We start the day with the usual look at the GoFundMe market. Everyone has gone without a donation for another day, while our own On-Going Expenses fund took the day with the normal $10.00 donation to keep this column going.
The addition of our latest fund, Too Apree’s “Help Keep Butterfly Boy Afloat!!,” did nothing to revitalize the market as other than the “anonymous” donation from Tuesday night, it hadn’t had a donation in nine months, and hadn’t been promoted anywhere.
Doing fairly well for when it was needed, the fund has raised $5,035.00 out of a $21,000.00 goal and has sat at a 24% completion rate for some time, which puts it above one of Long Island Audit’s many campaigns and three of the five official Jose “Chille” DeCastro fund raisers.
Overall, it brings the total goal for the funds we watch to $621,550 with $211,791.00 taken in. It’s not a huge bump and did nothing to change the overall completion rate for the industry, which continues to stand at 34%.
Too Apree, real name Asif Khan, is a New York based comedian who joined the ranks of auditors last year with a series of character-based audits involving his original characters including Butterfly Boy, a host of a fishing show, a goth mall resident and an autistic child like person (different from Butterfly Boy).
His antics have quickly shot him to great fame within the auditing community and he has embraced “the king of auditors” SeanPaul “Long Island Audit” Reyes as his unofficial mentor and hero.
Too Apree is so popular that he charges $222.00+ for his personal videos on Cameo, with an average video length of two minutes and seven seconds per video, earning him $1.73 per second of an average length video.
As stated earlier, Too Apree’s fund joins a list of zombie funds that are sitting with little to no activity in the market and is not expected to be a game changer as it had previously gone nine months without a donation.
On that note, if you’d like to conspire to keep our fund tormented by countless zombie funds and to force me to keep writing this column each day, we do have a GoFundMe of our own (https://gofund.me/b8144e31). All proceeds go to keeping the lights on, eating, and writing new stories to feature here and on reallycoolsite.org.
