Kickstarter plays home to all sorts of different projects, ranging from the really cool, to the really weird, to the really useless, and sometimes even scams. That being said if you’re curious as to which Kickstarter project might be the most backed project of all time, that honor would belong to Exploding Kittens.
For those unfamiliar, Exploding Kittens is a card game illustrated by famed web comic artist Matthew Inman from The Oatmeal. The game has received the honor of being the most backed project on Kickstarter and as it stands, it is the seventh most funded project on the website. As it stands the Coolest Cooler is still the most funded followed by the Pebble smartwatch, the OUYA Android console, the Pono music player, The Veronica Mars movie project, and the Reading Rainbox which comes in at sixth place.
In a blog post on its Kickstarter page, the creators of Exploding Kittens wrote, “It has everything to do with you. You wonderful people have come together to form the largest community in Kickstarter history, and the numbers keep rising. Tomorrow we’ll talk about some important updates, but today is just about you. This is your accomplishment, this is your title, this is your day. Thank you backers, you are the mostestest.”
While we reckon The Oatmeal’s involvement had to do with it gaining so much attention, the fact that it does not deal with electronics or moving parts makes it a relatively easy game to get into the hands of consumers pretty easily, which would also give backers more confidence in it as well. So far the project has managed to raise over $4 million which is way past its $10,000 goal. With 22 days to go, we have to wonder if it could rise higher in the Kickstarter rankings.
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