So there's something happening now called the Flying Colors Foundation scandal .
http://goboiano.com/the-short-life-of-flying-colors-foundation/
Their (archived) website: http://web.archive.org/web/20180318183234/https://flyingcolorsfoundation.org/#contactus
TL;DR/DW:
>Flying Colors Foundation is a supposedly non-profit foundation that claims it's going to help "Western anime fans to be heard"
>The future founder of FCF meets up with Gigguk in the summer of 2017
>One month later The Anime Man releases his "Top 100 anime survey", the group behind the foundation (still not officially launched) contacts him because they see a business opportunity
>They collaborate with him and help him analyze and publish the data
>It did well *dollar signs in their eyes*
>The company officially registers sometime in November
>One day they put out a survey called the The 2018 Anime Census
>Big anime youtubers shill for it (all for free, they claim, later on it turns out they were all paid):
>One week later a woman called Alicia Haddick/socialanigirl posts an article on Medium (sadly it appears to have been removed), pointing out that one of the staff members of the foundation used to work for Loot Crate and Disney as Consumer Insight and Data Analyst
>Some people start suspecting it's a scam and that it was made for the sole purpose of data harvesting and selling analytics to companies
>Connections between Gigguk and one of the founders are also found
>Concerns are also raised about the lack of team transparency, intrusive census questions about mental health and income, and questionable donated profits
>FCF also promise to donate their profits to other non-profits but also claim that they will donate to a for-profit company, it's illegal for a non-profit to give revenue they earned through donations or other non-taxable income to a for-profit company so this is clearly suspicious
>FCF damage control and deny it's a scam, same goes for people like Gigguk and The Anime Man
>Alicia Haddick/socialanigirl releases another article exposing more of their lies (http://web.archive.org/web/20180328...s-foundation-further-revelations-dc43b9e8a8b9 , such as:
– Having more employed individuals than publicly known (including a potentially illegal unpaid intern)
– The staff claiming to have no more connections with Otaku Pin Club while some still have admin privileges on the OPC Discord server
– They considered the possibility of charging Japanese clients for a more in-depth analysis of the gathered data. They also did not represent themselves as a non-profit with these clients
– The survey management tool they used collected IP addresses despite FCF themselves stating that no personal data will be gathered
– Despite claiming to have not paid influencers, they paid Digibro $100 for their first consultation
>BURN BABY BURN https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/87kja1/flying_colors_foundation_lied_about_the_people/
>Gigyuk starts distancing himself from the company, The Scammer Man goes even further by sweeping it all under the rug, he deletes the video and the tweets where he promoted the survey etc (they were the anime youtubers who were the most involved in the project)
>FCF admit defeat and close down on March 31 https://flyingcolorsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Farewell-Letter-FCF.pdf
Big tl;dr: Private Info of weeboos got leaked to one, two, or maybe thousands of scam companies.
http://goboiano.com/the-short-life-of-flying-colors-foundation/
Their (archived) website: http://web.archive.org/web/20180318183234/https://flyingcolorsfoundation.org/#contactus
TL;DR/DW:
>Flying Colors Foundation is a supposedly non-profit foundation that claims it's going to help "Western anime fans to be heard"
>The future founder of FCF meets up with Gigguk in the summer of 2017
>One month later The Anime Man releases his "Top 100 anime survey", the group behind the foundation (still not officially launched) contacts him because they see a business opportunity
>They collaborate with him and help him analyze and publish the data
>It did well *dollar signs in their eyes*
>The company officially registers sometime in November
>One day they put out a survey called the The 2018 Anime Census
>Big anime youtubers shill for it (all for free, they claim, later on it turns out they were all paid):
>One week later a woman called Alicia Haddick/socialanigirl posts an article on Medium (sadly it appears to have been removed), pointing out that one of the staff members of the foundation used to work for Loot Crate and Disney as Consumer Insight and Data Analyst
>Some people start suspecting it's a scam and that it was made for the sole purpose of data harvesting and selling analytics to companies
>Connections between Gigguk and one of the founders are also found
>Concerns are also raised about the lack of team transparency, intrusive census questions about mental health and income, and questionable donated profits
>FCF also promise to donate their profits to other non-profits but also claim that they will donate to a for-profit company, it's illegal for a non-profit to give revenue they earned through donations or other non-taxable income to a for-profit company so this is clearly suspicious
>FCF damage control and deny it's a scam, same goes for people like Gigguk and The Anime Man
>Alicia Haddick/socialanigirl releases another article exposing more of their lies (http://web.archive.org/web/20180328...s-foundation-further-revelations-dc43b9e8a8b9 , such as:
– Having more employed individuals than publicly known (including a potentially illegal unpaid intern)
– The staff claiming to have no more connections with Otaku Pin Club while some still have admin privileges on the OPC Discord server
– They considered the possibility of charging Japanese clients for a more in-depth analysis of the gathered data. They also did not represent themselves as a non-profit with these clients
– The survey management tool they used collected IP addresses despite FCF themselves stating that no personal data will be gathered
– Despite claiming to have not paid influencers, they paid Digibro $100 for their first consultation
>BURN BABY BURN https://www.reddit.com/r/anime/comments/87kja1/flying_colors_foundation_lied_about_the_people/
>Gigyuk starts distancing himself from the company, The Scammer Man goes even further by sweeping it all under the rug, he deletes the video and the tweets where he promoted the survey etc (they were the anime youtubers who were the most involved in the project)
>FCF admit defeat and close down on March 31 https://flyingcolorsfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Farewell-Letter-FCF.pdf
Big tl;dr: Private Info of weeboos got leaked to one, two, or maybe thousands of scam companies.
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