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If every generation gets the musical gathering it deserves, millennials may have grounds to sue the Fyre Festival for mass defamation of character. The equivalent of a Ponzi scheme for would-be social media influencers, Fyre leveraged paid endorsements from the likes of Kendall Jenner to gull thousands into buying tickets to a luxury music festival that, it’s now clear, was doomed from the start. Two new documentaries—Fyre, which arrives on Netflix Friday, and Fyre Fraud, which was surprise-released earlier this week—lay the blame squarely at the feet of Fyre organizer Billy McFarland, a self-styled visionary with a flair for marketing exclusive opportunities to the young and well-heeled. But a seller requires a buyer, and whether explicitly or implicitly, both movies frame the Fyre debacle as the end-stage product of a culture, and a generation, that values image over substance and prepackaged “experiences” over the risk-reward calculus of genuine adventure.

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