hey guys welcome back to clownfish tv this is neon i am here with geeky sparkles hello and boy did kickstarter bet on the wrong horse and when i'm saying they've been on the wrong horse i'm not talking about their recent announcement that they were going to move to blockchain we're talking about the creators they've been courting for the last five or six years uh the creators who were very much pro gatekeeping the more progressive creators a lot of them activist minded and a lot of them very happy that kickstarter was keeping the wrong kinds of people off of the platform they flip and start a union and they're there it wasn't for financial reasons it was for so they can control what projects got you know published and they were mad when um people that were in charge said that it had to be even handed if you're blocking one book you can't have punch all nazis as a book that you're funding that should have been a pretty good indicator that they had the wrong audience because their own employees were not focused on making money they were focused on keeping kickstarter kind of a boutique publishing operation for them and their friends for them and their friends uh comic book creators independent comic book creators independent tabletop uh gaming creators that you know look at guys just look at the last couple years with comic books like boom studios tried to go to kickstarter and they tried to shame them off of the platform and they stuck to their guns and they made millions of dollars right well this has been going on for years oh remember archie was that well the first one was one of the first ones that did it and they had to pull their campaign down because these people had hissy PROFANITY_TOKEN fit because in their mind they were taking something from them and it's like they weren't gonna back your crap anyway they're they were gonna back the public they came in the back boom you may have lucked out and someone might have stumbled upon yourself you're actually probably worth more chance of getting back with them being there than if they weren't there so somebody at kickstarter after all the the problems decided they wanted to make money and it was interesting that they used the pandemic to basically break up the union because they had the union they had camilla zhang he was their comic book outreach person who was as i understand it behind a lot of the uh gatekeeping at kickstarter a lot of the wrong people being sort of shadow banned or outright kicked off the platform and when they hit a rough patch at the beginning of the pandemic they're like hey you guys are all out the door and then later that year they're like hey we had our best year ever yep shocker so now they made the announcement that they're going to move to blockchain and part of that is they're also going to i guess license out their technology so if you're an independent site owner or you want to start a competitor you can use whatever the kickstarter engine is basically to run crowdfunding on your website now financially that's a very good idea yes because kickstarter has become synonymous with crowdfunding however these creators are not real happy about it no because they're like well people can just take it and we don't want we can say no we don't want them on here and they can just pay for the the thing on blockchain
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