Fyre Festival, the much-anticipated new luxury boutique event by Ja Rule and Billy McFarlands Fyre Media, has descended into chaos on its first day, with many ticket-holders stranded in Miami following the cancellation of their flights and those who did make it to the Bahamas discovering conditions that have been compared to a refugee camp.
Angry festivalgoers who had paid at bare minimum $1,500 to be there, and some up to $50,000 have taken to social media and the r/fyrefestival subreddit to document the half-built tents, mountains of rubbish and débris and sub-standard food (The dinner that Fyre Festival promised us was catered by Steven Starr is literally bread, cheese, and salad with dressing, wrote one Redditor) waiting for them in the Exumas, although the festival has yet to be officially called off.
