Fyre

Somehow I don't want to find out how much of this is or isn't based on fact, because for me it's not about facts that would somehow influence me going forward. In any case, I had fun and I was looking forward to seeing how it all turns out. I've always been fascinated by what well-constructed marketing can do. It's ingenious in its own way. (09.04.2019)

He wanted to have a festival, but influencers came. It's definitely fascinating, but only from the Schadenfreude perspective of “ha ha, they got what they deserved". Events events are not coherently documented, uncomfortable and sensitive questions are not asked, the key people of the “inner circle" are ignored, except for McFarland, and at the end there are more questions than at the beginning. It has already been overplayed, with several cases of fraud and embezzlement and there is nothing sophisticated or imaginative about them. It's just the idle talk and promises of a charismatic imposter supported by good marketing. Nothing more and nothing less. It worked for a short time and the people affected stared and stared until they could stare no more. The case involving Elizabeth Holmes is infinitely more interesting. (30.03.2020)