Returning to his “fundraising roots,” DeleteLawZ Jose “Chille” DeCastro went live two times on Monday, as part of a fundraiser he claimed he was holding for YouTuber Alan Hubbs, who would take all the money that was raised and buy groceries with it and personally distribute the groceries to the victims of Hurricane Helene, which recently hit North Carolina.
DeCastro made the initial announcement of the fundraiser in a Monday afternoon livestream. He gave his fans the notice that instead of giving any money raised to the Red Cross, or any of the other established charities helping victims in the area, he would just transfer all the money raised by the fundraiser to Hubbs, who would then go to Wal-Mart, “load up his truck” and then personally distribute items how he saw fit.
Once the live stream began, DeCastro, as he normally does, began to go off topic. As he raised money, he said that he was embarrassed by the turnout, which saw a total of 93 people attend across all of the platforms he was streaming on.
DeCastro blamed the low numbers on a vast governmental conspiracy against him that was too fearful that he would win the governorship of a state he hadn’t announced yet and change the world as we knew it. That conspiracy was also behind taking down his TikTok accounts in the past and, more recently, deleting his “widely popular” Instagram account.
The YouTuber announced that he had “no choice” based on the numbers he was seeing last night but to shut down his current DeleteLawZ account and open a new YouTube channel, promising to do so when he launched his new Constitutional Law Scholar board game later this year.
According to DeCastro’s calculations, he brought in $1,300.00 for the “hurricane victims” in North Carolina in the hour he set aside for fundraiser. During that time, he also said that when his fans donated, they needed to indicate in the notes field they were giving him the money as a “hurricane donation” so he could show the money was for a charity on his taxes.
DeCastro also again claimed poverty was preventing him from giving more than $100.00 towards the fundraiser. He said that the conspiracy against his channel started in early September, and that’s when TeamDLZ noticed a significant drop in his viewership. He pulled up his YouTube metrics and began to show proof of his troubles since the start of September.
As our readers know, we’ve documented DeCastro’s decline began in late August, around the start of back-to-school events. The fall in viewership impacted all the auditors in the field, with significant drop-offs for everyone involved. While DeCastro seems to be the only first amendment auditor who is still free falling in overall growth since August, an unknown event on the YouTube platform in August at least temporarily flatlined growth for the entire field.
According to Playbill, DeCastro is indeed hurting with his revenue from Superchats sitting under $1,900.00 for the month of September. His donations from last night brought his total for the month so far up to $600.00 in super chats which both seem small for a channel that has over 620,000 subscribers.
DeCastro has made around $48,000.00 this year from super chats alone. Between the $48,000.00 and $57,135.00 from GoFundMe intake, DeCastro has made roughly $101,135.00 from fan made donations. Not counting donations from to his PayPal, Venmo or CashApp accounts, let alone the revenue that he’s brought in from Google AdSense off his videos, and his trifold, 5A Cop Card and other merchandise sales.
Both the original stream announcing the event and DeCastro’s actual fundraising live stream have been made private by DeCastro as of press time.
DeCastro has still yet to return to the GoFundMe market, which put up goose eggs again for the day with no new revenue taken in by any of the accounts we follow including our own.
On that note, if you’d like to donate to help pay for the pet steps we bought Helen to help her up on her cat castle rather than climbing up on our desk and knocking everything over in the process, or just to keep the dramatic Jim Finch writing this dreadful column each day, you can contribute to the GoFundMe run by this very channel (https://gofund.me/b8144e31). All proceeds go to keeping the lights on, eating, and writing new stories to feature here and on reallycoolsite.org.
