Fyre Fest Fiasco: Bahamas Party Becomes Huge Disappointment

In this day and age, the young and beautiful live and die on social media. In the case of the ill-fated Fyre Festival — a multiday music, art and culture party that promised “an invitation to let loose and unplug with the likeminded” on the Bahamian island of Exuma — it’s been a sudden and ugly death, chronicled in real-time on YouTube and filtered through Facebook. Organizers canceled the event at the last minute after poor planning, disorganization and lack of accommodations.