MST3K is back to crowdsourcing for Season 14

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Oct 25, 2023, 12:15:57 PM10/25/23
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Or, put another way, we've got crowdfunding sign!


This time around, they've moved off Kickstarter and are working from their own home-grown crowdfunding platform.  They've also allocated a larger chunk of the crowdfunding to pay for writers & actors, given the current labor situation:
Also, some of you may notice our episode budget is a little higher than last time. We’ll get into the finer points of that in a bit, but the broad strokes are that we want to be able to pay everyone more across the board – especially in light of the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes, which we wholeheartedly support – and also to hire a few more specialized staff members so each person on our small team can stay focused. 

(For the record, I don't believe MST3K is considered 'stuck work', given their independent production status, but they did hold on even announcing the Season 14 funding campaign until after the WGA strike was over.)

One day in, $771k pledged.
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