A dollar 9 years ago is worth nowhere near as much as it is today due to inflation. If that money has been sitting in a bank account losing value year on year that's terrible.
I took an ethics class in college and did a project on the ethics of charities. REALLY opened my eyes to just how vile and misleading those organizations can be. ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. VET YOUR SOURCES BEFORE DONATING.
@@tararosabelle7368 I think that’s a fair analogy cause I’d also say that’s theirs just as many ppl with a conscience as there are ppl with out one. It’s just that some of the actions of the latter really stand out among the crowd sometimes lol
My dad passed from dementia 4 years ago. It’s such a horrific disease. He declined very quickly in part because of his PTSD stemming from the two tours he served in Vietnam. Everything happened so fast I was 36 when he passed and just had my first child a little boy who looks so much like him. Thank you for sharing about this on your platform. This actually made my stomach hurt listening to it. Why is the money sitting in a bank account for 9 years!?! They can donate that to a number of charities that help care for people and families struggling lot care for their loved ones suffering from this disease.
The Completionist is like a kid standing on the pool deck during swim class waiting for the perfect moment to jump in the water, but he’s been standing on the deck half the class and now the coaches are calling his parents
this happened to me when i was 5 on the *tall* diving board except the life guards had to pick me up, screaming and crying, and throw me in the pool themselves. and honestly, that's what i hope happens in this situation
More like the kid has been telling everyone for ten years how many times he jumped in and in what great forms, and it turns out he never did. And now someone pushes him in, he does a colossal belly flop and is now actively crying and pissing in the pool for everyone to see.
@bangbrandon5800 It is. Dementia makes you forget even to the point you need carers to help you eat and drink. You pretty much forget how to function until it kills you.
My grandmother has dementia, she hasn't recognized me in over ten years. Thankfully she is a very kind and caring soul and tries not to make it seem like she doesn't forget, but I know she doesn't. She always asks where my grandfather who passed before I was born is and when she is "going home" (she hasn't lived in her old house for six years). Dementia is a crippling disease, for everyone involved.
I remember back in Charlie's early days when I was just a young lad where he donated every penny he earned from youtube to various charities. Props to you Charlie for forever staying authentic
@@warlordofbritanniai believe people will keep supporting charity streams, but people who donated to open hands will probably think twice before donating again to another organization, which is good for them but sad for the real ones
Honestly, that's kinda of a good thing in a way. The sad reality is that 90% of charities out there are like this. You have to know EXACTLY where your money is going and WHAT it is going to be used for before you donate. Otherwise, it's nothing more than an empty virtue signal to make yourself feel good. In a way, this event is kind of a good lesson for a lot of people. Stop thoughtlessly donating to these big charities and instead think about donating DIRECTLY to someone and for a specific purpose where you know for sure what the money will be used for.
@@DaFuqBoeoummake better content and game the algorithm then. I get recommended no name content constantly, if you're not popping on the current algorithm and want success before art (which if you're begging you clearly do) then reassess what you're doing.
When I heard about the situation with Jirard I genuinely had to lay down, this kind of thing has happened with so many creators I followed and it's exhausting
I'm so sorry, I had at least two RUclipsrs like this, one who I barely watched but was with the friend group so to hear what they did was disgusting. But what really hurt me was a Minecraft RUclipsr who I used to watch as a kid do horrible things with minors and it took a while to sit with that. Now I don't care, and don't even know what they're up to now but I'm not even gonna bother. Again I'm so sorry, there is the healing process
This has happened twice to me within 2 weeks with this and konekokitten, roblox youtuber who did inappropriate things with a minor. I don’t know whats next. Is Scott The Woz a serial killer?
@@fatyoshi1456 I feel like there is something off with that Nathaniel Bandy. I had the same feeling about The Completionist and that turned out to be right...
@@iainbreen7835this just happened over here. Some woman embezzled millions raised from the good will of the public toward her father. She just had to create a third party charity instead of sending the money direct to the health service which, meant she could then start to use the funds to pay off her mortgage. This woman was already very wealthy. She just had to have more.
What a bizarre and sad situation. Not only does it tank his reputation as a charitable content creator, it makes the general audience more doubtful of other promoted fundraisers, which can hurt how much money research groups/charities get and slow their goals. 9 years is a long time to simultaneously be running charity events but not be donating anything, very suspicious on it's own even if nothing was withdrawn directly.
My mom was diagnosed with dementia and for the first time ever she couldn’t remember who I was yesterday, I think it is by far the most painful experience I’ve ever been through thus far. Things really went downhill fast after we lost my dad.
You're not alone in your experience, it's one of the worst feelings out there. Always remember what they would really be saying if they weren't suffering from dementia. That they love you and want you to be happy. ❤
I'm so sorry to hear that 😔 I wish I had something encouraging or comforting to say that wasn't just a platitude... Dementia is one of the diseases that terrifies me the most.
She may not recognize you, but that doesn't diminish the love she still has for you. That will never go away, not even in her last moments. Stay strong, have faith, I will pray for you all. My grandma had dementia. I hadn't seen her in years as I had moved across the world and then country. I called her on her last day. I didnt expect anything, but she recognized me if but for a brief momemt. You will never truly loose her, and she will never truly forget you. In faith, she will await you and in faith you will reach her. May she have found the way, to the truth, so that she may receive life.
Wishing lots of love and happiness for you and your mother. My grandmother is also diagnosed with dementia and her dog recently passed, and it's been absolutely heartbreaking when she asks for him.
A lot of the psychos, sociopaths, and scammers are “well likeable people.” Look at the pathology and profiles over time that the FBI and other feds have investigated. It’s how they rack up their victims. It’s easier to do what your shit is if you’re present to be “well likeable” and also breezes off first hand suspicions.
I watched my grandfather die by dementia. The hardest parts were when he would look at his hands in confusion, as if he didn't know what to do with them. It hurt so, so much.
my grandfather also passed from dementia. The worst part was when he forgot everyone in my family’s name but mine. His daughter, and both of my siblings. I’m so sorry for your loss.
The smoking gun for me is the fact that dude knew 8 years into running the charity that the money wasn’t being donated, and even after finding out he would continue to tout how they support all of these orgs that they gave zero money to.
And that’s assuming he’s actually being truthful when claiming he’s known about this since 2022. Considering the deception you’d be crazy to take him or anyone in his family involved in this at their word. Regardless we know for a fact that he knowingly lied for at least one fundraising event. That’s not a ‘mistake’, that’s purposeful fraud.
@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD That is a very stupid excuse to make. It's a reasonable expectation that when you are donating money at a fundraiser, the money will be spent as soon as the fundraiser's goals are met... and not after the universe's heat death
I wondered what sparked Muta and Karl to look into this. Sometimes we take people’s word at face value, especially a RUclipsr known for being genuine and kind. I’m glad that they looked into this.
From a yt comment (so take it with a grain of salt), they got an anonymous tip, probably from someone on twitter. Regardless it's good news that this has been exposed. Well not _good_ news, but you know...
@@derekrequiem4359it is good news jirards a degenerate who lied to all us fans and stole half a million dollars of donations from a charity btw the IRS confirmed he already spent the money....... Big bad time for jirard now the IRS is involved 💀
This is the double edge sword of watching Charlie. One minute he's talking about cringe and sitting there giggling and clapping then the next minute a beloved person is in hot water and we're all sad.
This kinda hits close to home, since my dad has dimentia. Shit like that genuinely needs to be researched more thurely then it already is. It feels like you just can't do anything about it rn
The Completionist was a RUclipsr I loved to watch for years. This feels like a betrayal as if your best friend stole your chicken nugget when you weren't looking
@@retroryan838as If people are gonna watch the completionist after this. Can’t rightfully support him after he defraud donors for 10 years. Yes, the money was finally donated but it took 10 years.
As one with a grandfather who has dementia, this is absolutely disgusting and disturbing. 9 years and you can’t find a “good charity”?! That’s why you partner with the charities BEFORE you begin advertising your fundraiser
Even if there truly arent good organizations, why tf couldnt they just say "hey we will be branching out, the money will start to go to many other types of organizations"?
@@mohammedhussain6749 When many charities turn out to be scams, it feels like you are just handing money over to people who are rich when you thought your money would at least be partially funding something. It isn't selfish to say I want my money that I sent to a dementia charity to be given to some kind of dementia research or memory care facility. At least most of it. I know charities have operation costs, but a private jet is not an operation cost.
Puts on oversized glasses and pouts out gigantic buck teeth ERMM ATCHUALLY LAVA IS NOT THAT REDDDD😂 Jokes aside I love that, lava red, very expressive. It implies the flag is so cused its in flames.
Honestly. You're basically in a constant grieving state over someone who hasn't even passed because most of the time, depending the severity, they aren't the same person you knew before... Especially stroke victims who suffer from it. This whole thing is shameful.
The most upsetting part about this is he could have chosen to not do fundraising streams if he genuinely couldn’t find a good charity to donate the money to. This is a situation that could have been avoided entirely if he just didn’t fundraise without having a clue where the money would go to.
This is like the Froot situation. Froot a vtuber from VShojo donated money to a Trans charity. The problem was that the charity had ties to a pedo ring.
That's the most upsetting???? Not that he took money under the pretense it was going to VERY SPECIFIC places when he knew it wasn't??? If he "couldn't find anywhere" he wouldn't be doing streams saying it's going to specific places when he knew it wasn't... There is zero chance this is just some honest mistake, ZERO..... He did streams knowing exactly where it was going, his pocket.
My Grandfather passed due to dementia back in 2016 myself and my mum would look after him before he was in a home and it was horrible seeing him not knowing who he or anyone else was, this is disgusting behaviour.
The worst part is that people forget about inflation. From the recorded donations each year from 2014-2022, after you factor in the price of inflation of each year, that comes to *$102,489* that just vanished because of depreciation. I don't know how anyone can say that this doesn't harm anyone: they wasted $102,489 and 10 years' worth of dementia research, and that's EXCLUDING the $125,395 they kept for their own "expenses".
When you put it that way they are technically stealing peoples money. When I donate to a charity I expect that money to be going ASAP like within weeks after donating or at the most a few months, not years after or decades.
@@cjc872 Good point, could even be the whole purpose of the scam - that way they could have their cake and eat it - not spending the money while profiting off it 🤔
I agree with everyone saying Logan Paul but that guy didn't get into too much trouble for filming a suicide victim and laughing about it so I think Logan Paul, aka Cancellations Georg, who avoids getting cancelled for heinous shit 1,000 times a year, is an outlier and should not have been counted
One of the most terrible forms of "damage" is to people's trust in giving to charities. I don't give to beggars anymore as I found out many were scammers. I give directly to charities that feed the homeless. At leas you see them getting coffee and food. I also offer them food if they want something when I'm shopping.
A year from now I hope there is a video showing Charlie go thru all of his 2023 videos and try to decipher the topic solely based on the title, and only is allowed a few lifelines to check the date the video was posted.
I was willing to accept this as an unfortunate mistake until they got into the operational costs not actually being listed, and how they vary greatly from year to year. That's the biggest, reddest flag I've ever seen.
Or the fact that *NOTHING* makes sense... So he HAS experience in donating in the past. So he understands there has to be some degree of correspondence. But he assumed that it was being donated... by itself? But how are you withdrawing money for "operational costs" EVERY FUCKING YEAR from said account and not noticing the balance lmao. AND THEN he changes his story that he hasn't found the right organization yet and this goes aaaaall the way back to BEFORE he even started collecting money? So how are you name dropping all these organizations that you've been "supporting" all these years? So again, it's just a full circle of bullshit.
Understanding the effect of inflation over these last years, it actually means that if he donates the money now, that money is worth less than what it would have been worth if he had donated every year for every fundraiser. Even assuming negligence, this negligence has worked against his cause which is just plain awful
Good point I was just thinking yesterday about all the things that were less than half their current price not even 5 years ago, and how much would be saved if things had been bought back then at those prices
Yeah, money has gone down about 20% in value than it was back in 2014. They got at least 100k every year in donations, but whatever they got back then would only be worth about 80k now. Their whole 600k now would've been worth about 750k then. And even if they donated it all now, it doesn't help that 10 years of research funding was basically squandered.
Don't forget about the lost decade of time that money could have funded for research. Even if he paid it all in full tomorrow with enough extra to make it worth exactly what it was worth 10 years ago, there's no getting back that lost time....especially for those who've been diagnosed and/or died from dementia in that time period.
My nan died of dementia in September. I never donated to this particular charity, but I know this RUclipsr well and I can imagine very clearly how horrifying this would be for the people who have, especially those who have also been affected by dementia and thought they were doing something kind to give back. Idk what he could say to make this better tbh.
My Na died 3 years ago as well. She had demetia, it was hard seeing her get lost in her memories, harder still for us to routinely get her back from that maze. I guess this hit a cord with me, because I cannot imagine what sort of monster would exploit their own mother’s death and disease for fraud.
@@eou0 Usually malnourishment, weaker immune systems, or complications from bad falls. Dementia is more than just memory loss-- it can mean severe deterioration of cognitive functions.
@@eou0 yeah. My nan had dozens f of small strokes which are basically heart attacks but for your brain. It was going on for 2 years and it was strange but I had a horrible sinking feeling all day throughout work as if my body knew but couldn’t comprehend why I was feeling sad. It was a weird day
As a person who’s watched my once very independent, creative grandma turn into almost a complete stranger as a result of dementia, I think this is just ridiculous. My grandma’s dementia has gotten so bad that I’ve had to leave work and drive an hour to her house to take her to the ER because she forgets to eat. Her dogs have to get buzzed because of how matted they get. My parents are having a tough time sending her to community senior living because she’s threatening to kill herself if they do. This all started happening in the past year. If this guy knows how awful watching your loved one go through dementia is, I can’t understand why he’s keeping thousands that could help others going through it now. I really, really hope this situation goes forward in the right direction.
on the senior center. Take her to some. Yes some are nightmares. But ive moved people into assisted living places and some are Nice. They have a community, can make friends, have things to do. The most memorable one was an airforce pilot and his wife. A maybe 700 sq foot apartment in a pretty nice assisted living place. They were excited
With my Grandma we were able to find kind of a group home type place, maybe she would be more open to that? It was maybe 4 other patients in a large house and there was somebody there with them 24/7. It wasn't like a nursing home at all and instead of leaving for constant doctor visits they had a doctor come once a week or so to evaluate them all. I don't know if this is a possibility where you are but the place we found my Grandma worked really well when my family wasn't able to manage her care safely alone anymore. Edit: Also, her social security and insurance covered the entire cost, so we weren't having to worry about that and they allowed her to have visitors daily etc.
*"Everywhere at the End of Time"* A great album compilation that's supposed to evoke an emulation of what a person with Alzheimer's goes through... I've listened to the whole 6½ hours in one sitting, and good lord, was it an experience. One of my greatest fears is gradually forgetting literally everything before death. Who I am, what I am, even where and when I am... I hope this Completionist guy rots in hell for his war crimes...
one weird side effect of EATEOT is that now everytime someone talks about this horribly depressing disease, it reminds me of this beautiful music series that I love
@@princememphis7726 That is pretty insulting. I am a nurse and I happen to care about anything that affects people with Dementia and if a person says they are collecting money for Dementia, then it should go to a charity working on helping people with Dementia or trying to cure Dementia.
@@susancollins3971 I didn't mean to insult. I only asked because I see a lot posts lately that start with "as a such and such" and thought it was strange. I picked you at random to ask
I agree it's not just sickening. That's straight up fraud, it's disgusting and straight up crime. Really ducking upsetting, 9 years of research to the shltter.
the saddest part is if they WERE donating the money as they got it, they would have made considerable strides in the research and fight against dementia. they might be donating it now, but they could have been active in the fight for 10 YEARS; what a large amount of time gone to waste :( edit: since I have a lot of people being smartasses but a couple that want to try to correct me, yes, me saying considerable was a bit of an exaggeration. I also have pessimists basically saying it doesn't matter when he donates because 600K still doesn't matter that much, but that isn't the point. my point with this is that, no matter how I worded it, he still sat on the money for 10 years instead of doing something with it
@@existskk99none of the money was invested in anything afaik, so any interest they gained will be miniscule compared to how the value of the dollar has decreased sadly
$600,000 might be a lot for a single person but in the grand scheme and over the course of 10 years it's not a lot of money so I don't think it would have made any ground breaking strides but this is still very questionable
My grandpa died from dementia in September. It’s one of the worst disease’s to watch take someone from you. Keeping money from a cause like that is so devastating.
I lost my mom to Dementia 9 months ago, so this is even more disgusting to me than normal. Implorable human being keeping all that money. Absolutely unforgivable.
Well so did his mom and look what’s done. So maybe you would too who knows…..I’m sure he said the same about charity frauds as you 😂🤷🏼♀️ Just saying……
My jaw genuinely fell when you said the completionist. Jirard was one of those creators I always perceived as down to earth and not problematic. I don’t even know what excuse he could come up with that would explain why the money is just sitting in an account instead of being donated for so long
The working theory I have and I've seen others have now as well in his minor defense is that they were trying to make what's called a "restricted" donation to charities, which involves the money donated being restricted to certain use cases such as using it to fund specifically treatments or equipment. The problem is that those kinds of donations are usually unavailable unless the amount donated is high enough to make the demand, and would otherwise would just allow the charity to have unlimited access for use with the charity. I think it explains the funds sitting there, even if it doesn't negate the fact that they didn't make the people donating aware of that fact. Highly negligent at the least. The interview itself from Muta and Karl don't touch on that but it feels like it was likely mentioned in it with them. There are some missing pieces here still for sure, but I asked an accountant family member what a reason for holding charity funds like that would be and they immediately asked me if they were making restricted or unrestricted donations. So at least on the accounting front it seems there's some kind of explanation.
If there was a good explanation, it would’ve been given during the interview. If the money was being responsibly handled then the explanation would’ve been simple and honest with the names and details to back it up, and people would believe it. The reason we’re sat weighing his credibility is because the given explanation is subpar. I would say that’s because it’s a lie. Also, the more time that passes before we get a video from him coming forward about all this the less I’m going to believe him. It’s not like he needs to find any receipts.
@@TheBfutgreg woof where to start...ProJared a few years back was caught sending nudes to fans after it was leaked he was cheating on his wife with Holly, Ross' (from game grumps) then wife. JonTron has been pretty public about his racist views on immigrants and Muslims. And now this with Jirard. With Continue? not in the public eye at all and SatchBag not making content anymore the only reputable ones left are PBG and DYKG but who knows how long that'll last.
I think it's pretty crazy to think that for 9 years this has just been going unnoticed even though the records are public and the behavior has been going on since the beginning
That is why charities have to make their data public, for us to avoid such scams. Sadly nobody seemed to take advantage of this and actually look it up before donating.
@@StriKe_jk Yeah - this is a lot more common than I suppose people realize. There are LARGE organizations that you probably know about who publicly use VERY LITTLE of their donations for actual charity work - yet people still donate.
*This was so sad to hear about. But this is also why I don't donate to RUclipsrs or any Podcaster.* I just rather donate straight to the charity's themselves. No middle man.
This nauseates me. I, along with my mom, we’re my Nana’s two caretakers in her final years while dealing with dementia. It was absolutely devastating to watch her downfall, and the whole family was there when she passed. From there, I had watched her get carried out of the home her and my Gomp (who passed in 2001) built when my mom was born, where I lived in at the time. All of a sudden… nothing. I literally stared at the wall for three hours once everyone left. I had no idea what to even do with my life at that point.😢
I’m trying to figure out what the scam is here like if he was trying to steal money there’s so many better ways to do it but it’s also impossible for me to wrap my head around this level of negligence
Honestly the way Gerard explained himself was like me trying to explain how porn was in my phone to my mom way back when Trying to mitigate how bad it looks with a last minute excuse
Or the Bong found in my room. Damn, parents really care about porn these days? Not like they didn't get off to it. Yeah, your momma and pops watched porn and enjoyed it. Weird thought
My nana is currently in a home with dementia, it is a horrible disease that tears families apart, especially if you can’t care for them. I was forced to lock my doors and sneak around the house I once felt comfortable in. This is a terrible situation.
They called the foundation 'Open Hand', which was fairly appropriate considering they open-hand slapped their donators right in the face by doing this.
Yeah it's a slap in the face to the donators and to a lesser extent, the people that were fans of him. And it's absolutely a slap in the face to their mom who died from dementia.
The thing that peeves me off is that he knew about it and just sat on the money. My great grandmas dementia has just started getting worse. My birthday was on the 4th and on Sunday at church i walked up to give her a hug and she asked me "Who are you?" Needing multiple people to remind her broke my heart. The past 5 years have been rough for her.
My grandma has lost it too. She doesn’t recognize me at all anymore, but in her most lucid moments she’ll talk to me about me but doesn’t know I’m me. She’ll say she’s upset that her granddaughter doesn’t visit her anymore and I’m like “it’s me grandma. I’m here” but she can’t recognize me so she doesn’t believe me.
Just to be clear, it isn't an "accusation" when they flat out admit that this is true. They just dispute whether or not it is a big deal. Jirard comes off horrible in that call with the boys. Trying to turn it around on them for clout chasing and such. Sounds like he is whipping stuff up on the spot, just bad. I don't think I have heard yet what the tip-off was that caused them to look into it. Something must have come up that made them go sniffing.
The whole situation is incredibly bizarre. How hard is it to donate to a reputable dementia benefactor? There's plenty of them out there that are much more reputable than their own org. Plus the fact that they are saying that the donations are going to specific organizations but none has been donated to them thus far. Like Charlie and the original reporting stated, lots of red flags.
@@TimothyCHenderson Yeah, the weird thing to me is it's not like Jirad gained anything from this either. He never took money from the charity he just left it there and didn't donate it. It seems like it was just laziness. He says it's becasue he wanted to find one that would do good research so he doesn't get "burned". But I'd assume that the ones he list out in his live steams are reputable becasue why else would he mention them.
I think one of the really big issues with this and an aspect that I havent heard anybody mention is that just because he didn't spend the money, that doesn't mean he hasnt been wasting it. Because of inflation, even if he donates everything now, the buying power of all that money has dropped substantially since it was donated. It has literally become worth less just by him not spending it. If he had been donating it as it came in like he promised, the charity would've been able to do more with it
And just because he hasn't spent it *yet* doesn't mean that that wasn't the ultimate goal. It's entirely possible that the plan was to just keep gathering money, using the whole "operating costs" thing to slowly siphon money out of the account, and then just pocketing the rest of it later, after they feel like they've made enough, using some excuse. Though to be fair, I don't think that was the case, or at the very least, that the scam part would've been the brother's idea and the RUclipsr would likely have been kept in the dark. But who knows.
@@PeksisarvinenYeah I dont think it was purposefully malicious unless Jirard actively wanted to sabotage his career for some reason. I think hes just really stupid.
This really sucks because in order to find a cure or a medicine to help slow down the effects of some of these illnesses, we just need time and to waste 9 year's is tough. We could possible had a cure in that time and we could've saved lives by now.
Emm...You think this money will have changed anything this 9 years? They wouldn't. Research of such medicines is made by multibillion giant pharmaceutical companies this other organizations can't do anything there. They mostly use the money(other than administrative expenses) for the expenses needed to take care such individuals.
I work with elderly people and elderly dementia patients and this is…Despicable. I have to do assessments with them and ask questions about their life for documentation and the look of sadness on peoples faces when they tell me they have kids but then can’t name them when I ask…This is all so irresponsible and awful
This is why respectable RUclipsrs work directly WITH charities, rather than "collecting money to give to them later" The example that comes to mind is MatPat/Game Theory's St. Jude livestreams
What makes him look worst is when he said "i was actually gonna donate it today. Ill just donate to whoever blah blah blah" Him saying he'll just donate it to whoever, after claiming he was "trying to find the right benefactor" raises red flags to me. Now that the pressure is on, it miraculously doesnt matter who gets it after all this time
Dude never planned to donate after seeing how much money it was making, he's saying that shit just bc ppl finally saw the pos that he is. He's trying to save face.
@@SMG-vx3mu She was a host on g4tv and went on a unhinged rant about "sexism in gaming" , g4tv shut down because of the rant , when people were being laid off from the company , she tweeted " I survived" and "lets play some games" no where did she even mention any of the people who were laid off , people who worked with her for about a full year. The woman was booted out of the LOL community for being toxic, that should tell you all you need to know about her.
@@azureemarald5722I am not knowledgable about Frosk. Though as someone who hates the Gamergate/Anita Sarkisian types, I still do believe there is a bit of a sexism problem in gaming as a whole. Not a huge one, but a little bit of one. However, what she said, if what you said was true, is dumb as fuck.
I haven't donated to a charity since the red cross raised 500 million for the Haiti earthquake crisis and built 6 houses. Charities are there to make money for themselves, period.
As a professional fundraiser this upsets me because these are the exact situations that damage the publics perception of nonprofits and the work we actually carry out.
Since you are professional fundraiser can you tell me how can me as a person make sure that i give my money to someone that will use at least 80% of them to the actual cause. How can we check this people out and make sure we aren't donating to corrupted organizations enriching themselves with our money while giving pennies to simply cover their backs to the actual cause.
@SIPEROTH I'm a tad late responding to this sorry. A few resources I recommend are guidestar and just Googling a nonprofits form 990 if you wanna go super in depth. 990s will show you everything but are dense to read sometimes. Guide star rates and ranks charities and assembles almost all the info most people would need to make an informed decision. Best bet is to call your local branch of a nonprofit ask to speak to a gift officer and ask to get a meeting with them (zoom or phone call is fine) and ask everything you wanna know. They're required to tell you and if they don't have an answer 99.9% will find you the answers and follow up with you (I and my colleagues always do and this has been status quo everywhere I've worked, even for people who end up not donating. I work to ensure a positive, transparent and honest experience). An example of a nonprofit that uses 90% of every dollar directly towards the mission is the red cross. Another good one is habitat for humanity, I forget their dollar handle but I remember it being almost all in for the mission. Lastly, please remember the work we do is hard work and very nuanced, so if an executive salary is around 100k they're not overpaid, those same people would make far more in the for profit space and work only 40 to 60 hours where as most nonprofit execs I know are pulling 80+ hour weeks to make the mission a reality.
This sucks to hear cause even if they donate, the money and the time are just worth less. Imagine if one of these promised benefactors got like 40K a year from this, much more would've gotten done if they had just stuck to their promises. And even if the money gets donated, due to the economy it's simply just worth less now so it hurts even more seeing how this has played out :(
Yeah even if he did a 180 and donated it today the inflation rate between then and now has already slashed the worth of the money by about 102,000 dollars
I think what you said about charity fraud at the end was very well said. I agree with the point as well, to potentially be doing something so heartless to your community is underhanded and disgusting. If it is the case in the end, that is. Let's hope the money goes where it was intended in the first place, I'd like to see a major breakthrough in my lifetime and I've probably still got a minute.
As someone who has lost a family member to Alzhiemers, this situation is heartbreaking. It's already a tough ailment for everyone involved, I can't imagine what the people who donated in honor and/or memory of loved ones must be feeling right now. My heart goes out to everyone affected
When I heard they scammed them from a dementia charity it made me seethe . My great grandmother died of dementia and for them to take advantage of people who are trying to go towards that cause of helping towards the fight against dementia is so low and disgusting
For the last few years of my grandma's life she thought I was "Dave the window cleaner". My dad would always tell her that I'm his son - and she would always then think that I was a different son, asking how about my mother's ears (my step brother's mum has to use hearing aids)
"Just tell me where you want the money to go and I'll donate it " implies that that was never the intention in the first place and he really did plan on pocketing it.
False, pocketing it would be public record and get him imprisoned, and he knows that. It shows that he is overly concerned with his public image and channel's reputation, which is fairly understandable given how even petty drama over inconsequential mistakes wrecks channels these days. No malicious motivation makes sense if you think it through, he has just displayed negligence and a fear of transparency.
It was such a bomb shell when I saw Karl and Mutahar talking about Jirard. You can never expect when or how these controversies show up, but man, it sucks when the curtain is opened and the person revealed is someone you know. Now charities, which were already questionable at their handling of money, have now been further incriminated by Jirard's lack of commitment. The trust towards the Completionist and RUclipsr's charity work will have more weight to the question as to whether they're scamming you or not.
“Someone you know” Lol, lmao. We don’t know any of these people, not even Charlie. RUclipsrs are just people, and people make bad, greedy, heinous decisions sometimes.
Развлечения
A charity for dementia forgetting about donations is the most ironic thing ever
"Forgetting" suuuuure.
Yeh it’s good stuff
Wtf y’all?? Come on people get ur shit together and make this top comment 🙄
@@Militant_Vegan We can't, the current top comment is already too good
Here is your ticket to Hell sir. You are seated in coach. God have mercy on your soul.
Guys he's not donating money until he has enough money to END dementia. He is the completionist after all
😭😂
Good one
I both hate and love this. xD
Damn!!!
now the situation aint so sad :DD
A dollar 9 years ago is worth nowhere near as much as it is today due to inflation. If that money has been sitting in a bank account losing value year on year that's terrible.
It’s very Nigerian indeed
So it's just been festering in the bank? Jesus.
lebanese business owners be like-
It’d be about 0.80¢ today
@@gamingwhilebroken2355 so, lost about 20%, which is pretty significant.
I took an ethics class in college and did a project on the ethics of charities. REALLY opened my eyes to just how vile and misleading those organizations can be. ALWAYS DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH. VET YOUR SOURCES BEFORE DONATING.
"Charitable fraud is something I'm really passionate about" is a wild quote out of context
gotta have hobbies!
@@kurojima 💀💀💀
That’s the best kind of fraud don’t knock it until you try
Wait until he finds out about the Susan G Komen foundation
Hey gotta make bank somehow. RUclips ain’t payin’!
The older I get the more I realize that having a conscience isn't as common as I thought.
Yup :/
I think the people who donated had a conscience, it’s just a shame they all donated to someone who doesn’t.
Yeah :(
@@tararosabelle7368 I think that’s a fair analogy cause I’d also say that’s theirs just as many ppl with a conscience as there are ppl with out one. It’s just that some of the actions of the latter really stand out among the crowd sometimes lol
Or empathy, or common sense
My dad passed from dementia 4 years ago. It’s such a horrific disease. He declined very quickly in part because of his PTSD stemming from the two tours he served in Vietnam. Everything happened so fast I was 36 when he passed and just had my first child a little boy who looks so much like him. Thank you for sharing about this on your platform. This actually made my stomach hurt listening to it. Why is the money sitting in a bank account for 9 years!?! They can donate that to a number of charities that help care for people and families struggling lot care for their loved ones suffering from this disease.
I'm sorry for your loss, hope you and your family are doing well now. ❤
My Mom is going down from the same thing. It is heartbreaking. Prayers to you and family.
The Completionist is like a kid standing on the pool deck during swim class waiting for the perfect moment to jump in the water, but he’s been standing on the deck half the class and now the coaches are calling his parents
More like the rest of the class has already graduated college and he’s still just standing there.
this happened to me when i was 5 on the *tall* diving board except the life guards had to pick me up, screaming and crying, and throw me in the pool themselves. and honestly, that's what i hope happens in this situation
More like he is standing there thinking of a way to keep his trophy he got by cheating in the swimming tournament
More like the kid has been telling everyone for ten years how many times he jumped in and in what great forms, and it turns out he never did. And now someone pushes him in, he does a colossal belly flop and is now actively crying and pissing in the pool for everyone to see.
@@Playbahnosh this.
The fact that The Completionist's own mom died due to dementia makes this situation a whole lot more messed up...
Is dementia fatal?
@@bangbrandon5800Very
@@bangbrandon5800it is in the end sadly, my grandfather had it and although he was gone way before, he passed away because of it
yeah but it will be something else that kills you@@bangbrandon5800
@bangbrandon5800 It is. Dementia makes you forget even to the point you need carers to help you eat and drink. You pretty much forget how to function until it kills you.
At this point its like rolling a dice for whenever a youtuber with great respect gets exposed
My balls are bigger than Penguinz0’s balls. 😂💀💀😂
i just hope some of my fav childhood youtubers dont get exposed/do any bad shit, like dantdm
@@saltedgods6960 most of them are p3doph!les
We can only hope Charlie isn’t shown to be like this someday
@@thexgamingdudehe will n you'll still support him
My grandmother has dementia, she hasn't recognized me in over ten years. Thankfully she is a very kind and caring soul and tries not to make it seem like she doesn't forget, but I know she doesn't. She always asks where my grandfather who passed before I was born is and when she is "going home" (she hasn't lived in her old house for six years). Dementia is a crippling disease, for everyone involved.
I remember back in Charlie's early days when I was just a young lad where he donated every penny he earned from youtube to various charities. Props to you Charlie for forever staying authentic
This doesn't just hurt the trust between Jirard and his fan base. This could hurt trust in charity on youtube in general.
You don’t think they’re going to just forget about this?
@@warlordofbritanniai believe people will keep supporting charity streams, but people who donated to open hands will probably think twice before donating again to another organization, which is good for them but sad for the real ones
Honestly, that's kinda of a good thing in a way. The sad reality is that 90% of charities out there are like this. You have to know EXACTLY where your money is going and WHAT it is going to be used for before you donate. Otherwise, it's nothing more than an empty virtue signal to make yourself feel good.
In a way, this event is kind of a good lesson for a lot of people. Stop thoughtlessly donating to these big charities and instead think about donating DIRECTLY to someone and for a specific purpose where you know for sure what the money will be used for.
@@frijolitoazul4343
I appreciate the insight but I was just making a dementia joke 😂
@@frijolitoazul4343people already donate money to whores and gambling addicts who sweat money, do you think they give a fuck?
The Completionist sure is taking a long time to complete this one.
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
My balls are bigger than Penguinz0’s balls. 😂💀💀😂
Yes Incel Charlie has no interest in the overall charity situation, he is just milking the views on the expense of Completion scandals.
@@DaFuqBoeoummake better content and game the algorithm then. I get recommended no name content constantly, if you're not popping on the current algorithm and want success before art (which if you're begging you clearly do) then reassess what you're doing.
@@MrUssy101Me when I spread misinformation:
When I heard about the situation with Jirard I genuinely had to lay down, this kind of thing has happened with so many creators I followed and it's exhausting
I'm so sorry, I had at least two RUclipsrs like this, one who I barely watched but was with the friend group so to hear what they did was disgusting. But what really hurt me was a Minecraft RUclipsr who I used to watch as a kid do horrible things with minors and it took a while to sit with that. Now I don't care, and don't even know what they're up to now but I'm not even gonna bother. Again I'm so sorry, there is the healing process
This has happened twice to me within 2 weeks with this and konekokitten, roblox youtuber who did inappropriate things with a minor. I don’t know whats next. Is Scott The Woz a serial killer?
@@fatyoshi1456please not Scott. I’d be devastated lmao
@@fatyoshi1456 I feel like there is something off with that Nathaniel Bandy. I had the same feeling about The Completionist and that turned out to be right...
I give the Completionist's career my rating of: *FINISH IT!*
This is why you should never donate to third parties. Always make sure your donations are as direct to the cause as possible.
And that's why the best scam is to start a non profit
@@iainbreen7835this just happened over here. Some woman embezzled millions raised from the good will of the public toward her father. She just had to create a third party charity instead of sending the money direct to the health service which, meant she could then start to use the funds to pay off her mortgage.
This woman was already very wealthy. She just had to have more.
Absolutely agree
"B-but then they won't say my name on funny video game stream. Unacceptable. I don't want to donate to charity if I don't get something for it."
@@greyngo people have fragile egos. You obviously know this. No good deed must pass by without someone gushing over how good of a person I am.
"Give me money to fight dementia."
"Ok, here you go."
10 years later
"Hey, you never donated the money?!"
"Sorry, dementia won this round."
Top tier
Thank you@@DDobs12
lmao
"what money?"
What a bizarre and sad situation.
Not only does it tank his reputation as a charitable content creator, it makes the general audience more doubtful of other promoted fundraisers, which can hurt how much money research groups/charities get and slow their goals.
9 years is a long time to simultaneously be running charity events but not be donating anything, very suspicious on it's own even if nothing was withdrawn directly.
karl is one of my favorite youtubers, from speed runs to fraud he makes a lot of good content.
He does speedruns and he also does fraud.
Which Karl?
Edit: oh, the completionist Karl
Don’t forget the pick up artist era
@@frank8917Karl Jobst
He work on Wata Game grading scam was amazing
My mom was diagnosed with dementia and for the first time ever she couldn’t remember who I was yesterday, I think it is by far the most painful experience I’ve ever been through thus far. Things really went downhill fast after we lost my dad.
Yeah it's something, lol my mom called me cabbage (my name starts with a c) it sucked
You're not alone in your experience, it's one of the worst feelings out there. Always remember what they would really be saying if they weren't suffering from dementia. That they love you and want you to be happy. ❤
I'm so sorry to hear that 😔 I wish I had something encouraging or comforting to say that wasn't just a platitude... Dementia is one of the diseases that terrifies me the most.
She may not recognize you, but that doesn't diminish the love she still has for you. That will never go away, not even in her last moments. Stay strong, have faith, I will pray for you all.
My grandma had dementia. I hadn't seen her in years as I had moved across the world and then country. I called her on her last day. I didnt expect anything, but she recognized me if but for a brief momemt. You will never truly loose her, and she will never truly forget you. In faith, she will await you and in faith you will reach her. May she have found the way, to the truth, so that she may receive life.
Wishing lots of love and happiness for you and your mother. My grandmother is also diagnosed with dementia and her dog recently passed, and it's been absolutely heartbreaking when she asks for him.
Out of every RUclipsr I genuinely did not expect The Completionist to be involved with this type of scandal. This is really really upsetting.
Bro woke up one day and chose the path of evil
@@rizkiramadhan9266 That explains 95% of youtubers lol
Who cares about your opinion
@rizkiramadhan9266 yeah, one day 9 years ago apparently...
@@HenryTheCringeGuy no lol the bad ones are already rotten from the get go
His responses in the interview calls seemed so...hostile to me. Like he was caught just doing an oopsie and got mad at it being brought up. 😭
Damn I really liked him this is beyond shocking he seemed like a good dude just goes to show how little you really know the people behind the screen
A lot of the psychos, sociopaths, and scammers are “well likeable people.”
Look at the pathology and profiles over time that the FBI and other feds have investigated. It’s how they rack up their victims. It’s easier to do what your shit is if you’re present to be “well likeable” and also breezes off first hand suspicions.
I watched my grandfather die by dementia. The hardest parts were when he would look at his hands in confusion, as if he didn't know what to do with them. It hurt so, so much.
My nan has started to eat with her hands, we recently put her into full time care and it's heartbreaking:((
my grandfather also passed from dementia. The worst part was when he forgot everyone in my family’s name but mine. His daughter, and both of my siblings. I’m so sorry for your loss.
@@woitsmiles3315dimentia is the worst disease known to man
“I never know what to do with my hands”
My grandmother had schizophrenia and dementia real bad. God rest her soul.
The smoking gun for me is the fact that dude knew 8 years into running the charity that the money wasn’t being donated, and even after finding out he would continue to tout how they support all of these orgs that they gave zero money to.
And that’s assuming he’s actually being truthful when claiming he’s known about this since 2022. Considering the deception you’d be crazy to take him or anyone in his family involved in this at their word.
Regardless we know for a fact that he knowingly lied for at least one fundraising event. That’s not a ‘mistake’, that’s purposeful fraud.
@@footthumbtechnically, he said it's going to charity, he didn't say when
@@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD That is a very stupid excuse to make. It's a reasonable expectation that when you are donating money at a fundraiser, the money will be spent as soon as the fundraiser's goals are met... and not after the universe's heat death
Yeah, and that's also an actual crime, you can't just tell people their money gets donated and then not do that.
@@footthumb He also just tried to take down Karls video.
I wondered what sparked Muta and Karl to look into this. Sometimes we take people’s word at face value, especially a RUclipsr known for being genuine and kind. I’m glad that they looked into this.
Probably because he could only recite two sentences about where the money was going and never went into detail beyond that. Very sus
From a yt comment (so take it with a grain of salt), they got an anonymous tip, probably from someone on twitter. Regardless it's good news that this has been exposed. Well not _good_ news, but you know...
@@derekrequiem4359it is good news jirards a degenerate who lied to all us fans and stole half a million dollars of donations from a charity btw the IRS confirmed he already spent the money....... Big bad time for jirard now the IRS is involved 💀
This is so messed up, he's almost definitely keeping it for himself.
No wonder he chose dementia funding. He expected the patients to forget about the fundraiser
thats both terrible and hilarious
Yes Incel Charlie has no interest in the overall charity situation, he is just milking the views on the expense of Completion scandals.
My balls are bigger than Penguinz0’s balls. 😂💀💀😂
Actually hilarious
@@InstagramUser2nobody cares
This is the double edge sword of watching Charlie. One minute he's talking about cringe and sitting there giggling and clapping then the next minute a beloved person is in hot water and we're all sad.
And then in the same video he mentions a British airline pilot that did cocaine off of a stripper before the flight lmfao
No... It's just 2 different swords.
I saw what he truly is when he supported frosks unhinged rant, no good person can ever support frosk.
@@jamesrobers3351 its the same channel how is it 2 different anythings? ? ?
This kinda hits close to home, since my dad has dimentia. Shit like that genuinely needs to be researched more thurely then it already is. It feels like you just can't do anything about it rn
The Completionist was a RUclipsr I loved to watch for years. This feels like a betrayal as if your best friend stole your chicken nugget when you weren't looking
A 500.000 dollar nugget
Don’t let this bother you. The Completionist is still good. Everyone makes mistakes and that was one he made.
@@retroryan838I don't think multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars in charity fraud is a mistake (if it even is one) someone can recover from buddy
@@retroryan838as
If people are gonna watch the completionist after this.
Can’t rightfully support him after he defraud donors for 10 years.
Yes, the money was finally donated but it took 10 years.
@@retroryan838 For 9 years?
Really?
As one with a grandfather who has dementia, this is absolutely disgusting and disturbing. 9 years and you can’t find a “good charity”?! That’s why you partner with the charities BEFORE you begin advertising your fundraiser
Even if there truly arent good organizations, why tf couldnt they just say "hey we will be branching out, the money will start to go to many other types of organizations"?
@@barbararab6390 negligence
What's really weird is that the money's not really going away. The larger bulk of the donations are just sitting there.
I don't think they planned to keep it. I think he was really going to donate it. Maybe he didn't like any of the organizations.
My Grandma has dementia and donated. She was mad about this but now she likes him again. I think she forgot
This is why many people are reluctant to donate money to charities.
People who aren’t willing to donate charities don’t need a reason why not to do it but scapegoat to hide their selfishness
@@mohammedhussain6749 When many charities turn out to be scams, it feels like you are just handing money over to people who are rich when you thought your money would at least be partially funding something. It isn't selfish to say I want my money that I sent to a dementia charity to be given to some kind of dementia research or memory care facility. At least most of it. I know charities have operation costs, but a private jet is not an operation cost.
@@mohammedhussain6749you're a symptom of the lack of natural selection in the human race
@@mohammedhussain6749definitely running a scam dude, you're not even hiding it with your sand people name
@mohammedhussain6749 fellas is it selfish to not blindly give away your money?
Little tip.. it "reported" that they still have it... (and they dont)
Thats why they have not donated anything...
ty for covering this. people need to know. charity is a great thing. but people CAN and WILL either mess it up, or outright abuse it.
The fact that they asked Muta where they, the fundraising event coordinators, should donate the funds is a lava red flag
My balls are bigger than Penguinz0’s balls. 😂💀💀😂
@@InstagramUser2 silence BOT
No kidding. You'd think the first thing they would do is decide which organizations they're going to donate to. So yeah, massive red flag as you said.
Not really a red flag moron, more like confusion 101 which is fine
Puts on oversized glasses and pouts out gigantic buck teeth
ERMM ATCHUALLY LAVA IS NOT THAT REDDDD😂
Jokes aside I love that, lava red, very expressive. It implies the flag is so cused its in flames.
Having seen what dimentia does to multiple family members, how it effectively kills the mind while leaving the body alive, this is really gross
Honestly. You're basically in a constant grieving state over someone who hasn't even passed because most of the time, depending the severity, they aren't the same person you knew before... Especially stroke victims who suffer from it. This whole thing is shameful.
@@Nicole-zh7plMaybe he got the idea from The Trump Foundation.
this should be a lesson to everyone that you shouldn't donate anything unless you go straight to the source.
@@goofball1_134real ^
@@angelamaryquitecontrary4609you dont know shit lmao
i was not expecting this to be about the completionist. that shocked me
I work in a elderly home and there’s a lot of dementia patients, this makes me genuinely sick
The most upsetting part about this is he could have chosen to not do fundraising streams if he genuinely couldn’t find a good charity to donate the money to. This is a situation that could have been avoided entirely if he just didn’t fundraise without having a clue where the money would go to.
Especially after he said he found out in 2020 or 2021 ( don't remember exactly when he stated) yet he still continued to do so.
This is like the Froot situation. Froot a vtuber from VShojo donated money to a Trans charity. The problem was that the charity had ties to a pedo ring.
That's the most upsetting???? Not that he took money under the pretense it was going to VERY SPECIFIC places when he knew it wasn't??? If he "couldn't find anywhere" he wouldn't be doing streams saying it's going to specific places when he knew it wasn't... There is zero chance this is just some honest mistake, ZERO..... He did streams knowing exactly where it was going, his pocket.
@MrBeetsGaming At least some one else has some sense. Obviously dude planned to just keep it, until they got called out.
@@TheCommanderTacohe said 2022 but that’s still a year of doing fuck all whilst telling people to donate to “his good causes”
When Charlie moves the camera just a little right feels like we unlocked a new part of the map.
OMG WHY IS THIS SO ACCURATE-
Where is the cat tree? Where is the cat? Where are the dogs?😮
My Grandfather passed due to dementia back in 2016 myself and my mum would look after him before he was in a home and it was horrible seeing him not knowing who he or anyone else was, this is disgusting behaviour.
My grandmother has dementia and this makes me really sick to hear that this has been happening
The worst part is that people forget about inflation. From the recorded donations each year from 2014-2022, after you factor in the price of inflation of each year, that comes to *$102,489* that just vanished because of depreciation. I don't know how anyone can say that this doesn't harm anyone: they wasted $102,489 and 10 years' worth of dementia research, and that's EXCLUDING the $125,395 they kept for their own "expenses".
When you put it that way they are technically stealing peoples money. When I donate to a charity I expect that money to be going ASAP like within weeks after donating or at the most a few months, not years after or decades.
:(
Where’s the interest? Makes me wonder if the interest is in the total or the interest had been taken out as “operating expenses”.
@@cjc872 Good point, could even be the whole purpose of the scam - that way they could have their cake and eat it - not spending the money while profiting off it 🤔
@@cjc872
Depending on the account....there might not be any interest.
If Mutahar, Charlie, Karl Jobst, or Coffeezilla make a video about you scamming someone, your career is basically finished lmao.
Tell that to Logan Paul...
Unless you're Logan Paul
Logan Paul
Agreed but unless ur Logan Paul
I agree with everyone saying Logan Paul but that guy didn't get into too much trouble for filming a suicide victim and laughing about it so I think Logan Paul, aka Cancellations Georg, who avoids getting cancelled for heinous shit 1,000 times a year, is an outlier and should not have been counted
One of the most terrible forms of "damage" is to people's trust in giving to charities. I don't give to beggars anymore as I found out many were scammers. I give directly to charities that feed the homeless. At leas you see them getting coffee and food. I also offer them food if they want something when I'm shopping.
A year from now I hope there is a video showing Charlie go thru all of his 2023 videos and try to decipher the topic solely based on the title, and only is allowed a few lifelines to check the date the video was posted.
I was willing to accept this as an unfortunate mistake until they got into the operational costs not actually being listed, and how they vary greatly from year to year. That's the biggest, reddest flag I've ever seen.
Or the fact that *NOTHING* makes sense...
So he HAS experience in donating in the past. So he understands there has to be some degree of correspondence. But he assumed that it was being donated... by itself?
But how are you withdrawing money for "operational costs" EVERY FUCKING YEAR from said account and not noticing the balance lmao.
AND THEN he changes his story that he hasn't found the right organization yet and this goes aaaaall the way back to BEFORE he even started collecting money? So how are you name dropping all these organizations that you've been "supporting" all these years?
So again, it's just a full circle of bullshit.
indeed BIG red flags@@samurai6817
Bro not noticing for 9 fucking years is not a mistake. You would think that at least in those 9 years someone would notice.
Thats not A red flag its a whole communist parade
Well said
Understanding the effect of inflation over these last years, it actually means that if he donates the money now, that money is worth less than what it would have been worth if he had donated every year for every fundraiser. Even assuming negligence, this negligence has worked against his cause which is just plain awful
Good point I was just thinking yesterday about all the things that were less than half their current price not even 5 years ago, and how much would be saved if things had been bought back then at those prices
Yeah, money has gone down about 20% in value than it was back in 2014. They got at least 100k every year in donations, but whatever they got back then would only be worth about 80k now. Their whole 600k now would've been worth about 750k then. And even if they donated it all now, it doesn't help that 10 years of research funding was basically squandered.
Good point, I wonder how much interest they earned?
Don't forget about the lost decade of time that money could have funded for research. Even if he paid it all in full tomorrow with enough extra to make it worth exactly what it was worth 10 years ago, there's no getting back that lost time....especially for those who've been diagnosed and/or died from dementia in that time period.
I used to work in a nursing home and took care of elderly patients with dementia. This is absolutely DISGUSTING. 🤦🏻♀️
I could imagine its hard to find a good organization thats actually doing the proper research
My nan died of dementia in September. I never donated to this particular charity, but I know this RUclipsr well and I can imagine very clearly how horrifying this would be for the people who have, especially those who have also been affected by dementia and thought they were doing something kind to give back. Idk what he could say to make this better tbh.
My Na died 3 years ago as well. She had demetia, it was hard seeing her get lost in her memories, harder still for us to routinely get her back from that maze. I guess this hit a cord with me, because I cannot imagine what sort of monster would exploit their own mother’s death and disease for fraud.
i dont really understand dementia besides that it makes you forget everything fast
can you explain what complications it couses that lead to death?
@@eou0 Usually malnourishment, weaker immune systems, or complications from bad falls. Dementia is more than just memory loss-- it can mean severe deterioration of cognitive functions.
@@BostonianJake ohhh
thanks for explaining
@@eou0 yeah. My nan had dozens f of small strokes which are basically heart attacks but for your brain. It was going on for 2 years and it was strange but I had a horrible sinking feeling all day throughout work as if my body knew but couldn’t comprehend why I was feeling sad. It was a weird day
As a person who’s watched my once very independent, creative grandma turn into almost a complete stranger as a result of dementia, I think this is just ridiculous. My grandma’s dementia has gotten so bad that I’ve had to leave work and drive an hour to her house to take her to the ER because she forgets to eat. Her dogs have to get buzzed because of how matted they get. My parents are having a tough time sending her to community senior living because she’s threatening to kill herself if they do. This all started happening in the past year. If this guy knows how awful watching your loved one go through dementia is, I can’t understand why he’s keeping thousands that could help others going through it now. I really, really hope this situation goes forward in the right direction.
on the senior center. Take her to some. Yes some are nightmares. But ive moved people into assisted living places and some are Nice. They have a community, can make friends, have things to do. The most memorable one was an airforce pilot and his wife. A maybe 700 sq foot apartment in a pretty nice assisted living place. They were excited
It’s insane how much money these assisted living places charge per month.
@@arena_sniper7869 that’s the other issue with my family, nobody can afford it right now
With my Grandma we were able to find kind of a group home type place, maybe she would be more open to that? It was maybe 4 other patients in a large house and there was somebody there with them 24/7. It wasn't like a nursing home at all and instead of leaving for constant doctor visits they had a doctor come once a week or so to evaluate them all. I don't know if this is a possibility where you are but the place we found my Grandma worked really well when my family wasn't able to manage her care safely alone anymore. Edit: Also, her social security and insurance covered the entire cost, so we weren't having to worry about that and they allowed her to have visitors daily etc.
@@robincharles7057 I’ll have to look into that, thank you!
It was sitting there for his retirement. 😂
*"Everywhere at the End of Time"*
A great album compilation that's supposed to evoke an emulation of what a person with Alzheimer's goes through...
I've listened to the whole 6½ hours in one sitting, and good lord, was it an experience.
One of my greatest fears is gradually forgetting literally everything before death. Who I am, what I am, even where and when I am...
I hope this Completionist guy rots in hell for his war crimes...
one weird side effect of EATEOT is that now everytime someone talks about this horribly depressing disease, it reminds me of this beautiful music series that I love
As a nurse who worked with Dementia patients a lot in my career, I find what they [ the alleged charity scammers] are doing very sickening.
Are you a bot?
@@princememphis7726 That is pretty insulting. I am a nurse and I happen to care about anything that affects people with Dementia and if a person says they are collecting money for Dementia, then it should go to a charity working on helping people with Dementia or trying to cure Dementia.
@princememphis7726 No I don't think so
@@susancollins3971 I didn't mean to insult. I only asked because I see a lot posts lately that start with "as a such and such" and thought it was strange. I picked you at random to ask
I agree it's not just sickening. That's straight up fraud, it's disgusting and straight up crime. Really ducking upsetting, 9 years of research to the shltter.
the saddest part is if they WERE donating the money as they got it, they would have made considerable strides in the research and fight against dementia. they might be donating it now, but they could have been active in the fight for 10 YEARS; what a large amount of time gone to waste :(
edit: since I have a lot of people being smartasses but a couple that want to try to correct me, yes, me saying considerable was a bit of an exaggeration. I also have pessimists basically saying it doesn't matter when he donates because 600K still doesn't matter that much, but that isn't the point. my point with this is that, no matter how I worded it, he still sat on the money for 10 years instead of doing something with it
The question is did they get interest? Because that might make this situation SLIGHTLY salvageable.
The thing with fake charities is that it's the easiest way become wealthier and wealthier. They conned people of their money through fraud.
@@existskk99none of the money was invested in anything afaik, so any interest they gained will be miniscule compared to how the value of the dollar has decreased sadly
Throwing money into research doesn’t guarantee breakthroughs unfortunately, but this whole situation is def sketch.
$600,000 might be a lot for a single person but in the grand scheme and over the course of 10 years it's not a lot of money so I don't think it would have made any ground breaking strides but this is still very questionable
My grandpa died from dementia in September. It’s one of the worst disease’s to watch take someone from you. Keeping money from a cause like that is so devastating.
Man i used to watch the completionist all the time whenever he uploaded a new video this one actually hurts
I lost my mom to Dementia 9 months ago, so this is even more disgusting to me than normal. Implorable human being keeping all that money. Absolutely unforgivable.
My grandfathers currently going through that himself. I'm sorry for your loss!
Well so did his mom and look what’s done. So maybe you would too who knows…..I’m sure he said the same about charity frauds as you 😂🤷🏼♀️ Just saying……
“Deplorable” not “implorable”
@@Ooweeeooocould one say you’re imploring him to change it to deplorable?
I’ll see myself out.
Sorry for your loss
My jaw genuinely fell when you said the completionist. Jirard was one of those creators I always perceived as down to earth and not problematic. I don’t even know what excuse he could come up with that would explain why the money is just sitting in an account instead of being donated for so long
The working theory I have and I've seen others have now as well in his minor defense is that they were trying to make what's called a "restricted" donation to charities, which involves the money donated being restricted to certain use cases such as using it to fund specifically treatments or equipment. The problem is that those kinds of donations are usually unavailable unless the amount donated is high enough to make the demand, and would otherwise would just allow the charity to have unlimited access for use with the charity. I think it explains the funds sitting there, even if it doesn't negate the fact that they didn't make the people donating aware of that fact. Highly negligent at the least. The interview itself from Muta and Karl don't touch on that but it feels like it was likely mentioned in it with them. There are some missing pieces here still for sure, but I asked an accountant family member what a reason for holding charity funds like that would be and they immediately asked me if they were making restricted or unrestricted donations. So at least on the accounting front it seems there's some kind of explanation.
Which other Normalboots member/former membewr is next on the controversy chopping block? Haven't heard anything about PBG yet
it gives them an excuse to pocket the money as "operational cost" while being able to say "hey we didnt steal the money, it's almost all still there!"
If there was a good explanation, it would’ve been given during the interview. If the money was being responsibly handled then the explanation would’ve been simple and honest with the names and details to back it up, and people would believe it. The reason we’re sat weighing his credibility is because the given explanation is subpar. I would say that’s because it’s a lie. Also, the more time that passes before we get a video from him coming forward about all this the less I’m going to believe him. It’s not like he needs to find any receipts.
@@TheBfutgreg woof where to start...ProJared a few years back was caught sending nudes to fans after it was leaked he was cheating on his wife with Holly, Ross' (from game grumps) then wife. JonTron has been pretty public about his racist views on immigrants and Muslims. And now this with Jirard. With Continue? not in the public eye at all and SatchBag not making content anymore the only reputable ones left are PBG and DYKG but who knows how long that'll last.
Looking straight into a camera invoking the memory of your mother while knowing the donations are not going anywhere is psycho behavior.
Something interesting I've seen brought up is the question whether they even still have the money or just claim to have it to the IRS and so on.
Imagine thinking that in 9 years they would’ve donated the money and then you realise they donated none of it
They forgot to.
@@CruzCrafter For 9 years tho?
@@CruzCrafter That would not fly in court.
@Mldy96 it's not just a charity for people with dementia. It's a job for them to
@@bable6314 they just forgot.
I think it's pretty crazy to think that for 9 years this has just been going unnoticed even though the records are public and the behavior has been going on since the beginning
Hiding in plain sights
That's what's mind boggling to me as well. Like I guess they just thought no one would look?
That is why charities have to make their data public, for us to avoid such scams. Sadly nobody seemed to take advantage of this and actually look it up before donating.
Thus far the things in their financials are not really red flags. The issue comes from what the streamer and website is claiming versus actuality
@@StriKe_jk Yeah - this is a lot more common than I suppose people realize. There are LARGE organizations that you probably know about who publicly use VERY LITTLE of their donations for actual charity work - yet people still donate.
Life is so hard. But when I see your videos it almost reminds me of my childhood where I got to go over to my cousins house
It's surprising that pure incompetence hasn't been ruled out. Usually that's the first one tossed out.
*This was so sad to hear about. But this is also why I don't donate to RUclipsrs or any Podcaster.* I just rather donate straight to the charity's themselves. No middle man.
Even the charities themselves do this. Figure out how the money is being spent and if the people they claim to help actually see a cent.
Donate locally only.
@@TheDragonSeerthis is exactly why I never donate shit
I saw what he truly is when he supported frosks unhinged rant, no good person can ever support frosk.
@@TheDragonSeer You're not wrong. That's why I only have a select few I actually did research on.
Man, making an entire sham of a genuine-seeming charity has to be an actual skill.
its very easy
And using your own mother as its figurehead no less.
dead mother@@gremblorthesackgoblin7953
It’s also a federal offense that will not be punished lightly I believe
they don't call them con - artists - for nothing
This nauseates me. I, along with my mom, we’re my Nana’s two caretakers in her final years while dealing with dementia. It was absolutely devastating to watch her downfall, and the whole family was there when she passed. From there, I had watched her get carried out of the home her and my Gomp (who passed in 2001) built when my mom was born, where I lived in at the time. All of a sudden… nothing. I literally stared at the wall for three hours once everyone left. I had no idea what to even do with my life at that point.😢
I’m trying to figure out what the scam is here like if he was trying to steal money there’s so many better ways to do it but it’s also impossible for me to wrap my head around this level of negligence
Honestly the way Gerard explained himself was like me trying to explain how porn was in my phone to my mom way back when
Trying to mitigate how bad it looks with a last minute excuse
LOL FR “IDK HOW IT GOT THERE IT SERIOUSLY WASNT ME” sounds amazing when ur young 😭😭😭💀
“Bro I was just going to donate it today dude…I was about to donate it just now…”
@@deepak-ui5li embarrassing
Or the Bong found in my room. Damn, parents really care about porn these days? Not like they didn't get off to it. Yeah, your momma and pops watched porn and enjoyed it. Weird thought
My heart sank when Charlie dropped the name "The Completionist"
My nana is currently in a home with dementia, it is a horrible disease that tears families apart, especially if you can’t care for them. I was forced to lock my doors and sneak around the house I once felt comfortable in. This is a terrible situation.
Like Asmongold says one or two points can be just that but you start getting 4,5,6,7 points and that shit becomes a graph and a pattern
They called the foundation 'Open Hand', which was fairly appropriate considering they open-hand slapped their donators right in the face by doing this.
Yeah it's a slap in the face to the donators and to a lesser extent, the people that were fans of him. And it's absolutely a slap in the face to their mom who died from dementia.
@@InstagramUser2bro seeing your spam all over the place just makes me want to block you, how fucking embarrassing 🤣🤣🤣
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for an open hand foundation theyre quite tight fisted with their money huuh
@@Someone45356 dont worry, the rumor is, they are going to end that foundation and start a new one called the five fingers foundation...
The thing that peeves me off is that he knew about it and just sat on the money. My great grandmas dementia has just started getting worse. My birthday was on the 4th and on Sunday at church i walked up to give her a hug and she asked me "Who are you?" Needing multiple people to remind her broke my heart. The past 5 years have been rough for her.
My grandma has lost it too. She doesn’t recognize me at all anymore, but in her most lucid moments she’ll talk to me about me but doesn’t know I’m me. She’ll say she’s upset that her granddaughter doesn’t visit her anymore and I’m like “it’s me grandma. I’m here” but she can’t recognize me so she doesn’t believe me.
@@firstnamelastname7708That's heartbreaking to hear she thinks you've abandoned her. I'm sorry.
I appreciate how clearly he explains things.
Someone I knew from childhood had suffered from dementia. And I finally broke when they looked me in the eyes and asked for my name… they let me cry.
Just to be clear, it isn't an "accusation" when they flat out admit that this is true. They just dispute whether or not it is a big deal. Jirard comes off horrible in that call with the boys. Trying to turn it around on them for clout chasing and such. Sounds like he is whipping stuff up on the spot, just bad. I don't think I have heard yet what the tip-off was that caused them to look into it. Something must have come up that made them go sniffing.
When you are reporting on something to the public, you call it an accusation to be safe from defamation.
The whole situation is incredibly bizarre. How hard is it to donate to a reputable dementia benefactor? There's plenty of them out there that are much more reputable than their own org. Plus the fact that they are saying that the donations are going to specific organizations but none has been donated to them thus far. Like Charlie and the original reporting stated, lots of red flags.
@@TimothyCHenderson Yeah, the weird thing to me is it's not like Jirad gained anything from this either. He never took money from the charity he just left it there and didn't donate it. It seems like it was just laziness. He says it's becasue he wanted to find one that would do good research so he doesn't get "burned". But I'd assume that the ones he list out in his live steams are reputable becasue why else would he mention them.
I think one of the really big issues with this and an aspect that I havent heard anybody mention is that just because he didn't spend the money, that doesn't mean he hasnt been wasting it. Because of inflation, even if he donates everything now, the buying power of all that money has dropped substantially since it was donated. It has literally become worth less just by him not spending it. If he had been donating it as it came in like he promised, the charity would've been able to do more with it
That's... True, granted that part isn't his fault, keeping the money for so long is definitely on him though
And just because he hasn't spent it *yet* doesn't mean that that wasn't the ultimate goal. It's entirely possible that the plan was to just keep gathering money, using the whole "operating costs" thing to slowly siphon money out of the account, and then just pocketing the rest of it later, after they feel like they've made enough, using some excuse. Though to be fair, I don't think that was the case, or at the very least, that the scam part would've been the brother's idea and the RUclipsr would likely have been kept in the dark. But who knows.
@@PeksisarvinenYeah I dont think it was purposefully malicious unless Jirard actively wanted to sabotage his career for some reason. I think hes just really stupid.
This really sucks because in order to find a cure or a medicine to help slow down the effects of some of these illnesses, we just need time and to waste 9 year's is tough. We could possible had a cure in that time and we could've saved lives by now.
Emm...You think this money will have changed anything this 9 years?
They wouldn't. Research of such medicines is made by multibillion giant pharmaceutical companies this other organizations can't do anything there. They mostly use the money(other than administrative expenses) for the expenses needed to take care such individuals.
I work with elderly people and elderly dementia patients and this is…Despicable. I have to do assessments with them and ask questions about their life for documentation and the look of sadness on peoples faces when they tell me they have kids but then can’t name them when I ask…This is all so irresponsible and awful
This is why respectable RUclipsrs work directly WITH charities, rather than "collecting money to give to them later"
The example that comes to mind is MatPat/Game Theory's St. Jude livestreams
GrandPooBear is also a good example with the direct relief, st Jude and wings for life events, you donate directly to the charity 👍
Also Jimmy Broadbent
What makes him look worst is when he said "i was actually gonna donate it today. Ill just donate to whoever blah blah blah"
Him saying he'll just donate it to whoever, after claiming he was "trying to find the right benefactor" raises red flags to me. Now that the pressure is on, it miraculously doesnt matter who gets it after all this time
Dude never planned to donate after seeing how much money it was making, he's saying that shit just bc ppl finally saw the pos that he is. He's trying to save face.
I saw what he truly is when he supported frosks unhinged rant, no good person can ever support frosk.
@@azureemarald5722the heck did frosk say?
@@SMG-vx3mu She was a host on g4tv and went on a unhinged rant about "sexism in gaming" , g4tv shut down because of the rant , when people were being laid off from the company , she tweeted " I survived" and "lets play some games" no where did she even mention any of the people who were laid off , people who worked with her for about a full year. The woman was booted out of the LOL community for being toxic, that should tell you all you need to know about her.
@@azureemarald5722I am not knowledgable about Frosk. Though as someone who hates the Gamergate/Anita Sarkisian types, I still do believe there is a bit of a sexism problem in gaming as a whole. Not a huge one, but a little bit of one.
However, what she said, if what you said was true, is dumb as fuck.
I haven't donated to a charity since the red cross raised 500 million for the Haiti earthquake crisis and built 6 houses. Charities are there to make money for themselves, period.
I believe some of the charity workers were partaking of the local prostitutes as well.
As a professional fundraiser this upsets me because these are the exact situations that damage the publics perception of nonprofits and the work we actually carry out.
Since you are professional fundraiser can you tell me how can me as a person make sure that i give my money to someone that will use at least 80% of them to the actual cause.
How can we check this people out and make sure we aren't donating to corrupted organizations enriching themselves with our money while giving pennies to simply cover their backs to the actual cause.
@SIPEROTH I'm a tad late responding to this sorry.
A few resources I recommend are guidestar and just Googling a nonprofits form 990 if you wanna go super in depth.
990s will show you everything but are dense to read sometimes. Guide star rates and ranks charities and assembles almost all the info most people would need to make an informed decision.
Best bet is to call your local branch of a nonprofit ask to speak to a gift officer and ask to get a meeting with them (zoom or phone call is fine) and ask everything you wanna know. They're required to tell you and if they don't have an answer 99.9% will find you the answers and follow up with you (I and my colleagues always do and this has been status quo everywhere I've worked, even for people who end up not donating. I work to ensure a positive, transparent and honest experience).
An example of a nonprofit that uses 90% of every dollar directly towards the mission is the red cross. Another good one is habitat for humanity, I forget their dollar handle but I remember it being almost all in for the mission.
Lastly, please remember the work we do is hard work and very nuanced, so if an executive salary is around 100k they're not overpaid, those same people would make far more in the for profit space and work only 40 to 60 hours where as most nonprofit execs I know are pulling 80+ hour weeks to make the mission a reality.
As someone who donated to The Completionist’s fundraiser, I am really distraught.
Get noobed 😂
@@Squrrl99 dude.
@@Squrrl99Stop. You’re not funny. Your joke isn’t funny. This situation is not funny.
@@Squrrl99this isnt a joke
The only thing funny here is people who trust rich people online
This sucks to hear cause even if they donate, the money and the time are just worth less. Imagine if one of these promised benefactors got like 40K a year from this, much more would've gotten done if they had just stuck to their promises. And even if the money gets donated, due to the economy it's simply just worth less now so it hurts even more seeing how this has played out :(
Yeah even if he did a 180 and donated it today the inflation rate between then and now has already slashed the worth of the money by about 102,000 dollars
9 whole years?! 2023 really is a crazy year, I've heard about this guy and he seemed decent enough, but *damn.*
I think what you said about charity fraud at the end was very well said. I agree with the point as well, to potentially be doing something so heartless to your community is underhanded and disgusting. If it is the case in the end, that is. Let's hope the money goes where it was intended in the first place, I'd like to see a major breakthrough in my lifetime and I've probably still got a minute.
As someone who has lost a family member to Alzhiemers, this situation is heartbreaking. It's already a tough ailment for everyone involved, I can't imagine what the people who donated in honor and/or memory of loved ones must be feeling right now. My heart goes out to everyone affected
When I heard they scammed them from a dementia charity it made me seethe . My great grandmother died of dementia and for them to take advantage of people who are trying to go towards that cause of helping towards the fight against dementia is so low and disgusting
Reading these comments literally started making me cry, my grandma had dementia and couldnt remember any of us when she passed.
For the last few years of my grandma's life she thought I was "Dave the window cleaner". My dad would always tell her that I'm his son - and she would always then think that I was a different son, asking how about my mother's ears (my step brother's mum has to use hearing aids)
Now we wait until an apology video arrives
"Just tell me where you want the money to go and I'll donate it " implies that that was never the intention in the first place and he really did plan on pocketing it.
And collecting on the interest in a high yield savings account over years, which went in his pocket.
What makes it so confusing is, it's literally just sitting there doing nothing. like why? is it procrastination? I can't really understand it
@@flames45you don’t know it’s even there
False, pocketing it would be public record and get him imprisoned, and he knows that. It shows that he is overly concerned with his public image and channel's reputation, which is fairly understandable given how even petty drama over inconsequential mistakes wrecks channels these days. No malicious motivation makes sense if you think it through, he has just displayed negligence and a fear of transparency.
@@omensoffate Isn't it public record?
It was such a bomb shell when I saw Karl and Mutahar talking about Jirard. You can never expect when or how these controversies show up, but man, it sucks when the curtain is opened and the person revealed is someone you know. Now charities, which were already questionable at their handling of money, have now been further incriminated by Jirard's lack of commitment. The trust towards the Completionist and RUclipsr's charity work will have more weight to the question as to whether they're scamming you or not.
Just because you watch someones videos doesn't make them a good guy, worthy of your money.
“Someone you know”
Lol, lmao. We don’t know any of these people, not even Charlie. RUclipsrs are just people, and people make bad, greedy, heinous decisions sometimes.
How much y’all wanna bet they’re gonna say “Guys, guys, calm down! The money was PLEDGED not DONATED!”
Can't wait for the next update video on this