Being incredibly spiteful and abusive to paypigs is actually part of a well-crafted product positioning strategy to target what used to be a rich market segment.
Around the 2010's, social media spaces such as twitter and tumblr had built a burgeoning userbase of white, feminine, western middle class individuals, deeply concerned with an interpretation of social justice that placed themselves as the most privileged individuals (besides white conservative men). Privilege in this instance is interchangeable with sin. If you were born a rich white girl in America, it was a stain you could never wash clean, but you could ameliorate with "good deeds." In the olden days, guilty rich folks would volunteer at a thrift store, or at the soup kitchen, or they would take a summer and dig wells in Africa that no one would use. This market segment is also highly online, lazy, and performative, so time consuming and labor intensive acts in the real world that might not get noticed by their social circle (e.g. the Internet) was manifestly inadequate.
The gap was filled by a class of online beggars who were also highly online and lazy. They would load up on labels to demonstrate they were as far away from privileged as possible. A disabled mentally black trans person is the gold standard in this space: your Kyttie's, your Mem's, and your Regina's tick most, if not all the boxes.
Organisations like memcorp are very specifically NOT begging the way you might tearfully beg friends to donate cash to your mother's cancer treatment fund. Regina sees herself as the victim of a concerted systemic effort to kill her simply because society at large is racist, sexist, and abelist. The market segment is complicit in this murder by the virtue of existing as a rich, white, or abled person.
If you wanted to assuage your guilt at being involved in a system that murdered the underprivileged, you could temporarily do so by giving Regina 100 bucks for her bills, which just so happened to be doordash.
If Regina was polite and contrite in asking for money, it doesn't scratch the itch the customer wants, which is namely to feel like shit for existing, and then get a little surge of pleasure when they override the inherently evil nature of their genes. Being cruel to beggars is explictly part of the product they're offering.
This style of "helping" the "poor" was also highly performative and visible because signal boosting the grift was part of what was being asked of you. It would be awful NOT to share the donation link and ask someone to match your donation.
This market was at its most exploitable during the COVID lockdown era when the customers had free time, spare money from jobs that were being performed remotely, but no way to spend that money.
As that money dried up it revealed two big errors with the value proposition of LACs (Limited Accountability Companies). Firstly, while some players in the market scored tons of money, the actual sustainability for smaller to medium players was quite low. For every 10k+ haul someone like mem got, there was about a dozen small time mtf trannies failing to get enough money to pay off their DUI fines. The grift was only really sustainable for people who already had a large organic reach online for other reasons, or people who got good at building one.
The second problem is that the operators who exploited this market only had an instinctive understanding of why people donated to them, and what little they did understand was overridden by their irredeemably scammy natures and lack of basic self control.
People were donating to feel good about themselves, and it's impossible to do that if the best you get is a "thanks but its not enough, I also need--" once you've sent money. By starving pay pigs of their emotional pay off, they taught potential donors that the grifter's situation is unending misery and essentially doomed no matter what.
The grifters also had no idea when to shut up about certain purchases. People aren't going to believe you're starving if you turn around and order jimmy dean's breakfast bowls, or 75 dollars in doordash every day. No one in that community is brave enough to call grifters out, but they will just silently walk away, or stop retweeting posts. Which is what we see today
The tenacious unicorn ranch had a far more successful strategy of inventing crises for people to fix with money: Yarn distribution, tranny splinter cell rescue missions, gun fights with fascists. The TUR grift was also producing a lot more content that could be spun into good feelings for the donors. If someone like Mem staged a little photoshoot of her cousin moving into the hovel, or filmed and pulled off a succesful cleaning operation-- which would cost about 4 days of doordash money-- people would be inclined to see improvement and feel good about helping. It won't ever happen though because it's straying dangerously close to doing work.
The market has died now, and pretty much the only people left are those who are lying for weed, gatcha game, and junk food money with all their other bills paid. Another industry that flourished and died over night. So it goes.
