Literally no one who follows me is going to know what this means, but HBomberguy, a Youtuber known for Video Essays about pop culture and gaming made a promise that he would live stream himself playing Donkey Kong 64, in its entirety (including picking up every single banana) and all money would go to a UK charity for trans youth (Mermaids) and his initial goal was $3,000 and now it’s been 26 hours into the stream and he’s already over $51k. I just need people to know about this https://m.twitch.tv/hbomberguy
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they hit $100k tonight!
they’re now at over $140k! and for those who don’t wanna read the article here’s what it’s all about:
so the national lottery here in the uk donates a bit of their money to a few designated charities, so basically every time you buy a lottery ticket some of that £2 or £3 goes towards charity. mermaids just so happens to be one of those charities and of course, a lot of people are not happy about that. more on that later
for those who don’t know already mermaids are a brilliant bunch. it was founded by a woman with a trans daughter (she made a ted talk about it here) and it helps trans kids who are looking to transition, trans kids who have unsupportive parents or may have even been kicked out, and has resources for the parents of trans kids and places like schools on how they can support a trans student/worker
enter graham linehan. he wrote a few shows like father ted and the it crowd. he’s also notorious for being incredibly transphobic and never shutting up about his hatred for trans people on his twitter.
so, what did he do? well, with his army of mumsnet dwellers, he got them all to spam the lottery with about a fuckton of emails telling them to stop funding Mermaids. not because they want them to think of the children, but rather they want them to stop thinking about the children. and in all their can-i-speak-to-the-manager-hair glory, they got the lottery to reconsider their grant.
mr hbomberguy (you may know him as the man behind hits such as Sherlock Is Garbage (and here’s why), and Fallout 3 Is Garbage (and here’s why)) sees this, thinks “graham what the everliving fuck” and also thinks “oh yeah i never finished donkey kong 64” which is where we are now.
so his goal is to 101% donkey kong 64. which, to my knowledge, takes around 33-36 hours to do. at the time of writing this he has had one sleep break and has just started another
may i also note the 10k goal was to erase graham linehan from existence
in short, fuck graham linehan
also donkey kong said trans rights
they’re still playing right now (7:36 pm EST 1/20/19)
“Here’s @aoc talking about how Nintendo 64 was the best system. She’s on @twitch helping to raise money for trans kids. https://t.co/c
Everyone, AOC even dropped in.
