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I don't want to be a curmudgeon, but why would anyone donate to that? Especially with no info about who is behind the site and why they did it.

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>info about who is behind the site:

Two names with a copyright are listed in an HTML comment in the source code at the end of the page. This information could be false of course.

Because it is fun, thought-provoking a little bit, and just made me smile :).

Yeah, and I agree to an extent. It just seems weird to me, as a donation usually goes towards something that you believe in and want to help flourish. There's not even an indication of what the donations would be used for.

I certainly don't want to make a crusade out of it, but it just felt a little misplaced to me.

Some people believe in art and want to help it flourish.

I believe in creative thoughts which not harm, but which do something good, even if it's just making someone smile. And I definitely want them to flourish. Art is, of course, one of the types of those creative thoughts.

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