- 80% of how Glitch funds their shows is through merch sales of the initial pilot release and beyond and this has not changed, in fact it's been such a successful model they've only leaned into it more to MAKE more shows potentially possible.
- RubberRoss basically helped design the merch hand-in-hand with Glitch's team
- Is "Indie" supposed to be classified as "Make a Kickstarter/Patreon and do nothing else" to some people?
- This only started becoming a negative talking point against Glitch when it became Twitter's new thing to dogpile them, given they've literally been doing this since Murder Drones, so over 5 years of not really caring how the pilots got funded, even embracing it, until suddenly Gameoverse did it and now it makes them "sellouts" or something?
Anyway yeah, support Indie Animation, which Glitch still is.
I think something that really bothers me about this merch stuff coming right off of a "pilot" is that it just cements that Glitch isn't any different than any other mainstream animation studio.
They aren't taking a chance on a risky pilot, they're showing us the new IP.