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Topic: Fyre Festival

A child looks down at her broken lollipop on the floor (Getty Images/Israel Sebastian)

Fyre Festival, but Willy Wonka-themed

Joy Saha
Billy McFarland is seen on July 13, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images/jfizzy/Star Max/GC Images)

Fyre Fest II is happening, no really

Nardos Haile
Cats (Universal Pictures)

20 fails from pop culture history

Ellen Gutoskey - Mental Floss
Ja Rule and Billy McFarland in "Fyre" (Netflix)

The everyday horror of working for Fyre

Keith A. Spencer
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"Fyre" (Netflix)

"Fyre": Inside the worst music festival

David Ehrlich - Indiewire
Ludacris, one of the artists slated to perform at XO Fest (Getty/Ser Baffo)

"Fraud from the start"

Amy X. Wang - Rolling Stone
Billy McFarland, the promoter of the failed Fyre Festival. (AP/Mark Lennihan)

Is it the Fyre Festival officially over?

Rachel Leah
(Getty/Furtseff)

Classical music's Fyre Fest

Charlie May
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Author circa 1970 (Courtesy of the author)

Boomer music fans had more fun

Elizabeth Pimentel
(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Fyre Festival founder arrested

Taylor Link
FILE - In this April 9, 2016 file photo, Kendall Jenner arrives at the MTV Movie Awards in Burbank, Calif. Jenner appeared in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2016, to testify against a man charged with stalking the actress after he was arrested outside her Hollywood Hills home in August. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File) (AP)

Rachel Leah
(Twitter/Tr3vor)

Matthew Rozsa
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