What people are missing out which is a HUGE piece of context from Karl Jobst is that the whole time he was listing off organizations he was donating to, when the money has literally been sitting there the whole time. This wouldnt be such a problem if he was transparent about holding onto it in the first place
Yeah i when I was watching that vid I kept wondering if anyone had asked where exactly the money was being donated to and then when they played the clips of him saying it was going to these specific places, that's pretty damning
@@Shyknit I watched the Karl Jobst video and SOG and Karl confronted him about him claiming what charities he was donating to. In the call he claimed that he was surprised himself that the money wasn't moving and was unhappy with it. The thing is that call happened ~1 year ago and after the call he was still straight up saying that he was donating to all of those charities again after supposedly being made aware that the money wasn't moving at all.
yeah jirad just plain lied. there's not really anything more to it. also the reporting doesn't really mean that the money is still there in their account. it just means the organization owns or is owed that amount of money. but that's beside him lying. dude just lies.
@@lasskinn474here is the thing as well, him just lying about it is charity fraud, as he knew that it was a lie and still claimed in his live streams for the event that the money was going to these organizations which it wasn't and he knew damn well the money was still in the account, and he was using 10-15k for expenses each year, which is way to much, especially considering he has partnerships with game companies and pc companies who provide him with all the games and the pc's that can run the games, and he films it all in his own studio, and owns the filming equipment. and the furniture is owned by him.
"We are raising ONE MILLION DOLLARS to help with FTD. We just want to make one donation to put it to the best use." That's all it would have taken all those years.
@@robertwesley7332let’s just say Mr Cynical is an awful human being who has been able to get away with what he has done under the banner of “trolling” and is a known loliphile.
To me the whole problem is Jirard saying he "discovered" the money was sitting in the bank account since 2021, but still asking for donations and saying the money is going straight to the dementia organizations after the fact. Also, did anyone did the math to know if the money is losing value by just sitting in the bank account due to inflation? I'm shit at math, so I can't do it.
you dont need to do the math to know that over the course of 10 years it is absolutely losing value due to inflation. this is why holding cash in a bank account is a horrible long term strategy.
Also he keeps naming charities that Open Hands supports, so if he’s “looking for worthy charities” either dump all the money to the people you claim to have been supporting, that you never have, or stop bringing them up. He’s happy to say “Open Hands supports X” but they apparently aren’t actually worthy of the money?
I think a lot of Twitter users that are defending Jirard are missing the fact that regardless of the reasons why he's holding the money, this is still charity fraud. I like the completionist too and don't think Jirard is a bad guy per se, but you cannot under any circumstances advertise raising money with the purpose of giving it to charity and just hold the money. Beyond that he has held all the money for EVERY year he held this charity event and said nothing. TL;DR Being cancelled is the least of his problems for intentional/unintentional charity fraud.
@@goofygoob420 It is what it is, I'm not gonna harp on Projared wanting to defend a friend, but he really should have watched the video before tweeting that the video was one sided and didn't have Jirard's side of the story.
@@ricoanderson6626 too be fair we haven't GOTTEN his side yet so gonna have to wait for that, but from what I've seen in recent interviews, doesn't look good
@@goofygoob420 I don't think it really matters what his reasons were. He is facing a criminal record if this gets to the IRS. This is a tax fraud by definition, withholding information and lying to people.
@@goofygoob420his side is moot, the law will come for him like it comes for Mafia bosses. The IRS is slow and sloppy, but someone is eyeing one huge bonus right now flailing about like a headless chicken
LOVE how all these people are like "He's a close friend and so nice" but never offer the same benefit of the doubt whenever somebody else says the exact same thing
Who wants to bet that most of Jirards friends haven't actually watched the videos calling him out because honestly, it's hard to defend him when you watch them. Also I hate how many of them go on about how nice he is to them, yeah because he's your friend, of course he's gonna be nice to you.
Let ms tell you this, he did his charity event this year and said it was going to charities which we know isnt the case, so he actually commited charity fraud since he lied about where the money was going and got people to still donate because the donators thought the money was going places and not just collecting dust in the companys back account.
Jirard admits to 'reimbursing himself money when applicable' from the charity account at 30:16 in Mutahar's video. 0 dollars in 10 years to charities he claimed to work with all along. Charity spending 30k a year roughly on 'expenses'.
@@carcinogen60yearsago So you're telling me you need various 'expenses' to set up and fund a charity that allegedly has yet to make a charitable donation within its existence of ~9 years while still actively doing fund-raising?
Honestly, the most confusing and disappointing part of this is that Jirard didn't immediately go and post a video explaining the situation when he allegedly found out the money hadn't moved back in 2022. He always seemed to be pretty transparent about his screw-ups, and I would have expected he'd come clean about it and present a game plan to rectify the situation fairly quickly.
Because this isn't just a 'screw up". This could land him in legal hot water. That and he's most likely not going to make a video explanation until he has actually donated the funds to charities. If what he said previously was true, he's likely trying to find the right ones now. There's always more than one side to these stories. Let's wait to see what he says.
Yeah, that's the worse part, trying to hide the mismanagement. I actually don't believe that he just found out until "recently" (i think he said 2021, not 2022) but if that's the case with his call it just confirms that he just wants to make sure he doesn't look bad in this, giving the money to the correct place seems to be a secondary priority. Him saying "I don't want to donate it right now because it will look as if I'm trying to do damage control" is so telling of his priorities. If he really cared that much for the cause he would take the L, eat his ego and say he will right his wrong and donate the money as fast as possible to a decent enough (or a couple of) places where they will actually use the money for good and just have it sitting there losing value.
@@ErimlRGG Naw dude. Don't automatically assume what he meant. It's easy to have bias in these situations and we're not always correct in that bias. Let the man speak for himself. Also, he was out on the spot and clearly was stressing and just speaking openly about his concerns.
Gotta love how so many large content creators were arguing a point that wasn't made by Karl and Muta. Dexerto really caused a lot of damage with that headline.
I mean, to be fair, he said during his interview with the guys who broke this story that he's only been directly involved with trying to find an appropriate charity to donate it to as of last year. I don't really know what sort of work you need to put into figuring something like that out, but I do know that he's a busy guy who spends a lot of his time working on his videos. I'm not going to absolve him of any wrongdoing -- but at the very least, I don't think that what's happened here was done maliciously or with any intent to take the money for himself. Obviously the right answer would have been to bring someone experienced in to handle the more complicated aspects of the foundation's issues, but again, this is just an outside perspective from someone who has no experience with that end of things running a charity.
@@Counterattack87 the problem is that, even if we assume he hasn’t been able to find a charity since last year, he still lied on this year’s charity event saying that the donations would be used for charity when weren’t. He knew the money wasn’t going to charity and withheld that information for a year
Sounds like his brother "ran" the family charity that this money went to and Jirard only learned last year of the money not being distributed from his charity to the other charities. He needs to explain the last year and not make excuses for his brother.
@biospark4758 100% true. Some things worth considering: Jirard runs a fairly large charity event that takes a lot of planning and coordinating with hundreds of people. He learns that things with the charity aren't going as expected, but despite this, believes that ultimately, the money will still end up where it needs to either via direct involvement or otherwise. Do you cancel the upcoming fundraising event, losing any time and money invested into it? Do you hold the event and tell everyone that the money hasn't moved, knowing that it's going to do harm to your reputation, as well as the charitys and those who are and have been involved? Or do you continue moving forward with the intent to continue to raise money that you believe will ultimately be appropriately handled, making good on what you'd set out to do? I'm not saying he made the right choice or even the best choice, but it's clearly not an easy question. I think it's best to wait for more information to come out before getting the picthforks.
In Mutahar's video, at 30:16, Jirard says that he reimbursed himself money "when applicable" from the charity. You just have to trust him that all the money is still there, 10 years and 0 dollars to charities he claimed to be working with all along. The charity is more than capable of spending 30k a year roughly in 'Expenses' though.
The money’s still there, nonprofit finances are public info, that’s kinda the issue, you can publicly look at their charity work and it’s basically “money goes in. No money goes out (except for the streams)”.
you can't compared Open hand with a large scale charity organization. Open hand is pretty much just a fundraiser. They have no employees to pay, and during events they explained the equipment and space was donated so "all the money would go to charity" $100K is gone from the total amount raised for a charity that would have no operating costs. You can even see this on the tax form for 2014 with $0 expenses.
@@Awaken_To_0the 501c3 filings aren't inherently trustworthy since we're talking about government workers looking over them Only if an audit is done by the IRS or an authorized third party will we know for sure what is what If all you had to do is write down on paper that you are rich, boy oh boy, the Ferraris I'd buy..
Biggest issue I have is that he mention in the interview that he only found out about money wasn't going anywhere about a year ago. Even if it turns out he was unaware this whole time the money wasn't going anywhere he still kept quite about it and he still told people the money was going somewhere when he did another charity run. I don't know about most people, but if I found out the charity I ran didn't send out any money in more then a decade, I would put any work I was doing on hold until I get this issue fixed, and what's more I would make a public apology instantly telling what I found out and how I will try and fix the massive mistake I made. Course sense Jared didn't do that and its only when his mistake is called out by someone else, any attempts of him apologizing and getting his side of the story (even if its true he just F-Up) is gonna be taken with a massive grain of salt by a lot of people, cause you got caught with what you did.
10000000% this. I get it, it is sitting and he found out late...but he had 2023 and depending on 2022, also the 2022 one, and still lied/held the truth. Be honest or at least tell people "Hey so, because of background and reasons, this money won't go out immediately and be sitting". Like people maybe donate less, but at least the people who do it, know ahead of time.
10000000% this. I get it, it is sitting and he found out late...but he had 2023 and depending on 2022, also the 2022 one, and still lied/held the truth. Be honest or at least tell people "Hey so, because of background and reasons, this money won't go out immediately and be sitting". Like people maybe donate less, but at least the people who do it, know ahead of time.
Maybe it’s just me, but if I was the face of the foundation- the person actively soliciting donations- I’d be asking which organization the money was going to if I wasn’t handling that aspect of it myself. I find it hard to believe it took eight years for him to look into it. Wasn’t he interested? (Apologies if this is a dumbass question; I just learned about this from Bowblax’s video and am going to watch Muta’s now, so it could be I’m missing some context that the other two videos will make clear.)
@@Brooklyntrash Plus like as the face, sorry but I know I'll get the heat, and do everything to fix this/get the money out asap. Especially with people asking him, I'd immediately admit it or work hard to do something
Scamming people is one thing. Lying about charity is another. Doing both is beyond scummy. Edit: I’d also like to say to, even if a cent hasn’t been spent, 9 years building up for charity and building up money is really suspicious in my opinion and I have no idea why he would need that money hoarded for years.
@@dumbbumsc5329 Not to mention he admitted he knew that money was just sitting there doing nothing since last year yet he did another indieland/charity event recently
@@dumbbumsc5329 Again, if you watch the video, Jirard says he wasn't aware of the situation until last year, and given everything else he has going on, the worst you could say is that he's mismanaged the situation. Anything beyond that is an assumption until proven otherwise.
@@Counterattack87 Besides the blatant lying about the money actually going to charities. Hope it’s just super gross negligence and not anything malicious
it's actually kind of a scam because if you choose to believe he just found out last year, even this year he said that the money went to research and I think again gave the name of the university and made it seem like they are actively helping to the cause, which they haven't yet@@Counterattack87 If people knew the money was just sitting there, no one would donate and the money could actually help someone if they go some place else. It's a very grey area because they it's arguable that they are lying to people
Turns out, the legend came back briefly to Reddit and explained this was the reason he left all those years ago He’s doing well off the grid with his wife and two kids, and is just thankful he had the foresight to see this coming
This is either a fall from grace or he's completely incompetent with charity money. Either way, it's bad, but I'd rather he be incompetent with money than pocketing it from a charity that was raised in his mothers name...
It's weird how so many people seem more worried about defending the completionist rather than just fairly pushing back against the sensationalized headline claim that "he was pocketing all the donated money", but also really highlighting the critiques of his handling of the situation and what is at best severe negligence if we are to give him the benefit of the doubt. I get that Dexerto had a really shitty headline that should be criticized but all those people tweeting in the middle of the video seems more interested in vouching for the completionist with the criticisms of the money being left to collect dust for 10 years being an afterthought.
I really hope that all of those RU-vidrs who are defending TheCompletionist (especially AntDude and GillytheKid) are innocent and just having a hard time accepting that someone like Jirard would ever commit charity fraud. It would break my heart if they were simply trying to cover his ass because they played a role in this whole debacle as well. I mean, seeing TheCompletionist get exposed like this is bad enough; I *really* don’t want to lose any more RU-vidrs that I highly respect and enjoy.
From the looks of it, it's probably just that: denial. As weak an argument as this is, Jirard was friends with these people and just want to believe that this is all just one big misunderstanding and maybe the Court will clear this all up about this whole thing. I understand why anyone would have that mindset as stupid as it is nowadays. In the end, one can do one of three things: support their friend, side with everyone else or just stay out of it and avoid the stink.
Its quite disappointing how his friends are handling the situation. Sure, its good to defend your friend but its also good to ask questions. The defense of "He's not that type of guy" can be extremely inaccurate. All they should have said is "I hope the money will be distributed to the right charities and things get resolved." But its twitter, one of the most volatile places to be on.
Yep. I get that all one has is belief but not only can you not spell "belief" without "lie" (when it comes to yourself) especially when two gave more physical info than Jirard ever did but at the same time, one should still ask questions if you're that concern about this. Even if it doesn't sound like your business.
They said that all the money is still there as a fact, but it isn't. You can clearly see on the tax documents that a good portion of money has been withdrawn. I'm not inclined to believe the statements of his friends that can't even bother looking into the bare minimum of presented information. Either have some form of evidence that proves it's not what it looks like or don't expect people to listen. At the very best, Jirard is so bad at managing his organizations that no one should realistically donate to him if they expect the money to go to good use.
At 30:16 in Mutahar's video, he says from his own mouth that he "reimbursed himself money when applicable" from the charity account. 10 years and not a dollars to charities he claimed to work with all along. All while the charity is spending roughly 30k a year in ambiguous 'expenses'. Trust him bro, the money is still in the charity account waiting to be donated.
Yeah in total its like around 200k-300k has been taken out over the course of these 10 years, and they arent even filing the papers right, you need to sign the papers and give a detailed points on where the money went that paid for the expenses, they just put x amount for expenses and never tell us what the expenses are. Like it doesnt cost 20-30k to do that charity event especially because they had sponsors and had companies literally give them the hardware to play the game, this is fishy and he seems to be actually taking money
so do people really dont know about the debacle that was the fallign out between him and his co-lead at the time? the guy was in pretty much every video of his, to the point jirard had to literaly delete his entire library of years and rebuild it from scratch. now the reason they had a falling out, we dont know, BUT we had rumors at the time talking about jirard simply refused to share the revenue of the videos as HE was the completionist and greg was just a "other joe". but, like i said, rumors. what we do know, is that the guy demanded jirard to remove all videos he was present(which was almost 90%).
@@VentureCAM how does it not, the guy was a a friend he had since they were literal kids, they were best friends. and they had such a massive falling out that the guy demanded jirard to scrub his entire channel at the time. and you know the guy wasnt a dirtbag because he allowed jirard to take a year building his channel back before erasing those videos he was in(which, was basically the entire channel at the time of the break up). so to me, this doesnt change anything in the sense that i always felt how he dealed with that situation to be extremely scummy. but it should change it to people who thinks he is an honest and good person.
I'm willing to believe he didn't know the money hadn't been donated. It's probably an easier thing to be ignorant towards than we think. BUT He said he found out over a year ago. And he STILL made statements that the money was being donated. THAT'S the problem. He's probably a great dude and didn't intend for any of this. But he decided not to be forthcoming about it when he found out. His friends understandably are defending him ------ but there is no counter that I can think of that would explain why he continued to say his charity was actively donating money when he KNEW it wasn't. I'd like his friends to try and explain that one.
"Admiration is a state furthest away from understanding." - Sosuke Aizen A fitting quote for this situation from a character from my favorite anime Bleach. 😶
God I get so triggered watching these videos cause twitter is full of morons, but I just can’t look away from the train wreck that is a popular and loved youtuber getting caught in a scandal
People calling jirard a scammer are really taking this to an extreme that it doesn’t need to be. On the other hand people shouldn’t be discrediting Karl and Muta’s video when it’s probably going to be the main reason the money actually ends up in the right place.
He's a scammer. At 30:16 in Mutahar's video, Jirard says from his own mouth that he "reimbursed himself money when applicable" from the charity account. 10 years, $0 dollars to charities he claimed to work with all along, but the charity is spending roughly 30k a year in ambiguous 'expenses'. Trust him, the money is still in the charity account waiting to be donated 10 years later.
@@p_cuda9717 you obviously didn’t watch any of the videos relating to this issue that actually cover it and are just watching the drama videos. If you’re just going to blindly defend some random man on the Internet, good for you. It’s really hard to fuck up for 10 years especially when he already admitted he knew for 2 years. And yes, I will attack someone who lies about donating to a dementia foundation when my family is suffering from it.
Well, all the money isn't sitting there, is it? $125k isn't there. Failing to donate the money you raise for charity is a scam. No matter what. Stop being unreasonable because you like the person. It doesn't mean you have to stop liking them. You can be like... You really completed the SlowRun of Donating money. The dude literally has Amber Heard looking punctual for charity payments. ayowaddafak?
"The money is still sitting in the bank account"... exactly. While claiming it was being donated to a very specific charity. But, best of all... for how much longer was gonna "just sit in the account" if nobody called him out? Something is shady there.
"He has plenty of money, there's no way he'd do something immoral to get more!" Meanwhile millionaires and billionaires slowly backing into the bushes. And it's so dumb seeing ProJared saying shit about the video with him clearly not having watched it. Especially after what he went through.
I love it when people go "oh they were so good" when its found out somebody is actually awful. They cant accept that their perception is possibly wrong
Being a guy who grew up with normalboots in general (mostly PBG and jontron, along with a few others) I actually didnt watch a lot of Jirard's content. But I always had extreme respect for him with how much he cared about charity. With him also being apart of tons of major fundraisers for things like cancer (Specifically with matpat from game theory.) Knowing Jirard has been sitting on his own charities money turned my whole world upside down when it comes to internet charities and fundraising. And I'm genuinely furious about knowing what he's done. (And no, not that he's pocketing money. But that he's been sitting on said money in general?)
@@nekolu definitely. Truly I think the biggest name out of them that hasn't been in any serious controversial problems over the last ten years has been PBG. Almost all the others have had at least some form of controversy.
@@deeznuts9886 the pbg controversy is that he doesn’t get involved with controversy. That wouldn’t matter much to me except for the fact that he addresses the controversy by saying he wouldn’t get involved in the controversy, so people immediately start hating in the replies to his tweets. Sometimes turning off twitter is the best thing for everyone to do.
I met the completionist back in 2014. I really hope he gives the money to the dementia research. If he still has the money its so fixable. I don't even know why he doesn't do anything?
JonTron gets thrown in the trash by Twitteroids for making some frankly nothing-burger "politically incorrect" tweets but otherwise has no scandals. Meanwhile, the Completionist has this reputation of being le heccin wholesome and all that gets himself into is this charity scam controversy. Lol.
Exactly. They have this money that's been doing literally nothing while telling people it's going to a good cause. That's the point, its not helping anyone the way its there now
Eh to honest, some of them have a point. The title says "pocked it", it implies he took the money, which he didn't. There's a dude here in RU-vid that did the same clickbait title and put "stolen". The situation is bad enough to be trying to paint it as if he took charity money and use it of himself
@@ErimlRGG right, that's just incorrect. But it's also not great regardless. The money could be there, but it's not benefiting the causes it was believed to be helping. It's not as bad as the clickbait is making it out to be, but we also don't know everything yet either
@@ThePlayer4ourthis is actually incorrect, it's worse than it looks and he could get jail time for charity fraud. At 30:16 in Mutahar's video, Jirard says from his own mouth that he reimbursed himself money out of the charity account "when applicable". He claimed for nearly a decade to be supporting multiple organizations and groups that never got a dime in that ten years. All while the charity spends 20-30k a year roughly in 'expenses' vaguer than a piece of abstract art.
I can see how this might be an honest fuck up. Not a mistake since those are unintentional, but I could see why he might hold the money and believe it to be a good thing. What I don't understand is why he couldn't simply inform his fan base and work out what to do with the money with them. Refund it or request some help with finding a charity.
"I can see how this might be an honest fuck up." The problem is in that he ran a another charity stream this year despite supposedly knowing for the last 2 years that the money wasn't going to any charity. That's not a fuck up no matter which way you slice it.
@@DisplayThisOkay With the bigger issue being he promised every cent would go to charity and yet $100K was taken from the total for "expenses". Open hand is just a fundraiser, it shouldn't have expenses. Everything equipment and space wise was donated to it.
The thing is, those public documents are NOT a bank statement, so they *might* have pocketed the money but never declared it (which would be an even bigger crime). Hopefully the money is all still there, but you can't say for certain that he 100% didn't pocketed the money.
10:37 I really regret Tweeting that, I didn't think my tweet would get as many likes as it did (up to 2K). I know he's handling the money in a really weird way but I really don't want him to be painted as a thief. He deserves some penalizing for lying and sitting on it for so long though.
I love how RU-vidrs use the “as someone who knows X” card in the face of credible evidence. If anything, being friends with that person shows bias in favor of them and saying that is just a manipulative appeal to emotion.
"I can't do that for you. Only Jirard can give a response to that. But i will tell you Jirard is one of the most caring and genuine people i've ever known, and would absolutely not use his mother's struggle and memory for nefarious purposes." That tweet aged so badly lmao. Turned out Jirard just milking his dead mother for everything: to collect donation, to gain sympathy, to shield himself from criticism. What an absolute scumbag
If he did it was his family that did it. The founder of the open hand foundation is his family. So yeah money just sitting there looks very bad for him. And why would he start raising funds before making sure the funds would go to right place? He was asking them where to donate the money but he should have that sorted out before starting it.
If you know any of background drama released around his talks with razorfist and G4 revival you would know it is all a bullshit front. He is virtue signaling scum like the rest of them.
Yeah he didn’t pocket, but he also didn’t donate it. Which the whole point of charity. Also even if he donated it right now, it would raise the question as to why he didn’t do that before he got exposed.
I mean, he paid himself/family out over $100k in "administrative expenses" without the organization accomplishing anything. He didn't go buy himself a yacht, but someone's making money.
This reminds me of my swim school organization. In the first week of October they bought a large box in and slapped a paper sheet explaining, "Please donate new or still fresh looking costumes, we'll give them to kids in foster homes this Halloween". So I found 2 from my kiddos previous year and made the donation. Other families followed.. I had expected the big box to disappear during the last week of October... It didn't happen. I then when taking my child in to their lesson on November, the box with all the costumes was still sitting there. It frustrated me, they broke their promise.
He would be a scumbag if he just pocketed the money, more like gross incompetence, a big dumbass. But he found out about the money not going anywhere in 2021, though should have been keep track of it since he was the face of everything. Even though its not too late to do something, even though I wasn't a big fan just watched him occasionally whatever respect I had just gone.
The money is being held by his family member so I legit wonder if this is a big family issue that might lead to one of them being ether incompetent or greedy and he didn't know it.
@pippo17173 I mean incompetent is obvious as it's been sitting for so long. Could make a case for greedy depending on what the expenses are as it's just one line instead of a break down.
This is a rare occurrence where someone fucked up badly but can absolutely fix it. I'll wait until the Completionist donates or not to finalize my thoughts. For now, it's extremely bizarre he didn't do anything with the money, though. However, I think he's very stupid.
@@BBWahoo10 years have been wasted, he just completed another charity stream lying about working with different orgs and there's 125k missing in admin fees when they haven't "administrated" anything...if that's not in the red then I doubt he could do any wrong in your eyes dude...
@@Wailingllama dude $10k a year in admin fees is a normal expense for charities. It was a stupid decision but if you're saying that this was intentional fraud, you're trying a bit too hard to grab the pitchfork. Chill and wait to decide until after he releases a statement of his own.
@@Wailingllama Oh no, that's not what I'm implying. He's absolutely suspicious, if he explains himself, including explaining his brothers position, there is a high likelihood he's going to incriminate himself. I learned from ProJared that jumping to conclusions might also be damaging, but to the accusers and not the accused. 120k is a lot of money, so I'm just waiting for him to slip up even further, or throw a hail mary and find a way to explain the situation.
"never got to controversy" did i seriously mandela effect myself into an alternate reality where he didnt have to, you know, DELETE EVERY VIDEO IN HIS CHANNEL, because of his falling out with his, at the time, co-lead? also kind hearted is kinda to much, as the falling out was APPARENTLY because he didnt want to pay said co-lead as he didnt think his LIFE LONG, BEST FRIEND, was doing anything worth getting a share of the profits of the channel... of course, it was all speculation as all that we saw was them going from best buddies to each other's throats, and the guy who seemingly loved him as a brother, just decided to vanish and having nothing more to do with him. so you know, this doesnt really sound that out of place to me. if anything, this fits perfectly in line with the type of person who would throw his best friend out to save a few bucks...
Like, people instantly jumping the gun going “what a scumbag!” Are OD. The money is entirely untouched, why on earth would he just lie and not use the money whatsoever? For what purpose would he just… have money? It’s incredibly shady but to say he’s stealing it and is scummy is a total assumption
You dont take money and wait 10 years to donate in. There should have been talk about this after a year not 10! Trying to defend such stupidity makes only the ppl doing so look even dumber then him.
@@HandheldGamer1991 again, it’s suspicious but at the same time why keep it all just to not use it? Jumping to instant accusations without any proof helps no one.
@@jackofastora8962 Well the issue here is he ran another stream this year, getting more donations despite knowing that the money was going nowhere. That's total fraud.
He said he was donating the money, they weren't. 10 years of research funding gone. Even if you give "the benefit of the doubt" these two things are damning enough.
So he didn’t pocket the money nor did he donate it……so he still lied and ALL of his friends are just blatantly looking over the fact he said it “was donated” in the past tense but it wasn’t so he is still a liar and not a thief
I’m not believing the excuse of “he didn’t know” If he didn’t know where 600k went then he is bad at his job and his team is just as incompetent as him and need to be staffed better
The only possible reason there could have been to hold the money is if they were trying to make a donation setup that generates a signification amount of yearly interest that gets donated, but there was absolutely no indication that was ever a plan. And given recent inflation, a fair good bit of the value was lost in that big lump sum donation.
If a completionist episode of donkey kong country 2 drops, that would be the cherry on top this sad ca(k/s)e Edit/context: Remember him saying thats his favorite game and it will be the last one on the completionist
The people saying he didn’t pocket any of the money are so wild. Like the money never left the charity, the money has been in his pocket the whole time 😂. Whether or not he spent it is irrelevant
It’s oddly satisfying to have all these tweets read out one after another (I don’t use twitter so this is much faster to understand what everyone is talking about 😂). Thanks
Poor Gina man. First the disaster known as G4 now her blindly defending Jirard's charity not donating for 9 years. She really knows how to keep company with people who make poor decisions.
The problem with Gina Darlings tweets is that he said the money was going to charity, he has said that for years lying. Also the money has been touched, they have used it for running costs.
Dark Phantom's Tweet at about 11:00 Going from start the start to finish on these series of Jirard videos so it might be covered already; he's the NPC from Sea of Stars and his NPC since then has been removed as of a few days ago.
His friends did him no favors. Especially the “in a vacuum, hes just a good guy…” no. We don’t know him like that. In a vacuum, the Completionist is just a popular RU-vidr that got caught with money he wasn’t supposed to have and no one knows why. Stupidity or malicious intent? I have no idea, that’s for the IRS to decide.
What I just don’t understand is to what end? If it’s still all there then he’s not pocketing it, but the idea of it taking that many years to find a good place to send it doesn’t make sense either. And why start collecting money as a charity before you even know specifically where you want it to go?
Can you say the money is there in the fillings without providing proof? He as the director of the charity not knowing this was happening for almost 10 years is almost impossible to believe, but let's pretend for a second it's true. He still explicitly lied during the last Indie land about the money being donated. Open hands still used 100+k for unspecified operational costs over 10 years. They said they wouldn't touch a cent. I hope the IRS gets involved. People deserve to know what happened to their money.
“(Blank) says…” Bro literally just reading Twitter… banger video 😂 Sucks to see though, jirard seemed like a good dude. Seems like GROSS incompetence at BEST.
The twitter bots are hilarious, they believe that every company and billionaire is out there to get them, destroying lives for the last cent while enabled by capitalism, but they're wiling to give the benefit of the doubt to some guy.
Considering the guy could've flipped that money and made more money, leaving it untouched doesn't seem like fraud exactly, but he needed to stop taking the money without the logistics of where the money is best going to. He thought he money was already donated? Then...he might be in the clear. His name is just attached to someone else's screwup
I mean IF the money is just sitting in an account I suppose theres not much harm that has been done but I can see it coming out that someone's been syphoning that cash. I wouldnt say the completionist is a bad person for taking the money but I'd say he made several poor decisions: 1. Your face and name is connected to this so even if you don't know every small detail u need to be getting regular updates with proof of whats going on to CYA should some fuck shit happen you can say "I got regular updates and trusted the person giving them to me heres proof and I oversee several other projects so being boots on the ground monitoring every last thing isn't feasible." 2. He really should not be making claims he isn't 100% sure of he claimed to not know until recently about the money not going anywhere but confidently stated where it was going that opens you up to so much legal liability So after seeing all of this I don't think he is a bad person only that he made bad decisions and wasn't honest about it for fear of something like this. Going forward tho he needs to donate that money to an organization quickly provide evidence of doing so and either make a commitment to having donated the money within 1 fiscal year or start stating that they save the money up to a certain amount and then donate it in big chunks.
I probably support Jirard because donating the charity and organising a fundraiser and finding a good charity isn't like applying for a job at McDonalds
