The Completionist Is a Scammer, Apparently

[Beige]

I would be willing to entertain the idea that this guy is just a gullible, ignorant, incompetent moron if it wasn't for the "I knew about it a year or two ago, and have been looking for a new charity." line of bullshit that he fed Karl and Mutahar.

The only way this dude could've possibly mitigated any semblance of personal responsibility was to go full-bore "Yah Hona, I'm just dumb as hell" from the very beginning. But instead, he's trying to balance this middle ground where he knew, but he didn't know until recently (as if it fucking matters).

My initial feeling was that this is just an ego/money thing; trying to walk the tightrope between not completely betraying his fans' confidence by looking like an idiot, and minimizing actual legal damage, inevitably fucking up both in the process. But given his brother's involvement, I think he can't plead total ignorance, because he'd be throwing his own family under the bus to save himself.

No way to walk it back now.
Prime example of why every lawyer in history tells you to keep your mouth shut. He's totally fucked.

 

[Picnic_Boy]

It makes sense when you realize JonTron's former associates are actually his Star Trek "Skin of Evil" creature.

 

[Rat Runner]

There's no way all that money is sitting safely in a bank account somewhere. Embezzlers very often start small and consider themselves the good guys. "I'm the person who raises all the money for the charity and I really need a new gaming rig" or "we just need to borrow some money for a down payment on a house." "The channel keeps growing, I'll be able to pay this back in no time." And then once someone writes themselves a check and they don't get in any trouble, other family members will feel entitled to some as well. They'll pat themselves on the back for raising awareness for dementia research and consider the actual donations secondary. Once you start down that path it becomes easier and easier to justify.

Maybe someone has a drawer full of IOUs or something, but unless these people are the most financially conservative people I've ever heard of, I do not believe they have been ignoring more than half a million dollars in idle cash under their control all this time. At best they are currently scrambling to figure out how to pay the money back before the audit starts so they can at least offer the "we didn't know it was improper to make short-term loans to ourselves" excuse.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

My hypothesis is that they expect someone in the family to get or develop dementia or it runs in their family, so I'm thinking the money is something they were going to use for future medical expenses.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

Muta is a leech who feeds on drama, but Carl is the part that confuses me. Why him? He's an autist who talks about speedrunners, not a king-killer. Something about HOW they did this smells wrong. Jirard is a cunt who stole money, but I would wager that neither Muta or Carl are the heroes either.

Karl is not that much different from other Youtube drama whores. He may be more soft-spoken than your average speedrunning autist but leaping head-first into gaming drama is not out of character for him.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

I just caught that a majority of the people involved with the charity are "employed" family members.

Now I'm really curious if someone in the family was using the account as a slush fund. Especially since they all come from a rather wealthy LA family that always seemed to have money behind the scenes.

Aka: This is going to blow up. IGN is now reporting on it and I'm betting we'll see CNN/MSN soon.

I'm new to these people but not non-profit fraud. Keeping friends/family on the payroll is a big reason a lot of non-profits exists. Especially pro athlete's "foundations." There's also a ton of personal tax write-offs they'll get for "donating" their time to the events. All of those trips he took were paid for by the charity and every dollar he spent is a write-off. The big question is if the money raised is actually still there in a bank account somewhere. If he can't demonstrate that today then it's not there. Even if it is there are a ton of ways he could personally profit from running a charity.

I haven't looked at the Form 990's but salaries are supposed to be in it. Karl's video suggests $11k in total expenses doesn't sound like anyone is on the payroll.

 

[Bonesjones]

This whole thing brings to mind one other thing:

People have been saying for years that Awesome Games Done Quick is a scam that actually pockets most of the money it makes. To my knowledge, that has never been verified.

But now my brain holds one of two thoughts, and they're contradictory:

Possibility A) just looking at how big a deal this thing with the Completionist is, maybe AGDQ is actually legitimate because surely if it is a scam it would've blown up and been even bigger?

Possibility B) It's coming, and will probably be exposed by another Mutahar or Karl Jobst video once he finally decides that exposing scams is his job.

Should we be placing bets?

Many years ago someone who worked for AGDQ said that they did donate all the money to the place they said they did, they just got kicked back a decent sized portion of it. So they raised a million, and got 200k back for expenses. Which explains the tranny takeover, since they wanted to kick everyone out except their tranny friends so they could all get paid for it.

 

[ShitLurker]

He's a progressivist, he will always be with cancelers as long as it's not him. Despite what happened with his ex wife, he's still a lefty conformist, he doesn't have mental framework to understand that his beliefs were the reason of his trouble, i doubt he even understands his beliefs, he's simply following the crowd.
Also, HE'S PROGRESSIVE, it's a given that he would engage in degenerate sexual activities, and so would everyone else who's with him on the same page.

Fucking amazed he failed to learn anything from what happened. Keep on trucking till the next time you send your dick to where you shouldn't bird thing.

 

[Tsukasa Kadoya]

Karl is not that much different from other Youtube drama whores. He may be more soft-spoken than your average speedrunning autist but leaping head-first into gaming drama is not out of character for him.

I meant to ask why would someone ask Carl to look into this. Muta being dragged into this makes sense since he lives for dumb drama he can make money off of, and he has a wide reach that normies comprise the majority of.
Carl? He's a speedrunning sperg. His reach is barely the size of Mutas. Yes he's exposed gaming frauds like Billy Mitchell, but if I were someone who wanted to tarnish Jirard's name I would have gone for someone like Charlie (who is a bottomfeeder like Muta but has a massive reach).

My hypothesis is that they expect someone in the family to get or develop dementia or it runs in their family, so I'm thinking the money is something they were going to use for future medical expenses.

INB4 Jirard has Alzheimer's.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

I meant to ask why would someone ask Carl to look into this. Muta being dragged into this makes sense since he lives for dumb drama he can make money off of, and he has a wide reach that normies comprise the majority of.
Carl? He's a speedrunning sperg. His reach is barely the size of Mutas. Yes he's exposed gaming frauds like Billy Mitchell, but if I were someone who wanted to tarnish Jirard's name I would have gone for someone like Charlie (who is a bottomfeeder like Muta but has a massive reach).

INB4 Jirard has Alzheimer's.

Karl's views and engagement exploded with the WATA exposes a couple years ago and then Billy Mitchell drama so he's doing more of it, that's all. The expenses from Mitchell's lawsuit have helped fuel the drama-bait as well.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Karl's views and engagement exploded with the WATA exposes a couple years ago and then Billy Mitchell drama so he's doing more of it, that's all. The expenses from Mitchell's lawsuit have helped fuel the drama-bait as well.

The Mitchell obsession reminded me of how James Randi would be obsessed with Uri Geller, yes he's an obvious fraud, but a boring one, get back to your regularly scheduled programming, I want more hour long videos about Goldeneye glitches that save 2 seconds in a speedrun.

 

[owTwo]

Jirard has done very retarded things, very fatly, but Mutahir is fatter, retardeder, and somehow even more gay than a guy who is dating a they/them and worked for nuG4.

And while Jirard is fat, he is also as earnest as he is rotund. The money is still at least likely just sitting safely, albeit inappropriately, in a bank account somewhere, and assertions otherwise are

 

[MembersSchoolPizza]

I dunno, on the one hand, something about this guy always rubbed me the wrong way. I never watched his content for more than a couple minutes here or there, but I was aware of it because he seemed to orbit some of the same online gravity wells of personality as other people I did watch.

On the other hand, the eternal optimist inside me hates that I really don't find this hard to believe. He always seemed like a nice guy, even if he rubbed me the wrong way personally.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

I haven't looked at the Form 990's but salaries are supposed to be in it. Karl's video suggests $11k in total expenses doesn't sound like anyone is on the payroll.

Just gave it a quick glance and the filings up until 2021 show $0 for the salaries of the officers and none for any other employee is stated in the 990 itself:

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/300827510

One of the frustrating things about researching non-profits is that their financials aren't due for like 18 months after the end of the fiscal year so you're always a couple years behind reality. Karl's video shows the 2022 filing, I'm not sure where he got that.

 

[Bonesjones]

The Mitchell obsession reminded me of how James Randi would be obsessed with Uri Geller, yes he's an obvious fraud, but a boring one, get back to your regularly scheduled programming, I want more hour long videos about Goldeneye glitches that save 2 seconds in a speedrun.

James Randi was a pedophile and active pedophile defender. What with being on the board of the false memory foundation, formed when a psychologist's daughter said he raped her, so he said she was making it up.

Just gave it a quick glance and the filings up until 2021 show $0 for the salaries of the officers and none for any other employee is stated in the 990 itself:

The usual scam is not to take payment but to use the charity for things like expensive dinners or pay for multipurpose expenses like business computers or software. Scammy but still under the radar.

I think whoever said they were holding it in anticipation of other family members getting dementia so they could "donate" it to the most likely hospital was on the right track.

 

[FierceBrosnan]

His name is Karl Jobst because he puts people out of their jobs.

Karl Jobn't amirite?

 

[Squawking Macaw]

I meant to ask why would someone ask Carl to look into this. Muta being dragged into this makes sense since he lives for dumb drama he can make money off of, and he has a wide reach that normies comprise the majority of.
Carl? He's a speedrunning sperg. His reach is barely the size of Mutas. Yes he's exposed gaming frauds like Billy Mitchell, but if I were someone who wanted to tarnish Jirard's name I would have gone for someone like Charlie (who is a bottomfeeder like Muta but has a massive reach).

That may actually be why. Karl's feud with Billy Mitchell and Wata Games gave him a lot of credibility. He's an average youtuber who persistently went after powerful people who could ruin him financially and it painted this image of a trustworthy guy who's willing to do the right thing even if it costs him. Sure, he's not as popular as Charlie, but his accusations carry some weight, and Jirard will have a hard time getting rid of them.
Besides, Charlie will hop in on the bandwagon once it gets big enough, no need to warn him first.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

James Randi was a pedophile and active pedophile defender. What with being on the board of the false memory foundation, formed when a psychologist's daughter said he raped her, so he said she was making it up.

The usual scam is not to take payment but to use the charity for things like expensive dinners or pay for multipurpose expenses like business computers or software. Scammy but still under the radar.

I think whoever said they were holding it in anticipation of other family members getting dementia so they could "donate" it to the most likely hospital was on the right track.

The filings don't show that though only listing $11k as total expenses for the year. If they had actually donated the money they claim to be sitting on (or do still donate it) that'd be something like a 90% ratio of donations to expenses and would put them in the top tier of charities.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

James Randi was a pedophile and active pedophile defender. What with being on the board of the false memory foundation, formed when a psychologist's daughter said he raped her, so he said she was making it up.

James Randi was a homo all his life so I doubt he raped a girl

 

[Hortikekulture]

can someone try and figure out how long this guy could go to prison for.
running a fake charity for about 10 years can't seem good legal wise.
it would be one thing if every penny was accounted for, but he spent 125K on administrative bullshit.

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/charity-fraud.html

jirard is not only fucked legally, but his ass can get creamed in civil court as well.
he may have to pay money back to everyone who donated.

edit: it could take feds time to build a case and charge him, but with his mere admission on that video with karl and mutahar, dude could be civilly sued immediately. you could file it in court today, and by friday he could be served. assuming you donated to the charity and can claim damages from that.

Now he has to 100% his prison sentence