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- Feb 28, 2021
That's a Trapstar London t-shirt from their 2018 "Island Nights" collection.I could be wrong and way overthinking this, but there's a possibility that Penny is up to a new scam. Need feedback, please!
15 hours ago, Penny tweeted about a GoFundMe campaign for a black trans kid in Arlington, Texas. He also retweeted it from the Tranch account.
https://twitter.com/SteampunkPenny/status/1535099119160569857 [archive]
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/single-mom-and-trans-kid-emergency-crowdfunding [archive]
This feels very strange to me. The Tranch is broke and has been severely neglecting their own grift GFMs, so why is Penny tweeting about this? At least with the Oglala Lakota situation, there was at least some plausibility that he had a personal friend among the tribe and they decided to grift together, but how does Penny know this random black family in Texas?
Even more strange, I cannot find the source for this GFM campaign. If you do a twitter search for this GFM, Penny is the only person who has tweeted about it. Where are the people responsible for setting it up? This "Charity Jelani" person? I can't find anything about them on the Internet. Maybe I'm just bad at searching, but I really can't find anything.
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Note that the GFM was created 2 days ago.
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Here are all of the donations so far. Notice that the first donation was 13 hours ago, which is after Penny tweeted about the GFM (15 hours ago).
So this GFM and the organizer seemingly have no Internet presence and had no donations until Penny tweeted about them. Where did he hear about them exactly?
Also, I've tried to reverse image search the GFM picture, but nothing turns up for that either.
I don't want to claim that Penny is scamming and that this is totally fake, but I'm certainly suspicious. "Black trans kid trying to escape bigoted, anti-trans Texas" hits all the right notes for a scam, especially with it being so light on details. I'm mainly confused on why I can't find the organizer of the GFM on social media. Wouldn't they at least tweet about it on their own account?

Trapstar London do limited drops that go for about £40-£50 ($50-$60) for t-shirts and they charge £15 for shipping to the US (so total cost for one t-shirt could be like $80). I don't think they're really in stores.
Seems like a bit of a strange thing for the child of a struggling single mother to own (although I guess it could be second hand off Depop or whatever, they're a hype brand and have been worn by the likes of Rihanna and Jay-Z).