Attila can’t keep out of headlines these previous few weeks – final week, they cancelled everything of their European tour after touchdown in Germany, and fewer than 48-hours earlier than their first present. The band claimed that traces have been crossed and a third-party firm was extraordinarily unprofessional, and determined to cancel the tour after that.
Screenshots of an e-mail from an unnamed Attila staffer have been posted by competition organizers that detailed the band had cancelled over a “non-existing downside.” A portion of the e-mail learn, “Their bus provider supplied a superbly workable resolution for them to begin the tour as deliberate, however the band made up their thoughts and one-sided made the choice to cancel the complete factor, with out chatting with us nor to their very own supervisor.
Each their administration and us have been making an attempt to come up with the band all through the day to debate and work out an answer for a non-existing downside.”
Now, Attila is garnering extra consideration for frontman’s Chris Fronzak‘s X exercise, and the truth that he truly put his cash the place his mouth was.
On August 1st, common YouTuber (and form of philanthropist) Mr. Beast posted to X that his long-term challenge, TeamWater, was energetic once more – a challenge that gives clear water inside sure main city areas inside Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania was now stay once more. Mr. Beast first began this initiative in 2023 : “TeamWater is now stay!
$1 = 1 yr of fresh water for somebody in want. Throughout August me and numerous different creators are going to be making an attempt to boost $40,000,000 to offer 2,000,000 folks clear consuming water for many years every!!!
Donate right here fairly plz http://TeamWater.org.”
Fronzak later quoted on the announcement, claiming that Mr. Beast‘s earlier efforts have been unsuccessful: “I see plenty of discourse about this, however NO ONE is mentioning the truth that Mr. Beast went to Africa & constructed 100 wells in 2023 & all of them failed 1 yr later as a result of lack of upkeep. I consider everybody ought to all the time assist different folks, however this concept already failed?”
Mr. Beast then responded on to Fronzak, stating: “That’s actually a flat out lie. We lately had the 100 wells audited due to these false rumors (which erodes belief in philanthropic efforts and isn’t cool) and the wells are working…”
Fronzak then hit Mr. Beast again with: “Okay! Ship me the audit that reveals that ALL 100 wells are nonetheless working at the moment and I’ll ship $5,000 to your new water challenge.”
Then, Mr. Beast adopted up with a publish to X, not quoting or mentioning Fronzak, which stated: “Folks determined for advert income have falsely claimed that the 100 wells I constructed for folks in want don’t work anymore WITH ZERO PROOF! So I despatched somebody to EVERY SINGLE WELL to get video proof of all of them nonetheless working over a yr later. Checkmate liars. Proof – https://beastphilanthropy.org/i_built_100_wells_in_africa/all-well-projects”
After that had been uploaded to X, Mr. Beast went again to the thread with Fronzak and advised him: “Verify my new tweet. Literal video proof. Go donate ????.”
And, as a person of his phrase, Fronzak put his cash the place his mouth was and donated $5,000 to Mr. Beast‘s TeamWater initiative: “That is superb, thanks for offering readability. I’m a person of my phrase, in order I promised, right here is proof of my $5,000 donation! I genuinely hope you hit your objective and every part succeeds easily.”
#TeamWater claims that $1 offers one individual clear water for a yr. A few of the highest donors thus far are YouTube and Google – matching what Mr. Beast had raised on their platforms – in addition to folks at Shopify and TikTok, and Logan Paul and FaZe Banks.
You will discover out extra concerning the challenge right here.
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