The Onion, as only The Onion can, exposed the cesspool of faux-inventions of Kickstarter by calling the folks who start Kickstarter projects, Internet criminals who “bilk friends and families out of terrible, ill-conceived and unnecessary personal projects”. Yep, pretty much.
https://gizmodo.com/were-done-with-kickstarter-5897449
It’s a damn racket that’s been fooling the entire Internet! Enjoy it here:
