The Completionist's Charity Was Hoarding Donations...
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- Опубликовано: 16 дек 2023
- Jirard Khalil, aka The Completionist has been a beloved creator, largely because of his charity, the Open Hand Foundation. But recently, SomeOrdinaryGamers and Karl Jobst have uncovered a dark history in this foundation, leaving The Completionist with a lot to answer for.
This video is a summary of the ongoing conflict between The Completionist, Mutahar/SomeOrdinaryGamers, and Karl Jobst. The drama primarily revolves around The Open Hand Foundation.
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He's so devoted to his job, he got every achievement required to get the Cancelled Trophy! Truly a master of his craft!
Stop it! He's already deeeeeaaaddd
@@daltonharmon1018 The horse is already gelatin at this point lmaoooo
He platinum'd his career. 100% finished.
Your comedy is meh, like you can’t wait to just start making fun of him because he’s not you. You are meh internet is meh
only missing is jail trophy
Jirard flat out lied. Then when he was caught he basically said "I'm sorry YOU FELT like you got lied to". That's classic gaslighting. The more I've seen about all this, the more I'm convinced jirard is a pathological liar. Jirard says "I'm showing the receipts" and then shows literally nothing
I can’t imagine hoarding that amount for that long, and AT LEAST not paying a lawyer to craft a proper statement and plan forward lol.
@@joshsigned2500 I think Jirard's response was written by a lawyer, or at the very least a PR firm.
@@PhazonEnder lmao yikes then
Yeah, the dumbest part of this whole thing was Jirad's response. Instead of really apologizing he doubles down and accidentally admits to embezzling money and misleading viewers. He should have just:
1) claimed ignorance. Jirad doesn't solely own OpenHand - he was just a board member.
2) donated a significant amount of money to offset inflation losses
3) distanced himself from OpenHand going forward.
Whatever lawyer / PR firm wrote his script is incompetent.
I don't think he's a pathological liar. More like a bad one. That is, Jirad seems to think of a cover story after the fact and without thinking it through.
As someone who lost a close family member to dementia, I can’t imagine hoarding those funds away when they could actively be used to increase the quality of life for those with the disease. At the very least, there was a gross misuse of funds.
That's what is so fucking weird. He dealt with it face to face and lost his mom. I don't get how you misuse charity funds when it's something so personal. There has to be more to this. I cannot fathom someone intentionally scamming a charity based on something that killed your mother.
Yeah my nanny passed away after 8 years of battling dementia yesterday. I can't tell you how unbelievably angry this whole situation makes me.
Having that level of money though would be hard to give up I don't agree with him or anything like that but I can't say I wouldn't do the same idk if I would but that kinda money can change your families lives
Right. Even if all the money got donated now, that's still a decade where they weren't funding anything. It's not *just* that it wasn't getting donated, but that it wasn't going when they said it was.
It'd be very interesting to see what all happened with that money over time.
Jirard: "I'm sorry to those that felt misled by all this."
Everyone: "BRO WE FELT MISLED BECAUSE YOU LITERALLY MISLED US!"
"Your honor, I'm sorry that you feel that there is an overwhelming amount of concrete evidence that I've committed charity fraud."
also a classic manipulation technique is to say "I'm sorry that you-" instead of just a flat "I'm sorry" lol
Your honor it wasnt fraud, i simply "made statements i shouldnt have made" and they simply "felt misled"
@@jackalexandeNot a goodie but definitely an oldie.
Jimmy I think you don't get it, Jirard is a relly nice guy, we played games that one time so that means that he could never do anything wrong -Gaming channels
And the reddit that went private
FWIW, him buying the entire eshop did quite literally NOTHING for game preservation. By the time he did that, the entire eshop had been downloaded and mirrored all over the internet for years. Anyone could access and [technically illegally] download games from Nintendo servers very easily.
You seem to be cock sure that (Edit: American) courts would legally recognise and acknowledge illegally obtained game libraries which is very funny.
@mechashadow you seem to be cocksure that the Nintendo eshop isn't online and isnt the legal space for individuals to buy old games as they are uploaded.
You also seem to be cocksure that the completionist can legally upload those games somewhere. He can barely give them away since they are digitally sourced. The only He did was give more money to a multi-billion dollar company.
Maybe you're just a cock head
@@mechashadowwow I thought I was Jimmy's oldest viewer but you're out here saying "cock sure" so maybe not 😂
@@mechashadow in russia they do recognize, it's a big world out there.
@@mechashadow What do you think he actually did? He brought the licenses to download the games, then would have ripped them off his DS to files.
That's pirate software, he produced pirate content. There's no diff between @idontwantahandlethough's and TheCompletionists.
Unless i'm wrong and he brought the LICENSING RIGHTS or something similar.
OR something changed, and when you buy a game you suddenly have legal rights to distribute it.
IDK why you brought the US courts into it when both are legally considered publishers of illegal or stolen material IF published.
I don't care what his intentions were, or if it was a case of indecision / mismanagement, if I donated money to a charity today, and found out in 2033 that it was in some dudes bank account, I'd be furious.
Yep!!
The minute Jirad mentioned embezzlement something Muta never said he did raised my red flags immediately especially when he showed no proof
I've been waiting for an October bank statement from the foundation showing 600k.
Jirard listed a number of links and documents in his response. Very odd that he didn't include a bank statement that would take 2 minutes to download.
He mention3d nothing of what he should have: Proof he didn't misuse, spend Or embezzle donations
And mentioned all the things he shouldn't've: *His mom's effing autopsy*
All to garner sympathy in hopes people would look the other way, then bribed muta and karl on the call.
Pretty sure he was referencing Jobst.
i am in full agreement with mutahar. jirard treats this like the biggest concern for him is his reputation and not all the money people have lost and how many lives could have been changed or saved had he just done what he was supposed to do.
@@humanmerelybeing1966not all of it
@@condor237this. Not all of it.
@@humanmerelybeing1966 I suppse you kind of missed the part of the video where it points out that around 20% of the value of the donated money has been lost to inflation.
Not to mention the lost time.
This isn't something to be hand waved away, it's impactful.
@rukifellth9401 20% of the first donations* the later (and larger years) donations don't follow that figure, just worth saying
Never trust a guy with a beard longer than 4"
“These rape allegations were made by people who were self admittedly not rape experts”
i was just listening to that part haha
The whole buying all eShop games "because preservation" is also kinda just a clickbait. Those games were already long since preserved thanks to piracy. Even the most shitty of games have been archived that way
Not legally.
Also, most piracy sites I came back recently gets A LOT of things purged. I'm looking for outside of Search Engine sites to find those files again.
@@Sammysapphiraok lol? jirard isnt legally preserving them for anyone but himself anyways so it literally means nothing
@@Sammysapphiraboo hoo. Multi billion dollar corporation won't get more money
Legally is the point, how can we legally rent them out and such. that was the point.
They went easy on Jirard. They made videos focused only on the lack of donations with very little speculation. Their videos only had very kind excerpts of the call. They waited 2 weeks through silence and inaction before applying more pressure.
The guy in charge of Open Hand bit the hands that fed him. He knew they had that recorded call and still decided to come out swinging.
the original Karl and Mutahar video seemed like both of them held back and gave them benefit of the doubt several times, might just be me
@@shinybreloom4027while Mutahar's vid more neutral, Jobst seems agressive in his attack. I kinda hope Jobst dial it down, it could be thrown back to him
I mean like Billy Mitchell case, while Jobst not exactly lying, he almost get into trouble for "slander".
@@shinybreloom4027 they're not stupid. they gave him the chance to come clean, in a way they were more real friends to jirard than anyone has been. they also knew that they wouldn't need to come out looking like asshats if they just bid their time so they did. and then jirard decided to hang himself on the rope given.
they absolutely did, all the info wasn't gathered then. to most people it was a genuine horrible mistake rather than malicious at the time.@@shinybreloom4027
@@hafirenggayudahaven’t you ever had a friend that acted a bit mean to you when you made a mistake muta and jobst acted like two friends who found out what their friend has done and got onto his case about it
He won't sue. All they need is discovery on the minutes from the annual board meetings to show that he 100% knew the money wasn't being properly donated.
Even worse case scenario if those minutes don't exist. Then everyone on the board is gonna be in the soup up to their necks.
i hate how instead of "employees" he said he has "20 mouths to feed" it was such a weird and kinda creepy way to phrase that. i have literally NEVER heard anyone refer to anything other than children and pets as "mouths to feed"
its just such a weird and uncomfortable way to phrase that. he couldve just called them employees, their dependency on a paycheck wouldve still stood since he wanted to add them into his guilt trip so badly. calling them "mouths to feed" just makes them sound like burdens and like theyre totally helpless without him. its just eww to me.
As if they won’t go find a job somewhere else after this lmao. Completionist needs to worry about his own mouth.
I was so confused when he said that I thought he had all family members working for him at first lol
I think at worst he was trying to get people to feel bad or at least make his accusers feel bad since $ would be lost if Jirard was taken to task.
Isn’t it obvious? All the golf money is gone! The money raised by those annual golf events is way more than the $600K raised by Indie Land. It looks to me like the Indie Land cash was the slush fund, there to cover any discrepancies that came up from other places.
Just look at Jamie Lee Curtis’s donations: $15,000 one year, $20,000 another, $25,000 another, and more. None of that has shown up. And the sponsors on those golf posters are giant companies, like Coca Cola, for crying out loud. You can work out, from where they are on the posters, what the minimum they paid was, as their paperwork states where their brand will show up on the signs, according to how much they spent. There are at least many hundreds of thousands of dollars still missing! Probably millions!
Currently my instincts are telling me that his entire family is Complicit In a conspiracy to commit charity fraud especially with the Golf tournament and all the mysteries relating to it, the entire family and every drop of their finances need to be audited before they take this opportunity to vanish
(and based on Jirards language I believe they are planning to pay some lawyers to go after Muta and Karl and whilst they are distracted quietly escape the country)
Amen.
They are done for.
Fun fact: Jirard had a MASSIVE falling out with one of his early RUclips friends, to the point where said friend wanted every video with him in it deleted. And Jirard made a HUGE deal out of the fact that he didn't have to delete the videos, but ended up deleting them anyways. Seems like Karl and Muta weren't the first to find out.
I remember Greg I think they weren't just youtube friends but friends from high school or college that just so happened to start the channel together, so now looking back i wonder what the hell did he do to piss his off so much they he walked away like that
@@IamChunkyJ Greg didn’t receive a 50/50 share of the money.
@@IamChunkyJEasy, he didn't want people to connect him to Jirard when shit hit the fan.
I remember i met him at evo and mentioned how it didn't feel the same when greg left and he went silent and gave me a deathstare
When did this happen?
Again, as someone who has worked with several local and national charities, Jirard is grossly exaggerating how hard it is to restrict your donations. Especially when you're in an alleged "partnership" with them. This is all way more shady than people would even think.
We should add a recently found tweet from April 14, 2023 where Jirard says, and this is the exact quote:
"I raise a combine total of nearly 600k to 750k a year for various charities. Doctors Without Borders, American Heart Association, Dementia Research and Treatment, Saint Jude’s Children Hospital. I’m helping people all the time."
So he just straight up lied at a point in time where he should've know that they hadn't donated any money and that the amount sitting in the account didn't reflect that yearly amount.
1:48 One of the biggest glaring holes in his newer story right there. "We donated her brain and spinal cord to the same academics and doctors we work with". One of the first excuses out of his mouth was that he couldn't find a place worthy of the money. Well hello!?!?!?!?! He trusted those academics and doctors with his mother's parts but not donation money? Think of what research they could have been doing these 10 years.
I think that's actually a very overlooked fact. It's also sad to think about how that lab could have probably done so much more with her sacrifice to help others....if they had the funding that is...and he still has the gaul to keep using her death as a shield from judgement.
That autopsy report man, that was messed up. Who ever even questioned that? That was crazy manipulative.
He’s honestly the last person I expected to get cancelled/do something like this.
Wasn't the last for me, lota of details that didn't line up about his claims of 100%ing games before, such as cheated footage of Doom when he talks about an insanely difficult mode,
which shows willingness to lie,
And there was big drama between his OG Cohost that lead to him deleteing the OG 100 episodes, we still don't have context behind.
its has to be jacksepticeye.
@@snorlax8963What?
Jerard didn't comment not because he was trying to do all he could to do right...he didn't comment because he and HIS family were lawyering up to respond AND threaten legal action in the hopes they could scare the YT community. That entire family should be investigated.
Bloodline of corruption
He has every legal reason to sue people blatantly lying and trying to defame his family and organization.
@Sammysapphira nobody is trying to defame or slander him. We are simply making honest observations, which isn't illegal. If you don't want your name to be associated with fraud, then don't commit fraud
@@Sammysapphira Show me the lies. Explain why they're lies. Provide evidence to back it up.
@@Sammysapphira it's not defamation if it's true. You shouldn't form parasocial relationships. They're unhealthy
One thing that gets ignored is that he is on the Board of Directors for the Charity.
I've worked in the financial sector in this capacity so i know that his claim of "not knowing it didn't get donated" is BS.
Every Quarter they'd have to have a meeting, recorded in the minutes would be, amongst other things, a review of their financial statements.
This would happen every quarter with a more in depth look at the end/start of a financial year.
So either:
1. They didn't do those quarterly and yearly reviews, meaning they are negligent and he really didn't know.
Or
2. He knew the entire time and the 2022 thing is an outright lie.
Either way he's either negligent or malicious.
Already the evidence is crystal clear he's a prolific liar with regard to him saying he donated money within the 10 year period.
It's also worth pointing out that they'd likely have accountants come in and review their accounts and do the book keeping.
One thing with that is that the Board of Directors would have to sign off on any financial returns and any tax documents that they reviewed and agreed with their findings.
So basically, out there is a document each year that says he and his board signed off on, which states they did review their accounts and aren't lying (i'm sure you are all aware of the warning they put on tax returns abouy lying)
So TLDR he's in much bigger trouble than people think and he's either negligent or malicious in his conduct.
I work in auditing, though not a full on IRS style of auditing, I can tell you for a fact that most businesses do not do those meetings like they're supposed to. Especially considering this was a fairly small "family run" charity.
It's still negligent, and I don't believe for a minute he didn't know a *lot* of money was sitting in an account, but it wouldn't surprise me if the minutes for that meeting were just written up by one person and were generic as possible.
He completed his career. What an absolute legend.
He isn’t The Completionist for nothing!
So I'll help bullet point this a bit. These follow the textbook definitions of the accusations.
Fraud: Jirard on dozens of occasions said the money was going to charity, and name dropped various charities he said were getting the money. This gave people the impression the money was going to a good cause for specific charities and functions. This was a lie, and it is fraud.
Embezzlement: Jirard said on probably a hundred occasions that all event subs, superchats, bits, donations etc were going to open hand and that "we aren't touching any of it" Now he says that went to expenses. It is completely understandable that a charity has expenses BUT 1: He lied. 2: Since the money was never sent from Jirard to open hand and used on expenses we can't know if any of that was pocketed.
Theft: We have photo and website proof that the golf charity was pulling in at least $40k a year (besides during covid). If you add up indieland and private donations those alone makes up the reported income for the year. That means the golf money is missing.
These aren't just baseless accusations. These are from tax forms, photos, and Jirards own admissions. That isn't even getting into the fact the charity account made no interest and from sitting there lost value due to inflation. Or how about Jirard claiming to have found out in 2021 yet did not change anything from the websites to donations to lies on stream. I would also like the end this explaining that making a restricted donation is well and good, but you could do that with any amount. You do not need to raise the cash for 10 years to make it restricted.
"B-but the plan all along was to save up enough money so we can donate a huge amount"
THEN WHY THE FUCK WEREN'T YOU TRANSPARENT ABOUT THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!?!?!?!
@@Imps603 Not to mention then why did he and his brother both keep saying "well we are looking for the right charity to give it to. Can you tell us what charity to pick?" talk about conflictions.
Don't invoke names of organizations you haven't worked with when soliciting donations -- that's the fraud. Easy stuff.
@@PaulieMcCoy they still invoke the university on their web page. it's really easy to show that they were lying with jirards explanation video. you don't need anything else, you don't need any digging up all you need is dumbo jirards video and their own web page.
I will say that Jirard isn't in charge of the charity that does the donations, that's his father. Apparently Jirard himself is more of a spokesperson for them and thus he doesn't actually have access to do the donations himself (at least according to Karl and various actual charity lawyers). So Jirard was more paroting things that he was told. Still wrong to do but not as bad as we are saying since most of the blame actually falls to his father and not him.
I imagine his "we're ready for an audit" speech was happening while the lawyers and accountants are busy shredding all the backup. And id not be surprised if he leaves to a no-extradition country.
I’m sure he’s going to. White collar crimes are big felonies. Based on what charges might be thrown at him if he were indicted, yeah. He’s fucked.
The Gamer Accountant did great videos on the tax filings. He is an actual accountant. I recommend watching his videos to see a detailed explanations on what Mutahar and Karl said. He adds a lot of context to the paperwork. Great video by the way.
The fact that he wants to "be absolved of this" and basically hinted at paying off Muta and Karl for them to be quiet.....
What a *great* guy! 🙃 /s
He hinted at paying them off? When was that? Last I heard he was threatening to sue them.
@@ShyRanger Start at 25:50 and let the audio clip about the guilt trip play again. It was eye opening for me, at least.
I've been wondering who tipped Karl about the Open Hand foundation. I think they also deserve a credit for talking to the right person for the job and finding this in the first place.
No doubt that tipster is A LEGEND. That hidden time bomb of no money being donated, was righty out in the open. My guess is that somebody finally looked up that charity tax ID & were disturbed by the results. Could’ve been a new potential event sponsor , a past donor , jaded associate. The optics of the OpenHand not donating any money AT ALL is just incomprehensible. Sadly, I think tax cheats, shady business men would find a real good use of abusing a foundation as a front/slushFund/etc .
@@captaincrunch1707most assume it's greg.
@@pippo17173who’s Greg
It's so disgusting how he constantly fears for his public image rather than seeing anything wrong with him and his sus family hoarding thousands meant to help the sick.
and it greatly annoyed me how he asked karl and muta what THEY think he should do regarding the situation. it's HIS charity organization. jirard shouldn't be asking anyone but himself what he should be doing. karl and muta have no say in what should be done other than asking jirard to do what he said he was doing the entire time.
This, plus the fact that so many defenders just see this as drama to get videos made, not seeing it as the actual possible crime it is.
@@feIon it was a veiled attempt at bribing Karl and Muta into not releasing their videos... Obviously. His statements in the call don't make sense in any other contexts. He was hoping that Karl and Muta have no integrity and gave them a chance to say "Hey well, we have somewhere that you can send the money, and if you send, say, $100,000 to this address, the money will go to a good place, for a good cause ;) ;) ;) and we will not be forced to release our videos about you, and this will all go away"
Unfortunately for Jirard, Karl and Muta have integrity.
Okay one more note after finishing the video. Your speculation about his family might be on the money. The main reason I think that is he's been the only one from that entire organization that has said anything publicly about the controversy post the initial videos. In fact, I'd say they threw him under the bus because he's been the only person to get directly criticized.
i feel like this is a Doug Bowser situation. if that comes to light a ton of people will change their minds.
@@xt3100enlighten us please
Actually would not be surprised if in a few months the Completionist will make another video about this controversy detailing his experience working with his family. It took two apologies for ProJared to get people on his side so it's possible.
I don't know what he said but Jirard was not the only one who released a public statement, apparently his brother was on Reddit, having an absolute meltdown. I suppose it wasn't really a public statement per se but Jirard definitely wasn't the only one to say something somewhere.
Can we just take a second to acknowledge how out of nowhere this controversy happened? I get that it wasn't out of nowhere for the people who investigated it, but like.. I doubt anyone expected The Completionist's charity to be fraudulent.
This is what I was wondering about. What was the event that brought this to light? Was there a whistle-blower? It's been some year for youtubers confronting the consequences of their actions
Someone anonymous gave Muta a tip. Or both can't remember.
@@dbagetteKarl didn’t let the whistleblowers name out. But he said it was just by happenstance- that if even one donation had been made, it wouldn’t have likely been looked into further. But the thing that stood out like a sore thumb, and seemed fishy, was NO donations had ever been made. That’s when the one to discover this info, brought it to Karl
I think it just goes to show how people should start looking into where their money is going and not just blindly trust others. It's crazy to think jarard has been doing this for almost 10 years, and it's only just now come to light...even though all the information was publicly available this whole time.
"There isn't a tax expert at the fore front of this issue."
While true, there is a CPA who specializes in taxes called Certified Gaming Accountant on youtube that has covered this. Might want to get a look at that.
Wow, Jirard just threw his friends right under the bus.
He and the other Normal Boots crew just abandoned ProJarod until he managed to clear his own name. ProJarod actually defended him, but in that phone call, he just flung him right out there.
As someone who was in the animation community You cannot play that music at the start 😭 clicking on the video and hearing CRADLES made me have war flashbacks 😭😭😭
I lost my dad when i was 13 to cardiac arrest,and it was a resultant from him chainsmoking packs of cigarettes everyday.
If i ever got a chance to start up a charity in his name,I'd start it after i have a percent division of donations for each institution I'm planning to fund,rather than hoping to find out along the way.
And I'd donate as fast as i could in order to help people the fastest
Plus the fact that he included his mom's autopsy after all these allegations as proof was disrespectful and offputting for me,for his mom to be dragged into this 10+ years after her death.Ugh. He could've handled this a lot better
Right? Who was doubting his mother's death? That was not the issue.
And I'm so sorry for your loss.
ugh I forgot about the autopsy part. it's honestly gross that he even thought to include it. no one was questioning that, it was 100% just another guilt trip
He playing the Boo WHOO woe is me approach, feel sorry for me, look I lost my mom!
What a scumbag
@@flanflan88 I saw a handful of people who expressed doubt, but they were like, comments on youtube videos saying things along the line of 'he's lied so much, do we even know if his mom even had dementia/died at this point?'. most didn't seem as though they seriously believed that. it certainly wasn't common and wasn't anything said or even alluded to by Muta or Karl.
it's just ridiculous to address that accusation with the same sort of seriousness as what they were actually accusing him of, and to me it feels as though he's trying to make it seem as if they were the ones to make those claims for those who watch his response without watching Muta and Karl's videos
@@flossimoth It was definitely just a deflection technique. "Oh, let me address this critique that a couple of people levied against me that's easily disproven so I can distract you from the actually serious allegations".
I have a feeling he’s so freaked out by this that he’s not taking the time to really think about what he’s saying. He’s only digging himself deeper and deeper.
If indie land ends not because there aren’t any people wanting to join but because it isn’t making him money, that’ll be really suspicious
I have watched this whole saga unfold from the first of Karl's and Mutahar's videos. I even watched Jirad's response video. One thing that stood out to me in that response video is that Jiard spoke a lot about the open hand foundation and it's revenues, but nowhere did he address the missing funds from the golf tournament or large donations from individuals such as Jamie Lee Curtis. I am left wondering, "Where did that money go?"
Of all the people who I expected to see here, Jirard was one of the least. Still, it's crazy how inconsistent he was with his statements, and the audio where he jokingly tries to insinuate bribing Karl and Mutah sealed the deal for me on how bad he is. It's sad to think how many people who seem so nice and caring can be so incompetent and/or willing to manipulate for personal gain
hey guys i'm not saying we should turn on the AC but don't you think it's hot in here?
It's classic "nice guy" saying to his female BFF "wouldn't it be hilarious if we dated/screwed?? Haha I mean, we'd never do it... but it would be so funny."
And he kept mentioning his mother i for defense, that just disgusting
@@merphul Tf?
IDK, for me Jirard seemed sketch after it seemingly felt like he screwed over Greg back when Greg was part of The Super Beard Bros. This was like almost 9 years ago. Recently another OG RUclipsr Rosanna Pansino from Nerdy Nummies, she came out and said how maliciously manipulative Jirard and his crew was when she collabed with him about decade ago.
To me it feels like, people have this false sense thinking he is a "nice guy" when he has a record of at least being a manipulative type of person.
Like Nick is not Green, Lizzo, Boogie, and Ellen Degeneres, the "wholesome, kind" types of public figures often end up being the opposite, like wolves in sheep's clothing.
This is why we need to take the "charitable" acts of celebs and the wealthy with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Preach 🎉
Yeah. Honestly every big creator gets cancelled for something or another. If they get "cancelled" for sticking to their values even when everyone hates them for it, that's when you know they are real.
As a fairly uncontroversial example, Jack Cepticeye, he just flat out said he doesnt like Mr. Beast. Now if all he cared about was his image, he wouldnt have said that.
Is Nick considered a "wholesome and kind" figure? You might agree with his takes or his values, but everything I have seen of him doesn't really say "wholesome"
Boogie? Wholesome?
Did I miss something...?
@@robbiirvine1038back in the day he was called the internet mr rogers.
At best, it was gross negligence. I don't think that was the case. Jirard and his fellows would have to be extraordinarily incompetent for that to happen.
feel like before 2021/2022 it was, and later at best unintentional misleading. but while most of his words thinking about it. He was not lying, it was the whole 100% goes torwards Dimenta research. "We don't Touch a cent" makes sense from the point of view they literally don't get paid for the event. And "work with others" aka worknig with their contacts to find who needs the money for research makes sense with that logic. BUT doesn't mean it was clear at all what that means.
Meh. had to rant that.
All Jirard had to say was, I wanted to give a million at one fail swoop to raise awareness and boost the charity's profile. It would still be wrong, still be fraud but instead he kept lying and dug himself deeper and deeper.
A rainy day nest egg seems a very plausible speculation to me: it took around a decade for the festering funds to be brought to light, it's easy to see how someone unscrupulous could become confident that the situation may go unnoticed indefinitely.
There's another theory that I've seen bouncing around. Was on the idea that jarard was planning to shut down the charity and run with the money after finalizing 2023's taxes. Because if he knew the money wasn't being donated last year, and knew they weren't working with anyone at that time....why did he host indie land 2023 and still make those same claims anyways?
It's a lot of speculation, but I think this was why jarard seemed so angry on the response. Wasn't because he got caught or anything, it's because it never blew over and he was finally forced into donating a large sum to make people happy for a little bit.
I love how he hit us with the "we've done nothing *criminally* wrong"
He is such a completionist he was trying to complete his career XD
Oooooooooooooooof...
Oh man I haven't seen this comment on absolutely every completionest video. So original
@@mattb6646 I actually haven't, so it is! Also, people don't comment for your approval! Get ratio'd, find happiness, and love those who love you in return loser.
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After watching this whole thing go down, I’ve ultimately come away with two lessons.
One, no one seems to be able to do basic research anymore, and will just trust someone’s word because of their fame.
Two, people are more interested in donating to charities not out of the kindness of their hearts, but rather to get feel good points and to be able to attach their name to famous charities/celebrities/brands/etc. Because if anyone who donated any money truly cared about dementia research, they’d be outraged that their money has just been collecting dust instead of doing anything useful.
He could have easily avoided all this by donating the money the moment they called him out on it, admit fault, and apologize. It wouldn't have blown up like this if he did and he'd still be able to keep his youtube career with minimal damage...But instead, he went "Me! Me! Me! Scorched Earth!" and ruined it for himself.
I think your speculation is right on the money. When he guested on Game Grumps, he talked about how all his dad cared about was money and business. I'd be willing to bet the shadiness either was masterminded by or in service of his father.
+1 , he's complicit and guilty but he's not the mastermind
"An open hand is always full" is so much deeper than one might think . . .
It saddens me that this has been going on, I looked up to the Completionist I enjoyed his content a lot, watching his videos made me want to complete and 100% games myself. I tried to have hope maybe it was all a misunderstanding or just something happened we don't know about in the background. But that has pretty much has been throw out the window with the last few updates and information that has come out.
He uses his mother as a weapon to scam people out of money..
Bro is disgusting.
He took a lot of the funds and under reported the funds they received. In addition, he got a LOT OF PERSONAL FUNDS AND ATTENTION FOR CLAIMING TO SUPPORT CHARITY. He benefited off of this at every turn. And he didn't just shuttle donations, he used those donations to funds his personal projects and events that personally benefited him. He didn't care where or if the money went because he got what he wanted just by looking like a good guy and collecting it. His whole identity that people loved him for-- including my partner-- was because he gave so much to charity and to help patients. He benefited from the identity of a fundraiser, not the action of giving.
Fantastic take.
His claims for restricted donations don't make sense though, as there is no limit to making a restricted donation. But on top of this, how does donating the money now - an amount they had years ago - make their claim any better? If the 600k that was donated was good enough to make a restricted donation now, then why wasn't it donated when Jirard found out about the money not being moved a few years ago? It makes no sense. He's lying.
The reality is that he doesn't care about the charity or donating the money - he doesn't fundamentally care about that, which is why he didn't place a large importance on it. The charity was a vehicle for personal gain. He cared about building up his brand and channel, and making connections with developers and publishers in the gaming industry, as he already said he wanted to transition to this part of the gaming industry. That is what he cared about. The money sitting in an account and lying about specific parties the money was being donated to? It was like whatever to him - just a necessary thing to say and do to get what he wanted. Spending any time moving the money was not on his priority list, clearly. This had nothing to do with unrestricted vs restricted donations.
"making connections in the gaming industry" - you know, that's an angle I haven't seen many people cover, but I think you're on the money with that one.
Thinking about it further, how Indieland spawned from the golf tournaments makes even more sense from that angle. With the golf tournaments, Jirad was probably seeing his family make great connections through the people they were meeting there, and leveraging those connections into better opportunities.
If Jirad wanted to move into game development, then getting to rub shoulders with well-known developers, publishers, and other industry folk at an equivalent "high-profile charity event" would indeed be a pretty socially lucrative way to go about it. It's connection-building in the long-term, but profile-boosting in the short-term as well.
Someone in another comment said "Jirad cared less about the donation of the funds, and more about having the identity of a fundraiser", and I think it's a pretty apt summary of all this.
what really did it for me was jirad mentioning embezzlement multiple times when muta never accused him of that and even gave him a lot of grace in the first video
Jobst did though
My favourite theory is that this was just a retirement fund disguised as charity. Especially with how Jirard felt the need to mention he has been wanting to move away from content creation and I guess just sit on his ass all day with 600k in the bank to spend on whatever he wanted, but that’s just the asshole in me saying this.
My instincts are telling me it's way worse then just a retirement fund (I'm getting the entire family has been working on this scheme to launder a fortune vibes)
It would make a lot of sense, as to why he would wait to see if things blew over instead of just donating all of it the same day, like jarard said he was planning on doing in that call with Karl and muta. Also would explain why he seems so angry and spiteful twords muta and Karl.
@@sebay4654 i'm getting the same vibes, some board directors too, no wonder "the foundation board is undergoing changes (as he says in his response)".
My mother has dementia. What has happened hits hard I am not OK with what has happened.
In the newest audio theres a point where he says "theres no nuance to this" and it sounds like hes saying "this is just as bad as it seems and im so screwed when it all comes out"
I translated it as "There's literally no way for me to spin this to look good."
I'm finding your channel through this situation, and as a fan of both Karl AND Muta (and, previously, The Completionist) you have covered this story impeccably thus far. You've earned yourself a sub, Mr. Robins :]
Thank you, I really appreciate it
this is how you get subscribers indeed. not through begging like most youtubers try to. well done, dude
Jirard doesn't deserve the benefit of the doubt. He's a scumbag. The only one he's protecting is himself and I won't believe otherwise unless it can be proven without a doubt. I've lost my dad and I know how hard it can be. Right now my mom has lung cancer and we have no idea how long she has left. With that said, I have no sympathy for Jirard. He started a charity foundation in memory of his mother and used that same foundation to cheat people.
That discord call was the topper. Trying to manipulate through guilt and even hinting toward giving them hush money lol. The only thing I can think of as to why he did this was to have annual retirement fund donation streams.
Funny story, I was playing Sea of Stars when I met the NPC who is modeled after Jirard. I had no idea who that dude was but I had a feeling he was probably a real person who was a top donor for the game.
I finally found out who he was when I heard he was a scammer.
And "Jirard The Constructionist" is now being patched out of the game.
@@JonLeung1 which is sad cause the whole role he played was a big fun part from what i can tell.
The content is still there, but the character has been replaced with a redesign
@@cerberusmutt4252 Yes, now it's a guy named "Bob"... could be a "Bob The Builder" reference. Still a fun nod to someone, but this time a fictional one, not a real-life person mired in controversy.
Here's my theory about the end goal since you've asked, it is to pocket the golf tourney money, as well as all the subs, superchats, merch sales that can be hidden or unaccounted for, and of course all the clout and good will and self serving needs that people would want in the public eye. So while the money that can actually be accounted for is sitting in the bank, to show that it's there, they're quietly collecting on the back ends and basking in the glory of public adoration.
Just my theory, don't sue me Jirard.
Imagine if it went 20 years without being noticed, or 30. You don't have to touch the money right away if you're in it for the long haul, and if you do get caught, you can be like "see I didnt take the money".
i watched my granny for 11 years slowly get worse with dementia , seeing how he sat on this money for so long makes me sick. i can hear Greg now (some of you probably dont even know who greg is...look greg up in the context of the completionist) Greg "BUT BEARDMAN! WHY DID YOU SCAM ALL THOSE INNOCENT AND GIVING PEOPLE BEARDMAN?!?!"
You're one of my favorite creators to get internet news on, thank you for always being so thorough! I didn't even know this was going on.
Thank you, I appreciate it!
@@JimmyRobinsA tad too biased/lenient this time.
From Karl & Muta, first video they made, you can tell they didn't want to believe it and was hoping it was all some misunderstanding.
Their 2nd video, more heated up as it had been a long time and just no response from Jirard apart from the donation, if I remember correctly.
Then Muta final video, he was just really angry at the overall response and handling of it from Jirard & Open Hand.
That's how I see it all
I don’t think I’ve seen a uncovering like this that I’ve felt so in touch with. I had immediate family members pass away from this disease, while the rest of them completely fell apart having to pick up the pieces. The never ending stress of feeling helpless for a loved one lead some of them to Depression, Alcoholism, etc etc, because they felt it was hopeless trying to address a problem with no cure in sight. So many people in the world have felt this way, but what’s even more a slap in the face is I’m sure Jirard has too.
That’s why none of this makes sense. With him having such a personal tie to this experience, you would think that he would know that because this disease is so debilitating (you are literally working against the clock) making deliberate strides to donate the money of that size is beyond crucial, as the current day medical approach is in desperate need of more research/ resources. This disease feels like there's a dark cloud looming over, reminding you that you are running out of time and it is tragic. To wait almost a decade and get caught in your own web of lies and contradictions about "why it wasn't donated sooner" is beyond gross negligence.
The completionist has always given me a bad vibe which confused me when I was a kid because on the outside there is nothing shady about Jirad
I felt that vibe as well! Glad I did and never became a fan/subscriber. Such a crummy situation for his fans especially the ones who actually donated!!
Nah man, trust your instincts. It’s hard to put your finger on some times, and if you speak out you’ll take heat, but trust your gut and watch your back in this life. Yeah, there was always something off
about the dude. Not just him either. Sometimes the people he hung out with were just as creepy to me. Not all his guests or partners by any means, but it felt to me like he had some sycophants in his inner circle.
Some people can just tell when others are hiding something. Best life advice I've ever been given was to trust your instincts. We developed them over millions of years, so why stop using them now?
Every person associated with G4 reboot is pure bad vibes.
He was literally setting this up as a free ride for life. Set up a charity, pay expenses and staff via the donations. It went on for a decade. It would still be going on had this not been brought up.
Yes, hes the bad guy.
Goddammit it always hurts to discover who you assumed was a nice wholesome person turns out to be a greedy bastard especially when you follow them for years hurts every single time
Don't assume anyone is wholesome just because they're nice in front of a camera. All humans are capable of lying, deceiving, and hurting others if it benefits themselves
Touch grass. It’ll do you wonders.
@@jonzkha what does that have to do with what I said?
He completed everrything except his donations
Never did I think the title of completionist could so severely backfire...
People act like just holding the money is totally separate from using it to enrich yourself. But even if it’s not spent, you can wield the implied control of it for your personal benefit. You can leverage that implied power to get more donations, to invoke higher profile partners, to elevate your personal profile and convert that profile into more personal revenue. It wasn’t ‘inexplicably just held on to’, it was hoarded and used as a basis to build social capital, and that social capital is profitable. The money ‘just sitting’ might have been passive, but the team behind it wasn’t, so this negligence cannot just be choked up to ‘inexplicable incompetence’ when it absolutely had the function to increase the personal capital of its controllers. His eleventh hour donation doesn’t wipe away any of that either.
The evil plan was that they pocketed all the money from the golf tournaments, covered all their costs without telling the donors and never added any of the subs and chips they received to the charity…
I like where you settled on this. I think we all need more information because there are so many questions left unanswered.
all he had to do was donate the charity funds raised after the events finished every year.
I personally think he is covering for his Dad or Brother to be honest, not to cut him any slack or anything when he found out it hadn't gone anywhere he should have manned up informed the donators and try to find some where to put the money right away
I'm contacting EVERY charity they name dropped to see if that charity has even heard of OHF, let alone interacted with them... who wants to guess how this is gonna turn out....
A past tweet has also been uncovered from Jirard: "I raised a combination of nearly 600k to 750k a year for various charities. Doctors without borders, American Heart Association, Dementia Research and Treatment, St Jude's Children Hospital. I'm helping people all the time." April 14, 2023. Even more organizations listed right there. What a claim in that though knowing what everyone knows now.
@@Ancientreapers only way that wouldn't be a lie if he used his personal money for that at times. not using OHF. Granted, i feel like that is still a lie in the end.
@@xt3100It's a lie because the statement starts "I raised a combination of", not "I donated". If it said "I donated" then absolutely, there would be plausible deniability there. However his words are "I raised", as in, my event raised.
Two theories from that tweet. A) He was simply lying/exaggerating about the number. B) He wasn't lying, and the number he gives is a more accurate reflection of the totals Indieland raises each year when bits, subscriptions, and merchandise sales are actually taken into account.
Both are shady in their own way, unfortunately!
Just imagine the advances in research if he had donated 10 years ago. Maybe Bruce Willis would have had a better chance with his FTD diagnosis. This jerk might have killed Bruce Willis.
#jirardkilledbruce
#justiceforbruce
I’ve started wondering why he’s been so all over about this.
I think he’s having to decide between his reputation or his father.
It’s his father’s side of the OHF that keeps floating funds into nothing. The golf tournament has been going on longer than OHF has been going on and there’s no proof of what happened to it all.
It’s all really shady but I really want to know what is going on behind the scenes.
To be a fly on the wall in those discussions man...
His brother Jacque is also a huge component here too. I’ve got Jacque and Dad as the ringleaders of the circus. Still, Jirard is on the board of directors. And despite playing dumb, imo, Jirard’s own words shows he’s very smart/skilled with money&manipulation.
he either distances himself from the family or become the scapegoat for the whole circus
I loved Jirard. I wasn’t ever on his side for this whole thing, but I was always hopeful for him. in Karl’s most recent video I thought he was being overly aggressive because I still held onto hope. However after actually watching Jirard’s video I realised how right Karl was to be so mad.
The way that Jirard used his mother's death sickens me. While my mother is still alive, my father died from a rare form of brain cancer. I cant imagine misleading people on a charity for brain cancer only to use my dead father in my defense
So glad I found this channel! Such great and concise info, all laid out very naturally so it's not confusing, and isn't dripping with biases. Plus ya got consistent background music ambience and a good commentary voice. Once I finish watching your vids for the first time, I'll def end up falling asleep to them in my night playlist 🤣
It is a shame this is how he has fallen. I hope he takes this time to think over where he went wrong and does his best to become a better person.
This is such a sweet comment. 💕
Judging by the minimum sentences for crimes like charity fraud and embezzlement, he will have nothing but time to do just that. Thankfully, he will be doing it from the inside of a federal prison.
In spite of everything Karl has to put up with people like Billy Mitchell and other various sludge monsters, I don't think I've ever heard him tear in to anyone like he did to this guy.
Had anyone else Karl has ever done a video about ever used their dead mother as an excuse to set up a sham charity foundation with the intent and purpose of fraudulently obtaining hundreds of thousands of dollars to line his own pockets with
Dementia must've hit him early considering he kept forgetting to donate the money
love that youre covering it now! Im already fully informed on the matter but Imma watch regardless because I like your approach!
You always condense and clearly convey issues so well. I appreciate your time and effort to spread awareness of these topics.
This situation genuinely makes me angry
As someone who has lived ones with dementia and will likely suffer from it in the future this is horrible
Dementia is a awful thing that affects so many people and families but is shockingly under researched
What this man has done sets research back by a shockly big margin
ive been here since 50k, cant wait to see continue to grow, you deserve it
Man…this one hurts.. you think you know people smh😔
YET ANOTHER BANGER MAN KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK JIMMY. I LOVE YOUR VIDS LIKE OLD PEOPLE LOVE FRIED CHICKEN
I appreciate the confidence, fried chicken do be pretty good...
@@JimmyRobins If your content was a tangible thing I'd boil it down and do lines with it... XD
we should have been suspicious from the beginning. the mere fact jirard had to repeatedly specify that the money was "actually" going to charity etc. etc. is such a strange thing to be said from a person running a charity; you shouldn't have to say it. people should just know.
Yes, I get saying it once or twice when describing it, or you know, actually being asked. But the fact that there are SO many clips of him repeating it without any prompting...it's a little suspicious.
I wouldn't be surprised if the charities that Jirard claimed they were working with don't end up suing him, and the open hand foundation for using their names to solicate donations. Especially when they themselves received no money thats a big legal no no.
Great work jimbo. Been following this story since the beginning and I think this video is the best analysis of the facts without too much bias. Hope you leap over 100k soon!
Thanks for reporting on this, I didn't know where to start with this story. Now I can watch Muta's rant and possibly know what's going on.
Nothing about this makes sense. Jirard lied, but I can’t figure out his endgame.
REPUTAION... Influencer reputation is money, if he can get away with incompetence excuse then he can just continue making money from his channel and maybe even start second charity with out "bad actors". And if you think that people won't donate to him then you underestimate human stupidity.
@@piotrek593ah yes, A modern story of an endless lust for fame which will lead to a foolish goldmine of fortune
because it's not his endgame, it's more likely his family , and he's complicit (ALLEGEDLY). theorically the board members are all complicit if charity fraud happened, there is a lot of money that feels like is unaccounted for in 10 years if you do the math on the foundation and not only on jirard. sure he benefitted in many ways from it, but i'd bet that he's not the mastermind.
My current theory was that they wanted to hold the money until they had 1 million or any huge amount, and then donate it, in a way to boost the PR of their foundation. A donation of that caliber would make some attention. Also sketchy that the donation they made only mentions that the money was raised during online fundraisers, last time I checked, the golf events were not virtual.
The only note I'll give is that I think it's kind of bullshit how some of his friends and defenders are catching strays when either they never said a word about it, or they're just reacting because they've known the guy for ten years. I can't imagine anyone who has known someone for that long not defending said person.
I think people are not having problems with just defending him, but giving excuses and blaming racism
If I had a friend implicated in such a case with a video out that showcases questionable stuff then I'd say "He's a nice guy as far as I know, I think it's better to wait for his side of the story too before jumping to conclusions"
That's fair, but I think the context of them knowing the Completionist for a long time is the reason why they're making excuses. There's a big difference between knowing someone for a few years and knowing someone for a decade.
@@JustShawn11i watched a bit of a podcast that Jirad is nornally on and this is the line they basically went with as well as saying Jirad needs to donate the money so there are people who were friends with him saying this. That said I do get people going to bat for him. Like if I was really close with someone there's a part of me who wouldn't want to beleive it
While i'm sure you are right in some instances, some of the "he's a nice guy" and other defenses were anywhere from tone deaf to sucking up to him hoping to gain favor.
Defending an idiot who's obviously wrong because that idiot is your friend just means you're an idiot too
Jirard is basically muscle man with how many times he mentions his mom bro.