Turns out the real scam here was that they got me to watch two separate documentaries made up of mostly the same stories and footage.

never trust a grown man named billy it’s just science

the part where billy says they had $2 million worth of house rentals but he LOST THE BOX WITH ALL THE KEYS IN IT was funnier than any movie that came out last year except for paddington 2

Fyre Fest docs are my new favorite genre of cinema

A half-assed, flimsy attempt at "First!" logic, getting the jump on Netflix by mere days yet producing a film a tenth as focused. Fyre understood that the subject was fundamentally funny and instead highlighted the slow burn collapse. Fyre Fraud consists almost entirely of jokey reference clips, marrying every pop-culture reference by an interview subject to the actual thing being mentioned like a live-action Family Guy riff. The big draw here is McFarland, who was paid to participate to offer no insights other than to protest his innocence and clam up when confronted, rendering his inclusion meaningless and ethically shoddy. This is trying so hard to be a comedy that it only reveals how little research went into it, and no joke here is half as funny as any given tweet that blew up when this all went down.

“When I think about Magnises I think about entertainment 7twenty”

Aaaaahaahahahahhaahhahahahahahahaha

I had never before considered the possibility that we live in a society but this film really opened my eyes.

i wanted to meet the chef behind that iconic cheese sandwich

“There is essentially a Fyre Festival going on every day in the West Wing.” -actual quote from this documentary

“People are messaging me telling me their parents got murdered by Pablo Escobar and I’m...I’m the social media guy what am I supposed to do?”

this is like American Vandal on acid

Yt’s deja vu all over agayn!

The Truth About Tanacon crawled so Fyre Fraud could run 🙏🏻

we live in a fyre society...

I ... think I watched the bad Fyre Festival documentary?? Everyone claims that the Netflix one is better but I thought this one was okay. I didn’t know much about the Fyre Fest so I was like “woooooow” but now I gotta watch this Netflix doc.

Not as good or engaging as the Netflix one but still worth a watch. If you, like me, enjoy watching a rich douchebag millennial scam other rich millennials and end up going to jail because of said scam, I'd highly recommend.

The third best Fyre Festival documentary.

Shows way too much stock/public domain footage over exactly what is being said on screen (for what reason? to make a further vague comment about media?) but, seeing as I knew nothing about this festival other than the picture of the cheese sandwich and that there was another doc coming out at the same time, it was nice to learn about this shitshow. The disconnect I have with the scammed (you spent tens of thousands of dollars to go to a MUSIC FESTIVAL!?) makes the situation just an absurd flaunt of wealth on all ends that’s incredibly gross

Good thing I was an unemployed Gen-Xer in 2017, and therefore had zero desire to go to a music festival in the Bahamas.

Again, fun at the time, in hindsight not very memorable.

Felt like it was made for a high school or college assignment, but with the production values of a professional film. In terms of its technique, the film leans way too heavily on other media (the fact that it just copy/pasted moments from Dave Chapelle and Parks and Rec is cheesy as hell), and in terms of its content, it devotes so much time to affluent navel-gazing millennials making extreme generalizations to bemoan the foibles of their generation—and as a result, it makes a far more insubstantial comment on the entire thing. Maybe the only entertainment value is that it’s funny to see what Millennials think is wrong with them as opposed to what’s actually wrong with them (gentrification, stupid twee commercialization, suckling at the teat of centrism).

I didn’t know there were two Frye fest documentaries but this one was entertaining

I couldn't decide what to watch, so I decided to watch this again. I regret that decision, but alas, here we are. I will admit, it feels a bit weird not rewatching the Netflix documentary. They really do pair so well together.

bruh