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01-27-2019, 09:25 PM | #2 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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01-27-2019, 09:40 PM | #3 |
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LOL I keep trying to figure out if I want to watch this. I guess I will now. I started the Ted Bundy Tapes. I'll grab a look when I finish this.
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01-28-2019, 03:09 AM | #4 | |
Why so serious?
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01-28-2019, 03:36 AM | #5 |
Stay down bitch!
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How the hell did Billy Mcfarlane convince all those investors to put millions of dollars into that festival? He was 24 year old kid. It looked like a good time when they flew the models in for the promotional shoot.
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01-28-2019, 06:59 AM | #6 |
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At the beginning I couldn’t help but admire Billy’s skill and ability to sell a dream. By the end I wanted to personally take a bat to his face.
The strangely satisfying part of the story is that he scammed the vain, spoiled, wannabe brats. They got a small taste of the real world for once. The downside is that hard-working people got ****ed in the process. Last edited by notorious; 01-28-2019 at 07:10 AM.. |
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01-28-2019, 09:04 AM | #8 |
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This was an eye opener for me as my social media usage is limited to my personal interests/hobbies, which is very narrow. The whole "influencers" receiving benefits to make social media posts blew me away and I found the question of culpability when a person uses a hashtag to promote something very interesting.
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01-28-2019, 09:09 AM | #9 |
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I was amazed that people just threw their money at him.
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01-28-2019, 09:30 AM | #10 |
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01-28-2019, 09:44 AM | #11 |
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And precisely zero long-term lessons will be learned...
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01-28-2019, 09:47 AM | #12 |
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01-28-2019, 10:05 AM | #13 |
Now you've pissed me off!
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By the festival goers? No. By the people who worked for Fyre's media apparatus and got rat ****ed? Possibly. By the day laborers of an island nation? Probably don't have that luxury.
That said, both this an American Meme make a pretty compelling argument for the systematic liquidation of all social media influencers.
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01-28-2019, 10:28 AM | #14 |
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If you like this - American Greed is a great series.
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01-28-2019, 10:47 AM | #15 |
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I understand why a spoiled rich kid doesn’t understand how to protect money, but the investors should have had one of their employees attached to ****face’s hip the entire time.
At the very least take a flight down themselves and look at what was going on? Emotion completely took over everyone’s judgment. That’s a bad mix when it comes to money. |
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