Nah, the investors don’t see it as a benefit to your growth to pay people you don’t have to

You see Konami slot machines all over Vegas… and a big Konami building as you go down the runway after landing too… (but none if this is particularly new)

Old school YouTubers started and sold Maker Studios. I think ShayCarl, Lisa Nova and Kassam G are some that were part of that.

The PowerPC installers used to have a step where it would output something like “Blessing /dev/sda1 with holy penguin pee” loved that message :)