That’s why you do what your client asks you to do. What? If you get harsh comments or questions on social media, just delete them and block those persons on your fantasy. What’s wrong with that? No. These are the nice people from FuckJerry. They seem to be so far above good and evil that they even released a movie about the festival catastrophe just months after it happened—like something out of 10 Startups That Failed. Can we call this any form of self-redemptive action?
The Netflix show Fyre is actually from the same company that started the festival, made it popular, and ran the social media activity that became the centre of the event.Some people say that the Jerry Media movie has become a sanitised version of the issue and that it has focused too much on stories and not enough on the company’s involvement in spreading the fraud. The Hulu documentary “Fyre Fraud,” which goes into further detail about how social media and marketing play a part in these kinds of events, makes this clearer. Now the question is, exactly many of the two documentaries got four Emmy nominations.
Fyre Festival: the bad-fest
Yes, the one that Jerry Media owns. I guess we’ll just have to hope that the next time they use their religious marketing to sell anything, they’ll care a little more about the people who buy it. We should now talk about the chaos that happened during the festival’s production. Why? He broke the terms of the contract by saying that the island used to belong to the king of the narcos, Pablo Escobar.
The person who owned the island at the time, however, told him in no uncertain terms that he should not make money out of the problem between the island and Escobar. After making a few emergency purchases on the island, McFarland was able to set aside a poorly built construction site in the Sandals Emerald Bay Resort, which is on an island in the Great Exuma Cays. Not a thing about the private island he was selling that was aspirational. It wasn’t the perfect places that the ads said they were. There was no electricity, plumbing, or access to the beach, and it could be very dangerous for thousands of inebriated and eager young people.
There were signs of trouble
Several subcontractors and employees had told McFarland that it was impossible to set up a festival like this in such a short amount of time and with such dangerous conditions. Instead, McFarland went back to his illegal practices, but on a larger scale, to pay for the quick production. So what did he do next? He started selling at a higher level and for a greater price at the festival, which made him a lot of money. The packages included fancy villas, private yacht rides, VIP tickets to shows, and even meeting celebrities.
There were signs of trouble. Several subcontractors and employees had told McFarland that it was impossible to set up a festival like this in such a short amount of time and with such dangerous conditions. Instead, McFarland went back to his illegal practices, but on a larger scale, to pay for the quick production. So what did he do next? He started selling at a higher level and for a greater price at the festival, which made him a lot of money. The packages included fancy villas, private yacht rides, VIP tickets to shows, and even meeting celebrities.
He was selling things that didn’t exist for thousands of dollars
At this point, McFarland started to get involved in big-time computer fraud by tricking merchants, the government, and workers with fake transactions. He even handed the investors fake papers and made the company look more legitimate than it really was. He made close to $800,000 this way. Then there was just the normal passage of time and what most of the people who worked at the festival locations called “shit.” The fancy villas became FEMA disaster assistance tents, and they were all wet from the storm the night before the festival.
The team was still setting up the stage when the first people came to the festival. There were tents everywhere, and the mattresses were drying in the sun. Trucks came and went with loads, and the kiosks were filled of crates of spirits. There were flights delivering hundreds of people, and they kept coming in large groups to wait for a place to stay. But it isn’t possible, so at some point, McFarland landed on a table and told everyone to pick the first one that went tent. I can’t picture anything that transpired after it being anything but a nightmare. The fight is against a lot of intoxicated and wild people to get a tent to sleep in at night in a completely dark outdoor environment with cliffs and no water or toilet.
Conclusion
Fyre was emailing the people on the island the next day, while they were racing to catch the first flight of the tour. He had a hard time on the first day, but the rest of the festival would be exciting, just as it had been promised. Still trying to save face again McFarland was attempting to deceive, but no one would believe him. After the scandal came out in the news, the person was detained and then let go on $300,000 bond. But he couldn’t help himself and soon started defrauding others again.
He and a new partner, who went by the moniker NYC VIP Pass, would go after the Fyre Festival mailing list and offer tickets to exclusive events. Is it anything you know? Yes, it is. He had been conducting the same scam since the start of Magnises. But he was apprehended again fairly fast, and in early 2019 he was sentenced to six years in jail for a case of computer fraud. Professionals think he is too young to be punished and that the punishment made sense. So, we might hear from him again in the future. What do you think? Will he be able to get out of jail, or is he just a fraud?
