This Guy Faked a Disability and Now He Wants Your Money

[@zephronias]

Even ignoring the guy's serious social missteps, this dude doesn't get how shady his charity looks. The website is broken and mostly empty of anything you'd expect from a reputable charity, they help one person a month (so, twelve a year. Got it.) and he even says they deposit it directly into a person's paypal. No oversite, no followup-- the dude is running a lottery, not a charity.

[@Hash1Suspect]

I filed an official complaint with the FTC because they handle fake charities 😇

[@happy--radio]

Not to mention the application form asks for your 1040 tax document? That's really odd to me

[@blane2472]

A lottery where you have to beg to be included in the draw..

[@vaikjsf34a]

rightoids need not apply. It sounds like he linked the PP to his _personal_ account. He needs to take 501c3 docs to a bank and set up a business account. Also needs to give money to recipients via check or bank draft. Paypal sending outbound is sketchy for a charity, also easy for the charity to be scammed. Funny enough if he had pictures handing out checks on website, he would build credibility.

[@notreally-sf3df]

Yeah, to add onto this really good comment; He's using words in a grandstanding way, people don't like that. 1) We've been officially recognized by the government 2) Why do companies that make 10-30m million talk to me and not these people? 3) I gave advice and i told him that he does have a few weeks to change his taxes and donate to me Those things can be accidents, but he's saying them with conviction. Don't fucking do that, get over yourself.

[@willy_b_coyote]

It’s not a good year to be named Jake

[@jasoncoward-aintscared]

Never was!

[@xoglitter7845]

This guy also just proposed to his girlfriend on an international trip with a sizable rock. He couldn’t have used that money to help people like he expects everyone else to do??

[@low-keydrama1260]

Did he really? If so then he's a massive hypocrite

[@camrunner6633]

But that's his money

[@jadesgay444]

@@camrunner6633 well yes, but that still kind of hypocritical. if he cares so much about this charity hed be just as willing to donate to it as he expects everyone else to be.

[@SkibidiSoldier-b9j]

Jake seems like someone who desperately wants connection with other creators. He tried making friends and joining H3's crew, and is now seeking validation from creators in regard to his charity. After Ethan ignored him he threw a fit and claimed he was faking a disease. Jake needs some kind of therapy because he's obviously not well.

[@kurama1363]

I'm honestly concerned for his Wife/Fiancee, If my significant other acted like this i would be so put off by them that i would end the relationship. Jake clearly has some stuff he needs to work on. (I'm not sure if he's married yet i dont really want to put energy into finding info on this beggar)

[@ItalianTheStallion]

i honestly kinda wonder if the “charity” money is just going to himself, he says a lot he needs money and he seems very very desperate to get people to donate to his charity, while the site also claims only 10% of sales on merch goes to the charity

[@belcanto116]

I’ve been worried all day about how vocal I’ve been about this on Twitter

[@ItalianTheStallion]

@ it’d be unsurprising if that was the case, i think the same about Nux having dirt on Muta but the only way to ever find out if these influencers were lying half the time is just figuring out a year after their off the internet

[@SkibidiSoldier-b9j]

I feel like it's more a way to send money to friends. With how vague the charity and no real proof it's done anything is it's either an accidental lottery or a way to make money for him and friends.

[@belcanto116]

In the hospital livestream, it feels like he’s all but telling us that the intended beneficiary of the charity is himself

[@ItalianTheStallion]

@@belcanto116 the thing that gets me is the part on the website that says “we give our money to the diagnosed, miss diagnosed, and everything in between” wtf does in between miss diagnosed and diagnosed mean that just means people not diagnosed and why even give them money? and the miss diagnosed why tf is he giving money to people diagnosed with the wrong thing? it makes no sense and to a everyday person just sounds scammy

[@talen-jei]

1. Having the chance to “give back” to the audience that made them doesn’t NEED to be via this guy’s organization. If that was really a valid argument, those KZbinrs might be donating to something else that gives back to their audience. Not that those KZbinrs should ever be forced to donate to their audience of course. 2. It’s actually a shame this video got so much backlash, because I’d really love to see the callout video where he names names of people whose money he feels entitled to.

[@vaikjsf34a]

I agree with #2 especially. That would be hilarious. "Chud has oodles of money but he didn't donate because he is selfish" 🤣

[@KigerrTLON]

Jake "PocketWatch" Dolittle

[@catalysts94]

even assuming Jake has no operation costs his charity is totally a scam. random lottery distributed via paypal with no follow up... he's either picking and choosing based on his own thoughts or it's totally random, neither of which are a good outcome.

[@kinghenry666]

Or option 3, he is just pocketing the money

[@catalysts94]

@@kinghenry666 for real he has no testimonies even.

[@GREEDONOMICS]

I hope bowblax applies for never stop help

[@Shambley1]

He has over 300k subs and he's not making enough to have an extra $500 a month?Making me feel rich over here with my normal bullshit job. I can afford $500 a month and I'm what most would consider a poor.

[@catalysts94]

dude should easily be middle class lol. how the fuck is he not making it with that many subs?

[@Hash1Suspect]

He's absolutely pocketing this money

[@DC_Warden]

The way he talked about the tax deduction portion of donating to charity makes me think he thinks you claim it back on tax as part of your return, not that it is subtracted from your taxable income. This is a really common sentiment and its so ill thought out. Might be different in the US. Big mama max energy also.

[@omidm.935]

That’s how it works in the US too

[@YonaMcBona]

chronic lyme is bs from what my doctor tells me, and even fibromyalgia is such a huge gray area. he diagnosed me with fibromyalgia, and i will admit i had been a bed blob for a couple years (thankfully i got out of it). my pain has reduced, its a real thing, but its a really complicated confusing condition if its a condition at all. this guy is pathetic and bro is quite literally enabling people to just give up and lay in bed all day. please dear god people, get an active hobby, get a job, find something you enjoy that isnt electronic based

[@GusBried]

Is it bs though? Cause it just sounds like a weird way to refer to Lyme disease... Which if not caught early is absolutely horrific, there are stories of people having their personality completely change over a couple months, get hallucinations, in addition to a lot of pain and chronic tiredness. And then there's a whole list of other very varied symptoms... And it's easy to miss it; once the tick is gone the doctor basically has to guess you need to be tested for it, because of how many different symptoms there are. Is the only evidence that he faked it calling it chronic Lyme? Cause that's not really evidence of anything...

[@iz2333]

​@@GusBried If you have lyme disease it's called lyme disease and if you suffer long term consequences from an infection with lyme disease it's post treatment lyme disease syndrome. "Chronic lyme disease" specifically refers to a fake disease. It's a pseudomedical term people use even when there's no evidence that they were ever infected and no link has ever been found between a persistent infection and the symptoms they report, it's total bs.

[@YonaMcBona]

@@GusBried its evidence of making shit up cause chronic lyme disease isnt real. also doctors have to guess? yea its an easy guess for doctors to do, most GUESSED it immediately for my diagnosis as well. maybe he did have lyme disease, but there is no evidence whatsoever it can be chronic according to my doctors, like i itterated earlier. I'm not an expert, im repeating what i have been told by experts, not simping for some soyboy charity case.

[@ataridc]

man the greediness and entitlement of youtubers is absolutely astounding. if you do something for someone and don't setup an agreement before hand, you aren't owed anything. you just don't do a good deed to sit there rubbing your hands together about how you're going to use this good deed to put pressure on that person to help you.

[@Austin.Kilgore]

34:34 Ahh yes, a one time donation of $500… some truly life changing stuff we’re talking about here!

[@catalysts94]

what a paltry amount of money, assuming he even gets enough donors to distribute that amount.

[@ravener96]

Thats like the beer budget of a second rate alcoholic

[@PPeeDaster]

Wait, your real name isn't Chud Logic?...

[@AvidanTheExpositor]

Sweepy McBroomsalot

[@simon123222]

Jake doesn't understand how much people have to donate in order for it to contribute towards their taxes, or he does know and was hoping to extort these friends of his for 10's of thousands of dollars to make him and his charity look better. Vile.

[@daytwaqua]

Does this guy have a pocket watch as an item in his merch store? I would be seriously surprised, as pocketwatching seems to be his favorite hobby.

[@amoongoos]

Could anyone report this guy to IRS? Someone should investigate his charity

[@Hash1Suspect]

You can report it on the FTC website, I filed an official complaint and I encourage others to do so as well

[@Jst.a.Normal.Bottle.of.Mustard]

I wonder how much that painting and cat tower in that room costs? 🤔

[@Jomi91]

His cat has Lyme disease, stop pocketwatching him 😠

[@rahallde]

How many people working on giving 500.- away per month.

[@ainulvr9808]

I'm gonna be very clear about that charity and tax thing here. It's easy, really, just ask yourself one question. It's not much of a charity if you just get all the money back now, is it? Or another easy question. Why the fuck would the government just completely reimburse you for giving away money that you wanted to give away?

[@catalysts94]

it would be one hell of an incentive if they did reimburse us lol.

[@vaikjsf34a]

THIS GUY AGAIN Harmful Opinions did a video on him! He needs to learn how charities operate. Take a portion of the funds and set them aside for charity operations to continue next year. The funds are used for events, dinners, advertising, travel, etc. Then instead of sending paypal funds which is sketchy, you fly in and deliver by hand a check/bank draft to the recipient. Then you can ask to take a picture handing the check and put on your website for building credibility. Also it sounds like he linked his PP to his personal account, he might be comingling funds. If that is the case he needs to take his 501c3 documents to a bank and set up a business account for the charity.

[@griggletv6974]

He’s charity is a scam as well the majority goes into his pocket

[@rodrigoybanez8148]

So this is basically the Open Hand Foundation.

[@TaoScribble]

The fact that he keeps bringing up big KZbinrs and how much they make and offsetting taxes just proves that this "charity" was never a genuine one. It's for clout, NOT helping people.

[@sqronce]

Chud is wrong about how tax brackets work. Only the extra money beyond the threshold is taxed at the higher percent, so there will never be a situation where the charitable donation saves you more than it costs. (The only arguments for it are things like it being beneficial to the business in other ways like perceived good will by the community, which I don't think would be the case giving to Never Stop Scammin' as the charity of choice.)

[@ravener96]

You could conceivably conceal some parts of your operation under a charity, and have the money from the charity both be tax free and somehow flow back to the parent company. Im thinking of something in the lines of "laptops for childrens hospitals" type deal where a company can donate laptops for tax credit and then sell support to the hospitals getting the laptops to recoup.

[@Usagi393]

Go ahead and name names 😂 Please tell us who you harassed for money and they said F off

[@xoglitter7845]

Someone needs to tell Jake that self managed charity vs. creators with sponsors is not the kind of class warfare we’re talking about in the US right now

[@TenTeto]

You're allowed to joke about anything. Especially if it's personal. Some ppl joke about things they're nervous or scared about to take the weight off just a bit.

[@samuelhofer7099]

What's really crazy is this guy did this TWICE, like bro, come on

[@bilson7523]

I like how, at no point, does Jake consider maybe the problems is him. It never crosses his mind someone might hear his pitch and think: "Wow, that's a dumb charity." It makes him look like a childish amateur at best, and a scam artist at worst.

[@kompst_tu]

Jake is acting like hes the one directly receiving the money. I bet this charity is a scam and he's the paypal account it goes to. Hes getting so angry over people not donating as though its him that its going to

[@camrunner6633]

You can bet your life he would pay himself a fat CEO wage

[@vaikjsf34a]

That "a lot of crossover" argument is moot, "if there is so much crossover" then why not ask YOUR viewers directly instead of bothering the creators that you have crossover with? You have direct access to the same viewers ...

[@raptorprimal1077]

Usually smart charities try set up events like local fun activities themselves, it doesn't even have to be huge, he could just set up some tombola or something

[@Austin.Kilgore]

41:13 LMFAO!

[@scuffy-muffy8652]

dude i remember watching this jake guy grow.. then now this, just sad

[@NocturnalNick]

if you donate $200 you'd increase your tax bill by $15k

[@raptorprimal1077]

Plot Twist. It's Jake Weddle's GF in disguise

[@ashleigh9659]

Im assuming this level of vocal fry is like the i swear im not a soy boy tone or something

[@PrismTheKid]

Imagine damaging your throat just from the cringy way you learned to talk rather than a real way like a smoking habit or being a metal singer

[@ashleigh9659]

@PrismTheKid could just stop drinking soy and maybe it lower a few octaves and they wouldn't have to pretend

[@catalysts94]

@@PrismTheKid real metal singers don't fuck up their voices bruh.

[@spaceghost8886]

@@catalysts94all that gluck gluck gluck is going to mess up YOUR throat bro

[@mcnultyssobercompanion6372]

I'm no fan of Doolittle, he's clearly deranged, but how do we know he's faking being disabled? That's an intense claim to drop in a video title. And he's definitely e-begged pretty shamelessly/shamefully....but for his charity. The title seems to imply otherwise.

[@OfficialAshePenndale]

Yeah that was an INSANE assumption on Chud’s part. Unless we see Jake’s medical records (that he can legally share) I’m not going to say he is or is faking, but saying that an entire group are faking is…certainly a take. Yikes.

[@TheMarquisLovenorn]

@@OfficialAshePenndale Chronic Lyme Disease is likely fake so unless a study proves otherwise.

[@shadowwizarddrip]

More like Jake Doolittle work as possible

[@yvettetheefestiveprincess7561]

no way you are actually claiming that Lyme disease isnt real 😭

[@jasoncoward-aintscared]

37:44 He could have meant he wanted to protect his finances. Not go broke.

[@ZERODAYED]

I use to listen to his videos what the flip guys

[@sfpt]

Y

[@SFStransit]

NeverStop better stop

[@McGather]

I believe Never Stop is a Scam

[@ziplockbaggies8707]

Jake saved my life. If it wasn’t for him, I would have never been able to convince my doctor I have cronic lime dizease. With his help, I’m now making 39,000 $ a year from the government

[@buzzymodes2818]

Lets goooo🎉

[@ErensBittenHand]

RAAAH

[@AmyS1414]

as a disabled person, I fully support this take 🫡😂. I can’t stand ppl like jake who just want to be victims so badly. we’re not victims, most of us don’t want pity and just wanna be left alone, no one asked this dude to be a spokesperson. (and sidenote: I don’t wanna be a Jake & gatekeep but I have doubts about his health claims)