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Fyre	comment	Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is a 2019 documentary produced by Netflix and directed by Chris Smith (Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond, American Movie), about the infamous 2017 Fyre Festival, a fraudulent music festival that ended in failure, organized by entrepreneur Billy McFarland and rapper Ja Rule.The festival was meant to promote the new Fyre music booking app, and they hired celebrities and models from Instagram to be part of the promotion, including no less than socialite Kendall Jenner, model Bella Hadid, model and actress Emily Ratajkowski, and others. The advertising promised luxury villas and gourmet meals for all attendants, as well as performances from blink-182, Major Lazer, and others.The documentary details the long, long series of bad decisions and carelessness on the part of the organizers (mostly McFarland), and the weekend itself, where the "luxury villas" were disaster relief tents, and the gourmet meals were unappetizing pre-packaged cheese sandwiches. One of these sandwiches was posted to Twitter, went viral, and turned the festival, its organizers, and the attendants into an internet laughingstock.See also Fyre Fraud, Hulu's own Fyre Festival documentary released within just a few days of this one.
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Fyre / int_28bbe844	comment	Shoddy Shindig: The Fyre Festival is, without a shadow of a doubt, one of the most epic Real Life examples of this trope.
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Fyre / int_30e6200f	type	Missing Steps Plan
Fyre / int_30e6200f	comment	Missing Steps Plan: One of the most confusing aspects of Billy's scheme is that it's incredibly difficult to discern what he believed he would have achieved or gained by getting himself tens of millions of dollars in debt in trying to needlessly rush out an unfinished music festival, and refusing to cancel said festival even after being repeatedly told that his company and reputation would be ruined beyond repair if it went forward.
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Fyre / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Fyre / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Billy is presented this way. He refused to listen to his employees' concerns, and when the festival went up in flames, he unceremoniously fired several of them in such a way that they can't receive unemployment benefits.
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Fyre / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Fyre / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Billy built the entire Fyre Festival on lies, but it's even worse when, after having pleaded guilty to defrauding his investors and awaiting sentencing for that crime, he tries to pull a second scam selling "exclusive tickets" for events like the Met Gala (which does not sell tickets - its guests are handpicked by Anna Wintour), meet-and-greets with Taylor Swift (who does not do meet-and-greets), and the 2018 Victoria's Secret fashion show (which hadn't even been cast at that point). And he did all this on camera.note (He successfully took in nearly $100,000 in sales of worthless fake tickets, but was promptly arrested. So at least most of those scammed got most of their money back.) Shortly before the festival, festival goers were submitted to a barrage of emails claiming that the Festival would be entirely "cashless" and they had to charge up an RFID bracelet with money to use to pay for things on site, with said emails "recommending" that the bracelets be charged with at least $8,000. There were zero places to use the bracelets on-site and all of the money charged went straight to pay for Fyre's massive debts. One of the interviewed organizers mentions a moment in which he was sent a first draft of Fyre's letter attempting to apologize for the whole mess and he went utterly ballistic when he noticed that it started by saying that this happened "because of reasons beyond our control". As he says, they always had control and they still allowed the Festival to become a crapfest.
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Fyre / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Fyre / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Billy is sent to jail for six years due to his scams and wire fraud, but left some of his employees in truly massive amounts of debt and royally betrayed everybody who loved and respected him. The patrons who went to Fyre did win the case that condemned Billy as a scammer, but they will probably be mocked by people who misunderstand their plight for a long time to come. The story becomes more bitter when Billy was released, making perfectly clear after six years in prison that he is incorrigible.
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Fyre / int_49d18492	type	Scenery Gorn
Fyre / int_49d18492	comment	Scenery Gorn: The Festival's actual camp, with FEMA relief tents, soaked beds, half-finished construction, shoddy lockers, dingy port-a-potties, and lemonade stand-quality Concierge desks.
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Fyre / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Fyre / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Those shots of the tropical Caribbean islands surrounded by clear blue water are stunning. Indeed, the beautiful scenery was one of the selling points of the Festival.
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Fyre / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Fyre / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: The organizers went through this when a rainstorm hit the island the night before the festival, ruining the "tent villas" and turning the grounds muddy. A Navy SEAL started laughing hysterically, saying that this was the worst clusterfuck he'd ever seen.
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Fyre / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Fyre / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: It's not really surprising, but it still hits home. At about the 30-minute mark, Marc Weinstein, one of Fyre's employees, talks about how he came to realize the festival was spiraling completely out of control. He went to Billy McFarland to warn him about it, and McFarland ignored him. At the time, Weinstein says he didn't know if McFarland was "a genius or a madman." When asked what he thinks now, Weinstein says, without hesitation, "He's a liar." There's another one a bit earlier in the same segment, which acts as foreshadowing both towards the failure of the festival, how out of depth Billy is, and the fact that he's a con man. The festival was booked during the National Regatta (which is the busiest weekend of the year on Great Exuma), making the finding of houses on the island for those who bought the "Villa Package" a practical impossibility. And then Marc is told that all the social media influencers who posted the promo video to kick off the social media campaign were going to get free housing. Andy King's recollection of what Billy asked him to do to release the water from customs in time for the festival. It really drives home just how desperate things got:
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Fyre / int_4e9fe57d	type	Trauma Button
Fyre / int_4e9fe57d	comment	Trauma Button: The restaurant owner who supplied catering to the Fyre Festival (and lost all of her life savings paying her coworkers when Billy ran away with the money) makes clear as the interview ends that the Festival has become genuinely triggering to her and she wishes to never speak again about this mess.
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Fyre / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Fyre / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Billy and Grant are noticeably paunch and flabby, neither one taking their shirt off at the beach or while outside.
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Fyre / int_532f8e61	type	Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!
Fyre / int_532f8e61	comment	Instant Humiliation: Just Add YouTube!: The film notes that videos and posts on social media were instrumental in the festival's downfall, particularly a single picture of a bad cheese sandwich.
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Fyre / int_599f943f	type	Karma Houdini Warranty
Fyre / int_599f943f	comment	Karma Houdini Warranty: Billy is released on bail, but sent to jail when he proceeds to try to run another scam on the same people he had scammed with the Fyre Festival while out on bail.
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Fyre / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Fyre / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: From the island that the Festival was supposed to actually take place on becoming off-limits (thanks to the fact the promotional materials mentioned the island was once owned by Pablo Escobar; not only was that not the case, but the island's current owners had explicitly ordered them to not mention Escobar) up to the fact a rainstorm the night before the first day of the festival completely ruined the "villas"... and then it turns out that McFarland was a scam artist.
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Fyre / int_7a12aabf	type	New Media Are Evil
Fyre / int_7a12aabf	comment	New Media Are Evil: On one end, an awful lot of Internet-spread hype and a few influencers unknowingly spreading lies led to hundreds of people suffering all kinds of hell. On the other end, evidence of how bad the Festival was spread worldwide equally fast once the people there started to post it in the blogosphere and everybody at Fyre, especially Billy, knew the jig was up the moment this happened. As seen above, new media can also lead to Malicious Slander: because the festival itself came off as something for super rich "privileged" people, nearly most, if not all of the internet and world responded with No Sympathy and began to mock those who went to the Festival and saw it more as Laser-Guided Karma. Then the news came out that at least half of the attendees weren't even particularly wealthy and merely got their tickets at a bargain price, and it became awkward mocking.
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Fyre / int_7a1856ba	type	I Reject Your Reality
Fyre / int_7a1856ba	comment	I Reject Your Reality: Post-Fyre Festival, McFarland refused to even consider the possibility he'd go to prison for his fraudulent activities, and continued living large and running the same kind of scams he did with Fyre and Magnesis. Those who knew and worked with him openly wonder if he was delusional, didn't comprehend the deep trouble he was in, or genuinely couldn't help himself.
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Fyre / int_7b50237d	type	Distinction Without a Difference
Fyre / int_7b50237d	comment	Distinction Without a Difference: Ja Rule denies that what they did was "fraud", and instead explains "I would call it 'false advertising.'" False advertising is a form of fraud. Subverted when Billy terminates his employees, in that he's talking as though there is no difference but there in fact is. He tells his employees they aren't being "terminated", but there just isn't any payroll and they aren't officially employed anymore. As someone in that very phone meeting points out, since the employees are not actually being terminated, they cannot receive unemployment benefits and Billy does not have to pay them severance.
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Fyre / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Fyre / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: Financier Calvin Wells saw straight away that the festival was a disorganized mess and documented the evidence all over Twitter, and even got the Wall Street Journal to cover it. The festival still continued towards disaster. Marc Weinstein qualifies as well, as his voice was among the loudest raised in protest at how poorly organized and planned out the festival was. The day before the festival, he sent an email to Billy and Grant imploring them to cancel guests and then proceeded to describe the exact situation that would occur the following day: 300 people arriving on a remote island, shipped to a site that is nowhere near finished, and coming to the realization they have no place to stay and are effectively stranded on the island.note (Fyre did not book any charter flights back to the US for the first night of the festival.) Billy's response?
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Fyre / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Fyre / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Many of the ex-Fyre Media employees who are interviewed admit they respected and looked up to Billy McFarland and his business partners as entrepreneurs, only to find out he was a Con Man and a Consummate Liar who left them all in dire financial straits after the festival tanked.
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Fyre / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Fyre / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: The entire Fyre Festival enterprise, pretty much from its inception. The organizers didn't give themselves anywhere near enough time (a little over 5 months, when most experts were recommending closer to 18 months were needed) or money to put on the show that they were advertising. It didn't help that the people running the whole thing kept ignoring advice and obvious hints that it was going to be a disaster.
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Fyre / int_91cecc1e	type	Exaggerated Trope
Fyre / int_91cecc1e	comment	At one point, the event's water supply was held up in customs, and Billy asked Andy King, his openly gay long-time business associate and personal friend, to give the customs official a blowjob in order to clear it without paying. According to King, he actually repeated the offer to the official with complete sincerity, but the official released the water with merely a promise they'll get compensated.
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Fyre / int_946a37a3	type	Ignored Aesop
Fyre / int_946a37a3	comment	Ignored Aesop: Sadly, this documentary's producers and all the people who went through hell in Fyre Festival suffered in vain. Billy left prison August 2023 and literally the same day he was released, he posted about Fyre Festival 2 and is allegedly now selling tickets for a million dollars each and is requiring anyone purchasing a ticket to buy timeshare, too. He spent six years in jail for this...and learned nothing.
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Fyre / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Fyre / int_950bbfa7	comment	It's not really surprising, but it still hits home. At about the 30-minute mark, Marc Weinstein, one of Fyre's employees, talks about how he came to realize the festival was spiraling completely out of control. He went to Billy McFarland to warn him about it, and McFarland ignored him. At the time, Weinstein says he didn't know if McFarland was "a genius or a madman." When asked what he thinks now, Weinstein says, without hesitation, "He's a liar."
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Fyre / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Fyre / int_98576799	comment	Andy King later took advantage of his newfound status as an internet meme to spearhead an effort to make sure that the unpaid construction workers were also compensated. While not as successful an effort as the restaurant owner, it at least managed to give them something for putting up with this mess.
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Fyre / int_9919369d	type	Con Man
Fyre / int_9919369d	comment	Con Man: Billy McFarland. A man born from the upper-middle class obsessed with being part of the New York's elite who creates two companies - Magnises, an "elite" membership card company that granted "exclusive privileges", and Fyre, the company responsible for the Fyre App. What the two companies had in common is that both over-promised and both underdelivered (or delivered nothing) yet Billy claimed that both companies were worth millions of dollars via the falsifying of documents in order to get investments from third-parties, and he would use that money to live a lavish lifestyle and make connections with plenty of rich people such as Ja Rule.
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Fyre / int_9bc66bb1	type	Belated Happy Ending
Fyre / int_9bc66bb1	comment	Belated Happy Ending: For the employees in the Bahamas affected by the Fyre Festival, shortly after the film was released. The manager of a restaurant catering for the event ended up spending $50,000 of her life savings to make sure that her own workers were compensated during an extreme situation. Later, the internet crowdfunded the money she lost with interest, ultimately raising $77,000 to repay her. Andy King later took advantage of his newfound status as an internet meme to spearhead an effort to make sure that the unpaid construction workers were also compensated. While not as successful an effort as the restaurant owner, it at least managed to give them something for putting up with this mess.
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Fyre / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Fyre / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on, McFarland inadvertently clues the viewer in on his worldview when he casually remarks "We're selling a pipe dream to the average loser." Early on, Ja Rule and Billy McFarland make their notorious toast: "Here's to living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars."note ("...Quickly, and with dangerous consequences." - Eli Bosnick of The Scathing Atheist) Before long, it becomes obvious that McFarland couldn't care less what happened tomorrow, as long as today he was living out that toast. This ended up biting everyone on the ass as the festival started to go pear-shaped. Keith van der Linde, one of the organizers who had an early part in setting the festival up, is trying to show Ja Rule and McFarland some of the planning and logistics they need. At one point, someone spills a beer on Keith's charts. An exasperated Keith deadpans "Great, you just ruined my sewage calculations." The others laugh it off, showing they have no idea what they're doing... and don't care. Keith is discussing getting people to and from the island with Grant Margolin, one of McFarland's right-hand men (who, like most of the others, is in way over his head). He asks Margolin for help in figuring out a way to safely transport drunk guests off the island and back to a nearby cruise ship. Margolin interrupts, saying no one will stay on a cruise ship; everyone will be staying on the island. Keith's face shows that he now knows that the top people on this team - namely McFarland, Ja Rule, and Margolin - are completely incompetent.
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Fyre / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Fyre / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: When one of the buses arrives at the festival and the partygoers see that the promised "luxury villas" are actually disaster relief tents, all the passengers start groaning in sheer horror.
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Fyre / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Fyre / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: The Fyre app the event was supposed to be promoting, an app for booking musical talent, was a pretty damn good idea on its own. Had the debacle never occurred, Billy and Ja Rule could be sitting pretty on a real business idea.
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Fyre / int_a10a7f9b	type	Smug Smiler
Fyre / int_a10a7f9b	comment	Smug Smiler: While not a bad fellow in any sense of the word, the bus driver was enjoying himself a little too much driving the attendees to the festival. He was smiling and laughing the whole way there while dropping numerous vague hints about it being a giant shitshow. By the time they started demanding to turn the bus around, he was practically in Evil Laugh mode.
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Fyre / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
Fyre / int_a1d48853	comment	Stupid Crook: Billy, post-Fyre Festival, to the point where his few remaining friends and associates started questioning his sanity. While out on bail for the Fyre fraud and under intense scrutiny from authorities, he set up a new company called NYC VIP Access and attempted to sell tickets to exclusive events like the Met Gala, Coachella, and the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (events he couldn't possibly have access to, let alone tickets). To sell them, he used the same email and phone lists from the Fyre Festival. In other words, Bily tried to scam the exact same people he scammed months earlier, many of whom were involved in a massive class-action lawsuit against Fyre Media. Even worse, Billy hired a film crew to videotape himself and his new business partners making the calls and sending the emails, oblivious to the fact that the authorities could (and did) subpoena the footage to use against him in court.
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Fyre / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Fyre / int_a24670a4	comment	The manager of a restaurant catering for the event ended up spending $50,000 of her life savings to make sure that her own workers were compensated during an extreme situation. Later, the internet crowdfunded the money she lost with interest, ultimately raising $77,000 to repay her.
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Fyre / int_a5e71bfb	type	Abandoned Camp Ruins
Fyre / int_a5e71bfb	comment	Abandoned Camp Ruins: Invoked. Some of the attendees at the Fire Festival, trying to camp overnight, ripped up the sleeping bags and urinated in tents nearest to them, so that nobody would get too close to them.
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Fyre / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Fyre / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Ja Rule, who despite being Billy's right-hand man in this whole mess, barely suffered any consequence aside from becoming a subject of mockery on the internet.
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Fyre / int_a76de48b	type	Troubled Production
Fyre / int_a76de48b	comment	Troubled Productioninvoked: A Real Life example. The whole movie is a long look at the troubles that plagued the organization of what was supposed to be a luxurious festival experience. Between not having enough time, not having enough money, and a conman running the whole thing as a grift, the people who bought tickets to the Fyre Festival saw firsthand how much of a Shoddy Shindig the whole thing became.
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Fyre / int_ac92aad1	type	White-Collar Crime
Fyre / int_ac92aad1	comment	White-Collar Crime: Namely fraud, which was how Billy made his apparent "fortune".
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Fyre / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Fyre / int_ad1db87c	comment	Keith is discussing getting people to and from the island with Grant Margolin, one of McFarland's right-hand men (who, like most of the others, is in way over his head). He asks Margolin for help in figuring out a way to safely transport drunk guests off the island and back to a nearby cruise ship. Margolin interrupts, saying no one will stay on a cruise ship; everyone will be staying on the island. Keith's face shows that he now knows that the top people on this team - namely McFarland, Ja Rule, and Margolin - are completely incompetent.
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Fyre / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
Fyre / int_ae372576	comment	I Warned You: Many of the interviewees recount how McFarland just kept insisting on the festival moving forward, even when everyone - from the contractors and the talent booking agent, all the way down to the caterers - insisted that the whole situation was a mess and that Fyre could not be done at all, let alone within the deadline that Billy had insisted on. One organizer, Marc Weinstein, mentions how he tried to get Billy to pull the plug and come clean about the problems going on behind the scenes, especially when the soon-to-be attendees began pointing out problems with Fyre's customer service, only for Billy to order his workers to delete all negative comments on the related social media posts in a vain attempt to cover the whole thing up. Several reporters and bloggers that obtained factual proof (including going to the festival site to record the tents) were told to stop their reporting, or they'd be prosecuted.
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Fyre / int_aeb62a57	type	No Delays for the Wicked
Fyre / int_aeb62a57	comment	No Delays for the Wicked: With "the wicked" being schadenfreude. The night before the Festival it rained and damaged the campsite, and everybody was hoping that the flights would be delayed even if just by half an hour so they could think what to do. In the Bahamas during the Regatta, this was pretty common, it's mentioned. The Fyre Festival flights arrived half an hour early.
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Fyre / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Fyre / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Epic Fail: After all is said and done, the Fyre Festival will live forever as a textbook example of awful event planning and even worse execution. One of the interviewed people even calls it with this exact name.
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Fyre / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Fyre / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Billy and Ja Rule hired many experienced, talented organizers to help set up the Fyre Festival, and then proceeded to completely ignore everything they said. Notably, early on, Keith says that the plan to house guests in tents on the island was impossible and creates a plan to charter a cruise ship to house guests and provide all the necessary infrastructure like bathrooms and catering, but is completely ignored. Before long, anyone who refused to be a yes-man either quit or was fired.
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Fyre / int_babd94bc	type	Very False Advertising
Fyre / int_babd94bc	comment	Very False Advertising: The difference between the luxurious festival attendees were promised and the disaster tents they got is stark. Marketing also made it appear that the festival was still happening on a private island long after Fyre lost the right to use Norman's Cay; the official artwork on the website clipped and cropped the final location on Great Exuma to hide the fact that the festival was actually taking place in what was, to put it in the words of someone else who covered the event, basically the parking lot of a Sandals resort.
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Fyre / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Fyre / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Ironically, many of the organizers saw the rainstorm that occurred the night before the festival as a gift from God, as it gave them an understandable excuse to cancel the event, citing the flooded tents and ruined festival grounds as proof that the festival couldn't happen. Then, to the absolute astonishment of Marc Weinstein, Billy decided to push ahead with the event anyway, effectively dooming everyone involved to the disaster.
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Fyre / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Fyre / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: When it became increasingly obvious that the festival organizers were way in over their heads, several workers tried to convince Billy to pull the plug on the operation. He refused to listen to them until it was too late.
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Fyre / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Fyre / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: No matter how bad things get, Billy McFarland just keeps going bigger. He's running scams even after being arrested. Many of the marks for the Fyre Festival openly wonder if Billy can't help himself but scam people. At one point, the event's water supply was held up in customs, and Billy asked Andy King, his openly gay long-time business associate and personal friend, to give the customs official a blowjob in order to clear it without paying. According to King, he actually repeated the offer to the official with complete sincerity, but the official released the water with merely a promise they'll get compensated.
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Fyre / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Fyre / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Many Fyre employees fled Great Exuma outright before they could address the disaster, when it became clear their lives were in danger from the many stiffed contractors who were demanding payments. Andy King mentions changing clothes with another man, hiding behind a urinal, and then getting smuggled out in a car while he crouched in the backseat.
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Fyre / int_dbc93276	type	This Is Going to Be Huge
Fyre / int_dbc93276	comment	This Is Going to Be Huge: Andy King, one of the head organizers, mentions that he tried to keep a good view of the situation by thinking back to how the original Woodstock was an utter Hell on Earth but is still remembered fondly today as an incredible concert. Emphasis on "tried".
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Fyre / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Fyre / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: At one point, Andy King goes to a customs official's office fully prepared to give him a blowjob in order to release the event's supply of fresh water. Fortunately, before he does, the official releases it on the condition that they will be the first ones paid once the event is over.
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Fyre / int_dca97045	type	Just Following Orders
Fyre / int_dca97045	comment	Just Following Orders: Discussed. Calvin Wells believes (as is argued in Fyre Fraud) that Jerry Media and the other agencies hired to promote the festival should also be held responsible for their part in the mess. Those responsible for the promotion claim they were just doing their jobs and ultimately were misled about Fyre's ability to actually pull off a festival of this scale. These employees also knew that this event would be a failure and tried to persuade Billy to scale it back or cancel it altogether, but were unsuccessful, and many of them (including Andy King) felt guilty about playing a role in the disaster by misleading people, unintentionally or otherwise.
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Fyre / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Fyre / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: One of the many things that went wrong was that there was no organization to help the partygoers leave the island once they had arrived. When the partygoers figured this out, it led to the first night of the Festival turning into a riot.
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Fyre / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
Fyre / int_e9327f58	comment	A Navy SEAL started laughing hysterically, saying that this was the worst clusterfuck he'd ever seen.
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Fyre / int_eba4a0e7	type	Chronic Villainy
Fyre / int_eba4a0e7	comment	Chronic Villainy: When Billy gets out on bail, he ends up trying to run another scam on the exact same people. All of this while under very close scrutiny because of the aforementioned bail and the nature of his crimes. This led to Billy being arrested again, this time without bail. Several of Billy's marks were dumbfounded that he'd try the same thing again, especially on the same people. When asked about it, some of them openly speculate that Billy simply can't help himself.
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Fyre / int_f373d5e	type	Powder Keg Crowd
Fyre / int_f373d5e	comment	Powder Keg Crowd: By the time nighttime fell on what was supposed to be the first day of the Fyre Festival and the attendants finally computed how screwed they were, things turned ugly, with looting and one attendee admitting that he wrecked and urinated on several tents around his to keep people away from his spot.
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Fyre / int_f8c8175a	type	Malicious Slander
Fyre / int_f8c8175a	comment	As seen above, new media can also lead to Malicious Slander: because the festival itself came off as something for super rich "privileged" people, nearly most, if not all of the internet and world responded with No Sympathy and began to mock those who went to the Festival and saw it more as Laser-Guided Karma. Then the news came out that at least half of the attendees weren't even particularly wealthy and merely got their tickets at a bargain price, and it became awkward mocking.
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Fyre / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Fyre / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Between his mismanaging of the festival and gross disregard for his employees, several former Fyre employees and associates of Billy McFarland very frankly admitted that they told everything to the FBI when they came calling.
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Fyre / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Fyre / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut: Billy's videographer Kindo mentions that during Billy's post-festival scam, he was accompanied by a guy named "Angelo". Kindo claims he didn't know who Angelo was, other than he was "well connected". We then cut to a shot of Angelo talking to Billy...
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