Fyre Festival: A Classic American Con: What this epic beach party disaster says about social [tr]

American Conservative ^ | January 28, 2019 | Chris R. Morgan

[C19fan]

Arguably the most notorious moment of the Fyre Festival, apart from the ill-fated event itself, took place during a planning meeting in March 2017, a month before the April 27 launch.

That was when the organizers learned how unprepared they were to put it on. There were no vendors, no stages had been rented, performers had not been paid, no transportation arrangements had been made, there was not enough space for the accommodations (which had not been set up), and to meet even the lowest possible expectations would cost $50 million. The sound advice was to cancel and plan immediately for 2018.

Then a member of the marketing team offered a counterproposal that won the day, “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”

Everyone knows what happened from there. The Fyre Festival was a colossal bust, but from it a legend was born. And like any good legend, it can be told in perpetuity. New details may be added with each retelling, but the singular appeal remains unchanged.

[C19fan]

Hate to say this but as a curmudgeon, and a jaded Generation Xer I luved how all these spoiled, and attention craving Millenials got hosed.

[yldstrk]

bunch of stupid lazy entitled spoiled idiots

[VanDeKoik]

I was going to say the same! LOL!

One of the most hilarious fails of that year.

[BBQToadRibs]

I just read about the festival yesterday and had a good laugh. As a lifelong backcountry hiker/camper, I would have been fine, but I can only imagine how the rich, elite, celebrity, hollywood 1%-er’s triggered over less than luxury accommodations.

[C19fan]

Great minds think alike!!!

[sphinx]

The same geniuses who planned the Obamacare rollout?

[redhead]

For epic party disasters (non-political) watch Peter Sellers in “The Party.”

[Steely Tom]

For epic party disasters (non-political) watch Peter Sellers in “The Party.”

Yeah, you can see Claudine Longet before she blew her husband away. She was pretty sweet.

[READINABLUESTATE]

There is a movie about it on Netflix. haven’t watched it yet.

[JonPreston]

The only thing better than watching the Fyre Festival documentary on Netflix was realizing that some leftist millennials spend good money to sleep on a wet mattress. Liberalism always starts at an END result never bothering to put the STARTING pieces in place. I mean they had no idea how many crappers were needed!

[Steely Tom]

From the article:

The ultimate appeal of the Fyre Festival disaster was that its main organizers were mostly in their 20s. It confirmed the popular media trope that Millennials ruin everything, including themselves and everyone foolish enough to believe in them. It also supposedly exposed them as having exceptional credulity when being sold a bill of goods.

What does this statement remind me of?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

and a jaded Generation Xer I luved how all these spoiled, and attention craving Millenials got hosed

Heh heh heh. I'm right there with you.

[Windflier]

...as a curmudgeon, and a jaded Generation Xer

Gen-Xer? Yer too young to be a curmudgeon, kid.

You might be a contrarian. Most contrarians grow into grizzed curmudgeons with age ;-)

[C19fan]

I was a contrarian even before I ever heard the word. :)

[Windflier]

I was a contrarian even before I ever heard the word. :)

I knew I had you pegged right. It's my curmudgeonly spidey sense ;-)

[SamAdams76]

The Netflix documentary on the Fyre Festival is highly recommended. I was laughing through most of it. These trust-funded millennials, with daddy's money to burn, were paying upwards of $30,000 for what was touted to be an upscale Woodstock-style musical festival experience "on an island once owned by Pablo Escobar."

It was so over the top that it's hard to believe that people actually fell for it. Millions of dollars in "prizes" were to be hid around the island as a Treasure Hunt. People were asked to pay tens of thousands of dollars extra to get luxurious accommodations that simply did not exist. In fact, most of that part of the island had no electricity and no infrastructure at all when the guests started arriving to find makeshift tents and waterlogged mattresses, their main concern was that they apparently had no outlets to charge their iPhones.

Hilarity ensued from there.

Also, if anybody has some extra time, there's a comedy on Netflix called "Friends from College" that captures the over-the-top pretentiousness of the millennial crowd that's worth checking out.

Don't mean to imply that all millennials are this way. There are definitely some decent ones which is a good thing because right or wrong, they are going to be running the world very soon as the last of us Baby Boomers retire and fade away.

[JoeFromSidney]

Funny. When I was in ROTC, we learned how many urinals and crappers to plan for, given the size of the unit.

[CFW]

I work at an organization where a couple of years ago, one of the higher-ups arranged for a visitor to come and speak. He notified the speaker of the schedule which included a reception after the event. He also included mention of the reception on the invitations.

After the talk, the speaker and all the guests went to the area where the reception was to take place. There was no food, no tables, no drinks.

The organizer had failed to notify our event manager of the reception. I assume he thought the reception area set up, the food, the drinks, clean up afterwards, etc would all happen by magic.

We had to send out a memo to all employees informing them they had to notify several different departments when they wanted to hold an event which required a caterer and such.