Not a misprint guys, Mark Cuban, a billionaire a few times owner, is now being paid $1,000 per cat sketch...I don't even know what else to say, talk about a kick in the nuts.
TMZ - Mark Cuban just raked in a $1,000 check for drawing a picture of two stick-figure cats kissing each other ... seriously.
It's not as random as it seems -- Mark is an "investor" on the reality show "Shark Tank" ... and recently sunk $25k into a company called, "I Want to Draw a Cat for You" -- a website that sells personalized cartoon cats for $9.95 a piece.
After he bankrolled the company, IWTDACFY jokingly posted an offer on the website that Cuban would personally sketch some cat art for $1,000 ... not thinking anyone would actually bite.
But they were wrong ... 'cause a short time later, a 24-year-old dude named David Switzer put up the cash ... and requested a kitty pic featuring himself and his girlfriend.
Mark tells TMZ ... although he has no prior cat-drawing experience, he's taking the job seriously ... and even reached out to the regular cat artist to get an idea of what he the pic should look like.
I mean, DAMNIT. I'm not even so mad that someone as rich as him is being paid $1000 per doodle on the side, as much as I am that I didn't think of this before.
People really love cats. There are dog people, who love their dogs, and are perfectly rational and sane people, and then, there are cat people. People who love their cats, and are bat shit crazy about cat culture. LolCats, cats playing the piano, cats attacking acting a fool on youtube, and now, childish sketches of cats on the internet.
I have no idea how I missed this...Like, I've long realized that half the internet was porn but I kinda just assumed the other half was made up of some mix of news, sports, goofy videos, twitter, and facebook. WRONG. The other half of the internet is cats and crazy cat people...it's basically the lifeblood of the modern world wide web as we know it. You think Youtube gets that multi billion dollar valuation when they sold without cat videos? Hell no. I mean, yea, watching russian kids maim themselves in incredibly stupid stunts is fun and all, but it gets old. Cat people never grow old of posting and watching cat videos.
That's why I'm so pissed. I completely missed the cat demographic. It's not like I ever expected much out of this blog, but a few bucks here and there for my time wouldn't have been turned down or anything. Turns out if it'd just dawned on me how crazy people are for cats I could have been appearing on prime-time TV shows, selling my MS Paint cat sketches for $10 a piece and hanging out with Mark Cuban, eating caviar on planes and shit.
