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Remember the grand disaster known as Fyre Festival?
The one that gave us images of soggy tents and cheese sandwiches instead of the luxury island getaway promised?
Well, guess what?
The sequel is here, and it’s apparently sold out.
I can’t make this stuff up.
The mastermind behind the original festival fiasco, Billy McFarland, is back at it again with Fyre Festival 2.
And yes, the first batch of pre-sale tickets has already vanished into thin air, despite the fact that this event seems to be lacking key details like, you know, a lineup, a venue, and actual dates.
There were barely any details whatsoever.
The original Fyre Festival went down in flames (both metaphorically and literally) back in 2017.
People shelled out big bucks for what was supposed to be a luxurious music festival on a private beach in the Bahamas.
Instead, they found themselves stranded in shoddy tents and surviving on sad-looking cheese sandwiches.
Google the pictures and have a laugh.
Ah, the memories.
Documentaries and millions were made on the festival that never happened.
But hold up, didn’t Billy McFarland end up behind bars for his role in this mess?
Yep.
He got caught scamming investors and attendees out of $26 million.
But apparently, he’s served his time, paid his dues, and now he’s ready for round two.
Do you believe in second chances?
The real question is: Why on earth are people buying tickets to Fyre Festival 2?
I mean, the first one didn’t even happen!
It’s like paying for a movie ticket to a film that was never made.
It’s like buying a unicorn, fully aware that unicorns don’t exist.
It’s like buying a virtual hug.
Apparently, Billy is cooking up cheese sandwiches.
The same cheese sandwiches that became a symbol of his original festival’s failure.
McFarland isn’t just banking on people’s apparent lack of memory or logic.
He’s playing the “I’ve changed” card.
He’s claiming to be more mature and sensible now, as if the cheese sandwich fiasco was just a phase in his youthful rebellion.
He still has to pay back $26 million to the people he swindled.
People may forgive, some will forget, but life goes on.
When asked how he plans to regain people’s trust, McFarland said, “Time, and do the little things to earn back the trust.”
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure concocting another festival with cheese sandwiches doesn’t fall under the category of “little things to earn back trust.”
But in all honesty, he did sound a lot more mature, burnt from the fires (pun intended) and he was apologetic in every interview.
He is relentless.
“During a seven-month stint in solitary confinement, McFarland put together a 50-page plan to capitalize on the interest garnered by the Fyre Festival, he said in the video posted on Sunday.”
I mean that boy has the entrepreneurial genes and the tenacity of a grizzly bear on the hunt!
Truthfully, what he is doing is literally the best thing he can possibly do.
The easier alternative would be fade away, rot in prison, give up, ignore paying back investors and walking away from it all.
He chose not too.
Got to give him that.
Will Fyre Festival 2 rise from the ashes like a phoenix?
Or will it crash and burn like its ill-fated predecessor?
In a world where common sense seems to be in short supply, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
After all, as the saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Who’s really the fool now?
-
Will you go for Fyre Festival 2?
-
#FyreFestival #Fyre2 #CheeseSandwiches #FestivalFiasco #BillyMcFarland #ScamAlert #TrustIssues #MusicFestival #EventFail #SecondChances
Remember the grand disaster known as Fyre Festival?
The one that gave us images of soggy tents and cheese sandwiches instead of the luxury island getaway promised?
Well, guess what?
The sequel is here, and it’s apparently sold out.
I can’t make this stuff up.
The mastermind behind the original festival fiasco, Billy McFarland, is back at it again with Fyre Festival 2.
And yes, the first batch of pre-sale tickets has already vanished into thin air, despite the fact that this event seems to be lacking key details like, you know, a lineup, a venue, and actual dates.
There were barely any details whatsoever.
The original Fyre Festival went down in flames (both metaphorically and literally) back in 2017.
People shelled out big bucks for what was supposed to be a luxurious music festival on a private beach in the Bahamas.
Instead, they found themselves stranded in shoddy tents and surviving on sad-looking cheese sandwiches.
Google the pictures and have a laugh.
Ah, the memories.
Documentaries and millions were made on the festival that never happened.
But hold up, didn’t Billy McFarland end up behind bars for his role in this mess?
Yep.
He got caught scamming investors and attendees out of $26 million.
But apparently, he’s served his time, paid his dues, and now he’s ready for round two.
Do you believe in second chances?
The real question is: Why on earth are people buying tickets to Fyre Festival 2?
I mean, the first one didn’t even happen!
It’s like paying for a movie ticket to a film that was never made.
It’s like buying a unicorn, fully aware that unicorns don’t exist.
It’s like buying a virtual hug.
Apparently, Billy is cooking up cheese sandwiches.
The same cheese sandwiches that became a symbol of his original festival’s failure.
McFarland isn’t just banking on people’s apparent lack of memory or logic.
He’s playing the “I’ve changed” card.
He’s claiming to be more mature and sensible now, as if the cheese sandwich fiasco was just a phase in his youthful rebellion.
He still has to pay back $26 million to the people he swindled.
People may forgive, some will forget, but life goes on.
When asked how he plans to regain people’s trust, McFarland said, “Time, and do the little things to earn back the trust.”
I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure concocting another festival with cheese sandwiches doesn’t fall under the category of “little things to earn back trust.”
But in all honesty, he did sound a lot more mature, burnt from the fires (pun intended) and he was apologetic in every interview.
He is relentless.
“During a seven-month stint in solitary confinement, McFarland put together a 50-page plan to capitalize on the interest garnered by the Fyre Festival, he said in the video posted on Sunday.”
I mean that boy has the entrepreneurial genes and the tenacity of a grizzly bear on the hunt!
Truthfully, what he is doing is literally the best thing he can possibly do.
The easier alternative would be fade away, rot in prison, give up, ignore paying back investors and walking away from it all.
He chose not too.
Got to give him that.
Will Fyre Festival 2 rise from the ashes like a phoenix?
Or will it crash and burn like its ill-fated predecessor?
In a world where common sense seems to be in short supply, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
After all, as the saying goes, “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”
Who’s really the fool now?
-
Will you go for Fyre Festival 2?
-
#FyreFestival #Fyre2 #CheeseSandwiches #FestivalFiasco #BillyMcFarland #ScamAlert #TrustIssues #MusicFestival #EventFail #SecondChances
DurwinBurger King gave candy to a worker has worked for more than 20 years.
The Whopper, which was first introduced in 1957, was a quarter-pound, oversized burger on a vast five-inch bun that cost a reasonable 29 cents.Large corporations can be cruel and uncaring. They often claim to care about their employees, but sometimes the reality can be quite different. This is the story of Kevin Ford, a cook and cashier at Burger King who had worked tirelessly for over two decades. To celebrate his remarkable feat of never taking a sick day, Burger King decided to shower him ...
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Austin Russell is an American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies. Luminar specializes in lidar and machine perception technologies, mainly used in autonomous cars. Luminar went public in December 2020, making him the world’s youngest self-made billionaire at the age of 25.Wha’s up with billionaires and news media? In a stunning turn of events, Austin Russell, the youngest self-made billionaire of 2021, has made headlines once again by acquiring a majority stake in Forbes ma...
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