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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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] 71 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jirard never seemed like the type of guy to pull something like this and I really want to see his response but having the money just sit there (and hopefully still there) for years is a really bad look for him. At the very least he was just clueless but that's still damaging taking into account all the lies on the charity streams

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

bamlame

Woooah, Black Betty

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, big fingers and small cellphone is a bad combination

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

All good man, just poking fun

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Laughing hard at this and singing it in my head lololol