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Qikz wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Squinty wrote:It's also worrying how invested people become YouTubers. They are not your friends.

There's a difference between the social relationship we have over the forum and the parasocial relationship people have with youtube creators and streamers.

Pedz wrote:I've actually met more people via Twitch than from here.

Pedz wrote:I have made friends on Twitch and met up with them in real life

I've actually met more people via Twitch than from here.

Qikz wrote:

Pedz wrote:I have made friends on Twitch and met up with them in real life

I've actually met more people via Twitch than from here.

I think you might be in the minority, unless you specifically mean you made friends with smaller streamers which I think is more than possible. Watching smaller streamers is kinda like watching a completely different website. When you start hitting partnered streamers who are hitting 500+ average viewers the chance of that happening is woefully small because at that point most of the streamers have passed the threshold of even attempting to make friends with their viewers and will then instead be using the site to try and get more viewers/make money while keeping an air of friendship without actually caring about any one viewer individually.

I'm sure there are streamers who do care, but to actually become friends you need a good period of interaction with someone and for streamers over a certain level it's just never going to happen I feel.

Vermilion wrote:

Pedz wrote:I've actually met more people via Twitch than from here.

I've met no one from here, or twitch.

rinks wrote:

Vermilion wrote:

Pedz wrote:I've actually met more people via Twitch than from here.

I've met no one from here, or twitch.

That’s what you think.

I just watched the video and I'm impressed. It's a great example of a PR crafted statement meant to deflect and portray the subject as the victim. And it's working wonderfully, even among jaded era members lol.

- Make an appeal to the emotional side by telling everyone that you made a great sacrifice by donating your mother's organs to science and research.
- Provide answers and receipts for things nobody was asking for (Who the strawberry float was arguing about whether OHF was a private foundation or a public charity?? obviously that was not the issue at all!)
- Explain why you didn't donate the money until he was called out for it with a "oops, my bad. SOWWY"
- Provide the total amounts fundraised for one specific year, and then get fuzzy about the others (It was COVID, you guys! and then people took so long to send the money we had to declare it the next fiscal year!).
- Casually mention that the Golf Tournament was to "bring awareness" instead of fundraising (all those signs saying it benefitted the OHF were a "clerical error" too, I guess).
- Once again, backtrack about how ALL the money was going to be donated by now claiming that all these events cost a lot, and obviously it had to be paid from the fundraised money (As passionate as Jirard is about this, he seems to be very reluctant to put his own money where his mouth is. It's easier to be charitable with other people's money, I guess)
- Provide some figures about 2023's fundraised money. Still not give an answer about whether they're going to donate this money.
- Claim that all is above board (without providing receipts about this, fancy that) and if there are any "mistakes", they're just "clerical errors". And by the way guys, I'm not in the charity board anymore. But everything is super duper fine and that's not cause for concern at all.
- Get indignant about people besmirching your reputation and your family's good name. Threaten to sue for *checks notes* being accused of not donating fundraised money that he's on record claiming was being donated and *checks notes again* for noting that there are many inconsistencies with the money declared and the actual money fundraised, aka FRAUD.

*Edited for typos and because there were so many hilarious statements that I forgot a few.

This has done very little to convince me of anything, in fact, the very rehearsed and calculated nature of this statement makes me distrust him even more. I think it's smart that he's seeking legal counsel, don't get me wrong, but I also think that the kind of statement that one gives when they truly have nothing to hide and the kind of statement that someone who wants to keep things from coming out gives are really different, and you can guess which kind I think Jirard just made.