V&S responds. And, hey, I deserve it!
Friday, October 30, 2009 at 02:17PM Victors and Spoils has posted my comments (thank you, guys), and Evan Fry, the CD of V&S, has responded. He writes:
Thanks for your comments Jeff. It’s lively and awesome and we love your passion and typing skills. Yes, we have a plan. But not so sure that we owe anyone an explanation. Please just be patient. Or ignore us crazy loonies here as we try to do something that will satisfy all and shape perhaps a way for everyone to be happy (who knows, it’s possible and who knows, we might have a plan). Oh and we’ll respond to your email inquiring about working with us sometime very soon. Thanks buddy.
Super condescending and mean spirited, not to mention lacking in punctuation (yes, Evan should know about comma usage), but I dished it out, so I'll take the hit. Besides, what the hell am I gonna do about it? Yup, nothin'. Unless I get onto Oprah someday and can talk about how I, a Writer, was called a mere typist. Oh, the pain.
Oh, and about my email to these "loonies", it's true, I saw their site, got excited and fired off a note. Then I read more and wrote them another note saying I no longer wanted to have anything to do with them. That Evan... clever bastard for leaving this detail out!
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"Please be patient" while we figure out if we actually have a business model. Where have I heard that crap before???
This will go the way of "user-generated-content".
These guys are not original. Here's another firm working off the same basic premise:
http://www.geniusrocket.com/info/
It really boils down to having a crowd that wants to do the work, and more importantly, can do the work. Otherwise, it's just a big clusterfuck.
Plus, you need clients. Good luck finding great clients willing to roll the dice. Like Genius Rocket, these guys will likely lure local clients who want to get something for next to nothing. If Fry really thinks he'll get better ideas than anything he could come up with on his own, well, it might mean he's a shitty creative director to begin with. A shitty creative director wading through piles of crowdsourced shit only leads to shit.
Crapsourcer, I agree, Fry has his work cut out for him (but you put it so much better).
Jeff