Watched this last night on Netflix. There were so many people around him that saw the train wreck coming but couldn’t sit the MacFarland child down and say stop. Failure on everyone involved with Fyre. Did laugh at the guy who was ‘going to take one for the team’ to get the water released from customs.
Over the years, I’ve worked, managed, and consulted on a good number of medium to large music festivals. I can tell you first hand, all the warning signs were there right from the start. That’s why nobody with veteran credentials wanted to touch that event.
As a seasoned senior, instead of a young narcissistic millennial, I would never have fallen for this fraud for a minute.
My rule is that if it sounds too good to be true, it is. These young people with too much time, money and egos on their hands never stopped to consider that they were being offered so much with no verification and confirmation of what they were actually paying for.
Sometime being young and stupid and getting burnt real bad, is the only way for some people to ever learn the lessons of life.