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The Completionist Charity Scam

I want it stated here that I am neither a lawyer or financial expert so I can’t give any kind of advice or thoughts on that and can only look at the evidence presented and form my own opinion. Ten years ago the youtuber Jirad the Completionist started the Open Hand foundation to collect money for the Alziemers Association and other Dementia help organizations. Or that was the idea, Karl Jobst and Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers two other youtubers started investigating the ‘charity’ and by checking IRS tax forms discovered that they never moved money from Open Hand to anywhere. Karl and Mutahar later called him out on the filings and Jirard finally donated the money due to public pressure. Now Jirard was credited with giving a lot of lesser known Youtubers their start and boost in the community. Caddicarus, The Game Theroists, Peanut Butter Gamer, Projared, among others are at least familiar or directly tied to him. Now being fair I don’t know if they were aware of the situation entirely and I would hope they look into it with an open mind before saying anything. What is more is Indieland was amazing for lessor known developers to show off their game and gain attention to their projects that they rightly deserved. Jirard is well liked in the community and for some it is hard to imagine malicious intent, alternatively that opens up the most incompetently run business then. Jirard states he didn’t want the money going to a CEO or used for something other than research. That is fair, but why did it take ten years for one donation he stated he wanted a restricted donation then just have it set as a restricted donation tons of places have settings that allow donations to be restricted including the Alziemers Association. Why would that be so difficult? And why did it take ten years? There is no doubt that he did a lot for the community, but there is also the possibility that 600,000 dollars of other peoples money given under false pretenses also exists. Whether you want to judge malice or incompetence is irrelevant due to the fact Karl Jobst and Mutahar both provide evidence in their videos and the Completionist sadly doesn’t. He plays the sympathy card multiple times even trying to use an autopsy report as evidence, but that is just disrespectful and trying to use his late mother as a shield for his own mistakes. One thing you keep reading is that people keep saying he is so nice he has no reason to scam people. I think this is the same thing people were saying about Sam Bankman Fried and he is currently on trial for Fraud so can we stop with that excuse clearly it doesn’t matter how kind someone is outright if they can they will still steal money.

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