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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[–] Brunbrun6766 58 points 1 year ago (39 children)

I have only EVER heard nice and good things about Jirard, so I'm going to wait for some actual evidence before making any judgements.

[–] naticus 60 points 1 year ago (11 children)

And on the other hand, Karl Jobst has always been very well researched in his videos, so I'm a big torn here. Definitely going to keep an eye on this and see where it goes before making my own conclusions.

[+] echo64 -18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

He's also someone who hangs around with nazis which is wild. He backed away from them when it all came out but then got chummy again so I got the fuck away from his content. Which is decidedly in the outrage bait genre these days.

https://imgur.com/a/X7qLRXa his friend who he promotes in his videos, nazis fuck off, fuck you if you support this

[–] britishblaze 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which he's already debunked?

[+] echo64 -11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://imgur.com/a/X7qLRXa his friend who he promotes in his videos

[–] britishblaze 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://youtu.be/3_jcpig-C2s?t=245 as I said before, debunked. Understandable you got swept up in the fray but he was just as disgusted as you are.

[–] echo64 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

none of that is debunked, he's just trying to worm his way out of it. the correct thing to do when you find out someone is a nazi is to cut them out. he doesn't, then he tries to say i'm just trying to help him be a not nazi by promoting and featuring him in my videos.

you're a fool to believe that for a moment, especially when it comes from him.

i want to be incredibly clear here, nothing is debunked. he said what he wants to say, you choose to believe him at face value.

[–] britishblaze 4 points 1 year ago

You have been incredibly clear, and so has he. He is clear on his disgust and why he chose to help him rather the cut off all ties and whilst I would not do the same myself I do not condemn others who try to.

But so far there has been no evidence that he supports or sympathises with any Nazism ideals or ideas which to me is the breaking point.

If there is something I have missed then please show me but I have not seen anything to the contrary.

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