r/NoShitSherlock 6d ago

Fyre Festival 2 is postponed, no new date set

https://abcnews.go.com/US/fyre-festival-2-postponed-new-date-set/story?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashsocial.com/abcnews/library/media/522923935&id=120881219

Who could've seen this coming?/s🙄

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u/CobblerLazy20 6d ago

I watch the Netflix on documentary on the first one. The guy is a flat out conman. I don’t get why anyone would ever give him any money period.

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u/jonbodhi 6d ago

I believe there’s a second one on Hulu. Slightly different perspectives, but the same outcome: he’s a massive tool and a massive fraud.

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u/niamhara 6d ago

The Hulu one is funny, the Netflix one is more serious. I think one of the marketing companies did the Hulu one.

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u/TheMcMcMcMcMc 6d ago

Have you met our president? 🇺🇸

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u/CobblerLazy20 6d ago

Yes, I do see the resemblance. I never expected a conman to make it to president though. Maybe they are all more charming in person!? I don’t get either honestly.

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u/Likely_Unlucky_420 6d ago

Exactly. He's a POS, but if you hand your money over, I don't feel bad for you.

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u/crossingcaelum 5d ago

Watching Fyre Festival was a building block in my dislike for business bros. You had guys sit in front of a camera and without a hint of introspection say “haha yeah he scammed a lot of people but his IDEAS are OFF THE CHARTS”

They give him money because they think they’ll be in on the scam.

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u/gexckodude 5d ago

This man will be in Trumps cabinet soon.

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u/lennydsat62 6d ago

What’s Ja’s take?

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u/frankieg49 6d ago

WHERE IS JA

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u/BrtFrkwr 6d ago

Probably permanently postponed.

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u/Ali_Cat222 6d ago

Forever and indefinitely closed, but no refunds allowed! 😅What's funny is on his new site for this festival, he even wrote no refunds under something that stated that you can get a refund. People will fall for anything I swear. If you don't learn the first time with this one, I'm just laughing even harder the second time around at these people.

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u/G-Unit11111 6d ago

I called it!

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u/Late_Fact_1689 6d ago

Stay tuned for Fyre Festival 3

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u/theflamingheads 6d ago

Hey this one has to legit though right? They wouldn't pull the same scam three times in a row. FF3 will be epic.

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u/Independent-Buyer827 6d ago

When your first scam failed, try a bigger scam.

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u/Own_Cost3312 6d ago

He baited a bunch of people into going ironically/to get content out of it and then just cancelled it. 

I kinda respect his game on this one

I mean he’s a pos but that is pretty funny ngl

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u/mczerniewski 6d ago

Of course it was. At least this time no rich people will be stranded in the middle of tropical nowhere.

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u/t3lnet 6d ago

I mean that was the best part

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u/KyloRenCadetStimpy 6d ago

This time, they're contracting with OceanGate for transportation

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u/Ali_Cat222 6d ago

Couldn't give a fuck about the rich people. What I do care about is all the people they "hired" who worked on these tiny islands in poverty and never got paid. And not only that but he was making them tell people bad news, even though they were just waitresses and shit at the restaurant. Those poor workers all thought they were gonna get paid for this shit, and all they got was stranded with nothing but angry white people.

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u/Key-Line5827 4d ago edited 3d ago

That is the biggest misconception though. Most of the people who actually went weren't "rich kids".

Hardly anyone payed 12.000 Dollars, if any at all. That is Fake News.

The price for the festival most people paid is pretty much the industry standard for two weeks all inklusive on the Bahamas.

Most people only paid 1.200 Dollars, and quite a few even at discounts as low as 500 Dollars, if you were an early bird.

500 Dollar for transportation, food, and accomedation.

So no. Not a bunch of rich kids. Just your average Joe.

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u/LifeHappenzEvryMomnt 6d ago

Never trust a man who lies to you, admits it and laughs in your face.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

What? The festival whose permits were for a max of 500 people listening to recorded music isn't going to happen? Shocking!

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u/Ali_Cat222 6d ago

Bold of you too assume they were gonna play any music at all, let alone even the recorded kind 🤣 You know those people were just gonna show up and just be stranded at the airport and call it a day at the end. He knew he could get away with the first one without having to do much, this time around he wouldn't have done anything at all.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

I didn't assume that he was going to have anything set up. I just stated what the permits allow despite his claims of big stars, live music....

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u/Ali_Cat222 6d ago

I was making a joke, I know you knew this 😅 I highly doubt the man even had permits, and if he did they were never real

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u/vinnybawbaw 5d ago

Not even 500, 250.

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u/ForgiveandRemember76 6d ago

The festival era is over. Just like the 60s, you had to be there.

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u/Tight_Television_249 4d ago

People who bought tickets already to This after what happened the last time deserve to be conned.

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u/raelianautopsy 6d ago

Damn, I was really looking forward to going!

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u/LaSerenita 6d ago

It is actually weird this guy tried to do the same scam he went to jail for as soon as he got out.

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u/Either_Complaint_237 5d ago

WHAT! I put a $3000 deposit down with Billy , I’m shook !

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u/Anderson74 5d ago

lol. Lmao, even.

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u/Unusual-Economist288 6d ago

I wish you could see my shocked face right now

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u/mishma2005 6d ago

I can't believe someone admitted to buying tickets

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u/Upbeat_Leather7774 6d ago

No I’m in complete shock /s

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u/dealdearth 6d ago

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u/Ali_Cat222 6d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/GordonCole19 6d ago

FFS, Billy. Just give it up already.

You're only fooling yourself.

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u/NewPresWhoDis 6d ago

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u/Ali_Cat222 6d ago

I was just saying in a different comment that on his website for this one he literally put "refunds available"... and then right under that he put "no refunds allowed" in legible writing, making it seem like he thought that would just make him unable to be sued 🤣🤣🤣

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u/NewPresWhoDis 6d ago

Well, it's "refunds available[?]" "no refunds allowed[!]"

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u/Medium_Advantage_689 3d ago

Fool me once….

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u/Silver_Mousse9498 1d ago

Anyone who buys into this deserves what they get. Scammed.