I dunno. I used to see something similar on Twitter years ago. Specifically Black Twitter. In places where anti-Black violence popped off during the Trump administration the rapper Lecrae helped move / transfer college students if they no longer felt safe in their community. Or like, “DM me your info; I’m paying toward student debt up to $5gs until 2pm,” as another example I saw.
Some folks in my area set up mutual aid when the pandemic hit and people would post their venmos and paypals. Always gonna be someone to take advantage, but it takes a lot to ask for help and I choose to believe it was mostly honest.
In 2021, Kylie Jenner gave $5000 to her former makeup artist’s gofundme - which put it over the $10000 initial goal, and people were sour that she didn’t give more. I get it; but sometimes you just can’t win.
I would say it’s somewhere in the middle. Sometimes a scam, sometimes not.
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