# Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob is a family of memes from January 2019 built on a scene in the Netflix documentary 'Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened' where festival producer Andy King admits he was ready to perform oral sex on a customs official to free a detained water shipment. King's earnest, grey-haired retelling made him the documentary's breakout figure and inspired image macros, lyric rewrites, and admiring tweets across Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr. ## Overview Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob refers to a wave of memes built on a scene from the January 2019 Netflix documentary 'Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened'[1]. In the film, festival producer Andy King describes being asked by founder Billy McFarland to perform oral sex on a Bahamian customs official in exchange for the release of a detained shipment of Evian water bottles for the crumbling event[2]. Grey-haired and grinning on camera, King calmly recounts driving home, taking a shower, drinking mouthwash, and setting off 'to take one for the team'[1]. His candor made him the documentary's unlikely breakout figure and turned his monologue into shorthand for extreme personal sacrifice in the name of a job[2]. ## How It Spread 'Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened' premiered on Netflix on January 18th, 2019, and reactions started the next day when Twitter user @Lexi_Caly tweeted that anyone without an Andy King in their circle did not have real friends, a post that pulled in more than 900 likes within a few weeks[3]. On January 22nd, Instagram user @theboujeemess posted an image macro of King captioned '93 year old sugar daddy: You want the car or not?', turning his confession into a punchline template for jokes about doing anything to close a deal[3]. Two days later, Instagram user @diccwaffles rewrote Lady Gaga's 'LoveGame' lyrics using King's mouthwash monologue, and a Tumblr reblog collected over 19,000 notes in six days[3]. On January 29th, 2019, the Netflix Twitter account released a follow-up interview in which King said he was 'blown away' by the response and joked that he did not want to be known as 'the blowjob king of the world'[2]. Vanity Fair called him the film's 'unsung hero' and reported that he had not heard the word 'meme' before the tributes started reaching him[1]. ## How to Use Common versions pair a still of Andy King's earnest interview face with a caption describing an outrageous ask or high-stakes closing move, using his willingness to 'take one for the team' as the implied punchline. Variants swap McFarland's water crisis for any modern hustle where the joke is that someone will do literally anything to save the deal, or splice King's exact lines into unrelated song lyrics. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob? It is a wave of 2019 memes based on Fyre Festival producer Andy King's Netflix documentary confession that he was ready to perform oral sex on a customs agent to free a detained water shipment[1]. ### Where did Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob come from? It came from the Netflix documentary 'Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened,' released in January 2019[1]. ### What does Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob mean? It is shorthand for going to extreme personal lengths to save a project, drawing on King's willingness to 'take one for the team' when founder Billy McFarland asked him[2]. ### How do you use Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob? People typically pair a still of King's earnest interview face with a caption depicting an outrageous ask or desperate deal, using his willingness as the implied punchline[3]. ### Is Andy King Fyre Festival Blowjob still popular? The meme peaked in late January 2019 alongside the documentary's release; King himself said he was 'blown away' by the response and did not want to be forever known as 'the blowjob king of the world'[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/fyre-festival-documentary-netflix-andy-king]() 2. [https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2019/01/fyre-festival-event-producer-andy-king-responds-to-memes]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/andy-king-fyre-festival-blowjob]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/andy-king-fyre-festival-blowjob Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library