If FEMA tents and chilly cheese sandwiches are your thought of enjoyable, Fyre Festival II could be proper up your alley.
Billy McFarland, the fraudster creator of the notorious failed Fyre Festival, has introduced he’s already promoting tickets to the occasion’s second strive.
Despite there being no official date, musical line-up or perhaps a location — save for the very fact Fyre Festival II will apparently happen “in the Caribbean” — the primary 100 tickets have allegedly already bought out. The tickets have been priced at US$499 (greater than C$575) every. The occasion is predicted to happen at “the end of 2024,” in keeping with the competition’s web site.
In a video posted to social media on Sunday, McFarland stated he developed a 50-page plan for the competition throughout a stint in solitary confinement. McFarland was positioned in solitary confinement in 2020 after he participated in a podcast and mentioned his crimes whereas in jail.
McFarland served almost 4 years in jail on fraud-related costs to do with the preliminary Fyre Festival in 2017.
“It has been the absolute wildest journey to get here, and it really all started during a seventh-month stint in solitary confinement,” McFarland stated within the announcement. He appeared sporting AirPods and a white bathrobe within the close-up video.
“I wrote out this 50-page plan of how it would take this overall interest and demand in Fyre and how it would take my ability bring people from around the world together to make the impossible happen.”
The Fyre Festival II web site advertises six different upcoming ticket pre-sales, with costs starting from US$799 (virtually C$1,080) to US$7,999 (about C$10,845).
On Tuesday, McFarland claimed the primary 100 Fyre Festival II tickets had been bought.
“FYRE is about people from the around the world coming together to pull off the impossible,” McFarland wrote. “This time we have incredible support. I’ll be doing what I love while working with the best logistical and infrastructure partners.”
McFarland stated all ticket sale income shall be held in escrow till the date of Fyre Festival is introduced.
McFarland first introduced the return of Fyre Festival in April, almost one 12 months after he was launched from jail in May 2022. He was jailed after he pleaded responsible in 2018 to defrauding about 80 competition traders.
Originally marketed as a two-weekend-long luxurious music competition on the island of Great Exuma within the Bahamas, Fyre Festival and McFarland have been outed as frauds when festivalgoers have been met with lower than appropriate circumstances in 2017.
Upon arrival, the 5,000 ticketholders have been advised all the competition’s headlining musicians had already pulled out of the lineup. The connoisseur meals they’d been promised became below-subpar cheese sandwiches and the luxurious lodging was revealed to be FEMA catastrophe tents.
A tweet displaying the cheese sandwiches served to Fyre Festival attendees in 2017.
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The competition was co-founded and marketed by rapper Ja Rule, who had influencers like Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Bieber promote the occasion. (Ja Rule later stated he was additionally scammed by McFarland and was subsequently dismissed from a US$100-million class-action lawsuit.)
As a part of his 2018 jail sentence, McFarland was ordered to pay again the US$26 million he’d defrauded from traders.
Both McFarland and Ja Rule have publicly apologized for the disastrous 2017 Fyre Festival.
On high of launching Fyre Festival II, McFarland additionally claimed to have a documentary and a Broadway musical about Fyre Festival at the moment within the works — precisely what everyone seems to be clamouring for.
On social media, people couldn’t resist poking enjoyable at McFarland and Fyre Festival II, with many voicing warranted considerations that the second occasion is also a rip-off.
NBC News reporter Mike Sington stated the launch of Fyre Festival II “just proves there’s a sucker born every minute.”
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