5-yen coin strap

"Cheering" with bits, "hype trains", subscription alerts, etc. are all fairly blatant attempts at manipulating you into opening your wallet and participating in the "hype" - potentially against your better judgement. But what if we try to do things differently to address the sad fact that one needs money to eat and try out new things for streaming?

The Japanese 5-yen coin [1] has a very characteristic shape and is associated with good luck. It is *the* coin that one desperately searches one's wallet for when you are about to make your New Year's offering at the local shrine as you inch closer and closer to the front of the long queue. Out of all Japanese coins in circulation, it is probably the most well known.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_yen_coin

Having collected these coins for about 15 years, my collection is now fairly impressive in terms of its coverage and the only way I source them is from the change I receive in my everyday life. I am not sure *why* I collect them, just that I do and that I find some form of pleasure in seeing if I can finally find one of the rarer ones in circulation. Thus, I came up with the idea of sharing that joy by making 5-yen coin straps, which can easily be shipped in an envelope across the globe. They make an excellent key ring, ornament, etc. 

Priced (well, overpriced really, but you surely get why that is the case) at roughly six months of a Twitch subscription plus shipping, they offer an option to the existing anonymous donations. Shipping is included and the specific strap design will vary depending on what I have available, although I will do my best to source nice designs. As for which specific coin you will get, I will randomly select one from the collection with an awk(1) script. Thus, you may end up with a coin that has travelled for more than half a century to reach your hand with the scars to prove it or a perfectly pristine one. To me, this is part of the joy in getting my hands on the coins in the first place.