A Look At Hulu’s Fyre Fraud Documentary

If you’ve been online the last 48 hours, you’ve probably heard about Hulu dropping their documentary on the Fyre Festival before Netflix’s, which is aimed to come out in a few days.

This music festival was the ultimate scam. Billy McFarland, the head organizer, is basically Joanne The Scammer. The way the festival was produced and handled, reminded me of Tanacon. Like Tanacon, things like performers and setup did not match up to how people were marketed it.

The documentary starts out describing how Mcfarland thought he was going to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. He created many companies and ventures that were scams like his card service, Magnises. It felt like Hulu was trying to make us feel sorry for him by showing statements from Mcfarland’s family saying how innocent and nice he was.

I wanted to vomit when they showed footage of him in college presenting and childhood photos because whenever it’s a non person of color in these situations, the media flips it to make us empathize with the person. They like to make us forget the person did criminal activity and try to bypass it.

Hulu definitely threw the victim card out the window when they brought out the receipts! They had emails and recordings of how Mcfarland and his team lied about having talent that was performing and not having funds needed for the festival.

What I can’t wait to see is how Netflix explains what happened at this festival. fuckjerry founder, Elliot Tebele, is one of the executive producers of the Netflix documentary and ran the marketing campaign for the Fyre Festival. Will we get the full truth or is this Netflix documentary just an expensive PR stunt?