Remember the Fyre Festival, a super-luxurious music festival that was supposed to occur on a Bahamian island in April 2017 that turned out to be one of the lesser major frauds of the ensuing four years? Thousands of influencers and festival fans bought tickets for thousands of dollars, with promises of glamourous yurts, gourmet food, and headliner acts.
After a $26 million fine and four years in prison, Billy McFarland is back with Fyre Festival 2, and you can go to the website to pay $499 for one of the first 100 tickets–the fact that the first 100 tickets haven’t been sold should tell you something–with regular prices for tickets going from $799 to $7,999.
No acts are listed. Or a date. Or even an island. But the description–“FYRE Festival II is here. We’re dropping the first Pre-Sale FYRE Passes which includes 1 ticket to FYRE Festival II and access to FYRE Pop-Ups, Experiences, and The FYRE Crew Community. *FF II is targeted for the end of 2024.”–is enough to sell it, right? Because this time, Billy means it.