With Fyre Fest 2 formally postponed, many have taken to social media to share their lack of shock.
Lower than two months earlier than it was attributable to happen, Fyre Fest 2 was placed on ice earlier this week. Initially scheduled to happen from Could 30 till June 2 in Mexico, tickets went on sale in February, and doubt was quickly forged on the extremely scrutinised “sequel” to 2017’s infamously botched Fyre Fest.
Information of the cancellation was first shared in an e mail to ticketholders and those that had signed up for the Fyre Competition publication, with ABC Information later breaking the story publicly.
Of their discover to ticket holders, pageant bosses wrote: “The occasion has been postponed and a brand new date will probably be introduced. We’ve got issued you a refund. As soon as the brand new date is introduced, at the moment, you’ll be able to repurchase if it really works in your schedule.”
Organisers are mentioned to be insisting the pageant remains to be on, with The Unbiased reporting that new areas had been being vetted, nonetheless, many on social media aren’t satisfied.
Whereas no person is shocked that the second iteration of the pageant went south, many are shocked anybody purchased tickets a second time round. Referencing the pageant’s founder, who was launched from jail in 2022 after he pleaded responsible to a number of counts of fraud, one X/Twitter consumer wrote: “Billy McFarland should actually love and miss jail. There are not any refunds for Fyre Competition 2 morons who already gave the scammer their cash.”
As but, McFarland has not issued a public assertion following the postponement announcement.
I say this with the utmost respect: in case you bought tickets to Fyre Competition 2, you actually need to lose your cash.
— Ok (@KTDuk) April 18, 2025
Fyre Competition 3: Tokyo Grift https://t.co/EwyZCCBm3p
— Ingenuous Firebrand 🐆🇺🇸 (@ING2Firebrand) April 16, 2025
You need to lose your cash in case you really purchased tickets to Fyre Competition 2 after watching that documentary 🤷🏾♂️
— djpriority (@djpriority) April 16, 2025
Fyre Competition 2 pic.twitter.com/d8E2hWbR5u
— Gov. Jason Giambi (@JasomGiambi) April 16, 2025
Billy McFarland should actually love and miss jail. There are not any refunds for Fyre Competition 2 morons who already gave the scammer their cash. pic.twitter.com/9YaXoNGZCg
— HiggsBoson (@HiggsBosAnON) April 16, 2025
In case you are dumb sufficient to purchase a ticket to Fyre Competition after all the things, you deserve what’s coming to you
— b w 🏛 (@monsieurmoscato) April 19, 2025
Tickets for the rip-off often known as Fyre Competition 2 are not accessible as they disappeared from the sale website. No lineup, restricted permits, thriller logistics and the identical showrunner who introduced you cheese sandwiches in FEMA tents. pic.twitter.com/Z5rVJ52wOs
— Pierce Occasions 🔴 (@Pierceevents) April 11, 2025
Anybody buying tickets for Fyre Competition 2 should have understand it was dangerous.
I simply can’t see how he managed to promote even one ticket to this pageant after final time.
He’s received no line up.. and simply postponed once more.
Unbelievable anybody would fall for it. pic.twitter.com/KhjgdlEL4n
— TheMekon_Venus (@TheMekon_Venus) April 18, 2025
I’ve some admiration for that man making an attempt to do Fyre Competition, he so decided to see his dream come true he’ll go to jail for it 😎
— FOREVER COOL 😎 (@Moola07) April 18, 2025
Who would’ve guessed Fyre Competition 2 would crash and burn earlier than it even started?
— International Affairs (@AnandYadav002) April 18, 2025
These organizers of the Fyre Competition received their enterprise diploma off Temu
— Arthur Department (@ArthurBranchDA) April 18, 2025
Others took a distinct strategy to the information, blaming patrons slightly than McFarland. “In case you are dumb sufficient to purchase a ticket to Fyre Competition after all the things, you deserve what’s coming to you,” added one consumer, with one other saying: “I say this with the utmost respect: in case you bought tickets to Fyre Competition 2, you actually need to lose your cash.”
Again in February, it was introduced that the pageant can be going down in Isla Mujeres, a tropical island off Cancún, Mexico. Nevertheless, the vacationer board and native officers quickly claimed that no such pageant exists. Edgar Gasca, from the tourism directorate of Isla Mujeres, mentioned, “We’ve got no information of this occasion, nor contact with any particular person or firm about it. For us, that is an occasion that doesn’t exist.”
Then, it was revealed earlier this month that the allow founder Billy McFarland had obtained – as seen in his timeline of occasions – solely permits for a 12-hour listening get together that should have fewer than 300 folks.
In keeping with the paperwork, it appears that evidently the allow solely permits for a most of 250 folks, can solely run for a complete of 12hours (between midnight to 4am every day between Could 30 and June 1), and doesn’t enable for any dwell performances.
When McFarland first mentioned that Fyre Competition was making its comeback, he shared at a press convention that it will enable for 1,800 company and have dwell performances from 40 artists.
No expertise was introduced for the rumoured occasion but, though former NFL star Antonio Brown claimed that he had been booked for the pageant. Forward of the rumoured second instalment, a former Fyre Competition investor Andy King additionally warned of “plenty of crimson flags” over the occasion’s deliberate reboot.
The botched pageant Fyre Fest was initially developed eight years in the past and was set to run over two weekends on a personal seaside within the Bahamas. It was revealed to be fraudulent as soon as punters arrived on the scene, with insufficient circumstances and a scarcity of meals and water.
The debacle was then captured in the now-iconic Netflix documentary FYRE.
The unique version in 2017 was reportedly set to incorporate performances from Blink-182, Main Lazer, Disclosure, Migos, Pusha T, Tyga and extra.