https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/24/grand-my-cat-gap-year-rise-of-i-want-crowdfunding

Forget sponsoring Bob in accounts to run a charity marathon: these days you can ask anyone for anything

Iwan Carrington wanted AirPods but he couldn’t afford them, and for most 16-year-old boys that’s where the story would end. Since their release in December 2016, Apple’s £199 wireless Bluetooth earbuds have become a status symbol among teens: after all, only the wealthy can afford tiny, untethered headphones that are so easy to lose. As an ordinary Welsh schoolboy, Carrington wasn’t rich enough to buy them, and he was growing increasingly jealous of his friend’s pair. So in January this year, he came up with a solution.