I fell into this YouTube rabbit hole of disgraced YouTubers

[Lance Uppercut]

[Celgress]

Mar 14, 2023 5:40:49 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Not so much disgraced, since she was never "in grace" to begin with, but it was incredibly satisfying to see the woman whose only real talent is finding new ways to get upset by Brie Larson's mere existence get dunked on by the very people she was trying to be like.

Ah, Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers played a role in her downfall, no surprise. Jerry is likely the most toxic Comics Gate YouTuber out there. From ridiculous feuds with other YouTubers many of them former allies (such as Mecha and Overlord DVD), to his open misogyny and racism, to his climate change denialism (the fool once rode out a hurricane in his home and claimed it was "no big deal" then later cried about the damages), and his legendary anger management issues, Jerry is in the winners' circle. I kid you not, his current crusade is to help Steven Crowder illegally publish the manifesto of the Tennessee school shooter so they can "own da libs".

[dav]

Nov 14, 2023 2:00:45 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

So it seems The Completionist's dementia charity has been taking donations for ten years and just letting the money sit in their bank account.

The Completionist’s charity accused of withholding over $600K in donations

Popular YouTuber The Completionist’s charity, The Open Hand Foundation, has been accused of holding back more than $600,000 in dementia research funds.

The Open Hand Foundation, founded by Jirard Khalil – the content creator behind the popular YouTube channel The Completionist – and his family, have been accused of not contributing any of the funds it raised to any organizations for dementia research despite claiming to do so.

The accusations are coming from all angles as YouTubers, including Karl Jobst and SomeOrdinaryGamers, have uploaded detailed breakdowns of the situation after researching and communicating with the Open Hand Foundation.

The foundation, which officially became a non-profit organization in 2014, reportedly raised over $600,000, but this money is allegedly still sitting in their bank account.

Jobst, in a breakdown video titled “This Charity Is Lying To You,” explained that according to the foundation’s tax filings, they received significant contributions each year, deducted some expenses, and then added the remaining cash to their existing stockpile, which now totals $655,000.

“For the past ten years, they have raised over $600,000, and it’s all just sitting in their bank account despite Open Hand saying the money goes to help fund research, and despite the fact that everyone believes their money is going to a worthwhile cause, this is simply not the case,” Jobst states.

Despite claims on their website and by Khalil that the foundation supports various organizations, including the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), there is allegedly no record that a single dollar has been dispersed to any charity or research organization.

“In 10 years of filings, they have not dispersed a single dollar to anyone,” Jobst claimed. “They have kept everything for themselves.”

Jobst explained seeming discrepancies, such as a quote on the Open Hand Foundation’s website from David Kessler, which states, “I am deeply grateful for your recent gift to UCSF School of Medicine. Your support of Frontotemporal Dementia and related degenerative diseases research is invaluable.”

Yet, as Jobst points out, Kessler was fired from his role as dean at UCSF in 2007, a full seven years before the Open Hand Foundation was registered as a non-profit, leading many to wonder how or why the quote is even on the foundation’s website.

Baffled by the findings, Jobst questioned the Open Hand Foundation directly to learn more about the situation.

A response from Jacque Khalil, Jirard’s brother, claims that before their official registration as a foundation, they “donated body parts for research and made financial contributions to an institution that, in our view, made insufficient progress.” There is no record of any disbursement of funds, however.

As Jobst states, “Essentially, Open Hand is claiming that because they made donations before they were registered in 2014, which we cannot confirm because it wasn’t public at the time, this means it is acceptable to not pass along of the money that the public has given them until they find someone they deem worthy.”

Jobst and Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers spoke with Jirard Khalil, who claimed he was unaware until 2021 that the funds had not been forwarded to any organizations and has since been trying to find a place to send the money.

And that leads to the important question of whether the money is still there, to which Jobst added, “Jirard assures us they still have the full amount of money and are looking to donate it as soon as possible… however, due to Open Hand’s past dishonesty, I think we do need concrete proof of this donation when it happens.”

Jirard or the Open Hand Foundation is yet to publicly comment on the allegations.

www.dexerto.com/entertainment/the-completionists-charity-accused-of-withholding-over-600k-in-donations-2382122/

Well, this is beyond shitty, if true.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Nov 15, 2023 17:16:14 GMT -5 dav said:

Well, this is beyond shitty, if true.

I mean, it's true. The financial records are public record and Jirard has admitted on camera the money is still in the account, claiming that he didn't know about it until 2021, which still means he's been soliciting donations for two years knowing the money would just be sitting in an account doing nothing.

The only real questions are is the money still in the account, and what were the $125,000 "expenses"?

Just makes stuff like this look really shady in hindsight:

[dav]

Nov 15, 2023 17:55:07 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Nov 15, 2023 17:16:14 GMT -5 dav said:

Well, this is beyond shitty, if true.

I mean, it's true. The financial records are public record and Jirard has admitted on camera the money is still in the account, claiming that he didn't know about it until 2021, which still means he's been soliciting donations for two years knowing the money would just be sitting in an account doing nothing.

The only real questions are is the money still in the account, and what were the $125,000 "expenses"?

Just makes stuff like this look really shady in hindsight:

Ah, overlooked that part. And then there are those videos, as you say. Yeah, this is real shitty alright. Bit of a wonder this wasn't caught earlier, if they've been lying that much about it.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Nov 15, 2023 18:10:53 GMT -5 dav said:

Ah, overlooked that part. And then there are those videos, as you say. Yeah, this is real shitty alright. Bit of a wonder this wasn't caught earlier, if they've been lying that much about it.

The only real saving grace is that they haven't pocketed the money. The "expenses" may be legitimate, and Jirard certainly has enough personal wealth to spend $23,000 on e-Shop purchases. Still, it's not a good look.

From the legal standpoint the only thing they've done wrong is not meet the annual minimum 5% charitable donation requirement, but that's between them and the IRS. That could spin into charity fraud, but I don't know the laws well enough to be sure about that.

Morally, of course, it's another matter entirely. $600,000 in 2023 goes a lot less further than it did in 2013, and soliciting donations seemingly with little or no intent to put them to charitable use is pretty damn low.

[Johnny B. Decent]

So...the money was just resting in his account?

[Celexa Bliss]

Is it a prerequisite to be a YouTuber that you have to be a shitty person? Because that's my major takeaway from this thread.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Nov 15, 2023 19:13:58 GMT -5 Johnny B. Decent said:

So...the money was just resting in his account?

A good long rest.

[tirtefaa]

Legally speaking, the fact that most of the money is intact is at least going to help him avoid any super serious ramifications, but him pleading ignorance to this just has way too many red flags, and it wouldn't surprise me if the money was there as some kind of retirement fund under the guise if they got caught that he could always "give it back" then. I wonder if there's a statute for charity gifts and giving them back to the donor? I doubt it.

This is definitely up there as far as awful behavior especially since it preys on sympathy and at the very least is gross incompetence, although I doubt that given how he name-drops certain groups. In any case, his YouTube career is probably over.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Nov 15, 2023 20:10:04 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Legally speaking, the fact that most of the money is intact is at least going to help him avoid any super serious ramifications, but him pleading ignorance to this just has way too many red flags, and it wouldn't surprise me if the money was there as some kind of retirement fund under the guise if they got caught that he could always "give it back" then.

Even the pleading ignorance part is probably bullshit, as his signature is on all the tax filings. Either he knew about it, or he's dumb as a box of rocks and signs off on important legal documents that account for hundreds of thousands of dollars without even looking at the contents.

[tirtefaa]

Nov 15, 2023 20:20:31 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Nov 15, 2023 20:10:04 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

Legally speaking, the fact that most of the money is intact is at least going to help him avoid any super serious ramifications, but him pleading ignorance to this just has way too many red flags, and it wouldn't surprise me if the money was there as some kind of retirement fund under the guise if they got caught that he could always "give it back" then.

Even the pleading ignorance part is probably bullshit, as his signature is on all the tax filings. Either he knew about it, or he's dumb as a box of rocks and signs off on important legal documents that account for hundreds of thousands of dollars without even looking at the contents.

Yeah, I mean I really really don't see how he can explain this away. Again, I hate to speculate, but I think this was a long-term scheme, and Jirard was smart enough to understand that if he spent the money while he still had eyes on him, it was going to attract attention and he'd be in far more trouble. As of right now, he can plead ignorance, even though it's very likely he was 100% aware.

[Scoops]

Nov 14, 2023 21:18:37 GMT -5 Lance Uppercut said:

I'm glad you posted this video because I've gotten into disgraced YouTuber videos the past week and a thing I noticed about the people that run "drama" channels and their commenters is they'll often view "becoming woke" or "selling out" as among the worst thing someone can do. Like I watched this video's Idubbz part and Joon the King's H3H3 video and both have parts where the maker goes "and then they did the unforgivable...they were unfair to a racist (PewDiePie, JonTron, Sam Hyde).That's along with treating Kiwi Farms as a group of loose canon Internet vigilantes and pranksters and not sociopaths that have literally pushed people to suicide.

[Celgress]

Nov 15, 2023 20:56:34 GMT -5 Scoops said:

Nov 14, 2023 21:18:37 GMT -5 Lance Uppercut said:

I'm glad you posted this video because I've gotten into disgraced YouTuber videos the past week and a thing I noticed about the people that run "drama" channels and their commenters is they'll often view "becoming woke" or "selling out" as among the worst thing someone can do. Like I watched this video's Idubbz part and Joon the King's H3H3 video and both have parts where the maker goes "and then they did the unforgivable...they were unfair to a racist (PewDiePie, JonTron, Sam Hyde).That's along with treating Kiwi Farms as a group of loose canon Internet vigilantes and pranksters and not sociopaths that have literally pushed people to suicide.

Yup, they all do idolize them some racists, oh and they view Kiwi Farmers as harmless lovable rascals. Those are two facets almost all of them share.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Nov 15, 2023 21:38:36 GMT -5 Celgress said:

Nov 15, 2023 20:56:34 GMT -5 Scoops said:

I'm glad you posted this video because I've gotten into disgraced YouTuber videos the past week and a thing I noticed about the people that run "drama" channels and their commenters is they'll often view "becoming woke" or "selling out" as among the worst thing someone can do. Like I watched this video's Idubbz part and Joon the King's H3H3 video and both have parts where the maker goes "and then they did the unforgivable...they were unfair to a racist (PewDiePie, JonTron, Sam Hyde).That's along with treating Kiwi Farms as a group of loose canon Internet vigilantes and pranksters and not sociopaths that have literally pushed people to suicide.

Yup, they all do idolize them some racists, oh and they view Kiwi Farmers as harmless lovable rascals. Those are two facets almost all of them share.

Kiwi Farms: when you're so shitty the Russian government tells you to go get stuffed and an admitted mother-rapist like Chris Chan still looks better in comparison.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Nov 14, 2023 21:58:08 GMT -5 Celgress said:

Mar 14, 2023 5:40:49 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

Not so much disgraced, since she was never "in grace" to begin with, but it was incredibly satisfying to see the woman whose only real talent is finding new ways to get upset by Brie Larson's mere existence get dunked on by the very people she was trying to be like.

Ah, Jeremy from Geeks and Gamers played a role in her downfall, no surprise. Jerry is likely the most toxic Comics Gate YouTuber out there. From ridiculous feuds with other YouTubers many of them former allies (such as Mecha and Overlord DVD), to his open misogyny and racism, to his climate change denialism (the fool once rode out a hurricane in his home and claimed it was "no big deal" then later cried about the damages), and his legendary anger management issues, Jerry is in the winners' circle. I kid you not, his current crusade is to help Steven Crowder illegally publish the manifesto of the Tennessee school shooter so they can "own da libs".

I remember seeing someone on a stream watch his reaction to the Halo show trailer and it's kind of amazing how you could see his face instantly sink and him go from into it to pissed off the instant there was a non-white person onscreen.

[Futureraven: Beelzebruv]

Nov 15, 2023 19:13:58 GMT -5 Johnny B. Decent said:

So...the money was just resting in his account?

That poor girl in Lourdes...

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Nov 15, 2023 17:16:14 GMT -5 dav said:

Nov 14, 2023 2:00:45 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

So it seems The Completionist's dementia charity has been taking donations for ten years and just letting the money sit in their bank account.

Well, this is beyond shitty, if true.

The thing that kills me is he used his mom's death as sympathy bait for the charity. If this all comes true then man, f*** him for real. Though I've had this air about Jirard for a long time whenever he'd make videos hat in hand about how revenue and views are low. Which feels more nefarious given if the revenue and algorithm is so bad yet he has the money to pump almost 100K in the 3DS library.

[Scoops]

Nov 16, 2023 7:07:43 GMT -5 Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! said:

Nov 15, 2023 21:38:36 GMT -5 Celgress said:

Yup, they all do idolize them some racists, oh and they view Kiwi Farmers as harmless lovable rascals. Those are two facets almost all of them share.

Kiwi Farms: when you're so shitty the Russian government tells you to go get stuffed and an admitted mother-rapist like Chris Chan still looks better in comparison.

Every video about Chris Chan: This severely mentally ill person was tortured for years by trolls and it's justified because they're racist and misogynistic but not in the cool way like the people doing it.

[legendkiller1985]

I guess for some of these people, there was no work life balance outside of YouTube and having to constantly be shitty for views to get the algorithm to get more views backfired spectacularly.