Crowdfunding in an Empty Street
15th January 2023
The online tip jar. The after-show bucket. The YouTube donations drive. We are in a golden age of crowdfunding art, and you can’t move online for a creator panhandling you for a donation for their content. In a celebrated 2013 TedTalk, “The Art of Asking”, Amanda Palmer posited this crowdfunding model as a path forward for artists to live directly from audience support. That audience would pay for the artist’s work, not out of compulsion, but out of a desire to help someone they felt connected to.
If you’ve ever seen a picture of Amanda Palmer, you realize that most people give her money just so she will go away. One of the worst days of my life was when I found out that Neil Gaiman had dumped the mother of his teenaged daughter in order to go running after this chick.
January 16th, 2023 at 08:17
For your amusement: comic about crowdfunding
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