Fadamor

quote:

---

Trumponomics

---

The brand was in decline long before Trump's first term. At one time there were five Hooters locations in Japan, but by 2014 that number was down to three with one of the remaining ones in the process of closing. Yes, Japan. The home of doujin and scantily-clad cosplayers couldn't find enough business for five restaurants having cosplayer girls as servers.

Rather than any kind of Government interference, Hooters' business model was totally dependent - and ultimately done-in by - there being a ready supply of college-age girls who wouldn't mind walking around in tight tank-tops, hot pants, panty hose, and white athletic socks/sneakers while serving drunk (overwhelmingly men) clientele. As more options opened up for college-age women in the last half-century, the appeal of shaking your tush for tips while fending off drunken louts disappeared. The business model never had a viable long-term outlook.

quote:

---

quote:
Just curious, what is so weird about it? He chose to do something unique for a good cause to raise money…people want to give for a good cause and it’s a unique way to give.

It's kind of manipulative/self-aggrandizing. "I won't sleep until you meet my demands!"

Many people are either going to give because they are worried for his health/safety, or they are going to tune in and not give because they want to see how long he can go.

quote:
if some random dude was just asking for charity, it wouldn’t bring near as much awareness to the cause.

He pretty much is some random dude.

He's not saying, "If you all give $1M, I'll do something really difficult, cool, and impressive." He's saying, "If you all give $1M, I'll go to bed."

---

You appear to be missing some info. Tom set-up 7 step-goals throughout the fundraiser:
:dude:From $0 to $100K - Tom promised he would not sleep until he hit $100K. As it turned out this one was easily breached as $100K in donations was reached only 2 hours and 13 minutes from the start of the live stream. Therefore, Tom increased the upper end to $200K. He slept after that for about 7 hours a night up until the last night.
:dude:$250K - At $250K Tom - a former high school History teacher - gave a lecture on his favorite period in History: "Post-WWI Europe and the Changes that war brought to everyday lives in Europe." This lecture ended up being about 2:40 long (NEVER get a teacher started on their favorite subject!) and is clipped and saved to his YT channel.
:dude: $400K to $500K - Tom promised he would do the entire span of $400K to $500K as his character creation for the Washington Commanders, "Wildflower". As it turned out, Tom couldn't maintain his stoner voice for that long as his voice was getting shredded.
:usa: $500K HOT ONES - Tom got the Hot Ones 10-pack and agreed to douse his vegan chicken wing substitutes with each of the 10 hot sauces. Questions were provided by his friend in Colorado and co-host of the GPS podcast, Brandon Perna. While the segment was funny, what was funnier was the next day after he returned from the bathroom and looked like he had just experienced WWI trench warfare in person. :rotflmao:
:usa: $600K 1-Hour Darkness Retreat - In the past Tom has poked fun at NFL Quarterback Aaron Rogers' trip to a "Darkness Retreat". He recreated the stunt here, promising a "Tom Grossi Original" drawing of whatever a $1,000 donation donor wanted. The catch? Tom was blindfolded and didn't know what color crayons he was using.
:usa: $750K The "Auction" of a piece of the Berlin Wall and a bit of barbed wire from the wall. A family that had been in West Berlin at the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall had helped themselves to quite a few small pieces from the wall's rubble. When they heard of Tom's fundraiser, they sent a small piece along with a piece of barbed wire for Tom to "Auction". It wasn't a real auction and it was made clear that these were donations and would not be returned. The winner of the "auction" would be the one with the highest single donation (they couldn't combine them).
:snoozer: $850K to $1,000K No Sleep Until The Goal Is Reached - this was originally supposed to start at $900K, but the rate of donations started picking up and I guess Tom was feeling like a "Tush Push" over the goal line was necessary, so he started the last goal early. The goal was actually reached 24 hours after he last woke up, so he was no worse than any college student pulling an all-nighter cramming. Can anyone here relate? :lol:

quote:

---

Is he making any money off of this?

---

No. Tom started streaming at 5pm on Sunday Feb. 16 and reached $1,000,000 yesterday at 8:26am EST. Due to YouTube requiring livestreams to be restarted every 12 hours, it took 15 livestreams to cover the entire fundraiser. None of the livestreams were monitized by YouTube and no ads were run during the livestreams. In fact, Tom supplied $1,000 at each $100,000 increment for a total of 10 $1,000 donations, so there was no way he was going to make money off of this fundraiser.