U.N.Owen
4th Level Red Feather
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The real issue here, that is probably keeping most people from donating is fear about the realism of the undertaking.
I say this from a wholly neutral perspective. I could not contribute, for the same reason that I never buy videos: I guard my online anonymity. Paraoid, perhaps -- I don't, after all, think any of the video producers/distributors would ever try to use people's personal information against them. But my reasons satisfy me, and I'm sure many others feel the same. Many, perhaps most, registered members of the forum thus cannot be counted on for contributions.
Assuming $8,000 can be raised, the real question would still be whether any "celebrity" known to and considered desirable by this community would be interested and willing. Making a tickling video, harmeless as we know it to be, would have a porn-like stigma for most celebrities, and I cannot honestly imagine that $8,000 would be enough to tempt women who make many times that to do a commercial.
Part of this depends, of course, on how you define a celebrity. But even a fairly wide net may not produce results. $8,000 might tempt Miss Oklahoma of 1988, but would it interest someone whom many members of this community have seen, heard of, and found attractive?
There are, of course, some mainstream (non-porn) female celebrities who have a somewhat "kinky" reputation, and might find the idea of a tickle video both fun and useful to the off-beat image they promote. So, with people like that, the project might succeed.
Frankly, though, I don't think the fund-raising effort will ever succeed without a prior commitment from a plausible and reasonably famous ticklee. As long as people think of this as a long-shot, and I don't think you can blame them for thinking that, they are not likely to open their wallets. Yes, charging $100 for a video you could get for $20 if you contribute should prove a valuably incentive, but ONLY if many potential contributors really think the video will one day exist.
The best route -- in my judgment the only route -- would be to get an agreement from a ticklee first, someone who will say, "Yes, I will do that for X sum."
If you had that agreement in hand, I think you'd find that X sum would be raised very, very quickly indeed. With a real prospect of success, people would be only too happy to pay up.
If a ticklee, in such a case, named a sum of 20 or 30K, I bet you could raise it, if you had a guarantee of a product at the end of it.
So, though I can't send $20, that's my two cents.
In the end, all I can say is good luck. I'd like to see this succeed. The mainstream acceptance of tickling it would indicate would be inspiring to us all. But I don't think $2500 will be reached, let alone $8000 or more, unless there is real reason to see this project as more than a pleasant fantasy.
I say this from a wholly neutral perspective. I could not contribute, for the same reason that I never buy videos: I guard my online anonymity. Paraoid, perhaps -- I don't, after all, think any of the video producers/distributors would ever try to use people's personal information against them. But my reasons satisfy me, and I'm sure many others feel the same. Many, perhaps most, registered members of the forum thus cannot be counted on for contributions.
Assuming $8,000 can be raised, the real question would still be whether any "celebrity" known to and considered desirable by this community would be interested and willing. Making a tickling video, harmeless as we know it to be, would have a porn-like stigma for most celebrities, and I cannot honestly imagine that $8,000 would be enough to tempt women who make many times that to do a commercial.
Part of this depends, of course, on how you define a celebrity. But even a fairly wide net may not produce results. $8,000 might tempt Miss Oklahoma of 1988, but would it interest someone whom many members of this community have seen, heard of, and found attractive?
There are, of course, some mainstream (non-porn) female celebrities who have a somewhat "kinky" reputation, and might find the idea of a tickle video both fun and useful to the off-beat image they promote. So, with people like that, the project might succeed.
Frankly, though, I don't think the fund-raising effort will ever succeed without a prior commitment from a plausible and reasonably famous ticklee. As long as people think of this as a long-shot, and I don't think you can blame them for thinking that, they are not likely to open their wallets. Yes, charging $100 for a video you could get for $20 if you contribute should prove a valuably incentive, but ONLY if many potential contributors really think the video will one day exist.
The best route -- in my judgment the only route -- would be to get an agreement from a ticklee first, someone who will say, "Yes, I will do that for X sum."
If you had that agreement in hand, I think you'd find that X sum would be raised very, very quickly indeed. With a real prospect of success, people would be only too happy to pay up.
If a ticklee, in such a case, named a sum of 20 or 30K, I bet you could raise it, if you had a guarantee of a product at the end of it.
So, though I can't send $20, that's my two cents.
In the end, all I can say is good luck. I'd like to see this succeed. The mainstream acceptance of tickling it would indicate would be inspiring to us all. But I don't think $2500 will be reached, let alone $8000 or more, unless there is real reason to see this project as more than a pleasant fantasy.
