YouTuber and first amendment auditor Jeremiah Payne held two emergency livestreams Friday night in an attempt to raise $600.00 for “fines” he claims that are due Monday or else he’ll be put in jail for 280 days.
His first livestream contained an extended side chat message from Payne:
𝔸𝕦𝕕𝕚𝕥𝕠𝕣𝕤 𝕆𝕗 𝔸𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕒 𝕃𝔻𝕆𝔽
Guys I have to pay off $600 in fines or else I will be arrested and the judge himself told me if that happens I will do 280 days in jail. YES I am working, but the money I make pays my rent & electric and water…. and I do good to do that, please guys help me and my family, I do not wanna lose everything I worked so hard to get!, I Need yalls help, ,, heck, if someone would pay the full 600 they can call and do it they do not even have to send me the money, I just want it paid so I can move on with my life and not have to worry about a warrant and looking over my head, and if i get caught it 280 days, so if you can and will help here are the links so you can do that
Payne spent approximately five hours over two live streams begging his fans for help, explaining that the fine was due to be paid on Monday and that he had wanted to raise “half” the money Friday night and then raise the rest over Saturday and Sunday.
Promising to go live again Saturday afternoon, Payne was puzzled as to why his randomly held livestreams were so poorly attended. The first one reached 12 total viewers at peak, before averaging four viewers during the broadcast.
In the end, Payne claimed to have raised around $120.00 from two donations during his second livestream before donations dried up. He also complained that a drive by from someone with a Fraudit Wrangler YouTube name who had posted “U Have end your li fe” to Payne’s live stream did not even spark donations.
Payne pledged that the comment, which may or may not have come from the real Fraudit Wrangler, would result in the termination of Fraudit Wrangler’s YouTube channel. Taking time to warn Wrangler that retribution was coming.
YouTube itself was also a point of contention for Payne as he again claimed that he had been demonetized last month and did not receive the $800.00 in AdSense earnings he had made before his demonetization.
According to Payne, his demonetization was due to YouTube not understanding that the music he’s been posting is his own copywritten work and that any claim against it is invalid. He said that YouTube turned down his appeal for being “too late to appeal” and he can apply for monetization again on February 5, 2025.
Payne’s lack of donations may come as he has had a long history of claiming to need variations of $600.00 or else his family would face eviction from various places they were staying. While he has not been as active in 2024 as he was in making pleas for money in 2023, long time fans remember a spree of demands for money in 2023 that resulted in Payne banning hundreds of people from his live chat.
His appeal to his fans, along with the claim that his wife, mother and seven-year-old daughter will face eviction if he returns to jail, may have been too much of a reflection of his actions in 2023 and turned off his viewers again.
Payne gave out all of his current cash app and PayPal details but left out his GoFundMe campaign details. His “A Family Fallen on Hard Times” fund brought in $0.00 for the day, with $80.00 raised out of a $7,000.00 goal.
The YouTuber also ruled out help from Jose “Chille” DeCastro, who is known for his fundraising skills. Payne claimed that DeCastro told him he’d “never again” help him raise money, even if his family was facing homelessness based on a bad experience between the two in 2023.
Payne has pledged to livestream again later this afternoon.
