#like the PCRF

[endlessfuckup]

Okay I've had enough

this shit is so fucked up and obnoxious I cannot take it anymore

I get slightly reworded versions of this exact same message with using the same 3-4 pictures at least 20 times a week

!While there absolutely are legitimate fundraisers being set up and circulated by/for actual Palestinians in need!

They are being completely drowned out by these scam/bot accounts spamming the same 2-3 messages with the wording changed around slightly if changed at all

This has got to stop

I have every tag related to PayPal/gofundme/fundraisers/Palestine/the genocide blocked for my own sanity and I STILL, no matter what the fuck I do, cannot avoid seeing fundraiser posts containing pictures of dead or severely injured children or graphic text descriptions of the ongoing genocide(ex. starvation/death/illness/injuries) EVERY. FUCKING. DAY.

I don't care if I sound selfish for complaining it's genuinely taking a toll on me

I already have ptsd and a slew of other mental issues so seeing this stuff on a daily basis is actually really fucking me up

Realistically, I have no ability to help or change what is going on on the other side of the world.

I legitimately have zero ability to do a fucking thing about it actually!

I have no platform, I am not a politician, nor am I financially able to provide support.

I am barely surviving myself

Please let me have one fucking place where I don't have to see traumatic shit on a regular basis

@staff @staff @staff

[apomaro-mellow]

it may be unpopular to say but if i get 3 messages in a row for my inbox im gonna go out on a limb and say there's something fishy afoot here

[stil-lindigo]

ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸 - On the 6th and 9th of March, I'll be doing art requests on stream with other notable artists to raise money for Operation Olive Branch and the PCRF.

I'm incredibly lucky to be counting quite a few big names in the roster, including known Jesus and Odysseus enthusiast @wolfythewitch, the extraordinary fanartist @denimcatfish, and the incredibly talented @troubledminnesotan, as well as Lilypichu from OfflineTV.

You'll be able to watch the streams on the day of the event either on my twitch channel here, or via the links provided by the artists below.

Lilypichu

Cuptoast

Akairosu_

Sevvanto

Wolfythewitch

[comradekiwi]

hello! super excited to share an excerpt from my piece for the song of birds and flowers, a charity zine for Palestine! all profits go to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF) !!!!!

preorders close december 14! go grab one here and contribute to this very important cause while you can!! :)

[loki-hargreeves]

This weekend (25-28.7.), a bunch of Sims creators are fundraising for the Palestine Children's Relief Fund. It's hosted by lilsimsie but so many more people are participating, which you can find with the hashtag #simmersforpalestine. If anyone is interested in sharing, watching or donating, please do. They've raised 100K already in one day and now the goal is 150K.

Many of them are live on twitch right now. I'm watching on twitch.com/lilsimsie. There's more information over there and on tiltify, including a list of people supporting the fundraiser.

[tiltify]

[slyandthefamilybook]

Free Palestine.

[annieisyourfavourite]

reading this email update from the PCRF still makes me so emotional. everything seems so bleak, but it's a reminder that every bit of help means something. the money we donate to PCRF might not fix the whole problem, not by a long shot. but it saved these 8 kids. it is tangible and real and these 8 kids are safe and getting medical care and alive, and that matters so so much

[everynicorobin]

If you're going to post a link to a GoFundMe for someone claiming to be from Gaza, I'm afraid I have bad news for you. They're probably a scammer. There's a lot of bots on this website claiming to be Gazans and begging people on this website for money and they all seem to speak perfect English, which shouldn't be possible because Gaza is not an English-speaking country and real Gazans don't have time to learn the language because they are much too busy trying to survive in their war-torn homeland for that or creating a Tumblr account so they can beg people like you and I on this website for money. I also hear real Gazans don't have a GFM and I get them all the time in my inbox and I don't hesitate to block and report them because they are most likely scammers. I am warning you about this so you don't get scammed and neither does anyone else who may or may not follow you. It's probably best you stick to your Nico Robin posts and don't let the scammers take advantage of your good nature and willingness to help people in need. That way, you won't get conned unwittingly by some scummy bastard who is using a legitimate humanitarian crisis to scam money out of well-intentioned and good-hearted people. Please keep this in mind in future.

I was wondering how long it would be until I got a message like this.

To start with, it’s true that there are many scammers out there, and that services like GFM and PayPal are not available in Gaza. It’s also true that many people who are or claim to be from Gaza are speaking English when communicating with this site to ask for money.

So why am I sharing campaigns? Let’s break this down:

Trusted vetters like Project Watermelon and Gaza Vetters list fundraisers that have been confirmed as legitimate. You may have noticed that I included a link for the Project Watermelon confirmation for the current fundraiser.

While fundraising services are not available in Palestine and many other countries, a person in a country where GFM is supported can make the account for a friend, and then collect the money in their own bank account and make a direct bank account transfer, which is possible unlike using GFM from Gaza directly. You may notice that many GFM descriptions say “My name is XX and I’m making this fundraiser for YY.” Others will simply put the description down as if the Gazan person themself is creating it, but this isn’t necessarily the sign of a scam.

(Some awful people have created fundraisers for legitimate families only to take the money and disappear, but there’s obviously no way to tell who will and won’t do that.)

Palestine may not be an official English speaking country, but that doesn’t mean nobody there speaks English. In addition, machine translations are easy to access. And I fully disagree with the notion that they are speaking “perfect English.” It’s not exactly broken, but I’ve had messages that mix up things that native English speakers would never mix up, like certain prepositions or pronouns. Plus, Tumblr is a website run in English and whose users mostly speak English. Would you go to a Francophone country and refuse to speak French?

Of course, for someone living in an active war zone (thankfully not the current situation due to the ceasefire), creating a tumblr account would be an extremely low priority. But if you were told that there were people on this website that would donate to you or share your campaign, actions that could possibly save your life, wouldn’t you take the two seconds to make an account?

For fundraisers that have a visible goal like GFM, I’m not going to demand of anyone specifically to donate or share. It’s not like I’ll stop posting Robins until the fundraiser hits its goal, and the fundraisers will be pinned posts with the occasional reblog so that I’m not inundating you all with them. So if you don’t want to or can’t donate or share, that’s fine! You’re free to ignore any campaigns.

With all that being said: If you are 100% sure that a campaign I link to is a scam or unverified, please contact me with proof and I’ll take it down.

[mayrine]

[hey-heigo]

mentioned my dad was alive the same time mao zedong died and some guy went 'he must have had a shit childhood then!!!' shut the fuck up.

[parabiota]

No shade but there are legit scammers posing as Palestinians in need. Everything else ppl said has been stupid and bad but it’s good to keep in mind that the most in-need Palestinian families are not sending your 100 follower account messages on a dying social media platform o_o

[gay-autistic-bitch-boy]

genuine question. how do you decide which fundraisers to donate to? why do sheltered western internet strangers get to decide who gets to eat based on how many other sheltered internet strangers will share their post or advocate for them in fluent english?

[phoenixyfriend]

.

I donated to something today and belatedly realized that I could send a screenshot to like. @/swartists4palestine or something.

But that feels disingenuous???

[stil-lindigo]

ARTISTS FOR PALESTINE 🇵🇸 - ROUND 2!! On the 16th and 23rd of March, I'll be doing art requests on stream with other notable artists to raise money for Operation Olive Branch and Project Watermelon.

This round's roster is very lucky to include notable webcomic artists like explodikid, Graveweaver, Curryuku and Speremint who respectively create Covenant, I'm The Grim Reaper, Not So Shoujo Love Story and Brimstone and Roses on WEBTOON. We also have Onstamonsta, an artist, streamer and Kiryu fan who Drawfee fans might recognise and the exceptionally talented Jessie Lam!

Last fundraising event was a great success, and I hope some of you might show up for this next round of streams. All money will be donated directly to Palestinian escape funds as the situation of Rafah is becoming exponentially worse (and if you'd like to donate directly, here's a link to a spreadsheet of over 750!)

As always, these fundraisers will always be available to watch over on my twitch channel. Thank you all and free Palestine!

[peachesanmemes]

Can we stop posting untagged photos of half dead children on tumblr pls? I can't keep unfollowing you all.

I am well aware there are brutally disfigured and dying children in war-torn countries right now without all these photos of it in my feed.

I am allowed to care and do my best to stop such atrocities without seeing them first hand on the daily on the website I get my memes from.

[edandstede]

asking for money for your tits but you can’t spare a thought for palestine hmm? hmm bestie?

listen i know you’re most likely a teen stressed by world events and feeling like you have to pull shit like this with folks online, but the truth is that nobody is required to hand out receipts of proof that they care about multiple things at once, or anything at all. the crass way you’re talking about trans bodies and on anon to boot leaves me little faith that you’ll take this in, but i hope you and your peers grow up and out of this mentality because it’s fucking ridiculous. me wanting top surgery has no bearing on my capacity to care about other people. give your head a wobble you silly bastard