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The Best Reactions To The Cursed Fyre Festival II Selling Out

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Seeing the Fyre Festival creator Billy McFarland flogging Fyre Festival II tickets was not on my 2023 bingo card, but here we are. Yep, the guy who literally went to prison for fraud after the first Fyre Festival disaster, has claimed the pre-sale has already sold out. 

ICYMI, Fyre Festival was supposed to be the hottest music festival of 2017. It was promoted by famous celebs, including Kendall Jenner, Emily Ratajkowski and Hailey Baldwin. Oh, and rapper Ja Rule was randomly one of the co-founders. 

The event, which took place on Exuma Island in The Bahamas, sold customers the idea of a luxury glamping-styled festival. Instead, festivalgoers were served an infamous cheese sandwich while fighting over tents and urine-soaked mattresses. 

It wasn’t just customers that got short-changed, with Billy’s failed festival leaving many local Bahamians unpaid or out of pocket. 

What do we know about Fyre Festival II?

Billy seems to be firmly living in delulu land, because he’s flipped Fyre Festival’s popularity, for unsavoury reasons, into a positive. God, I wish I had this much confidence. 

This is word-for-word, what he tweeted this week: “The first FYRE Festival II drop has sold out. Since 2016 FYRE has been the most talked about festival in the world. We now saw this convert to one of the highest priced GA pre-sales in the industry.” 

The lineup and date haven’t been announced, plus the location is really vague. All we know is that it’ll be somewhere in the Caribbean, and tickets are priced from $499 to $7,999 USD, roughly $777 AUD to $12,471 AUD. Because we’ve all got that cash lying around during the current cozzie livs. 

One couple told CBS News that they’d scored two tickets for Fyre Festival II – and it cost them nearly $550 USD, or $857 AUD each. “If anything, it’ll just be a really cool vacation,” the festivalgoer said. “We’re gonna stay optimistic, but we’re gonna expect that there may be some cheese sandwiches.”

What’s that saying? Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. I’ll leave it at that. 

People on Twitter (Or X, whatever you’re calling it these days) have been going absolutely ham with their reactions to Fyre Festival II, so I’ve rounded up the best reactions below. 

I really can’t see Fyre Festival II being anything but a disaster. Good luck to all those who’ve bought tickets, you’re gonna need it. 

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Image credit: X/@TrevorDeHaas, Netflix, FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened