Fyre Festival’s Andy King Is ‘Blown Away’ By The Response To His Dick-Sucking Story
"I don't want to be necessarily known as the 'blowjob king of the world'."
While we wouldn’t exactly call him a breakout star, the internet has become weirdly obsessed with Andy King, the Fyre Festival event manager who features prominently in Fyre, Netflix’s revealing documentary on the failed festival.
Specifically, you’re all still reeling from the moment when Fyre founder Billy MacFarland asked King to suck dick to release the festival’s only supply of potable water — and he was ready.
The Bahamas customs officials held Fyre Festival’s supply of Evian water, which would be the only drinkable water on the site. They would release it for US $175,000 in cash, which MacFarland simply did not have. So he asked King for a favour.
“Billy called and said, ‘Andy, we need you to take one big thing for the team.,” King recalls to camera. “And I said, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve been taking something for the team every day.’
“He said, ‘Well, you’re our wonderful gay leader and we need you to go down, will you suck dick to fix this water problem?’ And I said, ‘Billy, what?’ And he said, ‘Andy, if you will go down and suck Cunningham’s dick, who is the head of customs, and get him to clear all of the containers with water, you will save this festival.’”
The moment arrives left-of-field, and really took the internet by storm, prompting disbelief — and memes. So many memes.
Fyre employee: “Andy are you really gonna suck dick for water?”
Andy King: pic.twitter.com/gu7lW9sm7f
— Johnny Sibilly (@JohnnySibilly) January 23, 2019
Now, in a short interview with Netflix, King has reflected on the viral moment, saying he was “blown away” by the response. Judging by his stone faced expression, it doesn’t seem to be an intentional pun. Given that he doesn’t use social media, or knows how to pronounce ‘meme’, he seems a little out of the loop.
“I’m now a noun, a verb, an adjective. It’s mind-boggling,” he says. “When someone reached out last weekend and said, ‘you’re trending’, [I was] like, ‘I don’t even know what trending means.’ People are talking about you… and yesterday people were like, ‘you’re a ME ME’, I’m like ‘What’s a ME ME?'”
King says he’s okay with the attention (though he says he doesn’t “want to be necessarily known as the ‘blowjob king of the world’.”), so long as it diverts back to the people who need the money.
He draws attention to a new GoFundMe for the workers and labourers of Great Exuma who are owed thousands, pointing out that the documentary inadvertently raised more that US $200,000 for restaurant owner MaryAnn Rolle, who in Fyre estimated she was owed at least US $50,000 by Fyre.
Having said that, King isn’t squeaky clean. As we wrote in our schadenfreude ranking of Fyre subjects, King was in a powerful position as MacFarland’s mentor, but continually showed throughout the festival and in reflection that his main priority was profit, rather than the safety and well-being of people. He’s funny, but this video is clearly some swift PR for himself, acting as if he has a part in the crowd-funded GoFundMe’s.
Watch the video below.
Andy King has seen all of your FYRE Fest memes — and he loves them! pic.twitter.com/mCNgDoHpjW
— Netflix US (@netflix) January 29, 2019