[londons_explore]

My experience of reddit is you can get a "wildly successful" meme or post, yet rarely that translates into more than a few thousand dollars of cash being spent on anything.

All the "wildly successful" kickstarters and stuff seem to have commercial backers lined up to make the social media buzz effect appear bigger than it is.

I suspect the same happened here.

[ClumsyPilot]

'spending' on random kickstarter products and investing your savings is obviously quite different. So you can't use one to judge the other

[Judgmentality]

> All the "wildly successful" kickstarters and stuff seem to have commercial backers lined up to make the social media buzz effect appear bigger than it is.

This is interesting (and not at all surprising). Do you have a link to more information or is this just something you've noticed?