07.10.14

Globally Networked Potato Salad Riches: Those pesky trolls

Posted in Culture of Lickspittle at 12:43 pm by George Smith

Between yesterday and today, Zack Danger Brown’s crowd-funded potato salad lost 30 thousand dollars.

Turns out, you can be a troll on Kickstarter quite easily, contributing a theoretical amount of money, then withdrawing the offer with no penalty before the fundraiser closes.

And this is, indeed, what is happening, to a certain extent. See comments here, of which one is excerptable:

This project set a precedence for crappy meme projects. To [sic] many people who want a get famous quick scheme is [sic] ruining what was once an awesome website for people who actually had unique products to bring to the market.

For this reason I am canceling my pledge as I do not want to have this project on my backer history… not even for a dollar.

And the Culture of Lickspittle is never slow to widely adopt its best ideas.

From the wires:

Following news that an Ohio man has raised upward of $52,000 to “basically just make potato salad,??? crowdfunding aspirants around the country are cooking up similarly half-baked ideas. Scroll through Kickstarter’s “recently launched??? page, and you’ll find projects seeking funds to make macaroni salad, ambrosia salad, homemade spaghetti, smoked wings and even Nutella-covered bacon. And that’s just for starters.

“Help me make coleslaw,??? asks one project creator.

“Pasta salad is better than potato salad,??? boasts another.

In this bizarre race to the bottom, there is even a Kickstarter hopeful seeking $8 to make a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich …

Today’s new usage of the Silicon Valley word used to describe the future, abundance.

Kickstarter was quickly overrun by an abundance of anonymous tech industry assholes.

2 Comments

  1. Ted Jr. said,

    July 21, 2014 at 2:17 pm

    “Following news that an Ohio man has raised upward of $52,000 to “basically just make potato salad,??? crowdfunding aspirants around the country are cooking up similarly half-baked ideas.”

    It’s nothing but IPO envy from the little people. Move along (white) folks, nothing to see here.

  2. George Smith said,

    July 21, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    Trivial and troll Gimme Money plans spoilt for a month, or until the atmosphere of ironic sardonic cool returns.