Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
Yes, you need to publicize these things before starting the petition -- unless you have some kind of famous celebrity who can magically get 20-50,000 signatures by posting to Facebook or Twitter or something. Today's update is the first I heard of this.
This is pretty much how GoFundMe works. Almost nothing goes "viral" that isn't already planned and the money is almost always already pledged before the GoFundMe is ever announced. The exception is celebrities that have large audiences to help drum up support.