Fyre Fest Was Officially Sold For $245,000 On eBay To...LimeWire?!?

LimeWire buying Fyre Fest on eBay from Billy McFarland is definitely something I did NOT have on my 2025 Bingo card, am I right guys? OK, I have to admit that people talking about their Bingo cards is something that I feel like should have died back when LimeWire first died or at the very least when Fyre Fest ruined a bunch of influencers' weekends. 

If you think about it though, these two brands make perfect sense together since they both tickle the nostalgia bone of washed millennials like myself who constantly bump whatever episode of Trainwrecked to the top of Netflix's Most Watched list. To take things a bit further, Fyre Fest is forever associated with that guy who said he would suck that dude's dick while LimeWire is forever associated with Heather Brooke and others sucking...well you get the point. 

I was trying to rack my brain trying to figure out how spending a quarter million dollars on a well known yet extremely damaged IP was worth it for an app that nobody under the age of 20 probably ever used or even heard of in a world where you can get any type of song, movie, or video in about two clicks. Trying to buy something Ryan Reynolds wanted seems like a good move since everything he touches seems to turn to gold. 

Then I read an article about the purchase and everything made sense.

Engadget- LimeWire has announced that it's acquired the rights to Fyre Festival, the disastrous, influencer-fueled 2017 music festival. The newly revived company — which now acts as a NFT music marketplace rather than a file-sharing service — bought the rights for $245,000 in an eBay auction, The New York Times reports. A separate plan to use the Fyre Festival name to launch a new music streaming service was announced in April 2025.

It sounds like LimeWire might want to turn Fyre Festival into a physical perk of the digital collectibles it sells through its NFT marketplace.

Ahhhhhh, LimeWire is now hawking NFTs, which ironically seem to be the Fyre Fest of the internet. I would give my thoughts on all that, but to be honest I had no clue NFTs were still around and I am probably too old to even understand what to do with them considering I didn't know what to do with them back when we were all locked inside and told we would be poor losers if we didn't buy pictures of digital monkeys. So congrats Fyre Fest on its new owner "built on transparency, tech, and a healthy dose of humor" that wants to "bring the meme back to life".

And best of luck to LimeWire in whatever ventures they dive into next. I will always have a warm place in my heart for an app that turned me from a boy to a man one day-long download at a time.