First in Fox – The former social media designer for Fyre Festival says that social networks are feeding the idolatros of scammers and their wild ideas: Fyre Festival 2 is no exception.
Ears Aks spoke with Fox News Digital after the postponement of the Fyre Festival 2 team, a distribution version of the original Fyre Festival, which failed in 2017 after promising attendees who paid thousands for tickets for tickets a luxurious music festival located on the island and delivering.
Fyre Festival 2 was held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, between May 30 and June 2, but one of its partners, the company of tickets Soldout.com, confirmed Fox News Digital last week and had postponed and was reimbursed tickets for the event.
“I think the most important question here is … Why is it so fascinating for people to move forward? Again, it’s just because it’s a great meme. So, it’s a meme, keep mere, and we are and holy.” “Then, I understand it in terms of pop culture.”
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Attendees to the Fyre Festival advise a small plane that reads “Fyre Festival” on their side in the Bahamas in 2017. (Stephanie Farr)
In other words, people are treating Fyre Festival 2 as a great internal joke. The failure of the first festival inspired documentaries about Hulu and Netflix, and some want to be in chaos if it fails for the second time, Aks explained.
Others believe that the creator of Fyre Festival, Billy McFarland, 33, is a visionary and because to give him a second chance after he was sentenced and sentenced to meet several years in prison for fraud frauding the 2017 event.
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William ‘Billy’ McFarland, organizer of the Fyre Festival, leaves the Federal Court of the United States in Manhattan after its presentation for charges of electronic fraud in New York City, USA UU., July 1, 2017. (Reuters/Brendan McDermid)
“For me, the worldview of this story makes no sense,” said Aks. “I have heard having conversations with people through the years that … He is just a working entrepreneur and that is only to create the opportunity to have fun in creation and they can’t wait for it to be done. You.
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The original failure of the Fyre Festival 2017 led Billy McFarland after bars. (Stephanie Farr)
He continued: “Anyway, I don’t think it’s happening more than I read last week, but if you do, it will be relevant again.
“These things no longer matter.”
When AKS joined the Fyre Festival team eight years ago, he worked for Jerry Media, who handled the graphic design and social media strategy for the original festival. AKS said he was excited about the project because he had a history of working in the music industry and that he was passionate about the music festivals.
There was “wall ingenuity” before the festival ate that it should have indicated that the event would be a disaster, from credit cards that bounced to the Fyre Festival members who stayed out of the circuit in the logistics planning, Aks said.
Attendees to the Fyre Festival who paid thousands for tickets in 2017 received musical acts of large tone as Blink 182 who never played in the event. (Stephanie Farr)
He remembered the moment he knew that things were going to the south.
“When we arrived, the point at which it really hit me was real … Going to this hill and son of descending to the valley, where the beach area was being carried out and see the stores and the area of the centers of the real media and … there was nothing there.” “… In my brain, logistics did not work, but I assumed that this is not my territory. I am the graphic designer, I am sure they have an architect or architect or … someone who deals with that. But then I sowed everything that is what is the fema or success.
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Ears Aks said that “he hit him” that the Fyre Festival was a failure in 2017 when he arrived at the Bahamas and saw rows of FEMA style campaign where the guests were promised luxury villages. (Stephanie Farr)
In the era of social networks, Aks said, the public makes icons with scammers such as Anna Delvey and even murder suspects such as Luigi Mangione.
“We look at them as if they were iconic, such as,” Oh, what is Sheing to Court? “And … at a certain point, you are more obsessed with them as this you have built instead of whose real are with Billy, they would not impress you,” Aks said.
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Anna Delvey leaves her apartment in New York City in East Village for a possible appointment at the Court on October 11, 2022. (Splash / splashnews.com)
AKS added that the public, especially the American public, does not talk about the success stories of the millionaire and billionaire commercial magnates in the same way that the public discusses the scammers and the “extraordinary”, on social networks.
“We glorify the bad, the scammer, the evil, and we see those people as heroes.”
“It used to be … this inspiring route that you would take in your career a child to ascend on a ladder or make a living and buy a house or something. Now, we viliate those people, and glorify the bad, the scammer, the evil and take care of people.” I like style icons or combatants of freedom, or any other image you want to assign them. And I think it is, well, it is very worrying as a social change. … Why are we doing this? “
Almost empty snack dishes seen next to plastic tables at Fyre Festival in 2017. (Stephanie Farr)
AKS said he believes that McFarland has not lived his “15 minutes of fame”, but after the first Fyre festival, and is still working to achieve the recognition of Fyre Festival 2.
Fyre Festival 2 did not answer the Fox News Digital questions about a postponement, and nothing on the website of the event or social media pages mentioned anything about the changed plans.
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Ranks or tents seen in Fyre Festival in 2017. (Stephanie Farr)
Earl this month, The organizers of the Fyre Festival say goodbye In the statement of Playa del Carmen, saying that the Mexican city government had no knowledge of the event.
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“Fyre has been working directly with the Government of Playa del Carmen (PDC) and its officials since March 5, 2025, to guarantee a safe and successful event,” said the organizers.
The founder of Fyre Fest, Billy McFarland, is in the process of planning a return with Fyre Festival 2, which was originally scheduled to take place in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, between May 30 and June 2, but since then he has moved to Carmen, Mexico. (Istock)
“All media reports that the team has not worked on the PDC government is simply inaccurate and based on erroneous information,” says the statement, along with screenshots and photos of “relevant payments, payments and communications” Officials of Playa del Carmen. “Fyre has operated as a good partner with the PDC government and has followed the clean processes and procedures to organize a legal event.”
McFarland also published a video of a press conference that he and his team’s hero in Playa del Carmen on March 28, which included government representatives of the area.
A photo of the sandwiches that were served at Fyre Festival in 2017. (Stephanie Farr)
The statement came in response to the publication of the social networks of Playa del Carmen that said “[i]n Rumors Answer about an alleged event called ‘Fyre 2’, we inform you that no event of that name will be hero in Playa del Carmen. “
It was the second statement of a government entity that denied the existence of the festival since March. The event was originally scheduled for Isla women, MexicoAmong those dates, but recently he moved to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, after Isla Mujeres said that the organizers of the Fyre Festival had not requested permits in the popular holiday city.
Two women pose as if they were fighting for a water box at the Fyre festival in 2017. (Stephanie Farr)
Tickets for Fyre Festival 2 begin at $ 1,400 per person for general admission and go up there. The most expensive ticket is sold for more than $ 1 million and offers private air and yacht trips, luxury villas and access to the festival of approximately four days to eight people.
In 2017, guests at the Fyre Festival arrived at the Bahamas to find basic tents when luxury accommodations were promised; Cheap boxes in box when they were promised a high -end culinary experience; Port-O-Pots unclean; and canceled musical acts they paid to see in the course of the festival.
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The original Fyre Fest promised musical acts, including Blink 182, Migos and other artists; Assistants Model of celebrities, Including sisters Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski; Luxury and fine food accommodation, with tickets ranging from $ 1,200 to more than $ 100,000.
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After the festival’s failure, he went viral on social networks when Hulu and Netflix published documentaries about the failed beach party, causing the hashtag #fyrefraud to go viral at that time.
The festival reached an agreement with 277 ticket holders in 2021, when each recipient was ordered to pay a $ 7,220 prize.
