I found myself typing “It’s a wonder her showbiz chums haven’t set up a gofundme for poor Kate” yesterday, ..
“Site for unworthy lowlifes such as it is, I doubt they say no to much”.
Imagine my surprise when I took a brief aside, typed it into the ISaC search bar & found no direct hits.
I don’t particularly know MUCH about them, but what I DO surmise, is that by what they allow on their platform(s), they must be cunts.
Which suits THIS site’s raison d’être.
Like a lot of things, I reckon perhaps the initial motivation behind GFM was good intentions ; like most things if that’s the case then it’s been bastardized to bits & had the good taken out of it by the greedy/selfish/rotten/awful percentage of humanity.
Funerals and; ‘associated costs’ for dead criminals/scumbags was mostly what I knew it for, from news reports. “A Gofundme has been started” the words adorning practically any story where an undesirable met their demise.
Outright scammers, as well. Untruthful sob stories in a nutshell. Par for the online course, of course. No fee to start one up. And why would they stop you … they lift 3% from registered chariddies (from the donated amount as it comes in, even if an overall target isn’t met. 8% in the all other cases). Well, from what 2 mins on Google just told me. So a twelfth, roughly.
Then there’s the millionaires that use the likes. Zach Braff and Robert Trujillo two people who jump to mind, crowdfunding for vanity projects to the tune of 2 million apiece while Forbes reckoned each could have drawn down 2 million respectively from their personal accounts and still had 23 million left over each at the time(s)
. I can find no residual details on Trujillo’s one bar a general mention (“Pledgemusic”), but I do remember posting the second – and highly irreverent – reaction to it on Metallica’s own message boards at the time … the fastest taking-down of a post in earthly history!
(“Grampappy always said let multi-millionaires indulge their own hobbies & interests, a doctrine I just can’t shake unfortunately”)
Of course, for every cunt with the hand OUT, there must be a bunch of folk with wallet in hand… paypigs is the associated phrase, I believe. Well intentioned, I suppose, .. but in the world we live in …naive and gullible is probably more accurate for the most part.
South Park gave them(GFM) the works in 2014, but I never see any condemnation of it generally. Maybe cunters have the knowledge to correct me and/or prove my hunch wrong?
And finally .. Just last weekend I learned 2 pornstars (of whom I was aware) will be a-porning no more. Emily Willis is in a coma, and probably not long for this world, .. and Kagney Lynn Carter went down on a shotgun a few months ago. Guess what! One GFM for the former ; the star of over 700 scenes … and THREE separate ongoing ones for the latter, already dead & buried…two by some of her ‘friends’ .. for a memorial they claim. 28K in the pot for Ms.Willis so far, 11K for the other.
Does anyone keep an eye on what the money actually gets spent on? .. Is it binding in any way? Is it fuck, I reckon.
Anyways, ..I’m not heading towards any particular point with this, so over to the rest of you …
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Wasn’t sure of an angle to come from with the link … settled on this one outlining the backlash at Zach Braff’s Kickstarter – which met its $2 million goal in no time, and cunts still kept throwing money at it up to 2.6 million. Nice little earner for all concerned on the receiving end.
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Nominated by: Cunt’emAll