“Flying in, the water looked beautiful — but I was almost immediately warned not to go near it because of a rampant shark problem.
That was an omen I regrettably missed.
”
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On Wednesday, Ja Rule arrived for a “site visit.” I don’t know if he actually visited the “site” but he did spend a lot of time on a yacht, according to his Instagram. Meanwhile the event planners were holed up indoors putting together a game plan and a budget. With so little having been prepared ahead of time, the official verdict was that it would take $50 million to pull off. Planners also warned that it would be not be up to the standard they had advertised. The best idea, they said, would be to roll everyone’s tickets over to 2018 and start planning for the next year immediately. They had a meeting with the Fyre execs to deliver the news. A guy from the marketing team said, “Let’s just do it and be legends, man.”
I
cannot explain how or why the bros running this festival ignored every
warning sign they were given along the way. The writing was on the wall.
I saw it firsthand six weeks ago. They overlooked so many very basic
things. And baby, they forgot to make me sign an NDA.this schadenfuckaree is even better than dashcon
I Worked at Fyre Festival. It Was Always Going to Be a Disaster.