Wait, wait, wait... What?
How does SHE have anything to do with what people donated to her? Like, at all?!
You said yourself she only asked for 6k. SHE asked for 6K. She DIDN'T ask for 159k. OTHER PEOPLE gave her the extra 153k, and you're blaming HER for it?!
What the hell, man.
Even if 6k is "way too much for a video series", which I don't agree with at all, she has nothing to do with the actual donations that come in.
And why she has a "vice grip" on comments? Is because nearly every single fucking comment would be filled with vile and terrible words. Any decent conversation would be lost. In fact, in the very descriptions of her videos, she says "We disabled the comments because people suck. If you want to discuss this, feel free to host it on your blog or other forum and discuss it there!" Like, hey, what we're doing right now!
I thought you were better than this, MSH. This is just mud slinging.
Don't be naive, Descan. The cost for a video series in the modern day is not all that high. The largest cost would be the hardware, and that assumes she needs a whole new computer and video setup for this.
As for the comments, I say bullshit. You expect me to believe this was popular enough to get this much money in donations but to have enough people posting badly on the comments that she either shuts them down or approves every single one?
She asked for too much, she got too much, and everyone just goes along with having their money taken. This is a
very good scam, but a scam nonetheless.