Long time DUer Akoto is asking for a little help (update #2)
Last edited Wed Jun 29, 2022, 07:59 PM - Edit history (2)
For the update, see reply #30.
For update #2, see reply #41.
Dear friends on the DU,
It has been a long time since I have raised funds for a fellow DUer. Akoto is a long time DUer on SSI looking for a little help. Rather than just asking for money, he is asking for two things. The first won't cost you a cent. Just subscribe to his YouTube page here: Legacy Ark Games - https://www.youtube.com/c/legacyarkgames . Secondly a cash donation will help him buy some equipment to help provide some small income for him. Marta and I are in on this. I hope you will be too. A K&R for this post will help with visibility. Also see this post where he goes into greater detail about his hopes and dreams: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181675517
Donate by PayPal here: PayPal: rpgsruscs (at) gmail.com
I have a gaming-related company interested in discussing a fixed rate contract with me if I can go from 11k to 20k subscribed. With the help of investors, I think I can, but I really have nowhere to ask other than this community I've been a part of for 17 years. I'm a star member, longtime juror, and group moderator. Not a fly by night operation. I can easily manage this from my chair if I get the equipment and funding I need to meet these initial growth goals.
I know making a living from a YouTube channel about games sounds silly, but a lot of people do make a living from it these days, and I can easily manage it from my chair if I get the equipment and funding I need to meet these initial growth goals. That is the essence of my fundraising goal…a way to support myself and help others.
It’s difficult to ask for help, but at the same time, it supports both my good cause and the security of my personal future. The long and short of it is that I am physically disabled and housebound. My parents have both been very ill in the past years, with my dad having been found to have stage 4 cancer, even. It has scared me into the realization that, if I stay pinned under the rules of my disability insurance, I'll be living on the street eventually. For a long time now, I've been wanting to turn a very important hobby of mine into a living as others have done, one which would give me security while still enabling me to help the people I try to help.
My YouTube (and Twitch) channel, Legacy Ark Games, brings viewers along as I try out games contributed to me mostly by kind developers and producers who would like to support my cause. This entertains whoever may wander along, but I hope that it also educates disabled gamers like myself as to which games might interest them and whether the gameplay is accessible for their disability. I know that just watching these videos before I had the channel kind of helped me sanity during really bad pain, which is what inspired me to create it as a worthwhile escape. Now, as I have improved my skills and invested a bit in it, Legacy Ark Games has become a channel which works frequently with developers both to show their games off and to refine them with accessibility options when requested.
So, the goal is to raise the money I need for a piece of equipment to facilitate the growth of the channel, as well as sufficient funding to bring in new followers to the tune of 9k people.
Me again. I hope you help with this worthwhile project.
Omaha Steve A.K.A. OS
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I'd never imagined that I would find a way to even finance the low end goal for my endeavors, but thanks to your generosity and the help of Omaha Steve, I'm almost to that first goal!
Also, I'd like to thank everyone who has subscribed to my YouTube channel, whether you were also able to contribute funds or not. Each subscription makes it that much less difficult for me to reach the 20k subscribers I need, allowing me to obtain the fixed rate contract I've been offered. Subscribing is free and you won't get spammed or anything (unless you click to be alerted about my new videos - which I hope you enjoy!), so even if you can't or would rather not give money, those subscriptions are every bit as appreciated.
I am, once again, embarrassed and humbled to have taken this step in asking the community for help getting out from under the restrictions of living on disability. As well, I'll have improved means to help the people I try to benefit receive new information in new formats, and with a higher standard of quality. Not that those of you watching for entertainment aren't just as important and on my mind for options to improve upon! I
hope to make these videos a living as soon as I have the equipment and funding needed, and as such, giving people that level of excellence I aspire to is very important to me as an entertainer and an educator within a niche of the gaming industry. If I am so blessed as to make it there, DU is certainly going to get a big thank you from me on my channel, as well as some on video demonstration of what the contributions provided.
Thank you very much! I'm at a loss for anything more eloquent to say. 
Thank you all so much for your support. I never imagined I'd find a way to reach that first goal, and I can do a great deal with it.
That being said, we still have until tomorrow night before Steve calls it on his own work on the fundraiser, as was planned. We still hope that somehow, the $1k goal can be reached, as it would cover all of the bases toward setting up my new career. Again, thank you all so much for your generosity in what you've given so far! If I don't make it to the second line, I'm no less grateful and will make the best of what I have.
I am short this month but would love to help if I could. DU has been so great in supporting me and my mom when we needed it. Instead of a GoFundMe I am trying out a couple credit cards until I hear about my disability claim. I know what it is like to have financial stress, and I hope things go well for you.
That rhymed. Not a bad fundraising slogan.
Well, I've decided that today will be the last day of the fundraiser for funding to help me kick off my new career. That full one grand will put everything into place and get it moving. As it stands, you generous souls have given me $300, and I have a relevant coupon which adds $40 more for a limited time. So, we have $340 out of $1k.
I doubt if we have anyone out there who can make up that gap, but if you exist, be assured I will sing your praises (literally sing, if you request) in the goal achieved video when and if I get to make it and put it on YouTube to celebrate the greatness that is the DU community! Here's to hoping this last day is the big day, and if it's not, I'm still very grateful. You can also subscribe to my channel for free to help, which is admittedly less urgent but no less appreciated.
If you need a repeat on the points of contact to help out during this last push, to repeat:
In order to contribute funds to help me reach my $1k fundraising goal, which will go toward founding a career above disability's small stipend by helping me turn my YouTube channel into a business with a good cause, please send donations via PayPal to... [email protected]
For those of you who want to subscribe to my channel to help move the viewer count toward the 20k goal, every step helps, and it's free. You can do that here... https://www.youtube.com/c/legacyarkgames
Thank you all so much and at the end of the day, whatever is there, I will try to put to best use. I hope for what's needed to leap right into my new trade, but if not, I can at least get small aspects of it rolling.
