I work in the startup sector, and sadly, too many tech startup companies do this too. They're more concerned about making their website & apps look sexy, hiring 'influencers', promotion, slick videos, SEO optimization, than actually building a useful product.
Because the expectations of "quality" music and "gourmet" food, and the "beautiful" villas were never reached and the organizers ended up getting their asses kicked.
and also the head contractor tht hired people to work...I think tht he is being hunted bcoz the workers tht are under him didn't get paid...poor guy, he himself didn't get paid....
Don't worry. Billy will make them all whole again. He's pulling down almost twenty cents an hour in a federal joint. At that rate, he'll have them all paid off.......in the year 2319.
I don't think anything will match this. There are plenty of disastrous events that get cancelled last minute. The fact that this actually went ahead despite every band pulling out and an extreme lack of facilities is absolutely astonishing
Day 4: We've started forming tribes. Ezekial is our leader and has so far done an admirable job of keeping us safe. Tomorrow morning I have to go and scavenge for cheese...may God be with me
@@markhalim2411 i just watched it on Netflix, almost peed myself laughing when he said that. Made me grab my dictionary to refresh my brain on what mogul meant.
This is a great example of how social media influencers can manipulate things at a massive scale. They get paid and talk about anything that they don't even understand.
John Smith no a 1 day ticket with nothing included was 1,200. A 3 day ticket included the accomadation and food for 12,000. so 12,000 for 3 days in the bahamas is expensive especially when it turns out to be a scam
I just got done watching the whole series of Inventing Anna. And her staying at his place for a while after partying , Billy asked her to invest in it, A con trying to con a con. Lol
IKR? Had no idea they moved islands. I couldn't believe it when they clipped out the rest of Great Exuma to make the Fyre site look like a tiny secluded island!!!
Yes but it would have been even worse if they would have stayed in that remote island. At least they end up near Sandals and there were a few houses around.
Organizing something like a "Fyre" festival is a major, major organizational effort. There are multiple layers to this: transportation, food, lodging, medical, security, etc etc. You would need a program manager for each one of those, and then under each program manager they would have their own budget, personnel, and task management activity priorities. Then you would need a master scheduler overseeing all of these activities. If you wanted to do a Fyre festival right, you'd have to set your scope and expectations first. Then bring in a team who has managed these logistical challenges. What comes to mind are Olympics or Superbowl organizers. Its just insane that Billy McFarland thought he could just wing this.
Wife and I went. Was bad, but we made the best of it. With all the chaos, her and I managed to pay a family to live with them for a week. Turned out to be great. Still in contact with them and are going back to see them in may.. silver lining, their son was on the electrician crew who got screwed.. we were happy to help supplement his labor losses..
Chrono Cross it keeps not working out for me even when i buy small things like gummy bears for ur hair or detox tea to foundation to trips to ny it has NEVER worked out for me n im so over it
the thing is that nobody who used to work for fyre cares about this account, they never got paid so why turn off the comments or put down this video if nobody pays you to do it :D
It will, to archive video takes quite a bit of infrastructure, not to mention the comments and metadata. Unless an archive forms up a fond about the event, I doubt it will stay. Around 90% up of the internet is already lost, archival techniques for the web are always improving but it's costly and there are challenges which only become apparent decades after the event.
Yes, and also manage to get plumbing, clean drinking water, electricity, villas, bars, catering, waste management, transportation, advanced stages with proper sound, lighting, and effects completed before a year's time.
@blackflag 321 That's why they didn't hire him, the team wanted to be in la la land and not listen to anything that could cause serious issues to the festival.
Vulture Vic I felt really sorry for Andy (the gay guy) and the local workers. I was so invested watching this just now I felt like I was stressed out for everyone except Billy and Grant. This reminded me of the Simpsons episode of the monorail salesman.
+ Vulture Vic - On balance, I prefer the Hulu documentary tbh Vulture. They're both sufficiently different so it won't feel like you're watching the same thing. I liked the Netflix documentary but it's slightly tainted by the fact it was made by Fuck Jerry. The Netflix documentary was very effective about what happened on the ground and why the festival was a disaster but the Hulu documentary was much more successful in showing why people fell for it and uncovering how much of a scam artist Billy McFarland truly was and what his motivations were. The Hulu documentary also showed that McFarland was a scammer from an extremely early age and that his other company, Magnises was a steaming pile of turd based on lies. The interview with McFarland also showed him to be a compulsive liar and someone who has never been held responsible for his fuck ups until now. This is why the Hulu doc is better.
Still better than nothing. Proves that these millennials are not grateful. Yes, I know they got scammed but I rather take it done starve myself to death.
*wastes 1200 dollars and almost starves to death on an island* "Wow, these millennials are so ungrateful. When I was their age I paid 1500 dollars and the island didn't even have food"
Billy McFarland mocked about the "average poor american citizen" while being one lol. He didn't had shit and he ends up broke and in jail. I love happy endings.
Well said man. Instagram and Facebook and most social media applications are just advertising billboards to hoover up more and more money... This is painfully obvious that it’s bull. Thing is, the more money you have the easier it is for you to be duped :) The rich of this planet don’t live a better lifestyle than any of us, but they sure pay for it! Hahahaha. Pay more for the same shit... that’s all being rich is these days... They don’t get it yet
Garden. whats really funny is that they are already blaming this fyre festival fiasco on russia hackers & putin!!! somebody needs to get a production company and cameras to the island asap, cause this is the next big reality show "festivals gone bad" with hipster gluten free vegans fighting each other over who gets to eat the piglet in this promo video... id pay good money to watch something like that! it would be like election night all over again!
Makes you wonder what kind of shitshow it would have turned into if they were able to keep it on the smaller island, because the Netflix doc brings up that there was no way to fit that many people on the small island. Not to mention, they still had none of the infrastructure, and it would have been even harder to do it on Norman's Cay.
@@rockerseven I think it would be more catastrophic. At least in the other island they had homes and local population. Imagine stranded in island which no power, food and water . No means to return to their homes
This promo looks like - "Festival for rich kids who arrive by boat with jetskis, and f*** runup models who want to taste fun live from instagram with music in the background"
Marc Weinstein, in the Netflix documentary, stated pretty clearly that it was not possible on Norman's Cay, for that many people. Although he did mention that Billy originally was approached by a firm that it's pretty much a "festival-in-a-box" that could do it for $50 million. Billy fired them due to the cost and planning. If I remember correctly, they also wanted the cruise ship setup, not villas on the island, just like that pilot envisioned.
@@CuteLilEldritch1010 I don't disagree. But a huge ego is what made him think of this good (in my opinion) idea in the first place, a lot of ego is a good thing, too much ego is a bad thing. He flew too close to the sun.
@@hamishwells2877 - The claim that Escobar owned the island wasn't false. However, the claim that Fyre bought the island patently was. Billy and chums spent months dicking about on the island originally owned by Escobar but the current owner at the time got tired of them, chucked them off with only 3 months to go and that's why the Fyre disaster festival ended up in Great Exuma.
Well, look at the clientele... Shit-for-brains know nothings. This is exactly what CA would turn into if it really did leave the union. They'd be back at the doorstep like a struggling teen who moved out because "You can't tell me what to do!" Failure theater
California has the 6th largest economy in the world. You're basically the same as these numbnuts if you think think Instagram-crazed millennials represent any substantial part of the state's population.
Was that "Pablo Escobar" stuff really necessary? As a colombian I'd say NO, and not only because I'm tired of statements such as this one, but because they aren't true. Escobar NEVER owned an island in the Bahamas. Glad they got what they deserved... their luxury meals made of bread and lettuce and stuff...
Yes, you are right, Lehder did. (Under the same logic, we can't say that Melania Trump is the president of the U.S.) My point is, that statement from Fyre Festival is not entirely accurate.
No, he did not, my friend. As a colombian I've done a lot of research on the Medellin Cartel (in fact I had to live in that very same era when I was a kid), and I can say that he personally didn't own that island.
It was good. Hulu has one too. Everyone knew about it when it happened but I don't think most knew about what went on behind the scenes. The founder was straight up nuts.
On balance, I prefer the Hulu documentary tbh Roach. I liked the Netflix documentary but it's slightly tainted by the fact it was made by Fuck Jerry. The Netflix documentary was very effective about what happened on the ground and why the festival was a disaster but the Hulu documentary was much more successful in showing why people fell for it and uncovering how much of a scam artist Billy McFarland truly was and what his motivations were. . The Hulu documentary also showed that McFarland was a scammer from an extremely early age and that his other company, Magnises was a steaming pile of turd based on lies. The interview with McFarland also showed him to be a compulsive liar and someone who has never been held responsible for his fuck ups until now. This is why the Hulu doc is better.
POV: You're in year 2021 with an ongoing pandemic, just finished watching FYRE on Netflix, and decided to see if the promotional vid still exists. Lo and behold the channel's still up hahaha
Just to think just for them saying that corny ass line “once owned by Pablo Escobar” they got kicked off the original island 😂 either way it was gonna be a failure.
It wasn't even owned by Escobar himself, but the point is, the current owners of the island stated they could rent it so long as they didn't mention it's previous connection to the Medellín Cartel. So what did they do? Of course they shoved Pablo's name right up there in the very first piece of promo material. McFarland really was a fuckin' idiot.
I feel bad for the unpaid workers rather than the 'influencers' (I use the word very loosely) who went to the event. They should be paid more than compensation for this disaster they had to take part in.
I seen the Netflix movie and there was some nasty people there, one dude sprung to mind as he boasted how he slashed tents all around his and his mates tents so they could be left alone. 90% of those who went, are all social media influencers who are so far up their own arse, they don't care about other people's misfortunes, well they experienced it that weekend and the nasty side still showed up.
@@ladyphelps21 *spits drink* AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAH THAT'S THE MOST BULLSHIT STATEMENT I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE! AHAHAHHAAHAHhA
as a Bahamian, we honestly were surprised as much as any one else... I saw their ads on Instagram weeks running up the event thinking it was some ultra exclusive event and that they had their shit together. Turns out nope...
I actually feel sorry for the locals. My sister's ex boyfriend used to live there and she visited a lot and my friends own a house there and vacation a few times a year and most people who have traveled there tell me that tourism is a big draw for Bahamas and the locals are very friendly. I have no doubts that locals who were promised work were looking forward to it being a hit and drawing more people year after year. I don't feel too bad for the company that ran it: they do what was going on but just wanted their money.
"Once owned by Pablo Escobar" Imagine thinking highlighting the island was once owned by a killer was good promotion, it's like saying "Come to Germany, once owned by the Nazis" lol.
@@mrcritical6751 I think it was too late to undo the Pablo Escobar thing by the time the owners were like "No." But yeah, I think if they came clean as to the obstacles they were facing and just postponed the event, as opposed to faking it 'til the end, they could have still had something while restoring *some* of their credibility for future ventures.
@@laurendaryani4893 It wouldn't work. They had priced themselves too low and had to use high interest loans to cover the shortfall. They offered a weekend in the Bahamas at $500 to $1500 food and music included when the most basic tourist package starts at $2000.
@@akshatprakash871 @akshat prakash Maybe they were expecting to get high economies of scale and savings for having thousand of attendands: bulk purchasing of supplies can reallly go a long way reducing costs. Thus I think it was feasible, but somehow something failed....
The guy was fckin G.. took all money in, promise there will be a cruise a private jet a concerts, made a millions millions of dollar, made a lot of people believed and shit didnt happen.. this is what I call business
lowest price tickets were around 100-200 bucks, so rich is an understatement and 12,000 for going to a wonderful place was seeming promising, i mean usually it's too much, so much above that. then we found out the truth
The tickets were usually $1,200. Press for some reason added a zero on headlines over and over. Many people got it as cheap as $500 or even lower. Considering it’s a 2 week package to the Bahamas the how low was actually should of been iffy. Many week packages can be almost $2000.
John Smith there is evidence. It was on the website, and shit, and people who actually went to the damn thing have stepped up and said it was 100-200 bucks lowest price. and lets see 100-200 USD Price + "Luxury" island. People bought into it. Wiggly Fungus is right, 1,200 was an option(iirc it was the almost highest?) but it wasn't the lowest. People got it below 500 bucks
this promo doesn't even look like on for a music festival. more like an bikini ad. this ad prob cost more than the actual festival itself. yeah i did the math. true story.
Wait, so those rich kids paid thousands of Dollars to party on a tropical island only to be left stranded without food, water and shelter? Jarule Stalin essentially build a gulag and had the rich kids pay for it. *Soviet anthem plays in background*
If they wanted to go to prison, the could have gone to one of the thousands right here in the usa where we imprison more than any other planet on earth. We don't need no stinking Stalin references, we're number one!
The only winner in this situation is a friend of mine from that island i met time after this shit show told me once he saw a shit ton of hungry tourist wend and made some ham and cheese sandwiches and soda started selling them 3$ piece he made like 4000$ on one night what a legend
@@laurendaryani4893 it also confused why the owner cares so much about its history being brought up, they died for their crimes and you still can't talk about it?
Id put money on the fact that none of the people that bought a ticket even fucking knew who Pablo Escobar was before googling him after they saw the video
Somebody needs to remake this trailer with the footage from the actual event. Keep the audio and even put the text back over it. It'll be golden.
M G ha
spiderlinqq yes please
@@MG-bt2xs hilarious!!😂😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 dead 💀
This one is great too ruclips.net/video/CCcDtDIdR6M/видео.html
Budget :
98% Social media
2% Tents and sandwiches
I work in the startup sector, and sadly, too many tech startup companies do this too. They're more concerned about making their website & apps look sexy, hiring 'influencers', promotion, slick videos, SEO optimization, than actually building a useful product.
yep, and then they wonder why their "startup" crashes and burns.
plain cheese sandwiches
2% wasn't enough to afford deli meat to put on the sandwiches. Just bread and cheese for them.
i think those cheese look delicious actually, and there was salad too
This is the best example of “Expectation vs Reality”
The.best.
The greatest example of the decade if not century
😂
Good call!
Lol
all jokes aside, I hope this stays up. Both as a cautionary tale & a historical record.
Internet Historian has got you covered.
Is it too late to buy tickets for this?
@@PANYHK r u joking...
@@wlinse7095 Yes and No
It's an NFT now worth billions Elon Musk money.
Who says Fyre was a failure? Instead of entertaining thousands, it entertained MILLIONS
Because the expectations of "quality" music and "gourmet" food, and the "beautiful" villas were never reached and the organizers ended up getting their asses kicked.
Brilliant way of looking at it 😆👍🏻
Talk about FREE entertainment.
For the millions AND MILLIONS of middle to lower class people
Edit: as in to seeing rich folks falling for this scam
Lol
Just finished watching the documentary and man i felt so bad for the locals and especially the lady that didn't get paid for her hard work
Same here =/
Lupe Salinas they’ve set up a go fund me for her and raised over 230,000 dollars for her
That was the sad part
and also the head contractor tht hired people to work...I think tht he is being hunted bcoz the workers tht are under him didn't get paid...poor guy, he himself didn't get paid....
Don't worry. Billy will make them all whole again. He's pulling down almost twenty cents an hour in a federal joint. At that rate, he'll have them all paid off.......in the year 2319.
The Hunger Games: Catching Fyre
that's pretty good lmao
Dr. Gregory Haus GET OUT THAT WAS TWO PUNS IN ONE
You win the comments section!
Well done.
YES. YES.
This was, without a doubt, the biggest bruh moment in modern history
I don't think anything will match this. There are plenty of disastrous events that get cancelled last minute. The fact that this actually went ahead despite every band pulling out and an extreme lack of facilities is absolutely astonishing
More: Motha f...........!!!! 😡
They weren't wrong: The actual experience did exceed all expectations, but in the worst way possible.
Daniel Alonso Landa Concha you should head to r/beatmetoit
Transformative weekends. Well they weren’t wrong.
That line made me giggle 🤭
Day 4: We've started forming tribes. Ezekial is our leader and has so far done an admirable job of keeping us safe. Tomorrow morning I have to go and scavenge for cheese...may God be with me
Venkman This is freaking gold.
Lol
This cracked me up / thank you . “Tales from a list Fyre tribe “
🤣🤣😂😂😂
@@Basil1976 lmafo I'm so with you on that!! Hahha
Best ad for a FEMA death camp ever.
Im so fucking dead
Makes me want to go to one.
Timmorrisjr they are blaming russian hackers and putin for this already...
Well well :')))
They would've said the tickets were free
5 years later,
me, a business student of Brock University, tasked with writing a gigantic case report on this bullshit.
Well on the bright side, you do have plenty of material.
Oh hey, that's my Alma Mater! Glad to hear this is one for the textbooks, a lot of valuable lessons in logistics and budgeting here.
🤣🤣🤣
Just watch internet historian and you pretty much have the material to start with.
Can you show us your report ?:)
"The actual experience exceeds all expectations."
Truer words were never spoken.
🤣
They should've added : You will not believe your eyes
Incredible documentary. People are never what they seem. No matter what.
Eyy a big youtuber
Stupid people typically are pretty much what they seem. it's the smart ones you gotta watch out for.
Btw, Netflix documentary was made by the same people. Win/win
OMG
…well, sometimes they are
Is not "fraud", it is "false advertising." Ja Rule 2018
I died laughing when I heard that, because he had no idea what he was saying when he said that
Ja Rule in the same documentary called himself a Hip Hop Mogul...yeah im dyin’
😂😂😂
I laughed my ass off
@@markhalim2411 i just watched it on Netflix, almost peed myself laughing when he said that. Made me grab my dictionary to refresh my brain on what mogul meant.
Meanwhile in another alternate universe, the fyre festival is one of the succesful, the greatest festival of all time
No
A FUCKING TENT
FitnessBusiness Success
i love seeing rich kida suffer
No, no, sweetie.
It's not just "a fucking tent."
It's called "glamping!"
+Goodgoyim Takethepill ur a piece of shit then.
12 grand for that tent
AN EXTRA HOUR IN THE BALL PIT
Damn, the new Hunger Games looks sick
Wilhtekz
😂 😂 😂. You killing me right here. 😂
Wilhtekz Or.. Battle Royale 🙃
There's not enough Pepsi on the island for Kendall Jenner to quell the riots!
Wilhtekz this is one hunger games i would not volunteer as tribute
at least in the Hunger Games the contestants had luxury accommodations before they died...
This is a great example of how social media influencers can manipulate things at a massive scale. They get paid and talk about anything that they don't even understand.
they get paid to do nothing
they simply get paid
or maybe just how stupid people are.
Nah!
Influencers/resellers are the worst kinds of people
4 years later and this has truly aged like the finest malt whisky.
Some people dream of taking rich people's money. Others take their money, send them to a deserted island, and let them fight over food.
From what I read, a 419 scam is more efficient?
it was too low, it costed about 1,200 dollars or 500 dollars per ticket
2 weeks in the Bahamas for $1,200 is expensive? Oh ok
John Smith no a 1 day ticket with nothing included was 1,200. A 3 day ticket included the accomadation and food for 12,000. so 12,000 for 3 days in the bahamas is expensive especially when it turns out to be a scam
$500 is considered Rich? Bro I make double that bricklaying...
“Two Transformative Weekends” Well they weren’t wrong.
😆😆😆😆😆😆
r/technicallythetruth
ROFL
Technically, I don’t think the event made it through the first weekend before the Bahamian government shut the whole shitshow down.
More like 2 days.
False advertising: I didn't see a single cheese sandwich...
Yeah true😒😒
True 😓
🤣
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I just got done watching the whole series of Inventing Anna. And her staying at his place for a while after partying , Billy asked her to invest in it, A con trying to con a con. Lol
我也是看完anna來的哈哈
OMG SAME!!!! I just finished watching it last night hahahahahahaha
As we say in Spanish: Con con con!!
Never -bullshit- con a -bullshitter- con
"The actual experience exceeds our expectations..."
I guess that's true...
Not in the way they hoped.
Well, technically it isn't considered false advertising. I mean, he clearly says OUR, not YOUR soooooo....
┐(￣ヮ￣)┌
"All" expectations, not "our".
Yeah, i realized my mistake. but hey, at least MY expectations were met lol
It fell way short of expectations.
Seriously it's 2019 and they still haven't deleted this channel. LMAO!
I hope they never do! This belongs in a museum
Why would they? This is a treasure trove of comedy!
The creator is in jail lolll
2020 and going strong
why delete, they will monetize it! lmao :D
Sorry for the workers that never will get paid
There are gofundme's for the workers that are not in any way directed to Billy
g
TheEriczeppe lmao 😂😂
Most of whom quit before the show
@Tj What are you talking about?
Gotta love that this promo video was never taken down 😂😂
Never in my life did I think I would laugh at a picture of a cheese sandwich for 30 minutes
Lmao!!
fromnowhere i laugh at everything the promo and the looting there
Lmaoooo
kinda lame to laugh at it that long, still stupid tho lmao
"once owned by Pablo Escobar" that single sentence changed everything 😂😂
IKR? Had no idea they moved islands. I couldn't believe it when they clipped out the rest of Great Exuma to make the Fyre site look like a tiny secluded island!!!
Yes but it would have been even worse if they would have stayed in that remote island. At least they end up near Sandals and there were a few houses around.
Yeah, the owner of the island SPECIFICALLY told them not to mention that and like a bunch of dumbasses, they did.
MrDelplaya yeah except that the hotels were booked months if not year in advance cause the national regatta
Run by an extreme sociopath and a failed rapper; what could go wrong?
Not failed rapper, Outdated rapper.
Everything.
a failed rapper? Ja Rule hasn't failed
Common Sense Lol he’s a failed rapper who got destroyed many times by Eminem
@@urbanistgod but sold more CDs than you ever will
Organizing something like a "Fyre" festival is a major, major organizational effort. There are multiple layers to this: transportation, food, lodging, medical, security, etc etc. You would need a program manager for each one of those, and then under each program manager they would have their own budget, personnel, and task management activity priorities. Then you would need a master scheduler overseeing all of these activities. If you wanted to do a Fyre festival right, you'd have to set your scope and expectations first. Then bring in a team who has managed these logistical challenges. What comes to mind are Olympics or Superbowl organizers. Its just insane that Billy McFarland thought he could just wing this.
what do you expect from a greedy millennial addicted to creampuff coffee and social media?
years late but I organise a car event and just doing that with 20 people within a few miles of everyone is a fucking nightmare.
Am still on island.
Plz halp
Edwin Mizen 😂
LMAO
U still there?
Edwin Mizen - I’ll send for a school bus to pick you up.
LMFAOOOO
Wife and I went. Was bad, but we made the best of it. With all the chaos, her and I managed to pay a family to live with them for a week. Turned out to be great. Still in contact with them and are going back to see them in may.. silver lining, their son was on the electrician crew who got screwed.. we were happy to help supplement his labor losses..
Leeroy Jenkins nli learn what simp means dumbass stop following internet trends
Leeroy Jenkins nli Do you even know what simp is?
That's so coool !!! Real optomist hehehe
Oh you got money money. That was really nice!
@@LucienneintheDreaming In that time and place it wouldn't have cost all that much
NEVER buy a product advertised by instagram hos and influencers
Chrono Cross it keeps not working out for me even when i buy small things like gummy bears for ur hair or detox tea to foundation to trips to ny it has NEVER worked out for me n im so over it
Like Bang Energy Drink? That’s like the #1 product hawked by Instagram THOTS nowadays 😂
@@lydiamarie9894 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
TRUTH
@@lydiamarie9894 u
best trailer of a dark comedy that ive ever seen
Fyre festival has some balls leaving the comments on and not disabling the like/dislike 😂
They probably forgot their password.
the thing is that nobody who used to work for fyre cares about this account, they never got paid so why turn off the comments or put down this video if nobody pays you to do it :D
And I hope they never turn them off! It’s a magical place where we can all come together and have good laughs :,)
Rumor has it Billy comes and basks in all the attention he's still getting
They know how bad this was. There's no denying it
I pray this never gets deleted. This is a piece of history 👌🏻
It will, to archive video takes quite a bit of infrastructure, not to mention the comments and metadata. Unless an archive forms up a fond about the event, I doubt it will stay. Around 90% up of the internet is already lost, archival techniques for the web are always improving but it's costly and there are challenges which only become apparent decades after the event.
That awkward moment you trust a Victoria's Secret model that there will be actual food.
This has so many layers!
Fun fact:
Norman's Cay was actually owned by Carlos Lehder, not Pablo Escobar
They planned it on another Island before
All you had to do was not mention Pablo Escobar
Yes, and also manage to get plumbing, clean drinking water, electricity, villas, bars, catering, waste management, transportation, advanced stages with proper sound, lighting, and effects completed before a year's time.
😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
@blackflag 321 That's why they didn't hire him, the team wanted to be in la la land and not listen to anything that could cause serious issues to the festival.
@@chaylasoden4596 medical staff as well.
Rolando Cadiz - yeah that would’ve fixed everything...
Who else just watched the Netflix doc?
Vulture Vic I felt really sorry for Andy (the gay guy) and the local workers. I was so invested watching this just now I felt like I was stressed out for everyone except Billy and Grant. This reminded me of the Simpsons episode of the monorail salesman.
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Vulture Vic - On balance, I prefer the Hulu documentary tbh Vulture. They're both sufficiently different so it won't feel like you're watching the same thing.
I liked the Netflix documentary but it's slightly tainted by the fact it was made by Fuck Jerry.
The Netflix documentary was very effective about what happened on the ground and why the festival was a disaster but the Hulu documentary was much more successful in showing why people fell for it and uncovering how much of a scam artist Billy McFarland truly was and what his motivations were.
The Hulu documentary also showed that McFarland was a scammer from an extremely early age and that his other company, Magnises was a steaming pile of turd based on lies.
The interview with McFarland also showed him to be a compulsive liar and someone who has never been held responsible for his fuck ups until now.
This is why the Hulu doc is better.
Saw it a bit ago. Shoutout to the one guy having fun while everyone else was crying about how much it sucked lol
Vulture Vic me
Hulu was better
I heard the cheese sandwiches there are delicious 🍞🧀
K. Cole Hahahahahaha I can't stop laughing.
Still better than nothing. Proves that these millennials are not grateful. Yes, I know they got scammed but I rather take it done starve myself to death.
Gillan Baclayon if you pay for something and it turns out to be shit then it is not worth being grateful for
*wastes 1200 dollars and almost starves to death on an island*
"Wow, these millennials are so ungrateful. When I was their age I paid 1500 dollars and the island didn't even have food"
Ya those craft singles are really good man.
Still blows my mind that the only thing they had to not do was mention Pablo Escobar, and they fucking did lol
Billy McFarland mocked about the "average poor american citizen" while being one lol. He didn't had shit and he ends up broke and in jail. I love happy endings.
lyn. Nah he had money lol chech your ressources
@@Leon-iz9cw he had, but mostly from scams. no credit for that. still, he ended up with nothing.
You really think he's broke? he's going to come of jail and live a very comfy life lmao
@@MI-pk3iu he got million dollars lawsuits on him even if he does come out his life isn't gonna be easy
He still has the money and I'd do 6 years in prison to get out with that kind of money.
when the instagram mentality manifests itself into reality
fake shit all over of the place for specific people to make more money typical as usual
Well said man.
Instagram and Facebook and most social media applications are just advertising billboards to hoover up more and more money...
This is painfully obvious that it’s bull. Thing is, the more money you have the easier it is for you to be duped :)
The rich of this planet don’t live a better lifestyle than any of us, but they sure pay for it!
Hahahaha.
Pay more for the same shit... that’s all being rich is these days...
They don’t get it yet
I like that they emphasise swimming whilst the surrounding waters are shark infested.
As many people get struck by lightning per year as those attacked by sharks though. You've got to be pretty unlucky.
No, there was an actual warning about the amount of sharks in the surrounding waters there. More than just your regular amount :v
Lux Creativity I called that out a long time ago but what's the name of the song playing on this video the beat sounds good
Don't forget wild pigs swim there too.
Stock footage. The whole trailer is stock footage clips.
So this is what the willy wonka chocolate factory scam took inspiration from
Agreed, scams come from the same promise, “an experience you won’t believe until you see”.
Now this is fucking funny.
Garden. 🤣🤣🤣
Garden. whats really funny is that they are already blaming this fyre festival fiasco on russia hackers & putin!!! somebody needs to get a production company and cameras to the island asap, cause this is the next big reality show "festivals gone bad" with hipster gluten free vegans fighting each other over who gets to eat the piglet in this promo video... id pay good money to watch something like that! it would be like election night all over again!
Nick Hall If that's true then bless Putin and the Russian hackers
This video is funny in a way that I couldn't even imagine, fucking epic fail wtf. F*ck advertisement and those fool that fell for it, hahaha. LFMAO
Just move the whole thing to Mar-a-Lago next year! #BuildThatParty
This is actually an interesting social experiment
Kevin O'Murchu it is. The fraud was that they managed to sell instagram as a reality. Its actually brilliant but executed very very poorly.
It would've been better if they got to the island and it was like Hunger Games where only the winners had access to what was promised.
Susan Magar *HolyShit* What a wonderful idea for movie
I like to call stuff like this natural selection
@@m.c.martin Lord of the Fyre
"Once owned by Pablo Escobar"
And that, is where it all went down.
Exactly
Makes you wonder what kind of shitshow it would have turned into if they were able to keep it on the smaller island, because the Netflix doc brings up that there was no way to fit that many people on the small island. Not to mention, they still had none of the infrastructure, and it would have been even harder to do it on Norman's Cay.
Why in hell was that a selling point? Maybe they thought that "Hunt for Hidden Treasure" was going to lead to a giant stash of coke?
It already went down the moment that they decided it was a great idea to sell the tickets before everything was organized
@@rockerseven I think it would be more catastrophic. At least in the other island they had homes and local population. Imagine stranded in island which no power, food and water . No means to return to their homes
You know something is bad when the trailer is better than the event itself 😂
I'd like to thank Ja rule for making something new for the internet to ridicule
Ja ruleism
darkleaves its MURDA!!!!
Monica definitely ain't taking him back after this 😂
@@ademirsegura6307 BAYBEH!
Which is yes rule
This promo looks like - "Festival for rich kids who arrive by boat with jetskis, and f*** runup models who want to taste fun live from instagram with music in the background"
"And do allot of coke"
Instead they arrived by airplane, got their shit stolen by locals, and were fed 'gourmet' cheese sandwhiches
Ａ Ｅ Ｓ Ｔ Ｈ Ｅ Ｔ Ｉ Ｃ
Oh, those rich kids got theirs.
areoqs i can hear there screams now, " Mommy Daddy my phone is on 20% we are stranded what do i do"
To be fair, this is a perfect metaphor for Instagram generation, all flare posture and brag, the inability to deliver anything worth of value.
“worth of value”
Ironic. Because Instagram was originally used by hobbyist photographers who wanted that cross-processed film look without using Photoshop.
more like the haters of the instagram generation
Your resumed everything.
Word
IF only they didn't put "Pablo Escobar" on this ad 😂
I love how badly this turned out. FEMA tents, wild dogs, school lunches, and diarrhea; I’ve been laughing for a year straight.
Dren Gillespie 😂😂😂😂
Wild dogs & school lunches😭
😂😂😂😂😂
still laughing in 2022
More to worst-
If they'd taken 18-24 months to do this right, they could've had something special. Greed and delusion prevailed though.
Marc Weinstein, in the Netflix documentary, stated pretty clearly that it was not possible on Norman's Cay, for that many people. Although he did mention that Billy originally was approached by a firm that it's pretty much a "festival-in-a-box" that could do it for $50 million. Billy fired them due to the cost and planning. If I remember correctly, they also wanted the cruise ship setup, not villas on the island, just like that pilot envisioned.
Or if he didn’t spend all the money investors were giving him
Or if he put his overgrown ego aside and listened to his workers that told him “this isn’t gonna work” instead of firing them.
@@CuteLilEldritch1010 I don't disagree. But a huge ego is what made him think of this good (in my opinion) idea in the first place, a lot of ego is a good thing, too much ego is a bad thing. He flew too close to the sun.
Wow once owned by a drug dealing gangster so it must be cool.
The human race is fucked.
Hey but he was a rich drug dealing gangster!!
Amy Dames don't forget murderer. But its cool man, he had a sick private zoo and let the poor kids in for free! Thats what I'd call a humanitarian!!
The funny thing is that that claim was false
@@hamishwells2877 - The claim that Escobar owned the island wasn't false. However, the claim that Fyre bought the island patently was.
Billy and chums spent months dicking about on the island originally owned by Escobar but the current owner at the time got tired of them, chucked them off with only 3 months to go and that's why the Fyre disaster festival ended up in Great Exuma.
This feels more like an ad for a resort than a music festival
"Once owned by Pablo Escobar"... This should've been the first clue to this festival being shit...the fact that they used this as a selling point.
Well, look at the clientele... Shit-for-brains know nothings. This is exactly what CA would turn into if it really did leave the union. They'd be back at the doorstep like a struggling teen who moved out because "You can't tell me what to do!"
Failure theater
California has the 6th largest economy in the world. You're basically the same as these numbnuts if you think think Instagram-crazed millennials represent any substantial part of the state's population.
Let's not forget the fact that ja rule a nigga whose career was destroyed almost 15 years ago was the nail in the coffin
lmao
this modern adaptation of Lord of the Flies looks sick
"On the Bounds of the Impossible" should have been a dead giveaway.
Video's still here; comment section still activated. The committment to "no publicity is bad publicity" all these years later.
Ja Rule you're Fyred!
Was that "Pablo Escobar" stuff really necessary? As a colombian I'd say NO, and not only because I'm tired of statements such as this one, but because they aren't true. Escobar NEVER owned an island in the Bahamas. Glad they got what they deserved... their luxury meals made of bread and lettuce and stuff...
Kids in Africa eat better meals than what those rich dumbasses are currently eating right now.
Nicolas Agudelo - DJ / Electronic Producer he did own it tho.
That was close enough, Carlos Lehder - Escobar's partner, owned this island.
Yes, you are right, Lehder did. (Under the same logic, we can't say that Melania Trump is the president of the U.S.)
My point is, that statement from Fyre Festival is not entirely accurate.
No, he did not, my friend. As a colombian I've done a lot of research on the Medellin Cartel (in fact I had to live in that very same era when I was a kid), and I can say that he personally didn't own that island.
Who else is here after watching the documentary on Netflix
Edit: thx for likes, And would you guys mind leaving a sub on my channel
G Roach me
Here!!
It was good. Hulu has one too. Everyone knew about it when it happened but I don't think most knew about what went on behind the scenes. The founder was straight up nuts.
On balance, I prefer the Hulu documentary tbh Roach. I liked the Netflix documentary but it's slightly tainted by the fact it was made by Fuck Jerry.
The Netflix documentary was very effective about what happened on the ground and why the festival was a disaster but the Hulu documentary was much more successful in showing why people fell for it and uncovering how much of a scam artist Billy McFarland truly was and what his motivations were.
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The Hulu documentary also showed that McFarland was a scammer from an extremely early age and that his other company, Magnises was a steaming pile of turd based on lies.
The interview with McFarland also showed him to be a compulsive liar and someone who has never been held responsible for his fuck ups until now.
This is why the Hulu doc is better.
Roach me
POV: You're in year 2021 with an ongoing pandemic, just finished watching FYRE on Netflix, and decided to see if the promotional vid still exists. Lo and behold the channel's still up hahaha
Did they at least get an extra hour in the ball pit?
Dana Nguyen AYEEEE
Tumblr fest refrence xd
1917 - There's a sucker born every minute
2017 - There's 10 suckers born every second
John Martin hehehe
I can’t believe the official fyre festival channel is still up lmfao 🤣
Just to think just for them saying that corny ass line “once owned by Pablo Escobar” they got kicked off the original island 😂 either way it was gonna be a failure.
I don't think it was even actually owned by Escobar, it was owned by Carlos Lehder Rivas.
They shoud had cut that sentence....
It wasn't even owned by Escobar himself, but the point is, the current owners of the island stated they could rent it so long as they didn't mention it's previous connection to the Medellín Cartel. So what did they do? Of course they shoved Pablo's name right up there in the very first piece of promo material.
McFarland really was a fuckin' idiot.
I was thinking that... they might have had a fighting chance or just a bad concert had it not been for that one line. Dumbasses
@Brittany Beautiful that's sad man fr
D A S H C O N 2
Tubzbuster Oh man that's the name! I kept thinking about that while hearing about this shitshow.
"Kendall Jenner... walked. On the count of three, let's all sigh together. One... Two..."
"GIVE ME BACK MY MONEY!"
"GIVE US A PEPSI!"
Complete with ballpit
Tubzbuster do you get an extra hour in the ballpit?
Yo be on the lookout for Fyre festival 2. Featuring performances by.
Xxxtentacion
Lil Peep
Tupac
Notorious B.i.g
Nirvana
Amy Winehouse
Ja Rule
They all are dead,that's the joke,for the ones who don't get it.
JOE MOMMA forgot Nipsey and Mac
I thought it was notorious chase
With Michael Jackson as headliner
Actually, it is still possible to see their performance as a 3D Hologram, it already happened with Tupac Shakur and Michael Jackson.
If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. That’s a lesson a lot of rich influencers learned the hard way.
I feel bad for the unpaid workers rather than the 'influencers' (I use the word very loosely) who went to the event. They should be paid more than compensation for this disaster they had to take part in.
i feel bad for both.
I seen the Netflix movie and there was some nasty people there, one dude sprung to mind as he boasted how he slashed tents all around his and his mates tents so they could be left alone.
90% of those who went, are all social media influencers who are so far up their own arse, they don't care about other people's misfortunes, well they experienced it that weekend and the nasty side still showed up.
@@Klynch111 Yes, they're called cunts cuz they're not good at anything else what do ya expect from these losers
@@sillygoose635 me too..
Fyre festival 2020 got cancelled because of the coronavirus 🦠😫😫
Fyre Festival caused the coronavirus.
@@maqusan22 Corona virus IS fyre festival
If only they had waited for three more years, then they'll have a valid excuse for cancelling the festival.
@@TheKML777 lol true
Lmfaooooo 😄
I feel so bad for the people in the Caribbean who never got paid, it’s so cruel
I was really pissed off when I found out those assholes didn't pay a dime to the workforce they've hire to build that fraud.
Literal slave labor
Poor Jack Sparrow.
@@V00doo1Xim you thought you ate?
At least once or twice a year, I return to re learn about the Fyre festival disaster.
Moral of the story: Don't go to a festival organized by a millennial and a washed-up rapper.
Vosloff Nooooooooooooooo Monika! (sorry had to be done)
Vosloff is the same kind of person to blame the failure of the tuna industry on millenials
Or by RUclipsrs who likes lying (Tana Mongueau and FouseyTube)
Begone, Boomer *shoos*
@@jameslyddall MIIINAAAAAJJJAAYYYY! Fucking wack ass loser Ja Rule😂😂 50 shoulda bought all the ticket for himself😂
Karma was served,.........on a styrofoam plate.
It feels good to see rich spoiled millennials get owned
Gillan Baclayon why tho because they have more money then you jealousy at its best
At least I am not the one who lost a lot of money, jealous my ass
Gillan Baclayon yeah beacuse 500 is alot when your a young adult
Every dollar counts
Do they get another bag of chips?.or is it just one the entire trip
Only the VIPs get two bags of chips I think
damn lucky.
It's worth the extra 10k
yeeeesssss... Dashcon reference!
The get 1 bad of chips, 2 slices of bread and 2 slices of cheese to last a week.
0:24 the piston engine aircraft even sound like turbine engines. This festival was truly incredible.
$12,000 for the Syrian refugee experience.
It was actually 500 dollars
Base price was actually 1,200 bucks, not 12,000. Everyone there was middle class.
@@suziebelle4113 1200 with nothing included but a pass n flights.. the rest was extra. And eveyone got extra since you needed food and accommodation
Some paid up to a quarter of a million dollars
@@ladyphelps21
*spits drink*
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAH
THAT'S THE MOST BULLSHIT STATEMENT I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY LIFE!
AHAHAHHAAHAHhA
as a Bahamian, we honestly were surprised as much as any one else...
I saw their ads on Instagram weeks running up the event thinking it was some ultra exclusive event and that they had their shit together.
Turns out nope...
I actually feel sorry for the locals. My sister's ex boyfriend used to live there and she visited a lot and my friends own a house there and vacation a few times a year and most people who have traveled there tell me that tourism is a big draw for Bahamas and the locals are very friendly. I have no doubts that locals who were promised work were looking forward to it being a hit and drawing more people year after year. I don't feel too bad for the company that ran it: they do what was going on but just wanted their money.
Who is here after watching the fyre documentary ?
Here here!
Yeah that documentary was really fire, kept my attention the whole time
That be me!
I watched both the Netflix & Hulu documentaries, hahaha - whole thing was unbelievable & practically comical!
Me lmfao 😂😂💀💀
"Once owned by Pablo Escobar" Imagine thinking highlighting the island was once owned by a killer was good promotion, it's like saying "Come to Germany, once owned by the Nazis" lol.
Crazy thing is he coulda made 2x what he stole if he did it right
If he just didn’t mention Pablo Escobar and gave himself enough time it would’ve worked out for him
@@mrcritical6751 I think it was too late to undo the Pablo Escobar thing by the time the owners were like "No."
But yeah, I think if they came clean as to the obstacles they were facing and just postponed the event, as opposed to faking it 'til the end, they could have still had something while restoring *some* of their credibility for future ventures.
@@laurendaryani4893 It wouldn't work. They had priced themselves too low and had to use high interest loans to cover the shortfall. They offered a weekend in the Bahamas at $500 to $1500 food and music included when the most basic tourist package starts at $2000.
@@mrcritical6751 on that private island? Not exuma but pablos private island? No way lol there was no infrastructure for thousands of people..
@@akshatprakash871 @akshat prakash Maybe they were expecting to get high economies of scale and savings for having thousand of attendands: bulk purchasing of supplies can reallly go a long way reducing costs. Thus I think it was feasible, but somehow something failed....
If only Kendall had been there with a Pepsi, this all could've been avoided.
"Once Owned by Pablo Escobar". Why exactly is this a selling point?
drug lords are supposed to get all the girls and have great parties, so why can't fyre festival too(ja rule's logic)
Pablo Escobar is a well known name. Any association with a famous (or infamous) person makes it more glamorous.
Because people are morbid cunts. And do not care about the many people who suffered at the hands of Pablo Escobar.. They only care about themselves.
I have a gun that was once owned by the I5 Killer...
Because it was a festival targeted at idiots.
The guy was fckin G.. took all money in, promise there will be a cruise a private jet a concerts, made a millions millions of dollar, made a lot of people believed and shit didnt happen.. this is what I call business
"A private island owned by Pablo Escobar" that reminds me of the time I went to an anime convention in Hitler's bunker.
Ah Yes I Remember That. Then Bruno Ganz Started Ranting About Nonsense To A Bunch Of People In The Next Room. Good Times Had By All.
When the rich learn how to gulag the rich.
Aaron MK "rich"
lowest price tickets were around 100-200 bucks, so rich is an understatement
and 12,000 for going to a wonderful place was seeming promising, i mean usually it's too much, so much above that.
then we found out the truth
Sneaky Snake There's actually no evidence of tickets costing that much
The tickets were usually $1,200. Press for some reason added a zero on headlines over and over. Many people got it as cheap as $500 or even lower. Considering it’s a 2 week package to the Bahamas the how low was actually should of been iffy. Many week packages can be almost $2000.
John Smith there is evidence. It was on the website, and shit, and people who actually went to the damn thing have stepped up and said it was 100-200 bucks lowest price.
and lets see
100-200 USD Price + "Luxury" island. People bought into it.
Wiggly Fungus is right, 1,200 was an option(iirc it was the almost highest?) but it wasn't the lowest. People got it below 500 bucks
i've never been happier being poor and introverted :)))))))
your username though
I laughed my ass off looked they were entering the concentration camps
dog killer Dude, same here!
I think it's cute, since the avatar is a little kitty.
I’ve never been happier to be average middle class
I can't lie, the guy was a marketing genius.
The trailer makes it looks like it was gonna be a great thing.
this promo doesn't even look like on for a music festival. more like an bikini ad. this ad prob cost more than the actual festival itself. yeah i did the math. true story.
"I did the math"
lol we're asians we don't even need to calculate the bullshit to know that it failed.
😂
Wait, so those rich kids paid thousands of Dollars to party on a tropical island only to be left stranded without food, water and shelter? Jarule Stalin essentially build a gulag and had the rich kids pay for it. *Soviet anthem plays in background*
LOL
If they wanted to go to prison, the could have gone to one of the thousands right here in the usa where we imprison more than any other planet on earth. We don't need no stinking Stalin references, we're number one!
Tragically funny LOL.
Wasn't even rich kids. The tickets honestly weren't that expensive.
The tickets weren't expensive
The only winner in this situation is a friend of mine from that island i met time after this shit show told me once he saw a shit ton of hungry tourist wend and made some ham and cheese sandwiches and soda started selling them 3$ piece he made like 4000$ on one night what a legend
I bought all 1,333 sandwiches.
i like how you made up the dumbest story ever because you’re a fuckin loser.
@@billyt8868 I like how you made up the dumbest comment ever because you're a fucking loser
I think the only winner is k.jenner
@@hazalosk351 right ?? 250 000 for one post, sheesh
absolutely love the fact that this is still up
Right!? They truly didn’t and still don’t give a fuck 🤣
"Owned by Pablo Escobar"
That's the reason why the event was being cancelled on that island
Why would they even make it a selling point? It's like advertising an obscure island that was once a port for pirates and slave traders
@@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933 Ohhh a pirate island! Sign me up! :D (sarcasm)
It's such a weird, random flex in the video
@@laurendaryani4893 it also confused why the owner cares so much about its history being brought up, they died for their crimes and you still can't talk about it?
Id put money on the fact that none of the people that bought a ticket even fucking knew who Pablo Escobar was before googling him after they saw the video