Both of these two documentaries talk about one thing: In 2017, how a music festival called "FYRE Festival" used social media to "make something out of nothing" to detonate the hot spot of the "most luxurious music festival" on the Internet, and finally evolved into a one Fraud cases involving many investors, Internet celebrities and ticket viewers.
Billy McFarland, the core organizer of the FYRE Festival, has no experience in music festivals or large-scale events, but he "dare to draw cakes." In the Bahamas island, where infrastructure is almost zero, just invite a bunch of supermodel internet celebrities, paired with yacht wine, you can outline what a fantasy luxury music festival should look like: a group of models with bright smiles and beautiful bodies on the soft beach Running on (slowly), champagne overflowing on the yacht, and the blue sea being trailed by a white wave by your jet ski...Even if it is not a music festival, these pictures are enough to make people fascinating. On social media, big Vs such as Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid have collectively reposted this movie with them as the protagonist. Even if a package sells for more than two thousand dollars, there are still enough groups to take it all.
Hulu’s entry point is the reliance of the "millennials" on social media. They live in the world of Instagram and are deceived by the life shown by internet celebrities, so Billy McFarland can play with the "millennials" and swindle their money. . I think this label is meaningless. If you really want to make a judgment on a certain age group, I’m afraid you have to analyze the age composition of ticket buyers first, and then make a control group to see if other age groups face homogeneity. Does the content have a similar tendency. However, objectively understand the image and landscape carefully carved by the Internet celebrity big V, and understand that even our daily photos and the content of the invoice circle are only part of the limited perspective, and the content you share will also be affected by other users in this circle. , It should be a must-have media literacy in the Internet age.
The Netflix version is flat and straightforward. Although they did not interview Billy McFarland, some of his characteristics can be felt very familiar through the interviews with employees: in addition to the top-notch ability of drawing cakes, he is a very convincing salesman, nothing is impossible, and he is born. Super optimistic, these qualities are especially beneficial to the leader of a startup company. But his curse may also be here, "You can think big, but you can only think big."
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