Donations for Bob Dylan?

Jacob Nierenberg

Jacob Nierenberg Jun 21, 2025

Jan 12, 2018

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                <h1>Donations for Bob Dylan?</h1>
                <h2><p>It might not be big or brass, but it is a brand-new bed for Bob Dylan and his lady to lay across. In what has to be the weirdest crowdfunded effort since Zack Danger Brown’s potato salad Kickstarter, the satirical clickbait website ClickHole launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to buy</p></h2>
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            <p>It might not be big or brass, but it is a brand-new bed for Bob Dylan and his lady to lay across. In what has to be the weirdest crowdfunded effort since <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zackdangerbrown/potato-salad/description?ref=avalancheghost.one">Zack Danger Brown’s potato salad Kickstarter</a>, the satirical clickbait website ClickHole launched a <a href="http://www.gofundme.com/2jc4yga2s?ref=avalancheghost.one">GoFundMe fundraiser</a> to buy Dylan a Sleep Number bed. And, as reported on the music site <a href="http://www.stereogum.com/1824726/clickhole-crowdfunded-and-delivered-a-1500-sleep-number-bed-for-bob-dylan/news/?ref=avalancheghost.one">Stereogum</a>, the good citizens of the Internet have done their part, raising over $1,500 in two weeks. The bed was shipped over the weekend to Columbia Records headquarters.</p><p>Or it could just be another elaborate hoax from the depths of the Internet: ClickHole (motto: "Because everything deserves to go viral") is a sister site of...the Onion.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://avalancheghost.one/content/images/sites/default/files/images/article/gallery/11896201_1622189264688000_174631536255347849_n.jpg" class="kg-image" alt="Extra" loading="lazy" width="399" height="598"></figure>
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It might not be big or brass, but it is a brand-new bed for Bob Dylan and his lady to lay across. In what has to be the weirdest crowdfunded effort since Zack Danger Brown’s potato salad Kickstarter, the satirical clickbait website ClickHole launched a GoFundMe fundraiser to buy Dylan a Sleep Number bed. And, as reported on the music site Stereogum, the good citizens of the Internet have done their part, raising over $1,500 in two weeks. The bed was shipped over the weekend to Columbia Records headquarters.

Or it could just be another elaborate hoax from the depths of the Internet: ClickHole (motto: "Because everything deserves to go viral") is a sister site of...the Onion.

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By Jacob Nierenberg

Jacob Nierenberg is an editorial intern at Crosscut. He has lived in Washington for nearly all of his life, and still proudly identifies with the Pacific Northwest despite his relocation to Stanford U