Fyre festival

[The Nal]

Watched both of the documentaries. 99% of all the people involved are just horrible. Vacuous fratboys and airhead bimbos. 

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

29 minutes ago, The Nal said:

Watched both of the documentaries. 99% of all the people involved are just horrible. Vacuous fratboys and airhead bimbos. 

I’ve not seen the Hulu one, but who was an airhead bimbo?

[fred quimby]

Watched the Netflix one at the weekend. Interesting watch

What a different world these people live in.

Also never realised he was off scamming again whilst on bail.

[fred quimby]

1 minute ago, thesecretingredientiscrime said:

I’ve not seen the Hulu one, but who was an airhead bimbo?

Ja Rule

[Supernintendo Chalmers]

I enjoyed the documentary but I expected to see more footage of Instagram influencers suffering. Still picking my jaw up off the floor with the "take one for the team" comment. Truly horrific. 

The only people I genuinely felt sorry for were the workers on the island, especially the lady who owned the restaurant but it seems like a GoFundMe page has been set up and it's raised a great sum so far.

[The Red Telephone]

Grrr, the influencers. The apparent lack of them being held responsible in any way is reprehensible.

[Keithy]

I don't think many Instagram influencers actually went to the festival. They were involved in the promo stuff but I don't think many went? Seemed to be mainly rich kids and city boys paying through the nose to be seen with the cool crowd. 

Not sure if the influencers are that responsible for any of it? Their involvement just seemed to be in the promo.

[DeanoL]

Apparently the Netflix documentary was produced by the same marketing company that did the festival PR which explains a lot.

[Sawdusty surfer]

30 minutes ago, Keithy said:

 

Not sure if the influencers are that responsible for any of it? Their involvement just seemed to be in the promo.

If anyone promotes something that they know nowt about for a wedge of cash and the thing they are promoting is a rip off bag of shite then in my eyes they ARE responsible.  

Fucking 'Influencers'  What has the human race become? ("That so on point influencer has shaved off her pubes and eyebrows and replaced them with slugs. I'm SO going to do it")

 

Edited January 22, 2019 by Sawdusty Surfer

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

14 minutes ago, Sawdusty Surfer said:

If anyone promotes something that they know nowt about for a wedge of cash and the thing they are promoting is a rip off bag of shite then in my eyes they ARE responsible.  

Fucking 'Influencers'  What has the human race become? ("That so on point influencer has shaved off her pubes and eyebrows and replaced them with slugs. I'm SO going to do it")

 

They didn’t know and that’s a point the Netflix documentary makes. Why should they know? It’s nothing to do with them. Is the sound man culpable? Is the camera man culpable?

[stuartbert two hats]

2 minutes ago, thesecretingredientiscrime said:

They didn’t know and that’s a point the Netflix documentary makes. Why should they know? It’s nothing to do with them. Is the sound man culpable? Is the camera man culpable?

Yeah, it's the lying CEO who was to blame.  For the influencers, it looked like a good festival.  For the employees, it looked like a difficult challenge, but doable.  But it was all built on lies - most of which were being told to the employees.

[Keithy]

43 minutes ago, Sawdusty Surfer said:

If anyone promotes something that they know nowt about for a wedge of cash and the thing they are promoting is a rip off bag of shite then in my eyes they ARE responsible.  

Fucking 'Influencers'  What has the human race become? ("That so on point influencer has shaved off her pubes and eyebrows and replaced them with slugs. I'm SO going to do it")

 

Influencers are just a modernisation of marketing. What's the difference between Julie Walters advertising Life Insurance on TV and a model advertising on Instagram? It's just a new medium for a different audience. 

The same for a TV character (let's say Jennifer Anniston in Friends) influencing a lot of women's hairstyle and an Instagram model doing similar.

When they did the promo, it was an idea. An ambitious idea, but still just an idea.

[Comfy Bean]

Amongst the first night chaos, when they had the free for all for the tents, what about the prick who didn’t want neighbours so slashed and wrecked the tents round about his. 

Agree the cook lady was about the only one who showed a bit of class.

Had to laugh at the story about the Russian company who charge folk a fortune to sit on the tarmac on a private jet just to take selfies of themselves. Fools and their money...

[dondo]

4 hours ago, The Red Telephone said:

Fucking hell, just watched this.

Don’t know who I hate more - the knobhead bastard organisers, “Influencers” or the guy who refused to help the woman who had lost all her friends (“What could I do?”)

Or like comfy bean says above the idiot that said they didn't want neighbours so they trashed the tents next to theirs including peeing on them

Edited January 22, 2019 by dondo

[Superunknown]

1 hour ago, Comfy Bean said:

Amongst the first night chaos, when they had the free for all for the tents, what about the prick who didn’t want neighbours so slashed and wrecked the tents round about his. 

Agree the cook lady was about the only one who showed a bit of class.

Had to laugh at the story about the Russian company who charge folk a fortune to sit on the tarmac on a private jet just to take selfies of themselves. Fools and their money...

What an absolute cretin he was and then have the audacity to go on camera and admit to it like it was a perfectly reasonable course of action. I was just sat there thinking why, what’s the point in that. Hope someone notices him and brings him down a peg or two.

[Wooderson]

6 hours ago, The Nal said:

Watched both of the documentaries. 99% of all the people involved are just horrible. Vacuous fratboys and airhead bimbos. 

 

[MetaKate]

I watched the Netflix doc....I'm not usually one for entertainment at anyone else's expense, but man that was rich. 

As the comedian said at the end... if anyone is willing to pay 5k to see blink 182... that's on them. 

I felt bad for the day workers and the caterer... but apparently GoFundMe/humanity is helping them out. 

 

[eFestivals]

10 hours ago, Sawdusty Surfer said:

Fucking 'Influencers'  What has the human race become?

full of mugs who suck up what those 'influencers' tell them.

If you buy it, you own it.

No sympathy for those who were screwed over, if they weren't screwed over by that fest it would be something else. What's really screwing them is themselves.

[The Red Telephone]

Aside from the anger and disbelief I felt towards the main protagonists, my overwhelming feeling was one of gratitude that we have Glastonbury in our lives. The spirt and camaraderie of that place and the knowledge I will have 5 amazing days there in 5 months time is getting me through January!

The more you see the set up at other festivals (VIP experiences/ Golden circles etc) makes me value Glastonbury even more ( and it’s already pretty fucking huge in my life!).

[Keithy]

57 minutes ago, The Red Telephone said:

 

The more you see the set up at other festivals (VIP experiences/ Golden circles etc) makes me value Glastonbury even more ( and it’s already pretty fucking huge in my life!).

Aye. I remember when me and a friend were on the barrier for the Stones, she commented that probably at no other Stones gig could you be this close without paying for VIP, Golden Circle, etc.

[stuartbert two hats]

1 hour ago, The Red Telephone said:

Aside from the anger and disbelief I felt towards the main protagonists, my overwhelming feeling was one of gratitude that we have Glastonbury in our lives. The spirt and camaraderie of that place and the knowledge I will have 5 amazing days there in 5 months time is getting me through January!

The more you see the set up at other festivals (VIP experiences/ Golden circles etc) makes me value Glastonbury even more ( and it’s already pretty fucking huge in my life!).

I'm so thankful that Michael was able to start small and spend 40 years getting the festival into a stable state.  I say 40, because 2010 or 2009 is pretty much when they first seemed to be largely free of existential threats like violence, lack of license or not having enough money to keep going.

[The Nal]

15 hours ago, thesecretingredientiscrime said:

I’ve not seen the Hulu one, but who was an airhead bimbo?

Most of the attendees. 

15 hours ago, fred quimby said:

Ja Rule

Indeed. What a complete bellend. "A toast to to living like movie stars, partying like rock stars, and fucking like porn stars". 

The bloke is in his 40s. Sounds like something a kid having his first beer wold say. Even then it would be cringe.

Hulu one is ok. Calls out the organisers a bit more than the Netflix one and goes into the social media side of things too.  

[fred quimby]

15 hours ago, Sawdusty Surfer said:

 

Fucking 'Influencers'  What has the human race become? ("That so on point influencer has shaved off her pubes and eyebrows and replaced them with slugs. I'm SO going to do it")

 

Oh man SlugBrows  That surely has to catch on

 

Or LeechBrows you look cool and will never get headaches

Edited January 23, 2019 by fred quimby

[Acid Loafers]

12 hours ago, Wooderson said:

 

All for some bottles of water. As if THAT was what was going to save that train wreck mate. The bloody water.

 

[Wooderson]

4 hours ago, Acid Loafers said:

All for some bottles of water. As if THAT was what was going to save that train wreck mate. The bloody water.

 

Jail terms necessary for the sucking dick story alone. Corporate malfeasance!