Tuesday’s GoFundMe race ended in the same way it does most days, with our own Ongoing Expenses fund winning the day and not a dime going to any of the multiple campaigns associated with Jose “Chille” DeCastro. Leaving one to wonder if DeCastro would have been better off financially if he had been convicted of recent charges.
DeCastro spent the day in California, safely away from a potential trial in Maryland that was conveniently thrown out at the start of the day for charges of allegedly harassing former employee Collin “Project Constitution” Campbell.
He also started the day complaining that his viewership numbers went from unbelievably inflated down to the range of a channel slightly bigger than our own would do on a normal day. With viewership THAT anemic, DeCastro started to panic and blame the nameless, faceless “YouTube” for all the ills of his channel.
But his viewers have listened to him complain about YouTube for years now and are numb to it. Sure, it’s a threat to his way of life, but, honestly, if someone in a similar situation had been buying views to inflate his numbers and suddenly turned his purchases off… they may result in what DeCastro was allegedly experiencing. It’s not that big of a shock.
Plus, things were to the point where he’s expanded to merchandise sales BEFORE the supposed loss in viewership. DeCastro has been making a point that he only produced 100 keychains and 100 rubber bracelets in this batch. He has priced each bracelet and keychain at $10.00 each, though shipping is rumored to be insane, but still, with 616,000 subscribers, why aren’t the products sold out by now?
If .016% of his audience were limited to one bracelet and one keychain per order, you think he would have had an instant sellout. Keychains and rubber bracelets would be the new Tickle Me Chille, and he’d be sold out and making money hand over fist.
But…
DeCastro’s crowd sourcing did their best when he was under threat. He raised close to $60,000.00 this year from fighting sets of charges against him, Press with Rancor and Wanda Mise. Passing the collection plate around to his audience works when freedom is at stake for SOMEBODY.
Regarding his scheduled trial in Maryland yesterday, it would have provided everything he’s been wanting – a threat to his freedom, unfair charges (he was never arrested), trumped up accusations (what DO we know about this former employee?), and an unfair system that was designed to keep the common man down.
With his six employees churning out propaganda videos designed to promote his possible loss of freedom and the campaign slogan “They’re trying to put me away again – donate NOW to help me defend my total innocence!” it would literally have been an invitation to print money!
Yet, he had it dismissed on procedural grounds, didn’t promote it at all, didn’t acknowledge that his very FREEDOM was at stake and just let it go.
Worse yet, didn’t mention his crowd sourcing campaigns to get rich off of his fans in order to replenish the coffers so he didn’t have to sell keychains and cheap rubber bracelets on the air like a bad pitchman at a state fair.
DeCastro has the ability to rile up his 616,000 viewers to give him money with no return on investment. $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, this is so important you should SKIP A MEAL to fund it, yet he’s blown the one opportunity he had to exploit his audience in a way that would have solved his financial problems because he was too lazy to run a campaign.
Chille DeCastro: A “journalist” whose laziness cost him his fortune.
On that note, we’re not too lazy to pass on telling you that we need your help to keep the very newspaper and newscast you’re looking at or listening to right now alive. If you’d like to continue to force me to keep writing this dreadful 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.
