Fyre Festival 2: Fraudster's Mexico redo raises red flags about social media fads, former designer warns
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Former Fyre Festival social media designer Oren Aks raises red flags about Fyre Festival 2 in Mexico and explains how social media puts scammers on pedestals.
"These things just don't matter anymore." "We glorify the bad, the scammy, the evil, and we look at those people as heroes." Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox News Digital and FOX Business. Email tips to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
Fyre Festival 2 was set to take place in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, between May 30 and June 2, but one of its partners, ticketing company SoldOut.com, confirmed to Fox News Digital last week that the event had been postponed and it was refunding tickets for the event.
"I think the bigger question here is … why is this so fascinating to people to keep going at it? Again, it's just because it's a big meme. So, because it is a meme, it keeps memeing, and we're just reinventing the meme," Aks said. "So, I get that in terms of like pop culture."
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