Post: #1

This story is so utterly delicious, that it has everything in it.

It shows the gullible nature of Millennials, the gullible reality of Instagram, rapper-promoted lifestyle, the sheer audacity of online created stories, that ultimately shatter in the hard reality of life:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...chaos.html

Quote:It's Rich Kids of Instagram meets Lord of the Flies': Bella Hadid-backed Bahamas Fyre Festival in chaos as revellers who paid for £10k packages are 'left stranded at unfinished site overrun with feral dogs'

Quote:Fyre Festival in Bahamas promised luxury accommodation and 'culinary pop ups'
Tickets for event cost up to £10,000 including flights and ocean view glamping
Emily Ratajkowski and Bella Hadid among host of models on festival's homepage
But revellers reported finding unfinished site, piles of rubbish and feral dogs
Some say they are stranded and US band Blink 182 has cancelled performance
Festival statement said event 'got off to an unexpected start' and there had been 'growing pains'

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Quote:'It's rich kids of Instagram meets Hunger Games': Luxury Fyre Festival with $250,000 tickets in chaos as guests left 'mugged, stranded and hungry'

Quote:Fantasy versus reality: the glamorous, model-filled Fyre Festival promotional trailer, and the half-erected tent and ball pool at the doomed event itself

Quote:It was to be the most glamorous event of the year, with all the selfie opportunities and flower-crowns a young, gym-bodied social media influencer could dream of. But Fyre Festival, an elite concert event on a deserted island in the Bahamas with tickets priced up to $12,000 has quickly turned into a terrifying B-movie, with flocks of Instagram models forced to seek shelter in an airport after arriving to discover a lack of food, violent locals, appalling accommodation and feral dogs roaming the grounds.

As a result, social media has exploded overnight with tales of Instagram-filtered terror and disappointment, with beautiful festival-goers arriving on the island to discover half-built tents, their luggage being thrown out of the back of a truck, muggers and thieves laying in wait to steal wallets from trust fund kids, unhelpful staff, and "gourmet cuisine" that turned out to be nothing but ham and cheese sandwiches.

Quote:One woman, who paid $10,000 for a VIP ticket, reportedly left her belongings in a half-erected tent, only to have them stolen minutes later. "One guy got punched out by security and they took his wallet," claimed one festival-goer on Reddit, while others claimed that local residents on the island have been assaulting Fyre Festival attendees.

Fyre Festival is the brain-child of tech entrepreneur Billy McFarland and Noughties rapper Ja Rule, designed as an exotic alternative to Coachella and promoted by a bevy of Instagram-friendly supermodels including Bella Hadid, Chanel Iman and Emily Ratajkowski.

They obviously did their utmost to hire the hottest Instagram hotties and produce the best commercials:

Quote:Fyre Media, the company behind the festival, paid celebrity 'influencers' to promote the festival across their social media before an actual musical line-up had been announced. The campaign worked, with the festival selling thousands of tickets to the island event, described as "a cultural moment created from a blend of music, art, and food," to be held over two weekends on the island of Exumas.

There were hints yesterday that Fyre Festival was potentially an elaborate scam, when Blink-182 abruptly pulled out of performing, claiming they were "not confident that we would have what we need to give you the quality of performances we always give fans". The band were due to perform at the festival alongside acts including Skepta, Major Lazer, Disclosure and members of Kanye West's G.O.O.D. Music hip-hop troupe.

While the event continues to be traumatic to the many rich, beautiful people currently seeking shelter in an airport and eager to fly home, social media has somewhat understandably reacted with giggles.

Quote:According to one festival-goer, organisers on the island have handed out sheets of paper, encouraging people to sign in order to get a full refund of their tickets. The Fyre Festival website, however, currently states that "All sales are final. There are no refunds."

Let us look at some choice pictures before and the reality:

Here the pricing:



50.000$ per person for 2 weeks was the top price!



Since the cheapest ticket went somewhere around 4.000$, then at least the Instagram models got paid off in advance.

Everything sold out? Wow!

And the reality?



Concierge tent and refugee center style surroundings.



Gourmet cousine for 700$/night.

Here a compilation of the Event already out:





Luxury Food Court:



Your baggage being delivered straight from the container onto the sand in the middle of the night:

Quote:Another festival-goer, William Finley, from North Caroline, paid $2,700 for a pass he believed would entitle him to food, an open bar and overnight villas which he said turned out to be tents.
He told Billboard: 'They're basically disaster relief tents, with a mattress on some sort of bed frame. They're not that uncomfortable but the tents are so poorly made that they'd blow over in a second if there was any wind or rain.'

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Disaster relief tents in utter desolation.

Quote:According to Elle, models Elsa Hosk, Emily Ratajkowski, Bella Hadid, Lais Ribeiro, Gizele Oliveira and Rose Bertram were among those invited to the island in December for photo shoots and to 'give feed-back' for the festival launch.

Those girls did not set foot on the island, because the video available looks nothing like the one used in the photo shoot. Seems like the took one of those empty sandy areas, set up some spare Haiti refugee disaster tents, hired a few local hands and called it a day.

The memes are already coming in for anyone who survived this luxury resort:



The Fyre Festival organizers are in damage control, though not taking any calls and no refunds:

Quote:fyrefestivalThings got off to an unexpected start at day one of Fyre Festival.

FOR THOSE CURRENTLY ON GREAT EXUMA
We are working to comfortably accommodate guests and deliver a great experience. If you have needs, please head to the "BLUE HOUSE" on the main festival site. Security, first aid, and Fyre Festival staff are here to assist immediately, 24/7.

FOR THOSE WITH PENDING TRAVEL TO THE EXUMAS TOMORROW
Due to circumstances beyond our control, and in line with a culture of safety, all inbound charter flights to the Exumas have been canceled. Your ticket and any funds uploaded to your RFID band will be refunded.

Thank you for bearing with us as we work through the growing pains that every first year event experiences. Revised itinerary information will be shared soon for the remainder of this weekend and weekend two.

I think that since a few trust fund kids got already robbed, they are more concerned that no one gets gang-raped and killed.

The guy who started it all out is a Millennial entrepreneur with a big grin.

Of course you can pull it off, but this is an organizational disaster. Supposedly there were already locals warning about it weeks before on social media, but the Millennials don't believe in the "haters" or anything alternative because that is just the "Dark Web, misogynists, Trump supporters and conspiracy theorists" - you must never let the hate win.




According to some it gets worse:

Some have already deserted the place and are now waiting at the Airport for transport, others have booked AirBnB - most of them can afford it, but the humiliation and learning experience is priceless.

Uh oh - I think I talked prematurely about avoiding gang-rape:

Millennials are very trusting to let their girlfriends waltz around among a legion of Bahamas locals in uncertain terrain. I guess that trust will be raped and beaten out of them quickly.


But we also have to think about the other human tragedies out there:

They probably could not afford it that much.

This is a developing story, so there will be more juicy details coming out for sure.

Post: #2

Jeez - tents burning, people fighting for food, all belongings including passport stolen - all for the bargain price of 3.500-13.000$ (and the few who may have even paid the full 39.900$ price tag, but are not admitting it).

Post: #3

People on 4chan are calling it "Ja Rule's Concentration Camp"

Post: #4

Great find, Zel. Excellent thread. 10/10



There's going to be a comedy movie adaptation of this for certain. I'm willing to bet that Seth Rogan is furiously pecking at his keyboard as we speak.

Post: #5

I've read everything twice now and I can't decide which part is my favorite, it's all so good. I almost want to leave work early, hop a flight to the Bahamas and start taking pictures.

Post: #6

(04-28-2017 08:55 AM)SirTimothy Wrote:  People on 4chan are calling it "Ja Rule's Concentration Camp"

To be fair - that guy was likely not doing jack shit, just giving his name to being "one of the organizers".

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alysonkrueg...3d05f57c56

Billy McFarlane - he is the main organizer and the lead entrepreneur - all bling, no substance it seems.



His business ventures were mostly bling-big-lifestyle connected - the credit card even sort of working out, but all very hit-and-miss.

Organizing such a large even for thousands of people in the Bahamas is no easy feat. Kazantip has safer surroundings and offers a budget part and in addition tents which are frequented by billionaires. The Bahamas is a completely different ball-game and doing it for thousands of people is quite challenging.

Post: #7

I saw this briefly browsing /pol today and I thought it was [FAKE NEWS], but it looks like it might be real.

Some woman was saying she had lost her grandfather (no not died, just missing) and the last time she lost him, they didn't find him again till he turned up in Venezuela 5 years later. Bizarre. It reads like a bad comedy script, some of those tweets.

Then again, considering how fucked up the whole planet is right now, it's probably true.

I'VE GOT THE CONCH!

Post: #8

This shit is delicious and I am guilty of endulging myself and its even funnier because these types could be Antifa supporters or at least support them in social media spirit.


My generation can be summed up with this on its gravestone;

Quote:Anyone noticing the pack of dogs in the distance just watching? Are they even dogs or fucking wolves? I'm going to take a closer look and snap a picture

Post: #9

You missed the bit about them getting padlocked in at the airport:



Meanwhile, back at the ranch:




I'm calling BS on this. It's just too perfect. The schadenfreude is off the scale on this one. Everyone who laughs at this is going on a list.

This is the one about the missing grandfather- wtf?



How the fuck can you lose a grandparent?

Not all bad news though -



This can't be real.

Post: #10

What a tale. You can't write it this good. What kind of a person spends $12k to see a show headlined by Blink-182, Ja Rule, and "members" of Kanye's G.O.O.D. crew. I'd feel bad for em if I didn't know what kind of person it was. These people don't care about music or art. They're just vapid, wealthy 'collectors' of experiences that they can boast about on social media.

And now they finally have a good story to share.

Post: #11

(04-28-2017 09:19 AM)Foolsgo1d Wrote:  This shit is delicious and I am guilty of endulging myself and its even funnier because these types could be Antifa supporters or at least support them in social media spirit.


My generation can be summed up with this on its gravestone;

Quote:Anyone noticing the pack of dogs in the distance just watching? Are they even dogs or fucking wolves? I'm going to take a closer look and snap a picture

Yeah, I noticed that and I swear it reads like a throwaway bit of fluff in a horror game. Like you've pressed "e" on a blood soaked diary and the screen throws up a random entry before you go off and kill some more zombies.

Post: #12

The festival is huge.

Someone named William Needham IV had a periscope out:

https://www.pscp.tv/w/1YqKDwvLzVYxV

No beeer, one bar for thousands of people, yellow water in the showers, that was before the roving gangs started to organize and create weapons for security.

It's one massive scam.

The airport security closed them up, so that they don't get robbed in the airport once more.

Also things are escalating quickly:

Post: #13

(04-28-2017 09:04 AM)Chevy Woonsocket Wrote:  I've read everything twice now and I can't decide which part is my favorite, it's all so good. I almost want to leave work early, hop a flight to the Bahamas and start taking pictures.

You won't be able to get in there - that's the whole point - they've locked down the airport and imposed some kind of no fly zone. Weird shit is going down. As the phone batteries die less and less information is coming out. It'll be like Apocalypse Now by nightfall.

This is fake news isn't it? Some kind of publicity stunt? I'm not falling for it.

Post: #14

Is there a live feed?

Post: #15

Seems like an old feed, but we will certainly get plenty of footage from the ones who dare to admit that they were there.

More update from the now famous Tent 27 from the #Fyrefestival:





They wacked him - heh.



Before that this Steven Stubbe was all survivalist:

Post: #16

Was watching this #DumpsterFyre go down live on 4chan and reddit last night and laughing my ass off.

This was my favorite "report".




Most of the craziest reddit reports are just 4chan trolls though.

Post: #17

(04-28-2017 10:06 AM)iop890 Wrote:  Was watching this #DumpsterFyre go down live on 4chan and reddit last night and laughing my ass off.

This was my favorite "report".




Most of the craziest reddit reports are just 4chan trolls though.

"You guys paid several grand to play Refugee Simulator."

Post: #18

I am doing more research before I order 50$ earbuds for my phone than when they go out to a festival where they risk not only 5.000-12.000$, but also their life and safety.

Post: #19

Post: #20

There is no escape.

Post: #21

It adds a nice twist to Trump's signature catch phrase from his reality television show.

Post: #22

"On an island, previously owned by Pablo Escobar."

Post: #23

Who goes to an overpriced festival organized by Ja Rule of all people

Post: #24

(04-28-2017 10:11 AM)Roosh Wrote:  "You guys paid several grand to play Refugee Simulator."

Post: #25

(04-28-2017 10:47 AM)Svoboda Wrote:  "On an island, previously owned by Pablo Escobar."

They stretched the truth with that as well. Better put - Bahamas - where Pablo Escobar owned one of those hundreds of islands. Like saying: come to the US, where the richest people in the world live in splendor and glory.

When you speak of private island you don't mean that it is privately populated by impoverished locals and roving packs of dogs.