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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