Fyre Fest organizer is out of prison. He wants to have another go at a crazy event

[FakeSympathy]

Fyre Festival founder returns from prison with new island event idea, old allies warn: ‘Proceed with caution’

Billy McFarland has returned after being jailed for fraud relating to an over-hyped festival that turned out to be a disaster, and he has a whole new event in mind.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Thaluikhain]

He's actually calling the thing PYRT, pronounced the same as "pirate". In case people didn't quite grasp that he might be a tad dodgy.

David Suchet as Reacher Gilt from Going Postal, based on the Terry Pratchett book by the same name.

(Also, that was 2017? Seems more recent)

 

[CM156]

My honest reaction to this information:

I'm of the opinion that some people should just do their time in prison and then disappear into obscurity.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

If he gets people to invest in a scam festival immediately after being in prison for a scam festival, it shouldn't be illegal. The scammed only have themselves to blame

 

[Baffle]

I mean, lightning doesn't strike twice, right? I'm in!

 

[BrawlMan]

I forgot this dumbass even existed. Can someone immediately jail the guy? Or at least that maybe we put him on parole, so he can't try to do the same dumb crap again or for the rest of his life?

 

[Chimpzy]

I really, really, really want this to happen and fail even more spectacularly than last time.

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

As they say: once bitten, twice FYRE-2-PYRT BAYBEEII LESSGO!

 

[Ag3ma]

I'm of the opinion that some people should just do their time in prison and then disappear into obscurity.

Unfortunately, those are people who have humility and a sense of shame.

 

[Eacaraxe]

If he gets people to invest in a scam festival immediately after being in prison for a scam festival, it shouldn't be illegal. The scammed only have themselves to blame

I say if the magnificent bastard pulls it off a second time, he deserves a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a seat on the Supreme Court. Dude (accidentally) did more to reveal how shady, toxic, and untrustworthy social media/influencer advertising really is to the American public, than the entire mass media the near-thirty years of social media's existence. Including Jerry Media and their bullshit, whitewashing, cash-in Netflix documentary on the same fiasco they enabled.

At this point he could literally just do another event called "The Fyre Festival Experience" and do literally the same thing, but on purpose calling it a "satirical" or "ironic" experience, and morons would line up around the block and pay more for it than last time.

I mean, I know a lot of well-meaning folks got screwed by this and lost a lot of money they really couldn't afford to lose. But on the other hand, they're still millennial dipshits wasting money they can't afford to spend on bullshit like dipshit music festivals. The Bahamians who got screwed, on the other hand, I do feel genuinely bad for.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Anyone who actually trusts this guy now deserves sitting in a collapsed tent with a basic cheese sandwich.

 

[Thaluikhain]

I really, really, really want this to happen and fail even more spectacularly than last time.

I know, right? Preferably with as many of the same people involved as possible.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Made me smile, and not unrelated.