It’s 2025. The world often feels like it’s on fire; nothing makes that much sense anymore, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned. (That’s a bit of romantic poet humor for your morning.) And so, when today we read our least favorite kind of fire, Fyre Festival, had been purchased by LimeWire, there was really nothing to do but shrug. Add to that the idea that Ryan Reynolds, notably, our Deadpool, also wanted to buy Fyre Festival but lost out to LimeWire, yep, it’s still a big old shrug from us. This word salad can’t phase us. We are impenetrable.

If you’ve been living under a rock, Fyre Festival was a massive, failed scam of a party created by Billy McFarland, wherein many young people willingly parted with their money over the promise of living like an influencer for a weeke

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