“I can’t talk about it too much,” King said coyly, “but they’re essentially, like, ‘Listen, we’re working on a new ad campaign. He’s already heard from three different water companies, hoping to align themselves with the man willing to go to any length to get his hands on water. He is, however, going to “have a little fun” with his newfound celebrity. King sees the Internet response to the Netflix documentary-the memes constructed in homage to his get-it-done attitude the GoFundMe proceeds, etc.-as a way of closing the Fyre Festival circle. “I told it to explain just how crazy it was down there. “I’m really blessed people recognize that my story was not said as some horrible, sleazy thing,” said King, clarifying that his response to McFarland’s Evian-retrieval request was not indicative of his attitude toward workplace sexual misconduct. Another GoFundMe page has since raised $22,000 of its $400,000 goal to pay back the event’s laborers. Caterer Maryann Rolle, has already recouped the $50,000 in life savings she used to pay her employees working on the festival. “With the release of Hulu doc, we didn’t have the luxury of planning out these premieres,” explained King, noting that GoFundMe pages were set up to benefit Fyre employees. The original plan was to host a series of premieres and charge a little bit of money that would all go to the Bahamians.” But that rollout plan was eventually scratched. “To relive Fyre again-as you can imagine-is enough to kill you,” cracked King, explaining that his collaboration with Smith was motivated by their mutual desire to tell the true story of the Fyre Festival and “pay back as many people as possible. To be clear, though, celebrity is not what King was seeking when he agreed to participate in Netflix’s Fyre Festival documentary. You can imagine that what the selfie people want the most is someone holding a water bottle.” Another day, “I was walking down Broadway in Manhattan and I had people say, ‘Hey Andy, great job in the movie.’ ‘Hey Andy, you were incredible.’ People want selfies with me. “It was like an Exorcist movie, because everyone’s heads were spinning around,” laughed King. This plan was all well and good until King had to cross the main floor to use the restroom. The night before this call, King said he walked into a restaurant where the maître d’ greeted him, surprisingly, by name and ushered him into a side room for privacy. He has been criss-crossing the country-to Los Angeles to help plan a Global Green pre-Oscar party, and to the Hudson Valley in New York, where he has a home-and every other person seemed to recognize him. It’s a charity event, at least - all proceeds will be donated to Feeding America and Sweet Relief, and $15,000 have already been raised since it was announced.After the film began streaming on Netflix, King was shocked by the “immediate deluge of attention” he received. My, how we’ve grown since that time! “This festival gives us a chance to translate the anniversary of Fyre into some real good that’s needed in the world right now,” King said in a press statement. We’re just a few days shy of the three-year anniversary of Fyre Festival. The EDM-centric event will be be held on the Trap Nation and Chill Nation YouTube channels over the course of a few days, and King will play MC to a lineup that includes A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie, Channel Tres, Yungblud, Chromeo, RAC, Cautious Clay, the Glitch Mob, and others. His latest endeavor is as the host of the virtual Room Service Music Festival, which takes place this weekend. He picked up an Evian sponsorship earlier this year and there were some talks for a little while about him getting his own TV show. Andy King, the Fyre Fest event producer who was very prepared to suck dick for water, has made a bit of a name for himself because of his viral moment.
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