Update on this: It smells.
The project artificially jumped $10K without any of the corresponding reward slots being claimed, which is a sign of the project creator doing some fuckery. Luckily,
sites like Kicktraq are there to… track it.
I ran the numbers on the current pledges and claimed rewards, and something definitely doesn't add up.
As of this writing, there are 186 backers, and the Kickstarter is at $25,520. In the reward tiers, a total of 169 backers have claimed some tier of rewards, with the highest tier claimed being the $1000 tier. Assuming people gave the bare minimum to reach those tiers because backers tend not to spend more than their reward costs, then that means that those 169 backers gave a total of $13,705 to the project. Even assuming that every single person gave the absolute maximum for the tier ($2499 instead of $1000, for instance), the total comes out to $28,381, barely over the current total. So while the actual number is somewhere between these two extremes, I'm going to guess it's on the low end; there may be some generous folks willing to fork over some extra money, but I doubt it's many.
That leaves seventeen backers covering the remaining funds. Assuming that $13,705 from the 169 backers is accurate, that means that the remaining seventeen have forked over a combined $11,815, or an average of $695 per backer. Could've had a lot of virtual meet-and-greets with Fiona for that money, but none of these backers claimed a reward. Maybe they're just ridiculously generous people, but given that massive spike yesterday, I think it's more likely something like
@Pizdec said, already-secured funding being used to prop up the Kickstarter and make it look more successful than it is. Not only would a failed Kickstarter look bad, it would also mean losing out on the extra money from the gullible rubes that want to
masturbate to support a yass kween slay short film.
