No one legitimate is going to spend any time or resources on a guy that did prison time for the first event
Yeah I talked to a friend today that has been a few times, I guess it’s very much a self sufficient type festival where it’s expected you bring everything you need and share with others. I guess no real monetary transactions happen. Apparently even during normal weather it takes forever to get out of there
It’s a super intense experience for sure. If I remember correctly, the only thing you are allowed to spend money on while there is Ice. The art & random non-music experiences are what make it the most fun. I did not expect how much drinking there would be. Getting in and out can take forever bc speed limits and the influx of traffic. I strongly suggest going at least once for the novel experience. I didn’t attach my identity to it like so many do and haven’t been back since 2016. It takes a significant amount of planning if you want to ensure you are comfortable while there. I paid the price for deciding to go last minute.
When I went there was a massive sandstorm the whole time, or dust storm not sure the accurate terminology there, it's in the damn dessert I can't imagine going to it and not having a lot of provisions on hand and being attached to a camp
I’ve got a buddy there now, he sent me pics of the camp he built it was pretty sick. He said they’re all fine but if could get hairy if it keeps raining
Apparently there is something with the dirt that it is so alkaline that you can't really let your skin come in contact with it. If you do, you'll essentially get a massive chemical burns on your feet and they suck all the moisture out of the skins. Seems this is what they are trying avoid, but not doing it properly
On todays day and age of unlimited true crime/true fraud documentaries, nobody should be fooled by his textbook entry level con man vocabulary, framing, or pitch lol. “Now McFarland, 32, has a high-stakes opportunity to change the narrative. In August 2023, he posted a video to YouTube announcing Fyre II—a revamped festival based on a 50-page plan he says he produced while in solitary. Wearing a bathrobe and AirPods, he implored viewers to buy tickets: “This is your chance to get in. This is everything I’ve been working towards.” If he can pull it off, it will be the ultimate comeback story. If he can’t… “It’s going to be very hard to get other opportunities, whether that’s a marketing job, a podcast appearance, a TV show or a relationship,” McFarland says. “People are going to be hard-pressed to trust me if I put it all on the line and fail at it twice.” So this time, he insists, things will be different: “I’m not going to be the one setting up bathrooms.””
He's back in! “I’m not sure I can believe anything that he says at this point,” says Andy King, an event planner involved in the original Fyre Fest. In a 2019 Netflix documentary about the festival, King went viral for describing an outrageous request he said McFarland asked of him, involving a customs official, Evian water and oral sex. Despite this history, King told the Los Angeles Times in August 2023 that he and McFarland were teaming up again for Fyre Festival II. King stresses that he would only help him if an outside company bought Fyre Media and took over the finances.
If anything he's digging in to prove the haters: Why continue to make big promises, when the results are not always guaranteed? The way he tells it, McFarland welcomes naysayers and nonbelievers, and counts on festival-goers feeling the same. “I want 90 percent of the people saying, ‘This is not real, it’s never going to happen,’ ” McFarland says. “We’re betting that it’s going to make the 10 percent who can afford it to be like, ‘Yeah, we’re going to show them.’ I think the second everybody thinks it’s obvious that it’s going to be good, no one wants to go anymore.”
He was an early guest on Tosh's podcast and he sounded about as delusional as ever talking about doing another Fyre Fest.
There is a notion a Bloomberg writer often suggests with guys on Wall Street that blow up and lose their ass and end up getting second chances. 1. They must have something going for them if they were given that much rope to hang themselves 2. Being that they've experienced losing their ass they know how it can all go wrong and will be more careful this time 3. Or their uncle is a managing director LMAO No, Billy is back on his same shit. That being said, it already has all the notoriety and publicity, and there are probably people that will go for for the lolz if the other people involved can pull off hosting the event. Like if you are some resort owner in Panama or wherever the fuck this ends up going down why not give it a shot (probably trying to launder money anyways - that's not to say that all businesses in central/south America are drug cartel funded money launderers - just the ones that would get mixed up with Billy)
the media coverage and documentaries made him and “Fyre Fest” even more of a household name than it was originally. Another go at it is a huge opportunity. Market will always take advantage of that and it actually seems like it’s course correcting the right way. Macfarland is leveraging his name and the brand recognition while an experienced partner handles logistics.
I just don’t understand why anyone with money would want to go to this. The music lineup will suck even if the event itself is planned out competently. If you have $$ you want to get rid of, there are always Super VIP stays at camping festivals with real lineups.
It won't be people who can afford the real VIP stuff you are talking about. It will be people who can take out student loans etc to pay for this festival and think it will boost their online influencer status to not actually have to work status
Anyone getting involved with this con man is stupid as shit He’s not doing this ironically or to prove the haters wrong. He’s doing it to steal money
I mean Trump supporters are the ones that are willingly scammed by the same man again and again. So they are the perfect marks for this clown.