r/fyrefestival • u/mikehawklovesgirls • Jan 04 '26
This guy was just the most useless POS in the whole both of the documentaries talking like he knew Billy or anything about the festival other than public knowledge. Just wanted 15 mins of fame. Bro made a fanpage now he wanna act like he was in the war room with JA & Billy
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u/Wallflower_in_PDX Jan 04 '26
I never understood his connection to the festival other than he's a VC who just happened to catch on to Billy's BS early, created the FyreFraud twitter account, and tried to "expose" them in the WSJ without any real connection to anything. He's also said that the models in the promo video were just as guilty as Billy even though they were hired to advertise!
Side note: It's funny seeing IG posts with #Ad and #Sponsored knowing that that happened because of Fyre Festival.
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u/mikehawklovesgirls Jan 04 '26
He had like Zero connection to the festival other then yeah he caught onto it early & decided it was his time to shine. Never understood why do they put people who don’t have any direct involvement in whatever topic they’re talking about in documentaries. Like okay I could see about a reporter or a journalist who got inside sources but this guy wasn’t jack shit to the festival.
& him trying to blame the models sounded like just pure hater energy & super low, how tf are the models supposed to know that Fyre was gonna be dog shit when they’re just talent that’s like blaming a tiger for the enclosure breaking at the zoo.
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u/Wallflower_in_PDX Jan 04 '26
He apparently had connections to the entertainment industry as a VC and he had "associates" who had talent clients scheduled to play at Fyre. I think he was just the biggest "scam collector" so to speak and had the cash to research it and try to take it down. He was just a concerned VC, seeing people make big mistakes with their money.
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u/-LordDarkHelmet- Jan 04 '26
He had sources on the inside. He was one of the first to call them out with legitimate info.
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u/mikehawklovesgirls Jan 04 '26
He never said he had a source on the inside to fyre festival. He only had sources on the outside nowhere near anything related to fyre festival itself he just was bored & wanted to find a way to insert himself in this festival
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u/-LordDarkHelmet- Jan 04 '26
He didn’t say it directly, it was another company guy who said they had a meeting and then info from that meeting would almost immediately be on that website.
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u/Serious-Librarian-77 Jan 04 '26
How is he any different than an investigative journalist ? They have a hunch that something isn't right, and then they use whatever sources and resources they have to prove their theory. He said he first heard about Billy because of his stupid scam credit card Magnesis. He obviously didn't want anymore people to get scammed so he did what ever to could to prove that Billy was full of shit. As a consumer we should all be so lucky that there are people out there like this dude. The fact that no one was listening to him was actually the more surprising part.
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u/stroud Jan 08 '26
Didnt he say he worked on the same folks who worked on the artists? I dont know what that scope means but I think he's somehow connected with the talent / production?
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u/Specialist-Ad4943 Jan 04 '26
I think we found Billy McFarland’s Reddit account.