They launched a campaign to fund the latest episode. The penultimate episode that is to do some serious explaining to a lot of the questions we've been asking for years. It's incredible. The campaign is crowd funded, which should have clued me in to what was to happen. In the first hours of the campaign they (I keep wanting to say we for some reason) raised about three thousand dollars. Which is incredible but only 16% of what was needed. The first few days saw a steady rate of giving and then the middle of the campaign hit. Cue this girl biting her fingernails.
Side note: I know that if the goal wasn't reached we, the fans, would still get an episode. I just want this to be as stress-free for the creators as possible. I don't want them to have to figure out a dozen or so workaround because budget is an issue from the beginning. I want them to have all that they need. I want this even when I know plenty of kick ass substitutes will happen if need be. I digress.
It's usually the case in crowd-funded projects that in the middle there is a plateau. There's a spike in giving at the beginning, a lull in the middle and sometimes a surge of last minute donations. The lull always makes me nervous. Which is good I guess, because when I get nervous I get to marketing. Whether or not it helps, I share links and repost videos to the point of annoyance to anyone who knows me and feebly hope for the best.
I did all this for PoPS. I begged, pleaded and sat around watching things inch along. I woke up this morning checking for progress. 80% with less than two days. I checked it at lunch with the same number of donations only fewer hours left. I checked it again and boom!
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