Yeah, the guy behind Fyre Festival who isn’t Ja Rule is now promoting a sequel to his first event. You know, one of the most infamous debacles of its kind in history, for which he spent four years in jail and he still owes $26m, and the government of the Bahamas still considers him a fugitive from their justice system; during his trial he refused to pay his legal team and continued to commit fraud by selling tickets to events that didn’t exist or didn’t sell public tickets.
The question isn’t why you should be invited to part 2, the question is why should anyone believe McFarland is actually going to do part 2 at all, let alone get it right. He himself says “well duh, I’ve got to pay back that $26m somehow” and fair enough, he does, but… I’m assuming that setting up a festival of this sort would actually require several million dollars, so is he implying he already has that, or at least has access to it? Cos if he does, wouldn’t he be better using that to pay off his debt directly? It’d be a gesture of goodwill, and probably better than sinking it into an event that probably won’t actually make that money and leave him further in the hole, because people know of his history as a con artist (there are in fact two documentaries on Fyre Festival) and what happened first time round and only complete idiots and people who somehow missed the original shitshow would trust him with their money now. Surely. I’m all for redemption arcs, but not everyone gets one or deserves one, and I’m not sure Billy Z. does. In any case, if it does happen somehow, I hope the people at the festival take their own lunch with them…
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