The Completionist Is a Scammer, Apparently

[Scarlett Johansson]

I'm more surprised Jared isn't bi because he def gives off vibes

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

Jared cross-dresses. Why wouldn't I assume he'd fuck dudes?

 

[ShitLurker]

LEAVE JIRARD ALONE, HE PLAYED FNAF TILL MENTAL COLLAPSE!

No matter how many times you see this it's still a shock how people can be such suckers and give someone like this the benefit of the doubt. There are quite a few lengthy cope posts trying to defend him on reddit as well.

Good ol parasocial relationships and people having a hard time letting go of people whose content they enjoy. I remember sort of defending Fedrick on why he was taking so long on his autism opus of EVE, but once the VTuber shit came out it was clear I was in the wrong there and reevaluated. A shit ton of people have a very hard time with that reevaluation step. A ton of people see him like that "broken hairy teddy bear that completes games and is oooh soooo nice!" not as "son of millionaires that seem to be specialized charity grifters". I didn't know a fraction of the stuff that came out in this thread and I already thought the guy was a fake ass mental case.

I'm more surprised Jared isn't bi because he def gives off vibes

There's the cursed Sailor Mercury cosplay, I'd be very surprised if he hadn't "experimented".

 

[Vapid_Idiot]

LEAVE JIRARD ALONE, HE PLAYED FNAF TILL MENTAL COLLAPSE!

Good ol parasocial relationships and people having a hard time letting go of people whose content they enjoy. I remember sort of defending Fedrick on why he was taking so long on his autism opus of EVE, but once the VTuber shit came out it was clear I was in the wrong there and reevaluated. A shit ton of people have a very hard time with that reevaluation step. A ton of people see him like that "broken hairy teddy bear that completes games and is oooh soooo nice!" not as "son of millionaires that seem to be specialized charity grifters". I didn't know a fraction of the stuff that came out in this thread and I already thought the guy was a fake ass mental case.

There's the cursed Sailor Mercury cosplay, I'd be very surprised if he hadn't "experimented".

I love pressing people on their declarations of his innocence. Simply asking them for explanations either has them outright lie, deny, deploy straw men, or have the weakest fucking excuses for this bullshit.

Why has he been silent?
Because he needs to lawyer up!
But why does he need to lawyer up?
Because he needs to be advised on legal matters!
What legal matters?
Uhhh ummm well Mutahar made a Nazi joke in a discord stream once!!!

It’s amazing to see this many people mindbroken over this. I wonder if someone will kill themselves over this fat bearded Lebanese grifter.

 

[Triggerni66er]

I love pressing people on their declarations of his innocence. Simply asking them for explanations either has them outright lie, deny, deploy straw men, or have the weakest fucking excuses for this bullshit.

Why has he been silent?
Because he needs to lawyer up!
But why does he need to lawyer up?
Because he needs to be advised on legal matters!
What legal matters?
Uhhh ummm well Mutahar made a Nazi joke in a discord stream once!!!

It’s amazing to see this many people mindbroken over this. I wonder if someone will kill themselves over this fat bearded Lebanese grifter.

There were a series of tweets that Mutahar referenced on the Lolcow Podcast that he said pissed him off because of the insane mental gymnastics:

https://twitter.com/theLILWOOLEY/status/1724253564917133576

https://archive.is/wip/2sJ8n

What he says is that $600K is a miniscule amount compared to other donations that get made to charity and that the reason it's taken so long is that unless it's a huge figure it's very difficult to make sure that the money is actually used for Dementia research. He echoes Jirard and says that the money if donated would go to waste paying for doctors medical bills and other associated costs.

He tries to minimise Jirards involvement, saying that since he's not the only one on the board of the Charity perhaps his other family members are more discerning with where the money goes.

He then goes on to say that the poor quality of the filings like the lack of signatures and the lack of documentation is the fault of the CPA who perhaps aren't legally required to do their due diligence because the regulations may not matter since The Open Hand Foundation raises so little money.

I saw that this post was retweeted by someone who participated in Indieland and a few fans. I suspect that it gave some of the superfans a brief period of respite which will lapse once Jirard makes a response and the investigation starts.

He might have a point in that not all charities are ethical and some of them probably spend way too much on administration versus what they actually donate to research/charitable causes but that's completely irrelevant to the fact that Jirard sat on hundreds of thousands of dollars that was supposed to go to charity for ten years.

I also personally dislike how he mentions that it could go to paying a doctors wages as if somehow funding a doctor to perform lifesaving work wouldn't be a good way to spend money. If Jirard, Jacque, Charles etc were serious about specifically funding Dementia research they've had ten fucking years to find a suitable charity and try to negotiate with them!

How about The University of Canifornia San Francisco which is listed as a benefactor on this page despite there existing no records of any donations ever taking place and Jirard even admitting that not a single cent has been donated?

 

[Vapid_Idiot]

Lilwooleys bullshit is easily shot down with simple google searches and logic. The fact that the G4 woman retweeted this as some sort of check mate and verifiable proof of no wrongdoing clued me in that some people in Jirards circle are complicit in taking the illegal solicit funds directly from the Indieland money. The same thing with ProJareds whiplash response. I think the strategy was to try to overpower the negative revelations with the same tactics lefty’s always do: appeal to (unwarranted) authority, collaborative attempts to manipulate the narrative, and outright lying and gaslighting. The issue is it doesn’t matter any more what the public perception is anymore, it’s beyond that now, and they fucking know it.

After i watched a few Indieland clips I asked myself why all these women are surrounding Jirard, giggling, laughing, and all around acting like he is some sort of high quality great guy. Not to go down the incel road, but these women are only there because Jirard has money, power and influence. I would not put it past them to be stupid enough to accept Venmo/Cashapp payments directly from Jirard straight from the donation pool as soon as the cameras turned off to pay for their appearance/travel fees, etc. If that’s the case, they will be dragged into this, and they are not going to like it.

I can’t give any of these people the benefit of doubt, because time and time again, all of these influencers, journos, and YouTubers have exposed themselves as immoral, hypocritical, degenerate affluent brats who think they can do whatever they want.

 

[Triggerni66er]

More coverage: The Official Podcast hosted by MoistCritikal/Penguin0 and his co-hosts discussed the situation.

 

[Slamerella]

With the Jared situation brought up I guess it's up to me to talk about the Greg Wilmot situation.

Greg Wilmot was the original co-host of The Completionist. More like a Brak to Space Ghost in the talk show they had than a Jon to his Arin (and especially not Danny.) After 116 episodes, Greg left, and we don't know outside of "disagreements of how the business should be ran" which could either mean, Greg didn't like how The Completionist was going to become more corporate (Something Jirard wanted to do since the beginning since That One Video Gamer was his brand) or he simply didn't like the idea of it becoming more business like and saw it as a hobby. After a few years of his departure he came back to Jirard demanding that ALL 116 videos he did were to be deleted, for whatever reason, we have no idea. Getting rid of his internet image? lol sure buddy. Jirard got legal aide and said he can pursue this and even say that Greg isn't legally in the right to enact on this, but he inevitably ok'd it, and said that he'd instead work on remaking all 116 episodes under the new series "The Completionist New Game+". That's as far as that rabbit hole goes. Greg's been nothing but radio silent and absent on the internet. I don't even think he exhibited any "cowish" behavior outside of demanding that vids of him be taken down.

tl;dr, former Completionist Cohost left, demanded Jirard remove over 100 videos of the series that had him in it, Jirard complied and remade all those episodes with a new series.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

More coverage: The Official Podcast hosted by MoistCritikal/Penguin0 and his co-hosts discussed the situation.

Anyone else getting annoyed with taking at face value Completionist's statements that the money is just sitting there? Yes, Karl didn't have evidence that they'd 'pocketed it' so he didn't accuse him of more than that, but if the money was in fact still there, just sitting in a bank account, Completionist could quiet alot of the anger over this story by simply showing a bank statement. But I suspect that he can't because it's either all gone, or mostly gone, or heavily skimmed from. I don't think the fat fuck deserves the benefit of a doubt at this point, but the way these YTers all dance around it and adding all these 'he's a nice guy, but..' caveats is getting fucking old.

 

[TVB]

More coverage: The Official Podcast hosted by MoistCritikal/Penguin0 and his co-hosts discussed the situation.

>Cr1tikal
No thank you

 

[Douglas Mortimer]

Anyone else getting annoyed with taking at face value Completionist's statements that the money is just sitting there? Yes, Karl didn't have evidence that they'd 'pocketed it' so he didn't accuse him of more than that, but if the money was in fact still there, just sitting in a bank account, Completionist could quiet alot of the anger over this story by simply showing a bank statement. But I suspect that he can't because it's either all gone, or mostly gone, or heavily skimmed from. I don't think the fat fuck deserves the benefit of a doubt at this point, but the way these YTers all dance around it and adding all these 'he's a nice guy, but..' caveats is getting fucking old.

100%
If it was 1 month maybe you could cut some slack and say it was a simple mistake. You don't get the benefit of the doubt when it's been 10 years. Not to mention the fact he admitted he knew on the call for at least a full year.

 

[Kheapathic]

What he says is that $600K is a miniscule amount compared to other donations that get made to charity and that the reason it's taken so long is that unless it's a huge figure it's very difficult to make sure that the money is actually used for Dementia research. He echoes Jirard and says that the money if donated would go to waste paying for doctors medical bills and other associated costs.

I'm not sure what kind of argument the big brain breadtubers would call this, but I know I hate arguments like this. Excusing bad behavior because A) it'd happen anyway, B) it wouldn't be used properly, C) it's not as big when compared to the whole, D) whatever other bullshit. I'm not gonna pretend running a charity or anything is easy; but I'm also aware enough that if I collect money and claim it's for X, even if I can't guarantee it'll be used specifically for X and only X, I will get it as close to X as possible. And okay, let's just assume $600,000.00 is miniscule when compared to other donations... how many of his viewers can brush off that big of a number so readily? Sure, YouTube millionaires might be able to look at that number and be whatever about it; but try explaining to your audience that don't own a house, is driving a beater vehicle, or other things because they're not financially sound. Tell them that $600,000.00 is miniscule and should be brushed away instead of going where it should be going. I'd want them to burn your Californian McMansion down.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

he came back to Jirard demanding that ALL 116 videos he did were to be deleted, for whatever reason, we have no idea.

It's been mentioned at least once before in the thread, and I cannot remember if it's a rumor or something that was actually extracted from someone involved, but the reason was something along the line of Greg not liking that Jirard was earning money off his hard work after Jirard wouldn't pay him more when he had asked.

 

[Echo_Ender]

>Cr1tikal
No thank you

The guy can be amusing sometimes, but for anything even remotely serious, he's a fence-sitting bitch. I don't know why anyone takes his opinion seriously, because he'll constantly change it to whatever's popular at the moment.

After i watched a few Indieland clips I asked myself why all these women are surrounding Jirard, giggling, laughing, and all around acting like he is some sort of high quality great guy. Not to go down the incel road, but these women are only there because Jirard has money, power and influence

I dunno about "Power and Influence", but he was definitely throwing money around like nobody's business.

But I figured that was because his family is loaded due to his dad's shady, likely scamming, and possibly money-laundering totally legitimate company.

After a few years of his departure he came back to Jirard demanding that ALL 116 videos he did were to be deleted, for whatever reason, we have no idea. Getting rid of his internet image? lol sure buddy. Jirard got legal aide and said he can pursue this and even say that Greg isn't legally in the right to enact on this, but he inevitably ok'd it, and said that he'd instead work on remaking all 116 episodes under the new series "The Completionist New Game+". That's as far as that rabbit hole goes. Greg's been nothing but radio silent and absent on the internet. I don't even think he exhibited any "cowish" behavior outside of demanding that vids of him be taken down.

It was kinda similar to the Super Best Friends collapse. Except instead of a Pat who wanted to be a "Serious" streamer and a Matt who wanted to branch out into other stuff he was passionate about...

Here we had Greg who wanted to grow the channel organically, playing stuff they liked. And Jirard, who wanted to grow as fast as possible to be profitable at all costs.


Now, this is all rumor because there's no proof. It was supposedly all done privately, save for the takedown letters Jirard posted, and supposedly ended in an NDA, so...

Supposedly the falling out was because Jirard was demanding they do collabs/crossovers with other gaming youtubers, go clout chasing at "influencer networking" events, stick to playing whatever is popular in the algorithm, and focus on "Becoming a brand". Greg wanted no part of that, so they split.

A few years later, Greg notices that the videos he made with Jirard absolutely blew up in views and basically made Jirards channel, but he hadn't seen a dime of it since leaving.

At that point, he started trying to get Jirard to pay him for the videos they made together. Since the YouTube Account was in Jirards name, he was getting nothing from it.

They both realized that going to court over it would probably have Greg win, but would cost so much that it wouldn't be worth it. But Greg didn't want Jirard to keep making money off of his work.

So they compromised. Greg sent Jirard the legal paperwork telling him to take down the videos and Jirard did so without fighting it. In exchange, Greg (Allegedly) signed something agreeing to not sue for money made off of the videos and (Again, Allegedly) signed some sort of NDA as part of it.

So even if he had stuff to say about it, he probably legally can't.

 

[Squawking Macaw]

More coverage: The Official Podcast hosted by MoistCritikal/Penguin0 and his co-hosts discussed the situation.

I knew Charlie wouldn't resist commenting on this. He didn't say anything of note, just more of his basic lukewarm takes, joke's on me for watching it.

 

[I_Am_Not_Bruce_Willis]

-the best part is, this is a open and shut case of tax evasion and charity fraud. Not just Jirard and his family will be liable.

-anyone or any entity involved with Indieland is liable for litigation. This includes the gaming companies who attached their names and promoted their products on streams, it also puts the celebrities and anyone else involved with Indieland into the crosshairs.

-This could actually cause massive damage to the indie game industry as it will likely shut down multiple development studios.

Yo, @Turkey Beef ! You might wanna get the popcorn. Dopply and other YC members might be investigated due to having their game shown at IndieLand. OOPS!

 

[Turkey Beef]

The guy can be amusing sometimes, but for anything even remotely serious, he's a fence-sitting bitch. I don't know why anyone takes his opinion seriously, because he'll constantly change it to whatever's popular at the moment.

I unsubbed from Cr1tikal a long while back. I'm not the sort of person who gets easily annoyed with my YT feed being filled with rubbish (it doesn't happen that often for me anyway), but he's an exception. I really don't care for faggots who think commenting on every current event in existence is necessary and warranted. I subbed Cr1tikal over a decade ago just for him shooting the shit on gameplay commentaries, not for his centrist virtue signaling.

Yo, @Turkey Beef ! You might wanna get the popcorn. Dopply and other YC members might be investigated due to having their game shown at IndieLand. OOPS!

LOL. Well, I'm not following the indieland shit closely, so I'm not holding my breath for anything interesting to happen to them. That said, Dopply and Youchew are infinitely inept and malicious when it comes to everything, and it's been consistent since 2007. Dopply in particular fleeced thousands and thousands of dollars from the YC userbase over the years to pay for "forum server upgrades" that nobody asked for, and anyway, it all went down the drain when the OG forum was unceremoniously closed in 2018. Dopply tried throwing the same medicine show with the Newchew reboot about three years ago, and last I heard, the YTPMania nonces are planning on doing the same. Literally everything with those creatures revolves around parasitism. I was sorta hoping Arzette would be a partial exception this time around, but I guess not!

 

[Computer Guardian]

We only got a few snippets of the call on Jobst's video. I'm willing to bet he said a lot more that Karl is waiting to drop in a future video and that probably explains the silence if he knows he has painted himself into a bunch of corners.

I wonder if Karl Jobst or either of the two content farming faggots that are Mutahar and Crit1kal would steal any of the digging the dedicated kiwis of this thread had done in a second video to try to further prove the point about Jirard's charity theft while calling it their own research.

 

[Kheapathic]

I wonder if Karl Jobst or either of the two content farming faggots that are Mutahar and Crit1kal would steal any of the digging the dedicated kiwis of this thread had done in a second video to try to further prove the point about Jirard's charity theft while calling it their own research.

It wouldn't surprise me. As toxic as "Kiwi Farms" is to Internet normies; people who do investigations, analysis, documentaries, etc know our worth. The problem is when shit is documented and they still manage to fuck it up; like the recent Turkey Tom video on DSP. Several factual errors about the who/what/where/why/when. Not saying they're absolute shit and don't serve a point, just wondering how hard is it to fucking put shit on a timeline or group by relevance and make it flow.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

I wonder if Karl Jobst or either of the two content farming faggots that are Mutahar and Crit1kal would steal any of the digging the dedicated kiwis of this thread had done in a second video to try to further prove the point about Jirard's charity theft while calling it their own research.

The best we can hope for is "internet sleuths". We'll never be mentioned by name because of the digital Satan thing.