I was like, Someone should put one of these in the air.

Could you get a skywriter?

And it started as a joke on my friends only Instagram.

Jacob Reed pickets at Paramount Studios on Monday as the plane he commissioned flies overhead

Jacob Reed pickets at Paramount Studios on Monday as the plane he commissioned flies overheadKatie Campione

I had enough friends immediately just be like, Yes, I would chip in.

Tell me what you need,' he told Deadline while on the picket line at Paramount on Monday.

He attached his Venmo to his social media, and the rest is history.

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Plane flies over Paramount Pictures with the banner that reads “Pay the writers, you AI-holes!”

About $2,200 was spent to commission the plane and the rest was donated to the Entertainment Community Fund.

Reed is not a member of the WGA himself, but he is a member of the DGA.

Its gonna be basic things that any worker should have.

Its going to be an easier fight for every other human being that comes after that.