Tagged: satire

April 8, 2014 @ 1:52 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR by Facebook looms large over the crowdfunding space as evidenced by this tongue-in-cheek offer to backers of the Terribands Kickstarter campaign. If Facebook buys the company for $2 billion, they’ll issue refunds to crowdfunding backers. Now there’s some… Read More

February 4, 2014 @ 12:00 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

On Something Awful, comedian Josh “Livestock” Boruff (@Livestock) posted a satirical open letter to his Kickstarter backers mocking those ubiquitous “final backer updates” in the rewards-based crowdfunding world, the kind that often contain deep personal introspection and tales of personal strife. It seems that –… Read More

December 27, 2013 @ 10:04 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Kung Fury is part comedy, part action and – from the looks of the trailer – completely hilarious. The movie is currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter and the film’s creator is seeking $200,000 from the crowd to turn the movie into a feature length film. With… Read More

November 8, 2013 @ 11:48 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Gamasutra | Square Enix shares its publishing vision for Collective Sure, we know that Square Enix is going to be launching Collective in an effort to help indie developers find funding from the crowd. How is it going to work? Here, Gamasutra breaks it down…. Read More

September 20, 2013 @ 10:47 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Imagine a world in which the great inventors of our day were forced to seek funding from venture capitalists and angel groups. Would Edison, Tesla, Ford and others have been successful in just such a climate? Northern Imagination would likely answer no. The YouTube user… Read More

September 10, 2013 @ 5:12 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

The Second City Network posted this satirical video to YouTube yesterday announcing the launch of a Kickstarter campaign to raise $1.6 trillion. The goal? To help kickstart World War III. The fake pitch video promises things like “organic, grass-fed bombs,” “hybrid Prius tanks,” and “drones… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:19 am By Charles Luzar  |  

In light of Kickstarter’s entry into the Canadian crowdfunding market, FundRazr posted this satirical launch page reminding Canadian crowdfunders that they’ve been there from the beginning. The page offers some “helpful tips aboot the Great White North,” including… Creatives are not the only Canadians who… Read More

August 14, 2013 @ 12:53 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

I’m an unabashed fan of some of the satirical crowdfunding content that floats around the Internet. It provides a healthy opportunity to laugh at ourselves from time to time. Let’s face it, the crowdfunding space does occasionally get a little ridiculous! The Above Average YouTube… Read More

June 28, 2013 @ 10:06 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Rewards-based crowdfunding and the celebrity-driven campaigns that go with it are providing plenty of cannon fodder for US comedians. Cracked recently posted this video of a would-be actor creating a pitch video to fund a pitch video for his Kickstarter campaign. Sure, we all love… Read More

June 23, 2013 @ 2:05 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Kings of online satire The Onion have released a video detailing a (fake) Kickstarter campaign in which Brendan Fraser asks his fans for money so he can make a movie. He even says please! Watch below… Brendan Fraser: ‘I Would Like To Apply For One Kickstarter,… Read More

June 19, 2013 @ 9:42 am By Charles Luzar  |  

“Last year 18,000 projects were funded on Kickstarter. How many should have been? Maybe a dozen.” The Official Comedy channel on YouTube posted this satirical video on Kickstarter, taking a jab at Kickstarter project creators and the people who back crowdfunding projects. Watch below…