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ArtemusBlank  ·  1932 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: No one makes a living on Patreon

This man is somehow an expection

https://nypost.com/2018/12/15/millennials-are-paying-thousands-to-this-digital-beggar-an-unemployed-pot-fiend/

    Hill is a 25-year-old from Texas who has discovered that finely tuned sob stories work much better on social media than they do on a sidewalk at NYU. In a recent seven-minute video reported on in The New York Times, Hill delivered an urgent plea for $7,000 to a rapt audience, his iPhone in one hand and a blunt in the other. As he spoke, the donations began flowing in. It was like a miniature Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, only with muscular dystrophy displaced by laziness and marijuana attachment. Hill has more than 200,000 social-media followers distributed across such platforms as Periscope, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter, and he guides them like a symphony conductor.

    ‘It was like a miniature Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, only with muscular dystrophy displaced by laziness and marijuana attachment.’

    “I’m very poor today,” Hill says on the video between tokes. “So if you want any tax write-offs, please donate to the Jovan charity.”