‘Deliverance’ inbred household hammered with backlash to GoFundMe cash ‘betrayal’

An inbred household in comparison with these within the Deliverance film as they shot to fame for his or her weird lives have been turned on by their followers.

The Whittakers had been revealed to the world by the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly whose viewers had been shocked by the situations they lived in and the members of the family’ peculiar genetic deformities because of inbreeding.

Documentary-maker Mark Laita of Soft White Underbelly arrange not one however two fundraisers that gathered roughly the equal of £100,000 in beneficiant public donations and says he even dipped into his personal pocket to pay the tax on the sum drip fed to the Whittakers on their request.

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However, it is all come crashing down on the educationally-challenged clan from Odd in rural West Virginia, US, after fellow YouTuber Tyler Oliveira uploaded an video investigating the ‘poorest area of America’ during which he interviewed the Whittakers.

Mark and followers of the household had been left seething on the reply to a query in regards to the cash that they had been receiving from the donations – with Mark saying he is been handled like a money-grabbing scammer following Tyler’s documentary.

“When he asked Betty ‘what happened to the money?’ and she goes ‘I don’t know’ come on, Betty knows exactly where the money went,” Mark fumed. “Look at the Whittakers, their lives have improved greatly since I came into it and the reason for that is because I came through for them every time”.

Mark has been damage by the suggestion the household had barely seen a penny (or cent) of the money raised for them, which was to go in direction of shopping for a nicer, much less squalid home. The actuality of the scenario, Mark insists, is the household often ask for a couple of thousand {dollars} at a time for outgoings unknown to him.

Once-loyal followers of the Whittakers have now turned on the clan, with the inbred household slammed for being ungrateful and biting off the hand that feeds them – that being Mark’s.

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“Came here from Tyler’s video. I didn’t assume you had scammed The Whittakers,” wrote one YouTuber commentator. “I assumed The Whittakers likely didn’t have the comprehension to understand how much money they had actually been given.

“I feel most individuals with even an oz. of frequent sense would assume the identical and only a few individuals are questioning your integrity… Brother “Larry” and “Kenneth” appeared to point out up extra after the cash began rolling in.”

Another added: “Yes! Mark was betrayed, disrespected, discredited all within the title of greed. It’s so unhappy & heartbreaking to see what his good deed became. I used to be amazed on the cellphone name the entire time she was anticipating all of the $ they obtained to be out of Mark’s private pocket & that he would simply toss her a number of thousand a month on demand of his personal $.

“When she said she thought all the house $ was still there because she thought he was giving her his own the entire time. I realized she is playing Mark also. She wants 2 cash flows Rollin in. $ from Marks help & $ from Tyler. It’s sickening!”

“I LIVE IN WEST VIRGINIA AND THIS IS SO COMMON,” one added. “I’m shocked it took this long for them to mess it up. Poor country folk are entitled and don’t know how to act when they get access to money. I say this because I was once one of them. Then I found recovery and grew into a better person.”

One concluded: “Mark this is insane – you don’t need this stress. The Whittaker’s have now had ENOUGH help.”

Responding to Tyler’s video and remarks from the household, Mark stated: “It leaves a really bad taste in my mouth after what just happened, like nobody came to my defence and said ‘hey Mark gives us a lot of help a lot of money’. Never once have I ever gotten a thank you from anybody… but you know I also have a GoFundMe for my channel and the reason these exist is because people would watch my videos and get all heartbroken… it gives people a way to not be frustrated after watching my videos.

“These GoFundMes have been nothing however a headache for me, I’m going to delete or take [them] down. Every time I begin giving an individual cash they begin coming again and asking me for extra, and so they begin getting vindictive if I minimize them off or say no. It’s like I’ve to proceed this path of cash each day out of my pocket. I’m simply going to create movies, for those who like them watch them, for those who do not, do not.

“This young YouTuber who’s doing some irresponsible journalism decided not to get any input from me and just decided to take a story and run with it because he knew it was going to get a lot of views, which it has. I take the hit on that, my reputation gets tarnished [and] he makes a lot of money.”

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