Twenty-four hours ago I had never heard of the Fyre Festival. At this very moment, I have never cared about anything more.
The Fyre Festival was originally promoted as a luxury getaway to a private island on a private plane. Tickets cost around $12,000, which honestly seemed cheap given all that was promised.
Ja Rule was the celebrity face of Fyre Festival. His Twitter feed is filled with tweets promoting the event. Other celebrities like Kendall Jenner got in the action as well. She’s since deleted the tweets and started hiding her face. And just about every Instagram model did some type of the promotion for the event.
All of the warning signs were there. Anything that seems too good to be true typically is. Ja Rule hasn’t had a successful venture in over 20 years. If you aren’t willing to buy a Ja Rule CD in 2017, why would you give him $12,000? Unless she’s holding a Pepsi, Kendall Jenner probably shouldn’t be trusted. And Instagram models are the fakest celebrities alive.
But this didn’t stop people from shelling out the money.
Flying to Miami 1 month today, charter to the Exumas booked… @fyrefestival countdown is on 🙌🔥 #FyreFestival
— Harry Wade (@WadeHarry) March 26, 2017
It was finally time to get FYRE’D UP this weekend. With all of the tireless work and promotion by Ja Rule and celebrity involvement, what could go wrong?
Well…..
And it's kind of a total shitshow @fyrefestival dropped us off at a beach yesterday after the airport without telling us any plan…
— Amanda Rost (@amanda_rost) April 28, 2017
So Fyre Fest is a complete disaster. Mass chaos. No organization. No one knows where to go. There are no villas, just a disaster tent city. pic.twitter.com/1lSWtnk7cA
— William Needham Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 27, 2017
Alright, maybe it is pretty bad.
— blink-182 (@blink182) April 27, 2017
Vegas! #DraisLIVE inside @DraisLV Nightclub on Saturday, April 29th! Tickets: https://t.co/ckitkNRCaL pic.twitter.com/rUbbTV3yyF
— MIGOS™ (@Migos) April 25, 2017
HOW WILL MIGOS BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE?
#FyreFestival update, photos from the ground! pic.twitter.com/Z7fn9cKaz3
— FyreFestivalFraud (@FyreFraud) April 27, 2017
The dinner that @fyrefestival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is literally bread, cheese, and salad with dressing. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/I8d0UlSNbd
— Tr3vor (@tr3vorx) April 28, 2017
One of the kitchens at Fyre Festival. #fyre #fyrefest #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/gQIpwxrw6S
— William Needham Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 28, 2017
Of course, the misery of people who paid $12,000 because Ja Rule asked them to is the fortune of everyone else.
THE PEOPLE OF #FYREFESTIVAL WILL DIE DOING WHAT THEY LOVED
BEING DISAPPOINTED BY BLINK 182
— NOT A WOLF (@SICKOFWOLVES) April 28, 2017
What if #FyreFestival was actually an elaborate plan to leave the rich kids of instagram stranded on an island fighting 4 survival 🤔 #intoit
— Gabriela Ł 🪩 (@glawrowska) April 28, 2017
I feel like the VIP ball pit is not getting enough love from Twitter. #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/nPLadMGnNl
— OneDay☘️ (@onedaylight) April 28, 2017
I’ve spent at least five hours today reading stories and jokes about Fyre Festival. I have never been more entertained in my life. If you have an entire day to kill, just read articles and social media posts about this event. I promise it’s worth your time. Just look at some of the stuff you can get lost in on Reddit:
On site at Fyre Festival. Things have gone a bit awry.
Luckily, a leader has emerged. A guy named Ralph journeyed out into the waters and found a conch. We are currently all together, trying to figure out what to do. We have established that only the person with the Conch can speak. The Conch will be protected by Ralph and his hefty boy Piggy, and the conch will be blown (it produces a loud, low tone) for future meetings.
Please let the world know. It is imperative that we remain civilized. There are already talks of a “beast” hidden in the jungle.
If anyone has seen Piggy, please make sure he is safe.
we ran out of chex, already militias have formed and claimed the south side of the island and began ritualistically sacrificing people to desensitize us to the massacre
I participated in it to save my own life, they were watching me and I ended up having to eat the stomach and lungs of a human being.
don’t send help, god has forsaken us
The twitter feed of William Finley is filled with gems.
Also, we found a notebook from one of the Fyre Fest planners on the ground. It is amazing. #fyrefestival #fyre pic.twitter.com/jFib0nO2RW
— William Needham Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 28, 2017
These are the secure lockers at Fyre Fest. They forgot to tell us we needed locks. #fyrefestival #fyrefest pic.twitter.com/Tqyjqbg2Gy
— William Needham Finley IV (@WNFIV) April 28, 2017
Maybe people should have been a little more suspicious when the people who put this event together couldn’t even spell fire correctly?