Donating for a New Mac Pro

Arsonist · 27 Feb 2014 at 15:25

To be honest, fair play to the bloke. He hasn't done anything wrong - in fact he has used his noggin to think of a new way to crowd fund, quite clever really. If people want to give him their money, let them.

Nerusy · 27 Feb 2014 at 15:27

Dis86 said:
^^ heh heh

Not really a newsworthy topic requiring intelligent debate this one though is it?

That's why it's in GD as opposed to Speaker's Corner

TommyV · 27 Feb 2014 at 15:46

It's not like he forced anyone to give him money.

Shame on the people who donated in my opinion as opposed to the guy who's just got a free macbook!

OhEsEcks · 27 Feb 2014 at 16:00

SexyGreyFox · 27 Feb 2014 at 16:00

AlecR said:
As you may have heard, the YouTuber, David Di Franco had successfully raised money in order to buy a new Mac Pro.

Am I the only one who thinks this is absolutely disgusting? Does he need the money, no. Does he need the computer, no. Talk about first world problems. This person is an absolutely disgusting individual and he doesn't deserve any of the following he has.

Thoughts?

I want to know why you think this person nobody has heard of is a disgusting individual?
What exactly has he done wrong?

OhEsEcks · 27 Feb 2014 at 16:01

Dimple said:
What exactly has he done wrong?

Bought a mac.

Mirmo · 27 Feb 2014 at 16:06

The people donating spare cash to him instead of a charity are worse than he is.

OhEsEcks · 27 Feb 2014 at 16:10

Mirmo said:
The people donating spare cash to him instead of a charity are worse than he is.

Not nearly as bad as those who judge others because of what they do with their own money.

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle · 27 Feb 2014 at 16:39

Hey guys, winky_the_winking_turtle here, these OCUK forums are awesome, but you wanna know what's more awesome? Buying some new fresh PC kit from OCUK of course, so uh, if you want want to course, send me some money so I can buy some new parts :-)

Ok, thanks guys!

OhEsEcks · 27 Feb 2014 at 16:40

Winky_The_Winking_Turtle said:
Hey guys, winky_the_winking_turtle here, these OCUK forums are awesome, but you wanna know what's more awesome? Buying some new fresh PC kit from OCUK of course, so uh, if you want want to course, send me some money so I can buy some new parts Ok, thanks guys!

Sorry. Can't. Donating my money to starving whale frogs in the Amazonian rainforest who are losing their habitat because of GCHQ logging.

teaboy5 · 27 Feb 2014 at 17:42

I don't see the issue?

He clearly has fans and if they want to give him a few dollars then let them?

KIA · 27 Feb 2014 at 19:06

kierenharrold said:
People like his content and they want to donate to help keep that content going. He hasn't done anything wrong.

He has probably worked very hard to get a subscriber base that is willing enough to help him out.

This. OP is proper jelly.

DJMK4 · 27 Feb 2014 at 19:18

Youtubers usually get loads of free gear anyway through sponsors, advertising, reviewing. Like cameras, laptops, tablets, go pros, trips across the world and now people donating to them.

Its a hard life.

I always wondered how big time vloggers never seem to have real jobs, yet they survive. Some of them with amazing lives

OhEsEcks · 27 Feb 2014 at 19:19

DJMK4 said:
I always wondered how big time vloggers never seem to have real jobs, yet they survive. Some of them with amazing lives

Because vlogging is their job. They can rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year doing it depending on their subscription base and views per video.

spoffle · 27 Feb 2014 at 19:24

Mirmo said:
The people donating spare cash to him instead of a charity are worse than he is.

Well you clearly have no idea how charities work then do you?

Shawy · 27 Feb 2014 at 19:24

People aren't paying for him to have a new computer. They're paying for the advertising/promotion he's offering in his upcoming videos to around 100k subscribers..

DJMK4 · 27 Feb 2014 at 19:26

I know, but then saying that I have seen vloggers go from loads of views, to hardly any and a massive drop in subscribers. And stayed like that for years, yet they kept vloggig on a daily basis throughout the day. Just wondering what the threshold is for amount of views / subscribers until you start seeing big bucks come in. Enough to live on tidy

But some peoples stats are crazy, one vlogging pair I follow get around 457,000 views within 23 hours of posting the video and 3mil subscribers

There are of course people who do much more

Derek W · 27 Feb 2014 at 19:39

Image guys like this begging for money

airwave99 · 2 Mar 2014 at 20:08

Caged said:
I think the OP just wants a Mac Pro and is a bit jealous that someone duped a load of people into donating.

Wouldn't mind people donating money so I could buy a £2500 Mac Pro. Couldn't imagine spending that amount of my own money on a PC that doesn't have any PCIe slots, spare drive bays or even a copy of Windows. At least the last one is a fairly easy upgrade.

MrMoonX · 2 Mar 2014 at 20:26

airwave99 said:
Wouldn't mind people donating money so I could buy a £2500 Mac Pro. Couldn't imagine spending that amount of my own money on a PC that doesn't have any PCIe slots, spare drive bays or even a copy of Windows. At least the last one is a fairly easy upgrade.

Oh yeah that's right it's cool to hate macs now :rolleyes:

Fair play to the guy, no different than people donating to streamers etc.