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[HStallion]

LMAO. If you are paying $12K for music... A jarule helmed event too.

They're probably Tidal subscribers

 

[berzeli]

This is incredible:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

They didn't even start planning anything until last month.

That's incredible, this is just perfection:

I cannot explain how or why the bros running this festival ignored every warning sign they were given along the way. The writing was on the wall. I saw it firsthand six weeks ago. They overlooked so many very basic things. And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA.

 

[Kayhan]

I am going to start selling t-shirts with "I survived Fyre Festival" printed on the front.

 

[DOWN]

 

[Kayhan]

#norefunds

 

[Air]

That pic can't be real

 

[HStallion]

This cannot be real can it?

 

[EMT0]

If that's real bahahahaha

 

[blame space]

🤔

 

[Kaladin]

I assume a fake account?

 

[ferr]

Waiting for EvilLore's photos from there.

are you kidding?! EvilLore wouldn't stoop to this peasant level shit!

 

[Dash_Riprock]

First Mistake: Going to anything hosted by Ja Rule.

Second Mistake: Seeing the $12,000 price tag and not being suspicious.

Third Mistake: Going to anything hosted by Ja Rule.

 

[Lucumo]

Nah, even we won't eat that.

At least not without butter.

 

[cdyhybrid]

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/857914795042975744

Does this mean GAF is an "influencer" now? Do we get paid? Do we need to start threads about Fit Tea and generic-ass protein powder?

 

[cordy]

Shit looking like an archeological field trip lmao.

 

[Scher]

That pic can't be real

This cannot be real can it?

Well, it's a tweet with well over 140 characters in it, so it's probably fake.

 

[OG Shaka Zulu]

ja rule and Blink 182.

Not even Thug Lovin Ja Rule

I haven't laughed this hard at fraud. I don't want Ja Rule to get in any trouble for this.

 

[Darryl M R]

Too many bottles of this wine we can’t pronounce
Too many bowls of that green, no Lucky Charms
The maids come around too much
Parents ain’t around enough
Too many joy rides in daddy’s Jaguar
Too many white lies and white lines
Super rich kids with nothing but loose ends
Super rich kids with nothing but fake friends

 

[Charcoal]

Waiting for EvilLore's photos from there.

Oh fuck me lmao

 

[J-Roderton]

I have not laughed so hard in a long time.

 

[tuxfool]

This is incredible:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

They didn't even start planning anything until last month.

This excerpt is platinum.

 

[BigJonsson]

The promoters need to watch Wayne's World 2

 

[The Illiterati]

Wow and this comes right after the Electric Sun Desert Music Festival fiasco where 18 people died and many more were hospitalised due to bad vapes.

Crazy times we live in.

I wonder if Dr. San was involved with this one too.

 

[Kaladin]

This is incredible:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

They didn't even start planning anything until last month.

This....

The production team was all new hires and, before we arrived, we were led to believe things had been in motion for a while. But nothing had been done. Festival vendors weren’t in place, no stage had been rented, transportation had not been arranged. Frankly, we were standing on an empty gravel pit and no one had any idea how we were going to build a festival village from scratch.

is why I don't go to first year festivals. Priceless.

 

[giga]

 

[RS4-]

And then I flew back to New York and waited eagerly for six weeks to see how Fyre Festival would play out

So, I take it that the public, buyers, and the people that purchased tickets in that time frame had no idea what they were getting into?

 

[papercan55]

this guy worked on fyre festival but quit after he realised it wasn't going to work...
amazing read...

That night Ja Rule gave a toast. ”To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars." If Ja Rule is punished for anything perhaps it should be that.

They overlooked so many very basic things. And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA.

 

[Lima]

Let's just do it and be legends, man. I will make this my new life motto.

 

[NoRéN]

Does this mean GAF is an "influencer" now? Do we get paid? Do we need to start threads about Fit Tea and generic-ass protein powder?

Nope. Replace fit tea and protein powder with hyped up indie games.

 

[Kill Your Masters]

This excerpt is platinum.

Legen-wait for it...

 

[Kaladin]

Let's just do it and be legends, man. I will make this my new life motto.

I'm stealing this also. It's the new Hold my beer.

 

[itwasTuesday]

it's murda, murda

This is crazy.

 

[darkwing-buck]

This excerpt is platinum.

FUUUUUCK IM DEAD

 

[PopcornMegaphone]

Let's just do it and be legends, man. I will make this my new life motto.

That guy ended up being right

 

[Dreams-Visions]

This is incredible:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

They didn't even start planning anything until last month.

yea they just stole these people's money.

 

[NealMcCauley]

The "forgot to make me sign an NDA" sounds like there's a hell of a lot more to tell.

 

[Koomaster]

This excerpt is platinum.

This is what I caught as well. At $50million; they would have needed to sell almost 4,200 of the $12,000 packages just to break even. Just think about the logistics of that alone. And if the $500 early bird ticket thing is true, that number rises to 100k tickets.

It's laughable after seeing the numbers they thought they could pull this off. There's just no way; they were hoping to take the money and run 100%.

 

[BlueTsunami]

2017 has been insane but this is the cherry so far. Social exxxperimentzzz

 

[Kaladin]

The "forgot to make me sign an NDA" sounds like there's a hell of a lot more to tell.

I have a feeling we'll hear more in the days to come.

 

[Kayhan]

This excerpt is platinum.

 

[q1dm4]

this is excellent praxis

 

[hydragonwarrior]

Yeah, I'm watching the periscope stream and its mostly middle class kids who thought they got a super-sweet deal. Could have been me 10 years ago.

.

I mean 500 bucks including a flight is kind of an amazing deal if you get that early bird.

 

[Kaladin]

.

I mean 500 bucks including a flight is kind of an amazing deal if you get that early bird.

From what I've read $500 wasn't available long and it could have been anywhere from $1k - $125k per person.

 

[sarcastor]

Soooo there's gonna be massive lawsuits, right?

I mean the money went somewhere. Obviously not on that island.

 

[papercan55]

found on twitter...

 

[reKon]

this thread is nearly legendary

 

[Carnby]

In the same boat.

Just saw this - Insane:

This isn't funny anymore. Stay safe fellas.

 

[CrimzonSamurai]

I bet that tell-all article was locked and loaded before midnight last night.

 

[RyanW]

This isn't funny anymore. Stay safe fellas.

I believe 4chan was there

 

[DonShula]

found on twitter...

Oh this is special here. Very nice.