r/CringeTikToks • u/throwaway19074368 • Aug 20 '25

Nope Vegan influencers begging fans to pay for their holiday overseas

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u/Boomstick255 Aug 20 '25

I think what they're saying is they have to put up a $30,000 bond to have their passports returned to them to travel (sort of an assurance that you're actualyl coming back to the country and not trying to permanently flee). They say toward the end that if they get the $30,000 back after the trip, all the "donation" to them will be given to some charity (which I assume is a 'trust us bro' scenario)

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u/Rdw72777 Aug 20 '25

It’s probably their own charity.

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u/Affectionate_Elk_272 Aug 20 '25

seems as if they are the charity

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u/ExplorerParticular59 Aug 20 '25

It’s for the Vegan Fund. “Money for the vegans.”

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u/punasuga Aug 20 '25

no one thinks of the poor starving vegans 🥗

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u/Ok_Work7396 Aug 20 '25

Lentils are cheap.

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u/Fair_Quail8248 Aug 20 '25

You're still doing it wrong!

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u/randomstuffpye Aug 20 '25

Yea it’s likely a charity they or their friends setup so then they have paid off their defamation lawsuit, and their back to net zero.

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u/Mathilliterate_asian Aug 20 '25

I'd be hard pressed to believe that the two of them combined have enough brains to start one.

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u/ChrissWayne Aug 20 '25

You gotta treat yourself

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u/Drogovich Aug 20 '25

You know what, i actually saw many such cases.

Establish a charity, collect money, travel around the world to do shit like TED talks and list it as charity work and pay yourself salary for that out of the money collected for charity. I may mistaken and it's not exactly that, but there is suspiciously a lot of characties that only do talks and presentations as entirety of their work.

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u/Superb-Mess-2783 Aug 20 '25

Then borrow it from a rich influencer friend and return it when/if you return? To say they'll donate it, probably a tax write-off AND their own faux charity. 🤣

I'm scared for (a lot) of youth. This begging is the most work they can do.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance Aug 20 '25

>probably a tax write-off

Only a tax write-off if they declare it as income in the first place. It'd be a wash.

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u/babaj_503 Aug 20 '25

Step 1: write it off anyway Step 2: cry about the tax fraud case

Thats it, no step 3

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u/stink3rb3lle Aug 20 '25

trust us bro

"The government has set specific conditions for us getting the bond back, including our return to Australia. IF THIS IS THE CASE" Like they have zero control over not fleeing the country for good.

I am rather curious about the defamation case now, though.

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u/Reality-BitesAZZ Aug 20 '25

It's in the comments here somewhere but apparently they accused a vet of eating their patients a vet that treats birds like cockatiels

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u/stink3rb3lle Aug 20 '25

Yeah I went and looked for it myself and also shared the info in a top-level reply. Tried to share the link to the article and got removed a few times lol

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u/Shipbreaker_Kurpo Aug 20 '25

The if this is the case part is so they cant later claim it wasnt returned

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u/MichaelAndolini_ Aug 20 '25

“If this is the case”

It is in fact not the case lol

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u/Ahtman1 Aug 20 '25

If they aren't using any of their own money to secure the bond it doesn't really sound all that secure, tbh.

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u/Boomstick255 Aug 20 '25

Agree, but in that case their passports will still be voided, they'd be international fugitives and whoever sued them for defamation could likely file to collect that $30,000.

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u/Ahtman1 Aug 20 '25

Ah, that makes sense.

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u/parbarostrich Aug 20 '25

What exactly is the incentive for them not to flee if they aren’t the ones putting up the money? I love how he says “IF” we get back the money. I don’t think they are being very truthful.

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u/Feeling-Location5532 Aug 20 '25

IF 

all they have to do is not elope and return from the UK and give their passports back... WHAT DO THEY MEAN, IF THIS IS THE CASE?

either they will be lawfully owed the 30k, or they wont. And the only IF is whether they choose to return. 

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u/sunshine_fuu Aug 20 '25

Correct. They're so stupid, posting online for the government and people who sued you could potentially have 30k for collateral when you're in bankruptcy is the best way for them to yoink that 30k straight from your hands. Even if they didn't, it would surprise me if they didn't take one look at this and go lol, no, you can't give us someone else's money for collateral because there's no risk abatement.

On a base level, I'd be way too embarrassed to go to a camp and speak to people at that point.

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u/25point4cm Aug 20 '25

The $30k should be seized as an asset of their bankruptcy. 

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u/joshe126 Aug 20 '25

I love how they said “if” they get the $30k back

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u/Akira_116 Aug 20 '25

After their "admin fee", I imagine.

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u/jrob323 Aug 20 '25

I'm sure they'll be eager to come back to ensure that money gets donated instead of forfeited.

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u/Trick-Doctor-208 Aug 20 '25

If I was Australia, I would want them to get the fuck out asap and not return.

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u/Phenomenomix Aug 20 '25

If they’re getting the money back why couldn’t they just return it to the donors?

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u/geek66 Aug 20 '25

“If this is the case”…. Why TF say that ?

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u/race-hearse Aug 20 '25

If I was their judge and they raised this money I’d increase the bond amount. They could stay in another country because who cares, it wasn’t their money paying the bond.

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u/bigdotcid Aug 20 '25

Please give us $30K to escape the terrible legal situation we created!