The purveyors of the ScreenJunkies YouTube channel have launched a campaign on Indiegogo to crowdfund a full-page advertisement aimed at telling celebrities like Zach Braff to keep their “vanity projects” off of crowdfunding web sites like Kickstarter.
From the campaign page…
Our “Don’t Back Zach” campaign was launched in response to the new wave of celebrity Kickstarted vanity projects. Whether it’s Melissa Joan Hart raising money for a film where she doesn’t play Clarissa, or Zach Braff raising money for a movie he wants you to think is the sequel to Garden State, it seems like there’s no celebrity too small or idea too dumb to not get its own crowdfunding campaign. Enough is enough!
Famous people have two things we normals don’t: money and access. By turning to crowdfunding, they’ve gamed the system, cashing in on their fame to make any project they want with no risk to their own bankroll, and owing no profits to their “investors” if its a success.
We need to send them a message that this is NOT OK, and with your help we can do just that…
The campaign has a scant two weeks to raise most of the $10,000 goal, but if anyone can pull that feat off it is the ScreenJunkies team. They have 442,000 subsribers on YouTube and their videos have been watched over 68 million times.
With that said, Funny or Die leaves you with this heartfelt PSA…
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