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This is coming from a loving place. Despite the significant delays, I still believe in you and your creative ability, and I want you to succeed. If I remember correctly, these past few years you've endured pet health decline, pet loss, mental health struggles, issues with manufacturing, etc. And those complicated issues mixed with being neurodivergent and disabled, can make things even more difficult. Because of those reasons, I continue to be understanding and patient. But I need to point out, for your sake, some of your mistakes. And this is not to demoralize you in any way. But to try to help you prepare for the negative feedback you will continue to receive. I am writing this based solely on my recollection from the past two years, without digging through posts and emails. If I am misremembering something I sincerely apologize, and I would appreciate it if you pointed it out. Mistake #1: Starting a campaign when you are having manufacturing issues Irc before the start of this campaign your old manu left and you started working with a new manu that you had 0 experience with. Through this campaign, you realized that you didn't like the manu and decided to switch. That was by default going to make the process a lot more stressful by pushing you to delay things while you searched for a new manu for a project that was already backed. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you were already planning to launch other campaigns while you still hadn't resolved the manu issue, which ended up taking months. Launching a campaign with a new manu without having samples from them is reckless. Launching a campaign without knowing if you have a trustworthy manu is reckless. You should not start one or more campaigns without having a trusty manu set in place. This is something that should've been handled prior to the start of the campaign. Mistake #2: Not understanding that your part is not simply the creative part The main reason you have given for continuing on creating campaigns despite all the stagnant ones was that there wasn't much of anything to do for you once manufacturing started, and that your main task was the initial creative part. This is wrong. Yes, the creative component of the campaign is important. But that's something that is mostly ironed out before a campaign starts. Your main role, which is an important role, during the campaign is to make sure everything is flowing as smoothly as possible. That means pestering the manu for samples before or early in the campaign, making sure the manu doesnt fall behind, handling any paperwork you need to handle so there are no delays, etc. And are things you failed on. The reason people are upset that you're creating even more campaigns is because it is clear to the backers that you seriously struggle with handling logistics. I am not telling you this as an opinion. This is a fact. You struggle with handling logistics. You struggle with making sure projects run smoothly. You don't know how to efficiently push the process and your manu(s) to make sure things are not delayed to an unreasonable level. And for those reasons, when you make things even more complicated by adding more projects and more responsibilities when you are already struggling with the projects you have, backers get angry. Again, this isn't meant to demoralize you. I'm writing this as a wakeup call. If you understand what your shortcomings are, you can work towards improving them. It is my strong recommendation that you stop telling people "there wasn't much for us to do" when they ask why you're creating even more projects. Simply believing "there wasn't much for you to do" means you do not truly understand what your responsibilities are. Mistake #3: The generic updates I understand that when you have multiple open projects, it's easier to send them all the same update. But that's sloppy. What people want are clear updates stating what stage the project is currently in, how much longer this stage may take, what the next stage is, a tentative timeline, and some pictures or something as proof if possible. That is all information you should have for each and every project every day. Giving the same generic response for all of your projects when those projects are not in the same stage just makes things less transparent for the backers, and it makes it seems like you yourself are having a hard time of keeping track of where each project is at. You should know the status of each project like the lines on your palms, and your updates should reflect that. Mistake #4: The lack of updates Like I've already mentioned, you should know the status of each of your projects every day. That's your main job for every campaign you create. That being said, you don't need to update every day. But you should update us at the very least update once a month and whenever there's something you want to share. Backers should not be requesting you to make updates. Putting people in a position where they need to beg for updates makes you look irresponsible. TLDR: Generic updates, silence, not truly understanding why people are angry at you, repeating the same mistakes, and struggling to handle logistics and communicating any progress make people lose confidence in you. And if some of the things that I pointed out are misunderstandings that stem from you not being able to properly communicate, that's also an issue. You've already dug this hole pretty deep, and therefore people are going to be angry even if you improve from now on. But you CAN get through this. That is, if you understand what it is that you need to improve on. If you do not change, you put yourself at risk of succumbing to all the negative feedback. You may confidently state you plan to see the projects through for now. But the reality is that, at the rate you're going, things are only going to get worse. And you may even reach a point where you are left with no option but to give up.

So at this point...seeing you guys have a new project launching in 24hrs AND y'all are 8 projects behind ( I remember backing your very first project and had no issues) I do not believe y'all have any intentions on actually fulfilling these orders...I also backed your stuffed animal set and I keeping seeing complaints on EVERY SINGLE campaign...2 projects behind but with consistent updates? Cool I could be more understanding but 8 ??????? 😂😂😂