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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 2 years ago (15 children)

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.

[–] underwire212@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] 108@kbin.social 3 points 2 years 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.

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