Preach Reacts to Completionist Charity Controversy
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- Опубликовано: 16 ноя 2023
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I've worked with charity telethons similar to Indieland or AGDQ, and we recently ditched one of our charitable partners after we started hearing concerns about their organization. It took us about six weeks to find a replacement, and most of that time was just trying to schedule staff meetings to go over our options. In six weeks, we found half a dozen potential charities that matched our mission, researched their financials, reviewed our options in a series of staff meetings, made a selection, had a call with charity we selected, and put out a press release about the new partnership. We definitely never held a fundraiser for no-one while we were looking and we didn't pretend we were partnered with people we weren't.
Ten years and they couldn't find a charity? Three years and Jirard never checked where the money was going? And then another TWO YEARS after he was made aware of the issue where he couldn't move anything forward? That strains credulity to the breaking point.
If they couldn't find a charity that would work with them, they should have dumped the money into the major charities and closed shop years ago.
Super tough to give him the benefit of the doubt after hearing those calls. Dude admitted to knowing about it and said he doesn’t see it as wrong but sees how people would see it that way?
Bro, you’re hoarding gold and saying the gold is going to help people; very scummy. Huge bummer.
He did it. He finally completed his career
lol trust me this is just a prequest to his completion,
I’m in the opinion that he is the face, and either his brother or father have been managing the charity (and possibly pocketing)
😂
He rated his career: Finished it.
You saying it doesn't make true. What a meme fail.
The worst part of this is him claiming the charity was in his late mother's honor. It's so disrespectful
It's sad, but I think he mightve done it because of her. Some people can dilude themselves into thinking "She would want me to have this money, she my mom of course". 10 years of that, and I can totally see him justifying it. That's one of my theories lol
Maybe she was a legenday con artist and it's in her honor. She'd be so proud :')
@@tDADDY09 sounds like effective altruism bullshit lmao
@@bajcli that's so disrespectful, dude.
we all know jirard sucks here, but c'mon.
I think the worst part is inflation, because it's a non-profit they don't gain any interest on the money in the account AND it's been losing value for more than a decade now with 0 merits to offset the losses.
also
completionist: "damn we have all this money for charity but all the charities we looked at so far havent made sufficient progress"
me: "you think thats maybe.... because THEY LACK FUNDING PERHAPS?"
"Why haven't you donated any of the charity money yet?"
"WE'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING ILLEGAL!!!"
The money needs to be donated now, simply to confirm that there is money to donate. The donors need proof that the money hasn’t been embezzled.
In Muta's video, Muta shows more of the call they had with Jirard. Jirard says that he was about to donate it. But wants to know what Muta and Karl think he should do. They both say that at the very least it needs to be donated and preferably to the places Jirard had been saying they would.
That was a week ago. Still nothing. The longer this goes on, the more likely it seems that the money is not actually there. Or they're trying to put back whatever money is gone before they donate.
Also the Privacy Complaint from Open Hand against Karl's video just makes everything look even more suspicious.
@@danij5055there is no money Jirard is lying lol
It doesn't even have to be donated to simply prove it's still there. All it takes is a simple document that details the account balance, it's extremely easy to do. Even just open a bank account page and snap a photo of the screen with the total amount of cash. It should take them less than 5 minutes to produce compelling evidence they still have the money. The fact they didn't bother to do this much after so long is enough for me to believe they stole at least some of it.
He can't do that. If he gets the money dumped now, then his brother is going to prison. Someone by now has contacted the IRS. If they dump it now that means they could have done it years ago. Jihaird said something that ruined his own legal defense, and he can't commit to doing what he said he would.
@@omensoffatemost likely he moved out of the us.
So I'll boil it down.
They raised $780,915 for charity, but only $655,520 is left in the account. $0 was given to charity and 15% was taken for "misc" expenses. Open hand is family owned and isn't a large charity, so $0 went to employees or equipment according to the filings. Jirard said directly that he only found out in 2021/22, and that they were looking for an organization to give the money to. Between 2014 and 2023 Open hand has said via events and website that the money will go to "UCSF Memory and Aging Center". So even after Jirard supposedly found out he still told audiences "every cent" would go to UCSF.
As the director at the very best Jirard would be guilty of gross negligence. Having no knowledge or care about the money he was himself raising for charity to honor his dead mom. At the very worst the entire thing was an outright scam to build a nest egg they can either pull money from, or it is all actually gone.
This! i've been waiting for someone to bring up the fact that over 100k has been taken out for "expenses"
That amount being spent on operating costs is actually very low for any foundation, so that's not a particularly big deal. Something they don't state in this video is that Jirard was actually listed as the person who would be searching for where the money is to be donated to when the foundation was first created. Even if he was actually negligent in checking where the money was going to until he was informed it was just sitting in a bank account in 2022, he still had over half a year to buckle down and find somewhere to donate it to, and lying that it was going somewhere just weeks ago is just wrong. There's more info out on the newer videos that shows hundreds of thousands that were supposed to go into the open hands foundation just vanishing before it did, so it really looks like they were pocketing a ton of money.
It sounds like they might have made more money than what they reported with their two charity events.
@@Domar7431 No that isn't a low amount at all. $125K for a glorified fundraiser is very high. You can't compare it to a giant charity organization. Open hand had no employees to pay, and on stream said the equipment and space was given to them so every cent can go to UCSF. My OP is 11 days old so I didn't factor in the golf charity here. To which yes probably another $600K is missing/unreported. and I'm not just making that number up either. The golf charity events tell you their sponsors and prices. Just this year Open Hand reported to have raised $144K on the golf charity alone.
I can totally see a world where someone, either his brother, father or a third party, told Jirard to be the face of the project while they'd manage everything in the background for him so he could focus on his own channel, etc. And I can believe Jirard when he says he wasn't aware that no donations had been made prior to being told.
But even then, according to his own words, he had two years to set this right, yet continued to talk about all these contributions the charity made while no money was handed out to anyone. Even if his first instinct might have been to protect, say, his brother, he should have realized this was a terrible mistake and would eventually come to a head.
Do you know what a due diligence is?
I believe this is what happened. He was used by his family members, and then after he found out, he made the (very wrong) choice to protect them, by keeping the narrative. The reason why the money was not donated since he found out its because the money is not there, either partially or entirely gone.
Jirard needs to come clean, soon, as things are just getting worse for him with time.
@@RedLuigiGames I hope this is the case, personally-- Jirard has always come across as a pretty genuine and caring person, would suck if that was just a fake persona for so long. At least if it was a family member I can understand why he stayed quiet-- nobody wants to get their family members locked up for fraud, even if you know it was wrong of them. I sure as hell wouldn't, and I'm glad I'm not in a position where I'd have to make that choice and get lambasted by the internet over it.
If he's complicit in it though, that'll be rough.
@@RedLuigiGames - Nah. Jirard was definitely in on the whole scam from the very beginning. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
@@opo3628 Possible. What gives me pause is not any trust on his character, but how miopic this is. He does not need this amount of money, and just stealing the money is something that can be easily caught by someone looking at the right place. Why risk what he has going on for 500k? Why not actually donate the money, use it for content, get more donations next time, and raise administrative fees to 30 or 40% and get both money and praise for it? Even taking Jirard as a bad person, if does not make sense to me that he would risk his career for an amount of money he can make himself.
But if the career you are risking is not yours? It makes more sense to me.
But maybe he is just short sighted. That happens too.
The frustration for me is if you said that you are unable to find a reputable charity to donate to, and after 9 years no money has been donated because “none meet the standard”, then why continuously take people’s money? Why not be transparent? This could have been completely avoided which leads to gross negligence or knowingly committing fraud.
All of this smells so bad... There are already multiple layers of lies regarding what they did with the money. When you understand that a tax filing is just that.... a filing.... This could get way, waaaaay worse. The IRS is not omnipotent, you can lie on your tax return and never get found out, they can ask the bank to check your account but if you don't raise any suspicion or they are otherwise too busy, they simply won't.
The account could very well be empty is what I'm saying.
It’s also really bad if he has a basement full of dead bodies. Both accusations have the same amount of evidence at this point. Any other life-ending felonies we want to baselessly assume he committed?
@@None-lx8kj That part was weird. That could mean the mother was a donor, but that would not something to brag about. Body part in shady markets is not unheard of.
@@None-lx8kj Yes exactly thank you. Thinking there is possibility he also embezzled the money he committed charities fraud about (a thing that happens... all the time); is precisely the same leap of logic as thinking he is a serial killer.
Thank you, very cromulent thinking, you are very smart.
@@Alarios711 I don’t think you’re making the point you think you are…
@@None-lx8kj Man... I don't even know what you are trying to convey here. Here I'll make it more simpler for you;
Mass murder ? Baseless
Embezzlement ? There seems to be some bases (lied about the money, filing is not a representation of the money in the account, hasn't donated the money 2 weeks after scandal, etc...)
Those 2 things are not the same. We are not talking about evidences here, we are speculating.
@Reaches4Grapes Gave you another example of why your comparison makes no sense.
Even if we believed Gerard on him not being aware of the money being withheld until 2021, he had 2 years to do something about it so now he's complicit.
Not just complicit, he's actively involved, he's had charity streams since finding out (by his own words) and in those streams he's lied about the money.
It's not just that he hasn't said anything it's that he's actively participated in it.
At the very least they'll get audited for a full breakdown of their expenses
If he really didn't know that the money was being hoarded until 2021, then he's had two years to say or do something that he spent doing sweet fuck all - except he did keep lying about donating the money, which absolutely makes it look like he knew all along. He could have said something publicly, or just had all the money donated to UCSF since it's the only benefactor listed on the foundation's website. Of course, he didn't do that, because Jirard has been siphoning away thosuands of dollars of donated money as "expenses" that personally benefit him and his family.
Let's be real, if anybody is "siphoning" money from the charity it would probably be a family member since Jirard makes plenty from content creation. Regardless the expenses make sense given they have put on yearly fundraisers which also satisfy the expenditure rule required to be a non-profit. Absolutely should be raking them over the coals for this but it's dumb to make wild and unsupported assumptions.
I'm going to wager Jirard or his brother blew it all on something (probably crypto and/or an investment that collapsed) and there's no money left.
When audited that money will absolutely be gone or at least missing in part
Well they already take over 10k every year out of it in expenses.
Ah yes, the old "we're cool, we're sending body parts" tactic. We've all been there.
The thing is: we actually have no idea if the money is there. Tax filings are not proof of the state of whatever bank account this money is on.
Also here's some food for thought: if you were in their situation and you indeed still had the money, what would be one of the first things you'd do to save some face? That's right, you would provide undeniable proof you still have the money, to instantly quell all speculation that you stole it. Jirard already said so, he said they still have the money, so why not provide some evidence that this is true? Should be very simple if it's true, and it would be a no brainer move to stop wild speculation and prove you're not lying. But... they did not do that. And the fact they did not is VERY alarming.
as someone who had to live with my beloved grandma degrading from dementia and to know others who have the same thing happen get their money Stolen basically on a scam pisses me off to no end. The pain of seeing someone you love or admired become a shadow of their former self is beyond heartbreaking and to think this mf used his own mothers demise for this sham of a charity.
One of the other ways a charity could defraud is not just in their expense side of account, but their income/donations sent to them. Its quite possible that donations could be even higher than what was filled. I think both sides of their books should be audited.
I hereby recognize your comment as exceptionally accurate with the passage of 3 weeks.
I don't know what to make of it. I have theories, from the best case scenario to worst would go something like:
1) Sheer incompetence, he actually didn't know. Well, someone did fill IRS forms each year, so someone must have known!
Best case here is he's covering for his brother who was the one who f-ed up.
2) He has some weird mental thing going on or a trauma from his mom passing. For example "I can only donate when I'm sure they cure dementia 100%.". And since no one can promise that - he holds onto the money, waiting for a golden goose.
3) laziness.
4) goes downhill from there into a malicious territory.
I'm afraid he really risks going to jail right now, because somebody is bound to investigate and the CEO will be the one to answer.
Jirad is attempting to give Amber Heard a run for her money with the whole pledge vs donate issue methinks.
Bro
it's the mom stuff that sinks my heart all the way down to the bottom of the drain.
Imagine doing something in the name of your mother so poorly.
It is not done poorly. It is done with ruthlessness and he has exploited his mother and her life to make money, the whole family has. THAT is the heart breaking part.
@@helvete983well said ! The lying and trickery is present in every facet here.
The moment I read the answer from the Open Hand Foundation, there was only one thought that crossed my mind:
Someone better sue the fuck out of them.
The most charitable interpretation I could have for this is that he's covering for his family with what he's lying about.
Keep in mind, unless they can prove this money still exists, it may not be there regardless of what it was reported to the IRS.
I doubt the money is actually in that account. Tax Filings is self reported and the money can totally not be there.
its not
Infuriating… the time sitting doing nothing, the fans who gave in good faith, the money just sitting there uninvested and not contributed to any claimed charity. What a waste and a scam, with no reasonable excuse to give over this length of time.
Open Hand is a very apt name for the charity, as I'm betting people that donated , this video is an "Open Hand"ed slap to their faces.
Open Hand (as if like a beggar), receive money. Makes sense to me!
It's all for dementia charity for his mother. Maybe he just ......forgot?😂
The Cmpletionist: I had no idea that the money wasn't going where it needed to and assumed incorrectly that it was. *I didn't know*
Also The Completionist: I haven't found a benefactor that I'm completely happy with, so that's why the money hasn't been sent (knowledge)
Contradiction!
He went from dragon Rider Khalil to "take all your money and run with it" Khalil
I've seen enough streamers and youtubers seem to fail at basic business/common sense that I'm not that surprised. Stuff like this is why I prefer to donate directly to charities I've researched.
Which would be normal. Why even have a middle-man?
@@furicuri3Because people are more willing to listen to people they like. If people you follow and admire (celebrities, politicians, religious figures, etc) are sounding the bell for donations for a specific cause, you’re much more likely to listen and take it into consideration. A lot of charities reach out to influential people because of this. They NEED the advertisement so that the public is made aware of the organization. This isn’t new to RUclips or anything, this has always been the case.
Damn, no wonder he got scouted for G4TV
Its hard to think of a better case for fraud charges than what's here. I'm sure there is. But I'm at a loss to think of one. It's not incompetence. They're claiming "expenses" against this money. Thousands of dollars in "expenses" on money that is never, ever getting used.
Jirard and his co conspirators are the dark souls of charity scammers
I think it’s something more nefarious than incompetence. They have been doing this for 10 years.
But what is the payoff? You're not taking any of the money, you're not making interest. If it's nefarious there would have to be some benefit to them. Unless of course the money isn't actually there.
I doubt they have been truthful about the tax filings.
@@slipknotpurity00 yeah I hope this is something that Coffeezilla can investigate
@@slipknotpurity00I’m financially illiterate. But, perhaps it was some kind of tax write off for the Open Hand foundation.
@@johnlocke4715 aren’t they tax exempt?
He fucking yoinked it all. I knew it
The Completionist is sure taking an awful long time to complete this charity donation.
It was in another save file.
This man is clearly using the Amber Heard definition of "donated" which, I am told, can also mean "not actually donated."
*pledged
As long as the money is still there, it’s somehow both less malicious and still significantly worse than what she did. If the money is gone, comparing the 2 is actually an insult to her. Which is wild to think about.
It's messed up for sure, and I would love to know what "expenses" they've claimed. They obviously aren't just buying houses and cars, but are they just stealing a "little" bit every year?
Those are most likely for setting up the events.
@@zulawooI highly doubt the streaming event where indie devs get to showcase their content is going to be costing 10k.
I wonder if they were taking loans out against it or using it to show they could afford some things they couldn't
You can see by the money, they haven't really increased their fundraising either, to Preach's point, maybe having some photos or stories related directly to the proceeds of last year's charity program would help raise even more money.
Instead they just run another back and just use the same script, raise the same money and it goes into the bank to waste away. It really makes no sense unless someone is taking that money.
As we've all learned since 2016, it's clearly possible to run a charity for decades in the US that just keeps the money or spends it poorly and the IRS doesn't care. Unfortunately these charities are caught be reporting, not the authorities.
Imagine collecting a million dollars for charity and then keeping all of it.
Gross.
Influencer preaching his goodwill charity donating money people donated for a good cause but after event is over, he doesn't give fuck what happen because main menu PR for the Completionist.
Actually no cuz there is a 5% rule where atlest 5% of the funds have to go to help the community every year you can't just bank it for 10 years like they have been doing ... also saying the money is going somewhere that it isn't isn't legal either
Many charities have what is call "Restricted contribution" meaning the donor can dictate where the money goes, medical staff, research, ect. and they can exclude admin. overhead...it literally looks like you made more progress in 30 sec. in finding a charity than he did in 3 years...and you can also find all the stats on overhead percentages with each charity with a google search...does he expect us to think he must inspect the labs in order to decide if a charity is "Effective"?...and then after he knew, he didn't stop saying they were donating to the two foundations he mentioned...
He forgot to mention the fact that his DAD is the President of Open Hand Foundation......which he is on top of it all...
So dissappointed and just appauled by the shear negligence at best of this whole situation. I've donated to this in the past myself and there is no way I would have done so if the money wasn't ear marked for an event/chearity. Goes to show just donate to the charity directly instead of thru some youtuber.
If you sent money to him you have a right to Sue or some meta claime to the IRS
It's not even negligence. It can't be when Jirard knew that the money was just sitting there for over a year, while still doing fund raisers for it, while also saying it was actually going to good organizations, even though he said that they couldn't find a good place to send it too. Not to mention someone at Open Hand tried to get Karl's video taken down despite it being nothing but facts.
It's just fraud. Not negligence.
The think that makes me wonder is as Preach said, you make a big deal when you actually donate to a charity, especially one that is supposedly close to your heart and has affected your lives. Pics, big cheques, news events, all in fact great exposure for your foundation and business.
Why has it taken nearly 10 years for this lack of any activity to be noticed? I know most regular Joes might donate a few quid and not give it a second thought, but surely people like Jamie Lee Curtis has people who check up on things like this, or all those massive companies involved in the charity golf events. Are you telling me Pepsi, Monster etc just chuck money at random events and don't make sure that event isn't just stealing the money?
You could give him the benift of the doubt, he didn't know till 2021 which is a leap but okay. But then goes back to saying the same bs on the next charity stream? After being confronted about the money!!! Nah man, he is talking absolute bollocks.
na he knew. Is a big fraud
@@SuperHns I know thats what I said.
So glad mr games preservation bought everything on the eshop
Man I haven’t seen a Preach video since the Warlords of Draenor era 😂
Jerod’s response is identical to Jake Paul’s when he only “discovered” the game/nft he was promoting were a complete scam after it released and people lost millions of dollars.
It’s the same response any “content creator” makes when they get caught promoting a scam
Going to guess what happened:
Brother dealt with the financial side of the charity.
Brother stole a great deal of money from it.
This guy only found out about it in 2022 (was probably given the run-around by the brother).
They kept the issue hidden while trying to figure out a way so the brother and possibly himself don't wind up in jail.
The issue is revealed to the public.
Guy's lay off im sure jerard has dementia and forgets to donate it for ten years
That line about "successful" at raising money for charity has a whole knew meaning. So far yeah, they're raising money, their own org bank account so far.
They paid 110k in expenses to themselves without disclosing what this money was spent on
yep. Which is what makes their reasoning so pathetic. They don't want to waste the money on Admin costs at an actual charity. However, them spending 110k on admin costs that does not benefit research in any way, just fine. Doesn't seem like very sound logic, in my opinion. As little as that is worth.
And he hasn't even made a statement yet denying things like this or anything?
With a bit more clarification on things, I really think they're using this as a savings account.
I doubt the money is there
in hindsight there´s still value to his game vids, but man, do I fell betrayed for my (watch) time
Worst part is that the money is depreciated. It’s now worth 30-40 percent less than what it would be had they donated it right away.
You done f'in goofed. 😂❤
You know... this makes the situation him being involved with giveaways a bit... skeptical. I remember a few times where he was in another stream and he said something about that streamer's donations and if the goal is met, he'll throw in Nintendo Switches for grabs for a chance for people to win. Like I'm pretty sure that's the money he earned from him being a partner, but this isn't a good feeling at all when he has something EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS.
What I don't get is... why not get in touch with an organization like Preach mentioned earlier in the video? Once you make a connection, find a common ground and acceptance, then do the whole charity thing. Like... I'm not sure, but... isn't that... simple? Yet, he hasn't done it for more than 10 years? Like... 10 years... People have gone through school, graduated, look for jobs, and all of that, yet he can't find an organization for the donation to go to in honor to his mom. I have this feeling that if his mother saw all of this, she'd be turning her grave right now x.x
Also, couldn't people ask for the money back with inflation seeing as Jirard failed to do his part? It's their money, so... I don't know...
When I saw the Karl Jobst video, I watched it HOPING that it isn't true but for me at least, the case is clear. I have never been much more disappointed in my life about a content creator that I like.
The issue here is jirard has dementia and just forgets about the money every year 😂
You are going to find out that more money came in than is claimed.
If no one mislead him, telling him the money went somewhere, why did he list all sorts of orgs it was going to? Either way he's lying about something
I can see Gerard being completely in the dark in the severity of the issue if he relied and trusted his brother and family. Its really easy for someone who had close ties to their family, to buy the excuse, it's fine. Don't worry. We're good bro. Family can be such a blind spot for people and you rationalize alot for them.
And then when you do come to your senses, you're in deep and have no idea how to get out.
He's still 100% responsible for this mess, and he deserve the consequences of his action/inaction. I just can see how he got here.
I agree insofar as a number of smaller bad decisions which maybe don’t seem major in isolation can add up to both look, and be, incredibly bad. I don’t know how much that applies here given his admission that he found out a year or two ago. At that point, even if he had no prior knowledge or involvement, how does it not realize that the situation is a catastrophe from a moral, PR, and potentially legal standpoint?
@@None-lx8kj It's also just the fact that they have done this since what 2014? he makes yearly videos on these charities you would think he would just check up on it once a year atleast? hes the front man every year it seems, and not just claim you are helping multiple orginizations yearly without making sure once?
It really doesn't matter whether he knew or not, the damage has still been done. Even if his side of the story is 100% true, the situation doesn't get any better and he is just as responsible for it.
This falls apart when he said he knew about it and then continued with fundraising and lying despite knowing no money was donated.
@@GamersBlogXagree. He knows he’s sitting on a ticking time bomb in 2022 of the public found out nothing was donated. Yet he feels so confident and brazen to continue raising funds with no concern of being caught(not donating). The people running that foundation couldn’t be bothered to even donate $10k or $100k just to pretend like they care. Any donation would’ve diffused the time bomb somewhat. Their reasoning for holding the money is beyond disingenuous
Set up a charity. Don't touch it for decades so as not to draw attention. Some day, when people forget about you and the charity... boom! Nice little retirement fund. Great scam.
RUclips auto add skipper works pretty good.
Open hand can state the money is in the bank but how do we know they havent spent it.
Ive always liked Jirard but his silence is damning. It doesn’t only affect him either. The FPS podcast that he used to be a part of probably had a real difficult time putting out their response but they did as good a job I think was possible to be completely transparent but respectful.
Guys it's a classic amber heard situation. They ment to say pledged instead of donate. They clearly use those words synonymously 😂😂😂
From Completionist to CONpletionist.
One thing to consider is that while the majority of the money is still in the bank, or appears to be, the charity still paid operating costs. What are these operating costs? Do they include a salary for employees, most of whom appear to be family members? Without a breakdown of the operating costs there could be some money being used inappropriately from that column and we'd never know. A steady job or supplemental income from a charity that's holding onto the money it gets sounds like a nice and easy way to commit charity fraud over a number of years. Unless we get a 3rd party to audit them we may never know if this was intentional or not though.
Didn’t he also claim that they don’t take any of the money? I’m not sure whether that alone constitutes fraud, but it certainly seems like it might.
14:10 Wow, talk about Law Speak...But that interview they managed to snag will really screw him IMO...
Common grift.
“We are going to donate it”
Years later “goes out of business” and the money disappears.
Happens frequently
With that in mind guys Jirard gave his career and reputation the Completionist rating of: Burn it 🎉
Alot of people are talking about this but Jirard has been very very quiet since all this started. Definately some shady stuff happening, if this was just incompetetence then Jirard would and should be able to fix this QUICK but he hasnt which means he is hiding something and trying to cover his tracks.
That’s kind of silly. It’s both a legal and a PR crisis at this point. He can’t fix it with a RUclipsr apology video.
@@None-lx8kj I think the silence is more telling because he was willing to blab like an idiot before, but *now* he does the smart legal thing and shuts up. It's kinda too late for that.
@@UltimaKeyMaster Not to mention trying to remove a video that paints you in a very bad light NEVER looks good for any reason.
Jihaird has to stay quiet now. His whole family is likely to go to prison for a short while. If you thought the FTX case was good, prosecutors LOVE these cases. Jihaird won't be like SBF but the sheer fact they can slam dunk an open and shut case is great for them.
I can't imagine running the charity year after year without ever contributing the money anywhere?
I don't really care that he didn't spend it, not giving it to any charity is just as bad, people are donating for that cause, they could have skipped over Girad entirely and donated on their own and their money would be better spent
This is why I don’t trust NON profits. Here in the US go ahead and waste your money
I haven't checked up with Preach's content for a while but damn I wasn't expecting to hear F.A.N.G.'s theme here of all places. A man of culture indeed
Wooooooww. Epic scam. Completionist is such a fraud😤💔
Jirard ia a liar and a snake. Justice for Gerg!!!!
If you spend 10 years unsuccessfully searching for an organization that fits your standards, it's worth considering that maybe such an organization simply doesn't exist because your standards are too high.
wow.. can you IMAGINE a person that gets this disease and finds out that if they had given this money when they GOT it. .they might have been saved. This is an insult to his relative it was funded for
Jirard is finished after this, holy shit. I don't think he's a bad guy but clearly he's been in way over his head and doesn't have the competence to run a charity. This is fraud, no question.
i disagree, i think he knew EXACTLY what he was doing, why? because if he was convinced what he did was right, why did he lie about supporting SPECIFIC charities when he didnt? if you think youre doing the right thing you dont lie about it, he wouldve been "hey we dont have a specific charity yet but all donations will be saved until we find a suitable charity to support" but you know why he didnt do that? because then people wouldnt donate and he couldnt pay himself via "expenses"
Having watched him through the FPS podcast the past year or so, this is my takeaway with the evidence we have now. I don't think Jirard intended to do anything malicious (no idea about his brother) but he definitely was negligent. As you said, I think he was in way over his head. I'm curious to see how this unfolds as more information comes to light because I suspect there is more going on behind the scenes with his family.
@@vhaelen326 I don't fault you for having this viewpoint, it looks bad for him. I have been a more recent viewer to some of his stuff and his presence on the FPS podcast and he didn't seem like a malicious guy, who knows about his brother though
@@SilentaryXIV I would say the same. Negligence on Jirard's part and fraud possibly conducted by his dad and brother.
@@vhaelen326Because there could be other people assuring him that that's exactly what they are doing while he manages his main buisness on the completionist. That's usually the kind of work you'd delegate especially if you need to work many hours on recordings in multiple channels, actually playing the games and managing an entire brand.
Still if this is the case he still should've paid more attention to it and if he couldn't handle the workload to at least keep close tabs on it he shouldn't have been the main name on it. So if this is the case it's clearly gross negligence.
(This is a stolen joke but I love it)
Well of course he hasn't spent any of the money yet, he's saving up enough money until he can fund the entire cure for dementia. He's the COMPLETIONIST after all.
POWER UP UNLOCKED! CHARITY FRAUD!
Look the family is super mega rich worth like hundreds of millions of dollars so in the end the "money" will get donated IMO, bad news is they got that rich because their father is a top lawyer in LA so I doubt they will face too much trouble in terms of the law. that 600k is gone imo
0% chance there is any money in the account...
Ironic. He forgot to spend the money that he collected for Dementia research.
I'm not saying anything shady is or isn't going on. I don't know enough about the situation or care enough about the completionist to render judgement.
The difference between Mike raising money and them raising it is fairly simple though. Mike raises money for specific organizations, they raise it for the foundation. Both Mike and Indieland then hand over the money to who they say they will. What the foundation then does or doesn't do with it, is a different thing.
As a gut feeling, I think that there is someone in the foundation who has completely unrealistic standards. It doesn't seem ill-intended, just overly anal. Finding a charity and vetting it are 2 different processes and if you have someone in crontrol of the money who has unrealistic standards, the money won't get handed out because you can always find SOMETHING wrong with any given charity.
The big takeaway is that they have not come clean and prove where the $ is other than "say" it's still there. Continued silence, well, ... it says a lot.
as far as i know because its officially a charity or rather nonprofit their money is publically "visible" so to say, so we can be sure that the money IS still there... i mean aside from the part that is being spent on "expenses"
Actually, its only being reported as not being spent, doesn't mean its actually in a particular account and or what interest said account has been gathering and the disposition of said interest, I don't believe that is publicly visible @@vhaelen326
another thing that i don't think was in Karl's video on the matter but was in Mutah's version was how Jirard responded to these things on that discord call.
it might be a bit off but it went along the lines of "i wanted to donate this, but when we received the email about this i knew this was coming and it would look bad to us if we donated it then"
then later on went on about how Karl and Mutah are only doing this to gain fame (fairly sure both Karl and Mutah are bigger than Jirard at this point) and how this will just make Jirard look like an asshole.
basically constantly stating that no matter what he does, he will still be the asshole in this situation.
to top it off, he "knew" this was going on supposedly for atleast 1+ year, enough time to find a sponsor and take over since your brother can't be trusted, why not donate to that charity he mentioned literally every stream?
Mutah made a follow up video on some of the criticisms they were both receiving following their videos going live.
for example that both Karl and Mutah ambushed Jirard with that discord call, so Mutah posted a screenshot if Mutah and Jirard talking in DMs about hopping into a discord call to explain himself, which Jirard agreed to and wanted some time to prepare himself, Mutah wanted the same thing so it worked out.
Mutah actually didn't even expect Jirard to show up, but he did to his credit (although a very stupid move)
this story gets really weird all around, like what is going on in the background, because everytime they file their taxes, they put gifts etc to 0, apparently Jirard (the 1 raising the money) knew nothing and at best only knew it for 1 year, but still proceeded to do nothing.
I wonder all the others involved are thinking, think i've seen some people already pulling out and be like "yeah, not dealing with this hot mess"
but as Preach said, why not donate it and then show the check on the next event.
racking up 100k a year for charity is very good, why not show it off and garner more donations from that, people tend to hold on for a bit to their money, but once they see some donate they'll slowly open their wallets.
once they see that their money is going to the cause they were donating for, they'll gladly donate again or more and even inspire others to do the same.
I guess he needs to 100% all the Dementia charities guys before donating the money. Give him 10 more years.
I watched that video by SomeOrdinaryGamers and I was paying attention up until around 14 minutes through the video where he says "irregardless". Automatic stop and dislike, nothing I could do. Luckily, this video I can like :D
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Oh no new KJ video I haven't watched it yet but I assume they stole the cash
Fraud, completed it mate - The Completionist 2023
Reading someone’s body language is impossible when you don’t have a baseline for that person.
The touching of the ear and looking away indicates nothing if you don’t know what they do when they’re telling the truth and what they do when they’re telling a concrete lie.
What if they were keeping the money until they figured out a way to get the money for themselves? Their excuses are weak and pathetic
pretty sure they figured that part out with the "expenses"
That's what it seems like. Holding up enough and waiting to cash it all out at some point and ditch everyone.
Even if you believe there's plenty of untrustworthy charities out there, which there definitely are, you wouldn't take 10 years searching and NEVER find a single one. Or hell at least be able to donate some of it to hospitals in need! You don't even HAVE to donate it to a charity specifically.
It's definitely them wanting to hold it for themselves.
Isn't this like Star Citizen?
I'd argue Star Citizen is closer to a cult then anything at this point lol
You got swedish ads on youtube, how? Me always gets the dannish ones 😂
Lemme guess ted needs daily snacks and they ran out of beard bros budget, they got tempted.
They probably lost it investing in NFTs.