On the charity donation topic, this somehow turned into a pretty long post but I was in the zone so here it goes. I'm going off memory here because I don't feel like rewatching the video (but I did link it below). As I've mentioned before, I don't know anything about the business side of YouTube. So feel free to correct me if I make some mistakes, I promise not to cut/paste your screen name into any pig-related photos, IYKYK.
So they do a Charity Live Show earlier this year to supposedly help out after the Texas storms. Unlike most of their livestreams, they advertise this one in advance, can't remember if it was on Instagram, Twitter and/or on other YT videos. I think the superchat total was around $7,000 and the Slackers claimed they were going to match this amount (snort snort). Apparently YT takes a pretty big cut of regular superchats, the number that is popping into my head is 30%. However, you can also setup superchats to go directly to a charity, in which case 100% goes to the charity (or the YT percentage is significantly less than normal).
But the Slackers had this "charity event" setup as a regular superchat. Many of the stans actually called them out on this during the livestream, why would they sacrifice 30% of that money when 100% could go to charity? The Slackers first backtracked by saying they were going to match all of the donations at 100% (and not just match the 70% after YT's cut). Their second "excuse" was that they wanted to send the money to multiple different charities, and YT made it hard to do that. I suppose this last part could be true, but I say it was just an excuse to keep it as a regular superchat so they could pocket the entire 70% themselves.
I also remember seeing another video, maybe at the beginning of the pandemic when they turned off superchats, where they basically contradicted themselves (nothing new there). They said they were turning off superchats because they didn't think it was appropriate during a pandemic. But then went on to say they "always" gave all of their superchat money to charity anyway, like every single year. PUH-LEEZE!!! If they always gave their suprchat money to charity, then it would not have been inappropriate to keep doing superchats during the pandemic. And during this time it was even more important to support charities, because they needed money even more and couldn't do their normal fundraising events. The Slackers could have picked a specific charity for each livestream and done a charity-directed superchat every time. Instead of stopping superchats altogether, they could have done even more of these charity-directed livestream events, especially when the parks and everything were still closed and they were literally stuck at home for months on end. And, how about instead of changing your outro to "now it's time to help", you actually
bleeping help for once?? But we all know they don't really want to help, they just want their stans to think they do. The Slackers want to keep their greasy greedy little hands on all that superchat money, so doing a charity-direct superchat just won't do.
So, with regards to the specific livestream "for" the Texas storm:
Slackers claim all superchat money is going to charity, to guilt people into more and higher priced "donations"
Slackers advertise this livestream ahead of time (which they have never done before) to get more people to attend and get more "donations"
Slackers setup event as regular superchat instead of a charity-directed superchat, so they can pocket the "donations" for themselves
Slackers claim YouTube makes it too hard to setup charity-directed superchats, as an "excuse" for why this is setup as a regular superchat
Slackers claim to match 100% of donations, so their stans can swoon over how wonderful they are and "donate" even more money
Slackers make $7,000+ off their idiots stans to help pay off their many staycations and are laughing all the way to the bank (they had been doing staycations for about 6 months when this charity livestream came out)