Have to copy and paste these segments from
@Mister Dongs 's post because it doesn't have a reply button.
"No matter how you slice it, 2021 Comicsgate's collective take of $4,441,182.90 (not including the $315,222.57 raised from 2020 projects going into 2021) is less than the $5,978,621.71 raised over the course of 2021."
Are you guys also making sure you're not adding in 2019 campaigns that were also still active in 2020? I see it's a point to mention that if a campaign was open in 2020, what it made in 2021 isn't counted in the 2021 numbers. Is that also true of 2020 numbers?
"The final argument, put forward by Jon del Arroz, was that individual members of Comicsgate succeed or fail regardless of whether they are part of the group and that measuring the group's collective success is imposing a meaningless abstract upon a chaotic and unassociated group of individuals. While I agree with the former assertion (and I believe the data bears that out), I disagree with the latter. Success in the crowdfunding sphere, from what I'm able to see, amounts first on the ability of a creator to build a customer base for his goods with whatever platform is available and then second to retaining those customers with the timely delivery of what is expected. Comicsgate as a group's success (at least as I would define it) in turn would be the ability to attract, retain and support people capable of doing so."
I think I was the one to suggest this. But it's true. If you want to know if CG is dying look at individuals.
It makes no sense to lump Cridious, Andrew Huerta, etc. into 2018 numbers or 2019 numbers when they took the money and ran. Do campaigns like Brutas that haven't even fully fulfilled count? If Bigfoot Bill 1 was Comicsgate, does that mean we count Doug's future campaigns as Comicsgate? Because if Earthworm Jim is not counted toward CG numbers, obviously that's a huge sum that isn't going to count toward the total raised by CG. And if we count Doug's books, do we count Doomkicker, since he wrote it but it hasn't fulfilled and Elliot pretty much took the money and ran and started doing a new campaign? Does Elliot's new campaign count because he was once CG and on CG live?
And honestly, at the end of the day, who cares what was raised per year by dozens of random businesses lumped together? 2018 was 2018, 2019 was 2019, 2020 was 2020, 2021 was 2021. It's 2022 now, and I think people need to move on. Dwelling on the past never did anybody any good, and if you notice, it's NEVER the creators dwelling on what CG in 2018 raised. I think most of us are happy with how our campaigns do, but we're always trying to grow and do better.
I can only speak about my campaigns and how I've done. So if we're looking at my numbers, I see them going up. But success is much harder to handle than failure. I learned that already. When you have success now you need to have another success and keep it going. It's incredible that so many people have continually crowdfunded large sums. It's a great thing that so many people are able to make the books that they want.
Creepsters right now has raised $16,419. Let's say it ends with about $17,000. If Creepsters 2 makes $10,000 and Creepsters 3 makes $6,000, then we could say I'm dying or failing. But I hope that's not gonna happen.
But looking at my past campaigns, SCP, the first time I launched it, which was in 2020, failed and raised $3,000. Then I launched Asyl and did $4,700. SCP the second time got funded and raised over $7,000. Now Creepsters is past $16,000. Looking at individuals is a much better way of figuring out who is going in which direction. Because if I go up or down, I'm really not taking anyone with me. Nobody is reliant on my business but me.
