The wildest thing about that damned phone call is how incredibly awkward it is. Muta and Karl are asking some pretty softball questions, and Jirard just melts the fuck down. Jirard has a nervous breakdown, and still alludes to the situation as simultaneously being “above board” but also career/life destroying. If everything was all fine and dandy with Indieland and Open Hand Foundation, doing the right thing and donating the money, apologizing, and moving on wouldn’t be such an awful fate. Jirard acts like is a death sentence. The fear in his voice was unnerving.
Clearly something is very, very wrong. I can’t really fathom why a public charity/private foundation (?) fund with 650k in it would be a slush fund to embezzle when their family is worth millions. The only thing I can wrap my head around why they would even be worried about people looking into this is because it’s a tax evasion operation. Even if it was, all they would have to do is donate the money and no one would think twice.
I have zero fucking clue what the fuck is going on now. This is beginning to look like a very dark episode of Dateline. Things are getting grim.
It's awkward because he KNOWS it's over if they "pull even one thread about the charity". It's a man self destructing in real time, trying to keep up the facade while he's exploding like an atom bomb.
That call made it far too obvious that he knew more than he let on. The sheer panic and conflicting statements were a dead giveaway.
And tbh, he acts like it's a death sentence because it was. I still hold by the opinion that once word got public, his career was fucking cooked. He ain't no Jontron, and he relied so much on his reputation that any blow is grevious.
Like, half of his shit is CHARITY. Ain't no fucking way he's surviving this mess even if he came clean and acted respectably. Because no charity would trust him again with money, and all his indie cock suckers would run for the hills to protect their own asses. Hell, I don't even blame said indies, they didn't do this shit. And they got hit with the mud/shit.
I suspect also, that his father is a vile piece of shit and roped Jirade into this. But it just means he's a coward and a fucking liar. And I can't respect that. Fuck him.
Or maybe a very dark episode of Arrested Development. That whole family is probably rotten to the core, down from the father to his children and beyond. Like, some people are calling the whistleblower a hero to bring this to the public attention, but it wouldn't surprise me if was some close family member or close staff or confidant who snitched, decided to burn down the ship after get fucked in some business dealings or such. The whole family has that vibe.
One reason that Jirard is so panicked could be deduced by looking at his channel's health. All of his videos have have reached 1 million years are from at least three years ago, and most are from five to seven years ago. His most recent videos are get around 100-200k, with some failing to reach even 100k. While it's not as dead as say, Boogie's channel, it has clearly in decline and it makes a lot of sense for him to tried to get into other ventures like game development, especially with his family resource's backing him. All of which is now for naught, as nobody is going to associate with him from now on.
Speaking of his family, that's probably another thing that fucking him up. While not innocent in the family's schemes, I don't think he's the mastermind, either. But he's probably aware, if dimly, of his family's many schemes and their dubious legality. That's why he immediately brings up legality, because it on the top of his mind at that moment.
Yeah the panic is from just him knowing that his career is COOKED as fuck if this gets out. I don't think it's anything else tbh, other than maybe heaps of guilt. Attributing all this other shit to what is an obvious career bullet isn't really needed. The man put his
entire self worth into it, it'd be like if a well known speedrunner was caught cheating and was cut from the books of history. That shit, it just
destroys people when their singular orientated goal/work is fucking
orbital striked. Makes me think he'll just spiral.
As for youtube, actually his numbers are due to literally deleting most of his videos on his channel. That affects visiblity on youtube, because youtube rates your channel based on
total views, rather than something like "view history, subscribers, etc". So if you delete
MOST OF YOUR FUCKING VIDEOS, you basically go back to square one.
I'd feel bad for him, I did once. I saw him attempting to build back his channel, it was a genuine uphill battle. But after this, nah.
And especially note that game dev thing. One thing I hate about other indie devs is that most of them have this bastardly illuminati web of connections and facade building, and will cut you out, ripping you from that web, the moment anything rocks the boat). I've seen these webs before, there's a very parasitic mentality they have, and they will use it to try and get you to act a specific way. (Etc the Frosk defence on G4 by Jirade) So they for sure will never touch Jirade again, to keep their own
public appearances clean.
If I'm unstanding your correctly, they are using the old good cop (Muta) - bad cop (Karl) routine, if inadvertently.
Yep. I mean,
Muta is a grifter and all that, but he's alot less generally cynical compared to Karl. You could tell just by the call. I think Muta went in with more honest intentions, though he knew blood was in the water.
Karl, not so much. Karl saw the blood and raised up a knife for some solid stabs. And let Muta see just how fucked Jirade was acting.
Makes me kinda wonder... if maybe Karl was trying to also get Muta to be a bit more aggressive by just showing him this shit. Just speculation tho.
