by forwardslash

The festival, which Fyre promoters had marketed on Instagram as the next Coachella, didn’t quite turn out to be the opulent Bahamas getaway, as promised, with yachts and luxury cabanas, celebrity-chef catering, and the greatest live-music entertainment that anyone had ever imagined. Instead, it was more like Lord of the Flies dystopia meets social-media hysteria, circa 2017.

A fool and his money, etc etc.

As a side note: does it seem like writer are taking it as a challenge to link everything to Trump? The story is easy enough to make interesting without invoking him. There are a ton of things to do a deep dive on, too! Like the epidemic of undisclosed promotion or the ridiculous amount of VC money thrown at ridiculous products.