it was the event of a generation and it
didn’t even happen
welcome to watchmojo.com Netflix’s fire
the greatest party that never happened
and who lose fire fraud and I realized
that this is the best way to market my
crime business so I figured out this
school’s administrator password and I
started messing with them I changed the
password and my clock all the teachers
out so every time the Alpha smart was
turned on it would say for your broken
Cranz basically come and find me
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell
to get notified about our latest videos
for this list we’re taking a look at the
wildest moments and insane insights into
this truly bizarre flop of a festival we
will be taking a deep dive into these
highly acclaimed documentaries so the
number 10 fire fests looters some woman
came in in a panic at one point in the
dead of night she couldn’t find her
friend she was lost she seemed like she
was drunk I mean not but there’s nothing
you can do to help a person like that
you know there’s it’s I don’t know where
I am either if someone were to paint you
a picture of a dimly lit campsite full
of hungry young savages your mind might
jump to some of your favorite horror
movies before you thought of the year’s
hottest music festival but as seen in
Netflix’s documentary this was not only
the reality at fire but it was actually
worse than any of us could have imagined
we all heard the stories when news of
the failed festival actually broke back
in 2017 but no one could have guessed
some of the things that many of the
young looters ended up doing to survive
including raiding shipping containers
full of other guests luggage one
attendee even claimed that they
witnessed their friend urinating around
the campsite just to avoid having
neighbors close by our strategy from
there was the kind of ransack all the
tents around us just started poking
holes in flipping mattresses and
test on a few of the beds number nine
comment censorship somebody would post a
question on the thing the question would
immediately get deleted social media
marketing has opened up a lot of doors
for companies big and small but fires
tactics heading into their inaugural
festival were just playing bizarre after
bombarding social media users with
orange tiles and intriguing them enough
to actually buy tickets to the festival
fire fest staff was dumbfounded when it
came to answering all the incoming
questions from thousands of ticket
holders on top of this many sceptic
accounts arose and began trying to
spread the word as to the truth about
the festival it was almost like
WikiLeaks we were having these
confidential meetings and then things
from that meeting we’re actually getting
out word for word fires response block
any and all comments featuring negative
buzzwords and eventually any and all
buzz words altogether number eight lost
keys people were freaking out no one had
their room no one knew where their bags
were it seemed like by the time the
festival rolled around everything that
could have gone wrong already had
according to fire media founder Billy
McFarland there was a simple reason why
festival attendees were forced to sleep
in FEMA tents it was all due to the fact
that he’d missed placed the keys to the
island villas that were previously
promised to guests we had a box of
physical keys cars to take people there
and maps for every single house in the
box of keys unfortunately it went
missing there were supposedly around 250
luxury houses rented for the event
costing the festival up to two million
dollars whether this is factually true
or not is still up in the air but based
on everything we know about mcFarland up
to this point which side are you really
on number seven Kendall Jenner’s
Instagram post
I think 250 is a steal to like post how
many instagrams one both fire fraud and
fire the greatest party that never
happened feature detailed
deconstructions of influencer culture
and you cannot take on social media
figures without a mention of one kendall
Jenner
then Billy convinces kendall Jenner one
of the largest influencers in the world
to post about the fire fire
who lose fire fraud notes that the model
has been at the forefront of nearly
every millennial movement but few could
have predicted just how much her voice
is really worth dropping a figure of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
just one promotional post about fire
festival whose film attributes much of
the early ticket sales to models like
Jenner and the impact that they can have
who knew you could make that much money
without even lifting a finger okay
maybe she lifted a couple of thumbs
kendall jenner was paid I think two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars my
wire transfer just to post that one pose
number six cashless wristbands it just
seemed like every day we wake up an
issue solve it by the next morning a new
one would pop up and it was just playing
this guacomole game the six-month
production process a fire festival
proved to be extremely expensive and via
the now infamous Billy McFarland it did
not go off without a few sketchy tricks
from up his sleeve after noticing a lack
of funds of their own fire fest email
ticket holders explaining to them that
it was mandatory to load up their
festival wristbands with cash for the
event you load up the wristband with
money or whatever you want to buy
anything you scan the wristband and it’s
debited from the account the email even
mislead festival goers to believe that
they need at least three hundred dollars
per day and that other attendees had
added up to three thousand dollars on
average to their accounts based on how
the festival actually turned out we are
assuming the eight hundred thousand
dollars the company reportedly
accumulated through this initiative
didn’t really pay off Billy wanted the
engineers to set up payment through this
RFID bracelet and we all said that was
insane based on the wireless
communication issues number five
Escobar Island this is Pablo Escobar’s
Island twenty five years ago so we’re
taking the dream for your average person
in America or wherever they are and
saying for three days you can become
Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar might not be
the first person you think of when
you’re dreaming of paradise but Billy
McFarlane clearly wants us all to think
otherwise
most likely banking off the success of
Netflix’s narcos the promo video for
fire festival used the events
destination of Pablo Escobar’s private
island as a major selling point they
were told not to use the word Pablo
Escobar and then they used that in the
first social media tweet but it quickly
turned out that fire had spoken
soon because they’re boasting of this
fact saw them lose permission to use the
island as a stage for the event in the
first place instead the festival was
forced to relocate at the last minute to
another island willing to host it
thereby failing to follow through on its
promises once again then it went to
another Island then I went to another
Island until you finally got the Great
Exuma where it was like at least the
biggest island in the Exuma so it had
you know plumbing number four everything
about grant Margolin while most people
would watch the Hulu and Netflix
documentaries and take note mostly a
fire mastermind Billy McFarland there’s
perhaps an equally interesting figure
hiding just beneath the surface
we tell her be to have a big big big big
big big big big big big big bonfire
tomorrow night like a huge bonfire chief
marketing officer grant Margolin is
described in Netflix’s film as being an
extremely neurotic character who’s
anxious demeanor is bizarre to watch
flip over to who lose cake on the guy
and see him described in even more
detail including one story in which he
reportedly penned a 1000 word email to
flesh out a potential musical score for
the now infamous fire festival promo
video I want a use of odd meters and
compounded times to global music element
really constantly mentioned using a
sudra which is a Brazilian drum Tico
drum especially during the more
exploratory elements of the composition
also apparently Margolin works as an EMT
now so there’s that I heard that grant
is now an EMT his favorite word was
urgent if I I had all caps urgent in my
subject lines all the time so now he
actually has urgent situations number 3
the caterers financial troubles if both
of these documentaries made you lose any
and all faith you had left in humanity
then this story actually kind of had a
happy ending
Netflix rounds off its film with shots
showing the tears of caterer Mary and
role which became one of the most
memorable images to come out of either
documentary personally I don’t we would
like to talk about the fire festival
just take it away just let me start a
new beginning
role recounts the troubles that the
failed festival brought to her and her
country both physically and financially
and she reveals how she was eventually
forced to
the overworked team that was brought on
to help set up the event after all was
said and done role paid out over fifty
thousand dollars from her own pocket to
cover all the wages however kind viewers
around the world saw rolled down on her
luck and raised over one hundred and
seventy thousand dollars to help pay off
her debts number two Billy McFarland
post-fire festival I’ll never forget
what he said to me he looked me dead in
my face and said I’m not going in jail I
was like this man either knows something
that I don’t
or he’s certifiably insane we’d love to
say that once the fire festival debacle
was done Billy McFarland had learned his
lesson and life went on however that is
far from the case after facing a class
action lawsuit valued at one hundred
million dollars and somehow making bail
after a charge for wire fraud McFarland
emerged a free man but he soon returned
to his fraudulent ways as fire festival
attendees began receiving emails
promoting cheap fraudulent tickets to
in-demand events such as Coachella and
Hamilton and so I’ve texted my friend
Morgan
you guys get this masters email yeah I
got that too and so I’m like okay
clearly somebody’s targeting the fire
festival email list it was only a matter
of time before Billy’s name began
emerging as the potential culprit
McFarland was eventually charged for the
selling of fraudulent tickets On June
12th 2018 and then sentenced that
October to six years in federal prison
as it turns out NYC VIP was Billy before
we unveil our number one pick here are
some dishonorable mentions as we’re like
about to take off he’s like yeah I
bought this plane like six months ago I
just got my license I ended up teaching
myself and you can use Microsoft Flight
Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator has
lessons and it’s excellent once we were
in the arrows what are we gonna do you
know but I heard that some influencers
we actually did have a villa we felt
real bad we did try to lie to the public
about what we’re giving them I mean
that’s fraud like and that’s not okay
like as the company operates number one
Andy takes one for the team I went down
well Billy called me I’m gonna speak
completely um you know this won’t go
that far I’m sure but Billy called and
said Andy we need you to take one big
thing for the team it’s always good to
be a team player but maybe don’t go
quite as far as event producer Andy King
who almost went to extreme lengths to
try and turn this already failing
festival into a hit according to the
Netflix film King found himself in a
bizarre situation when the events
bottled water supply was held up at
customs in the Bahamas head honcho Billy
McFarland that guy again needed a quick
solution so according to King Billy
asked him to perform oral sex on a
customs officer to free the water yeah
and I got into my car to drive across
the island to take one for the team
after a quick shower and or in some
mouthwash King was actually on his way
to the customs office but was mercifully
told that the water would be released
with a payment being made at a later
date nothing else required can you
imagine in my 30 years of a career that
this is what I was going to do I was
going to do that honestly to save the
festival do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our
latest videos [Music]
didn’t even happen
welcome to watchmojo.com Netflix’s fire
the greatest party that never happened
and who lose fire fraud and I realized
that this is the best way to market my
crime business so I figured out this
school’s administrator password and I
started messing with them I changed the
password and my clock all the teachers
out so every time the Alpha smart was
turned on it would say for your broken
Cranz basically come and find me
before we begin we publish new content
every day so be sure to subscribe to our
Channel and ring the bell
to get notified about our latest videos
for this list we’re taking a look at the
wildest moments and insane insights into
this truly bizarre flop of a festival we
will be taking a deep dive into these
highly acclaimed documentaries so the
number 10 fire fests looters some woman
came in in a panic at one point in the
dead of night she couldn’t find her
friend she was lost she seemed like she
was drunk I mean not but there’s nothing
you can do to help a person like that
you know there’s it’s I don’t know where
I am either if someone were to paint you
a picture of a dimly lit campsite full
of hungry young savages your mind might
jump to some of your favorite horror
movies before you thought of the year’s
hottest music festival but as seen in
Netflix’s documentary this was not only
the reality at fire but it was actually
worse than any of us could have imagined
we all heard the stories when news of
the failed festival actually broke back
in 2017 but no one could have guessed
some of the things that many of the
young looters ended up doing to survive
including raiding shipping containers
full of other guests luggage one
attendee even claimed that they
witnessed their friend urinating around
the campsite just to avoid having
neighbors close by our strategy from
there was the kind of ransack all the
tents around us just started poking
holes in flipping mattresses and
test on a few of the beds number nine
comment censorship somebody would post a
question on the thing the question would
immediately get deleted social media
marketing has opened up a lot of doors
for companies big and small but fires
tactics heading into their inaugural
festival were just playing bizarre after
bombarding social media users with
orange tiles and intriguing them enough
to actually buy tickets to the festival
fire fest staff was dumbfounded when it
came to answering all the incoming
questions from thousands of ticket
holders on top of this many sceptic
accounts arose and began trying to
spread the word as to the truth about
the festival it was almost like
WikiLeaks we were having these
confidential meetings and then things
from that meeting we’re actually getting
out word for word fires response block
any and all comments featuring negative
buzzwords and eventually any and all
buzz words altogether number eight lost
keys people were freaking out no one had
their room no one knew where their bags
were it seemed like by the time the
festival rolled around everything that
could have gone wrong already had
according to fire media founder Billy
McFarland there was a simple reason why
festival attendees were forced to sleep
in FEMA tents it was all due to the fact
that he’d missed placed the keys to the
island villas that were previously
promised to guests we had a box of
physical keys cars to take people there
and maps for every single house in the
box of keys unfortunately it went
missing there were supposedly around 250
luxury houses rented for the event
costing the festival up to two million
dollars whether this is factually true
or not is still up in the air but based
on everything we know about mcFarland up
to this point which side are you really
on number seven Kendall Jenner’s
Instagram post
I think 250 is a steal to like post how
many instagrams one both fire fraud and
fire the greatest party that never
happened feature detailed
deconstructions of influencer culture
and you cannot take on social media
figures without a mention of one kendall
Jenner
then Billy convinces kendall Jenner one
of the largest influencers in the world
to post about the fire fire
who lose fire fraud notes that the model
has been at the forefront of nearly
every millennial movement but few could
have predicted just how much her voice
is really worth dropping a figure of two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
just one promotional post about fire
festival whose film attributes much of
the early ticket sales to models like
Jenner and the impact that they can have
who knew you could make that much money
without even lifting a finger okay
maybe she lifted a couple of thumbs
kendall jenner was paid I think two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars my
wire transfer just to post that one pose
number six cashless wristbands it just
seemed like every day we wake up an
issue solve it by the next morning a new
one would pop up and it was just playing
this guacomole game the six-month
production process a fire festival
proved to be extremely expensive and via
the now infamous Billy McFarland it did
not go off without a few sketchy tricks
from up his sleeve after noticing a lack
of funds of their own fire fest email
ticket holders explaining to them that
it was mandatory to load up their
festival wristbands with cash for the
event you load up the wristband with
money or whatever you want to buy
anything you scan the wristband and it’s
debited from the account the email even
mislead festival goers to believe that
they need at least three hundred dollars
per day and that other attendees had
added up to three thousand dollars on
average to their accounts based on how
the festival actually turned out we are
assuming the eight hundred thousand
dollars the company reportedly
accumulated through this initiative
didn’t really pay off Billy wanted the
engineers to set up payment through this
RFID bracelet and we all said that was
insane based on the wireless
communication issues number five
Escobar Island this is Pablo Escobar’s
Island twenty five years ago so we’re
taking the dream for your average person
in America or wherever they are and
saying for three days you can become
Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar might not be
the first person you think of when
you’re dreaming of paradise but Billy
McFarlane clearly wants us all to think
otherwise
most likely banking off the success of
Netflix’s narcos the promo video for
fire festival used the events
destination of Pablo Escobar’s private
island as a major selling point they
were told not to use the word Pablo
Escobar and then they used that in the
first social media tweet but it quickly
turned out that fire had spoken
soon because they’re boasting of this
fact saw them lose permission to use the
island as a stage for the event in the
first place instead the festival was
forced to relocate at the last minute to
another island willing to host it
thereby failing to follow through on its
promises once again then it went to
another Island then I went to another
Island until you finally got the Great
Exuma where it was like at least the
biggest island in the Exuma so it had
you know plumbing number four everything
about grant Margolin while most people
would watch the Hulu and Netflix
documentaries and take note mostly a
fire mastermind Billy McFarland there’s
perhaps an equally interesting figure
hiding just beneath the surface
we tell her be to have a big big big big
big big big big big big big bonfire
tomorrow night like a huge bonfire chief
marketing officer grant Margolin is
described in Netflix’s film as being an
extremely neurotic character who’s
anxious demeanor is bizarre to watch
flip over to who lose cake on the guy
and see him described in even more
detail including one story in which he
reportedly penned a 1000 word email to
flesh out a potential musical score for
the now infamous fire festival promo
video I want a use of odd meters and
compounded times to global music element
really constantly mentioned using a
sudra which is a Brazilian drum Tico
drum especially during the more
exploratory elements of the composition
also apparently Margolin works as an EMT
now so there’s that I heard that grant
is now an EMT his favorite word was
urgent if I I had all caps urgent in my
subject lines all the time so now he
actually has urgent situations number 3
the caterers financial troubles if both
of these documentaries made you lose any
and all faith you had left in humanity
then this story actually kind of had a
happy ending
Netflix rounds off its film with shots
showing the tears of caterer Mary and
role which became one of the most
memorable images to come out of either
documentary personally I don’t we would
like to talk about the fire festival
just take it away just let me start a
new beginning
role recounts the troubles that the
failed festival brought to her and her
country both physically and financially
and she reveals how she was eventually
forced to
the overworked team that was brought on
to help set up the event after all was
said and done role paid out over fifty
thousand dollars from her own pocket to
cover all the wages however kind viewers
around the world saw rolled down on her
luck and raised over one hundred and
seventy thousand dollars to help pay off
her debts number two Billy McFarland
post-fire festival I’ll never forget
what he said to me he looked me dead in
my face and said I’m not going in jail I
was like this man either knows something
that I don’t
or he’s certifiably insane we’d love to
say that once the fire festival debacle
was done Billy McFarland had learned his
lesson and life went on however that is
far from the case after facing a class
action lawsuit valued at one hundred
million dollars and somehow making bail
after a charge for wire fraud McFarland
emerged a free man but he soon returned
to his fraudulent ways as fire festival
attendees began receiving emails
promoting cheap fraudulent tickets to
in-demand events such as Coachella and
Hamilton and so I’ve texted my friend
Morgan
you guys get this masters email yeah I
got that too and so I’m like okay
clearly somebody’s targeting the fire
festival email list it was only a matter
of time before Billy’s name began
emerging as the potential culprit
McFarland was eventually charged for the
selling of fraudulent tickets On June
12th 2018 and then sentenced that
October to six years in federal prison
as it turns out NYC VIP was Billy before
we unveil our number one pick here are
some dishonorable mentions as we’re like
about to take off he’s like yeah I
bought this plane like six months ago I
just got my license I ended up teaching
myself and you can use Microsoft Flight
Simulator Microsoft Flight Simulator has
lessons and it’s excellent once we were
in the arrows what are we gonna do you
know but I heard that some influencers
we actually did have a villa we felt
real bad we did try to lie to the public
about what we’re giving them I mean
that’s fraud like and that’s not okay
like as the company operates number one
Andy takes one for the team I went down
well Billy called me I’m gonna speak
completely um you know this won’t go
that far I’m sure but Billy called and
said Andy we need you to take one big
thing for the team it’s always good to
be a team player but maybe don’t go
quite as far as event producer Andy King
who almost went to extreme lengths to
try and turn this already failing
festival into a hit according to the
Netflix film King found himself in a
bizarre situation when the events
bottled water supply was held up at
customs in the Bahamas head honcho Billy
McFarland that guy again needed a quick
solution so according to King Billy
asked him to perform oral sex on a
customs officer to free the water yeah
and I got into my car to drive across
the island to take one for the team
after a quick shower and or in some
mouthwash King was actually on his way
to the customs office but was mercifully
told that the water would be released
with a payment being made at a later
date nothing else required can you
imagine in my 30 years of a career that
this is what I was going to do I was
going to do that honestly to save the
festival do you agree with our picks
check out these other great clips from
WatchMojo and be sure to subscribe and
ring the bell to be notified about our
latest videos [Music]
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