Jirard is a YouTuber who runs a channel known as the Completionist, where he plays games to 100% completion and reviews them based on how enjoyable the experience was.

The Open Hand Foundation, which was co-founded by Jirard in 2014, was set up to raise money for dementia charities after his dementia-stricken mother passed away. However, their yearly filings with the IRS suggest that none of this money has been donated to charity.

Jacque (Jirard's brother) responded to Karl's emails to the Open Hand Foundation claiming that they are still searching for the correct charity to partner with and disburse these funds, whereas Jirard claimed that he was only aware that none of the funds had gone out last year, yet is still openly promoting Open Hand on stream and claiming they support the UCSF, Alzheimer's Association, the AFTD and many other charities.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Funny enough, I think the most blatant and consequential example of this not being able to be taken in good faith is the use of the quote from the UCSF person on the charity website. A person who was fired for money problems 7 years before the charity existed.

No matter what explanation they can give for why they have a quote from him thanking them for donating to UCSF, I see no way for the explanation to be good.

[–] BustinJiber 6 points 1 year ago

Well, since they did not donate anything they couldn't get a quote from anybody they donated to, that would be legitimate.

I don't know what was their endgame? It's been going on since 2014, how could they not think this would have come out eventually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, that was the part that got me. That makes it seem really scummy even of there is some kind of genuine explanation for this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wonder what happened to all the interest it had built up