Ridiculous Kickstarters

[Le Bateleur]

Kickstarter allows you to show people a cool idea and ask them for money. Sometimes it results in successful things like a Veronica Mars film, Neil Young's music player that looks like a Toblerone, or a potato salad.

Other Kickstarter projects are terrible and deservedly fail. This thread is for us to memorialise these brainchildren that only a brainmother could love.
I'll start with this noble effort from Righteous Comics which somehow got $40 of the way toward its $3,000 goal.

Spoiler: They were the heroes Gotham needed...

Spoiler: ...but kept failing random drugs tests

There's also this project, hoping to make a line of mugs and t-shirts with the slogan "I told you so" printed on them, which aimed low but still missed completely.

Spoiler: sweet irony

 

[Total Dingus]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/characternity/massive-collaborative-drawing

I just don't understand this one. You pay this guy so that he'll use your shitty fan-art and website advertisements on a clusterfuck of a poster. Shouldn't he be the one paying people to use their art? Are aren't there copyright issues when he sells this shitty poster and it contains licensed characters? Worse, it's close to succeeding.

So, this guy makes a bunch of money off of your art, and you get the privilege of buying a poster of it. Fuck you, asshole.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jwilli93/darkseid52s-youtube-action-figure-reviews#

Dude, and potential lolcow, makes terrible action figure reviews with zero personality and blames the fact that he doesn't have a fancy camera. As if a camera will make up for his myriad failures. Uses DC Comics artwork and copyrighted properties to promote himself. Will review something of your choosing for $500. Unsurprisingly, he's a DevArt weenus.

http://cloudmoji.deviantart.com/art/Anniversary-461735971

 

[He Sets Me On Fire]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1716370612/the-ballad-of-johnny-briz

David Gonterman.

Goal: $2,500

Purpose: Funding for a webcomic. A webcomic.

Total amount pledged: $37.00

EDIT: Oh,and I forgot. A couple years after the jaw-dropping failure of his campaign, David posted this on his blog:

 

[José Mourinho]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/497057119/starship-tranquility-sci-fi-rpg

A kickstarter for a shitty game made in MS Paint. The sad thing is that the kickstarter reached its goal at $1,007.

Result: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=240301259

 

[OR 345]

http://yourkickstartersucks.tumblr.com/
http://kickfailure.com/

It's pretty impressive just how bad some of these are. Even better when something that is clearly a bad idea gets funded and fails to deliver or gets shut down for whatever reason (Pony coins, meme Pogeymens, things like that).

 

[theshak]

I wonder sometimes how hard it is for people to pull these shit idea's out of their arse.

For instance the "PetPhone" lol.

 

[EDFHemlock]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/497057119/starship-tranquility-sci-fi-rpg

A kickstarter for a shitty game made in MS Paint. The sad thing is that the kickstarter reached its goal at $1,007.

Result: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=240301259
https://youtube.com/watch?v=szwjALFVKbs

I love how the creator says that it is 8 bit graphics.
This is 8 bit graphics.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/497057119/starship-tranquility-sci-fi-rpg

A kickstarter for a shitty game made in MS Paint. The sad thing is that the kickstarter reached its goal at $1,007.

Result: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=240301259
https://youtube.com/watch?v=szwjALFVKbs

8-bit huh?





But in all seriousness, that wouldn't pass for Atari, let alone a game needing to raise money.

 

[Beef Thunderpants]

Why do people use Kickstarter for t-shirts? Aren't there 50,000 websites that could print your logo or designs on t-shirts as they get ordered?

 

[telegramsamo]

 

[c-no]

Why do people use Kickstarter for t-shirts? Aren't there 50,000 websites that could print your logo or designs on t-shirts as they get ordered?

Undoubtedly, yes there except some people think using Kickstarter will get them money compared to just having a website.

 

[LOLlolcow]

It seems like this dude is crossing into lolcow territory regardless of kickstarter, just based on his comments to prospective backers
http://kickfailure.com/2014/07/03/pegasus/

(posts seem to be deleted on the actual kickstarter, so there's the kickfailure link)

 

[Tootsie Bear]

I love how the creator says that it is 8 bit graphics.
This is 8 bit graphics.

I'm just curious, but is that a giant slug or tongue?

 

[WWWWolf]

Obligatory Retsupurae link.

Also, there's Drop Kicker, which is pretty interesting. Less about lulzies and more about technical analysis of seemingly plausible projects.

 

[EDFHemlock]

I'm just curious, but is that a giant slug or tongue?

It's a tongue.

 

[SU 390]

I don't remember where I seen it but there was someone who suggested that there should be a Kickstarter to pay off the U.S. debt/deficit.

 

[WWWWolf]

Almost forgot, looks like the Cybermatrix is up for another Kickstarter. Watch the video, look at the description, see his previous projects which are pretty much more of the same. The guy is, without a doubt, much better at designing video game consoles than Chris. Which isn't saying much.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

It's a tongue.

Now what game is it from? Thanks for the reply BTW!

 

[Queen of Tarts]

It's a tongue.

I thought it was a penis.

Would make Mara proud.

 

[GaryOak]

Here's a really stupid question, but if someone doesn't reach their goal, do they still get to keep the money?