The former social media designer for Fyre Festival says that social networks are feeding the idolatries of bad actors and scammers, specifically naming the creator of the Fyre Billy McFarland festival, the notorious socialite of Estafa Anna Delvey Sorokin and the CEO murder of United of United.
Ears Aks spoke with Fox News Digital after Fyre Festival 2, a distribution version of the original Fyre Festival that failed in 2017, postponed a week before it was scheduled in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, between May 30 and June 2.
Ears Aks, who worked with Jerry Media when he did a graphic design and social media design work for Fyre Festival in 2017, told Fox News Digital that, in the era of social networks, the public makes artists and criminals such as Delvey and Mangione.
McFarland is no exception, he said.
“We look at them as if they were iconic, such as,” Oh, what is Sheing to Court? “And … at a certain point, you are more obsessed with them as a narration that you have built instead of whose real are with Billy, I would not impress you,” Aks said.
AKS added that the public, especially the American public, does not talk about the success stories of the millionaire and billionaire commercial magnates in the same way that the public discusses the scammers and the “extraordinary”, on social networks.
“It used to be … this inspiring route that would take the child in your career to ascend on a ladder or make a living and buy a house or something. Now, we vilize those people, and glorify the bad, the scammer, the evil and take care of people.”
“As style icons or fighters for freedom or any other image that you want to assign them. And I think … is very worrying as a social change … Why are we doing this?”
Aks added that the United States has created the idea “that you have to fail big to win big, or that you have tried to succeed.”
“And they are almost children or like this endless trains clash … It is what feeds the Internet,” he said. “That is why people care about this type Luigi Mangane. What universe do we live in that this is a relevant story to glorify these people as the image of success? And … there will be thousands more. And it is a truly and American story.”
AKS said he was excited about the Fyre Festival project in 2017 because he had a history of working in the music industry and that he was passionate about music festivals. The event and McFarland promised the attendees who paid thousands for tickets a luxurious music festival set in the Bahamas, but delivered a glorified camp on the island.
There was “wall ingenuity” before the festival ate that it should have indicated that the event would be a disaster, from credit cards that bounced to the Fyre Festival members who stayed out of the circuit in the logistics planning, Aks said.
He remembered the moment he knew that things were going to the south.
“When we arrived, the point where it really hit me was real … Going to this hill and a child to descend to the valley, where the beach area was carried out, where the festival was carried out, and seeing the tents and the area of the center of the real media and nothing.”
“In my brain, logistics did not work, but I assumed that this is not my territory. I am the graphic designer. I am sure they have as an architect or … someone who tried, but there was the time when it was time.
After the failure of the 2017 Fyre Festival, he went viral on social networks when Hulu and Netflix published documentaries about the failed Beach Bash, causing the hashtag #fyrefraud and a photo of the scattered sandwiches served in the festival are turned viral at that time.
The festival reached an agreement with 277 ticket holders in 2021, when each recipient was ordered to pay a $ 7,220 prize.
Since then, Fyre Festival 2 has been postponed, and McFarland announced this week that the Fyre brand is selling.
“We have decided that the best way to achieve our goals is to sell the Fyre Festival brand, including its registered brands, IP, digital assets, scope of the media and cultural capital, an operator who can completely perform his vision,” McFarland’s rotate.
McFarland said the Fyre brand “deserves a team with the scale, experience and infrastructure to perform all its potential.”