To be fair, setting up a good Kickstarter campaign does actually take a not insignificant amount of money. A lot of people think that you can just throw something up on there, like a GoFundMe, and the money will just roll in. You actually can do that, but only if you're planning on ripping people off anyway.
Also, to be more fair, I have a few IMDB credits myself. One of them I got for making a prop that took me a few days. I turned down an Executive Producer credit, for another, because I didn't feel I'd earned i.