Yeah but then you're obliged to nut on pictures of Misato Katsuragi. If you spend the last 5 years nutting on Shinji and never Misato, then you're kind of scamming your patrons.
The thing is, I'm not? They're free to retract funding whenever, if I don't empty my balls on their cougar of choice. If they don't, it's not really a scam, just people throwing their money into a black void.
Again, they needn't recieve anything. I never said I *post* pictures of my nut on Misato, just that I say I've done it. The people supporting Komi are morons, but they aren't being
scammed, just
fleeced. Sorta like how a gatcha game never giving you the SS 5-star waifu PNG isn't a scam, that was never promised to you, you just chose a poor place to spend hundreds of dollars like a moron.
Or like how the manly T-pills sold by Infowars aren't a scam. Dishonest, scuzzy, and stupid, definitely. They don't behave as advertised and the people buying them don't need them. But it's not really a scam. That's a more particular, legally actionable sort of thing. You can't take Komi to court for not updating HHG (although you might be able to threaten him with it and make him actually release something, I suppose, if he believes you can)