Thread by @Iron_Spike

This isn’t great.

https://twitter.com/kickstarter/status/1468744619068436480

So yeah, apparently, a whole bunch of people are waiting for me to say something about this? I’m not sure what you expect me to say. Like, how long have you been following me. What do you think I’m gonna say.

I know the Hot Take Machine demanded an immediate response, but instead, I opted to actually read a bunch of shit first and try and make sense of it. In summary, I couldn’t. Not in any way that actually benefits the creatives currently using Kickstarter.

It feels like bandwagoning. It feels like buzzword overload. It feels like FOMO. It feels like opening the back door to potential looting and exploitation that Kickstarter never needed in the first place. And maybe it feels like anti-union backlash shell company bullshit.

In short, I’m totally fucking disappointed. @Kickstarter, there is still time to walk this back, with copious apologies. Read the room, this is NOT going over well with your current users and the only people dancing their happy little jigs are funny money speculators.

And I can’t figure out a way to say this without it sounding like a flex, folks, but if this goes through, @ironcircuscomix isn’t who you need to be worrying about. Our biggest seller of 2021 was never on Kickstarter. We’re in league of Random House sales numbers in distro.

The people this is going to take out are the small and independent creators who have no other options. The folks running webcomics who put out a book once a year or every two years, and rely on Kickstarter for that cash injection to keep the lights on and groceries in the fridge.

This is a decision that makes it clear the people currently running Kickstarter don’t actually give a fuck about the opinions of the thousands of people who have come to rely on their service. Which, quite frankly, I never saw coming.

For what it’s worth, folks, if you haven’t written [e-mail] to let them know how you feel about this mess, now might be a great time. They’re not really gonna care about a tweet being ratio’d.