The more pressing matter is Jirad using his late mom name as a justification for what's he done. Major props to Karl and Muta for bringing this to the forefront.
Yeah using his mother as an excuse wasn't right and he also threatened to sue which is completely ridiculous that's why most people are not taking his apology seriously
@luluna5228 Then why mention it multiple times? Emotional manipulation at it finest. He only donated because the fire was on him not to actually help people dealing with a loved one who has serious health issues.
Thank you for kind words in the vid man. Not gonna lie I used to care so much about what the big youtubers thought of me and wanted to be liked but the charity fraud hit too close to home for me and I couldn't stay silent. I started getting blocked and confronted left and right and it just put things into perspective that I don't care what any random person thinks I'm gonna stand up for what's right. All that said I know we've chatted a few times over the years and you showed once again you're a real one man. I appreciate you. I'm glad I have at least one youtube friend with the same morals, that's more than enough for me.
I'm genuinely curious. Why would you care what a random stranger making RUclips videos thinks about you? That is the furthest thing I think or care about. Get busy, job/career, whatever else. Love yourself. It sounds like you put way too much stock into RUclips personalities. Don't worry about what some guy on the internet thinks about you. They're nothing special. Simply watch for the entertainment value.
I just saw him get removed from Sea of Stars as he was an NPC in the game, even his own friends have given up on him like skill up and the sea of star devs.
@@thecunninlynguist Why should they drop him? Did he steal the money? Did it not go where it needed to be? They only dropped him to save face for their own brand and image. They never cared for him.
And it's only worse because, due to massive inflation in the past couple of years, that money that he was sitting on had gone down in value. Open Hand has made less of an impact than they would had they donated the money at the time.
@@TSmith-rl4xd so, it's less common these days with lower interest rates, but that used to actually be a very common form of embezzlement. For legal purposes because he likes making threats, I'm not saying that's what Jirard was doing, but historically that has absolutely been a thing.
@@emirparkreiner7801 A retirement fund. Hold it long enough, and hope no one ever checks on it. If some one does ever check on it, you can use it for some kind deniability of stealing it. Even then, that's not even all the money.
Jirard absolutely admitted that he became aware the money was sitting there in 2022 and then in 2023 I believe he kept talking about all this work the charity had done and how he this one university was a major partner. Not only that but he literally admitted in a video chat with Muta and Jobst that the reason the money moved was the pressure from their videos. And yet Beatemups and others were blindly defending Jirard. As others have pointed out this will make people more questioning about the charities they are giving too.
He said 2021 was the year he found out I think, so yeah your point still stands but he did know it for a little longer than that so you could say your point is even stronger, and yes, people are going to be suspicious to donate from now on (people who learn from mistakes at least), and that is unfortunate and the real harm in all of this. I would say if people want to donate, just do it, cut the middle man and donate directly, but the problem with that is that it is less convenient than donating to a stream and as history shows people are lazy, even people with good intentions
I watched his whole apology video .15mins video and the first comment below the video, one line, just destroyed his whole video/argument: " You held on to charity money for 10 years and only donated once you got caught. It's nothing to celebrate"
Yep. I was willing to believe Jirard was painted into a corner and did the best he thought he could, which would mean he lied and was grossly negligent but not malicious until that video. I now believe he had more to do with it than he let on. Just my opinion but it really seems like he's guilty of something. In any event, he has conducted himself in an unacceptable way so he's canceled. I didn't watch him before but now I will actively avoid him. I think a lot of people will cancel Jirard from their lives and watch something else instead
@@hezekiahramirez6965The dude is a grown man. He absolutely knew the entire time that something was going on and he admitted it on his October call with Muta and Karl. He then went on to make the same fraudulent claims in November. I could understand maybe a younger person being manipulated by family like people think but the guy is a grown adult and has been spreading lie after lie. It should come as no surprise that his response video is what it is ... something that has more lies and more BS in it.
He wasn't sorry he held the money for so long. He was sorry he got caught. Kudos for Muta and Karl for getting the money donated. But Jirard's career is basically... Completed.
Honestly I never followed the guy but he definitely needs to take accountability for his actions and recently the developers of the video game sea of stars are removing his NPC they want nothing to do with his scandal and I don't blame them
It’s not just Jirard, now people will second guess other RUclipsrs charities. Especially the whole 6 degrees of separation. The bigger the influencer, the greater the impact on the platform.
As they should, when you ask for people's money, in exchange for an action such as a donation. You're creating a contract with the donor. They will give you money, and you will perform that said action. Failure or slight alterations to that said deal simply shouldn't occur, and if people now have to question or second guess that's not a bad thing that's due diligence.
I wonder how this will affect TRG's charity event as a whole. Jirard was there earlier this year with ProtonJon and everyone else who were good friends of him. I can't imagine ProtonJon defending Jirard after this whole situation blew up... if he did defend him, ProtonJon would have started getitng backlash from his fans too. I just hope he and everyone else who are friends of Jirard decide to cut ties from him. The other peoplewho are good friends of Jirard are Hypercole, Chuggaaconroy, NintendoCaprisun, AttackingTucans, Gamescage, Rogersbase, Game Grumps, Lucah, FamilyJules, Tom Fawkes, The8bitDrummer, StephenGeorg, JoshJepson, etc.I hope they all decide to cut ties with Jirard due to this whole situation. @@mizunopearl
That feels like a good thing. I actually hadn't realized you could just jump into a charities (youtuber or not) public records that easily and I do like knowing that the option to help make sure an informed decision is there. People shouldn't just write off every other charity because of something like this without even looking though.
You know, some people write off RGT but he is a man of emotional wisdom, all jokes aside. I've mostly avoided this story, but I feel like I got a good balanced look at it here. Props 👏.
@@mooserocka522idk about "writing off" but there is a video clip of RGT saying "Jirard paid the money so stop the drama". I felt that was downplaying the magnitude of the situation and it's a credit to him that he's now clarified a better opinion(this video)
Like just the occasional random hater in Spawncast chat for instance. Nothing too serious, the kind Shawn finds somewhat amusing, I'm sure. @@mooserocka522
Imagine having someone in your family with dementia. And you identify with his cause. And you donate hoping someone like the person in your family may benefit. And you learn years later that the money went nowhere...
All I know is that if I started a charity, I would certainly be on top of where the money was going, and how it was helping people before 10 years had passed.
If Jirard had any moral fiber he would have stood up to his dad and brother. I'm sure that's very complicated if you rely on your family for occasional financial support. His problem is the lying that the funds were going to all these names charities for years. There's simply no mental gymnastics to day he had no clue about the actual receipts. Especially when his reputation and reputation of the foundation(charity) is on the line. That whole family looks really really suspect in regards to potential charity tax fraud
@@captaincrunch1707 Dating all the way back the golf tournament. You would think someone would be more active knowing that his rep was on the line, and his family if they contributed to the circumstances happening prior to the discovery. He should have stopped right away and pointed this out. If he really was being this whipped into inactivity, I need to thank him for showing me why it's not worth being a punching bag when you could have done something.
@@captaincrunch1707 Idk why you're bringing up his family as if he's just a victim following along. Dude was the face of it, he lied straight to your face with a smile. It's not like he was being sex trafficked or something, he actively participated in the bulk of the work and planning.
He's a fraudster beyond any doubt. I hope for the sake of the people he'd betrayed that there is some legal recourse to determine his intent and bring some closure to the situation.
whats the fraud? Thats legitimately what I just do not understand. If he STOLE the money I could understand why people have their panties in a twist. But the money seemingly was all there and available to be donated. What exactly was the "scam"? How is it scam or fraud if no one benefitted from it? It just seems negligent at worst.
I am so happy you finally talked about this RGT85! A lot of your RUclips co-horts stayed away from the topic and some actually defended the guy on a very shallow basis. What happened is messed up and the gross mishandling of the situation by Gérard and his team is extremely unfortunate, especially for him and his defenders.
People said they didn’t expect this of him and to wait for his statement. Obviously his friends want to believe benefit of the doubt that he’s innocent. I think a lot of people attacking ant dude and others for that are way to chronically online. Friends and family always believe the best in people.
@@bernbern309 I agree, but "friends" went beyond that making hypocritical statements, while knowing perfectly well that the situation is f'ed up and the main accusations were 100% true. I personally hated that.
For Jirard to name this charity after his own mother and to do what he's clearly done which isn't hard to see is beyond appalling and anyone who defends him is either blind as a bat or is defending him knowing what he did a 1:59 nd they don't carry any morals whatsoever!!!
Agree completely with you, and what you said about him being "the nice guy" is really key here, sometimes people make themselves look like the nice guy so they can get away with things in the background.
it's extra scummy too because Jirad was knowingly crafting a false persona to fool people. Like whole extra level of manipulation. If i was his friend I would feel grossed out or pissed about being roped into his web of lies. He let his friends go to bat for him knowing they were putting their reputations at stake for his lies.
Jirard plays a character on RUclips, a character who is a really good guy. Which is unlikely since most of us are full of faults. I give huge props to Shawn because he doesn’t pretend to be a perfect angel.
Jirard's response video really blew this whole thing up and now a bunch of large RUclipsrs are making videos about this. I am not sure what Jirard was thinking when he released that response video, but it really did backfire on him and there is no turning around from this for him. Jirard's career is over and I do hope this gets investigated and he and his family gets criminally charged if any wrong doing is officially discovered.
It’s not just Jirard. I suspect a lot of people previewed that video or its script. And they all said “yep, that’s the right tone, post it,” was there not one person who realized what a disaster it was?
@@billcook4768 what kind of people do you think he has surrounded himself with? you do that enough and you're in a party where everyone just drinks the koolaid.
As you said, the actual worst part of all this is that all that money, and maybe more, was supposed to be helping people throughout all these years, and the dude still pretended that's what was happening even though he literally stated he knew that wasn't the case for a few years.
He mentioned his dad several, several times is a finance dude, and cares ONLY about money. Put the pieces together long ago. They been putting together their family assets over poor, youtuber charity funds... Jesus
It's really upsetting to hear that about his dad because it calls into question Jirard's old story about being revived from a coma by his dad. I know it might be pretty easy to prove a medical record like that, but if Jirard is willing to not show a single easily provable bank statement, who's to say if that old story was even true?
@@UltimaKeyMaster problem is jirard is the kind of a dude who would absolutely make boogie2988 style stories up. I mean, he basically is just a bit more competent boogie. but just a bit so he still needed 20 employees to keep up a youtube persona.
The "Open Hand Foundation" is the most sadly apropos thing ever. "Open hand, insert money." Like "My hand is open. Now put money in it." This is such a sad situation that it's hard to laugh about it, but you have to admit that is an unfortunate name for this foundation
Thank you for making this video, Shawn. This is why I like you - you’re always real. If people don’t want to be your friends because of your factual take regarding this matter, then they were never your friends to begin with. Keep up the great work. 👍
Wow, the point you made about your friend and how research is always ongoing really hit me. You're right, research institutions always need funding to keep going, you never know when the breakthrough will happen or what day the treatment drug will be developed. Holding the money instead of passing it on is not okay, in and of itself, without needing to consider anything else. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
This was such an empathetic response, much respect. Some people were just looking for an easy dunk, but this was thoughtful. You can acknowledge the truth of Jirards character and still feel for the friends and fans he also got one over.
He even got booted from Sea of stars....It's Sad But Jirard only Has Jirard to Blame, Hope he stop blaming others for HIS OWN mistakes and Owns up as A REAL Man should
This hits me a little differently and harder because my mother died from dementia. This 600k they “raised” could have potentially made care for her and others easier to get and affordable.
Yea, same here but for my grandma. She passed away due to dementia last year and seeing what dementia is like firsthand, I would never wish it on my worst enemy. That money could have been beneficial for research. I'm sorry about your mom.
I've been following Jirard since he started his RUclips channel. These recent events have really put into hindsight the number of times Jirard guilt tripped his audience. It felt genuine before, but now it really seems gross. The way he invoked his mothers name really put the nail in the coffin for me.
People surprised that Wood Hawker ("Beatemups") is defending the Completionist shouldn't be. Guy is the biggest phony of all. He's bounced around a lot of different video game groups (he was with MetalJesus crew for a while, then Spawnwave, now with Wulff) and he ebegs the worst of all with his "boo woo, I'm depressed, boo woo I'm moving to Pennsylvania and need money, boo woo Nintendo doesn't love me anymore." Complete and total fake.
Wood BeatemUps calling this “drama from drama channels” is such elitist behavior that makes me think he should be investigated with his fake depression videos scamming Nintendo kids. Whenever someone immediately dismisses factual based reporting they are guilty themselves. RGT, I’m sorry but “ride or die” for fake friends only benefits them and not you. When something is obviously wrong, you choose the right side. Wood is an immature grifter, he can cope.
One of the wisest videos on a RUclips drama, or really any drama, I've been seen. The most important word you said was "envisioned" as in how people "envisioned" Jirard to be. I was a big fan of his until I found out what he pulled. A lot of these RUclipsrs and RUclips watchers really do not know how to see people when they show you their real selves. They ought to. Like with your story -- and I, too, have similar tales to tell -- learning to see people clearly can literally save your life.
Maybe the thing we'll learn through all of this is do not donate via 3rd party entity middlemen, and instead Donate directly to the specific organization or charity. bonus: you get the tax writeoff, not the 3rd party.
Pat the nes punk had the best response to the Jirard situation. He kept his opinions to himself until everything came out and then held Jirard responsible for his actions as his friend. Were as people like Wood,Bob Wulf and Jay from the Game Chasers immediately had bad take knee jerk defense reactions for Jirard.
This is one of the best well thought out and adult reaponses to this I've heard. Rather than blindly defending him you had actual thoughts thst you articulated. Thank you
grabs popcorn...watching this trash fire unfold has been a sight to see. Jirard and his family really scummy. His dad is like a cartel boss. There's an article out there about his dad boasting about his price gouging of his Beverly hills gas station, and being damn proud of it. Then there's all the discord call bits that contradict Jirard's official statement. A recent leak (as of like 6 hours ago) has jirard attempting to bribe Karl/Muta and he throws his "friends" Jontron/Projared under the bus (the jared one is amusing, since Jared went on a ledge for him). I can't wait for the audit.
Why did he throw them under the bus? I've been watching Karls videos and the latest so called apology one is laughable because if he tried to sue Karl he's got no chance
You also bring up an EXCELLENT POINT regarding the social dynamics at play between us and the people we love and care about most. It’s like people suffer this cognitive “disconnect” when they hear about someone they’re close with doing SOMETHING unsavory and they just end up outright REJECTING the information they’re being presented with. So it’s all fairly UNDERSTANDABLE why some people end up on the DEFENSIVE when certain people are accused of wrongdoing.
Turns out I was living under a rock, because this is the first I'm hearing of it. RGT talking about donating, the transparency of good charities and knowing what it should go toward, especially including toiletries - I can tell he's one of the good guys. Really good insight into this situation. Makes me want to do even more charity work to make right what has been done wrong.
Whoever was the whistleblower tipped muda and Karl deserves praise for bringing this to light but we may never know to avoid getting sued by jariad and his defenders.
Thats the most enlightened take Ive seen arising from this whole situation. I gotta say, its not unusual for me to have different points of view from yours (mostly in games coverage, since thats what this channel is about) but its not even the first time I watched one of your videos expecting a bad take and coming out positively surprised.
I COMPLETELY agree. I really wanted to give Jirard the benefit of doubt. Even to this day I want him to make things right, but at the end of the day he did lie and try to double down. The best thing he can do is to tell the truth of the entire situation. But the fact is his career is pretty much over and he can never dig himself out of this hole.
Yeah and you have to also think that he said that he wanted the donation to be solely focused on research and that's one of the reasons it took too long but if you donate on AFTD there is an option you can choose on what sector your donation will be allotted to and one of it is for research. I've also heard that you can actually request for your donation to be used for a specific purpose from most organizations. You just need to request receipts from them.
frosk is just who she is, an asshat. jirard is barely a person in comparison because his public persona is just completely made up for sake of having a made up character to do business under, the completionist. he needs a STAFF OF PEOPLE to keep being the completionist.
I am actually more curious how his subscriber count is going the more time passes, cause he has been bleeding subs ever since this controversy first happened.
Yall need to leave J-rod alone. My little brother was in the hospital with cancer dying. His last wish was to meet the Completionist so we called him. Now he couldn’t make it because he was completing a game but he said “tell the doctor to look at the cancer again” so we did and when he looked the cancer was cured and my little brother survived
There's ALSO the very real possibility that the $600k is not ALL of the money. We have no idea. It might have originally much more, and $600k might just be what was there when this was discovered....?
C: correction, 'most' of the money went to where it was supposed to go. From what we can tell, and we could be wrong, but it seems like some of that money is missing. our poorly made estimates are like 50k to 100k at least. could be more could be less on what you said of the 'if your friends with someone' I mean we can look at what happened with jirard and greg, we don't know what happened there but it raises suspician.
NONE of the golf tournament money was declared! That's not most of the money being donated... looks like ONLY HALF WAS DONATED!! The rest was embezzled!!
Honestly I respect your point of view on this. It's been insightful to look at different people's commentary, and see what their take is. Sometimes I learn something, and I feel like I've walked away from this video with a couple of extra thoughts. So thank you for sharing. And I sincerely hope Jirard never recovers from this.
Yep. A lot of people think they "know" Jirard, and that they "know" anyone they're a fan of. They watch personalities for long enough and enjoy their content enough that they feel they've got it all figured out. Hence the defense force. The truth is... you never know anybody on the internet that well. They're just people on Insta, RUclips, or wherever. You as a fan are not in their head despite how much you want to be.
Good for you RGT, I appreciate your perspective bro. And you’re right, but some of these cats on RUclips are not good people, that’s life… I completely agree with what you said at the end, a healthy friendship, family situation allows for different opinions and outlooks without condemnation. I wish everyone the best, have a great weekend.
"Damn that's crazy"
Yup.🤨 It's crazy...😔
I really liked your video on the subject.
"That's F** up" 🐢
It's been crazy but because you kept it real, you just earned a sub.
You're not always my cup of tea, but this was one of the most emotionally intelligent and level-headed responses to the whole mess so far.
I mean, what else even is there to say about this? Jirard is a lying gaslighter and he got exposed.
Boom this is the truth. The problem is people make excuses for him.
And his family was involved.
@@FallicIdol Not was. IS!
A gaslighter, a thief, and a con
@@gamergrad81 Correct. Is
The more pressing matter is Jirad using his late mom name as a justification for what's he done. Major props to Karl and Muta for bringing this to the forefront.
Yeah using his mother as an excuse wasn't right and he also threatened to sue which is completely ridiculous that's why most people are not taking his apology seriously
He never used it as a judtification
I bet his mom in the afterlife is disappointed in him... isn't she?@@ladynikkie
@gamefan6219 See this is why he was mad in his response video, this and the supposed death threats he got.
@luluna5228 Then why mention it multiple times? Emotional manipulation at it finest. He only donated because the fire was on him not to actually help people dealing with a loved one who has serious health issues.
Thank you for kind words in the vid man. Not gonna lie I used to care so much about what the big youtubers thought of me and wanted to be liked but the charity fraud hit too close to home for me and I couldn't stay silent. I started getting blocked and confronted left and right and it just put things into perspective that I don't care what any random person thinks I'm gonna stand up for what's right. All that said I know we've chatted a few times over the years and you showed once again you're a real one man. I appreciate you. I'm glad I have at least one youtube friend with the same morals, that's more than enough for me.
I actually have quite a few when I think about it. :)
I thought you were dying when the ps5 came out did you scam everyone
I'm genuinely curious. Why would you care what a random stranger making RUclips videos thinks about you? That is the furthest thing I think or care about. Get busy, job/career, whatever else. Love yourself. It sounds like you put way too much stock into RUclips personalities. Don't worry about what some guy on the internet thinks about you. They're nothing special. Simply watch for the entertainment value.
@@littlebigkid707b2 try reading it again, Merry Christmas!
I just saw him get removed from Sea of Stars as he was an NPC in the game, even his own friends have given up on him like skill up and the sea of star devs.
Yeah? That's great! Now I can finally stomach playing the game
If they drop him because of this, they weren’t friends. The money went where it needed to go in the end.
There's gamers for you. Turn There back on you
@@gimphandjeffwhat would you consider a threshold of not being friends with someone?
@@thecunninlynguist Why should they drop him? Did he steal the money? Did it not go where it needed to be? They only dropped him to save face for their own brand and image. They never cared for him.
"You assumed your money was going to charity at the time you donated, because i said it was? Well, sorry you felt misled."Nasty work lol
And it's only worse because, due to massive inflation in the past couple of years, that money that he was sitting on had gone down in value. Open Hand has made less of an impact than they would had they donated the money at the time.
I wonder if he was collecting the interest for himself
@@TSmith-rl4xd so, it's less common these days with lower interest rates, but that used to actually be a very common form of embezzlement.
For legal purposes because he likes making threats, I'm not saying that's what Jirard was doing, but historically that has absolutely been a thing.
@@emirparkreiner7801 A retirement fund. Hold it long enough, and hope no one ever checks on it. If some one does ever check on it, you can use it for some kind deniability of stealing it. Even then, that's not even all the money.
Gaslighting POS.
IRS: We would like to take a look at your accounts.
Jirard: Certainly, here is my mother's autopsy report.
You win the internet today with that comment….
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣🤣
I saw this comment many times.
Still funny.
"there's a brain unaccounted for here" "but we donated it!" "no man, yours."
Jirard absolutely admitted that he became aware the money was sitting there in 2022 and then in 2023 I believe he kept talking about all this work the charity had done and how he this one university was a major partner. Not only that but he literally admitted in a video chat with Muta and Jobst that the reason the money moved was the pressure from their videos. And yet Beatemups and others were blindly defending Jirard. As others have pointed out this will make people more questioning about the charities they are giving too.
He said 2021 was the year he found out I think, so yeah your point still stands but he did know it for a little longer than that so you could say your point is even stronger, and yes, people are going to be suspicious to donate from now on (people who learn from mistakes at least), and that is unfortunate and the real harm in all of this. I would say if people want to donate, just do it, cut the middle man and donate directly, but the problem with that is that it is less convenient than donating to a stream and as history shows people are lazy, even people with good intentions
@@AvengingN00bpeople donate on those streams for the attention, not the cause. They want shotouts and mentions and feel included in whats going on.
It was very very disappointing to see Wood defending him. He just fell for the BS.
@@AvengingN00b he said 2021 first but then on that same group call he corrected it and said it was 2022
Yes and that also may be a lie. It sounds like hes just lying all around
I watched his whole apology video .15mins video and the first comment below the video, one line, just destroyed his whole video/argument:
" You held on to charity money for 10 years and only donated once you got caught. It's nothing to celebrate"
Yep. I was willing to believe Jirard was painted into a corner and did the best he thought he could, which would mean he lied and was grossly negligent but not malicious until that video. I now believe he had more to do with it than he let on. Just my opinion but it really seems like he's guilty of something. In any event, he has conducted himself in an unacceptable way so he's canceled. I didn't watch him before but now I will actively avoid him. I think a lot of people will cancel Jirard from their lives and watch something else instead
@@hezekiahramirez6965The dude is a grown man. He absolutely knew the entire time that something was going on and he admitted it on his October call with Muta and Karl. He then went on to make the same fraudulent claims in November.
I could understand maybe a younger person being manipulated by family like people think but the guy is a grown adult and has been spreading lie after lie. It should come as no surprise that his response video is what it is ... something that has more lies and more BS in it.
Thanks for your opinion.
After 3 years of occasionally watching RGT , i can finally subscribe. True to his mantra, Respect!
Don't rush things, sport.
Would you care to elaborate?@@FallicIdol
lmao@@FallicIdol
@@gnthumblethunderr6084 Not really. You get it or you don't.
Damn I'm too new for the inside joke, aww fooey >:o@@FallicIdol
He wasn't sorry he held the money for so long. He was sorry he got caught. Kudos for Muta and Karl for getting the money donated. But Jirard's career is basically... Completed.
I wonder... He still has defenders, maybe enough of them will keep him going? He doesn't deserve it so I hope you're right
Hahahahahahaha
I RATE THIS CHARITY SCAM
FINISH IT!
Not really. Honestly, I think he can comeback from this in several years if possible if he is still willing to work,for regain the trust of others.
@@M567dkNot if the IRS is involved
Honestly I never followed the guy but he definitely needs to take accountability for his actions and recently the developers of the video game sea of stars are removing his NPC they want nothing to do with his scandal and I don't blame them
It’s not just Jirard, now people will second guess other RUclipsrs charities. Especially the whole 6 degrees of separation. The bigger the influencer, the greater the impact on the platform.
Now I'm worried if people will feel skeptical about theRunawayguys' colosseum charity event now that this happened....
As they should, when you ask for people's money, in exchange for an action such as a donation. You're creating a contract with the donor. They will give you money, and you will perform that said action. Failure or slight alterations to that said deal simply shouldn't occur, and if people now have to question or second guess that's not a bad thing that's due diligence.
I wonder how this will affect TRG's charity event as a whole. Jirard was there earlier this year with ProtonJon and everyone else who were good friends of him. I can't imagine ProtonJon defending Jirard after this whole situation blew up... if he did defend him, ProtonJon would have started getitng backlash from his fans too. I just hope he and everyone else who are friends of Jirard decide to cut ties from him. The other peoplewho are good friends of Jirard are Hypercole, Chuggaaconroy, NintendoCaprisun, AttackingTucans, Gamescage, Rogersbase, Game Grumps, Lucah, FamilyJules, Tom Fawkes, The8bitDrummer, StephenGeorg, JoshJepson, etc.I hope they all decide to cut ties with Jirard due to this whole situation. @@mizunopearl
Good most charities are scams anyway
That feels like a good thing. I actually hadn't realized you could just jump into a charities (youtuber or not) public records that easily and I do like knowing that the option to help make sure an informed decision is there.
People shouldn't just write off every other charity because of something like this without even looking though.
You know, some people write off RGT but he is a man of emotional wisdom, all jokes aside. I've mostly avoided this story, but I feel like I got a good balanced look at it here. Props 👏.
Same!
Who writes him off .
@@mooserocka522idk about "writing off" but there is a video clip of RGT saying "Jirard paid the money so stop the drama". I felt that was downplaying the magnitude of the situation and it's a credit to him that he's now clarified a better opinion(this video)
Like just the occasional random hater in Spawncast chat for instance. Nothing too serious, the kind Shawn finds somewhat amusing, I'm sure. @@mooserocka522
You would think Jirard’s audience has dementia with how often he feels the need to plug his dead mother every time he needs sympathy or donations.
Maybe DSP should take notes , oh wait pigroach’s parrents are still alive
Imagine having someone in your family with dementia. And you identify with his cause. And you donate hoping someone like the person in your family may benefit. And you learn years later that the money went nowhere...
All I know is that if I started a charity, I would certainly be on top of where the money was going, and how it was helping people before 10 years had passed.
If Jirard had any moral fiber he would have stood up to his dad and brother. I'm sure that's very complicated if you rely on your family for occasional financial support. His problem is the lying that the funds were going to all these names charities for years. There's simply no mental gymnastics to day he had no clue about the actual receipts. Especially when his reputation and reputation of the foundation(charity) is on the line. That whole family looks really really suspect in regards to potential charity tax fraud
@@captaincrunch1707 Dating all the way back the golf tournament. You would think someone would be more active knowing that his rep was on the line, and his family if they contributed to the circumstances happening prior to the discovery. He should have stopped right away and pointed this out. If he really was being this whipped into inactivity, I need to thank him for showing me why it's not worth being a punching bag when you could have done something.
Exactly. Ignorance is not a valid excuse, even if ignorance was the truth.
@@captaincrunch1707 Idk why you're bringing up his family as if he's just a victim following along. Dude was the face of it, he lied straight to your face with a smile. It's not like he was being sex trafficked or something, he actively participated in the bulk of the work and planning.
He's a fraudster beyond any doubt. I hope for the sake of the people he'd betrayed that there is some legal recourse to determine his intent and bring some closure to the situation.
Jirfraud the Conpletionist
whats the fraud? Thats legitimately what I just do not understand. If he STOLE the money I could understand why people have their panties in a twist. But the money seemingly was all there and available to be donated. What exactly was the "scam"? How is it scam or fraud if no one benefitted from it? It just seems negligent at worst.
@@ComicCrossing
Golf money
@@ComicCrossingCharity fraud.
The golf money is 100% missing. @@ComicCrossing
I am so happy you finally talked about this RGT85! A lot of your RUclips co-horts stayed away from the topic and some actually defended the guy on a very shallow basis. What happened is messed up and the gross mishandling of the situation by Gérard and his team is extremely unfortunate, especially for him and his defenders.
People said they didn’t expect this of him and to wait for his statement. Obviously his friends want to believe benefit of the doubt that he’s innocent. I think a lot of people attacking ant dude and others for that are way to chronically online. Friends and family always believe the best in people.
@@bernbern309 I agree, but "friends" went beyond that making hypocritical statements, while knowing perfectly well that the situation is f'ed up and the main accusations were 100% true. I personally hated that.
For Jirard to name this charity after his own mother and to do what he's clearly done which isn't hard to see is beyond appalling and anyone who defends him is either blind as a bat or is defending him knowing what he did a 1:59 nd they don't carry any morals whatsoever!!!
I don't think that his mother's name was "Open Hands" but I agree the rest of what you said lol
I think you mean he created the charity in honor of his late mother, no? Isn’t it called the Open Hands Foundation?
@@jublacabra That's what I was referring to. Either way he's still honored it in his mother's name which makes this whole thing even worse..
@@hailstorm1986 Gotcha. You meant figuratively. And you’re right it genuinely makes it all much worse.
Agree completely with you, and what you said about him being "the nice guy" is really key here, sometimes people make themselves look like the nice guy so they can get away with things in the background.
it's extra scummy too because Jirad was knowingly crafting a false persona to fool people. Like whole extra level of manipulation. If i was his friend I would feel grossed out or pissed about being roped into his web of lies. He let his friends go to bat for him knowing they were putting their reputations at stake for his lies.
Jirard plays a character on RUclips, a character who is a really good guy. Which is unlikely since most of us are full of faults. I give huge props to Shawn because he doesn’t pretend to be a perfect angel.
Jirard's response video really blew this whole thing up and now a bunch of large RUclipsrs are making videos about this. I am not sure what Jirard was thinking when he released that response video, but it really did backfire on him and there is no turning around from this for him. Jirard's career is over and I do hope this gets investigated and he and his family gets criminally charged if any wrong doing is officially discovered.
It’s not just Jirard. I suspect a lot of people previewed that video or its script. And they all said “yep, that’s the right tone, post it,” was there not one person who realized what a disaster it was?
@@billcook4768 what kind of people do you think he has surrounded himself with? you do that enough and you're in a party where everyone just drinks the koolaid.
As you said, the actual worst part of all this is that all that money, and maybe more, was supposed to be helping people throughout all these years, and the dude still pretended that's what was happening even though he literally stated he knew that wasn't the case for a few years.
so happy to see a level headed take on this from the gaming space
Where's the reasoned take?
He mentioned his dad several, several times is a finance dude, and cares ONLY about money.
Put the pieces together long ago. They been putting together their family assets over poor, youtuber charity funds... Jesus
It's really upsetting to hear that about his dad because it calls into question Jirard's old story about being revived from a coma by his dad. I know it might be pretty easy to prove a medical record like that, but if Jirard is willing to not show a single easily provable bank statement, who's to say if that old story was even true?
@@UltimaKeyMaster After this scandal nothing he says can be taken as true. Even his apology video was full of lies.
@@UltimaKeyMaster problem is jirard is the kind of a dude who would absolutely make boogie2988 style stories up.
I mean, he basically is just a bit more competent boogie. but just a bit so he still needed 20 employees to keep up a youtube persona.
There are a lot of scummy people here in the video game/Retro community.
There are a lot of scummy people EVERYWHERE. The % of people that you can actually trust is extremely slim.
There are a lot of flawed people in life. Why should the gaming community be any different?
RGT and the hospital filming with the video of himself with the hospital bracelet at home, that kinda people you mean ??😂
This is prob one of the most mature and thought out reaction this situation I've seen so far. Much respect.
Once again RGT shows he's got that street knowledge. There's a certain amount of wisdom you can only pick up through life.
I love how really you are that's why I have watch you for years. Keep up the good work man!
Can’t wait for the RGT Charity scandal
RGT would NEVER!... Although... he did flip flop from a Charlotte Hornets fan to a New York Knicks fan!... Shamefully 😑
Reeeeeee cancel him reeeee@@wendelleasports
The Fix RGT’s Benz charity? I’d donate. Not much, but I’d give.
He failed to capitalize on his emergency surgery.
He donated too much. Arrest him immediately
The "Open Hand Foundation" is the most sadly apropos thing ever. "Open hand, insert money." Like "My hand is open. Now put money in it." This is such a sad situation that it's hard to laugh about it, but you have to admit that is an unfortunate name for this foundation
That's exactly what I thought! Like did they name it that way purposefully?? Damn!
I noticed the irony too and am surprised to not have seen anyone else comment on it. A very fitting name for them.
Thank you for making this video, Shawn. This is why I like you - you’re always real. If people don’t want to be your friends because of your factual take regarding this matter, then they were never your friends to begin with. Keep up the great work. 👍
Wow, the point you made about your friend and how research is always ongoing really hit me. You're right, research institutions always need funding to keep going, you never know when the breakthrough will happen or what day the treatment drug will be developed. Holding the money instead of passing it on is not okay, in and of itself, without needing to consider anything else. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I'm happy to hear your opinion and agree. I've watched you since you still worked at the pharmacy. Glad you're doing well!
This was such an empathetic response, much respect. Some people were just looking for an easy dunk, but this was thoughtful. You can acknowledge the truth of Jirards character and still feel for the friends and fans he also got one over.
He even got booted from Sea of stars....It's Sad But Jirard only Has Jirard to Blame, Hope he stop blaming others for HIS OWN mistakes and Owns up as A REAL Man should
I usually hate your videos but you spoke from the heart here and I respect that.
We thought it was Jirard The Completionist. Its actually been Jirard The liar and thief all these years.
He just spelled Conpletionist wrong
Nah, its Jirard the Incompletionist. Man couldn't complete the donation for 10 years.
Jifraud the CONpletionist
Been waiting for this video!
This hits me a little differently and harder because my mother died from dementia. This 600k they “raised” could have potentially made care for her and others easier to get and affordable.
Yea, same here but for my grandma. She passed away due to dementia last year and seeing what dementia is like firsthand, I would never wish it on my worst enemy. That money could have been beneficial for research. I'm sorry about your mom.
You are one of my top channels. Keeping it real.
I've been following Jirard since he started his RUclips channel. These recent events have really put into hindsight the number of times Jirard guilt tripped his audience.
It felt genuine before, but now it really seems gross. The way he invoked his mothers name really put the nail in the coffin for me.
really taken aback by your take on this. not in a bad way, just in how well reasoned and grounded it is. thank you.
Can't wait to see the video where Jirard completes prison time.
Respect for actually calling it for what it is and not trying to blindly defend him despite the LOADS of evidence.
The faulty accounting (or complete LACK of accounting) from Jirard's golf tournament is also notable.
This is where the true embezzlement lies!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSS RGT's TAKE. I WAS WAITING FOR THIS
One of the few real ones out there. Really hope he gets distanced from wood because of this. Wood is such a faker along with all of jirards friends
Wood does seem kind of fake.
Wood has always been a fake. Remember his annual "I'm depressed, give me gifts" spiels?
@FallicIdol for sure, along with all his damn clickbait, too. I just hope now people will notice his and other big youtubers flaws a little more.
@@FirebrandChrisWood IS fake bro
Dude clickbaits and somehow has worst thumbnails than DCG
@@FallicIdol I watched his videos and tried to like them and then unsubscribed as they started to annoy me.
People surprised that Wood Hawker ("Beatemups") is defending the Completionist shouldn't be. Guy is the biggest phony of all. He's bounced around a lot of different video game groups (he was with MetalJesus crew for a while, then Spawnwave, now with Wulff) and he ebegs the worst of all with his "boo woo, I'm depressed, boo woo I'm moving to Pennsylvania and need money, boo woo Nintendo doesn't love me anymore." Complete and total fake.
Wood BeatemUps calling this “drama from drama channels” is such elitist behavior that makes me think he should be investigated with his fake depression videos scamming Nintendo kids. Whenever someone immediately dismisses factual based reporting they are guilty themselves. RGT, I’m sorry but “ride or die” for fake friends only benefits them and not you. When something is obviously wrong, you choose the right side. Wood is an immature grifter, he can cope.
One of the wisest videos on a RUclips drama, or really any drama, I've been seen. The most important word you said was "envisioned" as in how people "envisioned" Jirard to be. I was a big fan of his until I found out what he pulled. A lot of these RUclipsrs and RUclips watchers really do not know how to see people when they show you their real selves. They ought to. Like with your story -- and I, too, have similar tales to tell -- learning to see people clearly can literally save your life.
Maybe the thing we'll learn through all of this is do not donate via 3rd party entity middlemen, and instead
Donate directly to the specific organization or charity.
bonus: you get the tax writeoff, not the 3rd party.
You framed your thoughts very well. I appreciated the video. And thank you for using an Oxford comma in the title.
Pat the nes punk had the best response to the Jirard situation. He kept his opinions to himself until everything came out and then held Jirard responsible for his actions as his friend. Were as people like Wood,Bob Wulf and Jay from the Game Chasers immediately had bad take knee jerk defense reactions for Jirard.
Rgt straight laying in facts not just about this one man but human beings in general. Great video man
Very well spoken and honest as usual RGT. Mad respect.
This is one of the best well thought out and adult reaponses to this I've heard. Rather than blindly defending him you had actual thoughts thst you articulated. Thank you
Comparing Jirard to the Grinch at the end of the video was spot on 😂
I respect this perspective. Thanks for a refreshing perspective on it RGT.
Pretty diplomatic take. Good job.
I appreciate you making this video from a very human perspective. The whole thing is messy, stressful, disheartening, and complicated.
grabs popcorn...watching this trash fire unfold has been a sight to see. Jirard and his family really scummy. His dad is like a cartel boss. There's an article out there about his dad boasting about his price gouging of his Beverly hills gas station, and being damn proud of it. Then there's all the discord call bits that contradict Jirard's official statement. A recent leak (as of like 6 hours ago) has jirard attempting to bribe Karl/Muta and he throws his "friends" Jontron/Projared under the bus (the jared one is amusing, since Jared went on a ledge for him). I can't wait for the audit.
Why did he throw them under the bus? I've been watching Karls videos and the latest so called apology one is laughable because if he tried to sue Karl he's got no chance
@@dnakatomiuk he doesn't want to be associated with controversy. mentioned them in context off g4 implosion, being friends with jontron, projared
link to recent leak.
@@davidritchie6950i agree link please
Hey at least put the source of your leak if your gonna come out guns blazing like that, you know people are going to want to dive into that
You also bring up an EXCELLENT POINT regarding the social dynamics at play between us and the people we love and care about most. It’s like people suffer this cognitive “disconnect” when they hear about someone they’re close with doing SOMETHING unsavory and they just end up outright REJECTING the information they’re being presented with.
So it’s all fairly UNDERSTANDABLE why some people end up on the DEFENSIVE when certain people are accused of wrongdoing.
Mad respect, solid take
Turns out I was living under a rock, because this is the first I'm hearing of it. RGT talking about donating, the transparency of good charities and knowing what it should go toward, especially including toiletries - I can tell he's one of the good guys.
Really good insight into this situation. Makes me want to do even more charity work to make right what has been done wrong.
From the looks of The Completionist it looks like he spent all the money on food…
Always enjoy that RGT85 keeps it real!
Straightforward to the point down to Earth, great "response".
Merry Christmas to you RGT85
RGT if you were to be caught in a scandal i would be bummed that my favorite nintendo youtuber is not a good person
“If your opinion is different than mine, good. I’m proud of you for being an individual.” 😂😂😂 I’m stealing that.
I don't know the guy, but if you give them money to donate to a charity, they should donate to said charity. No "withholding" or anything.
Which is why if you’re gonna donate, donate directly. Most of the charities are just middle men.
Whoever was the whistleblower tipped muda and Karl deserves praise for bringing this to light but we may never know to avoid getting sued by jariad and his defenders.
Thats the most enlightened take Ive seen arising from this whole situation.
I gotta say, its not unusual for me to have different points of view from yours (mostly in games coverage, since thats what this channel is about) but its not even the first time I watched one of your videos expecting a bad take and coming out positively surprised.
I COMPLETELY agree. I really wanted to give Jirard the benefit of doubt. Even to this day I want him to make things right, but at the end of the day he did lie and try to double down. The best thing he can do is to tell the truth of the entire situation. But the fact is his career is pretty much over and he can never dig himself out of this hole.
Let's be real John's biggest skeleton in the closet is he forgot to return that Blockbuster game back in the day.
Well thought out Shawn. I have respect for anyone who says what's on his/her mind objectively without any bias.
Finally, a single youtuber who realizes we dont need a full recap before he begins his take
he ran a scam got caught and within 2 weeks he donated what he couldn't do in 10 years you just can't make this stuff up
Yeah and you have to also think that he said that he wanted the donation to be solely focused on research and that's one of the reasons it took too long but if you donate on AFTD there is an option you can choose on what sector your donation will be allotted to and one of it is for research. I've also heard that you can actually request for your donation to be used for a specific purpose from most organizations. You just need to request receipts from them.
And to think people thought Frosk was the worse person on G4.
Ikr, I thought he was the voice of reason but all along he's a scamming pos.
True lol
frosk is just who she is, an asshat. jirard is barely a person in comparison because his public persona is just completely made up for sake of having a made up character to do business under, the completionist. he needs a STAFF OF PEOPLE to keep being the completionist.
I appreciate how charitable and humanizing you’re willing to be while making sure not to sugarcoat anything that he did.
Another egregious fact here…his average views for recent videos is around 200k. His “My Response” video has nearly 700k atm.
I am actually more curious how his subscriber count is going the more time passes, cause he has been bleeding subs ever since this controversy first happened.
He is getting destroyed in the comment section though.
His video is also not going to be recommended with all of those dislikes.
Yall need to leave J-rod alone.
My little brother was in the hospital with cancer dying. His last wish was to meet the Completionist so we called him. Now he couldn’t make it because he was completing a game but he said “tell the doctor to look at the cancer again” so we did and when he looked the cancer was cured and my little brother survived
jirard should be in cuffs for theft.
He should run for political office.
And fraud.
You're a real one, RGT. I already knew that, but every once in a while you drop a vid like this that confirms it for me beyond any shadow of a doubt.
He could go to jail for that.
There's ALSO the very real possibility that the $600k is not ALL of the money.
We have no idea. It might have originally much more, and $600k might just be what was there when this was discovered....?
C: correction, 'most' of the money went to where it was supposed to go. From what we can tell, and we could be wrong, but it seems like some of that money is missing. our poorly made estimates are like 50k to 100k at least. could be more could be less
on what you said of the 'if your friends with someone' I mean we can look at what happened with jirard and greg, we don't know what happened there but it raises suspician.
NONE of the golf tournament money was declared! That's not most of the money being donated... looks like ONLY HALF WAS DONATED!! The rest was embezzled!!
Honestly I respect your point of view on this. It's been insightful to look at different people's commentary, and see what their take is. Sometimes I learn something, and I feel like I've walked away from this video with a couple of extra thoughts. So thank you for sharing.
And I sincerely hope Jirard never recovers from this.
Surprise, surprise, your scummy friends defended this guy.
Thank you for the nuanced response!
Yep. A lot of people think they "know" Jirard, and that they "know" anyone they're a fan of. They watch personalities for long enough and enjoy their content enough that they feel they've got it all figured out. Hence the defense force. The truth is... you never know anybody on the internet that well. They're just people on Insta, RUclips, or wherever. You as a fan are not in their head despite how much you want to be.
man... i wasn't expecting the most reasonable and well measured response to this fucked situation. Respect brother.
Good for you RGT, I appreciate your perspective bro. And you’re right, but some of these cats on RUclips are not good people, that’s life… I completely agree with what you said at the end, a healthy friendship, family situation allows for different opinions and outlooks without condemnation.
I wish everyone the best, have a great weekend.
Man speaking the truth 💯
I can relate to that, lived it. You don't know people until it comes down to the wire.
waiting for wood’s tearful apology
You're so real for this RGT.
Love your videos 💜
15:52 sounds like a spot on Dana Carvey Bush senior impersonation 😂 love it.