The ill fated Fyre Festival, a music event promising supermodels, live music and endless luxury on a private island in the Bahamas which ultimately bombed horribly, is the subject of two new documentaries that were released in the same week.
The two films, Netflix‘s ‘Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened‘ and Hulu‘s ‘Fyre Fraud,’ both cover the story behind the over hyped music festival/excursion geared toward millennials that took place in 2017 and ended in complete disaster. Both docs center around the brains behind the scam operation, Billy McFarland and his co-founder/rapper, Ja Rule.
Both Rule and McFarland were sued for $100 million in a class action lawsuit as a result of the failed festival that left attendees stranded on the island without basic necessities such as food, water and adequate sleeping arrangements. In addition to the class action lawsuit filed in May 2017, six federal and four individual lawsuits were filed in relation to the scheme.
McFarland was sentenced in October 2018 and is currently serving a six year federal prison sentence for charges related to the event as well as other fraud crimes associated with his business.
While Billy is serving jail time, Ja Rule is being crucified brutally on social media with followers dragging him all up and down his comments. The lynching started shortly after the respective documentaries went live on Hulu and Netflix last week, but it was a post that Ja shared related to one of the spotlighted victims in the documentary, MaryAnne Rolle that really set social media off.
My heart goes out to this lovely lady… MaryAnne Rolle we’ve never met but I’m devastated that something that was meant to be amazing, turn out to be such a disaster and hurt so many ppl… SORRY to anyone who has been negatively effected by the festival… Rule
Get into just some of the many comments below.
Ja took some time to respond to his critics.
I love how ppl watch a doc and think they have all the answers… ??♂️
— Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) January 20, 2019
Cause it wasn’t me who scammed ppl Sherlock… https://t.co/k8liAbhmNn
— Ja Rule (@Ruleyork) January 20, 2019
It didn’t end there though! Since then Ja has made several posts and tweets non-FYRE related, and followers continue to troll him.
Use the fyre app
— Ryan Ross and 487 others (@disownedpear) January 24, 2019
Smh pic.twitter.com/g4MdQqsUVr
— Razzle (@RazzleisDazzled) January 24, 2019
but there was no music at #FyreFestival ?!
— Martin Petracca (@MartinPetracca) January 25, 2019
Just do a benefit concert & get all the haters off your back. I thought the millennials getting screwed @FyreFestival was hilarious! But you gotta do something about those people that didn’t get paid bro. You’re the only one has the pull to get that done. Stop deflecting. OWN IT!
— TCU_HORNEDFROGS (@TCU_GOFROGS) January 24, 2019
— Ryan (@RedAdrenalineCo) January 24, 2019
Not as epic as that sandwich pic.twitter.com/PnUXFRUVbx
— LeBron (@fancymanjones) January 24, 2019
— JOEYNUTCRACKER (@joeynutcrack) January 25, 2019
On a scale of 1-10 boxes of misplaced beach villa keys, how epic would you say?
— Duneedon (@MrDonEden) January 24, 2019
Epic or fyre?
— Jenny Locks (@Liptaksgirl) January 24, 2019
— Running Small (@RunningSmall) January 24, 2019
a tour to help benifit all unpaid workers from FYRE FEST ???
— P A P I ? (@AlexHendrix805) January 24, 2019
Is it retirement?
— AJ Imler (@AJImler) January 24, 2019
Fyre fest but with food?
— aaron williams (@Raider1Aaron) January 24, 2019
— Captain Levi (@Rae_Five) January 22, 2019
“We’ve never met. But here’s a picture of me sitting right next to her” – pic.twitter.com/yAWiSBhvYG
— HOLDIN’ A ? IN MY HAND (@thatsmybeercan) January 22, 2019
You should get @50cent to buy all the Fyre Festival 2 tickets pic.twitter.com/cftPn41F7u
— chantix the rapper (@agunrack) January 21, 2019
Yikes! there’s plenty more where that came from, just hit up his Twitter and Instagram comments for more scorching.