The video does not have subtitles, so for the people hard of hearing, please check the written announcement below the video!
We canceled the ongoing Kickstarter campaign and are relaunching it back on the 28th of November and it will then end on the 28th of December, 2022.
Unfortunately we cannot just pause the campaign and restart it, so we need to actually cancel the campaign and need to create a totally new campaign page, with a different URL. So to all backers who already supported us, and for the new backers who are intending to support the new campaign, be tuned for the new URL that we will be posting soon.
The main takeaway of the video is this: we did not intentionally steal someone else’s design and we were not aware of any plagiarism happening. I understand that from the outside it could seem this way, but it was never our intention to steal or plagiarise. We appreciate everyone who trusted in our good intentions, sent us words of encouragement and let us know about the situation in a kind way.
I’m now looking forward to the new design Matthijs is already working on and I can’t wait to finally have the new cards in their box in my hands, now more than ever!
Thank you for your support!
👇 Click there to follow the relaunch page.
The ”unfiltered” video
Let me explain this first, because you can easily say that the ”unfiltered” version is the one made “from the heart” and the ”filtered” version is made from “the head” and thus for some people more inauthentic. That the unfiltered version is more from the heart and the filtered version is more from the head is absolutely true. I can’t deny that. However, both our my true self so in essence as authentic as one can be become for me there wasn’t another form that I could have been. I can’t change who I am, but I can change how I act or what I say depending of course the circumstances.
I’m the managing director of ACTIIVIITYS/Dutch Joker Poker, but I am not the only one responsible for its success any longer. I have onboarded people on the team that are also dependent on its success to sustain (parts of) their life. On the webshop of Dutch Joker Poker (www.dutchjokerpoker.com) we will make the proper team introduction, but at least on the Kickstarter page you can see the broader scope of partners that are indirectly or directly involved in the operations of this company.
I post these 2 versions of the videoblog on my personal blog because I do find it very important to bring substance in my blogs. These are not ads, but words that come from within myself that are formed through my personal and professional experiences and things I have learned on the almost 4 decades I have been walking on this planet.
In the case of the videos, why I have no problem that it is the ”filtered” video being chosen to be published on the social media is because I am not the one directly responsible for the social media content and public outreach for Dutch Joker Poker. I only carry the end-responsibility, but I entrust the day-to-day handling of it to someone else. Same as for the design and “brand perception” of the product, I entrust the talents of someone else to make the direct decisions in this. We work based on trust and I don’t micro-manage people, and they can be assured that in the end I will take end-responsibility if anything happens, and if I see something I don’t like they will always here it, without it having a direct personal consequence for them when there was no ill-intentions behind mistakes. So I listen, and if there’s preference in the team to not say things out of fear for unnecessary ”brand damage” because of how things might be negatively perceived, as long as I can’t come up with a good argument to why something needs to be said, then I have no problem adjusting the messaging.
Here is the thing, though, I do like seeing myself talk more when I am talking from the heart than when I am talking from the head, which in my case means trying to follow a certain script and/or while talking remembering the things NOT to say because those are my personal opinion and this video needs to represent the opinion of the whole team 😅.
Feel free to post in the comments your opinion about this and/or tell me which video you yourself would’ve published on the social media channels! 😊
