Like everyone else, I watched at least one of the Fyre Festival documentaries (the Netflix one). The most important line in the documentary, which sums it up at the end, comes from the team's software engineer, who says that "the real Fyre Festival happened twice." The first, and perhaps more real, version was the party on the beach that furnished all of the festival's promotional imagery. "It just happened for sixty people versus 6,000." Now, we can say the festival happened three times: those two, plus the mass cultural celebration of its failure, streamed to millions and discussed to death—the Fyre Festival that we all finally got to attend. All three were equally real and inseparable from one another. Kyle Chayka,
#79: Bay of Pigs
#79: Bay of Pigs
#79: Bay of Pigs
Like everyone else, I watched at least one of the Fyre Festival documentaries (the Netflix one). The most important line in the documentary, which sums it up at the end, comes from the team's software engineer, who says that "the real Fyre Festival happened twice." The first, and perhaps more real, version was the party on the beach that furnished all of the festival's promotional imagery. "It just happened for sixty people versus 6,000." Now, we can say the festival happened three times: those two, plus the mass cultural celebration of its failure, streamed to millions and discussed to death—the Fyre Festival that we all finally got to attend. All three were equally real and inseparable from one another. Kyle Chayka,