YouTuber Raises Tens of Thousands of Pound for Trans Charity by Playing Donkey Kong
January 24, 2019HBomberGuy (Harry Brewis) has raised tens of thousands of pounds for transgender charity Mermaids by streaming himself playing Donkey Kong for a solid day.
The UK-based YouTuber was inspired to raise the money after hearing that Mermaid had lost a significant part of its funding from the lottery because of anti-trans activists.
“I chose to support [Mermaids] because as a person living in Britain, I find the media discussion around this issue to be woefully misinformed, and I’d like to do my bit to help support the people who do the hard work of contributing to people’s thinking on an issue,” he said.
“I chose Mermaids specifically, because when they were designated some funding via the National Lottery, Graham Linehan, a comedy writer who did some work on a good show 20 years ago, a very normal man who is very angry about trans people all day nowadays, went on Mumsnet and told them to email the National Lottery en masse.
“Well done, Graham… now, tons of people know about Mermaids, and support them just to spite you!”
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