they used for suckers. Billy has only ever done scams.
@@Zarastro54 You're literally parroting back the BS narrative by people who think Billy is capable of properly scamming people. He's just a mush-mouth self proclaimed genius with zero IQ who has legitimate ideas with absolutely NO COMPETENCE and ends up scamming people. That's not his intention. He's not smart enough to scam people on purpose.
"Im not aware of how this would effect unemployment benefits" says so much to me about how this guy (doesnt) run his business
And you can tell this guy never worked a day in his life and doesn't understand labor laws either.
I think the most infuriating part about this story for me is that when you dig into the actual numbers here, this COULD and frankly should have been a huge success, but they charged way too little for the "luxury" experience they were promising and left themselves too little time to follow through on it. All they had to do was not piss off the original venue owner with the escobar marketing and charge higher prices to the guests (who could definitely afford it) and no one would have had to get screwed over here. No unpaid workers, no upset guests, nothing. All of this could have been avoided if billy wasn't just flat out incompetent.
That web summit bit was a true Freudian slip. Ja saying "partner in crime" and Billy giving you that speech about getting hustled. They straight up gave you their MO.
Its bad, but if you're familiar Web Summit it's the right place.😂
Narcissists always tell on themselves.
I knew a girl, not the brightest bulb, who was set to go to Fyre Fest, but noticed too many red flags before she ever got on a plane and cancelled her plans.
So if she was able to spot the trouble, then I don't feel bad for anyone that ignored the signs and still went. 😆
They probably did sense it, but didn't want to take the chance that it was legitimate and being the only "influencer" not there. They are self-absorbed, after all. 😊
SOO many red flags. SOOO MANY.
@@vhagerty I think there is something to this thought mentality.
@@seangildersleeve1270fear of missing out
The kind of person who ignores the warning signs is the kind of person who believes that "Somebody must be responsible!"
Woodstock 94 was kind of muddy but nothing compared to this... Plus there were actual musicians with musical talent headlining.
I can't believe it's been 6 years.. it feels like a different planet. I'm still laughing at the influencer set having to rough it
People who are convincted of fraud and illegal business practices should be forbidden from creating or managing a company ever again
Am I the only one who had never even heard of Ja Rule until after this disaster had happened?
Yeah, only the millennials know about him and his 15 min of fame between 1999 and 2003. Lol.
I only knew about him because when I was eleven or twelve a girl the same age as me was obsessed with him and wanted to marry him.
You can thank Eminem for that. 😂
Having worked in several music festivals (and still do), it needs iron nerves to organize a festival even for 700 people. Let alone for thousands. Only a few can do it. That's why you see so many festivals popping up and disappearing quietly into oblivion soon after.
Myself and a friend organized 2 festies!! We had venders, great music and it was a great time!! We lost money too.... but we regret nothing, lol
The people who bought tickets should have known better. They must have very little experience with festivals or are really dumb people. The islanders should have known better too because washed up rappers have been coming to the islands, making people work hard in the hot sun and then leave without paying. Once you dont have min. 12 months of preproduction for such events, you are not serious. I don't feel sorry for any of them. They were all greedy.
Some of the most disgusting examples of humanity all rolled up into one big sh!tshow. Perfection.
That sums it up very well.
I can think of far more disgusting people; you know, mass murderers and the like.
True but they couldn't do it without the beautiful brainless people who live on social media. & have more money than sense. If it's all about taking selfies of where you are & who you're with....then you aren't living in reality
@@davestuddert4392 Fair....we need them just as much as they need "tha gram". hahahaa
i want a second fyre festival that succeeds, only to fail in another way again. This is just too good, i don't want this to end
As someone who has been to Great Exuma many times, these people were so high beyond belief that there was infrastructure to make this happen. Just thinking about the Georgetown airport is wild. So sorry all the amazing Bahamians were completely fucked. Billy, Ja, all the models...that's on you.
You know damn well 50 cent was having the time of his life when he found out that this happened and ja rule was a partner in it 😂😂😂
While hindsight is always 60/40. This so-called Festival immediately struck me as just an openly more pretentious Burning Man. Instead of lots of rich kids out in the desert pretending to be outdoorsy hippies you have lots of poor people on an island pretending to be rich.
Like a reverse burning man. A fyry woman.
Lol
I think you nailed it. Seemed to me to be a disaster from the day it was announced. 😊
Salty YT commenters often have 60/40 vision.
@@larrym2434 Guess it's a good thing I'm a not salty RUclipsr then. Especially since I didn't pay the ridiculous price for tickets of a festival that didn't even happen.
Imagine the success their company could have probably seen had they pulled this off??? They had all the right groups working for them… it was just a pipe dream of Billy and unfortunately he had too many yes people up front not being realistic and the project manager just dumped fuel into it… this would be at the minimum a year of planning and work to make an event like this a work.
All those influencers getting fooled is the greatest thing ever
its sadly like a cult, that we we will see again.
100% I ACTUALLY THINK ITS HILARIOUS!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Agreed. Unfortunately they just had an uncomfortable few days, while the locals got robbed from their time and money.
You need a life.
You sound very dumb.. How did they get fooled when they all got paid between $ 200 and $300K for 1 post , did a video at the Bahamas in luxury conditions and went home??
What does that even mean, “for three days you can become Pablo Escobar”
Even at its best, it was just a music festival with some luxury tents and some half ass music talent In a really hot environment, with no air condition… Doesn’t sound like a very fun time to me, even if everything went perfect
And, why the f would anybody want to be a drug smuggler?
@@kell_checks_in Exactly
Maybe code for "bring cash, drugs will be available" 🤔
Agreed, but stupid, entitled influencers were just terrified of missing out. It was all Emperors new clothes… and then the Emperor shat himself. Hilarious.
Me who lives in one of the hottest countries on earth with no air conditioning. You guys are way too weak
I know alot of people got screwed but seeing that many rich entitled people have to rough it for first time in their lives was kind of entertaining
watching this documentary on netflix was utterly wild. it was like a shakespearean tragedy but one where you just detest the tragic "hero".
The Hulu doc was good also.
@@scottcharney1091 internet historian is the real goat
@@DW51380 His video is very sparse compared to the Netflix & HBO films.
Right? Like that one guy who was told to suck off the customs officer so they could get their water shipment...was nuts (sorry, I had to)
@@scottcharney1091 ah, I haven’t seen that one.
As a convention/festival planner, I saw this coming & every festival we ran someone would say "don't Fyre festival this!!!" 😅
My favourite part is that billy is now setting up to do Fyre fest 2.0. HE DIDNT EVEN CHANGE THE NAME.
Can you tell me in your expertise experience how long they would have needed and how much money they would've really needed to make happen what they promised?
@danielleking262 excellent question! For their original vision, about 18-24 months preparation, preferably more. Budget would depend on the scope/how many people, reports say there was 500... approx $2.5 million (plus at least $1-2 million in ad/promo). They could have raised a good $2 million or more with an aggressive pitch deck for sponsors & time to find them (with a great sales team). Tickets should have been at least $1-2K plus the VIP packages.
But, every event producer that told them it was not enough time to plan this was fired & they brought in someone who said it could be done, who then would realize it wasn't possible & get fired.
@@jessymonster wow, only $1-2 million to set up actual accomodations with water and electricity and nicer housing along with food and amenities? I know in some interview he mentioned sending the locals on a 2 week vacation to "borrow" their houses (I assume villas) and the "box of keys disappeared" lol
Fyre Festival now features as a case study in a variety of university courses: how NOT to do events, project management, etc. Nice going, Scammer Billy.
6 years later starts at 33:01 everything before that is just about everything what happened during and before Fyre festival.
Ja Rule threw him under the bus when the shit hit the fan 😂😂
Billy was about to do the same to Ja
Absolutely epic representation of the millennial and gen z generation. All icing, no cake. Goes to show influences are worth exactly what they provide. Bits on a screen.
Being able to squba dive by 10 isnt ahead of the curve lol. I could drive trucks and trailers and race cars by that age. It just means your parents could afford to do those things for you. Almost ever child is capable of incredible things. It just depends on what opportunities they are given.
Driving and diving are 2 completely different things to learn
What?! Bwut?!
You don't think Lil Billy is super genius???!
Exactly. I could've been a champion racing car driver or pilot of some kind. Unfortunately my parents were not millionaires and able to give me the lessons for such ventures, so just had to make do with getting world records on the Xbox 360 instead, and thus fail at life in the process. Life is not fair..
@@everythingponyYou’re right, they are different things. Great observation.
There seems to be a widespread misunderstanding that "rich kids" got ripped off by this scheme. It's true that some super-luxury packages were very expensive, but almost no one bought them. The general admission ticket was something like 3 days at the festival, including housing and food, plus air fare from Miami for $1,500. That's cheap, which is one of the reasons why Billy ran out of money. I don't think good old Billy ever did anything as obvious as figuring out how much it costs to put on a festival and how much you have to charge to make a profit. He just picked numbers out of his a--.
How in the world is that considered “cheap”? Most people don’t have 1,500$ to spend.
@@levilowenherz4584 No, but in term of what they were dupposedly recieving, thats pretty affordable. A person saving up his salary could feasibly make that much.
@@levilowenherz4584 it’s cheap compared to the hundred thousand figures being thrown around
Cheap for a trip to the Bahamas plus catering plus live performances. Honestly the fact that it wasn’t more expensive should’ve been a red flag for what they were all about to get into.
Exactly. It was too cheap. Red flag right there.
Ja rule knew from the beginning “it was a unique situation and had a partner in crime “indeed looks like they had the festival before the festival
True that 🤣
Reading tweets in real time as Fyre Festival was happening was a riot! The sheer panic, disappointment and chaos provided so many laughs.
Oohhh! That must have been fun!
Every time a rich kid gets screwed over, an angel gets its wings
@@somed655 Why??
"We actually got a villa.... i felt really bad" *cuts to video of her dancing in the villa* lol
I never tire of hearing about Fyre Fest
I can't believe any ever gave that guy so much as a nickel. Dude is the definition of crocodile smile. Sucks that so many people got ripped off but did you really think that face could deliver a pizza without controversy, much less an international music festival?
@leandroaude6926junkies don't have alot of disposable income
@@zuglymonster Correct but money that they have or don't have goes on their next fix, in this case festivals.
One of the saddest things about this were the local workers that weren't paid.
16:30 I was not expecting Bleach OST, this is great, liked and subscribed
25:23 perfection
This is the equivalent of leaving your dissertation or thesis until the night before it is due in when you have had 6 or so months to do it, then staying up all night to try and get it done.
Why is this so accurate 😂
Yup.
Every time I hear this story I just think it could not have happened to a more deserving group of horrible people
How were they deserving? Most of the attendees were middle class, this is well documented
I think their clothes is talking about stupid white bread privilege
How exactly is this "gets worse"? This video is literally just recapping the same two documentaries that 3000 people have already chopped up and vomited onto RUclips. There's no new information here, what was the point of this video? I want my 30 minutes back.
I feel bad so many got scammed… but scammers target people’s weaknesses, and the weakness targeted here is people’s desire to have proximity to wealth, influence, and privilege. Clout-chasing is a helluva drug.
People chose to believe and they chose to pay. That simple.
@@IndigoBellyDanceWe should still not blame these people, what💀
I can’t imagine the people that hide their drugs in their luggage only to find out that they can’t find their luggage. Probably had some dope sick people around that place.
That is so true😂 I would go nuts knowing that my bud was out there somewhere.
@@sab3295 tbf I’ve quit weed and I’ve quit opiates. I would quit weed 20x over again rather than quit opiates again. It’s essentially the flu with salmonella poisoning, while you know the ‘medicine’ that can fix you is a phone call away, and knowing you got your own self into this mess, and you’ll deal with wanting it for a while, so add mental turmoil, depression, mood swings, and anxiety onto it. Holy run-on sentence, but summed up, it’s the worst.
@@irishcajun85 I quit butts
@@irishcajun85 and drinking! Probably will never quit smoking weed. Going on 10 years no booze or butts
@Patty Sue Malley Yep. That about sums it right up. Run on sentence and all! Congrats on getting clean, sis. We just gotta keep it moving. 4 years and counting!
"what did we learn from this video?"
Literally nothing. You just plagiarised other people's documentaries and added nothing.
Scam.
What's worse is that he's trying to host another festival called pyrt, where instead of going to an island and actual festival, it would be a VR experience that would be controlled by people from home to influence what's happening at the festival. I just don't get people like Billy, they just don't ever seem to understand that their ideas are truthfully crap and will not profit them anything other than a long stay in jail.
Massive egos and delusions of grandeur tends to render people incapable of accepting they've flown too close to the sun.
@@MustraOrdo his mom has been telling him he's special and better than everyone else his whole life. knew it when they started talking about how he was always ahead of the other kids and how it was a curse and all. You know all of that came straight from the mom
Problem isn't Billy. There'll always be scammers.
Problem is the sheep who blindly follow.
the craziest part about all of this is that this actually happened
a lord of flies situation for a bunch of influencers and such is like warm chicken soup for my soul
The app was a great idea and had plenty of hype/backing behind it.
Destroyed spectacularly by ego and narcissism.
Ironically by swindling the words most narcissistic people.
I'd say the influencers he paid to advertise this made off like bandits compared to the actual ticket holders. Most tickets were $500 including airfare. That's a pretty standard price to go to a 3 day festival.
Didn't mention him defrauding people with fake sport tickets while on bail? Crazy how little time he served.
Lord of the Flies with snobby wannabe rich people. Hell, I'd pay a few k to just sit there, in the middle of it, in a folding chair, a cooler full of beer, a bluetooth box blasting Slipknot and just laughing my ass off until I pass out!
And today he's back at it again, promoting Fyre Festival 2.
He is a product of today’s society. Lots of fools with money they wish to give away.
What....? 😂 Who would fall for Fyre 2.0? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@denawagner360 Let's wait and find out.
@@Catpanl what money? He doesn't have any. I bet you and I are probably more wealthier than he is.
@@denawagner360all's he has to do is claim it's raise money for Palestinians and he'll be rolling in dough. Then he just needs to blame trump or some other boogie man and he walks away Scott free.
The Island was never owned by Pablo Escobar, it was owned by Carlos Lehder. Instead of being owned by Batman, it was owned by Aquaman.
was looking for this comment. crazy how nobody seems to notice this... completely wrong drug kingpin lol
Facts
thats probably why he took his ball and went home after seeing claims of the island being owned by pablo 😅
Sooo, pablito went there or not ? 😂
Oren Aks who was with FuckJerry said he kept getting emails from families of victims who were killed by Escobar and he didn’t know
Very well done! It seems Billy came from the same factory as Zuckerberg. Just saying...
Im frankly amazed billy mcfarland made it off the island alive
Exactly
Feel sorry for the people who live on the island.
The influenser....NOT so much😅
They had to smuggle him to airport in trunk of car because locals wanted to get paid.
This was a festival for D Bags in the first place which makes it even more hilarious! 😂
All these rich kids could somehow make a collection and fund the lady that fed them and lost her money, just a thought
Shame that a thought is all it'll ever be and likely not one had by any of the rich people you're talking about.
Crowdfunding has helped her (and the other locals) a lot.
Something I find crazy that I haven't seen talked about much is that had they just stuck to the app, Fyre could have actually been a legitimate big business. And even before that, had Billy just stuck with Magnesis that could have been a big business as well. The scam they pulled seemed like stuff that is usually only done by guys who are in bad situations and have nothing going for them. But billy was already a legitimate and successful businessman before this. I wonder why he felt the need to go after this when he really didn't have to at all.
The Fyre app was also a terrible idea that would have never worked. A-list musicians don't get booked for gigs through an app like they were a fucking Uber driver or something. They have lawyers and agents who negotiate directly with promoters and venues.
I gotta agree with you. While those products may not have lasted the long term, they were legitimate business ventures. He could have stuck with those and been set. Calling it a heist doesn't make any sense to me. If I could make boatloads of cash selling metal wallet fillers, I'd do it in a second.
@@spartanxmonster Magnesis cards - whatever he called them never had a fraction of the holders he claimed, maybe 4000.
The festival itself could have worked out, if he just didn't do the one thing he was forbidded from doing - advertising the festival with Escobar's name and getting kicked of the island, the whole festival was planned _for_ .
"Whenever a rich kid gets scammed, an angel gets it's wings..." 😂😂😂
The thing is, in theory, Fyre Festival and the Fyre app are not bad ideas. The Festival with enough time, (years) enough funding, strategic planning and choosing a good weather season could work. I mean, Coachella exists. The Fyre app could work for up and coming artists who need the exposure and the jobs.
I thought the same, the conception was solid. But characters like Billy and Ja are incapable of honesty, they're born grifters. The con validates their superiority complex and cunning ingenuity. See their pride, with zero remorse - Ja Rule even trying to take mastermind credit!
I watched the Netflix documentary, and you’re right Fyre Festival would’ve been a make it moment for Billy, but countless fumbles at the planning stage alone(except the marketing) was a fyre hazard(pun intended) waiting to happen.
@@cashnexus2989 The conception doesnt work. Sounds too good to be true? Then it is. A villa or a luxury tent for everyone? A private plane? Huge headliners? A private 3 or even 1 star chef cooking for 500 ppl? That can only ever be catering, even if top level, but catering, unless you hire 500 chefs. And say you get 50 villas, which is immense, because you know, you need 50 empty villas, and a private chef that can cover these first class, and you sell, I mean actually find 50+ buyers to pay a 250.000 ticket, you made 12.5 million. But these Villas will likely need to be built, the chefs hired, the food brought, and kept fresh, kitchen staff, waiters, everything included. Then you are left with 450 customers you need to put in "luxury tents". How much was a ticket at times? 250 bucks? And some maybe 2500. say the 2.5k tickets get you a luxury tent, and the 250 bucks tickets get you a "normal tent". Say you sell all 450 remaining seats for 2.5k. So now you made another 1.2 Million. Say somewhere in between you managed to sell some tickets for 10k, some for 50k even, and made another half of million off of that, or let us be generous and round everything up: you made a total of 14.5 Million. That is pretty much half of what he spent and still didnt put up a festival with it. 450 luxury tents need 900 couches, beds, sofa chairs, tables, ofc luxurious ones, carpets, wooden terraces, toilet equipment, yada yada yada... Oh, and ofc you promised to fly everyone there in a private jet, and you need jetskies and boats, and golf carts to drive ppl around, bars, vendors, etc etc, all built from scratch, because remote islands sounds so romantic to you. You haven't built a stage yet, and you haven't brought in and paid artists yet, and also havent paid anyone yet to tear it all down again, because no, it does not compute, you will make a loss, and you will not be back next year, even if you manage to pull it off brilliantly. The moment you confined yourself on a small remote island, capping your visitor numbers, by flying dudes around in private jets and setting them up in anything but "bring your own fucking tent, here is a meadow and dixie toilets and here you can buy burgers from a dude to whom I rented out 4 square meters of earth I rented from someone else", you shot yourself in the foot and doomed this idiotic dream to be just that: an idiotic dream. If you wanna do something like that, make a private party at a venue (hotel, resort) that is already in place, tone down the everything around it, make it exclusive, have the venue handle catering, etc, have a decent line up, and you may get off square. Better even, rent lots and lots and lots of meadows in a place somewhere smack middle of nowhere in some giant ass landscape, and invite 50k folks who buy a ticket for 100 bucks, and you won like the other festivals with a much more minimal effort. May not be special, but at least you will have a festival. Influenza pipe dream for influenza ppl.
@@sigmablock I still can't believe that guy almost sucked dick for water. Still blows my mind even to this day.
@@104thironmike4 💯💯💯💯 this comment sums everything up