Weirdest Kickstarter Campaigns

Kickstarter is a tool for making creative dreams come true. Of course, you have to convince others that that dream is worth pursuing. And then you have to convince them that it's worth giving you money for it. 

Earlier this week, the news reported on a Kickstarter campaign in which a man in Ohio had a goal to raise $10 in order to make potato salad. With 21 days still left for the campaign, he has raised over $47,000. Oh for futz's sake! What is wrong with this picture? 

That got me thinking about what other strange kickstarter campaigns there have been. Here are some of the worst campaigns that actually got funded:

Remee

Forget blackout shades: Remee is a sleep mask that purports to stimulate lucid dreaming by displaying various light patterns according to your sleep stages. Over 6,500 people were intrigued enough--or, hallucinating from lack of sleep--to raise $572,891 for the project. Initial goal: $35,000.

World's Most Super Amazing 100% Awesome Cat Calendar

The pitch was simple: "Do you enjoy photos of cats dressed up as magical creatures? Do you use a calendar? Yes? Then we have something awesome for you." Over 1,100 backers kicked in big, generating $25,183 in donations. Initial goal: $3,500. That's a lot of Fancy Feast.

MISSY FOR PREZ

Rhode Island School of Design Student Sakura Breadsy had a vision: "[T]o make one-of-a-kind tracksuits inspired by a dream I had of Missy Elliott as the President of the United States of America. She wore a tracksuit in the oval office, a tracksuit in the conference room, and she also had a matching air force plane to match her flying tracksuit." Breadsy got her freak on, made the supa dupa fly tracksuits, and reached nearly $2,500 in two weeks -- way more than her $1,780 goal. Hillary better watch her back in 2016.

The Veronica Mars Movie

Rob Thomas, creator of the acclaimed if under-watched TV dramedy Veronica Mars, asked fans to fund a film sequel on Kickstarter after the series was canceled. Diehard fans funded the goal of $2 million in the first 24 hours and the campaign has raised $5,702,153 in total. The weird part? Media giant Warner Bros. will release--and presumably profit from--the film, forcing the 91,585 fans who backed the film on Kickstarter to pay twice for fierce Kristen Bell witticisms.

Graphing the deliciousness of a chicken burrito!

This final one ranks right up there with Potato Salad Man. Recently, Noboro Bitoy went to Kickstarter asking for $8 to buy a Chipotle burrito. What was his premise? "Just how delicious is a chicken burrito from my local Chipotle? I will find & display the answer in a creative presentation!" He took home a staggering $1,050 for his troubles.