The Double-Decker Shit Sandwich

“LimeWire acquires Fyre Festival, has vague plans to offer ‘real experiences’” and I am beside myself.

A company founded by a now finance-bro anti-vaxxer (so we’re already off to a fantastic start) that nuked people’s computers in the 2000s, cockroached it out for twenty-five years, and now nukes people’s wallets by being an “NFT music marketplace”, bought a festival started by a guy¹ who pled guilty to “one count of wire fraud to defraud investors and ticket holders” and who, after serving his sentence, decided to give it another go.

It sounds like LimeWire might want to turn Fyre Festival into a physical perk of the digital collectibles it sells through its NFT marketplace.

I’ve enjoyed the Fyre documentary at least twice, thought it deserved a sequel, and was dismayed to find out that the Fyre 2 festival got canceled.

I cannot describe how excited I am.

“Fyre became a symbol of hype gone wrong, but it also made history,” LimeWire CEO Julian Zehetmayr shared in a press release. “We’re not bringing the festival back — we’re bringing the brand and the meme back to life. This time with real experiences, and without the cheese sandwiches.”

Godspeed bro. I am very glad he addressed the sandwich. It has never failed to make me laugh and I wish I owned the NFT. Thanks to this deal, I might soon 🥰

Image of the terrible and hilarious sandwich offered to guests at the Fyre Festival. It's two pieces of bread and cheese. The remainder is not worth describing lest you vomit.

Here’s some more context. This awful stuff was “really just supposed to be for staff”. You know, subhumans.

And also Ja Rule.↩︎