Tickets are already selling out for round two of the disastrous event that went viral and landed its founder in jail. Who's surprised, when we're obsessed with both scammers and notoriety?
Tickets are already selling out for round two of the disastrous event that went viral and landed its founder in jail. Who’s surprised, when we’re obsessed with both scammers and notoriety?They say there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and nobody knows this better than.
In case you need a refresher: Fyre Festival was a disastrous event that McFarland attempted to stage in 2017 in the Bahamas. Tickets that cost between $500 and $12,000 were marketed to influencers via aspirational videos of McFarland on a boat surrounded by models – including Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner – and his business partner, the rapper Ja Rule. It was billed as the experience of a lifetime – beats, beaches, babes; more Instagram opps than you could conceive of in your wildest dreams.
But when ticketholders arrived, there was, essentially, nothing there: no acts ; no food ; no shelter ; and no water . And yet despite all of this – despite the fact that the phrase “Fyre Festival” is now used interchangeably with “clusterfuck” – tickets are selling apace. Or at least, in classic McFarland style, it certainly seems that way: the “first round” of cheapest tickets – which cost $499 – have sold out, but there are only 100 of them . In any case, I have no doubt that the rest of the tickets will sell out, too, despite the fact that it will obviously be a total wipe-out.
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