After asserting his plans to promote the Fyre Pageant model again in April, the mastermind behind the ill-fated pageant, Billy McFarland, is casting his web for a purchaser, itemizing the model on eBay.
The itemizing affords the profitable bidder the prospect to personal Fyre’s “logos, IP, social media property and extra”, and on the time of writing, 133 bids have been positioned, with the highest sitting at $211,100.
Billy McFarland made headlines once more earlier this yr when he revealed plans to placed on a second version of Fyre Pageant.
The primary version was a logistical and PR catastrophe, with guarantees of lavish island events with celebrities and luxurious meals fulfilled by lacklustre lodging, no celebrities in sight and really unhappy trying sandwiches.
The failed occasion was even the topic of two documentaries, with Netflix’s calling it the “biggest celebration that by no means occurred”.
Folks rapidly grew suspicious of McFarland’s reboot this yr although, after officers on the Mexican island of Isla Mujeres – the place it was presupposed to be going down – denied any information of the occasion’s existence.
McFarland says his choice to attempt to promote the model on eBay comes after a $7 million purchaser just lately fell by [per Mixmag].
“I’ve achieved a number of loopy issues, however this is perhaps the craziest factor but,” he says in a brand new video posted on Instagram.
“We’ve had over 1,000 affords for the Fyre model, however I’m achieved taking part in video games,” he goes on.
“By all of the noise, the chaos, the hype and the craziness, Fyre has had over 32 billion impressions on-line since 2017. Whoever owns the Fyre model can have an consideration engine to launch festivals, do merch collabs, do insane pop-ups, run livestreams or construct a media model.”
You may check out the itemizing on eBay.
Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Completely immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music expertise and manufacturing at college, and in addition written for the likes of MusicRadar, Guitar World, Whole Guitar and Steel Hammer.
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