Fake TTRPG Kickstarter Ads on Facebook?

[Reynard]

I am not sure what board to file this under, so I put it here.

Has anyone else run into fake Kickstarter ads for TTRPG related stuff coming across their feeds. I got one for "K-Pop DnD Hunters" this morning and I tried to follow up (because it felt like a crass sash grab) but its does not seem to exist. I wish I had taken a snip of it, but I did not and now I can't find anything about it again.

I would have guessed that there is a lot of vaporware, but I had not encountered a fake ad before. Or, at least, one I realized was fake.

What would be the point? And if it wasn't fake, why can't I find it again?

 

[Ryujin]

It could have been a case of someone actually creating a Kickstarter and then someone reporting it for the creator not having rights to the IP, so it got deleted.

 

[Reynard]

It could have been a case of someone actually creating a Kickstarter and then someone reporting it for the creator not having rights to the IP, so it got deleted.

It would feel real weird if that happened all within 5 minutes this morning.

 

[sevenbastard]

What would be the point? And if it wasn't fake, why can't I find it again?

A glitch in the matrix? A change in the timeline only you remember? You slipped between parallel worlds without realizing it?

Lots of simple reasons.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It would feel real weird if that happened all within 5 minutes this morning.

It might have been that you just happened to see it just before a whole bunch of faux-K-Pop Demon Hunters stuff got taken down. Or that they called it "K-Pop DnD Hunters" in the ad, expecting you to click directly, but they don't use that actual terminology to describe the game in any of their press, or have sufficiently bad SEO that it can't be found.

As an aside, I was at some legal awards a couple of weeks back and people could push selfies with captions to one of the big screens, and I think I realized K-Pop Demon Hunters was probably "over" as being in any way cool when I saw two 40-something white lawyers (one of them male) describing themselves as such on said screen.

 

[Ryujin]

It would feel real weird if that happened all within 5 minutes this morning.

Within 5 minutes of it showing up in your feed, but not necessarily 5 minutes of the launch. And scammers aren't exactly known for caring what happens to their posts, after they've been caught, as they usually have several layers of anonymity between the scam and themselves.