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Friday, September 29, 2023
Fyre Fest II Receives $3.3M Worth of Ticket Applications
www.ticketnews.com: Fyre Fest might have gone down as the most disastrous failed music festival of all time, but that’s not stopping people from buying tickets to the second attempt in 2024 — at least, according to founder Billy McFarland.
3 comments:
Sam Regardie
said...
I'm starting to feel like some people will just never learn. This attitude of "it will be better next time" has been held by humanity again and again, and it seems like, for the most part, it (shockingly!) does not get better the next time. The first Fyre Festival is an event that I find absolutely hilarious simply because of the many ways it could have been prevented. People want to act like McFarland wasn't entirely at fault and he'll be better this time, but the fact is that he easily could have shut down the festival at any time before it started, but he just wanted to make money. This attitude is nothing other than stubbornness, and I saw this exact same attitude during the first 2 years of the pandemic. People would take off their masks and think that everything would be fine, and then another wave would start up again. I'm not saying people shouldn't be optimistic, but they should have a certain amount of reasoning to support their optimism.
I’m mostly confused as to how Billy McFarland has convinced people to buy more tickets (given he’s not lying about the ticket sales) especially since the first line of his wikipedia page literally reads “William Z. McFarland (born 1991) is an American con artist”. I’ve seen people misplace their trust in people like this before but usually the people that they are misplacing their trust in aren’t recorded con artists. The attempt at creating allure with the application to buy tickets to something that is likely to fail anyway is so clearly nothing more than a ploy to bring in more tickets. This reminds me of when Drabinsky came back after being convicted in Canada for fraud and proceeding to defraud as many people as he could on paradise square. Hopefully a similar fate befalls Mcfarland after he inevitably defrauds the ticket holders of the second edition of the “Fyre Fest”.
Did we not learn from the first fyre festival, why are people willing to give McFarland $500, let alone tickets purportedly worth $250,000. Do people not see the words, “went to jail for defrauding investors” as a major red flag. It just seems like history is repeating itself, except this time people should know better than to buy into it. It’s especially crazy that people are willing to spend that much money on an event with literally no info. There is no date, location, or set list, that is an incredibly scary thing to invest in. I would like to reiterate that McFarland has already gone to jail for this exact grift. And on the management side, I’m willing to bet that no well known artist would be willing to sign up to play at the festival with the possible PR hit that would result. Management companies will do their due diligence and will most likely say no to working with McFarland.
3 comments:
I'm starting to feel like some people will just never learn. This attitude of "it will be better next time" has been held by humanity again and again, and it seems like, for the most part, it (shockingly!) does not get better the next time. The first Fyre Festival is an event that I find absolutely hilarious simply because of the many ways it could have been prevented. People want to act like McFarland wasn't entirely at fault and he'll be better this time, but the fact is that he easily could have shut down the festival at any time before it started, but he just wanted to make money. This attitude is nothing other than stubbornness, and I saw this exact same attitude during the first 2 years of the pandemic. People would take off their masks and think that everything would be fine, and then another wave would start up again. I'm not saying people shouldn't be optimistic, but they should have a certain amount of reasoning to support their optimism.
I’m mostly confused as to how Billy McFarland has convinced people to buy more tickets (given he’s not lying about the ticket sales) especially since the first line of his wikipedia page literally reads “William Z. McFarland (born 1991) is an American con artist”. I’ve seen people misplace their trust in people like this before but usually the people that they are misplacing their trust in aren’t recorded con artists. The attempt at creating allure with the application to buy tickets to something that is likely to fail anyway is so clearly nothing more than a ploy to bring in more tickets. This reminds me of when Drabinsky came back after being convicted in Canada for fraud and proceeding to defraud as many people as he could on paradise square. Hopefully a similar fate befalls Mcfarland after he inevitably defrauds the ticket holders of the second edition of the “Fyre Fest”.
Did we not learn from the first fyre festival, why are people willing to give McFarland $500, let alone tickets purportedly worth $250,000. Do people not see the words, “went to jail for defrauding investors” as a major red flag. It just seems like history is repeating itself, except this time people should know better than to buy into it. It’s especially crazy that people are willing to spend that much money on an event with literally no info. There is no date, location, or set list, that is an incredibly scary thing to invest in. I would like to reiterate that McFarland has already gone to jail for this exact grift. And on the management side, I’m willing to bet that no well known artist would be willing to sign up to play at the festival with the possible PR hit that would result. Management companies will do their due diligence and will most likely say no to working with McFarland.
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