Jirard the Completionist Charity Drama | MoistCr1tikal

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[@SoranotRoxas]

*This was so sad to hear about. But this is also why I don't donate to KZbinrs or any Podcaster.* I just rather donate straight to the charity's themselves. No middle man.

[@TheKayasto]

not even gdq? I mean fair enough. you know where your money is going when you donate directly. but gdq seems like one of the good ones. I know there's been some drama behind gdq but idk man. it's still going strong. if they were messed up, I'd think they'd have been merc'd by now and the speedrun community would have organized a new annual charity event. idk. keep doin what you're doin. ✌️

[@CbaDropDead]

​@TheKayasto we all thought that he was one of the good ones 🤷‍♀️ So it's hard to even trust GDQ after this.

[@Distophic]

​@@TheKayastoGDQ is run by cringe babies who hate fun.

[@Phyrrax]

​​@@TheKayastolol not even gdq...naming one of the worst offenders as a counterexample. To be fair I havent kept up with them in years, so I dont know if and how it changed, but years ago there were some pretty dickish things going on at GDQ.

[@TheKayasto]

@Phyrrax sheesh. can't trust any org anymore :c seems the only good thing gdq does is get some cool speedrunners better known. I've never donated to gdq but I certainly watch it twice a year. 🥴

[@ArrowArchitect]

For the people saying "I'll wait for Jirards response" or "I want to hear Jirards words on this", Karl and Muta interviewed Jirard and it's included in their videos

[@holyheretic3185]

His words are "I knew about this last year" and then said the same thing in the indieland stream this year.

They didn't include the whole interview in their videos. Which is fine for the info they gave in the videos to understand what's going on, but not to understand Jirard's side of things. Also how they interviewed him they asked more about "what he did" and not "why he did it." Jirard only really used his platform to make content or help the community at large, e.i buying all of the nintendo eshop store before closing for game preservation, but Its not impossible he did this with bad intentions. I would still wait for what Jirard has to say.

[@holyheretic3185]

@ explain him continuing to lie to everyone this year?

​@@holyheretic3185no idea. Why not let Jirard explain for himself? All I'm saying.

[@Chronokage]

​@I do also want to see him make a response video, but just note similar to his friend "Pro Jared" the internet won't sit around quietly until the completionist makes a formal response.

[@_NoDrinkTheBleach]

Ultimately, even if there was no malicious intent with their failure to distribute, they have claimed several times over the years that they have donated to these places. It's not a good look, and will do more long-term harm than good for the cause that Jirard holds so dear.

[@1001pierre]

which is fraud.

[@90bubbel60]

also, the value of the money have been severely reduced due to inflation as it just lies there in the account

[@JJJBunney001]

​@90bubbel60 not really how it works, 600k is still 600k so the number doesn't change regardless of dollar value

[@GolAcheron-fc4ug]

⁠@@JJJBunney001 That’s exactly right. The number doesn’t change, yet the dollar value does. That’s what inflation means.

[@bitterman213]

At best its gross negligence

[@ithinkibrokeit9327]

The most confusing charity scam of all time

[@OperationFreeSoul]

I don't think it was a scam. I think it is being mismanaged to all hell. If it were a scam, there'd be missing money

[@beigejonny]

please don't forget there are claims of 125K in operating expenses skimmed off the top of those donations.

[@tentacle0]

~15k a year "skimmed" for operating expenses could easily be justified considering they actually do run and promote a yearly event that returns over 5x that. the only unethical thing is that the money hasn't been donated yet. it's not unethical to spend money to fundraise with a bigger return. that's usually just how fundraising works.

[@forsakenparadise6828]

@@OperationFreeSouldefinitely more likely to just be mismanagement I doubt this

[@dark_winter8238]

@@OperationFreeSoulit’s also blatant fraud. He name drops a bunch of orgs the donations are to during the events. The last one happened well after the date where he “said” he found out about the money not being given.

[@CbaDropDead]

This isn't drama, this is a crime.

[@LMan86]

EXACTLY. Charlie sounds very detached from the situation he deems simply as drama when in actuality, 600k was essentially swindled from people.

[@LockMatch]

It's not a crime. The money isn't spent, and are still on a bank account of his nonprofit. So technically there is no crime.

[@LockMatch]

Still a dick move tho

[@MauZangetsu]

@@LockMatch Except for Jirard saying he did take money to reimburse himself but "never more than a couple of thousands". That's *fraud*

[@thewhitefox3097]

@@LockMatch it is a crime, it counts as charity fraud

[@T-Swerve03]

You learn in accounting 101 that a bucket account for expenses is a tell tale sign for hiding things.

[@MFGEEDORAH]

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt until muta got to that part in his video

[@DawnOfTheOzz]

I want to say that I am completely shocked but I've become so jaded seeing so many KZbinrs being exposed that I am just like, "Another one?"

[@burgergud2804]

Can u tell me some examples of other KZbinrs doing that

[@Jeffrey-xj2bp]

​@@burgergud2804Logan Paul

[@ashiihideeshchiinii6158]

ProJared, Andy Signor founder of Honest Trailer. Sssniper Wolf. Now The Completionist Jirard.... 😢😢 Countless female KZbinrs on Onlyfans. Fall from grace.😅😅

[@user-pi3ud1sm4d]

Another one!

[@goGothitaLOL]

@@ashiihideeshchiinii6158let’s add Verbalase and Chuggaaconroy to the list too Verbalase - Spent $50k on a self-insert sexual animation of him and Charlie from Hasbin Hotel Chuggaaconroy - He went a bit too far to a woman, over his thing for feet

[@kietus]

The bare minimum this means he doesnt actually care that much about the cause. If the cause was so important to you, you'd be following up to see the impact you caused. or interacting with the people of the cause. Why would anyone believe you in the future about your 'important cause'?

[@gqartstudio]

$600,000 today is worth A LOT less now than it was 9 years ago. Lots of wasted time

[@JJJBunney001]

It wasn't 600k then though

[@Kaimax61]

@@JJJBunney001 man , learn about economics. Like even if year 1 it had 100k, it still not worth the same 100k to fund things now..

[@ttrnet123]

Even if the money is still there and it hasn't been used, this is still complete fraud.

[@basicallytorture]

armchair legal expert

[@PCGAMINGISDOGSHIT]

​@@basicallytortureCOMMON SENSE. 🤡🌍

[@ttrnet123]

@@basicallytorture no it's a fact. he materially misrepresented what the donations would be used for a and named recipients who never received the money.

[@grthjryrd7552]

@basicallytorture keep coping loser

[@Kaimax61]

@@basicallytorture Blind fanboy

[@Sammy-mm6rv]

He “pledged” the entire amount but didn’t actually donate anything? Sounds familiar…

[@Troll_vs.]

Wasn't he also one of the KZbinrs that worked on G4 when it got rebranded and failed?

[@SeRiOuS1675]

amber heard lol

[@GamerConnoisseurRei]

​@@Troll_vs.he did but when Frost went off wild he said he didn't want anything to do with her take

[@atrocious7766]

Wasn't it her own money that she pledged though? I think using other people's donations is far worse.

[@italianspiderman5012]

@@atrocious7766nope, not her, they had a deal, Johnny agreed to pay if the money would be send to the charity, she similarly took credit for donating proudly announcing it on live television, which was a lie.

[@JillLulamoon]

Seems Open Charity filed a report on the video and attempted to take it down which confirms in my mind this isn't an innocent mistake. IRS should 100% audit this.

[@Carnius797]

Where did you see this at?

[@donb7519]

​@@Carnius797karl posted it either on his twitter or community tab

[@rosaryrose2505]

With recent developments, I am 80% - 90% convinced that the money is gone. You don't try to take down a video discussing your supposed incompetence in donating money to charity (which is bad but you can still recover from.) unless you're trying to hide something mush worse...

[@jakefairley6993]

The best part about charity fraud.... the IRS really don't like people doing it, so you can bet he is being looked into right now by some very serious organisations

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

lol very serious organizations. dont mess with the super duper serious ones!

[@chippewaguy4193]

They discovered his retirement fund.

[@theAZenf1sh]

The claim “all the money is in the account” is not factually correct. They had $125k operating expenses listed in the public records (seen in the video) and they didn’t even itemize their costs, it’s listed as “expenses”. Also Jirard admits there are some years he skimmed a “few” thousand in a couple of those years. Why are people claiming all the money is still in the account and wasn’t used by Jirard or his family? I’m baffled.

[@okgamer0128]

Yep, and thats why i dont buy his "i just found out last year" response. If he know he had to take some of the funds to help operate IndieLand for some years, he very clearly knew money wasn't being donated to charities

[@kurojima]

Exactly. Not only dont we know where the accrued interest of the 650k went, but also taking about 125k in "administrative costs" (20% is a lot) while not actually doing anything, seems extremely suspicious. And we dont actually know if the money is still there, these are tax statements filled out by his family members. He is definitely doing tax evasion and a charity scam, the IRS will find out and drill him and his family a new one.

[@JillLulamoon]

He admitted he skimmed a couple thousand from the charity fund for personal use? Bro why the hell would you admit that?

[@okgamer0128]

@MonikaLulamoon ikr! He clearly wasnt prepared and nervous but accepting that call actually hirt him more than trying to defend himself. Thats why im assuming he hasn't spoken about it yet, probably has lawyers this time trying to defend him now (although i dont think itll help, its 100% fraud now)

[@noir7774]

​@MonikaLulamoon No, he said he took it to cover costs for indyland when he was short. Still not a good look, but by no means illegal, imo as he could say, it was used as fundraising, which it was as indyland is an open hand charity event.

[@SomethingScotty]

Jirard's charity spends about 25k a year on whatever. Jirard himself spent 25k buying everything off the nintendo store one year. I gets the feeling those two are connected.

[@AC-ze1nh]

He stated on an Indieland stream that they dont "touch" the money, that 100% goes to charity, but every single year since 2014 (before Indieland even existed) they took money for "expenses". A total of $125,000 was used without a scent being donated. Jirard and his brother have the audacity to claim they cant find a reputable charity to donate to, that they didnt want to "pay some doctor's salary" (direct quote btw) but they felt entitled to $125, 000? AND THEY LIED OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. KNOWINGLY LIED. The wholesome gamer image was all an act. No one is this dumb and hes been caught lying. Hope the IRS comes down on the Khahil family like a ton of bricks. They exploited their poor dead matriarch for financial gain. Absolutely disgusting behaviour. They had better hope that 600,000 is truly still in that account.

[@Themacattack1209]

What’s funny about “paying some doctor’s salary” would fund research because guess who is conducting that research? And why would they conduct that research without some sort of salary so they can pay bills and live?

[@KebehQuaa]

​@@Themacattack1209bro thinks funding research means paying x coins to automatically unlock a new research in the tech tree. That's also why he was convinced charities didn't want "small donations" that wouldn't take them all the way till the next research milestione, dude's brain stuck on game mode 😂

[@pascalsimioli6777]

How did you all not realize it was all a facade? It was so obvious to me, never liked the guy.

[@Kravockian]

It runs so much deeper, roughly 30-70k of raised funds have been unrecorded on an annual basis. They also have many fundraising avenues which are entirely unaccounted for as in we have no way of tracking how much was earned, they make no statements about how much they earn, and it is entirely unrecorded. The amount sitting in the account seems to be a "we were caught fund" where they can send it after being found out however the investigation caught on to all the additional funds that were never recorded for the charity meaning that they cannot simply send the amassed funds to a charity because they would still be liable and accountable for the 300-700K+ that they never recorded.

[@coltonk.3086]

Honestly I'm not even angry, just dissapointed. In a day and age with so many people getting into bad crap, it's ever so slowly getting harder to find people you can still enjoy watching without any problems. I sincerely hope this was not a scam, or anything like that, because I loved The Completionist. Make things right, Jirard. There are people that look up to you.

[@jajasking9652]

This is charity fraud, which is a felony, furthemore, this is sadly a form of scam

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

hes an overweight neckbeard that supported Frosk’s G4 rant, no idea what anyone could like about him

[@ginoh007]

I have a feeling that its all vague because someone is being protected, I am actually assuming it is a family member involved in the whole thing lying allot.

[@danielturner1891]

Yaaa. It’s odd. It’s like. Why lie so much? Why not just try to rectify it? It does make me think he’s protecting someone. Like family.

[@maxalstar]

Was thinking the same thing, the way he is talking doesn't seem he's trying to protect himself rather for someone else.

[@Blake-jl8lh]

My understanding is the person most on the hook seems to be his brother. Im not a lawyer and a lot of people who aren't are saying what laws have or haven't been broken and I'm not going to say either way. But if the org was found to have committed fraud it really does seem his brother would be the one that is going to be at the center of it.

[@davidhill3595]

IRS filing is not proof the money still exists. We have not seen a bank account

[@batedawggg]

Exactly, this could be way worse than what people think it is.

[@konachan01]

Accountant here: Operational costs / business expenses can be anything related to the operation of the organization and is considered essential to run the operation. So well a lot of things can be considered an essential business expense: rental of the location to do the stream, Wages to pay contracted employees, equipment used, advertisement expenses, utilities expenses, food and drinks ect. Just as long as you are able to justify reasonably that these are used for the charity event, it is a pass. It could even be expenses not specifically for the day(s) the charity event is held, you could justify them as expenses used for pre-meetings (before the charity event) between partners and staff to plan the charity event.

[@AlexOlinkiewicz]

This is a copy/paste comment, but my 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. Instead of staying quite and just hope no one discovered the mess up and then call me out on it. 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.

[@OperationFreeSoul]

I mean think about how busy he was, last year. G4, and all that. From his perspective, since the money wasn't spent/being stolen, it could have sat on the backburner for the pressing issues like helping with G4.

[@AlexOlinkiewicz]

@@OperationFreeSoul Sorry, but finding out that your charity kept all of donations for almost a decade would also be a pressing issue, the fact that this was an issue for almost a decade make it even more of a Pressing Issue even more then things like G4. There is no excuse to put something like this on the Backburner, and being busy is no excuse on letting this issue set around for probably a year (if he really did only found out). Are you really gonna try and tell that he was busy that he couldn't make a simple 5-10 minute video or even just a simple Tweet saying he and his charity really messed up and he'll try and fix it within the year he claimed he discovered this mess up?

[@biospark4758]

@@OperationFreeSoulbut that still excuse him lying at the newest charity run

[@holyheretic3185]

@@OperationFreeSoul Um.... Your charity not doing what's it's supposed with plans to host another charity stream, G4 shouldn't have been his focus. From that perspective he just doesn't care about dementia research.

[@KoinzellGaming]

How long does it take to find a good charity to send money to? U literally can take an hour to find dementia related charities, find which one has the lowest administrative cost, and choose the one which looks the best.. It does not take 11 months to find a charity. He is lying and it makes no sense..

[@heartsickruben]

"Drama" You mean criminal activities

[@LASupreme1k]

still so confused as to why he jus kept it there if he knew he wasn’t gonna do anything with it since irs woulda been on em..

[@GoronMerchant]

Cause the Alzheimer’s Cure industry is shady. Not to be trusted, unless you find the right one, actually using for proper research. It’s like trying to cure cancer. It’s almost impossible atm.

[@yonasgiant]

Could have been just letting time pass so that he could siphon small portions of it over the years. It makes no sense to keep it for 9 years, even 1 year, and then the day after they reach out to him, he suddenly was going to donate it that day/week.

[@LASupreme1k]

@@yonasgiant scandalous..

[@andreamarques8328]

@@yonasgiantwhich is actually what he says in the interview, he literally says he was gonna donate it but then the accusations came out and then he decided not to yet because they would say "hes escaping" or smth which is just and incredible excuse

[@cardinalbaseballer5]

Has Charlie talked about this since this video? So much more has happened

[@bardofvoid174]

Damnnnnn, that also really sucks cause over the time of 9 years, in today's money, (though this is a rough take-it-with-a-grain-of-salt estimate I just did, and I have no clue if something about charities has this not apply somehow) they would've essentially lost 10s of thousands of dollars, maybe even 100 thousand or more, in spending power even if they spent it all now compared to if they'd spent it consistently over those 9 years, just due to the devaluation of inflation. If this isn't inaccurate, that might genuinely be worth putting the effort into to make up as well, and I just hope everything sorts itself out well and good, cause even the large amount of money present now could do a lot of good.

[@michaelfiddler7341]

He ratted himself out when he mentioned he was looking to retire from youtube. That plan went to the crapper lol

[@TheGoonsies]

What sucks is.. it should be reasonable to just create a system where people can donate directly to whatever org they want but use a specific code or something that says.. "this was for XYZ's event" if they really want to be able to track how much is getting donated without having to go through a 3rd party and trusting that party to do something with it

[@nicktwolf]

If you donate to a non profit, you can say you only want the money to be used only for xyz. However, organizations can set up rules for this to avoid anything that might come up. For example of the funds need to be reallocated to something else, you can ask the donor for permission to do so. It's advised that it's done in writing to make sure everything is kosher. I would recommend looking up restricted funds for more information, I'm not an expert, just found a lot of this doing quite a bit of research.

[@StegoAqua]

You know what I’m going to say it, Bring in the IRS let the money boys and gals sort it out

[@Averagebasementman]

I enjoyed the completionist for years. But even if there was no malicious intent behind this, it is still unacceptable to take people’s money saying its going to a specific cause and then the money just sits there for 9 god damn years. I pray they fix this soon because I don’t want to have to add Jirard to the list of scum on youtube. But the radio silence is not promising.

[@stortsy8873]

Private foundations have to donate 5% of their yearly endowment.

[@inigomontoya4032]

It's not the first time he has done something to cover his tracks. He WAS a very big KZbinr. And once he got less views, he made a boo-hoo video about the algorithm and not getting enough clicks. Almost as if an aging porn star who doesn't get enough attention and no offers bc someone younger and better came on the scene. Sometimes, you commit to things and acts that aren't legal bc you are used to a certain level of success... Just to assume the same lifestyle you were accustomed to. My mother died and it was a long and sad process. Cancer/dementia and regressed for almost 3 years. This does hurt people. And it's saddens me to hear such news. I have to believe this, unfortunately. And if people gave their money for a good cause, it shouldn't be in his, his families, or his friends pockets. If it's true, he needs jail time.

[@ajimbob4878]

Very disappointed about this

[@SoranotRoxas]

Same. Really liked the Completionist 😔

[@JCMStarcraft]

Glad I cut out of his content after he and Greg broke up…something didn’t smell right and this actually didn’t shock me

[@ajimbob4878]

@@JCMStarcraft oh I had no idea about that. I watch Jirard on and off so I didn’t hear about this

[@Omnivorous1One]

They havent done a thing with all the money they have been given. What do they need to spend $10,000-$25,000 a year on “expenses” for to simply have money sit in a bank account?

[@ormitomimus]

10 year of charity fraud. Despicable. Truly. His mother is rolling in her grave

[@jeebeeheebee]

i often thank my friends for their gifted members

[@dark_winter8238]

One correction that there is 0 proof the money is still there. They have just put that on the tax forms.

[@Merchantic]

its been 2 weeks and still no update from The Completionist

[@Con_College_Academic]

Remember, jirard screwed his best friend for a youtube channel. He joined G4TV only for it to burn back down. He uses his own mothers illness to fraud his fans. Im having a great thanksgiving 😂

[@NiohArcadia]

He screwed over his best friend? Ooof

[@ImmaLittlePip]

@@NiohArcadia Yeah he got rid of his videos involving his friend He lied about his friend and how he took all the channel's money

[@dannyhiggins8864]

@ImmaLittlrPip Greg was in the right to leave that channel.

[@ImmaLittlePip]

@@dannyhiggins8864Its funny how progressive he appears even throwing his highschool friend under the bus (Jontron) after his controversy Well Jon is still doing great making videos with millions of views and still has a ton of subs while Jirard channel was dying long after he sunk with the failed reboot of G4

[@dannyhiggins8864]

@@ImmaLittlePip yeah that was a dick move when he threw Jon under the bus

[@themalcontent100]

There are 'administration fees' which is possible fraud.

[@markscheuerman7962]

my dad died of frontotemporal dementia and I donated to the livestream...this is heartbreaking

[@user-pm7pw1tl3t]

Why didn't you just donate to the chairty...?

[@markscheuerman7962]

@user-pm7pw1tl3t cause I like the completionist content, and I have done my own small streams for frontotemporal research. Hindsight is 20/20 dude at the time it seems like a heartwarming event, my dad had just died so I wanted to give $20 to help if I could

[@LMan86]

@markscheuerman7962 your own fault. Never trust a damn middle man

[@nuh-uhbro765]

@@user-pm7pw1tl3tHindsight is 20/20 don’t victim blame the guy for trusting somebody.

[@drscott7359]

You cannot see what’s in the account, only that the money has been received and where spent , it will take audit to see in account .

[@Rathial]

Nothing malicious he just has dementia and forgot about the 600k

[@ttrnet123]

This will make the next Friends Per Second podcast very awkward.....

[@matthewallen1957]

Mega64 also.

[@beigejonny]

he is gonna be axed from their podcast for sure. Always seemed like the odd one out in that group anyways.

[@ttrnet123]

@@beigejonny yeah, the others contributors seemed more professional to me.

[@dark_winter8238]

Skill mentioned he will be Mia for the next episode at least. The other 3 will discuss the situation on the episode.

[@MattAlbie]

@@beigejonny I know this is a bit of a petty thing to say... Screw it. He always gave me the impression of creeping on Lucy on FPS a bit.

[@blackaua]

Another wholesome figure from my childhood disappointing me.

[@woltimes2]

another one bites the dust my nigga

[@grthjryrd7552]

Lol loser looking up to these internet people

[@edwinjusto5739]

Dude in a short amount of time it got so much worse, i hope the money was worth potentially destroying the channel and career

[@redskins59rocs]

Tax forms are not bank account statements.

[@batedawggg]

Exactly, this could be way worse than what people think it is.

[@redskins59rocs]

@@batedawggg let's just hope it is more I got a shitty family, and less I used my mom's name to make some money.

[@akba666]

I'm wondering if they are not specifying the expense to hide salary.

[@rockems4959]

Makes sense with how ridiculous jirard is

[@clericsupport]

nooooo bro not him

[@LMan86]

I hated Jirard’s excuse that he didn’t know. Seriously? Like for 9 fucking years you didn’t know the money was just sitting in the account? And he was the HEAD of the organization.

[@Blake-jl8lh]

I keep hearing conflicting reports about who is in charge. A lot of people claim he is in charge but also I keep hearing his brother is in charge. I know Jirard is on the board but is he head of the org? I cant find it online Edit, i found it. He is listed as a director. However there are 2 directors, a president, a vice president, and a secretary listed. I don't know if director or president is more senior but I think based on numbers the president is probably more senior than a director but I am not sure and I think thats what is causing so much ambiguity. I did notice in Karl's video he did a pretty good job being vague about who is in charge.

[@LMan86]

@Blake-jl8lh yeah I have seen that too. What’s even more sus to me now though is that all of that leadership is his family. The presidents, vice presidents, directors and secretaries are all his family members. They run the organization.

[@theshadow5226]

It would be a miracle if the whole 600k was still in the account, assuming they saved up 600k to begin with.

[@Smmmile]

The founder of a charity set up to support Dementia research, then forgets to donate the money. Ironic.

[@BullCraftMaxx]

Such a weird Charity Scheme

[@CerealKiller669]

Prayers for the 9+ people whove been left on read for years now 😂

[@Unibot47]

I don't even know who the guy in question is, I only heard about it from Skill Up's video. If it was just a short bit of time, I could see it as "shit happens" but 9 years? Big oof.... That's shady.

[@macfine]

These records do not mean the money is still sitting in an account. It's a reporting but not the account itself. There is nothing actually indicating the money is sitting in an account..nothing that says it's not though either. I want proof they still have money and it being donated asap

[@robingames2002]

What makes it worse for 10 YEARS he “didn’t know” that’s a bs lie since 2014 So he didn’t take the money which is true but he did lie when he said it was donated

[@joechill6327]

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

[@grthjryrd7552]

This meme sucks

[@somedorkydude6483]

I want jirard to some how turn out to be the good guy but i have doubts Regardless of the trust is breeched. If your freind acidentally drops and breaks a family heirloom trust is breeched. Jirard either purposly dropped the heirloom or he accidentally did but why should i trust him after that if in the future he is still the completionist the open hand foundation may not. Jirard has doomed what ever legacy it could of had. But to be a bit more uplifting let it be a lesson to any "non profit" that gets greedy they got to behave and do a good job.

[@uglystupidloser]

it is legal to use charity funds to trade stocks, give gifts, etc. i am willing to bet that the money is no longer sitting in that account. it's sam bankman's account. and the brother of the completionist. they are going to get audited and sued.

[@mwo79]

Can't find the right benefactor while also saying they are giving the money to a specific benefactor. They are just making stuff up to make themselves look good.

[@realshompa]

The charity had over 10K expenses each year. An educated guess is that is computer-related stuff. Good way to get your youtube setup for free. I mean. What real cost would they have besides taxes for a charity that does not do anything?

[@Blake-jl8lh]

The live stream, which producing a charity stream is surprisingly expensive. Its still not good but idk if thats the part that is a red flag

[@withoutthejuice7193]

I was a big fan of his videos but it’s not that hard to realize he did an awful thing, those defending him are weird.

[@SobeCrunkMonster]

hes an overweight neckbeard that supported Frosk’s G4 rant, no idea what anyone could like about him

[@hudsonplays]

the G4TV curse continues

[@Kiiltec]

To be fair... as long as all of the money stayed untouched for so long his argument that he wasn't aware is atleast theoretically believeable, so I atleast wouldn't go so far to call it outright malicious fraudulent behavior. His image should be fine if the money actually arrives at the mentioned charitys within a short timeframe. Even if he had ulterior motives, which is possible, he would just go out with a small dent in his image... but hey, nobody is immune against mistakes, so without proof it is hard to tell. If however the money was touched or does not get transfered as promised... that is when things truly grow suspicious.

[@olivermensinger6022]

He did spend some of that money on expenses for Indieland, which is his event. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if he disclosed this, but he didn’t.

[@Kiiltec]

@@olivermensinger6022 yeah, if that is truly the case it would instigate fraudulent behavior if he did touch it for anything not related to those charitys. If it comes to charity scams Iam still quite positive that there is a special spot in hell for those, if it exists x3

[@lloydflores2537]

Hes done.

[@CullenRVW]

I don't know much about the completionist but they used ops costs and never spoke about where this money was going. This definitely sounds like they were taking stuff off the top and waiting for they day they could drain the account without people noticing.

[@5ex.]

Jake and Alissa violet broke up!!??? Team 10 is over

[@serbonkers4130]

Never give money to youtibers and influencers. Especially if they dont have a real job.

[@random_an0n]

and the money just sitting there has devalued due to the lockdowns and economy downturn lol

[@fetcherman13]

these stream highlights save my life.

[@takoshihitsamaru4675]

Honestly, though I watch the FPS podcast and love Jake Baldino, SkillUp and Lucy James, I won't claim to know much about Jirard as a person. I know he works a lot and does a lot of charity work, but I really hope that he's not into anything shady, because he 'seems' like a great guy. SkillUp himself linked the Jobst and Mutahar videos on the second most recent "This Week in Games" episode on his channel, so I think even his friends and colleagues are in the dark on this as we all are.

[@dannyhiggins8864]

The completionist trying to speedrun his career to the ground going for a 100% run.

[@deokorusu]

I think what that person in chat was trying to say is that they didnt blatantly steal ppls money and pocket it. I can agree that it took me by surprise to hear they didnt pocket it. In this day and age of scammers doing rug pools with so many stories about NFT and crypto scams, i was fully expecting to hear that the money was pocketed. It does just sound like a case of incompetence and negligence. Hopefully this story will end with either the money going to these charities or everyone getting their money back.

[@Florkl]

They didn’t pocket all of it, but those administration fees were going to someone.

[@Themacattack1209]

The “expenses” could be how they are. Of course they’re not going to immediately pocket the entirety of the donations because that would raise a red flag and they would quickly be caught. Using those “expenses” and claiming them as fundraising expenses is how they could be taking that money without being obvious with it.

[@StiffAftermath]

Lies about the money going to families and organizations (both of which Jirard said multiple times on video), and that *not* happening, is fraud.

[@user-pm7pw1tl3t]

Well atleast he is my least favorite scary game squad member.. so this doesn't hurt me as much but my God scumbag criminal

[@vincentprice713]

ok so just about everyone from normal boots are b holes. Peanut Butter gamer is probably the only normal one. wait I haven't heard from him in a while. Please don't tell me he done something horrible as well. I'm afraid to google it.

[@tjlnintendo]

Nah PBG is still safe. Just isn’t as big as the other NB members.

[@tristenswenson1828]

As a fan of Jirard, I hope this truly was a case of misunderstanding between him and the people running the charity.

[@Macapta]

We can hope, but if this is on him we can't let being fans sway our opinions. Just cos i like him won't give him any kind of pass, it'll just be more disappointing.

[@flamsey]

He's the director. How would he not know

[@chanr9531]

@@GoronMerchantany reasons in particular? The evidence are right there and we have evidence of the completionist on record admitting at least to the situation at hand. Karl was also involved in the investigation so even if you think Muta has some flaws in his methodology, we have additional points of references here

[@OroborOSX11]

@@GoronMerchantLet me guess: you trust Jirard tho!

[@ryanw217]

it was his own family running that charity. he has noone to blame.

[@TheLouzer_]

"The negligence isn't hurting anyone"? Really? Money taken from normal people and NOT given to places that can help FIGHT DEMENTIA? And NOBODY'S being hurt here?

[@ColdRoland]

This is NOT some youtube DRAMA. I know you live off that kinda shit, but this is more serious. Please don't sell this short as some drama shit. People have been defrauded and scammed. Most literally.

[@G.reviewz]

Ill say it again im so sick of finding out youtubers i like are involved with shit or drama i know nobodys perfect but its just throwing more bad light onto youtubers and youtube as a whole

[@lanzer22]

The guy’s The Completionist, he’s just saving up enough money to completely eradicate the disease. :)

[@yeeoldfriend]

Are they just been nitpicky to an extreme? Like you first state you dont know that it wasnt going out and then go to say you haven't found the right group to donate? Math is not mathing

[@cobaltprime9467]

To play devils advocate (I’m not a fan of the Completionist nor do I hate the guy); it could very well have been an act of stupidity than greed. He wasn’t running a scam just negligent in the operations. Some kind of tort law has been broken. An audit will definitely be required and he will have to see consequences, even if it’s simply ignorance.

[@99splashing77]

someone from his org tried to censor the expose

[@ImmaLittlePip]

@@99splashing77 This If he came out and said "Someone is impersonating us" that be one thing on that situation but if he tried to take down the expose video then it proves malice at this point

[@BosuDX]

I at least appreciate owning up to it and knowing that the money is still there. If I were them, I would track down all of the places they stated the money was going over the years, actually donate that money, get proof that it was donated, and make an apology video explaining the issue, showing the proof that it is now donated, and then for every future donation show proof immediately as it is made to avoid this in the future.

[@rakaman27]

It's still fraud.

[@fffx2]

Typical G4 personality

[@TrevRockOne]

Please stop saying benefactor when you mean beneficiary. They have opposite meanings.

[@iceman4169]

Great 👍🏻 video nice 👍🏻 hype!!!!!!!!!!!

[@Dividius]

Jirard is yet another KZbin fraud

[@BradsGonnaPlay]

Saddest part of all of this as more info drops is that it almost certainly was 100% unintentional *criminal* fraud. And that’s no excuse for what has happened.

[@shadowofnoc5760]

looks like all the toxic garbage content creators are making their rounds regurgitating the same videos the people who discovered all of this already covered.

[@kungfuscubabape953]

Fraud

[@themodesthavel]

As long as the money goes to what he promised, I think it can be forgiven. A logical explanation as to why it wasn't being spent would be nice too. Best outcome for him would be if someone else was handling the Completionist's money without telling him the truth.

[@leoz4484]

Don't forget the lost research time, the lost value of that money over ten years, the mysterious and inconsistent expenses they spent over that time period, and the fact that Jirard stated multiple times that the money being donated was actually being sent to the charities he mentioned, which it wasn't. He and his family run the company, and Jirard said in his interview with Muta, that he was directly informed of the money sitting there, over a year ago, yet he continued to raise money and claim that the money was being sent to charity. He lied to everyone who donated, and he allowed his family to do this without interference. People trusted him, he lied to them, and for all we know, the money isn't even there. Whether you're a fan of his or not, this is genuinely disappointing.

[@themodesthavel]

@@leoz4484 I agree it is disappointing. I'm just throwing out optimism as I don't there was any big malicious intent behind it if the money was never actually spent. Just a big fuck up. I don't put much stock into the interview as it's possible he didn't really have anything thought out to say. Hoping for an actual response (that's not an excuse or crappy apology) as to what happened soon. I'm not a fanboy or anything if anyone thinks I'm bias, not even subscribed. I do think viewers jump the gun on this stuff too quickly though. (Look at ProJared)

[@themodesthavel]

@@leoz4484 I agree it is disappointing. I'm just being optimistic in that I don't think there was any malicious intent if the money was never spent. I don't put much stock into the interview because it's possible that he didn't have anything thought-out or concrete to say at the time. Hoping for another response soon (that's not an excuse or crappy apology). Best thing he can do is explain it all, donate it, and throw in personal expense to make up for the depreciated value. I'm not a fanboy or anything if anyone was wondering. Not even subscribed. I do think people tend to jump the gun on stuff like this though (look at ProJared). Some more info could completely change how someone views the situation. No matter the response, it is disappointing on some level.

[@andreamarques8328]

I wouldnt say forgiven, like he shouldnt be considered a piece of shit like other scammer or smth but he shouldnt be trusted from now on either

[@Kaimax61]

Nope, He would still have lost trust of the people.

[@fetcherman13]

praying for jirard!

[@BlooJellyZ]

His mom must be turning over in her grave

[@leegrayrose]

Hey hey😋

[@systemid3864]

I think the fact that he didn't steal it, or spend it leads me to believe he didn't know it wasn't being donated.

[@atrocious7766]

You should go watch the actual video, you would know this is incorrect.

[@arglebargle5531]

He had a due diligence responsibility as a director of the charity. If you claim that you're dispersing donations and you're not, the fact that you didn't bother to check doesnt make it not a scam. He was in a position of trust and responsibility and he misled people for his own benefit. "I didn't know" is an excuse that didn't work when you have a responsibility to know.

[@ryanw217]

he admitted in the interview he knew about the money in 2021. thats atleast 2 years where he knew about the money and did nothing.

[@dp2791]

You’re wrong. He spent 125 000 of it over the years with no detailed accounting. It was under “admin costs”. Seems to me admin costs is the cost of all the gaming equipment, games, studio space…. In other words, things for him and nothing for the charity.

[@ghostsoup120]

Damn I’m early 😵‍💫