It seems like youtuber, Tana Marie Mongeau, can’t keep herself out of the news. It all started last year when she turned 21 and married Jake Paul viner turned youtuber, and then her fame slowly escalated from there. She got her own MTV show which was streamed on MTV no filter (AKA: MTV’s youtube channel), and so far there have been 2 seasons (which I tuned in to because hey, sometimes one needs braincrack, not gonna lie.), but it seems there won’t be a 3rd because of Tana’s recent, shall we say… ‘scheduling conflicts’. Ahem.
Because she has received so much negative backlash lately over a lot of different life choices, Tana has decided to offset some of this by giving back in this time of need and starting her own charity called the 11:11 project, a charity that is dedicated to helping people with basic needs who have been affected by Coronavirus. SHe details food and money as two of the basic needs. Now, this in itself is not a bad thing, it’s wonderful that she wants to use her platform and reach to give back when the world so desperately needs it – the gesture behind starting such an organization is top notch. According to Tana they have raised over $100,000.00 for the effort and that’s wonderful, but… where is the money actually going?
So where does all that money go, Tana?
When you donate to Project 11:11 paypal tells you that you have donated to We Are Verified LLC which is Tana’s manager Jordon Worona’s company. Touching on the legal aspect here, since Jordan is part of Tana’s team, it could be that Project 11:11 is a non-profit subsidiary of We Are Verified and that could be why the proceeds look like they’re being donated to his company. There is also the fact that this company was started at the very beginning of the pandemic, so while people may be coming back to work now (slowly, state by state, depending on where you live) when everything started shutting down there was literally no time to set up the paperwork for a non-profit so Jordan may have had to vet the funds through his company for awhile.
The other thing is, on Project 11:11 there is supposed to be a form that you can fill out to receive this help, but there is no direct form on their website. Instead, you have to click on “who we support” and from that list choose “Pandemic of Love” and on that website there is the form. We’ll give Tana the benefit of the doubt and say that someone on her team dropped the ball and that is why she does not have a form up on her website where you can get the goods just yet. Also… quarantine. Although, paying someone to set up a virtual form on the website while they’re sitting at home in their pajamas all safe and quarantined doesn’t seem like that big of a deal, just sayin’. It doesn’t take that long, from what I know about my old website building days and with website builders there are literally tons of options by which to do so… but we’ll say Tana herself may not have been privvy to that information. (I really don’t think she sets up these websites herself, folks.)
All that aside, as previously mentioned Tana said that they had raised $100K for their efforts which is, again a wonderful number but I do not see where she is getting it from because according to the website itself she has only recieved $9,000 in donations. The website has a place where you can track how much money they’ve raised and either that counter is broken, or, Tana gave $100K of her own money to the cause. If she did, then that’s wonderful. There is also the possibility that Tana got some private donations by some deep pockets that do not want to be named, in which case, again, wonderful. But if you start up with your own money why say it was a donation if it wasn’t? That’s just… mystifying to me. But oh well.
Another thing, the website links all links back to Tana’s social media, it does not link back to the charity’s social media at all. You might think that maybe the charity is so new that it doesn’t have social media yet but you would be wrong, so wrong. They have a twitter, instagram, a facebook, everything you could think of but yet the links all go back to Tana Mongeau’s own personal social media. Someone on her team needs to realize that this is Tana’s project and that the project itself needs visibility, not Tana herself. If that is a personal failing on Tana’s part however, then she needs to step forward and take responsibility and promote the project itself on HER social media, and not the other way around. Because this is not about her.
To give her the benefit of the doubt, Tana Mongeau is 21 yars old as of this writing. She is young and tends to have huge ideas that get a lot of attention, but has a tendency to jump the gun on a lot of things. While this idea is monumental and probably has a ton of positivity behind it, I think she may have jumped the gun and just tossed an idea out there without vetting it clearly first. To be fair, vetting, I would imagine is Jordan’s job and I hope that he’s doing double duty behind the scene trying to straighten this mess out because the last thing she needs is another social media debacle. However it looks like that’s kind of what Tana thrives on, being a train wreck. So… is this just another social media mistake for views…? Or was it a true gesture from the heart? I’m sincerely hoping for the latter. You decide.
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