The 3rdSpaceDating store, which sells digital art supporter-badges was created as a way to run a store that operates like a crowdfunding campaign without having a restriction on time. Inspired by Star Citizen, which has managed to raise over $1 billion since 2012 through a mix of Kickstarter, private investors, and its own crowdfunding page that pre-sells items, we realized that in order to make this app a reality there were only a few ways we could survive financially and build a team capable of creating it. One of the best ways was by making this store. It gives you the customer the ability to directly support the company while it is being built meanwhile minimizing the reliance on third party companies that might cut us off for expressing our solution to the dating issues we are facing in 2026. 

Below are several funding alternatives that we have explored but didn't see fit for our business. We could have:

1. Raised VC pre-seed round. This would mean giving away a portion of our company. We would then be working for shareholders who could pressure us to adopt political or social positions that conflict with our own values, including majority Jewish led movements such as feminism, LGBTQ, toxic masculinity, and DEI, which we believe all encourage the destruction of nuclear family values, Christianity, Catholicism, and social order in Western, and European Countries. 

2. Raised an Angel investor round. This would also mean losing a large portion of the company, and in return, we would be working for an angel investor or group of shareholders who may or may not attempt to impose the expectations above on the company.

3. Started a Kickstarter campaign. This could work if we already had an established following, but starting from zero with no prior audience or connections was more than likely not going to result in meaningful progress.

4. Started a Patreon account. Patreon has previously de-platformed creators over content. This in our perspective makes this an unreliable business to partner, and build a community with. One example we looked at was Youtuber Tyler Oliveira, who was de-banked/ de-platformed after publishing a video in which he questioned Orthodox Hasidic Jews about employment and welfare. Note: he has previously uploaded videos on several different ethnicities to include Hispanic, and African-Americans before he published the video formerly mentioned. It should also be noted that action was only taken after he mentioned the Jewish community. Patreon reportedly described his content as “amplifying antisemitic tropes”. Coincidentally, several media companies such as the "Jerusalem Post", "Times of Israel", "Anti Defamation League (ADL)", and the "Blue Square Alliance (BSA)", whom are all Jewish owned,  proceeded to write negatively about him. His web host provider Hetzner, who is based out of Germany de-platformed him for breaking "German internet laws", Facebook (also Jewish owned) de-platformed him, and several sponsors asked for him to remove their ads from his videos. The cherry on top was the country of Israel BANNED him permanently after flying in to film a video and turned him on a flight back to the USA. We encourage you to go check out the video(s) and channel to make your own opinion before it gets removed. Its titled "I exposed New Jersey's Jewish Invasion"