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YouTuber Jirard (a.k.a. The Completionist) has been accused of keeping and hoarding charity donations (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Karl Jobst and SomeOrdinaryGamers (separate video linked here) have accused Jirard Khalil of lying to viewers about his charity.

Jirard is a YouTuber who runs a channel known as the Completionist, where he plays games to 100% completion and reviews them based on how enjoyable the experience was.

The Open Hand Foundation, which was co-founded by Jirard in 2014, was set up to raise money for dementia charities after his dementia-stricken mother passed away. However, their yearly filings with the IRS suggest that none of this money has been donated to charity.

Jacque (Jirard's brother) responded to Karl's emails to the Open Hand Foundation claiming that they are still searching for the correct charity to partner with and disburse these funds, whereas Jirard claimed that he was only aware that none of the funds had gone out last year, yet is still openly promoting Open Hand on stream and claiming they support the UCSF, Alzheimer's Association, the AFTD and many other charities.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Youtube/twitch is chock full of these people.

If you want to give your money away do it to an established charity where you know where the money is going.

People who give tons of money to twitch or YouTube streamers are goobers/suckers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

If you want to give money to them, nothing. If you are giving them money to give to a charity and they don't, that's fraud. It's the fraud that's bad.