The Biggest Scandals To Hit GoFundMe

In 2017, Keaton Jones, an 11-year-old boy from Tennessee, broke the internet's heart with a woeful speech about being bullied. A slew of celebrities, including Chris Evans, Cardi B, and Snoop Dogg made online overturesof sympathy and friendship. Joseph Lam, a New Jersey man with zero connection to the Jones family, started a GoFundMe campaign

In 2017, Keaton Jones, an 11-year-old boy from Tennessee, broke the internet's heart with a woeful speech about being bullied. A slew of celebrities, including Chris Evans, Cardi B, and Snoop Dogg made online overtures of sympathy and friendship. Joseph Lam, a New Jersey man with zero connection to the Jones family, started a GoFundMe campaign to "stand up for Keaton," though it's really unclear how money would do that. Regardless, donors stood up to the tune of $58,274. Newsweek pointed out that Liam's grand gesture raised some giant red flags. There was no actual plan for what to do with the money, and although he claimed that he gave Keaton's mom $28,000, that turned out to be a pile of bull.

Some of those red flags were literal flags, namely the Confederate ones Keaton and his mother, Kim, posed with in photos. Worse, Kim made controversial remarks about "butthurt Americans" after the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.  MMA fighter Joe Schilling claimed that when he invited Keaton to see him beat people up in a non-bully way, Kim was only interested in getting money. When Schilling criticized her, she apparently replied, "What happened to us whites sticking together?" Suddenly, the anti-bullying effort seemed tainted. Multiple celebrities distanced themselves, and internet users suggested that Keaton deserved to be picked on. 

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