OMG… really?
Old PT was right…
Last I heard was something like “Fyre Festival 2 is real” lol
A sucker is born every minute
And the crazy thing is, buying the rights might actually be a not so bad idea from marketing POV
I was gonna say if they made it into an actual festival they are guaranteed turnout the first year
Depending on your expectations, it is an actual festival. It’s a little more along the lines of Survivor, though.
So is Burning man and Coachella depending on the year, regardless heatstroke is guaranteed.
Why would anyone want to own the rights to a scam?
And how come it is the people buying tickets we talk about but never the artist that canceled before it was set to happen? In neither of the completing documentaries, can I recall discussion of the artist supposedly set to perform but didn’t show up.
Buy the rights, throw a small local festival, and people will be happy they got anything from fyre fest
By the time the artists cancelled the disaster was already in full swing and there was no reasonable possibility of salvaging it. The artist cancelling at that point isn’t doing anything wrong, they have been hired to do a job and they have a right to a safe and productive working environment. They’re victims too, they’re just less impacted because they are successful artists with millions of dollars who probably weren’t relying on this job to pay for supplies or put food on their table.
Take the million-dollar artist out of the equation and imagine that you’re an experienced gardener hired for a very generous sum to plant some decorative plants on this remote island. The organizers are going to advertise the quality of your work all around the world and get thousands of people to come pay to see your work. You’re super of this recognition and opportunity, so you cancel all your other jobs in anticipation of being able to go do this fantastic job on a tropical island, your plane tickets are arranged everything seems great. Then you find out at the last minute that the area where they are building this garden is actually a health and safety hazard. Maybe they want you to plant azaleas on top of a nuclear waste dump. You decide fuck that and cancel. But the organization isn’t even communicating anymore and you can’t find anyone to notify properly, so not everyone even knows that you’re not planning to show up.
Are you letting down the people who have paid to come see your plants? Sure. But based on what we know of the relationship, the gardener/artist has done nothing wrong. Their reaction is totally reasonable and they are not the crooks here, nor are they part of the problem, they were used. Unless we’ve got evidence to the contrary, they were misled just like the buyers were. Maybe they should’ve done more due diligence, but they’re not having a great time either, they’ve had genuine losses (real and reputational). It’s a big mess but they are not obligated to be a part of it and arguably if they did show up knowing their fans are being put in danger, isn’t that actually worse?
I won’t dismiss what you have said. I was wondering more along the lines as to why more information from their side hasn’t been discussed. Do they have anything to say to McFarlane?
Because some idiot will definitely want to buy it
I guess the expectations for Fyre Festival 3 are low!
In a few years there will be a whole new group of spoiled youth signing up for this
while they can’t afford a home. Cue the new documentary season.Where am I supposed to charge my backup Rivian?!
