With the GoFundMe market quickly dying down to various donations to SeanPaul “Long Island Audit” Reyes’ GoFundMe campaigns, following Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s departure from the market, Reyes’ latest stunt on Thursday did little to nothing to spur the market.
Reyes went live Thursday morning to pay fees of $426.00 in coins at the Suffolk County, New York, Traffic Violations Bureau for tickets he claimed he got in “retaliation” for having tint that was too dark under New York state law.
The YouTuber had previously gone live from the same building to protest the four individual tickets he received for tint violations on his car earlier in the summer. Reyes rejected an offer to consolidate the tickets into one violation and said he’d fight it in court.
Reyes said his court date had been on Wednesday, and he lost badly. In his version of the story, the prosecutor, judge, police and anyone associated with the case had all teamed up to collude against him. It was all an extended plot to keep “we the people” down as he (being “we”) did nothing wrong, never broke the law and it was all punishment for his questioning of police in other cases.
Reyes’ actual concerns, that no one measured the tint on his car with an actual tint checking device before issuing the ticket, or why New York State has such uncompromising rules on window tint, were apparently not addressed at the hearing.
The workers at the Suffolk County Traffic Violations Bureau took Reyes’ appearance in stride and opened a new window as they set up a change counting machine to take his payment. It took about half an hour for the worker assisting Reyes to go through his giant bag of coins, and she remained friendly and even handed throughout the experience.
According to Playboard, Reyes made $149.00 off of super chats, super thanks and memberships during the early morning event, which was seen 108,000 times as of press time to 12,000 likes and 2,100 comments. A stand-alone short highlighting the event has done 27,000 views, 2,600 likes and 231 comments in the same time frame.
Reyes’ stunt did nothing to spur the GoFundMe market, as there were no new donations to any of his seven open GoFundMe campaigns. Despite being a major publicity stunt, Reyes forgot to include text advertising for his Cameo service, GoFundMes and Attorney Shield promotions in the description of the event, which may have impacted his ability to earn from the stunt.
This was another day of goose eggs for the market as a whole and was seen as a lost opportunity for Reyes to make back the rest of the $426.00 he paid for the fines.
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