Jose “Chille” DeCastro has gone mysteriously quiet on the crowd sourcing front as our own Ongoing Expenses campaign took the day with a $10.00 donation from our hate viewer, whose mysterious identity will remain unknown for all of time.
That drama aside, where the hell did Chille DeCastro go?
We realize that at his advanced age, doing multiple shows in a row where he sat stationary for four-plus hours at a time can take quite the toll on his body. At the end of his Sunday stream, he complained that his legs were numb for sitting so long.
But that’s not what we’re talking about, we’re talking about his complete and near total abandonment of the GoFundMe market and crowdfunding in general.
DeCastro was dependent on crowdfunding around the days he unexpectedly went to jail earlier this year. His fans’ generous donations brought in close to $40,000.00 in mere weeks as he was fighting what turned out to be a very real fight for his freedom against a conviction that was later overturned on appeal.
However, since being freed from incarceration, DeCastro announced that he needed $100,000.00 of his fans’ money to sue Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman and anyone associated with his incarceration and launched a GoFundMe for that purpose.
He promised his fans that they’d be invited to a gigantic party that he’d throw in his own honor once he received a seven-figure payout from the State of Nevada, with hotel rooms offered to anyone who donated to the campaign.
The campaign itself skyrocketed to $4,000.00 in the first few days of existence… until, it just died, getting a one-off donation here and there and remaining 95% away from completion for over a month now.
While it did get a donation on Sunday, that wasn’t from DeCastro’s doing. WE totally spammed URLS on our Friday on a Saturday news story and broadcast and did more to remind his fans of his crowdsourcing campaigns than he has in weeks.
And that’s kind of sad.
DeCastro bungled the handling of his release from jail, waiting too long to capitalize on his rabid fan base’s need for justice, waiting days to make any sort of live statement. He then lazily promoted the product as days passed and he learned how hard it would be to actually sue and win against a sitting Judge in Nevada.
Much like his “much needed” money for Press with Rancor’s campaign, DeCastro has gotten lazy, forgetting to promote the fund when he was in “dire need” of cash. He’s apparently preferring to sit on his butt and do a four hour show, promoting NOTHING, than bother to put any effort into any of his on-going campaigns.
Surmise for yourself what it means to the actions he was going to take based on what the campaigns were for (HINT: AIN’T HAPPENING), and his transformation is complete. He’s about to hit 50, he’s no longer seems to have the fire and passion he used to have and it seems like he’s given up on following through on his campaigns to make a difference in his world.
But isn’t that exactly like every other promise he’s made in the past year?
On that note, if you’d like to step on our toes and make us cry like a little chillito OR to force me to keep writing this column each day, we do have a GoFundMe of our own (https://gofund.me/b8144e31). All proceeds go to keeping the lights on, eating, and writing new stories to feature here and on reallycoolsite.org.
