“Fyre Festival”: 30 Things That Were Massively Hyped But Turned Out To Be Huge Flops

My Hot Take: He's deliberately running it into the ground at a massive loss as a tax umbrella.

I still call it Twitter and probably will forever

I hate it as X, I loved seeing the little birds, this is jsut stupid

Costing the world ink because now every article reads "So-and-so posted on X, formerly Twitter"

Should’ve kept it to twitter

His successful businesses (e.g. SpaceX) are run by others who know what they're doing. Then, like Edison, he takes credit and basks in the glory.

He f*****g is

Couldn't agree more A moron with a massive ego.

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WHy? Is it because he doesn't "toe the line" and allows/insists of letting other opinions have a say?

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I find all this Musk is a moron stuff both hilarious and fascinating. He's worth $40 billion now than when he bought Twitter/X. (Rebranding Twitter as X seems like a pretty bad move.) He gains and loses more on a good or bad stock-market day at Tesla than X is worth. He bought Twitter to prevent certain censorship which at the very least was hurting him financially. Know who the 2nd richest guy in the world is? A make-up and fashion guy, Bernard Arnault. Nothing he produces benefits any lives one bit. But Tesla's the villain for making an electric car and chopping the price of getting goods into space by 90%.

NFT's right now have less value than dirt. And I'm pretty sure most people with common sense knew they were a scam from day one.

Bro, these are so ugly. I'm glad it passed me by almost completely!

lol the monkey smoking a pipe nft.

The Dutch really, really want the Nexit - totalky forgetting how important the EU is for a country that exports 65 to 85% (it depends how it is counted) of their agriculture produce and the advantages of the easy exchange in the border regions. I live close to Belgium, where the daily life is so interwoven that a hard border would be a huge problem. People use medical services, schools and many more services as if the border does not exist. The live in one country and work in the other. People share stuff across the border. During Corona we had a hard border, roads were blocked by containers and fenced off, crosding was only possible via two riads with strict access control, which was a big shock for the most people.

I still rememeber seeing Boris standing next to his 350-million-a-week-bus making all these wild promises. I don't think that since the 1970's the UK has ever been as bad as it is now.

As a European, I hate it! I was thinking about going to London with my son for a long weekend in about 3 or 4 weeks, but he still doesn't own a passport and it wouldn't be ready on time, so we'll go to Germany, Italy...

When I saw the changes made for immigrating to UK, I cried.

Zuckerberg, Trump and Musk. My top three picks for a boat to the Bermuda Triangle.

I personally think people don't really get why this was a failure. The technology is just not there yet, that is the main reason. The secondary reason is the FB technology was worse (second rate at best) than the state-of-the-art technology, which "isn't enough". There are plenty of people in the world that would buy into a complete immersion into a virtual world, maybe even more importantly a "remote access" that feels like you are there. The problem is that the technology to do that just doesn't exist yet.

Zuckerberg figured that since being an artificial human worked wonders for him, other people would want to join him.

Actually, it has been used as a test bed for many Meta software and technology, while it flopped in its original idea, it has been very valuable and been a success as a test bed

I don't even remember hearing about this.

This was soooo built up! Was comical when nothing was there, I think it ruined his career

I didn't know about this. i'm used to seeing archaeology programs where they forensically remove bricks and rubble to expose vaults so nothing is disturbed. These cowboys used dynamite! Wow! Maybe they were lucky the vault was empty.

"There was nothing in Al Capone's vault; But it wasn't Geraldo's fault... D'Oh!" ( Songwriter Homer Simpson ).

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“I’m ShOwInG mY aGe” Shut up. Nobody cares that you’re in your 40s or whatever.

The guy who owned the company drove one of a cliff in England.

Everyone thought Segway was ridiculous when it was introduced. It was hyped by manufacturer. I remember commercials claiming it was the best thing ever. But people just laughed at it.

I'd like to have one of those, just for the weirdness factor :D

I would really like to have one.

segways are doing just fine.