ibroketheuniverse:

sleepcastiel:

hazelshaw:

Celebrities doing the ALS ice bucket challenge

wow im really happy that all of these wealthy people would prefer doing this than donating money to a charity that will save lives

Okay, I’m a stop you right there. Yes, the basis of the challenge is dump water on your head or donate. But what this challenge is meant to do is RAISE AWARENESS. People who see this end up wondering and then learning what ALS is. And who better to spread the message than celebrities?

People who do the challenge are also still asked to make a donation, and to pass on the challenge. This is good. These celebrities are raising awareness, spreading the message, and probably still donating. But hey, they’re horrible people because they participated in this right? It would ‘ve been better if they wrote a check and never told anyone about it at all.

What I’ve see uh, 99% of the time is that they do both. The bucket of ice water and they donate too. A good friend of mine and quasi-celebrity Sean Clark made a video where all that came out of his bucket was the check for $100 and people were complaining that he actually didn’t do the challenge right! So he made a second video where he did dump the bucket of cold ass water on his head.

The point though should be donating. Yeah the cold ass ice water is funny to watch (I just did my own video where I called out all of tumblr, check it out) but you should still donate. Charity is a great thing. Haven’t we learned that by now?