• 4am@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Charity fraud is a bit more than “YouTube drama” but ok dude, just keep “lemmysplaining” 🙄

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          8 months ago

          Charity scams that need to be audited for a potential decade of illicit behavior are not “youtube drama” just because a youtuber was involved

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          8 months ago

          Just because it’s about a YouTuber and was investigated by a youtuber doesn’t mean its youtube drama though. It isn’t just superficial drama about beef between two creators.

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      8 months ago

      Never ever ever ever give money to someone that promise to give it after to charity. There are countless stories with proof of people who never kept the promises. Even if they did give it, they get tax benefit instead of you. It’s worth also (even more) for shop or other places that propose to round up the total and give to charity.

      You want to give to charity? Just give to charity, why a middle man ?

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        Even if they did give it, they get tax benefit instead of you.

        No, they don’t.

        They literally just don’t have to count the amount you gave them as income. That’s it. That’s the whole thing. You can’t profit off of middle manning donations unless you commit fraud.

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        8 months ago

        Because A) you have to research the charities as a lot of them give very little (or sometimes don’t, in this case) to the actual cause they are championing, and 2) sometimes people are more likely to donate to a face they know rather than an organization.

        iirc Crit1kal used to donate practically all of his YouTube earnings to charity waaaaaay back in the day with pics of the monies being given. No idea if he does it now still, but I’m confident he would show the receipts if it was in question.

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      8 months ago

      Outlines alleged charity fraud and embezzlement on the scale of hundreds of thousands of dollars

      It’S juSt YoUtUbe dRaMa

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        8 months ago

        The core of it isn’t YouTube drama as the dude is actually committing a crime I believe, but a lot of the comments surrounding it is 1000% YouTube drama - same with the SSSniperwolf and JacksFilms stuff with one YouTuber stalking and doxxing the other on their Instagram and getting away basically scot-free because YouTube prefers one over the other and the fans of the perpetrator said they were 100% justified in stalking and revealing the other YouTuber’s home address.