Anti-trans activists caused a transgender children’s charity - Mermaids - to have part of it’s lottery funding suspended. In response, Youtuber HBomberGuy decided to do a non-stop playthrough of Donkey King 64 until getting to 101% completion while donating any money raised to Mermaids.
Highlights: John Romero jumped on the stream and shouted “TRANS RIGHTS” which caused donations to go wild.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Cher retweeted the stream. AOC seems to have joined the Discord for the stream.
AOC TALKED ON DISCORD IN THE STREAM. She was amazing and so eloquent.
“fuck terfs gang” getting spammed in chat is cleansing my pores.
Further Update: Neil Gaiman retweeted. Also, they reached $222,222 while HBomberGuy was taking a #2.
Another Update: Matt Mercer retweeted. The chat also just helped pay for a disabled trans person’s wheelchair enough that they could basically buy two wheelchairs.
other highlights:
HBomberGuy getting stuck in fungi forest for like 2 hours looking for the rainbow coin
Grant Kirkhope said “trans rights!” in his donkey kong voice.
HBomberGuy asked AOC 1) if she knew how to turn on the frantic factory, which she didn’t but she did talk about playing pokemon snap as a kid, and 2) if she knew about the AOC dancing twitter account, which she did
Jack Black wanting to talk on the discord
Josh Sawyer showed up to talk on mic in discord
Chelsea E. Manning showed up to talk on mic in discord
they got the ceo of Mermaids herself to show up and talk, multiple times
they got every single person to show up say “trans rights!”
chuck tingle was just there and it was great
[ID: a screencap of a Twitch scream of Hbomberguy, a white blonde-haired man who looks very tired, playing Donkey Kong 64.]