Social media influencer GloJays is understood for giving wads of money to strangers. But one girl says it’s all for clout. Zipporia Tullis, a homeless girl residing in Georgia, says he arrange a GoFundMe web page and raised over $20,000 on behalf of her and her 5 kids.
However he determined to not give her the cash. Nonetheless, in a TSR Investigates unique GloJays claims he gave Tullis $3,500 of the cash however refused handy over the remainder of the funds after she turned down employment help and bashed him on-line.
So, does GloJays owe Zipporia the cash it doesn’t matter what? Ought to Zipporia be proud of the $3,500? The Shade Room investigates…
The story begins again in June, when Zipporia was panhandling for cash at a Union Metropolis, Georgia Walmart. That day, she was approached by a person who gave her $500.
That man ended up being social media influencer GloJays, and Zipporia says this was the start of an elaborate rip-off.
Behind the scenes of their seemingly feel-good scene, which was filmed by GloJay’s workforce, she says she was informed to look “unhappy.” Zipporia could be seen telling him of her story, how she was kicked out of her housing state of affairs in 2020, how her father had handed final yr from COVID-19…
“My father was actually all I had. I’m simply attempting to get again on my toes,” she informed him within the video clip.
The second GloJays begins peeling off greenback payments to offer her, she could be heard saying “it is a rip-off.”
“This ain’t no rip-off, that is all you,” he mentioned as he handed her the money.
The video of the scene is amongst dozens on GloJays social media pages, the place he boasts two million followers on TikTok and over 400,000 on Instagram, all inside the final seven months.
Zipporia’s clip alone was seen by over 13 million folks.
However the feel-good story didn’t finish there. She later discovered he had arrange a GoFundMe on her behalf, with the funds for use for housing, clothes and meals for her kids, and bills in direction of a automobile in accordance with the fundraiser’s description.
The fundraiser raised over $20,000, with the funds going “on to her when the fundraiser is over,” the organizer wrote.
“All the pieces on that (GoFundMe) web page was linked to him, it was by no means linked to me,” she informed TSR Investigates Justin Carter.
She mentioned she did obtain about $3,500, most of which went in direction of resort rooms for her and her kids, with the room costing her about $100 per evening. She added that she had already owed the resort about $500, so she bought virtually a month’s value of keep on the resort from the funds GloJays supplied her.
Zipporia mentioned he finally requested her for an image of her ID card to ship her the remainder of the GoFundMe donations, nevertheless days glided by and she or he didn’t obtain one other penny. Relations between the 2 rapidly started to bitter.
“He by no means actually needed to offer me the cash,” she mentioned. “(He) took it.”
For his half, GloJays informed TSR Investigates that he would by no means simply pull up on somebody and provides them $20,000 with out stipulations.
“It’s important to be doing one thing,” he mentioned. “Working or one thing. Nobody has pulled up on you and gave you $3,500 like I’ve, no different stranger did that. No matter in the event that they raised if for you, gave it to you. Nobody has gave you the quantity that I’ve.”
GloJays added that he additionally approached Zipporia about a number of job and housing alternatives, simply days after posting the video. He says she stopped responding to folks and that she wasn’t within the assist.
When requested if he believed she was an expert panhandler, he responded within the affirmative. TSR Investigates questioned Zipporia on claims that she’s not likely homeless, to which she mentioned she’s residing out of a resort, and if she doesn’t have cash, she will get put out on the streets.
She went on to say that she can not work until there’s childcare, that she can not go to work and depart her 5 kids unattended.
Reactions on-line had been combined, with some coming to Zipporia’s protection and different’s to GloJays.
GloJays mentioned that in each different case, he has supplied 100% of the funds to the individual in query, typically extra. He mentioned he canceled the marketing campaign after she started bashing him on-line, and took it as a private affront that he would finesse somebody for simply $20,000.
When requested the place he will get his cash from, which is then ostensibly used to assist folks, he mentioned he has achieved rather well in buying and selling, making about $400,000 on Netflix inventory “when it began to plummet.”
He added that he has no intention of giving Zipporia any extra money, and has no plans on providing an apology, both.
“She will be able to take it to courtroom, I don’t care,” he mentioned. “Do your factor.”
A fast investigation into GoFundMe’s insurance policies reveals that each one funds raised should be utilized in relation to the fundraiser’s description or targets, and that if a web page is created on behalf of another person, that individual ought to obtain all the funds raised.
There may be an choice for donors to request a full refund, no questions requested.
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