some guy is having no luck finding a girlfriend, so he's decided to start crowdfunding for money so he can, er, keep looking? i forsee so much success with this approach. and there is definitely nothing wrong with this approach. nope.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-tom-to-fund-love

while i suspect it might be a spoof for about ten billion reasons, it's probably very likely that it's real and someone has in all seriousness had this idea.