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Watch both Netflix and Hulu docs about the doomed Fyre Festival, and one gives you a better look inside the fiasco

#FyreFestival #Netflix #Hulu #BillyMcFarland #JaRule 2017's  Fyre Festival  became a viral sensation when hundreds of people expecting to party with celebrities on an island in the Bahamas showed up to an event in complete disarray. Now two documentaries, Netflix's "Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened" and Hulu's "Fyre Fraud," recount the experience of being there and shed light on the person behind it who is now in prison for fraud. Here's what we think the movies' strengths are and which one is the best to watch. Billy McFarland, the Fyre Festival founder, is in the Hulu doc, but don't expect anything revealing. Billy McFarland in "Fyre Fraud."   Hulu McFarland is all over both movies thanks to archival footage, but "Fyre Fraud" is the only one that interviewed him on camera. ( Hulu paid McFarland to be in the movie .) However, don't expect much from the footage. Outside of one t...

Fuckjerry founder apologizes for stealing jokes and pledges to get creator permission

#FyreFestival #ElliotTebele #Fuckjerry Elliot Tebele, the founder of marketing firm Jerry Media and creator of the popular Fuckjerry Instagram account, said today that his company will no longer post content without being able to identify its creator and without that creator’s express and advance consent. The change comes in response to backlash from the comedy world, which has long despised accounts like Fuckjerry’s for profiting off jokes, memes, and other creative works on the internet without approval and, in earlier years, without crediting an original creator at all. “In the past few years, I have made a concerted, proactive effort to properly credit creators for their work. We have also updated our policies to make sure we are responsive to creators whenever they have reached out to us about posts,” Tebele wrote in a post published to Medium this afternoon. “It hasn’t been a perfect system, but I do feel it was a significant improvement, as many of my peers have approac...