Fyre Fest 2.0 is back. But why are people buying tickets for The Greatest Party That Never Happened?

Will you buy tickets worth Rs 41,000 to Rs 7 lakh for a festival which sounds like this:

• Where? Somewhere in the Caribbean, but not sure
• When? Sometime by the end of 2024, date unclear
• Line up? Unknown
• Host: Recently out of jail, with earlier charges of fraud for a failed festival

FYRE Festival II is LIVE

🔗 in bio pic.twitter.com/3LMEhCUVaC

— Billy McFarland (@pyrtbilly) August 20, 2023

If you haven't heard yet, the Greatest Party That Never Happened, the Fyre Festival, is back for a second time. Billy McFarland, charged with fraud over the failed 2017 Fyre Festival, has announced the second festival. 

• And if you think this is unreal, then you should also know that the first 100 tickets for $500 or $499 are already sold out. 
• You better get ready with your credit card in hand when the next sets of tickets go on sale, because who can risk having FOMO on being scammed? 
• McFarland says he's got support to make Fyre a reality now. And that all the money from the ticket sales will be held in an escrow account until the final date is announced. 
• He said he's working with partners and the logistics to put up the show.

The first FYRE Festival II drop has sold out.

Since 2016 FYRE has been the most talked about festival in the world. We now saw this convert to one of the highest priced GA pre-sales in the industry.

FYRE is about people from the around the world coming together to pull off…

— Billy McFarland (@pyrtbilly) August 22, 2023

The 2017 botched attempt

• If someone is tempted to attend this never-before-seen-before festival, they should perhaps recount what happened during the first one. 
• The Fyre Festival was originally set to take place over two weekends on a private beach believed to be once owned by drug lord Pablo Escobar in the Bahamas.  
• Revellers were promised an impressive line-up of artists, Instagram-worthy experiences, gourmet food and opulent accommodation. Tickets cost up to $12,780.
• Their marketing videos showed a string of top models from Bella Hadid to Kendall Jenner. Several influencers were also roped in to market the festival. 
• But when the revellers actually arrived, they were greeted with a rain-sodden campsite, with disaster relief tents as opulent accommodation, and cheese sandwiches in plastic containers as the gourmet food.

Fyre festival 2 is happening. pic.twitter.com/hJZeQOwm2J

— Stephen Davis (@SteveyD) August 21, 2023

• There was no running water or electricity. The line-up consisting of 33 artists, including Pusha T, Tyga, Desiigner, Blink-182, Major Lazer, all pulled out of performing.

At Fyre Festival 2 you will get this amazing meal for an extra $78. pic.twitter.com/SqGdYBriY0

— Josh (@psychicfax) August 23, 2023

• There were definitely no models attending the festival. 
• Businesses that were involved in the festival claimed they were not paid. 
• The entire fiasco resulted in losses amounting to $28 million. 

But all of that doesn't seem to have fazed McFarland, who's back in the game. The only question is who are these rich people who want to give money to a man accused of fraud and whose first attempt was a spectacular failure that inspired the Netflix documentary Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened. Or is the website manipulated to show that all tickets are currently sold out?