I genuinely did not think this would work. You just became part of something I'll remember forever.
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Out of 8 billion people on this planet, I made a wager with myself: not a single one would give me $1. I'm trying to prove myself wrong.
Here is the full, embarrassing truth: I genuinely believe that getting a stranger to voluntarily hand over one dollar — the price of nothing, the cost of a gumball — is harder than it sounds.
Not because people are bad. Because attention is scarce, trust is broken, and the internet has trained us to click away from anything that smells like a transaction.
So I made a bet with myself. I built this website today. I'm sending it into the void. And I'm watching to see what happens.
"The price of a gumball. The cost of nothing. And still, I wasn't sure anyone would do it."
— The person who made this page, probably wrong about everything
The rules are simple. There are no tricks. I'm not selling anything. The dollar doesn't go to charity (though that would make this easier — guilt is a powerful motivator). It goes to keeping this page alive and proving a point.
If you pay, you join something: The Wall of Believers. The permanent, growing list of strangers who looked at this page and decided, for whatever reason, to prove a stranger on the internet wrong.
Maybe you're doing it out of curiosity. Maybe you like the honesty of it. Maybe you just have a dollar and nowhere better to put it right now.
The reason doesn't matter. The act does. Because somewhere, I'm watching this counter, and every time it moves, I'm reminded that the internet — despite everything — still has some good in it.
Or maybe nobody pays and I was right all along.
One dollar. Secure checkout via Stripe. You'll appear on the Wall of Believers below — permanently, with your name and city if you want. No email required. No follow-up. Just the satisfaction of being right when I was wrong.
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No one has proved me wrong yet.
Will you be the first?