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rosalarian:

spikedrewthis:

I get a couple of these every time I run a Kickstarter. This is the latest.

I genuinely feel for folks trying to figure out crowdfunding. It can be so discouraging when you don’t get any backers for something you really believe in. But I only have one answer for questions like this.

1) Labor in suffocating obscurity for years and years

2) Slowly, painfully build an audience, person by person

3) Make a thing to sell them

4) Does your audience buy the thing from you? If no, repeat 1) – 3). If yes, continue to 5). 

5) You now have people you know will buy a thing from you. Launch a Kickstarter for a new thing! If you want. Or don’t? It’s cool, whatever. 

Kickstarter, Indiegogo and other crowdfunding platforms aren’t where you go to find fans. They’re where you take your fans once you’ve already earned them.

Telling someone “Go put in your ten years” sounds and feels shitty, but honestly… that’s what I did.

I don’t have a trick. I just worked.

Most people only see you on step 5, completely unaware of how hard you worked at steps 1-4, and they think you’ve got a secret trick for instant success but the success was never instant. Nobody can say it isn’t fair that your kickstarter succeeded while theirs didn’t. You don’t deserve it just for showing up. You earn it, and the earning is hard.

This.

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gunpowderandspark:

caffeinatedfeminist:

meredithdraper:

kokiron:

jibini:

top-lotad-breeder:

chocogoat:

what. why? someone pls explain to me pls i wasnt born yet in 1999 why turn computer off before midnight? what happen if u dont?

y2k lol everyone was like “the supervirus is gonna take over the world and ruin everything and end the world!!!”

This is the oldest I’ve ever felt. Right now.

holy fucking lord there are people on the internet who didn’t experience y2k

ohhh shit

“Someone please explain to me pls I wasnt born yet in 1999”

I am 21, and I am ancient.

I remember everyone losing their damn minds about this omfg

ggood lord

ggood. LORD.

oh no

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