Fyre Festival attendee describes chaotic experience
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2017
- The conditions were 'the exact opposite of our expectations,' says Elise Darma, a Canadian who attended the cancelled festival in the Bahamas for just one night. To read more: cbc.ca/1.4092137
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I mean whether you're rich or poor
I think all customers of a product or service should get what is promised to them by the company who promised it
lmao they where sold a lie from the start if they actually bothered to look for it HAHAHAHAH
MAIDANA So they could automatically go there and make sure its 100% legit right when they buy the ticket? oh wait no they can't lol.
Fair
Stanley Kubrick agreed
Remember that the next time u purchase fast food that in NO WAY resembles what's advertised from top to bottom by Corporate headtrippers.
meanwhile, flint still doesn't have clean water.
when your corrupt and taking money from a city the last thing you care about is the municipal water.
Yea...the liberals are still crying and not doing anything
so no whites there ? :o if whites lived there im sure there would be fresh water..
i dont know where flint is or who lives there but i suspect black people.
Ok go give them water if your so concerned and disgusted
Also the "festival" didn't even have a anywhere near descant first aid center. Good thing no one got seriously hurt because then it would have been a tragedy. So stop complaining
It's like hunger games for rich kids
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I don't understand why those people essentially scammed is funny to some people. It's not like everyone who went there is rich; perhaps some people saved money to go there?
And why would rich people getting scammed is funny or okay? Anyone rich or poor getting scammed is not funny to me.
Turns out it wasn't a scam, the people who failed to properly set up the festival were just really incompetent from the start.
Thanks for reply.
I know some rich people. Some are business owners. One person worked 15 hours a day to manage several fast food franchises. Another worked on 2 businesses to earn his first million.
Some people get rich by scamming other people. Most worked hard to climb up the corporate ladder or owned businesses. I don't see how that would be "industrial level scams".
Industrial level scams are things that scam the poor on an industrial level. Things like repealing Dodd-Frank. Things like the fees people without means suffer from like NSF fees. I dont think every rich person made it on the backs of the poor but I do believe a lot of them do. The richer we're talking the more likely they did it at the expense of staggering levels of poverty elsewhere.
R Z lmao still great
There was a twitter devoted to exposing that Fyre was all a scam. I dont feel bad.
wait she's saying her and her friends only payed $500 per person for the whole festival? I must be missing how that is more than any other festival
@Angel she likely bought a pre-sale / early-bird ticket, got a package deal, or used some promotional code.
@Angel Ami there was some kind of early bird special..some of the attendees mentioned it afterwards.Also some people were suppose to get tents but not all and not like that.
Watch the new Netflix documentary. It says all the insane prices people paid. Some paid thousands upon thousands of dollars and the people who paid less is because they got group promotions where like a group of ten people split a place to stay, with the price of that place being up to 12,000$
2 weeks in a private island, with flight, food n everything covered, i say thats a bargain
$500 for two weeks of a 'luxury' style party festival in the Bahamas, with food included, just doesn't add up. At that price no wonder they had people staying in tents. I doubt anyone would be able to find a flight, food, and lodging for even 3 days to the Bahamas at that price. Lol
@Sean M Moran Also I thought it was just for the weekend (they say the festival was two weekends).
It was 2 days not two weeks and it wasn’t $500 some paid $12,000
Yanetcy Cordero the festival was scheduled to run for a 2 week duration. Many paid $1200, but some signed up for an early group promotion at the cost of $500. Why so hostel? Did you even watch this video?
the fact that they had to relocate islands after all the social media advertising didn't help either
There were tickets that cost over 100,000
That girl sounds kind.
Alberto Dote kind... a ... dumb for getting scammed.
What's the problem you guys paid for an adventure and you got one
Facts 💯💪 a real adventure. Like flapjack and K nuckles lmao
Lol
So true real-adventure
Here's the problem K Flow: First, according to Internet Historian, they had to cut a lot of stuff out of the budget (deposits for bands, the luxury villas, the infastructure, etc) because a consultant said the festival itself would cost around $50 million dollars plus require these guys to have another year to put the puzzle pieces together. Second, the ticket prices being charged weren't going to help them break even ( $500 to $1,500, and VIP packages including airfare and luxury tent accommodation for US$12,000.). So they had to use the Fyre bands to pay for short term loans the organizers took out to make this event run. And even with more experienced staff telling Mr. Mcfarland to postpone, he just didn't listen to the voice of reason. So a lot of the more experienced staff tried to lessen the damage by telling celebrities and public figures not to go: which is why EVERY musical act that was supposed to have performed at the festival had to drop out. And that in a nutshell is why Fyre Festival failed.
This reminds me of the hotel I booked through Expedia...
"So Elise, how hard were you rolling during the event?"
This girl seems pretty chill about all of this I think!
The lack of empathy amongst these comments is astounding, which is ironic since everyone here seems to say that that's exactly whats wrong with the attendees. This 'us versus them' mentality exacerbates the social divisions in this country. Regardless of your wealth strata, if you pay for a promised service or experience and there is an abject failure to deliver, then you have a right to be angry. The amount of money you have doesn't make the fact that you got shafted any more or less wrong. Empathy people. Learn it. Live it. And we'll all be better off for it.
Empathy!
Was thinking this American girl is so honest and thoughtful and reasoned. Then I remembered she was Canadian.
I don't care that they're rich, but I'm sure I would've hated all of the attendees if I had met them, though.
To think n the bright side, this is probably a birthday she woukd never forget.... i still remember my brithday from 20 yrs ago, there was a massive typhoon
anyone who paid the thousands of dollars to go to that mess is someone I don't care to hear from.
this is great
Most memorable birthday ever
shouldve went to fiji for half the price
Yeah baby, that's how we roll!
With them 12g's I would of used it on a down payment for a house.
So next time you learn that whatever on social media is not true 100%.
I'm from Jamaica. I can attest that the weather conditions have been crazy, there's been flooding in some areas because the heavy rains. I'm an event organizer and I would never ever do an event between the end of April to June. Guaranteed rainfalls!
Plus I don't contractors will bring out their expensive equipment in those weather conditions. Maybe lateness was an issue. The culture is to do things last minute, which is bad.
Good try. Big risk. Try it in Jamaica next Summer.
So tell me...was there an actual festival was there an actual performance or did they just get there sit in the tent and wait to leave?
There was none.
I’m still really amazed that connman Billy something stood up on that container talk the crowd like to go F...themselves no festival no nothing, and absolutely nothing happen to him there.
I think that too.
I wonder how the locals reacted to this. Or they just shrugged their shoulders and said, "More damn tourists."
Daenerys I watched the doc. All the locals were ripped off by working for the festival and never getting paid. They were about to start a riot and understandably so.
Goddamn colonizers
What a cluster. They should be ashamed.
This looks like the best experience of a lifetime and some people shoulda stepped up and went to make some food for others that what i would do! This looks like luxury to me :)
You would've just "stepped up" and made food out of thin air with no ingredients or facilities?
“There was enough water actually” all because of our boy Andy King with a head game worth $175,000
That $10,000 that some of these fools spent to sleep in a soggy tent could have paid for several luxury Caribbean cruises.
Karim Bennett it could pay college tuition
What college are you talking about? Around here public university is $20-30k. Private is $30-60k.
Lit Circle Community College is still a College. You can get an Associates Degree at the Community College of Philadelphia for $9,540. They charge $159/credit for residents of the City of Philadelphia, and it takes 60 credits to earn an Associates.I’m sure there are other community colleges that are cheaper in other parts of the country, so you may even have money left over after earning your Associates to put towards paying for your Bachelors Degree at other schools. Just an FYI, I just did a little digging on Google and found several 4 year colleges in Massachusetts and Florida that offer in-state resident tuition under $1000/year. So a 4 year Bachelors Degree at these schools would cost under $4000, with the money left over you could go to a well established music festival and pay for an actual VIP package for a weekend!
St marys university as well.
HAHAHAHAHAH ITS MURDAAAAAAAAAA IN ASHANTI TOWN
looks like a refuge camp
I mean i feel for the people like @Spencer Floyd said rich or poor you pay for whats advertised and to not receive it refund in full or lawyer up however i also can't help but laugh at a 2017 scam revolving the win a trip to the topics with paid for cruise and so on and so on reminds me of those post cards or old game shows i mean its the oldest trick in the book. Plus if you are that rich you could just buy a yacht and that private plane and...go yourself in style you're way but hey what do i know lol
THIS TROLL IS SO EPIC
Bring your own toilet papers
I guess oh boy did take one for the team if they had plenty of water
OMG is this Asian dude Ari’s assistant from the Entourage?
Like a refugee camp.
i came here to laugh at rich kids.... and i did.
It was a beach and there was food ha
I trust this cupcake learned a lesson in life, and the cupcake will apply it to life going forward.
Piaseczno1 lol wtf
theres no lesson to be learned, we just like knowing some yuppie white people got ripped off.
Piaseczno1 Nah
hopefully there was weed there
once again , hahahahaha hahahaha !
If it was free and no cost to me for round trip airfare and transportation then I would definitely enjoy it just for one day.
Emilio Javier easy to say in hindsight though.
Awe, poor rich people.
She only paid $500 for it. She must be so rich, wow.
you'd be mad too if u paid for something and didn't receive what u paid for
I'm sure to a wealthy person the experience was not so good but , it would have been heaven on earth to a poor person or homeless people that don't have anything.
You could literally say that about anything negative a person in a first world country says. Show me one Yelp review where you couldn't apply your statement. The fact is every person with an internet connection posting to youtube has complained about something that a poor starving person in a third world country would love to have.
G S. And that somehow becomes the "go to" comment to justify all the hate towards people who did good for themselves in life. Because of those poor starving kids in Africa 1st world countries aren't allowed to enjoy their successes.
Misery truly does love company.
Cherd What does that have to do with anything
Cherd This comment is moot lol poor people don't have 12 grand to pay for a ticket anyway.
why wold a poor person/homeless person be happy to have been brought on a random island and locked up in the airport? not to mention paying 12,000 dollars for that experience
If people were as outraged (😂) over the injustices committed daily on our own soil as they are over a music festival in the Bahamas, maybe...nevermind.
Treasure Island was pretty awful and that festival didn't receive nearly as much attention. Headliners had to back out for their own safety.
arizona tent city looks better than this.
Good , good , good . Happy to hear that they had such experience . Maybe they will have more understanding and empathy for poor people !
You lack empathy.
For wealthy people . . . . no empathy .
so the moment any of your friends has more money than you, you hate them?
Yup, because $500 is so rich!! Honestly, you're terrible. The media or what have you has gotten you to believe that all rich people are out to get you. You fail to acknowledge that most people that are rich have got there through pure hard work and effort. Whether that be 100-hour weeks managing shop franchises, 5 hours of sleep a night managing employees and assets, sacrificing a personal life to keep their business running, etc. You cannot expect someone to have empathy for you if you do not show empathy back. This is a two-way street. And the basic truth is that most people who are rich have gotten there through pure hard work. Millennials piggybacking off their parents' coffers are not rich folk, they're the relatives of rich folk. To call them rich and use them as the model for what rich people truly are is absurd. I'm not rich, I'm flatly middle class. But I have family friends that are rich. That I barely get to see because they pour every waking moment of their day into their work, into their investments, and into their businesses. I'm still quite young, and I want to put just as much effort into whatever I do. The people who are rich go and manage businesses, accumulating wealth so that people can be hired and they can provide products and services. Entrepreneurship can be lucrative. Not all professions have the same pay ceiling. In the case of business, you get richer the better you run your business and the more effort you put. You yourself can start a business. Heck, even becoming smart in investing can net you some profits over time.
Hahaha hahahaha
Those sandwiches worst than elementary food
wait they're gonna do another one next year? talk about wishful thinking.
Really? They deserve something like that. Kids parents' shelling out that money for spoiled kids. I don't feel bad what so ever. They paid 10k for a festival run by Ja Rule. Everything they got they deserved.
Somebody find Ja Rule so I can make sense of all this!!!
sooo what they paid for a good experience. ...to live poor a day
Apparently you only talk to callers that look like models!
It's hard to feel bad for these people
Shout out to Ja rule!!!
Yo... yo Im Ja Rule yo...
She makes no sense, I felt everything she said was useless. They should have chosen someone else to interview. She contradicts herself.
I wanna feel bad for these folks but...
They spent $12,000 on a music festival. So I don't. My car didn't cost that much.
Turns out most of them paid $500 - $1,200.
People that spend the 12k actually got a house. It’s the GA 500 ones that got screwed.
I'm sorry it doesn't matter how rich you are, it's false advertisement. Yes here in the UK, Our festivals are like this, but they don't advertise that they are not.
For example I suffer a lot of anxiety and I'd be okay at fyre festival if it delivered what it advertised but it didn't.
Yeah you one of those people too. Just plain old privileged and bratty lol
Oh you poor thing. The carpet in the tent was wet and you had to eat your meals out of a styrofoam container. LOL
...meanwhile back in America, Government workers see this and curse it's manufactured emphasis.
We'll c more of this sooner than many believe.
That's how it starts...
Huh?
BWHAHHAHHAhAHAHAHAH reacts only!
that scoff...much privilege
Privileged much! I guess Woodstock would not be for you!
Virtuitous Vampire "Don't take the brown acid!"
Virtuitous Vampire you do understand that nothing was set up, and the acts canceled because they hadn't been paid, and, they also didn't pay to go to Woodstock.
Music was actually played at Woodstock
LitCircle App Your right! MUSIC was played! And music that actually was good music that still is relevant today! Now music is made by industry executives for money, "artists" get their cut and it's all marketed to the rich or demographic "trendy" people that have money and/or can be swayed due to aggressive marketing or peer pressure! Mostly youth to early 30's. Their is a whole industry out there trying to control what we feel, do and spend money on. Music was never about that in the beginning. It used to be for the masses. Now, it's targeted marketing which is EXACTLY what this is! Rich, elitist kids taken advantage of by slick marketing for fast food music.
You sir have very little Knowledge about Audio Engineering
Meanwhile in Syria....
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Poor Baby😂😂😂😂
Conne
Who in the Sarah Jessica Parker am I listening to?
Can’t believe how idiotic these comments are it doesn’t matter if the people are rich or not they where promised one thing and that was not fulfilled I would be beyond pissed if that happened to me
Seriously they made so much money on this event. What did the organizers do? It sounds like a whole bunch of people acted like they were doing all this work when nobody was doing anything at all?
How much did you think they made? 5000 people at $2k each? Thats only 10m. They dished out a few million just on the marketing. Let alone all the overhead. They needed a financial person badly and didn't have one.
@@reaganli1254 didn't Netflix and Hulu pay them as well? I have friends that have set up Raves on almost no budget and they turned out better than any of the footage I've seen from that event. I think I saw one piece of footage where there was a DJ? I need to watch the documentary again since I barely glanced at it but it just looks like they didn't do anything except for promotion. The footage doesn't even look like even the worst of all the Rave I ever went to! Anyway, I agree with the financial advisor for sure. Anyway, I have seen very little footage of the Party so I am still looking
@@zookeeper2872 Thats why the organizer got jail time. They took the money from the attendees but did not deliver what they were selling.
Boohoo, lmao.
lol back to reality. half the world is dying rn
Oh, poor baby.
Spends 10k dollars US on a festival, can afford to take the time off work (what am I thinking? These people don't work!) and then flies down to the Bahamas, one of the most beautiful places on earth, and has the temerity to complain.
Zero sympathy for these special snowflakes.
Ima Pseudonym actually she spent 500 bucks. If you actually watched the video before commenting, you would have known that
This entire thing is hilarious 😂, compared to the video and what was delivered was laughable and its as if nobody who organized it had a clue! This wasnt even the same island advertised! 😂 no acts even showed up! What a joke....its appalling. The founder is now in prison and Fyre is banned from Bahamas for life 😂
haha
Obnoxious brats promised nirvana and got duped. Too funny. I heard the sandwiches were amazing!
Stephen Scott I hope you pay for something and it’s not as advertised and not get your money back.
a bunch of rich kids had their mommy and daddys pay for their Fyre Festival tickets and are now complaining like they paid for it. hilarious.
#FirstWorldProblems
Poor rich white kids
that's what they get for hating trump!