Crowdfunding Quotes

“Een of andere 'schrijfster' klaagde steen en been op facebook omdat een andere schrijfster een crowdfund link had gestuurd. Alsof ze een enorme dickpic toegestuurd had gekregen. Ik zei tegen haar dat ze als ze een crowdfunding link als 'persoonlijk' ervaart ze snel naar de zielenknijper moet. Meteen werd ik geblocked, gelukkig maar.”
― Martijn Benders

“Internet Inquisitors harness this fandom to make money. Multiple websites have been set up since the beginning of GamerGate to pander to this audience, gaining ad revenue and a following. YouTube, Kickstarter, GoFundMe, Indiegogo, Patreon, and other money-making platforms are leveraged by the more opportunistic among them.”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate

“Generally speaking, the bigger the following someone has, the less interested a service is in banning them. Platforms like YouTube thrive on traffic, and crowdfunding sites like GoFundMe get a percentage of the funds raised. The incentives for these companies to remove abusive uses or not as compelling as they should be. I want to believe that it's not intentional, but it's hard to understand why episodes of Game of Thrones are wiped from places like YouTube within nanoseconds well chronic abusive users are allowed to flourish.”
― Zoe Quinn, Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate