I could not care less about hearing from the attendees. There were only so many ways to say how bad it sucked, and I have zero sympathy for people who thought they’d be on a private jet with Instagram models for a GA ticket of $2k.
I liked the female former employee in the Hulu doc that talked about Billy’s ticket scams and how big of a conman he always was. The Hulu doc seemed to shed more light on how much Billy sucked outside of the festival as well.
While I definitely enjoyed it, I don't think that the Netflix documentary taught me anything I didn't already know. Aside from the blowjob for water anecdote, it was kind of ordinary.
I liked the attendees perspective because it sets the scene about how willingly ignorant they were to get duped.
I mean after they moved to the second island, the weekend of Fyre coincided with some huge Regatta event that was the islands biggest event of the year. Wondering why Fyre didn't move their date. Was the reason why the Jerry guys couldn't get a rental car, all the hotels and air bnbs were booked etc.
Didn’t see the Hulu doc but I’m reading that billy tried to spin it that they had the housing for the guests but “lost” the box with all the keys to the houses in it?
When the local bartender is the only one talking sense and seeing the iceberg dead ahead you know everything is fucked. I felt terrible for restaurant owner most of all.
Watched Netflix version. Low key funny part was BM blew millions and did a handful of federal crimes to hang out with a bunch of beautiful models for a couple weekends in the Bahamas but was so self conscious about being moderately overweight and awkward that he never took his shirt off. The guy that won the $5mm settlement struck me as odd. He looked like he was 40, sitting in what looked like a family home, going by a different name (there’s an “aka” even listed in the lawsuit documents that they show). What the hell was he doing there?
You just know billy was that overweight nerd no girls ever wanted to hang out with and had little friends so once he scammed his way to some money he was able to pay for hot women to be around him and that type of attention from people wanting to be around him due to the money/lifestyle he showcased was like a drug he couldn’t put down
I got the opposite feeling - that he was one of these guys with the type of personality that people gravitate toward and he used that to scam his way through life
I think it's a little of both. I have known plenty of guys like that who are friends with everyone in the room, super easy to talk to and outgoing, always full of energy and chatting everyone up. Then, as you get to know them you start to think "Holy fuck this dude is weird" and they just kind of churn through friends like that.
His wiki said he started his first internet company at 13, get the feeling he was a zuckrberg type But you could be right
https://uk.style.yahoo.com/everything-know-carola-jain-megainvestor-181141390.html This is the biggest investor who got scammed. I'm presuming her and her hedge fund husband always think they're the smartest people in the room.
Zuckerberg would combust at the mere thought of doing blow and pounding beers on an island with EmRata and Bella Hadid.
Didn’t watch the Hulu doc, seemed that everyone in the Netflix doc he was seen with had a role in the festival and were having a helluva party on “his dime” Especially the locals down there who just saw a rich American with pretty girls and apparently a lot of money to throw around
Apparently that Austin Mills influencer guy was a point guard at Baylor. I'm just gonna presume he's an awful person.
I’m not sure if we watched the same documentary. It looked to me like the locals worked their asses off and it said most (many) of them got stiffed.
Went last year and got out fast AF but I mean still. So many horror stories of not enough bathrooms, cold showers or just no room
That Alyssa Lynch girl, while insanely attractive, was so terrible. I enjoyed the fact that Hulu overtly skewered these people, while Netflix seemed more civil by comparison. Her trying to describe her "brand", and her clear feigning even an ounce of empathy for the people who got scammed after paying thousands for a "villa", was particularly pathetic. She was a standout in a production featuring particularly terrible people
i hated the social media manager who said how brave influencers are and shit like that but she was very good looking too
A couple hot takes: 1) Hulu spent too much time attacking millenials which is easy and overplayed 2) While I wouldn't have purchased one, I don't blame people that did at all. That party looked sick. There were names attached to this festival. No reason to think it was a scam.
If you thought you’d get a private plane and party with Instagram models for a GA ticket of $1,200 this won’t be the first or last time you get scammed.
True but who really thought they were going to get that? Well, other than Alyssa Lynch. But I also think it was clear that the influencers were promised a vastly different experience than the general admission types. It was an advertisement, surely these people didn't think that was exactly what they were getting? It was a music festival after all.... But maybe I am vastly underestimating how delusional some of the people were, but it is hard for me to believe that the thousands of people that bought general admission tickets thought they were getting a private jet and getting to hang out with Em Rata... Pre-documentary I didn't follow this story a ton but the docs seemed to talk about the expectations the influencers had quite a bit more than what the regular joe thought he was getting