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* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: After three influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers, comes Seth Crossno, who even warrants "I don't know who that is"... before explaining he had a CharacterBlog pretending to be an influencer, which was one of the main sources of images and anecdotes during Fyre.

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Made as a sort-of response to Creator/{{Netflix}}'s ''Film/{{Fyre}}'' documentary due to ''Fyre'' being produced and filmed by Jerry Media -- who helped in the marketing of the Fyre Festival -- which the ''Fyre Fraud'' documentary argues should have suffered the consequences for their overhyping of the festival and for not doing anything to stop it.

The documentary focuses on the life of Billy [=McFarland=], a young and ambitious entrepeneur and founder of the company ''Fyre'', and his attempt to promote their namesake booking app with an epic music festival in the Bahamas. However, everything goes wrong and the festival is cancelled in its second day. Following the failure of the festival, many secrets about Billy are revealed, which leads to his and his two companies' downfall.

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Made as a sort-of response to Creator/{{Netflix}}'s ''Film/{{Fyre}}'' documentary due to ''Fyre'' being produced and filmed by Jerry Media -- - who helped in the marketing of the Fyre Festival -- - which the ''Fyre Fraud'' documentary argues should have suffered the consequences for their overhyping of the festival and for not doing anything to stop it.

The documentary focuses on the life of Billy [=McFarland=], a young and ambitious entrepeneur and founder of the company ''Fyre'', Fyre, and his attempt to promote their namesake booking app with an epic music festival in the Bahamas. However, everything goes wrong and the festival is cancelled in its second day. Following the failure of the festival, many secrets about Billy are revealed, which leads to his and his two companies' downfall.




!!Tropes found in ''Fyre Fraud'':

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\n!!Tropes found in ''Fyre Fraud'':
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* ConMan: Billy [=McFarland=] is lying about the entire operation, and has been running scams since he was a child.
* DescriptionCut: One of the lucky few influencers who actually got the villa she was promised claims that she felt bad for the other guests who only got tents. Cut to an Instagram video of her dancing in her villa.[[note]]What isn't shown is that this person, Alyssa Lynch, did in fact make at least one video after she learned what was going on, letting her followers know the plight of most of the guests. Snippets of this video shown on the episode "Fyre Fraud" on ''American Greed''.[[/note]]

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* ConMan: Billy [=McFarland=] is lying about the entire operation, and has been running scams since he was a child.
* DescriptionCut: One of the lucky few influencers who actually got the villa she was promised claims that she felt bad for the other guests who only got tents. Cut to an Instagram video of her dancing in her villa.[[note]]What [[note]](What isn't shown is that this person, Alyssa Lynch, did in fact make at least one video after she learned what was going on, letting her followers know the plight of most of the guests. Snippets of this video shown on the episode "Fyre Fraud" on ''American Greed''.[[/note]])[[/note]]



* KarmaHoudini: Ja Rule, who's even implied to go setting up ''[[HereWeGoAgain another application like Fyre]]''.

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* KarmaHoudini: Ja Rule, who's even implied to go be setting up ''[[HereWeGoAgain another application like Fyre]]''.



* RefugeInAudacity: No matter how bad things get, Billy [=McFarland=] just keeps going bigger. He's running scams even after being arrested.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Grant Margolin was fond of extremely wordy emails and pitches that ultimately said very little. One music producer goes through an email Grant sent to the composer about the music for the original Fyre promotional video, an email over ''1000 words'' of ad-speak and requests for unusual musical instruments and arrangements.

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* RefugeInAudacity: No matter how bad things get, Billy [=McFarland=] just keeps going bigger. He's running scams even after being arrested.
* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Grant Margolin was fond of extremely wordy emails and pitches that ultimately said very little. One music producer goes through an email Grant sent to the composer about the music for the original Fyre promotional video, an email over ''1000 ''1,000 words'' of ad-speak and requests for unusual musical instruments and arrangements.



* TakeThat: The film takes a direct shot at its competing documentary ''Film/{{Fyre}}'' because one of its funders is Jerry Media, who was directly involved with the festival.

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* TakeThat: The film takes a direct shot at its competing documentary ''Film/{{Fyre}}'' because one of its funders is Jerry Media, who was directly involved with the festival.

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