Lion Heart 15,041 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Fyre Fest was supposed to be the most luxurious music festival ever — an ultra-exclusive party spanning two weekends on a private island in the Bahamas, with private jet travel built into the extravagant ticket price, where Instagram ingenues, including Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid, were headed to dance on yachts. That’s not what happened. The production was “a **** show” from its inception to its spectacular collapse Friday — the exact words separately used by three people who bought tickets, though only two actually made it to the island, Great Exuma, in the Bahamas. Beginning early Thursday, many of the advertised private jets — which turned out to be chartered commercial planes departing from airports like La Guardia and Miami International — failed to take off at all. And those passengers may now consider themselves the lucky ones. Festivalgoers on the ground found “luxury” accommodations more like disaster relief-like tents, significantly less amenities than promised, and no clear way to leave. “It’s complete chaos,” William Needham Finley IV, a Raleigh blogger, said from the beach Thursday night, later posting a Periscope video showing the bare-bones setup of tents, one small stage, and a half-built “concierge” structure. Produced via joint venture between rapper Ja Rule and Billy McFarland — the founder of the once-lauded millennial credit card company Magnises — Fyre Fest advertised a lineup with artists like Tyga and Desiigner and the band Blink-182 alongside activities like swimming with pigs and jet-ski rentals. But the problems started early Thursday when flights were mysteriously grounded. Finally passengers on a fully boarded flight out of Miami were forced to disembark late Thursday night after waiting to take off for hours. “The government or whoever is running the festival down there don’t want any more people. There is no accommodation. There is no place to stay,” a man’s voice said over the loudspeaker in video recorded on the plane. ... A few hours later, Ja Rule apologized in a screenshot from the iPhone Notes app, apologizing and denying the festival was a scam. Festivalgoers paid anywhere from $1,500 to $250,000 to stay on-site from Thursday to Monday, with another wave booked for next weekend. But instead of being shown to their accommodations when they landed, they were loaded onto buses and dropped off at a beach for an impromptu day party — even though some of them had traveled in on 5 a.m. flights, lifestyle blogger Brooke Morton said in an email. The luxurious accommodations they were promised were nowhere to be found. .. Several people described the scene as more like a FEMA-camp than a festival. “I have a picture of a disaster-relief camp in South America, and it’s the exact same thing. The geodomes are the U.S. aid relief domes. And everything was wet, all the mattresses were wet,” FitzGerald said. “They took all the luggage from the airport and put it in a giant shipping crate and drove it around.” https://news.vice.com/story/rich-millennials-paid-thousands-for-ja-rules-fyre-fest-and-are-now-stranded-on-an-island-in-disaster-relief-tents ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 Read the full story. It's an absolute DISASTER ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 Festivalgoers paid anywhere from $1,500 to $250,000 to stay on-site from Thursday to Monday, with another wave booked for next weekend. ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morphine Prince 109,683 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 This is hilarious Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Borislshere 53,665 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 4 minutes ago, Lion Heart said: Festivalgoers paid anywhere from $1,500 to $250,000 to stay on-site from Thursday to Monday, with another wave booked for next weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chromasine 5,439 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 A mess, a kii, a cackle. Truly their ARTPOP era. Spoiler Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seeka 12,372 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 What if this was a social experiment of some sort? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuuri 21,636 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Looks like those millenials have other things to carry now besides their emotional baggage. http://m.imgur.com/thPaSgv?r Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 117,156 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 LEL (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ ᶠʳᵒⁿᵗ ᵗᵒʷᵃʳᵈ ᵉⁿᵉᵐʸ (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maleficent 6 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 Bad marketing, management, and planning. 2017 is a bad year for PR (but a great year for PR firms, I bet they're making millions). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion Heart 15,041 Posted April 29, 2017 Author Share Posted April 29, 2017 OMG the Exposure ▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BLACKOUTbritney 22,369 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 People are being assaulted and robbed as well so it's not funny. Regardless of how wealthy the festival goers are Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3ARS 4,132 Posted April 29, 2017 Share Posted April 29, 2017 This entire thing is a mess. It sounds like it could have been a really cool event if the planning team wasn't in a rush It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. - Audre Lorde Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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