One NSFW Porn Cover Mill Super-Creator Just Launched 3 Kickstarter Campaigns in One Day
This is where the Kickstarter Comics takeover by NSFW content goes awry.
Just when I think I’ve seen it all in the Kickstarter Comics category, something new and extra-special egregious happens. Yes, yesterday, one porn cover mill super-creator dropped THREE new such campaigns under three different accounts thinly veiled by related names:
Super Puff Chicks Vol. 1 - EROTIC PARODY comic #1-3 + Bonus - by Submarine Spicehouse
College School Musical #1 - an erotic parody comic - by Spicehouse Nostalgia Comics
This Game Will Make You #1 - erotic, VR game comic - by Submarine Treehouse
Yes, while you and I are out here waiting several days or a week for project approval so we can simply plan our launches, Kickstarter is approving titty cover mass production by a group whose project updates, if they even happen, indicate almost no physical reward fulfillment for their last 9 campaigns, and that’s only researching those ending since March.
Let me be sure you caught that.
This creator ran 9 Kickstarter Comics campaigns between March and May (5 ended in April alone). Their own updates don’t show physical reward fulfillment of ANY of them, and they just launched 3 more campaigns on one day, yesterday.
I know there’s a lot of big-name creator angst around the role of corporate comics eating up crowdfunding share on Kickstarter (the facts don’t really support that), but this is the real problem.
Not only does the real data prove that NSFW comics consistently chew up 40+% of all funds raised in the Comics category, but there are bad actors out there (this is the second major offender I’ve revealed) unethically capitalizing on that fact without fulfilling the crowdfunding promise of timely rewards for backers.
Since March, not including yesterday’s launches, this “creator” ingested more than $80,000 in funds via the Kickstarter Comics category across 9 campaigns, some of which have not been updated a single time, and has indicated only digital fulfillment and empty promises of physical fulfillment via copy-and-paste update statements across a few of their campaigns.
And Kickstarter keeps approving them for launch.
If you want to point the finger at a real culprit in the dilution of backer trust in Kickstarter projects and of funding for legit Comics projects, here’s a real target.