$12,000/ticket music festival for rich people in the bahamas turns into a human rights crisis.

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  1. brahmanknight

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    :roll:
     
  2. Bulworth

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    After seeing the video from the house party and hearing the recorded conference call, this is an all-time horrible, terrible, head up your ass take.
     
  3. Arkadin

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    :laugh: thanks man. Unfortunately I didn't get to watch or listen to those first.
     
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  4. BayouMafia

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    calling out a user for a 2 years ago supposition based on info on hand at the time while using information just available in the last few weeks to make a self aggrandizement is an all-time horrible, terrible, intellectually dishonest move
     
  5. Bulworth

    Bulworth Obscenity?

    The guy believed Ja Rule in the first place and you're going to lecture me about intellect?
     
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  6. teel

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  7. BayouMafia

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    actually intellectual dishonesty but given your inability to discern the two I guess that's apropos as well
     
  8. Bulworth

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    I'm just stunned you had the temerity to discuss anything involving intellect. Dishonest or otherwise.
     
  9. Boo MFer!

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    Lot of big words being thrown around on this page in the discussion of something called the “Fyre Festival.”
     
  10. Joe_Pesci

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    Pretty much any time I hear someone talking like her I want to see someone to smash a pie in their face
     
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  11. devine

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    Weird fetish joe lol
     
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  12. Joe_Pesci

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    Well first I was thinking punch them in the face, but just doing violence to them isnt enough

    "Everyone has an individual brand"

    *pie flies in out of nowhere*
     
  13. gus_chiggins

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    For them, being embarrassed in front of other shitheads is far worse than a punch to the face. Pie is the correct move here
     
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  14. TC

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  15. Deuce

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    My favorite lie from the Hulu documentary was "we lost a box of keys to 250 rental houses"
     
  16. 941Gator

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    Bella lead me to a (possibly) hotter sister

     
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  17. Bulworth

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    Given how stupid they actually are, can we be sure it was a lie?
     
  18. bigred77

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    Yes
     
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  19. spagett

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    The guy is a con man... so yea
     
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  20. letan

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    I had a friend who went and while he wasn’t expecting to be on a private jet he fully thought he’d have a chance at hanging out with some Instagram models. My friends and I told him this was going to be a disaster from the start and he didn’t want to listen. As I think I posted in here when it happened, the disaster was so much worse than even we could have imagined and we enjoyed every second of it. The documentaries gave us yet another reason to make fun of his ass.
     
  21. Tobias

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    and you were lecturing people on a lack of intellect on this very same page
     
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    Given how lazy they were do you think they took the time to actually sign rental contracts on 250 houses?

    Are there 250 houses to rent on that island in general? Especially during the Regatta week?

    The logical thing to do with keys to 250 rental houses you are going to disperse quickly is just throw them in a box.

    So yeah it’s a lie.
     
  23. Houndster

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    I feel duped for having watched 20 minutes of the Hulu documentary. Everything related to this should be terminated from existence
     
  24. Voodoo

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  25. Truman

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    Steve Martin was on SNL last night. If they did a bit on the blow job guy, I would have lost it.
     
  26. joe-

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    this whole thing has been fascinating for me to follow because it combines my two professions in music (formerly) and social media. Their influencer campaign was brilliant from a content standpoint, and is one of the primary reasons the FTC requires influencers to add a #ad or similar to their sponsored posts.

    Billy is a sociopath and very obviously a liar who was in over his head, but the fact that it got as far as it did means tons of people carry some blame, even down to the agents for many of the acts on the bill. When booking a festival you’re usually working 8 months out MINIMUM. When confirming an act, especially for a one-off event and not a date on a tour, there are several rounds of deposits required throughout the course of time. Any agent worth a shit (or their assistants) will be in communication with the festival promoters pretty regularly, making sure deposits are wired, production has the required back line and lighting and the like, the festival has the appropriate insurance, etc but none of this was done.

    Also - planning a festival on a developed piece of land with plumbing, electricity, roads, etc takes about a year when factoring in all the logistics that goes into it. From the jump there was absolutely no way this was happening
     
  27. 941Gator

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    anyone else stuck on incorrectly calling it Frye (not fyre)?
     
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  28. devine

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    No
     
  29. 941Gator

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    srry, thought this was the dumb random thoughts thread
     
  30. Fancy

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    this must be embarrassing for you
     
  31. BayouMafia

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    No, and that’s my mother’s maiden name.

    Seek help
     
  32. 941Gator

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    this is not going well for me.
     
  33. Joe_Pesci

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    Fyre reminds me of that stupid 90s trend of adding x's into words where they dont belong, like connexion
     
  34. devine

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    Seems like a wild take

     
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  35. Room 15

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    Toxic masculinity 101
     
  36. devine

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    We’re most of the influencers not women? The ones on the island knew what a sham this was
     
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  37. joe-

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    doubtful. They were with a production crew the entire time which made it seem legit. There’s a reason these guys were able to con so many people for so long
     
  38. Boo MFer!

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  39. The Blackfish

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  40. dathalfnukkahd

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    Yes
     
  41. 941Gator

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    I believe ppl are pointing the finger at the ppl organizing it, all while knowing it was a failure, and considering the Instagram promoters clueless, etc. But I may be way off.
     
  42. Eathan Edwards

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    The girls at that level (emrata, Bella, etc) have full Pr and management teams. I doubt they knew going into it what a shitshow it was going to be and thought they were just promoting a festival like normal.

    But I don’t think there is any doubt that there was a time that they knew it was going to be a disaster and they still took their money and didn’t do anything to assist with the ensuing mess (that’s why none of them went).

    I haven’t really seen any of them do anything after the fact either but I may have missed that.
     
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  43. Eathan Edwards

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    You’re working backwards here.

    Gigi is the hot one that forced VS to get Bella out there.
     
  44. Truman

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    Ask her what she thinks of Theranos
     
  45. 941Gator

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    yeah, I forgot. I googled Bella then clicked on sister’s picture. But now I remember who mom/step-dad are etc.
     
  46. Eathan Edwards

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    Yea I know the dad (Mohammad Hadid, big LA developer) pretty well through my former boss.

    Oddly enough don’t think I have ever seen either Bella or Gigi out anywhere.
     
  47. fucktx

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    i’m impressed that you guys have managed to talk about this for 22 pages
     
  48. Bruce Bowen

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    Not sure if it’s a hot take but as far as super models go Bella Hadid is not that hot :justsayin:
     
  49. TC

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    Toxic Masculinity Board
     
  50. Boo MFer!

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    Toxic-Masculinity Board, IMO.
     
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