The Hulu Fyre Festival documentary was more clear-eyed than the one Netflix did. Billy McFarland was a conman plain and simple. He discovered early on that he could make money defrauding millennials so he kept doing it. Then he also began defrauding investors.
As soon as he was out on bail, McFarland started again, sending emails to everyone on his mailing list offering to sell them tickets he didn't have to shows and events.
They paid McFarland to appear in the documentary. They interviewed him in prison. He talked and talked and at one point challenged them to name one thing he had said that wasn't true. They couldn't respond offhand, but they did a montage showing some of the lies he had just told them.
A psychologist had no doubt he would be at it again as soon as he was only of the slam.
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