Thank you for considering this 2026 Fundraiser for Satire Station.

Now more than ever, it has become increasingly difficult to rely on social media platforms for stable income to support creators and the production of a channel. In the usual event of this difficulty, many creators turn to sponsorships in order to fund their channel and themselves.

People don't like sponsorships (ads), let's not pretend. They skip them and there's little value generated for the business that's paying for the sponsorship, and it feels like a waste of time, because to a large extent, it is, because it's not uncommon for the creators to not even care about the products/services they're running sponsorships for, because it's purely financial, and they don't even use what they're running ads for, or they've received these products/services for free/heavily discounted so they never really made the decision to support that business in the first place without the incentive of the sponsorship, which results in a hollow feeling when they run the sponsorship. This isn't true in all cases, but generally people think (like myself) that we've seen situations like this, and it ruins sponsorships in general, because sponsorships were viewed as the "genuine, authentic, and relatable" solution to ads, and they've become no different than ads. I don't want to run sponsorships at all (because I want to create the best and most valuable content, and ads dilutes that), but if I did it would at least be for products/services I love and would genuinely reach out to the businesses to partner with them, but realistically, people. Don't. Want. Ads.

For many years there were creators I enjoyed watching who said they had a very hard time earning money to be able to continue funding their endeavors, and I wished they would just make a fundraiser for the whole year, have a realistic goal, I could give them $5, they would hit their goal, and they wouldn't ask again for the rest of the year. Instead, creators transitioned to monthly commitments that didn't go anywhere because people are tired of life as a subscription, and a monthly commitment prohibits larger projects that extend past a month or two. And on top of that, a lot of creators I've seen want the sky to be the limit of how much money they can earn which prevented settling on realistic fundraiser ceilings, if they existed at all. There's channels that are doing very well financially, and can always find way a way to ask/generate more money from their viewers and spend it. That's not what I'm asking for.

I want to keep making the videos that brought you here, and eventually fund the production of genuine animation. In addition to that, I want to be able to afford feeding myself, having health insurance, affording my phone bill, my car (not 5 or 10, just 1), gas, rent, go out to a restaurant now and then, and see a movie occasionally.

I don't know why more creators don't just create a yearly fundraiser. Maybe the money they're asking for is never enough, maybe they feel it's beneath them, maybe it's difficult to spread out a lump sum through the whole year, maybe a cultural shift hasn't happened yet to this being the new way creators are funded, but I know that I'm doing it, and it's only possible through your generosity.

Thank you.

Jay Charles,

Satire Station