It's changed quite a bit since then. With the anonymity of the Internet, the ability to raise money is very different. When I was involved, there wasn't a great deal of money. If you were going to be involved in it, it was a good way to go broke.
Having said that, I think that with cryptocurrency and these different platforms, and the anonymity or perception of anonymity, social media creates communities of everything—good or bad. Once you can find a community, you can raise money and raise donations.
It was much more difficult to find and build those communities 20 or 30 years ago.