Well -- they didn't have clean water, did they? So they did need help.
The YouTuber Mr. Beast decided to bring clean water to 500,000 people in Africa who had none.
You might think, "Surely there's no way the left could attack someone for sparing half a million people of cholera and child deaths."
He's white, so you're wrong:
He's a Fresh Water Well #Colonialist.
American YouTuber MrBeast's latest video, in which he says he built 100 wells across Africa, has drawn a complex response online since it was published on Saturday.
Some Kenyan activists and journalists said he has spotlighted the failures of the Kenyan government, while MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, anticipates that he will be "canceled" following the reaction.
The new wells will provide clean drinking water for up to 500,000 people in Cameroon, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda and Zimbabwe, Donaldson said, while an accompanying fundraiser to support local water aid organizations had raised more than $300,000 by Monday morning.
Donaldson's 10-minute video also showed him donating supplies to Kenyan schools, such as new furniture, soccer balls, computers, whiteboards and projectors; building a bridge across a river to safely connect a village with the local schools and hospital; and donating bikes to a village in Zimbabwe to help children get to school.
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Saran Kaba Jones, founder and CEO of FACE Africa, an organization working to improve water infrastructure and sanitation in sub-Saharan Africa, told CNN: "I've been doing this for 15 years, but we've been struggling to continue the work because funding, awareness, and advocacy all take work."
And then, she added, "overnight, this person comes along, who happens to be a white male figure with a huge platform, and all of a sudden, he gets all of the attention. It's kind of frustrating, but it's also understanding the nature of how the world is."
She praised Donaldson for shining the spotlight on the need for clean water supply but warned that "the issue is sustainability. It's one thing to go in and install the well, it's another thing for us to go back to three, four, or five years from now, and see if that well is still functional."
Seems like he did your fucking job for you and you should be embarrassed that you've been grifting for years and didn't actually put in the wells.
But now you carp that "we'll see if he maintains them in four years."
How about you do something before opening your hate-hole?
And then, having attacked him for doing her job for her, she then went on to give him a list of more jobs to do:
Kaba Jones told CNN that FACE Africa works in areas where "60% of wells are broken, and people go back to drinking from the creek because there was no infrastructure put in place for follow-up for maintenance for repair" and said she hoped Donaldson's well-building effort included this infrastructure.
While much of the reaction to Donaldson's video seemed to focus on how it shamed the Kenyan government, its creator anticipated a backlash, saying on X that he "knows I'm gonna get canceled because I uploaded a video helping people, and to be 100% clear, I don't care."
Aspiring Kenyan politician Francis Gaitho criticized Donaldson's video, saying on X that it perpetuated the stereotype that Africa is "dependent on handouts...and philanthropic intervention," though Gaitho's comments attracted criticism of their own.
For those of you who are interested, Valliant Renegade is covering Disney's earnings report. He just covered Bob Iger's quick bullshit hit on CNBC to pre-spin the report, which show Disney again failing to hit expected earnings.
I said I'd cover this today but I think I'll write about it tomorrow. Right now it's drips and drabs and quick reactions.
Also I can quote some of those great reviews for The Marvels, tomorrow.
But here's the Irish Times for now.
The Marvels review: The Marvel Cinematic Universe disappears up its own black hole
Pity Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Samuel L Jackson. This is a solid contender for the worst Marvel film yet
by Donald Clarke
The arrival of a solid contender for the worst Marvel film yet will do little to dispel suggestions that this cinematic universe is disappearing up its own black hole. To say The Marvels is hard to watch would be to risk understatement. It's not just that it's not very good. It is hard to watch in the sense that a tree is hard to defibrillate. This chaotic, ugly, incoherent picture barely seems intended for exhibition. The horrible purple CGI. The characters magically swapping locations. The long breaks for utterly fruitless exposition. Our brains are not sufficiently evolved -- or perhaps they are too evolved -- to make sense of this audiovisual chop suey.
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At the centre of it all is Brie Larson as poor Captain Marvel. It has been just four years since her eponymous origin story made $1 billion, but already the character seems emblematic of a fading, increasingly decadent realm -- a late Roman emperor sighing as Vandals urinate in the Forum. It doesn't help that the current story (hurriedly trimmed?) is so haphazard.
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A scene in which kittens eat up space travellers to the strains of Memory, from Cats, allows a rare moment of welcome surrender to absurdity, but for the most part the picture makes no virtue of its incoherence. Pity Samuel L Jackson. Back as Nick Fury, he now comes across as a dignified janitor in a permanently collapsing skyscraper. All involved deserve better.