AN UTTERLY pointless crowd-funding scheme has seen more than $100,000 given away as people happily pay from $5 to see a hole being dug.

Cards Against Humanity, which describes itself as “a party game for horrible people’, said it was crowd-funding Holiday Hole, which began on Black Friday.

The funding was for a digger to make a hole in the ground at a site in America, which WIFR reported, was actually in Oregon, Illinois.

“As long as money keeps coming in, we’ll keep digging,” proclaims the site.

Anyone watching the live feed would see the digger standing idle and, for some peculiar reason, cough up money to get it digging again. A $5 donation bought three seconds of dig time and the event was live streamed with multiple camera angles.

One donor even coughed up $1750 to keep the digger at work. The cash throwing from Robert in the Californian city of Sunnyvale was one of four individual amounts of more than $1000 given away for no result, except a bigger hole.

It clearly is stupid but Cards Against Humanity was brutally honest about the exercise.

The Holiday Hole’s Q & A on their web page clearly shows it is totally pointless but if you want to give away money go ahead.

What do I get for contributing money to the hole?

A deeper hole. What else are you going to buy, an iPod?

How deep can you make this sucker?

Great question. As long as you keep spending, we’ll keep digging. We’ll find out together how deep this thing goes.

Is the hole bad for the environment?

No, this was just a bunch of empty land. Now there’s a hole there. That’s life.

Why aren’t you giving all this money to charity?

Why aren’t YOU giving all this money to charity? It’s your money.

and watching people count the beeps and just enjoy themselves, that feels nice to me. pic.twitter.com/riqHB9cPU1 — vegan mortensen (@TrinAndTonic) November 27, 2016

The dig has now stopped after $100,573 was poured into it.

Hole got dug — CardsAgainstHumanity (@CAH) November 27, 2016

The event is Cards Against Humanity’s finest pointless exercise in terms of earning money for doing nothing. On Black Friday 2013, it raised the price of their popular and uncouth card game by $5. In 2014, customers were treated with the option to buy a box of bull faeces, and in 2015 the company literally sold nothing for $5 a piece. Customers received not a thing in exchange for their money, and the company reported earning $71,145.