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  These videos are predatory and classist, you're totally right.
context: “ You’re manipulating them so that people think you’re a hero. ”
  Spot on. >
  
  Mathew 6:4 >
  
  What’s the actual reference? >
  
  “That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.”
  So donate anonymously without bragging to everyone about how good of a person you are for it. >
  
  Thank you! >
  
  No trouble! >
  
  It's performative, exploitative, self-serving and trashy in the extreme. >
  
  I say fuck it. As long as that person gets to keep what they gave them, it’s more I did the Christmas season. If 5% of tiktok did this to 2-5 people in a video that’d be 3,000,000-7,500,000 people helped. 
  Mr. Beast made this trend hyper popular as he made it a successful business model. 
  If someone wants to say “i made $20,000 of TikTok and want to give $500 of it back on camera” that’s wholesome in my eyes >
  
  I feel the same about ppl who post their dining-in receipts with a written in $100 tip. It’s pure virtual signaling, imo. I don’t believe it either, and think it’s staged. Same with some of these videos similar to what you’ve mentioned.
  If they’re so concerned about those who are less fortunate, then use the money towards, Angel Trees, or food banks. These types of organizations are able to spread $100 farther. >
  
  I think you mean “virtue signalling” btw >
  
  I think you mean we really need to work the 🐜 🐛 out of “auto-correct” btw >
  
  Yes, this is a lot like the millionaire standing in front of a crowd, handing a novelty oversized check to some charity. It's a smaller version of the self-serving photo op. >
  
  I think It can be more beneficial for the charity.
  If its a celebrity donating there's also a good chance their fans will donate in solidarity from that event raising and more money and awareness for them.
  While there are people who clearly do it for the photo op the charity still definitely helps more people with the money than if they refuse >
  
  I'm all for charity but you gotta be anonymous.
  Telling anyone you are a good person ruins the magic. >
  
  Reminds me of that curb your enthusiasm episode >
  
  I don’t like videos of homeless people in general.  Imagine being broke and some rich kid uses your situation for likes and views on social media for their own profit. >
  
  I’m with you, those videos are the worst. That’s not “charity”, it’s exploiting the less fortunate for views, potentially traumatizing them… >
  
  Actually the poor people look like the heroes in these videos. The few that show their solid morals despite not having much get rewarded and it’s nice to see and restores faith in humanity. >
  
  Yea I completely agree. I think the point of these videos is to show how selfless the people are. Some people just watch these videos looking to be angry at someone. Plenty of worse things out there. >
  
  I feel this way about donating money to the poor and to charity too. If you have to film it or post about doing it it’s not a good deed. >
  
  Here’s the REAL unpopular opinion: I don’t give a fuck as long as the recipient got their money. I’ve been in the times where I had no job for a long time and could barely survive. If someone wanna give me a huge amount of money, I will take it in a heartbeat. He/ she does it for the views? IDGAF. They got their audience, I got money. Win-win situation. bUt tHeY cAn gIvE tHe MoNeY wItHouT sHowInG oFF. That’s literally the purpose of their channel! The only person that are salty about this kind of video probably not considering how many positives it creates compared to the negatives