Not something that makes me laugh, but something that makes me feel relieved.
Over on the microblog blusky I follow Martin "LittleKuriboh" Bellamy, creator of the gag dub
Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series, and I regularly tune in to his streams on twitch.tv. Over the years I've gotten to know a lot of hardships he and his partner Marin has experienced, such as former collaborators that turned hostile, struggles with money, struggles with getting gender affirming care for his partner, struggles with finding employment, struggles with AI replacing voice actors, struggles related to being immuno-compromised, his father passing away, his mother calling J K Rowling a hero and their cat passing away earlier this week. It all came to a head this week, where he revealed that he'd have to fast-track a planned 20 year anniversary of
Yu-Gi-Oh the Abridged Series celebration in the form of streaming on YouTube, on account that he could possibly out of their home if he delayed it any further. He also set up a
donation link, and explained the situation in the video below, with the hope of collecting 20.000 USD, to keep it on theme with the anniversary.
He has not even started streaming yet, yet they have already collected 574 % of the requested money. I am glad for him. That makes me smile.