[TreetopPlace]

This is honestly shocking and I don't know how to process this information.

[viraptor]

Why is that shocking? Her existing subscribers continued to support her, but also multiple other famous youtubers talked about her which got her new attention/subscribers. I've seen at least 3 other channels giving her a dedicated video and YouTube is still serving me her shorts.

[lupire]

Subscriber is the technical term but really it's donor, because they aren't paying for access to new work product.

Most people who suffer a GoFundMe-type catastrophe don't attract new long-term financial backers over time.

[xyst]

What’s more “shocking” is how these services (patreon,gofundme) essentially acts as long term disability and health insurance plans.

American healthcare is a massive price fixing scam and a complete joke.

[gadders]

I'm not saying it's a grift, but I'm not saying I'd be surprised if it turned out to be one as well.

Internet people are weird. Not all of us though, obviously.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belle_Gibson

[fragmede]

Is it really a grift if the person is upfront about asking for money to pay their medical bills and there's no expectation of a product that isn't being delivered? GoFundMe isn't pretending that there's a laptop or shoes or something expensive and then not delivering aka a scam, it's straightforwardsly asking for money to pay for medical bills.

[gadders]

I meant "grift" in the sense of the illness could be not real or exaggerated.