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YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations (www.youtube.com)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Clbull@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world
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Karl Jobst and SomeOrdinaryGamers (separate video linked here) have accused Jirard Khalil of lying to viewers about his charity.

Jirard is a YouTuber who runs a channel known as the Completionist, where he plays games to 100% completion and reviews them based on how enjoyable the experience was.

The Open Hand Foundation, which was co-founded by Jirard in 2014, was set up to raise money for dementia charities after his dementia-stricken mother passed away. However, their yearly filings with the IRS suggest that none of this money has been donated to charity.

Jacque (Jirard's brother) responded to Karl's emails to the Open Hand Foundation claiming that they are still searching for the correct charity to partner with and disburse these funds, whereas Jirard claimed that he was only aware that none of the funds had gone out last year, yet is still openly promoting Open Hand on stream and claiming they support the UCSF, Alzheimer's Association, the AFTD and many other charities.

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[–] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, but after listening to the call, basically he pass the blame on both because they found the issue, to the point of saying that they did it for the views...

After that I knew that something is off, then he replied with something like "what do you want me to do, give all the money away, that will only make me look bad if I do it right now", but that was the goal of the donation.

I mean, I wouldn't see an issue if he was giving money but he didn't and he was claiming to donated to several associations, which didn't get a single dime

Edit: big fingers small cellphone.

[–] SendMeBakedBeans@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (2 children)

bamlame

Woooah, Black Betty

[–] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sorry, big fingers and small cellphone is a bad combination

[–] SendMeBakedBeans@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

All good man, just poking fun

[–] Strobelt@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Laughing hard at this and singing it in my head lololol