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I really want to see his response

Muta talks to him during his video, I think. Response is basically "I had no clue" mixed with some vague excuses, including some that clearly contradict what was said before.

And then does the "But I don't know how to fix this, so if you have any idea...", as if, you know, donating the fucking money is such a difficult thing to do. And like Muta says, they don't even detail their operating expenses, so any accountant could have a field day with that.

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt, but after listening to the call, basically he pass the blame on both because they found the issue, to the point of saying that they did it for the views...

After that I knew that something is off, then he replied with something like "what do you want me to do, give all the money away, that will only make me look bad if I do it right now", but that was the goal of the donation.

I mean, I wouldn't see an issue if he was giving money but he didn't and he was claiming to donated to several associations, which didn't get a single dime

Edit: big fingers small cellphone.

Jirard’s Open Hands charity is a nonprofit so you can see their books through their tax filings.

The most likely explanation is that Jirard is incredibly busy running a successful YouTube channel and so he had no idea how the charity is being run.

When being made aware in 2022 he said he stepped in to make sure the money is being donated the way he believed it was. That wasn’t reflected in their 2022 tax filing but it still can be true for 2023, the public will find that out when those filings are made public.

Karl Jobst is a really good content creator but he has a bit of a dramatic flair and tends to call things “illegal” when they actually aren’t and he did in this video again. Still I think that it’s important to make call outs like this. And I think that Jirard will make it right, now that he has been made aware. It’s clear from the filings that they aren’t committing fraud or skimming off the top. They just were sitting on the money probably because the task of running a charity was beyond their capabilities

And on the other hand, Karl Jobst has always been very well researched in his videos, so I'm a big torn here. Definitely going to keep an eye on this and see where it goes before making my own conclusions.

...did you watch the video? You can see their contributions have been $0 year after year with their tax filings, and Jirard admitted they haven't donated anything.

Easy to check the filings yourself. The research presented in the video is legit. There is no reason to have zero donations to charities since 2014. Zero

What “actual evidence” are you waiting for? The filings are public (you can confirm literally right now) and Jirard admitted to the accusations himself? What else do you need?

At the same time, Mutahar and Karl are very well respected content creators who do their research. They wouldn't drop a bombshell like this if they didn't have good sources.

I too will wait to see how Jirard responds.

He's already caught in a lie. Even if his unbelievable story that he, the director of the charity, was unaware the charity never did anything charitable for as long as it has existed (this already makes him guilty of failing the donators by incompetence), he still lied about knowing where the money went for all those years to the donators and CONTINUED TO DO SO AFTER HE ADMITTED HE KNEW ABOUT IT.

Now he claims that he has been looking for worthy charities for over a year while he could easily just donate the money to the charities he has been talking about for years already.

The literal IRS tax filing isn’t enough evidence for you?

No, you don't understand, this is decades long process for most NPOs and charities. Some will wait for a century or more to find the right organization. Doctors without Borders, for instance, has a notoriously difficult time performing their duties as the borders keep changing over time as they wait for the right fit--many of their doctors are, in fact, within borders.

My charity has a pile of gold that a dragon sits on until the dragon has found a CEO and board of trustees who can withstand 20k° of dragonfire. Until then, I'd be a fool not to collect interest, for charity of course.

In all honesty I'm shocked. Jirard is one of the few YouTubers I have (well, had) a tonne of respect for.

Part of me wants to hope there's a rational explanation for why he and his foundation sat on viewer donations for a whole decade whilst knowingly misleading donors that their funds were going to a charitable cause, but I really think this is going to end his career. Just wait until every other YouTuber picks this story up, or when it goes viral on Reddit...

I upvoted you because I share the sentiment, but if you spend 2 hours everyday entertained by a single person, then what's bad in giving them money?

I haven’t watched this video, but watched the one by No Ordinary Gamer, and he included responses he got from Jirard. It didn’t look great.

As a board member of his own charity, he has to be aware of it at some point. Heck, he even acknowledged to know this since 2021 and still nothing happened.

At best, he didn’t know, which means he really didn’t care enough to even check to make sure the money was going to where it was supposed to be going? Like, the ONE thing a charity does? Even so, in 10 years, he wasn’t suspicious at all about not hearing back from these organizations (like a “Thank You for your donation letter”)? He didn’t give a shit about the charity, and used it to flaunt his own brand and ego. And that’s the BEST case scenario.

Worst case scenario he is knowingly committing charity fraud…by using his own Mother as bait. Fucking deplorable if you ask me.