The thing about people is, we were always very weird. For thousands of years, humanity has been plagued by people who are deeply bizarre and hold extremely strange opinions. This is nothing new. What is new is the internet. In the past, all of those weird opinions would have been a secret. But we’re not in the past, and the internet exists.
This is why we’re exposed to the weird units who were outraged at Carrie Bickmore having launched a range of beanies for her charity, Carrie’s Beanies 4 Brain Cancer, on the same day that celebs were hurling themselves into ice baths to raise money for motor neurone disease.
Apparently, people become convinced of the notion that Bickmore announcing a beanie-centric charity drive was some sort of cynical attempt at competition with the similarly beanie-centric Big Freeze.
@theprojecttv #TheProjectTV what? our beanies are better than yours MND? Why today? You’ve lost me. I don’t get competitive charities. Sad
— Michael Lean (@MichaelDLean) June 12, 2017
Absurd, but not unusual to see @theprojecttv push their own agenda… why run this story today of all days? #FightMND https://t.co/i4hiLJkbTd
— Adrian Johnson (@AdrianJohnson9) June 12, 2017
Firstly, I don’t reckon there’s a super limited finite number of beanies that people would buy for charity and, secondly, if an “agenda” is ‘raising money to help fight the form of cancer my partner passed away from‘, that seems like a pretty reasonable thing to push? I’m just spitballing here.
Bickmore decided to address the criticism at the opening of tonight’s episode of ‘The Project‘ – firstly thanking everyone for their support:
“Thank you to everyone, last night we launched our beanie campaign and the results have just blown us away. We sold out of or adult beanies, we still have a few kids one left, but we’ve decided so many people missed out so we’re going to order some more.”
Clearly shook up at people having accused her of deliberately clashing with the Big Freeze, she explained why they want on the day they did:
“A few people have been asking why we launched our campaign on the same day as Neal Daniher‘s big freeze at the MCG yesterday – honestly, it was completley unintentional. We were due to launch them a few weeks ago, they just didnt arrive in time, so we pushed it back a few weeks and in the business of making it all happen and making all our supporters happy, we just didn’t notice that the date clashed with Neal Daniher’s Freeze at the G.“We just wanted to get the beanies out to everyone and now I wish more than ever that we’d waited a few days. Neal is amazing, I spoke to him today and he said that they had an incredibly successful campaign yesterday, which is great news as well.“We both pour our heart and souls into these campaign and I’ve been absolutely gutted today that anyone would think I would try and derail someone else’s life-saving work. I wouldn’t, it doesn’t benefit any of us to do that.“I’m just bummed that that’s what’s being talked about today, I just want to celebrate the fact that Australia‘s an incredibly generous country, with the most wonderful souls who want to see an end to all forms of brain disese as much as we do.“You opened your hearts and your wallets yesterday, so thank you to everyone for your generosity to both of the foundations.”
As Peter Helliar pointed out, they’d already sold out of all their beanies at the Freeze before ‘The Project’ even came on, it was a bloody lovely effort from everyone involved.
You can watch the clip below:
Source and photo: Channel 10.
