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

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Clbull@lemmy.world to c/games@lemmy.world

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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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[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago

Watched it too, fan of both channels so this is strange.

There is a possibility that Jirard just wasn't in the loop and didn't know, but someone was (brother?) But regardless this is very suspect.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

He quickly corrected himself and said 2022.

[-] woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It's still a year later by now.

[-] underwire212@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] 108@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

He admitted to taking money out for reimbursement, how the hell did he not know?

[-] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah he had no qualms with 12k-30k annually being taken out for "expenses".

[-] 108@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

I don’t know about anyone else but I usually check my account before taking out anything over a certain amount. Especially if it was in the thousands as he says.

[-] badaboomxx@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not sure, he told that he was aware on 2022, but in 2023 he said that they donated to several associations.

Everything is really weird.

[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

I don't see how there's any good explanation though for having a website quote thanking them for donating from someone who was fired for money issues 7 years prior.

[-] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

How in the fuck could he not be aware? It’s his channel isn’t it?

[-] blargerer@kbin.social 8 points 10 months ago

It seems like his brother was running things at the charity. Its plausible he just asked his brother where the money was going and trusted him.

[+] Coreidan@lemmy.world -12 points 10 months ago

That’s a huge stretch. You must be in denial.

No reason to defend him he’s just a stranger on the internet. He owes you nothing.

They are both in on it. Fucking bros for crying out loud.

[-] blargerer@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago

I think I've watched maybe 2 The Completionist videos ever. I'm not in denial about anything here. I am waiting for the other side to respond, and possibly for the IRS to get involved before any final judgement. I just know his brothers statement sounded incredibly sketchy. Like I wouldn't be surprised if he was embezzling money from the charity sketchy, while Jirard seemed genuine. Maybe Jirard is just a better actor/more charismatic, it is his job after all. Time will tell.