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Jan. 31st, 2019 06:24 pmSo I just watched the Netflix documentary on the failed Fyre festival. I wanted to know whether anyone else has and how they interpreted the documentary (or the Hulu one or the Internet Historian one)?
I see lots of online articles mocking the attendees for spending so much money on a fiasco that was obviously a con, but my impression of the documentary was quite different.
I feel a lot of sympathy for the people interviewed who all portrayed themselves as trying desperately to put something on the ground in the face of the delusional and ridiculous demands of their boss (of course they would). I’ve been there. Surely we’ve all been there. In my line of work I’m not trying to organise portaloos in a sandpit on an island, but I can totally appreciate a boss who just la-la-la refuses to listen to reality.
I feel lots of sympathy for the unpaid workers.
I recognise a manic, uncontrollable boss who has totally lost touch with the concept of consequences, and I sympathise with those trying to contain the mess he made. It’s hard to walk away when you know you can ameliorate a situation.
The festival attendees are portrayed in the media as idiots who spent $12,000 for a chance to party with stars. Whereas most of the tickets moved seem to have been in the $1,200 range, which seems not bad value for flights, accommodation, food and entertainment for a week. Not my cup of tea without air conditioning, but not an unreasonable act by spoiled millennials.
I find it hilarious that the massive social media advertising campaign using vastly overpaid ‘influencers’ was undone by a photograph of a cheese sandwich posted by a guy with 400 followers. Shows exactly how little it is worth.
Some of the festival goers did behave very badly and carry on like pork chops. OTOH, things degenerated in the evening when they were essentially abandoned and it is important to note that the evening followed a day when the organisers tried to distract them by giving them unlimited tequila but little food or water. So, not surprisingly, there was a kind of riot.
Further, even people completely unrelated to the festival seem to have treated the festival goers like pariahs. They were locked into a large room at the airport overnight. Locked in!
I am pretty clearly watching the documentary through the lens of my experiences, but I definitely recognise writing emails begging the boss to acknowledge reality which are blithely ignored until things fall apart. Did anyone else interpret the documentary that way?
I see lots of online articles mocking the attendees for spending so much money on a fiasco that was obviously a con, but my impression of the documentary was quite different.
I feel a lot of sympathy for the people interviewed who all portrayed themselves as trying desperately to put something on the ground in the face of the delusional and ridiculous demands of their boss (of course they would). I’ve been there. Surely we’ve all been there. In my line of work I’m not trying to organise portaloos in a sandpit on an island, but I can totally appreciate a boss who just la-la-la refuses to listen to reality.
I feel lots of sympathy for the unpaid workers.
I recognise a manic, uncontrollable boss who has totally lost touch with the concept of consequences, and I sympathise with those trying to contain the mess he made. It’s hard to walk away when you know you can ameliorate a situation.
The festival attendees are portrayed in the media as idiots who spent $12,000 for a chance to party with stars. Whereas most of the tickets moved seem to have been in the $1,200 range, which seems not bad value for flights, accommodation, food and entertainment for a week. Not my cup of tea without air conditioning, but not an unreasonable act by spoiled millennials.
I find it hilarious that the massive social media advertising campaign using vastly overpaid ‘influencers’ was undone by a photograph of a cheese sandwich posted by a guy with 400 followers. Shows exactly how little it is worth.
Some of the festival goers did behave very badly and carry on like pork chops. OTOH, things degenerated in the evening when they were essentially abandoned and it is important to note that the evening followed a day when the organisers tried to distract them by giving them unlimited tequila but little food or water. So, not surprisingly, there was a kind of riot.
Further, even people completely unrelated to the festival seem to have treated the festival goers like pariahs. They were locked into a large room at the airport overnight. Locked in!
I am pretty clearly watching the documentary through the lens of my experiences, but I definitely recognise writing emails begging the boss to acknowledge reality which are blithely ignored until things fall apart. Did anyone else interpret the documentary that way?
