This Ja Rules.
Fyre Festival, a luxury music festival organized by Ja Rule on a private island in the Bahamas, ended up being a straight-up disaster when concertgoers arrived on Thursday.
Blink 182, one of the bands scheduled to headline, pulled out at the last minute. Accommodations were a mess, as well. Tents were half-built; there were feral dogs running amuck; and the promised gourmet grub was actually sad-looking cheese sandwiches, based on numerous social media reports.
Naturally, attendees were angry, being that they paid $5,000 to $250,000 for tickets, according to Rolling Stone.
And let’s just say that the news of a bunch of rich kids not attending the super-luxe party they thought they were going to inspired quite a few jokes on Twitter.
Here’s the most “fyre” ones:
Me at home watching rich people get scammed to see what it feels like to be a refugee and live in subhuman conditions at the #FyreFestival pic.twitter.com/wAnQ5khU6U
— Ree🐪 (@queenreeeee) April 28, 2017
Me: I try to be a compassionate person ☺️✌🏼🌺
— Lizzie Tadsen (@tizzieladsen) April 28, 2017
Me reading about #fyrefestival: pic.twitter.com/Sz8bmZjpKc
Do not let #FyreFestival refugees into the country. We cannot risk it if even ONE of them has been radicalized.
— Chris Adler 🌹 (@adler_chris) April 28, 2017
WELCOME TO #FYREFESTIVAL pic.twitter.com/CGRD9TtbTl
— Bryan Glasgow (@BryanGlasgow4) April 28, 2017
Live from the VIP area of #FyreFestival pic.twitter.com/1X6wfM372a
— Geoff Holtby (@gdholtby) April 28, 2017
Found the dudes who organized #FyreFestival pic.twitter.com/xognF7dUdD
— Emalie Marthe (@The_Sample_Life) April 28, 2017
The #fyrefestival is really a social experiment where rich people get to live like the majority of people in developing countries.
— Travis Keys (@thewritetbkeys) April 28, 2017
#fyrefestival organizers be like pic.twitter.com/5SCzpKPvzr
— Blaise Production (@Blaise_Prod) April 28, 2017
Most of us only dream of putting the wealthy in a gulag, Comrade Ja has actually gone and done it #fyrefestival
— netflix & phil🏴 (@PaleCompanion) April 28, 2017
You paid $12k to go see Blink-182 headlined festival hosted by Ja Rule in 2017?!?!?!?!? #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/QcYj2z67vf
— Meaks (@MeaksB) April 28, 2017
#FyreFestival is an art installation where mediocre people realize what their lives would be like without rich parents.
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) April 28, 2017
Maybe they should of had Kendall Jenner handing out Pepsi's to make everything better at #fyrefestival #fyre pic.twitter.com/WOJm5Kicrz
— CaliGirl (@emdeeimages) April 28, 2017
The luckiest kid is the one who booked his flight to #fyrefestival on United Airlines and got dragged off the plane before they took off.
— Will Presti (@WillPresti) April 28, 2017
"Anybody know time Migos' set is?" #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/2g3fVdvSGg
— Patti LaHelle (@_maleficentt) April 28, 2017
Uber Black at #fyrefestival is lit. pic.twitter.com/tFtaYpMpc3
— Steven Hyden (@Steven_Hyden) April 28, 2017
How many times has "Do you know who I am?" been screamed in the face of a very frustrated and confused Bahamian? #fyrefestival
— Monty Burns, III (@CMontyBurnsIII) April 28, 2017
My $450 "Muddy Jeans" got real mud on them while trying to survive #FYREFESTIVAL
— Jason Malmont (@Jmalmont) April 28, 2017
#fyrefestival right now pic.twitter.com/cNOH2XL1iB
— ryan was here (@omgitsryguy) April 28, 2017
News crews have arrived on scene at the #fyrefestival pic.twitter.com/3wxHNToqDM
— Joe Perticone (@JoePerticone) April 28, 2017
I wonder how bad #fyrefestival actually is. I imagine that most of the people there would consider a Holiday Inn comparable to a warzone
— Stephen Bowe (@StephenBoweActs) April 28, 2017
Me, broke in my apartment knowing that rich people at #fyrefestival are LARP-ing Lord of the Flies right now: pic.twitter.com/o8zbFUBRWo
— ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ (@_stevendavidson) April 28, 2017
This month's hottest new club is #fyrefestival
— Ehren🌹 (@megalonyx_) April 28, 2017
It's got everything:
Wild dogs
Embassy cooperation
Tent fires
Stolen passports pic.twitter.com/NbHWUZXcf5
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