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The most ethically balanced YouTuber.

I’m in grad school to become a teacher right now and doing a full time unpaid teaching internship (isn’t that fun) but I had to subscribe when I saw you post about doing this. 🩷

I just upgraded because of this

It’s really awesome of you to make such a tangible commitment to improving the lives of others! But why do you prefer to support geographically close charities?

Stop being such a nice person.

Good on you mate! Of course this is timely with what's going to happen over the next four years, especially to certain groups of people.

##OrgName## in image #5 is my favorite. (Seriously though, this is awesome. Thank you for doing this!)

You are a true role model. We are in desperate need of more of those these days!

I think what you are doing is great. When you are looking at your expenses, be sure to include putting back something as an emergency fund. You never know when you might need this.

Thank you for all the donations but the Center on Halsted and Trevor Project specifically. The LGBT+ community needs all the help it can get, especially right now.

I realize you're probably not forgetting to save up retirement and just general "life sucks but why should mine" funds, but if you have forgotten those you may want to slightly adjust. However, I love the donation of excess to local services. This is what I like to see with people.

This is an incredibly thoughtful idea. Thank you, Alec!!

Alec, you are a true example of what is possible if you have compassion, and act on it....more power to your elbow.

So you really are just the best kind of person. If more people were as generous and conscientious as yourself, the world would be a much brighter place.

I love your videos, but THIS is why I upgraded to a paid membership. You sir, are an inspiration.

How extremely positive

You rock Alec, I work with some of the lovely people at Center on Halsted, they will definitely appreciate the donations. Keep on being awesome!

This is wonderful, thanks for the transparency and the incredible initiative!

Tl;dr: thank you - this is wonderful and unexpectedly joyful, especially at this time! Long version: I want to make it very clear that the reason for supporting you (and other content creators on YouTube who happen to be middle-aged men in the USA) is the content, specifically the fun you give me learning something new or getting a different point of view about things such as laserdisc, electromechanical jukeboxes, the right color for LED-based Christmas lights, or, of course, the refrigeration cycle. I think people putting so much time into making such wonderful videos deserve to make a living. Still, in the last ten years or so there has always been a worrying aspect to this - knowing that half of the population in countries such as the USA, and more of that among the group of middle-aged men, actively support political views that sharply collide with my own and that threaten the country and the world, inevitably led to the question of “what kind of people am I supporting?” You have always kept politics out of your videos (which is, I think, the right thing to do). Things like your focus on sustainability (like the practicability of heating with heat pumps even in the Chicago winter) and electromobility (where I chuckled about the “situation for an EV road trip if you don’t have a Tesla”) have made it clear that you don’t belong to the kind of people who think it’s fine to watch the word literally burn - but still, for some reason it made me feel extremely good when I saw what kind of organizations you are supporting. So, again, thank you, and I’m looking forward to more stuff about how technology can make the world a place where we all can live for a long time to come!

Genuinely was very excited to tell my partners about this today, when the world is so exhausting and destructive lately, to have someone I already respect a lot step up and do something like this is just... uplifting in many many ways, especially emotionally.

You are a wonderful human being, Alec. Thank you.

The amount of research, production time and general quality that goes into your videos reflects how much of a genuine person you are. The money generated from patreon should always go to you first because you deserve it Alec. I love how you are donating it to charities but make sure you have plenty to spare. These reciepts just show how genuine you are. With all the bad stuff going on with people in the US right now, that money is gonna help people a lot. Thank you for creating some of the best and factually correct videos I have ever watched. From me (a random guy on the interwebz) thank you!

Truly a heart of gold! Thank you for sharing this with us and including us in your joy. Your success is well deserved!!

I'm happy to indirectly help your local community. Don't see the need for receipts or accountability though, it's YOUR money. You've worked for it so by all means spend it how you like. Giving some to charity is still a very nice thing to do of course! 😎

I really like that you made your contributions public. I also really like your selection of organizations to gift to, for me personally the EFF and archive.org stand out as especially good choices. I can't speak for the choice of lokal groups as a non us citizen, but given your diligence with research I'm sure this is the optimal decision right now!

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

That's wonderful.

Wow. Super admirable!

I used to live in Chicago so I recognize some of these names! Thanks for all you do Alec :)

On behalf of myself, and my LGBT friends, thanks for donating to Center on Halsted and The Trevor Project. It is a an encouraging bit of light that some of us sorely need to see.

I really don't need to see receipts - you're a trustworthy fellow.

If anyone gets offended at your choices and goes all like “UGH! UNSUBSCRIBE!” please let us know and we’ll donate more to them (through you). 😁

I think this qualifies you as a non-profit.

Your heart is as grand as your intelligence. Thank you for helping those in need!

Alec, much respect for all you do

👏👏👏

Alec you're so real for that, what a great person you are!

Love that these donations are to local organizations and for the local community. Got lots of friends and family in the area.

#based

Good to see EFF on the list.

Be that TruTone LED beacon of hope!

Alec, you are helping restore my faith in humanity

Awesome! If you are ever looking for more spaces we always need support at www.scarleteen.com/contribute

You're truly a role model for all other YouTubers out there!

They need these loving donations now more than ever. Thank you🫶🏻

I always love how he does the right thing 🙏

These are GREAT choices. Thanks for being such an inspiration!

Alec, thank you for all the hard work you do to improve millions of lives globally (it seems hours of heat pump content is the only thing that can get me to sit down long enough to do any homework) and to then see your contributions help your local community must feel great. 🤎🤎

It says something about me that as nice as these charities all are, the donation to the Internet Archive was the one that made me smile - they're doing God's work! 😄 But seriously, bless you for this.

Wow this is awesome, you are an amazing person!! Please dont give the money to flat earthers society like someone suggested, or perhaps do an episode which actually defunks their entire society :D

Outstanding work. I joined blue a little while back and started following you and I’m even more impressed with the person you are then I was from just watching your amazing videos. Keep on being you Alec, we need more people like you in the world

So happy to support a channel that has a great mission.

Hot damn. You are very awesome

FYI, you've got your last name in one of them.

You're a star Alec. You deserve so much respect.

This is fabulous Alec! Thanks for being genuinely awesome!

Very cool of you.

Very cool