The Best of Fyre Festival

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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[@Hammi4Real]

MONICAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[@n3wt]

he's back

[@Kaiden-9226]

Already sold out 😂🎉

[@Samsung_Knignt]

☠️☠️☠️

[@ragoonsgg589]

God I love that movie

[@isabellind1292]

@@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.

[@thegypsywagonllp]

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.

[@AbNomal621]

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)

[@MichaelWVagg]

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.

[@AbNomal621]

@@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.

[@effkay3691]

It’s got nothing to do with her

[@danielmcgillis270]

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.

[@hectordelacruz5222]

I still feel so bad for the Bahamian citizens that worked so hard and lost their own money for nothing in return.

[@Joshua-cs6gj]

Lol people in the Bahamas always getting taken for a ride. Crazy down here.

[@Astroqualia]

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.

[@QiuyuanChenRyan916]

@@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.

[@J.Soffer]

Facts. I also feel this way every time a global sports event descends upon an unsuspecting populace.

[@MsLindamee]

​@@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.

[@residentsatanist5028]

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

[@marcosmanuelndongokenve9232]

That’s definitely WINNING!!

[@brianprowse2543]

I’d love to get sent to a tropical island with free lunch and a tent an watch rich people freak out! 😂

[@ohno7153]

most of them werent even rich. the tickets werent that expensive.

[@melblack7412]

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.

[@JimMilton-ej6zi]

That's influencers for you, nothing they do is for the good of everyone, it's purely what they want for themselves.

[@foxyfoxington2651]

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.

[@lhasaroadrat9374]

And you thought Woodstock II was an abortion.

[@awilson816aw]

​@@lhasaroadrat9374 that was actually Woodstock III lol

[@Seroxm13]

Who would have thought, right?

[@tgust5]

Probably the most jokes on rapper too. Eminem ruined his career.

[@cameronvaughn8434]

@tgust5 and 50 cent! Can't even look at the Ja Rule the same anymore honestly....idc...#cornball

[@isaacgonzalez4606]

"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.

[@carlahaiduk1878]

I hate those guys. I hope someone really kicks their assess.

[@nvrndingsmmr]

Well said lmao

[@michellew4637]

Tells me everything I need to know about that person. Their parents should be ashamed

[@esskittyy]

Created an account just to like this comment

[@always_markb]

sums up milennials in the mid to late 2000s LMAO

[@IzzySoDope]

"We felt really bad" cuts to dancing and laughing 😂 kudos, the effort that went into this is top notch

[@steffymuze]

She felt so bad she didn't share that glee-inducing cabana with those who didn't have anything, I bet

[@LoveK1]

⁠@@steffymuzeyou know they locked those cabana doors and windows up tight.

[@RebuttalRecords]

McFarland wanted to deliver an event talked about for years, he got his wish.

[@shawnkelly695]

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

[@kokuutou92]

Billy McDickhead

[@seraphik]

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.

[@phoenix72999]

She probably still couldn't use that for publicity afterwards😂

[@amyeastman8764]

She’s disgusting IMO. How immature and embarrassing. Acting like that at her age!

[@phoenix72999]

@@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?"

[@vinxcxcxcxc6354]

What did guys expect she is an influencer.

[@sassysalmon93]

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.

[@davebeat]

The fact Ja wasn't even headlining his own event says a lot about what he knew.

[@soveryeri2]

Meh, nah that just means even Ja knows that no one wants to see Ja as a main event lmao

[@everyrose3225]

Agree with both comments

[@eastbee103]

Yup

[@sleepers123]

Oh that's an excellent point I had not considered yet, thank you!

[@kcudnag2351]

But if he's profited from the 'event', then he should be liable too, to a certain extent.

[@jacqueminot7224]

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.

[@user-rk5cs4rk8v]

PLUR only when it’s for “the gram”

[@jacqueminot7224]

@@user-rk5cs4rk8v Truth

[@blackmachine312]

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.

[@Samn3212]

It’s almost as though they hadn’t worked for anything in their lives and had a concentrated sense of entitlement to get by.

[@davidhutchinson5233]

I just would have dropped anchor and watched from my boat. lol

[@legoc-3po845]

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

[@w.jasonspangler2952]

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.

[@deletedwaffles]

Definitely overhyped but they're pretty important to reel gullible people in. The Fyre Festival proved that.

[@jaapspruitenburg6625]

...but unfortunately this terrible specie called 'influencers' still exists...

[@FAT8893]

@@jaapspruitenburg6625 And most people always belive them.

[@bsowers22]

@@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.

[@ckwind1971]

If only people had learned that lesson 😅 (crypto, NFTs)

[@violetscreaming]

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

[@air-run3984]

That lady’s want good enough. -spoiled Americans

[@kristinbeck6659]

I hear you but she could’ve thrown some lunch meat on there

[@violetscreaming]

@@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.

[@kristinbeck6659]

@@violetscreaming again I hear you. I’m sure she was embarrassed to serve that

[@angeliqueoren2462]

She isn't the face of failure, she was one of many victims.

[@tnorris2204]

All those influencers getting fooled is the greatest thing ever

[@davidharvey321]

its sadly like a cult, that we we will see again.

[@catherineallan1397]

100% I ACTUALLY THINK ITS HILARIOUS!!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@keesdevreugd9177]

Agreed. Unfortunately they just had an uncomfortable few days, while the locals got robbed from their time and money.

[@thereisnothinghere8829]

You need a life.

[@matthewmensah8703]

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??

[@TheSimianDeity]

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.

[@dotarelated7598]

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.

[@fallen4life080]

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.

[@kx_xx]

Because the story was bs…

[@michelley.6566]

The Bahamian lady talking about her ruined credit and lost life savings makes me cry every time. My chest burns for her

[@skontheroad]

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.

[@vinxcxcxcxc6354]

​@@skontheroad Dude to a person living in a developing nation that is sometimes the amount of the life savings

[@skontheroad]

@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.

[@skontheroad]

@Vin xcxcxcxc Also, even to someone in a first world country, $50K is a lot!

[@skontheroad]

@Vin xcxcxcxc Also, even to someone in a first world country, $50K is a lot!

[@princequestly2218]

They weren’t marketing a pipe dream, they were marketing a crack pipe. 😂😂

[@cameronvaughn8434]

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@SetsunaTheFandom]

To be precise: a crack pipe factory

[@jamesd5767]

😊😊

[@adrielsebastian5216]

or a tail pipe

[@queenizme6670]

Or a pipe bomb lol

[@jonlohrenz5446]

“WHERE IS JAHHH?” Never gets old. 😂

[@globalwarmhugs7741]

Poor little rich kids are disappointed for the first time in their lives! Stop the presses!!

[@JDB173]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Rationalmethod995]

That transition from the influencers bragging about the festival to them coming to grips with it being a scam is so satisfying

[@WobblesandBean]

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.

[@bunkyman8097]

@phillipgrammer9429 scammers getting scammed, ya gotta love it!

[@randomcomputer7248]

yes!

[@jesseweems4851]

I was going to say the same thing hahaha

[@turnpike9680]

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.

[@BlazinVoid59]

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.

[@AlixFiori]

But a lot of collateral damage was made. It’s not just about white rich kids wanting to hang out with insta models.

[@kurtwinter4422]

@@BlazinVoid59 Plus airfare. Yeah, not all of them were rich but the only poor people were the displaced and screwed over locals

[@solidstate9451]

@@BlazinVoid59 "as low as 500$" ... hahahaha, I can feed my family of 4 for 3 weeks with this amount of money.

[@panamaJ]

@@BlazinVoid59 true but all the performers were shit.

[@Leafwink]

"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.

[@joshualawson6154]

If this was the crowd from the last Woodstock festival, they would have set the entire island on fire with them in it

[@joebhoyy]

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.

[@E-Nigma_]

I agree and said something similar.

[@RandoBurner]

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.

[@Killacam1992]

Facts.

[@creativebyarmi]

WORD!

[@yahspeaks9125]

My sentiments EXACTLY!!!!😂😢

[@manifestgtr]

I swear to god…it’s like this “festival” existed for the sole purpose of making me feel better about my life choices 🍿

[@enkandescent1591]

PUT YOUR FAITH AND TRUST IN JESUS CHRIST AND HIS FINISHED WORK UPON THE CROSS ON WHICH HE SHED HIS BLOOD FOR OUR FORGIVENESS OF SINS AND HEALING BECAUSE YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN TO HAVE GOD'S TRUE FORGIVENESS OF SIN and TRUE HEALING and TRUE PEACE and TRUE REST FOR YOUR SOUL AND TRUST AND BELIEVE IN HIS RESURRECTION BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST BY WHICH HE ROSE AGAIN TO GIVE US HIS ETERNAL EVERLASTING LIFE AND IN HIS ASCENSION TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD OUR FATHER AFTER WHICH HE SENT THE HOLY SPIRIT TO US YOU AND ME DID WE MAY ALL BE ABLE TO BELIEVE AND TRUST AND KNOW THAT GOD IS TRUE AND REAL AND EXISTS AND BE BORN AGAIN BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST WHO CONVICTS US OF OUR SINS END OF THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD AND THE RIGHTEOUSNESS WHICH IS IN CHRIST JESUS OUR LORD FOR IT IS ONLY THROUGH THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND HIS FINISHED WORK UPON THE CROSS (NOT OUR OWN WORKS BUT HIS) THAT WE CAN EVEN BE MADE RIGHTEOUS AT ALL BEFORE GOD THE FATHER FOR OUR SINS ARE MANY BUT GOD RICH IN MERCY SENT HIS SON JESUS CHRIST WHO IS GOD HIMSELF IN HUMAN FORM YET WITHOUT SIN TO BE THE PERFECT SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS TO TAKE THE PUNISHMENT THAT WE DESERVED FOR OUR SINS UPON HIMSELF SO THAT WE COULD BE FORGIVEN AND BE SPARED GOD'S WRATH FOR OUR SINS AND INSTEAD BE JUSTIFIED BEFORE GOD AND HAVE HIS SALVATION AND HIS ETERNAL EVERLASTING LIFE AND NO LONGER FEAR THE STING OF DEATH AND FEAR GOING TO HELL BUT INSTEAD REMAIN AT REST IN GOD THROUGH CHRIST BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH ABIDING GOD'S TRUE REST AND TRUE PEACE WHICH SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING AND IN GOD'S THE FULL OF ASSURANCE OF SALVATION KNOWING THAT WE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE (AND THOUGH OUR FLESHLY BODIES WON'T LAST FOREVER) OUR SOULS WILL GO ON AND LIVE FOREVER AND GO TO HEAVEN TO BE HOME WITH GOD OUR FATHER AND NOT DIE AND GO TO HELL FOR OUR SINS FOR FOR WE WHO HAVE FAITH AND TRUST AND BELIEVE INTO JESUS CHRIST THE ROCK OF OUR SALVATION OUR TRUE SAVIOR, AND LORD, AND OUR TRUE HUSBAND, HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN OF ALL OUR SINS PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE IN JESUS CHRIST BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST AND WE KNOW THIS BY HIS HOLY SPIRIT WHOM HE GOD HAS GIVEN US AS A SEAL AND TESTIMONY TO TESTIFY TO US THAT WE BELONG TO CHRIST AND ARE SAVED IN CHRIST JESUS BY THE POWER OF HIS BLOOD WHICH HE SHED FOR US UPON HIS CROSS IN JESUS NAME I DECLARE THIS OVER YOU AMEN! AMEN! HALLELUJAH! PRAISE GOD!

[@gregoryf9299]

#1 comment for me, lol

[@seangildersleeve1270]

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."

[@ladynikkie]

Also, the $12,000 ticket prices were also discredited people weren't even paying that much internet. Historian confirms that tickets were around $1200 and some even pay for the early bird special for $500 The only people I feel sorry for were the residents of great exuma. A lot of poor workers didn't get paid for their work

[@knightssquire2376]

Yikes! Expenses over 25 million and just under 1 million in revenue......I'm not a genius investor, but that's not a hard decision to make.

[@phyn3]

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

[@bloodspartan300]

"We are selling a pipe dream to your average loser" sounds like fraud to me Billy.

[@eastlynburkholder3559]

At the very least, not respecting the customers paying your payroll and making your profits for you.

[@always_markb]

Sounds a lot like Donald trump lmaoo

[@lahomacastile8085]

I thought I was the only one thinking about that😮😮😮😮

[@bicivelo]

Right. Doesn’t “pipe dream” mean it’s never happening??

[@slightlyskywalking2195]

That's not fraud. I would call that uh... False advertising.

[@thegodhead]

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. 🤦‍♂️

[@peanutsarecheap1997]

White collar crime

[@scottcharney1091]

Note that Elizabeth Holmes's sentence is much longer, and yet she actually started with good intentions.

[@CamJames]

@@scottcharney1091 she also did a LOT more damage. if her intentions were that good, it would've been a nonprofit.

[@madamlt5758]

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.

[@Whoswhoofwho]

Simple they would rather have there money and he can't earn locked up.

[@hardrockinhere]

Am I the only one who had never even heard of Ja Rule until after this disaster had happened?

[@CCWeazle]

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.

[@madvtecyo546]

The fact he served almost no jail time is disgusting. His* wages for life should be garnished

[@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy]

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.

[@nubreed13]

Especially when he still had a luxury penthouse with his expensive cars. That money came from somewhere despite him claiming he had no income.

[@sovo1212]

@@okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy I would rather like to see Nintendo's CEO serving time for illegally taking down emulation videos on KZbin.

[@preachercaine]

For ripping off pathetic, entitled muppets? He should be given an award.

[@alanfike]

He shouldn't be off the hook until every local employee who put the venue together is fully compensated, perhaps with further financial restitution.

[@rachelreynolds5863]

I will never get tired of watching videos about this dumpster fire

[@caitlingill]

Dumpster Fyre lol

[@JPeebs]

LOL Dumpster Fyre

[@JosephByrne]

​@@caitlingillHaha. Good one.

[@user-tl7mj2bm4m]

You mean fyre......

[@Alyssa_M513]

Same. I even remember where I was when I first heard about it. 😂

[@roseoverdose6451]

ja rule with a suit on pretending to be a business man is HILARIOUS! hahahah

[@BizRon-dm8ye]

Up there with potus Kanye. Or X or whatever he calls himself now 😂

[@NewWesternFront]

Billy too

[@TARRS1]

Great video! Fantastic editing! Keep going!

[@officedrone6167]

Them not paying their staff while refusing to let them go is honestly worse in my opinion then the festival.

[@hhds113]

Plus also its illegal to do that to by labor laws.

[@Stopcommentingthesamecomments]

​@@hhds113ur telling me these scammers didn't practice fair employment color me shocked

[@hhds113]

@@Stopcommentingthesamecomments I HIGHLY doubt they even practice any fair employment. He can lose everything if they take him to court.

[@shonii119]

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.

[@nubreed13]

Which is extra impressive considering how every single company he started wound up being a fraud.

[@jfbeam]

@@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.

[@Vandakai]

While becoming the greatest loser of them all.

[@aramessurrinam6120]

it wasnt billy. It was that rapper who said this

[@Codebryo]

Really nice editing - such an insane story.

[@AwokenEntertainment]

nobody can forget this disaster.. so curious to silly what Billy does next 😂

[@hujhujhujhuj5734]

FyreCoin is coming !

[@deletedwaffles]

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.

[@shonii119]

she is an influencer and stayed in a nice house during the debacle

[@kariswhite8532]

Seems like a trash human, posting dance videos showed us who she is

[@gorillaau]

Narcissistic personality.

[@gorillaau]

@@Arkengel Isn't there a saying about beauty only being skin deep?

[@randomfools808]

She is an awful person. She was complaining about the plane too.

[@keithk888]

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

[@amandahugenkiss]

The restaurant lady and workers got paid through Go Fund Me donations. The people who lost money were Billy’s investors.

[@scraidywolf7081]

​@@amandahugenkiss Glad she got paid. She deserves every penny.

[@keithk888]

@@amandahugenkiss ah that's great news for them, thank you

[@TrudyPatootie]

@@amandahugenkiss *Thank you Amanda! Thank God!*

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@amandahugenkiss not every vendor got compensated

[@fraenz-cu5mp]

The real tragedy is that the local workers didn't get paid a cent

[@ChocolateTruffle98]

The editing on this video is so good 😂

[@JH-ed4ib]

why am I still obsessed with this epic fail lol

[@COURTNEYVCK]

Same!! Lol I loved the documentaries about it.

[@lry8133]

@@COURTNEYVCK A train wreck takes many forms, and this was a big one

[@TheAmericanNomad352]

Me too

[@seangildersleeve1270]

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.

[@mh-ht2fp]

@@seangildersleeve1270Lol they aint rich. Just attention seekers.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

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!

[@Treyman-yi7ei]

He was lucky he didn't get a Fordlandia situation

[@AJ_Deadshow]

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.

[@ryleelaking7882]

@@Treyman-yi7eiexplain

[@Treyman-yi7ei]

@@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

[@user-so8hx8mo1e]

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.

[@theartfuldodger261]

This was amazing, thanks for sharing!

[@toddlash4782]

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.

[@wrenmassey6876]

"Im not aware of how this would effect unemployment benefits" says so much to me about how this guy (doesnt) run his business

[@hhds113]

And you can tell this guy never worked a day in his life and doesn't understand labor laws either.

[@leafy79]

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!

[@user-tl7mj2bm4m]

No - he should have been locked up with a huge black man named Bubba who was horny.....

[@Heisenberg2K]

Damn right

[@mandygish6405]

Editing style is wonderful❤

[@VaChiee]

the quality of this vid is absolutely insane for 20k channel, bra freaking vo my dude

[@viciouslady1340]

Thanks to Netflix

[@priatalat]

I feel bad for that lady that got robbed of all her life savings.

[@MEGVTRON]

Damn thats crazy…whats your ig

[@JohnDarksoul69]

she got her money back and then some. a gofundme was set up for her and raised more than $240k

[@solidstate9451]

@@JohnDarksoul69 She deserved every cent.

[@priatalat]

@@JohnDarksoul69 But imagine the stress and mental anguish she must’ve gone through initially. Absolutely demoralizing.

[@tylerkinley268]

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.

[@willymcpeters2982]

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

[@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55]

I am The Wilderness

[@willymcpeters2982]

@@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 thx jack me hoff:) I updated it

[@WobblesandBean]

Yeah, for real screw that guy.

[@RonnyCoalman]

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.

[@sitdowndogbreath]

What clip was that

[@adibz7432]

PyreFestival in a nutshell: You paid hundred to thousand dollars per ticket just to experience living in refugee/hostage Sounds legit to me 😂😂😂

[@ricardoklement-yj8sr]

"Refugees" are housed in luxury hotels in the UK while local homeless and veterans live on the street. Not the flex you thought it was.

[@rudyavila1825]

Am I wrong for not feeling bad for the duped festival goers? A bunch of wanna-be influencers and spoiled adult children looking for the next IT thing to put on their socials. Seeing them whine about a situation that was soon resolved when there is a whole world full of people who suffer much worse for much longer was like seeing a house burn down, but that house was a mansion.

[@possumverde]

They weren't necessarily spoiled. The vast majority of the tickets were sold for ~$1,200 with some going for as little as ~$500. Slightly pricey, but considering what was promised, that's not a bad deal. That's in the range of a summer vacation for a lot of people.

[@jessymonster]

As a convention/festival planner, I saw this coming & every festival we ran someone would say "don't Fyre festival this!!!" 😅

[@MagpieTimes]

My favourite part is that billy is now setting up to do Fyre fest 2.0. HE DIDNT EVEN CHANGE THE NAME.

[@cracklecracklebaybay5612]

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. 😆

[@SpectralOoze]

​@@Arkengelyou nailed it with this one. Nothing sets you up for virality like the impending "doom" of a situation that ultimately amounts to a massive annoyance. They've never had to endure inner city or rural living so they're not used to be detained or intimidated by gov officials, plans failing with no discernible way to remedy it. The plight of the average American is hilariously more sympathetic, and that's before you consider the native Bahamans instead who have it infinitely worse than you or I do.

[@vhagerty]

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. 😊

[@seangildersleeve1270]

SOO many red flags. SOOO MANY.

[@seangildersleeve1270]

@@vhagerty I think there is something to this thought mentality.

[@brianal7143]

@@seangildersleeve1270fear of missing out

[@casquefer]

« 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.

[@noakos-senderski1063]

BRUUH your editing and narrative skills are bending me backwards. Your videos are amazing. Def my fav video-essays channel right now. Lots of love from Poland xoxo

[@naluzoniro]

People who are convincted of fraud and illegal business practices should be forbidden from creating or managing a company ever again

[@Manzinitis]

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.

[@hherpdderp]

Its bad, but if you're familiar Web Summit it's the right place.😂

[@paiiininthebuttt2477]

Narcissists always tell on themselves.

[@eetadakimasu]

I was really close to going to this and I'm so glad other things came up!

[@sleepinginthebasement]

Out of all the things discussing a very terrible and dissapointing event, I never expected to see power ranger clips in the video. I love the use of Eric in most of the clips. Btw loved the video. Definitely checking more of your stuff out!

[@Mousy677]

watching this documentary on netflix was utterly wild. it was like a shakespearean tragedy but one where you just detest the tragic "hero".

[@scottcharney1091]

The Hulu doc was good also.

[@DW51380]

@@scottcharney1091 internet historian is the real goat

[@scottcharney1091]

@@DW51380 His video is very sparse compared to the Netflix & HBO films.

[@Frazzled_Chameleon]

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)

[@cindytartt4048]

@@scottcharney1091 ah, I haven’t seen that one.

[@SoundsOfSushi]

Reading tweets in real time as Fyre Festival was happening was a riot! The sheer panic, disappointment and chaos provided so many laughs.

[@skontheroad]

Oohhh! That must have been fun!

[@somed655]

Every time a rich kid gets screwed over, an angel gets its wings

[@skontheroad]

@@somed655 Why??

[@rattsy]

nice content. gl with ur channel

[@JustIn-lz7iv]

Top-notch video editing, man. Respect ✊

[@idcyco3623]

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.

[@rigelb9025]

Like a reverse burning man. A fyry woman.

[@SuperPhunThyme9]

Lol

[@lsrose]

I think you nailed it. Seemed to me to be a disaster from the day it was announced. 😊

[@larrym2434]

Salty YT commenters often have 60/40 vision.

[@idcyco3623]

@@larrym2434 Guess it's a good thing I'm a not salty KZbinr then. Especially since I didn't pay the ridiculous price for tickets of a festival that didn't even happen.

[@monsterzinc9423]

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 😂😂😂

[@randomperson-fl6yg]

Nice touch with the Naruto soundtrack! Caught me by surprise at the end lol

[@shotshellbuddhistbear3326]

Hey man you did this really well. It was fun, entertaining, informative, and edited well. I subscribed. Keep it up. Maybe you can do woodstock

[@virtualassistantel1853]

"We actually got a villa.... i felt really bad" *cuts to video of her dancing in the villa* lol

[@limitedtime5471]

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

[@randomcomputer7248]

"postponed" LOL !! This was hilarious !

[@arm0ur_099]

I was very calm watching this. Suddenly A BLEACH FLAMENQUITO OST REMIX STARTS BLASTING

[@sonofagreatsouthernland]

Some of the most disgusting examples of humanity all rolled up into one big sh!tshow. Perfection.

[@BlackGirlLovesAnime6]

That sums it up very well.

[@scottcharney1091]

I can think of far more disgusting people; you know, mass murderers and the like.

[@davestuddert4392]

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

[@sonofagreatsouthernland]

@@davestuddert4392 Fair....we need them just as much as they need "tha gram". hahahaa

[@saddamthebazaarcharlatan1183]

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

[@ThompterSHunson]

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.

[@S0NICHU]

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

[@seanedghill5025]

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.

[@JJW83641]

Good editing

[@gekara1237]

"Whenever a rich kid gets scammed, an angel gets it's wings..." 😂😂😂

[@Gollumfili]

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.

[@roselane8152]

Why is this so accurate 😂

[@MrReymoclif714]

Yup.

[@startagain127]

the craziest part about all of this is that this actually happened

[@CLUMSY101]

A bunch of so called IN-FLU-ENCERs got a hard slap of REALITY in the face 😂😂😂

[@BreeBee555]

Wtf was Santa Clause doing there? Such a well done video!

[@rowdybliss]

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.

[@IndigoBellyDance]

People chose to believe and they chose to pay. That simple.

[@MrsLPAmy]

​@@IndigoBellyDanceWe should still not blame these people, what💀

[@marckhachfe1238]

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.

[@nubreed13]

I doubt ja rule actually has much to do with the planning of the event itself.

[@marckhachfe1238]

@@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

[@WobblesandBean]

29:00 Definitely the best use of Naruro music.

[@jezzaaaaaaaa7183]

This is great ✅😎👍 Subscribed. 😉

[@willlaw1672]

Ja Rule threw him under the bus when the shit hit the fan 😂😂

[@hujhujhujhuj5734]

Billy was about to do the same to Ja

[@okidoll]

One of the saddest things about this were the local workers that weren't paid.

[@captaintalon4485]

Im laughing at the Time Force and Timeranger references in here

[@brocktonma.1816]

Jarule the banker”let me introduce my partner in crime” he wasn’t lyin🤷‍♂️

[@clarapilier]

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.

[@cashnexus2989]

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!

[@sigmablock]

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.

[@104thironmike4]

@@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.

[@bobstevenson3130]

@@sigmablock I still can't believe that guy almost sucked dick for water. Still blows my mind even to this day.

[@salivatinggreed4219]

​@@104thironmike4 💯💯💯💯 this comment sums everything up

[@andreww1212]

And today he's back at it again, promoting Fyre Festival 2.

[@Catpanl]

He is a product of today’s society. Lots of fools with money they wish to give away.

[@denawagner360]

What....? 😂 Who would fall for Fyre 2.0? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@gbonkers666]

@@denawagner360 Let's wait and find out.

[@Starfleet8555]

​@@Catpanl what money? He doesn't have any. I bet you and I are probably more wealthier than he is.

[@josephfrechette9916]

​@@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.

[@thewanderersrespite8074]

God that TIME FAIYA at the end caught me so off guard. Naoto would never have let this happen

[@kokuutou92]

16:30 I was not expecting Bleach OST, this is great, liked and subscribed 25:23 perfection

[@JPKnapp-ro6xm]

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--.

[@levilowenherz4584]

How in the world is that considered “cheap”? Most people don’t have 1,500$ to spend.

[@nobodybw1962]

@@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.

[@private755]

@@levilowenherz4584 it’s cheap compared to the hundred thousand figures being thrown around

[@handuo6301]

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.

[@skontheroad]

Exactly. It was too cheap. Red flag right there.

[@kambyr]

6 years later starts at 33:01 everything before that is just about everything what happened during and before Fyre festival.

[@bakol.a.7616]

a lord of flies situation for a bunch of influencers and such is like warm chicken soup for my soul