No Hypergamouse Crowdfund Today

BackerKit shut down the campaign hours before launch

Only a few hours before the Hypergamouse Volume 1 crowdfunding campaign launch, we received this email from BackerKit, the platform we’d decided to try out for this campaign:

Subject: Important Message from BackerKit Trust & Safety
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 18:17:14 +0000
From: BackerKit Trust & Safety trustandsafety@backerkit.com
Reply-To: trustandsafety@backerkit.com

Hello,

We are writing to inform you that after a thorough review of your project submission, BackerKit will not be able to approve your project “Hypergamouse Volume 1” for launch on our platform. This decision is based on documented association with content that violate our platform’s Crowdfunding Rules and Community Guidelines.

Specifically, BackerKit prohibits offensive material, both on-platform and off-platform, including hate speech, content promoting harm, discrimination, bigotry, or intolerance toward any marginalized or protected groups. Our guidelines state that we do not permit content or creators that engage in personal attacks, harassment, or the promotion of harmful ideologies, including those that may be seen as discriminatory.

This decision is final. If you have further questions, you may submit an inquiry at trustandsafety@backerkit.com or in an email response here.

Regards,

—
Dave Alvarez-Villalpando
Head of Trust & Safety @ BackerKit

So, obviously we will not be using BackerKit for this campaign or for any of our future campaigns. Despite all of the losses that the social justice warriors have been taking over the last few years, from Superman to Star Wars, apparently there are still some SJWs who haven’t learned the lesson that convergence kills corporations and going woke is the fastest way to ensure going broke.

We’ll launch the campaign later this month on either Kickstarter or Indiegogo, both of which we’ve used very successfully before. But it is a testimony to the power of the and significance of the SSH that it is already considered dangerous by those who seek to repress the truth, even in the form of a comic strip about mice.

Thanks to the more than 500 people who signed up pre-launch to back the Hypergamouse book. We appreciate the support and will be certain to make sure that everyone knows where the campaign goes next. At this point, we haven’t decided if we’ll run a Sigma Game campaign or if we’ll simply make the book available for sale when it’s ready.

And speaking of Hypergamouse, there’s a brand new episode up on Arktoons today.