To me it can be intended both ways. Some just want to make positive content and inspire people. Some just want attention. Usually you can distinguish which is which. I absolutely cannot stand it when someone shoves a camera in a down-trodden person's face and treat them like they're hopeless without the heroic youtuber to save them. It strips them of any morsel of dignity they're trying to salvage and their bad times are forever immortalized on the internet.

Who cares, if the final result is someone getting help?

It's no longer a selfless charitable deed.

Tory politicians opening foodbanks. Afterall, if it weren't for them it would never have been necessary, I mean, possible....

Hell yes. I hate when people do this, it instantly puts me off them. Especially when people film homeless people (I've been homeless twice and hated having to rely on other people for help but had no choice at the time) just put yourself in the other persons shoes, would you want someone filming you at the most difficult, desperate time in your life and posting the video online for the world to see? (You desperately need that food/money to survive and the person "helping" holds all the power so you feel like you can't ask them not to film/photograph you. You probably haven't showered in a while, are most likely wearing old/dirty clothes and generally look and feel terrible/ill) If you genuinely want to do something to help another person then do it, but the minute you film it and put it online it becomes more about feeding your own ego than helping someone in need.

How on earth could recording something devalue it? Maybe if you're focused on the recording that distracts from what you're doing, but I don't understand how it could hypothetically devalue anything if doing the thing has value in the first place. Feeding the homeless for example; somebody might do it anonymously for love of humanity, someone else might do it to uphold their charitable image on TicTok. How could their motives for doing make any difference in the value being provided to the person in need? Someone please explain this

I have done charitable deeds before but I've never posted of bragged about it. However, I don't have a problem with this who share their deeds. If a person is doing good for another person that is to be commended. Perhaps we don't agree that they should post/share about it. But I'm not going to hate on anyone who performs some charitable deed. Even if a person is giving just to be recognized, they are still giving. No one should be criticized for doing a good deed regardless their reason behind it.

There's something to be said about spreading awareness. It's not always about showing off. Usually people do it to make others aware. Kids aren't born with the knowledge we've learned, some of them need to learn the way we did, by others showing us the options we may have. Seems more self absorbed to be pissed about this in the first place.

A friend of mine posted a picture of her donating the clothes to the war refugees. Inspired me to do the same. It doesn’t devalue anything - if it motivates even one person to do the same, the picture was worth it.

we live in the age of egonography

Disagree. Even if you do a good deed for the wrong reasons a good deed was still performed and someone in need got the benefit from the person doing said good deed. You don't get to decide if someone else's good deed counts bc you don't like the reason they did it. Get off your a*s and go do something instead of judging others

I do this to motivate others. Please donate blood if you can. Donating blood saves lives, literally. (Def. Not a vampire here.)

Being proud of your volunteerism shouldn't be hidden.

It doesn't devalue it to the people you helped. It only devalues it in your own eyes. That's selfish motivation as well.

I totally agree - good deeds and charity are to be done without expectation of recognition!

Most religious traditions include acts of charity and often they are considered sacred/powerful only when done in private. A Tzedakah in Judaism, Dana in Buddhism, Vand Chhakna in Sikhism, Pwen in Voodoo, Zakat in Islam and many others. Most are done in promise of some etherial reward either in or after life. As an atheist, I'm happy with the warm feeling I get for doing something that makes another's life a little better.

I'm very much not religious, but I like to be aware of a few points in various 'holy books'. The bible has a good line about this.. "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing"

Oh I agree with this 1,000 percent!

Excluding fake or particularly engineered charity videos, I'd have to disagree with this complaint. So long as they have permission to post it then charity is charity, there is no reason for invalidating charity just because they opted to make it publicly available to see. I don't get how it bothers people so much, where this unspoken rule came from that if it isn't selflessly silent then it's as bad as doing nothing. It can motivate people, encourage them, make others feel good to have reminders after a bad day that good people still do good things out there. Sometimes it's like people take charity videos as some slight or personal jab against them, like it ignites some unspoken guilt they have which drives them to angrily post internet criticism making assumptions about the person who posted the video. As someone who spent time homeless and living out of a car, I'd rather have met the people in these videos than the comment section.

Well at least their faces aren't in it so they are not doing it for ego. It sets a fine example I'd say.

The whole point of doing something charitable is to help others, not to help ourselves to attention by doing it. Some people have tested the recipients of cash gifts to see what they do with the money, I get the the thought process behind this, and sadly there really are people desperate who would use the money for good, and I have seen videos of that. If they use it for good, they get rewarded by being given more. If not they get called out on it. My issue with all of this is that if we give people money, it is now their money. We don't give our kids gifts then take them back if they don't pick up after themselves. A gift is a gift, either do it because you genuinely want to be of help. You don't give a gift to see how good or bad the person receiving the gift uses it. Our karma comes from what we do, as does theirs. Give to help, not to be smug.

Trust me, majority of videos showing people giving money, iPhones, cars and anything else are fake. Grab some rags from goodwill, a little makeup, get a friend to sit in the nearest doorway, press record, post and then watch the kudos roll in.

Family Vlogs by YT/IG Influencers do this all the time and you see the look of confusion on the recipient's face when they're given the charity ...

You cant get the praise for doing good , for your ego and gain . Or big gold star grow up.

There’s a celebrity that does (what he calls) “charity bombs”, where he will leave HUGE tips, sometimes a couple of hundred dollars just for coffee. Each time he books it out of there, when his friends ask him about it he said it’s not charity if you get something out of it. And the only reason why people know about it is because his friends will occasionally bring it up during podcasts.

Yes it does. Charity & good deeds should be from the heart w/out popularity or sell gain.

Amen!

This may be why I've never done any charity. It's required for nearly any job now it seems, but then that doesn't make it altruistic, and that just makes me and the whole situation depressed.

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I NEVER tell anyone about the things I do like this. Not how much, not how often, nothing. I mean, how often to you advertise that you breath or brush your hair? Acts of giving should come as naturally as everything else you do to survive. If they don't, there's something wrong with you. Just be quiet and get on with it.