I don’t normally do anything like this but I’m at a bit of a loss and I’d like the help/opinions of others.
I’m a longtime Starkid fan and I backed Judas Redux back in 2013. I backed enough to get to talk to the team and it was amazing. Truly was a dream come true and a moment I never thought would happen in my entire life.
The thing is, after the call I wrote a kinda cringey letter basically asking if we could be legitimate friends. They never wrote back, which I totally get, but upon realizing how stupid it was to send a message, I felt so ashamed and embarrassed. Now, with Judas there were quite a few rewards missing and I did fill out this google form that they sent, but I never followed up and I never actually got my rewards. I felt too embarrassed about it to do anything. I ended up staying away from Starkid for years because I couldn’t help but remember how stupid I’d been.
The thing is, over the past few months I’ve gone on this journey Re-discovering Starkid and now my love for them is back in full force. However, whenever I think about Judas, I still have this really heavy feeling about the whole situation and the fact that I didn’t get all the rewards for my tier and that I didn’t follow up because I was so embarrassed.
Hence my question: should I follow up with them somehow? I feel bad because it’s been 7 years so logically I know that there’s no way they’d be able to fulfill the rewards, but I just wanna make this feeling go away and have some closure on it I guess. I don’t wanna make them feel bad though in telling them, I mean rewards can be tricky on Kickstarter - especially back in those days. Idk - there’s definitely an element of wanting what I paid for, but also wanting an acknowledgement of what happened.
There’s a part of me that wants to reach out to the team but idek how or where I’d go about doing it, or what I’d even say to them. Ik Julia isn’t a performer anymore, but I went on her IG and saw that she has an email there that I could use to get in contact with her. If anyone had any help/advice regarding this - even if you think I shouldn’t reach out, I’d be very grateful <3
((The reason I’m tagging Joey, Corey, Lauren, Brian and Julia individually is because they were also producers in the project - I guess I’m hoping that this way more people will see it and hopefully offer some advice))