i know you’ve all heard more than enough about this fyre festival thing but it is honestly Too Much and i am Obsessed With It
like a bunch of grown ass adults are on Great Exuma, which is the largest and most inhabited cay in the Bahaman district of Exuma. that’s where the capitol city of George Town is. it is by no means a deserted island or desolate wasteland. here’s their website in case you want to know more about this popular tourist locale.
these grown ass adults expected a luxury experience and got a regular camping experience. (all following info from this article) they got large tents which they could have easily shared with each other, but instead they fought over them and at least one person set their tent on fire because they hated it. their food was sub par but far from trash – one person complained that for breakfast they only got “Eggo waffles, cinnamon rolls and room temperature coffee.” here’s the George Town map on their website where you can find the variety of restaurants and grocery stores these dummies could have gone to for sustenance.
a lot of people have compared this hilarious shitshow to ‘Lord of the Flies,’ but that book was about a bunch of little boys during the Cold War crashing against their will on an actually deserted island and surviving for days, maybe even weeks without turning on each other. I won’t deny that the fyre festival people were scammed, but at the end of the day they are adults who paid to be on an inhabited island and only took hours to start looting and rioting.
i’ve seen a lot of people saying we shouldn’t make fun of this because these people are in ‘a terrible situation’ and like…. no they aren’t tho. they are in, at worst, an average situation, which they personally worsened with their greed and petulance.
anyway that’s all the info i have for now on why it’s totally okay to make fun of these idiots, have fun
someone: don’t laugh at the people at fyre festival!! it’s not okay to laugh at anyone’s misery even if they’re rich privileged people :((
me, taking a big ol’ gulp from a mug marked “rich people tears”: sure, deborah,
horhardaho-deactivated20180622: Fyre Festival pretty much an irl Lord of the Flies and I love it. Rich kids got stranded and have started attacking each other after only one fucking day.
Right? NO ONE WAS STARVING TO DEATH.
They had a bad day and it reduced them to a mob.
For almost three whole years, you were a Legend.
But now, someone new has come along…
DashconII: We didn’t Start The Fyre
I cannot emphasize enough that although we can take a lot of lessons from fyre festival about: conspicuous consumption, social media marketing, parallel economies, the fundamental scam artistry of the ‘young entrepreneur’ luxury economy, etc., the real lesson we should take away is how easy it is to lure a bunch of rich people onto an isolated island with no hope of escape.
actually the funniest thing about the fyre festival fiasco is that basically a bunch of rich kids were on a regular normal camping trip instead of a “glamping experience” or whatever privileged asshole bullshit they signed up for and now they’re out here acting like they survived a war zone. like oh the horror, becky and chad had to eat a cheese sandwich and pee in a porta-potty, somebody call the fucking red cross
someone on a live interview called it a “refugee camp”………. tasteless
which aspect of the disastrous fyre festival are you
tag urself, i’m luggage container
i hope no one has done this yet
People are responding to Fyre Festival like this because we’re all INCREDIBLY bitter about living in poverty all the time and seeing these people throw a fit over conditions we’re used to is deeply validating.
not to be a killjoy about the Fyre Festival thing but I do feel kind of worried that a bunch of women are currently stranded on an island with privileged white boys around college age and no security