#not to mention his vast array of unfinished/unreleased projects

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Did derek take the money from a separate kickstarter to make the cool cat coronavirus movie? I feel like i heard that before but i dont remember the details

Derek funded the Cool Cat Fights Coronavirus “film” through a separate kickstarter back in November 2020, which raised $7,785 out of a goal of $400.

The short just dropped for those who donated to the Kickstarter but seeing as he merely just posted it as a link to an unlisted YouTube video anyone can view it so long as they click the link found here.

That being said, there’s still the matter of the Cool Cat Stops a School Shooting Indiegogo fundraiser. This fundraiser started back in March 2018, and at the time raised I believe well over $12,000. During the course of this, Derek promised several things, such as a part played by YouTuber Mumkey Jones after they made a video asking for a role, which caused an influx of people to start donating.  If I remember correctly, Derek got into a fight with Mumkey Jones or something along those lines and removed all mentions of including him from the page, despite a large quantity of the donations being caused by his fans wanting to see him appear in the movie. Of course, in the end, Derek did not meet his asking goal of $25,000 and decided that he simply did not have enough money to make Cool Cat Stops a School Shooting, but kept the money anyway, as Indiegogo allows the donated money to go to the campaign creator whether or not they reach their funding goal, though they must promise to fulfill the various perks that they promised for the donations. Instead, a few months later, Derek silently edited the Indiegogo campaign to instead be for “Cool Cat Stranger Danger”, which is what he would make with the money instead, being a newly made Stranger Danger awareness/cooking(?) short featuring Cool Cat. At that point, most of the donors were furious, and Derek was forced to give out refunds to many of them, leaving him with $6,976 from the campaign. But it gets even worse, as apparently Derek Savage is allergic to creating new content, so after a year of radio silence, in July 2019, he quietly changed the campaign page yet again to be for a “new” short, “Cool Cat’s Crazy Dream,” and released the video on YouTube the same month. 

So this is what he spent that $6,976 from the School Shooting Campaign on, right?

Wrong. According to Jason Johnson, Cool Cat’s original actor, who had recently at the time gotten into a fight with Derek Savage for appearing to do an interview about Cool Cat without Derek’s permission and had since been essentially fired from his role, pretty much all of the scenes, including the advertised “celebrity cameos” that take up the majority of the short, literally all of this footage was taken from back in 2012, filmed during the Hollywood Parade short, and Derek simply dubbed over Cool Cat with his own horrible impression. So the implication that he managed to spend $6,976 on fucking lozenges for doing that awful voice is laughable at best.

And that’s not to mention his previous campaign before that on Kickstarter, Cool Cat Loves You. This campaign happened back in April 2017, and raised $2,724 out of his asking price of $1,000. Cool Cat Loves You advertised itself to be an “Anti-Bullying, Kids’ Gun Safety Film.” If that sounds familiar, that’s because what he wasn’t too upfront about was the fact that he was planning on just filming a few more new scenes and sloppily pasting them onto the already-existing Cool Cat Saves the Kids. The campaign mentioned adding new songs, along with new celebrity cameos and seven new scenes that Derek had already storyboarded. In the end, this title ended up being released in July 2018 as “Cool Cat Kids Superhero.”

Again, the amount of “new” content that was filmed is a bit suspect. First of all, the film was only about 10 minutes longer than the original Cool Cat Saves the Kids, bringing it up to an 88 minute runtime, and secondly, many of these “new scenes” that padded out the runtime I believe were filmed years earlier, likely back in mid-2014, when they were filming the additional scenes for Cool Cat Saves the Kids that weren’t in the 3 original shorts that were combined to make Cool Cat Saves the Kids. I say this because there is one “new” scene where you can clearly see the date is July 21, 2014, along with the fact that in the new scenes involving Butch the Bully and Maria they don’t look any older, despite supposedly being filmed nearly 4 years later (along with the fact that during the previously mentioned interview with Jason Johnson, Cool Cat’s original actor, stated that Derek had told him previously that he couldn’t use Maria’s actress anymore because, and I quote, “she has tits now”). The main content in this that I can presume is actually new is the addition of a new intro scene that lasts about 5 minutes, where Cool Cat “sings” Cool Cat Rap Master, a new “song” that is a poorly made rap that lasts about a minute and 20 seconds that’s “rapped” by Derek in his normal voice, despite being supposedly sung by Cool Cat, that doesn’t even make any attempt to rhyme. After singing, Cool Cat yells at Derek for putting a water bottle in the trash and not recycling, and then Cool Cat and Derek ride a motorcycle around for like literally 2 whole minutes, before the original opening from Cool Cat Saves the Kids plays. Aside from the like single new scene and the extra footage padding recorded 4 years prior, one of the only differences in the film is that Momma Cat has been re-dubbed by Cynthia Rothrock, a martial-artist turned actress who hasn’t seemed to have a major role in quite a while.

So again, the content delivered from this Kickstarter that raised $2,724 out of its asking price of $1,000 is pretty lackluster at best, and I doubt that it all went towards making one new scene and hiring a D-list actress to record like 20 lines.

And remember, he later wound up with an additional $6,976 from his School Shooting Campaign that has seemingly went entirely unspent given his exclusive use of recycled footage for the project. 

That combined with the fact that he raised an additional $7,785 for Cool Cat Fights Coronavirus means that, if you assume that he spent the $1,000 he asked for as the goal for Cool Cat Loves You, leaving him with $1,724 from that project, he has assumedly raised roughly $16,485 from these fundraisers.

Not to mention, though it is the first “new” Cool Cat content that Derek’s posted in a while, Cool Cat Fights Coronavirus is only 17 minutes long, not including the credits, and most of it is, again, lackluster and low-budget at best. Considering Derek was only asking for $400 for the Coronavirus Kickstarter, we can assume that that’s how much he was willing to spend on it. Even if we’re generous, he would still most likely have well over $10,000 that has went largely undelivered. 

tl;dr: Pretty much every one of Derek Savage’s fundraisers have had him repeatedly overexaggerate, underdeliver, and even outright lie to those who donate, and the majority of the money donated most likely rarely ever goes to anything other than paying his bills. At best, his fundraisers are simply a very bad investment of money, even for people who would like to see more Cool Cat, and at worst he’s outright scamming people.