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01-29-2019, 12:47 PM | #31 |
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I thought the Hulu one was better done.
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01-29-2019, 12:47 PM | #32 |
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01-31-2019, 05:48 PM | #33 |
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Now that you put it that way...
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01-31-2019, 06:36 PM | #34 | |
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If you watch the Hulu one, which wasn't produced by **** Jerry, it shows that they were extremely involved in creating the whole false image that got sold to the public (of course.. that's their job).
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01-31-2019, 06:37 PM | #35 | |
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Definitely a documentary in the making. https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...e-fanbase-tour
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02-01-2019, 10:22 AM | #36 |
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What fascinated me the most about the whole scam was how he started hitting up people on the Fyre mailing list after the event bombed with his NYC VIP scam. While most ignored it some of the same people who were duped into paying for FYRE were duped into this as well. I guess the old saying “A fool and his money will soon be parted” holds true.
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02-01-2019, 10:59 AM | #37 | |
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02-01-2019, 01:17 PM | #38 | |
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They got an interview with McFarland and it is really remarkable how badly he handled the tough questions. He’d answer some of the easy ones with his slick fast talking soft language but would totally clam up when he knew he was pinned. There was one question where he just sat in silence. LOL. EDIT: it also goes into the fraud/shell game he failed so miserably at. It’s worth a look. |
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02-01-2019, 01:36 PM | #39 | |
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What got to me wasn’t necessarily the effect of it but how far it actually got before the wheels came off. I barely even remembered it happening. I am so far removed from the social media culture that it totally flew right by my radar. The fact that it was such an epic ****ing disaster was entertaining for me because I was unfamiliar with the story. The appalling thing to me was nobody anywhere was like “Nah. I’m out.” From what they were promising to what was coming together, I’d have set out to distance myself that ****fest far sooner than virtually anybody else in either production. Even beyond the employees if I was a vendor or contractor when shit started going sideways I’d have gotten my money upfront. I’m admittedly pretty naive regarding shenanigans ****heads pull but this was obviously a ****fest far sooner than the day of and its remarkable that he kept the group together as long as he did. That’s what was interesting to me. |
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02-01-2019, 01:47 PM | #40 | |
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My ****ing god. People are ****ing weird. |
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02-01-2019, 02:40 PM | #41 | |
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Now on the flipside, there's some very very real risk involved there. What if by some unbelievable miracle MacFarland had been able to come across one last investor who chucked $5 million into the thing and allowed a hail mary contractor play and somehow pulled the thing to a disappointing show, but not actionable misconduct? No our 'principled' Yoga teacher, who said '**** this, I'm out', is probably gonna be on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for breach of contract. I mean if you're gonna walk away from something like that, you'd better by God believe you're right. Your best bet in that case would just be loud enough and pissy enough to get yourself canned. I did feel bad for the Fyre employees who worked on the app development teams, though. I mean what the hell? For those guys, Fyre was the app. That was the whole company. And the party was just a marketing push. They had know way to realize that this failed marketing push would end up blowing apart the whole company. They got proper rogered. And credit to anybody on any conference call with JaRule for not telling that bumble**** to sit down and shut up. The amount of self-restraint that must have taken is truly extraordinary.
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But I got the idea that he was just a standard employee. I was pushing through some return to operations calculations, so I could have easily missed something. Yeah, the app folks got fisted. The only people in the whole damn thing that were actually doing legitimate work. And what a smarmy douche he was to be like, "yeah, there isn't going to be any payroll. So....". You're right, the JaRule shit was hilariously... **** I don't even know... I'm not sure the English language has the proper adverb/adjective arsenal to describe it. |
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I know I would have tuned everything out except the FBI shit. The level of ineptitude was really staggering. Although at this point it shouldn’t be. When I was growing up all I really knew was 1. Sports and 2. Farming. Both of which there is no way to hide performance. Then I went to college and got exposed to hucksters and bullshitters and the like and really developed a decent eye for bullshit. And the longer I went the more astounded I was by the number of people getting through life without really ever being held accountable for performance. And this I suppose is just an extension of that astonishment journey I’ve been on since I was 19. Even though this idiot did it through straight up, not even creative fraud. |
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02-01-2019, 04:30 PM | #45 | |
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Fun story,
These guy reached out to my firm to come setup networking for the whole even...... They reached out 6 months prior, to which I excitedly said "**** no". The government charged 80,000 just to get a basic Coax out to the site, and this was going to have to be a crazy amount of networking equipment. But they wanted us to carry the cost and they would pay later. We are talking about 200k worth of Cisco/Aerohives etc.... Yeah dodged a bullet there.
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