Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Online Campaigns

This week’s blog will be dedicated to sites like indigogo.com and kickstarter.com. These sites have become more popular in the recent years. Only a few years ago, it was an uncommon and frowned upon notion to try and take money from any of the viewers of Youtube, or readers of your blogs. Now however, with the help of these sites countless people have started to take full advantage of this opportunity. From Smosh and Tobuscus using the money to make a video game to PewDiePie using the money to help water.org, these two websites are gaining their own niche within the internet world. One of the more famous pushes for these websites was the recent campaign to have a Veronica Mars movie, which was successful and is underway in the filming. There is something to be said from the fans having a new control over what happens in their fandoms by donating money, and it is an interesting social experiment to see exactly what they will pay for. Although I like the idea of the Veronica Mars movie, even though I was not an original fan of the television series, it does have me wondering how people can just throw their money at campaigns to fund these people who already make a lot of money. It makes me wonder what is going to happen to the independent artists, like NotLiterally on Youtube who use the money because they could not get the support any other way, whereas some of the bigger stars of Hollywood are using these sites almost to bribe fans into paying for something they’ve been asking for. 

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