LonelyStoner posted...
Performative acts of charity to stroke your own ego is tacky, regardless of how much you helped.
You say it's not a dog pile, but people literally go on and on, en masse, about how "tacky," or "greedy," or whatever else it is that he does these things. Do you know how many celebrities and other rich people do literally nothing, or only do some kind of small gesture when a disaster strikes? This guy is constantly doing good things. Hell, he came out in a very vehement, harsh defense of his transgender friend, even knowing it could have hurt his standing and his view count. I'm not saying we should be celebrating the guy, but I am saying... Maybe we shouldn't be so quick to immediately jump to "This is only performative!" when he's doing so much more than like 99% of people with money. It probably is performative, but, again... It's so much more than almost anybody else is doing, so why do we apparently need to keep yelling about it?