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[His Majesty]

i see this thread is bringing out the bread&cheese hater force again

sad

 

[Lamel]

Thread keeps getting better. Incredible.

 

[zeshakag]

At least, there's one guy having fun : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNOLpiqgIYA

This guy is the real legend.

 

[inky]

Wait a.sec. Tickets were only 500 dollars? That's it? Why the fuck would anyone think only "rich kids" could afford it? It's like the cost of a launch console and game.

The general admission "early bird" were, I think.

The site advertised packages at $12,000 per person, up to $200,000 packages for private tents, yachts and stuff like that. Presumable someone paid for those, although I guess probably not.

 

[Joey Ravn]

The associated subreddit is an astonishing mixture of amazing posts and filth.

This post is amazing.

 

[Jag]

Is it a modern day Altamont?

Has anyone died yet?

Well, they are singing Gimmie Shelter.

 

[Coreda]

New York Magazine joins the ball pit

 

[CarpeDeezNutz]

Can I have a summary? Ya'll warp drive rainbow read me.

 

[gutshot]

Fucking what? Where? When? I MUST SEE THIS!

It wasn't actually a GAF shop. It was taken off of Twitter without attribution.

https://twitter.com/truongasm/status/857866417458208768

 

[Coreda]

It wasn't actually a GAF shop. It was taken off of Twitter without attribution.

https://twitter.com/truongasm/status/857866417458208768

Same URL, even. Tbh I don't blame anyone for posting it without attribution but when it's then assumed it was an OC you generally would clarify.

 

[kitchenmotors]

You're like 10 pages too late for this joke.

More like a couple of years.

Damn GAF you love to run a joke right into the ground.

 

[UFO]

Waiting for EvilLore's photos from there.

pinocchio_drowning_in_a_shallow_pool_of_water.gif

 

[blackseedboy]

Ja Rule gives a toast during the festival planning

I am literally CRYING, all the whole story and now this video...

 

[PillarEN]

So this has to go down as the worst festival in terms of expectations to reality for this decade right?

And lol at Ja Rule's toast. As incredibly crap the whole situation is it's still hilarious just as an outside observer how this could even happen.

EDIT: You know what. Documentary of this whole thing. Please. It would be a great comedy. This is The Room of festivals.

 

[Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew]

I love that their tagline is that "We are the Anti-Festival". You goddamn right, you are.

 

[Kwansu Dudes]

Random, but did someone post an imgur link to a stingray giving birth while beach goers try to help it? I have no idea where I opened it from.

OT: yikes.

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

At least, there's one guy having fun : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNOLpiqgIYA

hahaha I want to see someone running around yelling "WALT"?! and talking about "the others"

I'm just now reading about all this. Wowwwww.

I think people need to quit with the 12K dollar ticket crap though. It's all gloriously terrible enough without any bullshit.

 

[forknknife]

New York Magazine joins the ball pit

Lmao

 

[AlexBasch]

This post is amazing.

How long before that place descends into Rust?

Boy, just what this disaster needs.

PENISES EVERYWHEREEE

 

[TAJ]

hahaha I want to see someone running around yelling "WALT"?! and talking about "the others"

I'm just now reading about all this. Wowwwww.

I think people need to quit with the 12K dollar ticket crap though. It's all gloriously terrible enough without any bullshit.

People need to quit with the almost everyone paid $500 stuff, too. That article with a person who worked on it listed $1,000 as the low end.

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

mother of god i just spent the entire hour catching up on this thread. LOLOL

I can't even be mad at Ja.

I wonder if he is now a legend/hero akin to Robin Hood in the bahamas. I'm realizing if you could be a legend/hero anywhere in the world, why not the bahamas? You would be living the life.

This is incredible:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/04/fyre-festival-exumas-bahamas-disaster.html

They didn't even start planning anything until last month.

"They overlooked so many very basic things. And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA." i died

found on twitter...

incredible

"Let's just do it and be legends, man" is my new favorite quote. There are no better quotes.

This one is quote of the life for me:

That night Ja Rule gave a toast- ”To living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars."

 

[sixteen-bit]

found on twitter...

lmaoooo

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

i swear to god, i thought the pic in the op was one of GAF's occurrences-meme

 

[ODDI]

Not sure if this took place at the festival but OMG
https://vine.co/v/eXudDWX1lpl

 

[Saya]

Seth Rogen & The Lonely Island Making Fyre Festival-Like Movie

 

[FantasticMrFoxdie]

Still so damn hilarious to me they were using "Island once owned by Pablo Escobar" as a thing

bwahahha

 

[The Dutch Slayer]

Not sure if this took place at the festival but OMG
https://vine.co/v/eXudDWX1lpl

No few years old just a windy day at some beach nothing special would be amazing if it was though.

 

[NeoRausch]

Seth Rogen & The Lonely Island Making Fyre Festival-Like Movie

So they are remaking the first half of Wayne's World 2 with weed and boobs?

 

[pretty done]

All the Brits are so mad Ja didn't include butter for that luxurious cheese sandwich

 

[Adam_Vania]

From our understanding the festival was originally scheduled for Norman's Cay; but had to be switched to Georgtown at the last minute. The organisers were again advised to reschedule the event to avoid competing with the famous 60 and more-year-old Georgetown regatta; one of the few times each year during which many Exumians - across all walks of life - can make a good bit of change.

By continuing on such an ill-advised course the Fyre Festival, like many a doomed ship, sailed headlong into adversity and unnecessarily into direct competition with the Exuma Regatta.

As we all know, this Regatta is the highlight of the Georgetown social calendar. All hotel rooms, transportation, taxis and majority of the rental houses are booked years in advance for this week. Clearly, this would pose a logistical nightmare and preclude any additional tourists or locals from attending such an event as Fyre Festival.

While the older clientele came on their yachts, the young, hip celebrities were forced to stay in the understated luxury of the airport overnight; complaining bitterly after spending thousands of dollars that they did not have room service and open bar.

As if getting one's head around such matters is not enough, for the promoters to have reportedly enquired if the Georgetown Regatta could be rescheduled lends credence to what Piers Morgan recently described as a US culture of ‘rich, publicity craving, materialistic, talentless, self absorbed, social media fanatics' who arrogantly believe they can do as they please.

http://m.tribune242.com/news/2017/apr/28/tribune-comment-fyre-festival-organisers-showed-di/

Tribune comment: Fyre Festival organisers showed disrespect in clashing with regatta

the number of ways in which they were advised to get their shit together and refused are astounding

 

[SirMossyBloke]

All the Brits are so mad Ja didn't include butter for that luxurious cheese sandwich

If you don't put butter on a sandwich you deserve the Fyre hell.

 

[Man-is-Obsolete]

That dinner is hilarious. Also Ja Rule+$12,000 tickets+2017=red flags everywhere.

 

[TetraGenesis]

Everyone involved deserves what they got.

This is the purest, most side-splitting schadenfreude I've had in some time.

 

[Spine_Ripper]

I really hope somebody is working on a documentary on this.

 

[Royce McCutcheon]

Ja rule was the real phantom thief, they never saw it coming

 

[ElRenoRaven]

Everyone involved deserves what they got.

This is the purest, most side-splitting schadenfreude I've had in some time.

That poor bread and cheese didn't.

 

[TetraGenesis]

That poor bread and cheese didn't.

That's fair.

 

[Ether_Snake]

Paying thousands to pad their social networks with "look at me" fodder.

Ridiculous prices are usually for idiots and to increase the appeal of other less expensive but still overpriced offers, not to actually be sold.

 

[Ceej]

Does everyone complaining about rich assholes losing money not realize that it's going to richer actually assholes?

 

[Sammy Jankis]

My avatar is useful for once.

Duuude perfect avatar autoquote. I wanna be you.

 

[Hesemonni]

Who are the festival goers even going to sue? I mean you'd think the festival organization is pretty much broke. Ja Rule?

 

[sackninja]

Does everyone complaining about rich assholes losing money not realize that it's going to richer actually assholes?

All the earnings are going to charity apparently.

 

[Razmos]

All the earnings are going to charity apparently.

Lol yeah right

 

[Any Questions]

...

Secure lockers.

Holy shit. That's abysmal

 

[Kayhan]

For some reason I get a sudden urge to replay Far Cry 3.

 

[Adam_Vania]

All the earnings are going to charity apparently.

We will donate $1.50 [per ticket] to the Bahamian Red Cross


that's got to be at least $5,000! look how much they are giving to charity!

 

[scamander]

EuroGAF: "Bread and cheese? Looks good to me!"

Europe here

This is bread:

This is cheese:

This is junk:

 

[NYR94]

Seth Rogen & The Lonely Island Making Fyre Festival-Like Movie

Wow, the first thing I thought of when I read through this thread was that it sounded like the premise for the type of comedy Rogen would make.

Has the tweet where someone said Scarlett Johansson will play Ja Rule in the movie about Fyre Festival been posted?

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

Tribune comment: Fyre Festival organisers showed disrespect in clashing with regatta

the number of ways in which they were advised to get their shit together and refused are astounding

How bad do you have to fuck up to clash with an establishment yacht regatta and come off looking like the entitled rich assholes?

 

[akira28]

is this where all that Haiti aid actually ended up? In some party organizer's warehouse waiting for Ja?