There have absolutely been rapid meme based crowd funding of projects in the past. Crypto enhances it because there are a lot of people who’ve made so much money that handing it out like candy is something they can do, but that really wasn’t new.
Just like MySpace existed when Facebook launched, and no one is using Facebook today.
Seems the biggest Kickstarter ever was Pebble, which raised 20 million USD, while ConsititutionDAO seems to have raised ~49 million USD. That's more than double the funds, even while being on a shorter deadline.
Also, they lost.