Wowsers - this guy was a dick! It's not the festival goers I necessarily feel sorry for - they had money to burn by all accounts - but its the people who worked on this event, especially the Bahamians, who didn't get paid, that were hit the worst. Billy McFarland needs to take stock of his life and BACK OFF from doing anything like this again.

A great doc, certainly eye opening, and a valuable lesson for those people in Billy's shoes right now.

Great documentary! However, after watching the Hulu version, this version seamed disjointed with it's back 'n forth style of storytelling. The Hulu version is more a linear timeline, digging into who Billy was before the festival and some of his other failed companies before telling the viewer about the Fyre Festival. The Hulu version also has interviews with Billy himself as well as his girlfriend which are even more revealing.

Also, it's good to know that the Netflix version was produced in coordination with the social media company which put on the Fyre Festival - F**K Jerry Media. I found it interesting how the Netflix version mostly glossed over their involvement while the Hulu version had an interview with the actual designer of all the social media elements from FJM. He gave a lot more insight into their involvement, which is very interesting.

All in all, I'd recommend watching the Hulu version first, and then watching this version.

I've said before that art / music / film can't be depressing. Just good or not so good. But this film may have actually changed my mindset. It's one of the most depressing films I've ever seen. To see the instagram age in motion, doing their thing, just to be seen, and heard, and noticed. Very sad.

Also very sad that all those Bahamians never got paid for their hard work which got undertaken in good faith.

A true horror show that looks inside what some of the people in the Western world have become.

I will never understand this influencer lifestyle cult.

Weird how when you straight up lie to people, it just blows up in your face. I did feel really bad for all the locals that got screwed over though.

I don't feel bad for anyone here except the locals, workers, and vendors who never got paid. The rest are social media dupes and con artists. Fuck 'em.

I think everyone here agrees that Billy was a fraudster and should rot in jail for that. I miss two things here though.

First question that comes to my mind is: __and who else?__ I really can't believe he pulled this scam off all by himself and no one else realized what was going on. The other people who were aware of it, but didn't try to put a stop to it are also responsible IMO (though to a lesser extent).

Another thing that bothers me is people saying: __ah, but he stole from the rich kids, they had loads of money, so they deserved that...__ Well, that's some bullsh*t! Is that money any less stolen bc of that? I don't think so. Yeah, it probably doesn't cause so much harm to the victims, but a theft is still a theft, sorry!

After reading comments I literally feel like these fucktards are still making money off this stupid Fyre festival by making documentaries about it and milking it like crazy. I didnt pay a cent to watch this so that's fine, and I think it was a decent enough film, but I got a crazy hatred for the sociopaths behind it now, and feel like this documentary doesn't do enough to hold them accountable. Also something seriously needs to be done about influencer culture, and they briefly brush on the subject in this by saying the rules for posting advertisements are getting stricter but that’s not enough - that’s maybe the only good thing about Fyre festival, it’s that these dumb rich kids got what was coming to them.

This film gave me so much schadenfreude that I'm arguably still high off of it. Seeing all these rich phony pieces of sh*t get completely screwed over was magnificent. Of course, seeing the local Bahamians and whatnot also get screwed over was depressing. So I guess it balances out. Either way, this was a quick 90 minutes and made me want to watch the other less famous one from Hulu so I guess I liked it well enough.

Fyre was an interesting documentary, showing the power of influence and FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out)

Netflix and Hulu both released a documentary on this, but Netflix took a bit of a disjointed approach to the story telling that got a bit tiresome by the end.

The interviews and footage used in the movie are quite interesting, and I definitely enjoyed watching it.

If you're interested in the Fyre Festival, I'd recommend both movies. If you're just curious to see what this was, I'd recommend skipping this for Fyre Fraud on Hulu.

I had never heard of the festival before this. As some of reviews suggested I watched the Hulu version first and then the Netflix version too. I agree, Hulu version gives great overview of how it started and what happened. For me Netflix version was nice addition, for details, more interviews and behind the scenes footage.