Breaking child labor laws, illegally paying labor with products, not paying at all for delivery labor, well below minimum wage and commission laws, etc. I have no idea how they can break so many laws and get away with it.
@@TDMFAN Yup, even has a written protection in the 13th amendment. Funny how we privatize the prison system for profit but we won't privatize the DMV or defund the USPS.
@@RustyShacklefordReal yea let's defund the usps so people in rural areas can't send or receive mail. Even better to privatize the DMV so it's even more difficult to get anything done
We had these when I was a kid, but my mom refused to let me participate because she saw it for the gross scam that it was, and she didn't want me going door to door. I was annoyed by that back in the day because I had no chance of getting all the cool prizes. Thanks, mom. Didn't appreciate you enough as a kid.
My dad refused to let me partake in these scams cuz he knew exactly what they were and was worried for my own wellbeing. I didn't even bother partaking in such events cuz I wasn't a very social kid back then, but he always made sure to let me know that they were scams and that I shouldn't ever take part of them.
Same! In fact, my mom did one better. She wrote a check directly to the school, and said here, this money has to go directly to you, no fundraiser involved. Even back then I realized what a BAMF move that was on my mom's part
Ice cream social: the school gives you a single scoop of the cheapest vanilla ice cream, occasionally you get more than 1 topping but not usually. And you sit down with your half melted vanilla ice cream in the school cafeteria and talk to other students like it’s lunch.
Not even a real scoop either. At least for me it was those shitty pre-packaged cups of what’s basically frost bitten milk that you have to fucking excavate with that shitty flat wooden spoon thing
I remember our school saying that if we got enough box tops, we could choose a reward for the entire school. We hit the goal and we decided on upgrading the playgrounds, but then right when they were supposed to start construction the school decided to take the money and repaint some hallways. It is so criminal how much they take advantage of kids.
My high school let us vote on what to use fundraiser money for, and we all voted to fix the boys’ bathrooms which were in terrible condition and to fix the school’s water filter so that the water was safer to drink. Instead they spent all the money on these dumb pavement decals that said things like “love, respect, justice, faith”.
@@crisptomato9495 my HS spent money to fix our leaking roofs to add a fucking digital sign out front. While a lot of school funding has to go to a specific thing, this was some that could be spent anywhere. And of course they used it to improve the schools outward appearance instead of the water that would drip into the classrooms when it rained. We were the only HS in town that didn’t have the digital sign at the point but still. After that it took them 2 years to fix the roofs
My school apparently had lead in the pipes for years, right up until grade 11 (2017) when they finally replaced them. I had thought about all the times I would fill my water bottle at the fountains, and how much lead I've unintentionally injested over the years
I remember once my class in 6th grade won a fundraiser for a pizza party. We sold over $4-6k worth of product (I dont remember the name or exact amount but its in the thousands) and we sold the most out of any other class. That pizza party? Two large pizza boxes to feed 26 students. Everyone got half a slice of pizza hut cheese pizza and a dixie cup of Hawaiian punch. We were also only given half the class to eat and finish said pizza. I've hated fundraisers since that day.
Glad you noticed right away. I knew when I saw how crazy it was to get anything from sales that I wasn't gonna do this. I was also very shy so no way I'd sell anything. Also thought i would never be a salesman because i wouldn't commit. I felt like I played myself but the school played the students.
I remember selling enough cookie dough to get a ride in a hummer limo with like two other kids to a pizza place. The pizza was gross and on the way back one kid threw up inside the limo
Imagine just selling a bunch of items for a week and you go into a limo and it takes 2 hours to get to the pizza place and the pizza tasted like shit and then you start to drive back to school and then a kid just fucking throws up on you. That is your reward.
I remember I never did those fundraisers and thought the assembly we had for them was boring. I actually got a book I shoved into my pocket confiscated to force me to pay attention instead of learn. They had one of those sticky hand things you get out of a 25 cent machine as a prize.
I remember when a kid sold enough boxes of chocolates to earn an Xbox 360 and he ended up getting an old computer monitor because they didn’t think anybody would actually sell that many boxes.
yeah but the money goes to the school for extra activities you suck and youre probbly one of the parents that will complained about no feild trips when u have kids!!!!!!!!!!!
I honestly hope these fundraisers are still around when I have kids so I can teach them to not do them and hopefully teach em about how people will try to con them in life
Can you explain what this "SCHOOL FUNDRAISERS" is? I went to school in Russia and England and in neither country did we have something similar. Who organizes them? Where does the money go?
@@iamcleaver6854 IN the USA we like to run up our credit debt buying shit we don't need like way too many tanks and fighter jets so in order to fund the pockets of businesses and a cottage industry of lobbyists and politicians from component suppliers in places where it makes zero logical and economic sense to have them in relation to the rest of the product pipeline; as opposed to funding things that are beneficial to the entire public such as, for example: schools, thus we have this small industry of children grifters at hand to make up some of that lost revenue
@@Supadupanerd Are you suggesting that schools are getting their pupils to go around selling stuff and so they would give the money back to the school???
I remember one of these fundraisers promised our class an "ice cream social", and they were not only like month late on it, but they literally just gave everyone in my class a frozen gogurt. They somehow managed to fuck up buying ice cream for small children.
@@D_YellowMadness I remember it being like a thin foam cutout. Although, the real crime was fucking pet rocks. Those didn't even have eyes on 'em. It was a straight up rock.
Yeah my school let advertisers come in and they’d give us little colored cotton buds with googly eyes and little paper feet with a tag for what ever the company was trying to sell on it
Uncle that touch you. EVERYBODY has that ONE uncle....uncle that sit alone in corner at family reuinion/party barbeque that sit alone in corner and drink and start fight.Everybody has that ONE uncle.
I really didn’t realize how much of a scam these things were but I did put a whole lot of time into finding people who wanted wrapping paper and got paid with like four bouncy balls and a slinky
That is because kids are unable to comprehend the value of items they see a toy and they like OMG FREE FOR ME i just has to get my parents and neighbors and other people in family tree and a few teachers to buy these shitty products that nobody wants at an overpriced that u can buy elsewhere for half the price AWESOME. *also kids don't think that you can buy these prizes at a dollar tree or a walmart as well may not be exact but they serve the same purpose except u won't bankrupt ya family.*
Man i remember in 7th grade when we all wanted a microwave for lunch and it took 3 years, 41 fundraisers, and 14 individual parent donations until the principal went out to Costco and bought a $20 plug in microwave
My highschool did one of those Yankee candle fundraisers. Only one kid sold a candle. They brought us all to the symposium just to tell us how disappointed they were
We're dissapointed that you didn't participate in our child labor get rich quick scheme, so now we're going to punish you all. You had better make us money next time.
The one time we had a “Principal for a Day” event, it was one of the special ed kids. I don’t even think it was for a fundraiser, but he had fun with it. At lunch, he went up to the stage and began shouting at random students because the principal did this every day and he thought this was what principals did. We never had a “Principal for a Day” after that, mostly because he made the principal look like an asshole
Ha! Did you know in most states there's a "Youth weekend(s)" for deer/big game hunting seasons? Where kids under the age of 16 kill and gut animals? Adults are actually not allowed to hunt during this weekend(s) without a child present. I remember distant uncles and cousins asking me if I'd go with them so they could get another chance to bag an extra whitetail under my name. Most parents usually have their kids' kills processed by a professional, but many teach the kid to process their first kill themselves. It's still a really big tradition, one I intend to introduce my children to as soon as they're ready.
My school had a “limo prize” it was a piece of paper strapped to a wheelie chair that said “limo” on it. No joke. We were the 3rd worst school in my state.
Thats why I love my dad, every year he would say "my kids aint selling shit thats why I pay taxes." Unless it was the little league candy boxes full of reeses, crunch bars etc. He'd just give them the cash for the whole box and then give us the candy throughout the summer for being good.
I like the way your Dad thinks. I won’t let my kids be scammed like I was, so I’ll just give them $50 Amazon gift cards and tell them don’t worry about selling that crap to strangers
@@aaronlandry3934 lol something hilarious about saying you won't let your kids be scammed and then immediately send them to buy shit off amazon, who is in turn scamming all of us.
I remember I won a "limo lunch" cuz I sold enough stuff and I ended up riding around in a special needs bus. Like they didn't even give enough of a shit to book a limo.
I got a pity student of the month thing back in middle school and the prize was j got to ride the retard van down to pizza hut and eat with the principal and some other teachers pets
I remember my dad getting pissed off when he found out that the money from the overpriced popcorn he bought went towards getting an LED sign for the school. All the sign ever had on it was the name of the school.
My old school got a led sign when it was a small piece of crap looking school and we either did a fund raiser for it or someone paid for it but we all knew the money could have gone anywhere else for the school.
@@megan5495 if your talking about my reply yeah it wasnt a public school it was a school that was hard on you with a lot of work. You had to win a lottery to get in so it was pretty much nerd school.
How am I supposed to sell to my neighbors when every house on my block has their own kids that go to the same district as me who also received the same things to sell.
You have to have the parents so dumb OR just so broke that they take the book to work trying to sell for you because they can't afford to buy you a new Playstation for Christmas
@@VictorHuff once was in iss for two months because my mom worked during the week and couldn't attend a parent teacher meeting and she had already took too many days off and had to wait for an occurrence to drop.
My strategy as a kid was to sell at least 1 thing. Then when all the products everyone ordered gets shipped to the school, they would put everything in alphabetical order in a room. So when the time comes, go to the room and find the one thing you ordered and grab a few other boxes around it. You never know what youll get but its better than the cheap ass prizes they give out. And when the kid whos shit you stole cant find their box they just order another and it comes out of the fundraisers pockets. I wasnt a good kid but I sure did have a shit ton of cookie dough.
Smart. Make the greedy company pay out of pocket and the kid still ends up getting their stuff. As a bonus it makes the fundraiser company look bad. You were like a modern day Robinhood.
I don't remember the experience enough to have thought of this but now I'm realizing how easily you could rip the companies off in return for being terrible and borderline abusing children
The “Money Machine” was the worst, at my school the money tube had rules... you couldn’t move your body just your hands. The fan wasn’t powerful enough to actually blow the money up to your hands so they blue balled us hard.
I remember I never actually participated in these fundraisers, I was just way too lazy to go out and sell stuff when I could sit at my computer and play Club Penguin.
We had a fundraiser in elementary School were we weren't even selling anything, we just got our neighbors and random people to donate us money for some cause and I thought all the prizes sucked so I just kept the money and told my teacher I didn't get any donations
My school had a “sell a $100 worth of magazine subscriptions, go to the state fair” but we quickly realized if you just donated $100, you could go and not have to deal with useless magazines. Needless to say the magazine company was not happy that half the school just cut out the middle man and directly donated.
@@ramses3445 exactly! The school would get each student an unlimited riding band for selling that much, and it also saved my parents from having a ton of magazines they don't want lol
I once got "Be a principal for a day" in elementary school They didn't give me lunch. They forgot to feed me that day. Also when they planned it... it was my school's "field day".... So I also missed "Field Day" a day of games and stuff in the gym.. because I was to busy being "Principal for the day". I don't even remember what I did that day.
Field day is the best part of school for me, by far. It was a hell of a lot better than those cringey Christmas assemblies and school fundraisers, that's for sure.
Props to my mom and dad for refusing to let me participate, I remember bringing a flyer to my dad that had all the prizes listed and gave it to him and he crumpled it up and threw it and lectured me as to why these are a scam and are a waste of time, props to you dad
I don’t know if this is a coincidence but only one girl ever that won the limo ride at my elementary school. Her mother was the head of PTO. The shit’s rigged
I remember during my time in 6th through 8th grade, we used to sell cookie dough but since me and my mom were poor I never really did it, the prizes all were kinda lame, and all you got was an hour in a gametruck, now when I was in 3rd grade I thought it was cool but I always associated it with kids who have extra money to throw around so they can just waste time, though those kids were probs doing better grade wise then me ahaha. but we also had these book fairs which me and our 8th grade english class actually would go down to the library and work with the kindergarteners and that was fun. Thank god we never really had that in high school, though what we did have is sex in the bathrooms, vaping, fights, drama, and pokemon battles at lunch ( That last one was all me) and drinking ranch soda ( which someone came in, but i got 25 dollars so fuck yeah) all in all, this video actually reminded me of the cookie dough stuff and also the yo-yo thing which I remember my mom buying me one and then me losing it at the end of the day ahahah.
I remember picking the pocket knife for selling a bunch of popcorn tubs. after receiving said knife at school from the teacher I was immediately suspended.
Same here, I'm pretty confused. What is wrong with the USA sometimes? Edit: I looked through some more comments and apparently this isn't a USA-only thing. So, let me fix this. What is wrong with _the world_ sometimes?
I remember doing this. Spent 2 weeks every day going door to door. One house I was stuck for hours. They were trying to figure out what to buy. I ended up playing with their kids for hours. Don't remember if they bought anything & luckily they didn't kidnap me. Or maybe I was kidnapped & didn't realize. I was there like the whole day. Needless to say I got the shittiest prize ever for all that work.
Sounds like you & those "other" kids were all kidnapped & they were trying to decide which kid to fiddle with. Be thankful you got out without being touched.
There was always one student that got the best prize. Don't know what the did to get all the cool prizes. I remember working every day & still got crappy prizes.
Fun fact: in Québec, there's a law that prevents any company from making advertisements towards kids under the age of 13. Idk if it applies to fundraisers tho. I went to a public school, both primary and secondary, but we never had anything like this
In the us, I found out When the school labels it a “fundraiser” they find a loop hole or something. But yeah this is a thing in the US. I got a police officer rubber ducky for 5 hours worth of selling popcorn!
Grew up in Quebec too. The fact that children are used as little slave to sell shit in an environment where your supposed to educate them is mind boggling.
From Montreal, we had this with overpriced, although tasty, chocolate bars, both in primary and secondary school. There was a legal loophole where a parent had to sign a "contract" of sorts. I had a friend who got two boxes and ended up eating all the chocolate himself instead of selling them. In the end the school got his mother to pay for it. There was another case where a poor kid forged his parents signature and kept them for himself, his parents refused to pay since they were against it, he got suspended.
I think the difference with Jump Rope for Heart is that kids aren’t selling anything, but fundraising for the American Heart Association to fight heart disease. It still had those prize goals that were basically plastic scams to encourage the kids to raise money, but because it’s backed by a notable nonprofit that actually funds medical research, it’s more of a good cause. It’s kind of comparable to what I remember mini-thon was in high school-a school-backed event that involves exercise and fundraising to raise money for research of childhood cancer. The difference between those child labor fundraising scams that idubbz is talking about and Jump rope for heart is that you actually know where the money is going to at the end of the day.
literally, i remember doing it so many times too and saw nothing wrong with it, of course we were kids but like even our PARENTS saw nothing wrong with it
These fundraisers caused an unhealthy amount of anxiety for me as a child, whose whole family was poor. I couldn’t pawn off this crap to my family, and felt uncomfortable selling it to others because I assumed no one else could afford it either.
It's immoral to market this stuff through kids either way, but it is especially despicable that some of these companies are just trying to push overpriced sugar on poor communities to raise funds for the school, guilting the students in the process. What a way to fund the betterment of the next generation. I felt bad selling it even to well off family members because it was always garbage inventory and obviously not worth it.
Our class won a fundraising competition and our teacher promised us a pizza party if we won. Our class ended up winning and we didn't even get a pizza party. All we got was an extra 5 minutes of recess time.
We once had a fundraiser where the prizes were literal rubber ducks. No f*ng joke. Tiny, keychain rubber ducks. That I literally saw at the store later that week
We did too in middle school! The only other "perk" to it is that teachers would give you one piece of candy for every duck you had to "feed" them lmao AND NO ONE QUESTIONED IT
I remember being angry every year when fundraiser time came around. I was a poor kid, so my parents weren't gonna pay any, and they wouldn't let me or my brother sell it door to door. My mom took our forms to work to try and get co-workers to buy some shit, but it never really worked. I was always so angry because I felt like I was missing out. That I wasn't getting the same fun experiences and cool shit the other kids were getting. But looking back on it... I *wasn't* missing out. Because NO BODY was getting those things.
In high school they sold Yankee candles to go to the Dominican. I’ve been to the Dominican Republic. and I have to say a Florida resort is the exact same as a Dominican resort. Waste of money. No one even spoke Spanish and they weren’t allowed to leave the resort and see the country. Lame.
@@maritzagonzalez2021 Yeah my school does a Dominican trip as well but I go to catholic school and the reason they take us there is to show us how much of a shithole it is and to do mission work to help the people living in literal dumpsters.
In primary school I was forced to sit through an hour long advertisement disguised as an anti-bullying presentation that concluded with telling everyone to buy $13 yo yo's from the front office. Needless to say they were banned from the playground within the day :/
This happened to me too, they do a little show about bullying or safety then a guy shows up and starts talking about yo yos. He then does some tricks and every kid thought it was cool, then they sold them right after school.The next day people would play with them in class, but the teachers started getting annoyed so they banned them.
Lmao that was me. I went to a private school and all the doctors kids would try and get it in on the doctors office gig but everyone always got the magazine subs from my mom and I’d get all the crazy prizes lol. Looking back it was fun but the school fundraiser scheme is a joke in reality.
@@jasminegok The chocolate is awful and overpriced and the prizes are worth a few cents each I'M TIRED OF PPL CONSTANTLY TELLING ME THE CHOCOLATE IS ONE DOLLAR, IF YOU WOULD JUST SCROLL DOWN SLIGHTLY, YOU WOULD SEE THAT MY SCHOOL RAISED THE PRICE TO $2.50
My mom sold products for me, I got the limo 3 years in a row when I was in Elementary School. They took us to McDonalds where we could only order off the kids menu.
We had a few “preppy” girls in my elementary school who’s daddy had a lot of dough. Every time there was a fundraiser, the dad would force his employees to buy from the fundraiser to ensure his daughter got all of the top prizes.
I feel like this is the reason half of my graduating class joins pyramid schemes and sends messages of their shit to me. The school kinda groomed them for it. 😂
woah that sounds,... worrysome tbh. I only had a distant relative fall for one but still it is a horrible thing to get aware of. But that was an adult and apparently it's cool to take advantage of kids too, that's fucked up x.x Hope for your class mates to get out sooner than later.
I hate when you have't seen a friend in years and year and you guys finally get in contact cuz you found each other on facebook and they ask to hang out and you say sure and the place they give you is some office building and you're stuck in a 2 hours pyramid scheme thing like wtf?
My highschools two Intro to Marketing classes would do a 2 month long chocolate fundraiser to fund some trip they do with both classes at the end of the year. Classmates would carry around and sell boxes of chocolate in which they would put any money earned in one of those big cheeto ball jugs on the teachers desk who would count then store the money somewhere else every Friday. Well when I was in year 10, somebody stole all the money in the jug which was estimated to be around $400. Literally nobody knew who did it and it really pissed off the school to the point where the following week we had a school wide seminar in the gym from a few cops and our principal. Legend never got caught. Props to the random kid that stole $400.
This is insane to hear. It almost sounds unbelievable, coming from someone outside of the US. Is this actually a common thing? Getting kids to work as salespeople for well below rock bottom pay is just... wowie.
Yeah. We had fundraisers too but it was always for charity and they weren’t as pyramid schemey. Edit: I’m Canadian and I definitely had to deal with some shady tactics that bordered on child labour, but the cause was always for charity. For example my school had this thing where the middle schoolers were basically forced to work an assembly line all day making sandwiches for the homeless in the gym while the teachers yelled at them to hurry up; but no one was profiting off of it as far as I know.
My friend and I went door to door selling things for a fundraiser when we were like 12. We realized we had like $200 which was way better than any of the stupid prizes so we just kept the money.
at the age of 14, me and my class made a fundraising event. Each of us held some activity in a classroom, me and the boys coducted poker games. Everything was free, except we had a buffet, and the foods in it costed some money. We raised way more than we expected, so we repeated it a year later, now it's a tradition that school.
One year in middle school, the big incentive for the fundraiser was to see a BMX show in the parking lot, and if you didn't sell anything you were kept inside. I made the logical choice of keeping my dignity over watching the principal have a near-death experience with two bike wheels.
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My dad never used to let me participate in these because of how much of a scam they were but instead he offered to let me choose a prize on the list of prizes and he just ordered it online for way cheaper
My school scammed us out of at least 5-7 “pizza party’s”. The one time that we got the pizza party they claimed that it “was not fair for the other kids” so we had to share the pizza and stuff with everyone.
The brainwashing and manipulation that we went/go through in school is disgusting. Not only do we barely learn anything actually useful for adult life, but our parents pay taxes all fucking day for this shit. *They say dictatorship's over.*
100% agree with you. It's crazy how so few people see it that way because I've thought this for years and could barley find anyone that felt the same way.
Please keep making content like this, the species needed to get called out for this. I did the math when I was younger, complained to my mom, and she told me I never had to participate again and no child should even be suggested something like this
In middle School, we had to a sell a worth of 150$ in chocolat bars, i ended up eating half of them and keeping the money of the ones that i actually sold. Got away with it because the company gave up asking me to give the money back. Finnessed ayy
Oh my god. I remember this during Middle School. There was this guy named "Mr. Money" who basically did pretty much the exact same thing that Ian described in this video. Bro I remember at the time that I was so excited by all of the rewards that were being displayed to us, and how they basically wanted you to do these fundraisers going door-to-door. However I never bothered to actually do the fundraisers because I quickly forgot about them. Looking back on this now, I'm surprised this is even legal. This is very exploitative and manipulative for all the wrong reasons, as this is the modern day child labor. The only reason why I think my school did this is because we are one of the worst states when it comes to education funding (teachers can barely make a living here), so clearly they were desperate to make money. Still comes to show how shady these "fundraisers" are. This is clearly unethical, and I'm disgusted.
Now of course there are some fundraisers that were actually kick ass. For example in high school there was a chocolate bar fundraiser that extracurricular activities would use to help fund some of their essentials and other activities. These were just very simple and were nowhere near as manipulative. You pretty much just spend 1 dollar and you actually got a decent quality chocolate bar. It was a win-win for both sides.
@@morxemplum Yeah we do those 1 dollar chocolate bar fundraisers to pay for field trips and such so the price per student is much cheaper than it normally would be.
When I was in elementary school, we had Mr. Money come there but our prizes were literally rubber ducky keychains that had different designs on them like with sunglasses, soccer outfits etc. Then we also had the limo lunch. The people that had stayed at school still had to do school work like they were shunned for not doing the fundraiser. The people only went to Pizza Hut and came back to school. This was even in the school year book. Me being kid wanted these things but my mom always said no and looking back I'm glad that she did 😂
Ian could force children to work at a slime factory for 2 weeks and only just pay them in one gram of slime and then get away with it by calling it *a fundraiser.*
One time I took all the money my grandma had been sending to me for years and gave it to the school acting like I sold cookie dough in hopes I would get a $50 bike. I probably gave them $500. I didn’t get anything. My dad still doesn’t know
in sweden we used to have something similar called "jultidningar"(translates rougly to christmas magazine). where basically you got a couple of magazines of things people could buy and you would then walk around in the neighborhood going door to door selling stuff. my friend worked really hard on that and managed to get enough points for an xbox 360 wich was amazing because his mom was poor and would never be able to afford that. while yeah its pretty much child labor. its not like it was mandatory and if you worked hard for it you could get legit good stuff.
One of my teachers was caught having a slime free for all with a student. He's now serving life in prison.
Hey your that dude who made a spoon using a spoon!!
Same happend to my uncle🤔i wonder why he cant come and visit me again
Lmao
@@dechliistudi _wait a minute_
I love you I did a thing
In all my time working at the ice cream shop we never once had an ice cream social! : )
Cream ice social
@@localshowershitter7590 I guess you haven't seen Slender Gangnam Style.
Dax wheres your verified
@@localshowershitter7590 still not as cringe as your name?
@@tywer1297 Or his profile picture... welcome back to 2018 I guess?
lets be honest here, this is just really poorly disguised child labour
Breaking child labor laws, illegally paying labor with products, not paying at all for delivery labor, well below minimum wage and commission laws, etc. I have no idea how they can break so many laws and get away with it.
@@TheDreadedJuggernaut American Capitalism always finds a way bro. Same story with the slave labour in your private prisons.
@@TDMFAN Yup, even has a written protection in the 13th amendment. Funny how we privatize the prison system for profit but we won't privatize the DMV or defund the USPS.
@@RustyShacklefordReal yea let's defund the usps so people in rural areas can't send or receive mail. Even better to privatize the DMV so it's even more difficult to get anything done
@@Rob0_ you did not get the irony.
We had these when I was a kid, but my mom refused to let me participate because she saw it for the gross scam that it was, and she didn't want me going door to door. I was annoyed by that back in the day because I had no chance of getting all the cool prizes.
Thanks, mom. Didn't appreciate you enough as a kid.
I was exactly like this
Same here lmaoo
My dad refused to let me partake in these scams cuz he knew exactly what they were and was worried for my own wellbeing. I didn't even bother partaking in such events cuz I wasn't a very social kid back then, but he always made sure to let me know that they were scams and that I shouldn't ever take part of them.
my parents wanted me to take these and i never did because i thought myself they weren't worth the time
Same! In fact, my mom did one better. She wrote a check directly to the school, and said here, this money has to go directly to you, no fundraiser involved. Even back then I realized what a BAMF move that was on my mom's part
Ice cream social: the school gives you a single scoop of the cheapest vanilla ice cream, occasionally you get more than 1 topping but not usually. And you sit down with your half melted vanilla ice cream in the school cafeteria and talk to other students like it’s lunch.
This actually.
vanilla ice cream in a styrofoam bowl....yup.
i hate this strange world we live in
Not even a real scoop either. At least for me it was those shitty pre-packaged cups of what’s basically frost bitten milk that you have to fucking excavate with that shitty flat wooden spoon thing
*wait, you guys got toppings?!*
I remember our school saying that if we got enough box tops, we could choose a reward for the entire school. We hit the goal and we decided on upgrading the playgrounds, but then right when they were supposed to start construction the school decided to take the money and repaint some hallways. It is so criminal how much they take advantage of kids.
My high school let us vote on what to use fundraiser money for, and we all voted to fix the boys’ bathrooms which were in terrible condition and to fix the school’s water filter so that the water was safer to drink. Instead they spent all the money on these dumb pavement decals that said things like “love, respect, justice, faith”.
@@crisptomato9495 my HS spent money to fix our leaking roofs to add a fucking digital sign out front. While a lot of school funding has to go to a specific thing, this was some that could be spent anywhere. And of course they used it to improve the schools outward appearance instead of the water that would drip into the classrooms when it rained. We were the only HS in town that didn’t have the digital sign at the point but still. After that it took them 2 years to fix the roofs
My school apparently had lead in the pipes for years, right up until grade 11 (2017) when they finally replaced them. I had thought about all the times I would fill my water bottle at the fountains, and how much lead I've unintentionally injested over the years
I just realized I was milked and used for child labor in elementary
M-milked?
I got milked in elementary too
Same
so we've all been molested huh
s u c k s
And that's how you became Daddy Denied
I remember once my class in 6th grade won a fundraiser for a pizza party. We sold over $4-6k worth of product (I dont remember the name or exact amount but its in the thousands) and we sold the most out of any other class. That pizza party? Two large pizza boxes to feed 26 students. Everyone got half a slice of pizza hut cheese pizza and a dixie cup of Hawaiian punch. We were also only given half the class to eat and finish said pizza. I've hated fundraisers since that day.
Glad you noticed right away. I knew when I saw how crazy it was to get anything from sales that I wasn't gonna do this. I was also very shy so no way I'd sell anything. Also thought i would never be a salesman because i wouldn't commit. I felt like I played myself but the school played the students.
I remember selling enough cookie dough to get a ride in a hummer limo with like two other kids to a pizza place. The pizza was gross and on the way back one kid threw up inside the limo
That sounds like hell
Imagine just selling a bunch of items for a week and you go into a limo and it takes 2 hours to get to the pizza place and the pizza tasted like shit and then you start to drive back to school and then a kid just fucking throws up on you. That is your reward.
Id throw up too if I got pegged half to death in a limo.
Should've gone for that iPad
At least you have that story. That’s a great ice breaker. I might steal this and open up a job interview with it one day
This brought back some deep and repressed anger from elementary school, i just hope kids today dont get fooled as easily.
Same bro, stay calm tho,its fucked 2hat they did
If anything, they get fooled more easily.
I remember I never did those fundraisers and thought the assembly we had for them was boring. I actually got a book I shoved into my pocket confiscated to force me to pay attention instead of learn. They had one of those sticky hand things you get out of a 25 cent machine as a prize.
wanna bet this is easily twice as bad as 10 years ago? shit doesn't just get better randomly.
Jump rope for Heart and that Schoolastic shit
*School:* “Hey kids, Child Labor is always bad.”
*Also School:* “Hey kids, want to participate in some fun child labor?”
They’ve probably never been against it
@@garycoleman115 it's free real estate
@@kylehurd6956 you can get a pencil that lights up in the dark, for 50 points.
Children: “that’s the law of equivalent exchange”
It's bad until they can make money.
Me: No.
School: Well too bad because you need to in order to get volunteer hours so you can graduate.
I remember when a kid sold enough boxes of chocolates to earn an Xbox 360 and he ended up getting an old computer monitor because they didn’t think anybody would actually sell that many boxes.
What is he even gonna do with a monitor they probably took from the computer lab
Ernie prepares to commits a hate crime...
They really couldn't fork up the 300 dollars for one kid? Think about how much money he would've raised for next year trying to get the Xbox 361
@@kimgkomg honestly if i was that kid I would have just kept the money and never given it to the school
thats terrible.
"If you wanna catch a big mouse, use a big piece of cheese"
-greasy guy discussing how to get children to do a job
Also mice don't actually like cheese that much so it's not a very good bait.
@Simple Weirdo WHY WERE WE LIED TO
I hated that so much.... This video is misanthropy fuel.
The seats are always soft and shiny from the coconut oiled strippers
*Noice profile picture*
"Sell 50 bags of popcorn to get this cool plastic cowboy hat!"
9 year old me: "This is such a good deal"
Then years later I would’ve said “That was the worst deal of my life”
Frizzle fru
yeah but the money goes to the school for extra activities you suck and youre probbly one of the parents that will complained about no feild trips when u have kids!!!!!!!!!!!
Greedy corporations taking advantage of young minds' naivety to bolster their own interests...
@@nicholasgronewold3217 I can see how far you got in school, based off your spelling.
Im glad someone is finally addressing this shit it seemed so sketchy when I was a kid
I honestly hope these fundraisers are still around when I have kids so I can teach them to not do them and hopefully teach em about how people will try to con them in life
Honestly don't ever disrespectful the persuit for bread🥶💯🇺🇲.
Can you explain what this "SCHOOL FUNDRAISERS" is? I went to school in Russia and England and in neither country did we have something similar. Who organizes them? Where does the money go?
@@iamcleaver6854 IN the USA we like to run up our credit debt buying shit we don't need like way too many tanks and fighter jets so in order to fund the pockets of businesses and a cottage industry of lobbyists and politicians from component suppliers in places where it makes zero logical and economic sense to have them in relation to the rest of the product pipeline; as opposed to funding things that are beneficial to the entire public such as, for example: schools, thus we have this small industry of children grifters at hand to make up some of that lost revenue
@@Supadupanerd Are you suggesting that schools are getting their pupils to go around selling stuff and so they would give the money back to the school???
I remember one of these fundraisers promised our class an "ice cream social", and they were not only like month late on it, but they literally just gave everyone in my class a frozen gogurt. They somehow managed to fuck up buying ice cream for small children.
Yup /:
These kids are lucky. We got colored cotton balls with googly eyes hot glued on, and they called them Weebles. I sold my soul for those Weebles.
Did they have human feet made of paper? I remember something like that & I'm only realizing how cheap it was now.
@@D_YellowMadness I remember it being like a thin foam cutout.
Although, the real crime was fucking pet rocks. Those didn't even have eyes on 'em. It was a straight up rock.
Yeah my school let advertisers come in and they’d give us little colored cotton buds with googly eyes and little paper feet with a tag for what ever the company was trying to sell on it
We called them Warm Fuzzies.
@@crisptomato9495 that’s the feeling I get when I see a dog and a cat napping together.
Idubbbz is just becoming the uncle who you only see on holidays or funerals
Uncle that touch you. EVERYBODY has that ONE uncle....uncle that sit alone in corner at family reuinion/party barbeque that sit alone in corner and drink and start fight.Everybody has that ONE uncle.
And when you do see him all he does is complain
Or the uncle who only comes by when he can't pay rent
its cause hw fell from grace, Due to simpage
I missed him.
I really didn’t realize how much of a scam these things were but I did put a whole lot of time into finding people who wanted wrapping paper and got paid with like four bouncy balls and a slinky
That is because kids are unable to comprehend the value of items they see a toy and they like OMG FREE FOR ME i just has to get my parents and neighbors and other people in family tree and a few teachers to buy these shitty products that nobody wants at an overpriced that u can buy elsewhere for half the price AWESOME. *also kids don't think that you can buy these prizes at a dollar tree or a walmart as well may not be exact but they serve the same purpose except u won't bankrupt ya family.*
@@mario12359 I'm glad I never participated in them
@@mario12359 there was no such thing as a dollar tree before
Man i remember in 7th grade when we all wanted a microwave for lunch and it took 3 years, 41 fundraisers, and 14 individual parent donations until the principal went out to Costco and bought a $20 plug in microwave
My highschool did one of those Yankee candle fundraisers. Only one kid sold a candle.
They brought us all to the symposium just to tell us how disappointed they were
Lmao mad because pyramid scheme didn't work
We're dissapointed that you didn't participate in our child labor get rich quick scheme, so now we're going to punish you all. You had better make us money next time.
I'm sure there were awesome prizes, like 100 candles gets you a silly band.
The hummer limos look like what a child kidnapper would drive when they're speedrunning the neighborhood.
You made me exhale forcefully, therefore you have earned my like, now giving you an even 320.
Yall remember collecting 5 billion box tops ----
As I'm typing this I forgot what we even got in return wtf maybe class points or something?
my class would buy stuff for the box tops, and the TEACHER would get stuff for it.
You guys got stuff?
@@ferretmayn7045 nah the teacher got all the stuff
which ever class got the most gets a pizza party and a high five from the weekly school shooter
@@iwantsexseemyvideo890 wtf is up with that name
The one time we had a “Principal for a Day” event, it was one of the special ed kids. I don’t even think it was for a fundraiser, but he had fun with it. At lunch, he went up to the stage and began shouting at random students because the principal did this every day and he thought this was what principals did. We never had a “Principal for a Day” after that, mostly because he made the principal look like an asshole
Were they an asshole?
Nice ahahahaha
lmao that's the best story I ever heard. The fuckin intellectually disabled kid roasted the fuck out of the principal LMAOOO
Disabled kid roasting people is the most humbling shit ever
But principals ARE assholes. At least all the ones I had throughout school were.
This sounds like a pyramid scheme but if it was run by dropshipping toddlers.
better title "fetus pyramid scheme"
hastag GARY VEE
@@Aliens2Exist STOP MOVING LIKE THAT!!!
*This* all the kids go crazy for some "flying monkey" and some keychains that you have to seem interested in, while the presenters are suspicious af.
No no its multi level marketing run by kids, completely different
Is this a US only thing? It sounds like child labour to me
as someone from the US I assume it's only us because of how underfunded public schools are :^))
We had it in Canada too, though not to the same extent
@@Emma-zc5jm Well, Canada is like the diet version of the U.S, as far as i know.
The closest I've seen here in Brazil are schools asking kids to sell ticket raffles to fund the June Festivities parties
@gamer time capitalism? You mean every ideology that has ever been practiced ever
Ez money you dont have to pay them minimum wage 😎
I like lemons
That's called slave labor and child labor which is illegal lol I'm surprised they haven't been sued yet :p
@@LazyCreepypasta it's not child labor if it's a FUNDRAISER!
@@donovansilva63 no, it is
😎 very cool
Ah school fundraisers, our earliest introduction to the classic "boss makes a dollar, I make a dime" business model
gotta get them while they're young
That's something EDP445, MiniLadd, LionMaker and R. Kelly would say.
MLM beginnings.
When it comes to these school fundraisers it’s more like boss makes 1000s of dollars while kids who did the work make like 5 or 10 bucks max
That’s called every business model
This is the most agressively American thing I can't believe is actually real
Dude they brainwash kids with a daily allegiance pledge, this isn't that far from it
Ha! Did you know in most states there's a "Youth weekend(s)" for deer/big game hunting seasons? Where kids under the age of 16 kill and gut animals? Adults are actually not allowed to hunt during this weekend(s) without a child present. I remember distant uncles and cousins asking me if I'd go with them so they could get another chance to bag an extra whitetail under my name. Most parents usually have their kids' kills processed by a professional, but many teach the kid to process their first kill themselves. It's still a really big tradition, one I intend to introduce my children to as soon as they're ready.
did something similar in italy but a bit simpler, my neigboors were sketched asf and the prizes were worse than this so it rly wasn't worth it
@@GrogSothoth thats brainwashing? Are you from america?
Im not trying to defend these fundraisers but how is this child labor
My school had a “limo prize” it was a piece of paper strapped to a wheelie chair that said “limo” on it. No joke. We were the 3rd worst school in my state.
Good god thats fucking hilarious
The real United States is funnier than any parody.
I'm scared of the other two
If it’s on a wheelchair I would have fun
Damn
No joke, In third grade we had to close down almost every boys bathroom cause kids kept rubbing shit on the walls.
Hahaha
That’s what I like to call a shit rub social
@@chowder6148 classic
some kid shit in a urinal in 7th grade, the whole hall smelt so bad
Same thing happened back at my old school but I think it was 5th grade when it happened
Thats why I love my dad, every year he would say "my kids aint selling shit thats why I pay taxes." Unless it was the little league candy boxes full of reeses, crunch bars etc. He'd just give them the cash for the whole box and then give us the candy throughout the summer for being good.
That's lowkey really sweet
thats called multi level marketing illegal in most countries
I like the way your Dad thinks. I won’t let my kids be scammed like I was, so I’ll just give them $50 Amazon gift cards and tell them don’t worry about selling that crap to strangers
@@prohikikomo sweetest and toughest man I've ever known.
@@aaronlandry3934 lol something hilarious about saying you won't let your kids be scammed and then immediately send them to buy shit off amazon, who is in turn scamming all of us.
I remember I won a "limo lunch" cuz I sold enough stuff and I ended up riding around in a special needs bus. Like they didn't even give enough of a shit to book a limo.
😂😂😂
You live in a diary of a wimpy kid world
@@teteteteta2548 fr bruh it feels like it
I got a pity student of the month thing back in middle school and the prize was j got to ride the retard van down to pizza hut and eat with the principal and some other teachers pets
I bet you uh... felt “special” after that reward, didn’t you?
I remember my dad getting pissed off when he found out that the money from the overpriced popcorn he bought went towards getting an LED sign for the school. All the sign ever had on it was the name of the school.
that's so messed up the school admin chose to do that, I'm sure the teachers would've appreciated some crayons or something 😞
My old school got a led sign when it was a small piece of crap looking school and we either did a fund raiser for it or someone paid for it but we all knew the money could have gone anywhere else for the school.
dude same the sign was so useless
I fail to see the issue with that. Seems like they students going there are very bright.
@@megan5495 if your talking about my reply yeah it wasnt a public school it was a school that was hard on you with a lot of work. You had to win a lottery to get in so it was pretty much nerd school.
How am I supposed to sell to my neighbors when every house on my block has their own kids that go to the same district as me who also received the same things to sell.
Gotta be first
@@Wafflyy yeah but you go to a house to sell a chocolate bar to them. But their own kids got chocolate bars from school to sell lmao.
You fight the others in gladiatorial combat. The losers disappear into our silly van
It's almost like it's a scam... nahhhh
You have to have the parents so dumb OR just so broke that they take the book to work trying to sell for you because they can't afford to buy you a new Playstation for Christmas
Our school just said "Sell this shit or you'll be put on probation."
There were no prizes, only threats and sadness.
isn't that slavery
@@LogeenthLive In a school where I was put in I.S.S for half a school year because the teacher just didn't like me, slavery is right up their alley.
@@VictorHuff yeah that's slavery
@@VictorHuff once was in iss for two months because my mom worked during the week and couldn't attend a parent teacher meeting and she had already took too many days off and had to wait for an occurrence to drop.
I smell major cap
"It's free child labour."
That already exists in Vietnam
@@SirConfectionery vietnam is ahead of it's time
My strategy as a kid was to sell at least 1 thing. Then when all the products everyone ordered gets shipped to the school, they would put everything in alphabetical order in a room. So when the time comes, go to the room and find the one thing you ordered and grab a few other boxes around it. You never know what youll get but its better than the cheap ass prizes they give out. And when the kid whos shit you stole cant find their box they just order another and it comes out of the fundraisers pockets. I wasnt a good kid but I sure did have a shit ton of cookie dough.
I would just buy all the products on Amazon
@@Recroomsniperpro Poor kid here, cant relate. My 20lbs of free cookie dough once a year was my prize.
Smart. Make the greedy company pay out of pocket and the kid still ends up getting their stuff. As a bonus it makes the fundraiser company look bad. You were like a modern day Robinhood.
I don't remember the experience enough to have thought of this but now I'm realizing how easily you could rip the companies off in return for being terrible and borderline abusing children
That's amazing. If I ever have a kid and they have a fundraiser at school, I'm gonna encourage them to do this. Not really. But damn how smart.
The “Money Machine” was the worst, at my school the money tube had rules... you couldn’t move your body just your hands. The fan wasn’t powerful enough to actually blow the money up to your hands so they blue balled us hard.
That should actually be illegal
xD
There was one with very similar rules IN MY OFFICE... smh, call centres are the worst. The money machine was a so called perk for making sales.
Feel so clean
Atleast yall got the money machine, they straight lied to my school and instead just gave us $20 in a hat -__-
I remember I never actually participated in these fundraisers, I was just way too lazy to go out and sell stuff when I could sit at my computer and play Club Penguin.
You know you fucked up when students are having more fun playing club penguin than they are whatever you're trying to get them to do.
@@disposable_income_andy Broh, don't diss Club Penguin, there might be Redditors here
We had a fundraiser in elementary School were we weren't even selling anything, we just got our neighbors and random people to donate us money for some cause and I thought all the prizes sucked so I just kept the money and told my teacher I didn't get any donations
@@lautaro5608 yeah I don't remember the specific cause, but sry dying kids I wanted to buy pokemon cards
Bruh moment
thats smart really smart
@@ibrahimbaghdadi4995 yeah child labor
The heist of the century
My school had a “sell a $100 worth of magazine subscriptions, go to the state fair” but we quickly realized if you just donated $100, you could go and not have to deal with useless magazines. Needless to say the magazine company was not happy that half the school just cut out the middle man and directly donated.
Wouldn't that be way more than it's worth?
@@ramses3445 it was, but if you tried to just skip school and go to the fair you'd get ISS, so you had to pay the toll to the fundraiser goblins
@@LuciensLeftEye Ahh right so less time wasted waiting in queues and stuff like that, nice
@@ramses3445 exactly! The school would get each student an unlimited riding band for selling that much, and it also saved my parents from having a ton of magazines they don't want lol
@@LuciensLeftEye that sounds great actually
I once got "Be a principal for a day" in elementary school
They didn't give me lunch. They forgot to feed me that day.
Also when they planned it... it was my school's "field day"....
So I also missed "Field Day" a day of games and stuff in the gym.. because I was to busy being "Principal for the day".
I don't even remember what I did that day.
Dude you missed field day, bro I loved field day. Field day was legitimately the coolest shit like it was the most memorable day of the year for me.
Dude field day was the best day of the year no cap.
Field day is the best part of school for me, by far. It was a hell of a lot better than those cringey Christmas assemblies and school fundraisers, that's for sure.
Props to my mom and dad for refusing to let me participate, I remember bringing a flyer to my dad that had all the prizes listed and gave it to him and he crumpled it up and threw it and lectured me as to why these are a scam and are a waste of time, props to you dad
I don’t know if this is a coincidence but only one girl ever that won the limo ride at my elementary school. Her mother was the head of PTO. The shit’s rigged
i refuse daga kotowaru
But how good was the mothers head
PTO? Your teacher was the head of tractors power take off units?
@@abirdconcernedforhumankind2345 stupendous. so was your mother’s
@@chipchamp8580 niiiice lol
My school literally had sooo many “ice cream socials”
Joclyn Anne same. Pretty crazy how hype they were. I remember actually being excited for them smfh
@@danfontaine8179 no cap they were dope
Same
I remember during my time in 6th through 8th grade, we used to sell cookie dough but since me and my mom were poor I never really did it, the prizes all were kinda lame, and all you got was an hour in a gametruck, now when I was in 3rd grade I thought it was cool but I always associated it
with kids who have extra money to throw around so they can just waste time, though those kids were probs doing better grade wise then me ahaha.
but we also had these book fairs which me and our 8th grade english class actually would go down to the library and work with the kindergarteners and that was fun.
Thank god we never really had that in high school, though what we did have is sex in the bathrooms, vaping, fights, drama, and pokemon battles at lunch ( That last one was all me) and drinking ranch soda ( which someone came in, but i got 25 dollars so fuck yeah) all in all, this video actually reminded me of the cookie dough stuff and also the yo-yo thing which I remember my mom buying me one and then me losing it at the end of the day ahahah.
He's skinny again, he has hair again, he doesn't have a mustache anymore. He's back ladies
Ye but he still a simp
@@ivanyvienen8661 an intelligent simp
@@ivanyvienen8661 I see the redditors are as lively as ever
First comment I've seen acknowledging his horrid mustache being gone, huzzah.
Or men
I remember picking the pocket knife for selling a bunch of popcorn tubs. after receiving said knife at school from the teacher I was immediately suspended.
Why the fuck did they have that as the prize in the first place and who the fuck would sell a knife to a kid.christ
And then everybody clapped
Its an old meme saying it didnt hapen @BetelgeuseM12
@BetelgeuseM12when someone responds with "then everyone clapped", that usually means they think the story is fake
I'm from Europe and i've never heard of this WTF?!
as an european, i've heard of this and learned abut it from movies. Always found it so weird that it was even a thing
Europeen here , i learned it while watching the boondocks , i would have never imagined it existed
They tried this shit in my middle school and no one bought it and they stopped coming back
Same here, I'm pretty confused. What is wrong with the USA sometimes?
Edit: I looked through some more comments and apparently this isn't a USA-only thing. So, let me fix this. What is wrong with _the world_ sometimes?
Swedes knows, we have something called Jultidningar. Its not through schools but just a company.
I am really curious what that white wire is going down to basement.
Yes
Looks like a ground wire to me.
That's just standard bunker protocols
hello edwin please respond
Coax
I remember doing this. Spent 2 weeks every day going door to door. One house I was stuck for hours. They were trying to figure out what to buy. I ended up playing with their kids for hours. Don't remember if they bought anything & luckily they didn't kidnap me. Or maybe I was kidnapped & didn't realize. I was there like the whole day. Needless to say I got the shittiest prize ever for all that work.
Sounds like you & those "other" kids were all kidnapped & they were trying to decide which kid to fiddle with. Be thankful you got out without being touched.
I got shitty prizes too. I think one was gack. Idk why i thought gack was so cool that I worked every day for a $3 item.
There was always one student that got the best prize. Don't know what the did to get all the cool prizes. I remember working every day & still got crappy prizes.
@@rem5779 Their parents sold to all their coworkers lol that's how pretty much everyone in my school that got the big ticket items made enough sales.
wait. 2 weeks a day
Fun fact: in Québec, there's a law that prevents any company from making advertisements towards kids under the age of 13. Idk if it applies to fundraisers tho. I went to a public school, both primary and secondary, but we never had anything like this
In the us, I found out When the school labels it a “fundraiser” they find a loop hole or something. But yeah this is a thing in the US. I got a police officer rubber ducky for 5 hours worth of selling popcorn!
ohh so thats why i was confused abt this video!!
Grew up in Quebec too. The fact that children are used as little slave to sell shit in an environment where your supposed to educate them is mind boggling.
these things have to be fucked now that coppa is cracking down. online and tv ads get fucked, these things are direct, in person ads
From Montreal, we had this with overpriced, although tasty, chocolate bars, both in primary and secondary school. There was a legal loophole where a parent had to sign a "contract" of sorts. I had a friend who got two boxes and ended up eating all the chocolate himself instead of selling them. In the end the school got his mother to pay for it. There was another case where a poor kid forged his parents signature and kept them for himself, his parents refused to pay since they were against it, he got suspended.
old idubbbz is back, he looks like a functioning citizen in society instead of a high school drop out legally required to stay 150ft away from schools
I really thought he would kill him self for his visceral hate to society at one point!
Simpgate changed him
@@xXxGnuVirusxXx
If your son is gay, you’re a simp
We can just pray for content cop to come back with the old ian
This made me laugh so hard lmao
I can’t believe he went this entire video with even speaking of jump rope for heart
Encouraging exercise in a pyramid scheme is slightly better than a regular pyramid scheme
i know right
Shit or even hoops for heart 😂😂😂
Bruh it wasnt even child labor it was asking the kids for their money
I think the difference with Jump Rope for Heart is that kids aren’t selling anything, but fundraising for the American Heart Association to fight heart disease. It still had those prize goals that were basically plastic scams to encourage the kids to raise money, but because it’s backed by a notable nonprofit that actually funds medical research, it’s more of a good cause. It’s kind of comparable to what I remember mini-thon was in high school-a school-backed event that involves exercise and fundraising to raise money for research of childhood cancer. The difference between those child labor fundraising scams that idubbz is talking about and Jump rope for heart is that you actually know where the money is going to at the end of the day.
Its almost slavery for a cookie dough company but the school allows it because they are being paid
literally, i remember doing it so many times too and saw nothing wrong with it, of course we were kids but like even our PARENTS saw nothing wrong with it
I like how schools are abusing the things they dont teach
Shut up.
Big brain education system
Every time someone does fundraisers
“Boys and girls”
“Thaaank yooou”
“And you can get__prizes”
1) get the products
2) sell a lot
3) keep the money
4) say you didn't take them
These fundraisers caused an unhealthy amount of anxiety for me as a child, whose whole family was poor. I couldn’t pawn off this crap to my family, and felt uncomfortable selling it to others because I assumed no one else could afford it either.
Damn u right.. smh
same here
It's immoral to market this stuff through kids either way, but it is especially despicable that some of these companies are just trying to push overpriced sugar on poor communities to raise funds for the school, guilting the students in the process. What a way to fund the betterment of the next generation.
I felt bad selling it even to well off family members because it was always garbage inventory and obviously not worth it.
My mom down right refused to be a part of these. We never did them
@@helenf.7221 I never did them, either
Linus always eats ice cream during his LAN parties
Pog
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And it's never once been called an ice cream soc- uhhh I mean..
Pog
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Our class won a fundraising competition and our teacher promised us a pizza party if we won. Our class ended up winning and we didn't even get a pizza party. All we got was an extra 5 minutes of recess time.
That’s messed up.
Wow just stupid
That's cool and all iDubbbz, but I need $10 from mom to get the new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book at the Scholastic Book Fair
@DED yes
Yeah
The WiFI Password I can relate to this so much!
I need 10$ to buy someone’s onlyFans
Hey Jake ily
Looking back, how in the world is this allowed in school? This is nuts.
We once had a fundraiser where the prizes were literal rubber ducks. No f*ng joke. Tiny, keychain rubber ducks. That I literally saw at the store later that week
Oh my gosh I had that exact same fundraiser once in elementary school
Jump rope for Heart!? Never spent a dime on that fundraiser!
It was called something else I believe when they presented it to us
We did too in middle school! The only other "perk" to it is that teachers would give you one piece of candy for every duck you had to "feed" them lmao
AND NO ONE QUESTIONED IT
Completely forgot about that lmao. Some were "more expensive" than others so people would trade. Cant believe we fell for that shit
I remember being angry every year when fundraiser time came around. I was a poor kid, so my parents weren't gonna pay any, and they wouldn't let me or my brother sell it door to door. My mom took our forms to work to try and get co-workers to buy some shit, but it never really worked. I was always so angry because I felt like I was missing out. That I wasn't getting the same fun experiences and cool shit the other kids were getting.
But looking back on it... I *wasn't* missing out. Because NO BODY was getting those things.
"if you sell 250 we'll let you go on the senior trip"
how about I do nothing and enjoy study hall
hoodie up, head down, headphones in, time to sleep. hell yes. teenage me had that all figured out. ain't no suckah
In high school they sold Yankee candles to go to the Dominican. I’ve been to the Dominican Republic. and I have to say a Florida resort is the exact same as a Dominican resort. Waste of money. No one even spoke Spanish and they weren’t allowed to leave the resort and see the country. Lame.
@@maritzagonzalez2021 Yeah my school does a Dominican trip as well but I go to catholic school and the reason they take us there is to show us how much of a shithole it is and to do mission work to help the people living in literal dumpsters.
@@maritzagonzalez2021 what how did y’all go to the Dominican Republic 😭 My school was too broke to even go to Washington DC
@@hr4021 Y'all weren't missing anything let me tell you
In primary school I was forced to sit through an hour long advertisement disguised as an anti-bullying presentation that concluded with telling everyone to buy $13 yo yo's from the front office. Needless to say they were banned from the playground within the day :/
This happened to me too, they do a little show about bullying or safety then a guy shows up and starts talking about yo yos. He then does some tricks and every kid thought it was cool, then they sold them right after school.The next day people would play with them in class, but the teachers started getting annoyed so they banned them.
And buying the yo-yos is supposed to help bring the program to another school?
i remember always wanting to do the “walking dog” trick
you unlocked a memory
I was one of those dumb asss who bought one then got it took away from that's 15 buck I will never get back
When I was in school There was always that one kid who had a parent that worked at a doctors office that always swept these things
I remember the guy on stage preaching us about the fundraiser mentioning that the kid left the pamplet in the doctors office and made mad cash.
Yeah, my dad had been working as a nurse and he'd sweep up all the prizes that'd usually cost around $200 or so for free.
Lmao that was me. I went to a private school and all the doctors kids would try and get it in on the doctors office gig but everyone always got the magazine subs from my mom and I’d get all the crazy prizes lol. Looking back it was fun but the school fundraiser scheme is a joke in reality.
Why would sweeping help at all? That's literally dumn
“If you sell 10 items, you get 5 prizes!” That’s a fuckin pyramid scheme lmaoo
That’s not what a pyramid scheme is. “Pyramid Scheme” is not a catch-all for just selling stuff for shitty compensation.
It's even worse when you live in an area where people don't have disposable income lmao.
What about World's Finest Chocolate?
World's Finest Chocolate (in my experience) is legit. Kids sell chocolate to fundraise money for their extra curricular activities, not dumb prizes.
those were good. they had a free McDonald's french fries coupon on them.
@Boxcar is right. It’s also the best fucking chocolate in the world.
@@jasminegok The chocolate is awful and overpriced and the prizes are worth a few cents each
I'M TIRED OF PPL CONSTANTLY TELLING ME THE CHOCOLATE IS ONE DOLLAR, IF YOU WOULD JUST SCROLL DOWN SLIGHTLY, YOU WOULD SEE THAT MY SCHOOL RAISED THE PRICE TO $2.50
this video really made me realize how much school fundraisers pissed me off
My mom sold products for me, I got the limo 3 years in a row when I was in Elementary School. They took us to McDonalds where we could only order off the kids menu.
I love your profile pic 😂
That sucks squidwards nose
Ur the person I despised
We had a few “preppy” girls in my elementary school who’s daddy had a lot of dough. Every time there was a fundraiser, the dad would force his employees to buy from the fundraiser to ensure his daughter got all of the top prizes.
I think that’s the formula for a future Karen!
One of the many reasons why I am trying to be self-employed so I don't have to deal with the 9-5 office bullshit culture.
I feel like this is the reason half of my graduating class joins pyramid schemes and sends messages of their shit to me. The school kinda groomed them for it. 😂
woah that sounds,... worrysome tbh. I only had a distant relative fall for one but still it is a horrible thing to get aware of. But that was an adult and apparently it's cool to take advantage of kids too, that's fucked up x.x
Hope for your class mates to get out sooner than later.
When did u graduate
I hate when you have't seen a friend in years and year and you guys finally get in contact cuz you found each other on facebook and they ask to hang out and you say sure and the place they give you is some office building and you're stuck in a 2 hours pyramid scheme thing like wtf?
@@LazyCreepypasta you too?
@@alexlingo7779 yes doesnt that piss you off? lol
My highschools two Intro to Marketing classes would do a 2 month long chocolate fundraiser to fund some trip they do with both classes at the end of the year. Classmates would carry around and sell boxes of chocolate in which they would put any money earned in one of those big cheeto ball jugs on the teachers desk who would count then store the money somewhere else every Friday. Well when I was in year 10, somebody stole all the money in the jug which was estimated to be around $400. Literally nobody knew who did it and it really pissed off the school to the point where the following week we had a school wide seminar in the gym from a few cops and our principal. Legend never got caught. Props to the random kid that stole $400.
Beautifull.
Ah, yes, the kid who did it. It was definitely one of the kids.
Prob one of the staff tbh
Now that is how you pass Marketting
so how did you spend that $400, Noodle Time?
And people wonder how people fall for MLMs and pyramid schemes
It starts right here!
Bingo! Those MLMs are the worst.
@@linxGT These fundraisers have been conditioning our youth 😹
i cn only read MLM as 'men loving men' what the fuck is an MLM?????????
@@plaguedvenice lmaooo you're truly struggling over here
@@plaguedvenice MLL- multi-level marketing, aka pyramid scheme.
This is insane to hear. It almost sounds unbelievable, coming from someone outside of the US. Is this actually a common thing? Getting kids to work as salespeople for well below rock bottom pay is just... wowie.
fiona is literally the most adorable dog ive ever seen. we just need an hour of unedited footage of her
shut up
Gaye
@@JCrusader69 bruh
This is the most american thing I've ever heard of
Yah!
Yo Murica get yo shit together.
Yeah. We had fundraisers too but it was always for charity and they weren’t as pyramid schemey.
Edit: I’m Canadian and I definitely had to deal with some shady tactics that bordered on child labour, but the cause was always for charity. For example my school had this thing where the middle schoolers were basically forced to work an assembly line all day making sandwiches for the homeless in the gym while the teachers yelled at them to hurry up; but no one was profiting off of it as far as I know.
Right? This is so strange
yeah, I was like.. we never did this over in Norway
Wait untill they start to sell guns, and eagle statues
My friend and I went door to door selling things for a fundraiser when we were like 12. We realized we had like $200 which was way better than any of the stupid prizes so we just kept the money.
Did the people ever get suspicious that the things they bought never came?
@@phabiorules Not sure we didn't know any of them, lol.
You’re a genius, and I love your username
@@Zagura90 oh man I must have spent a fortune on pokemon cards back then
kek
at the age of 14, me and my class made a fundraising event. Each of us held some activity in a classroom, me and the boys coducted poker games. Everything was free, except we had a buffet, and the foods in it costed some money. We raised way more than we expected, so we repeated it a year later, now it's a tradition that school.
What are you betting?
One year in middle school, the big incentive for the fundraiser was to see a BMX show in the parking lot, and if you didn't sell anything you were kept inside. I made the logical choice of keeping my dignity over watching the principal have a near-death experience with two bike wheels.
I remember the the bmx show along with many other things. My school participated in many fund raising schemes.
This video is 100% accurate, I’ve felt this way for years.
Getting kids into pyramid schemes as early as possible
Kids side or teacher side?
@@prochey69 Onlyfans is a pyramid scheme too but you seem just fine with that.
@@simpletonapollo9723 who mentioned anything about onlyfans? Also you're entirely incorrect, it operates nothing like a pyramid scheme. Unless OF models are being paid to recruit new models, which they don't, you just sound like a 14 year old who's pissed he doesn't have tits to show off. Top surgery is an option, sweetheart, don't let that shitty attitude stop you from achieving your dreams 🏳️🌈
@@simpletonapollo9723 oh, nevermind, I see who mentioned onlyfans. It's you, all over idubbz videos, for over six months. I mean it boy, just do that transition and make that cash if you're spending this much energy bitching about it!
this is literally introducing mlms to children from a young age
Is it a mystery of how this is legal. If it was for something other than a school this would be illegal.
Gotta start em young
@@lukem3487 Baby's first MLM?
Selling Marxist-Leninist-Maoism to kids? Nice
men loving men? Nice
My dad never used to let me participate in these because of how much of a scam they were but instead he offered to let me choose a prize on the list of prizes and he just ordered it online for way cheaper
The only people I can see participating in these “fundraisers” are soccer moms
Well right and wrong
Or runnathon moms. They’re the most unrealistic wealthy moms.
Shit I just remembered the only time my mom ever did these was when either me or my sister was doing soccer.
these were done ever year from grades 2 to 6
The parents were always the only ones buying that garbage
“Ice cream social” = those little ice cream cups that come with the wooden spoon and sitting in the cafeteria
Just one lunch table with fixed servings from the freezer right after the lunch period is over
They're freezer burnt
@@sadowheart7620 the freezer burn and the wood add that extra spice to it
Damn I remember those. Making me feel old here
Yep
My school scammed us out of at least 5-7 “pizza party’s”. The one time that we got the pizza party they claimed that it “was not fair for the other kids” so we had to share the pizza and stuff with everyone.
The brainwashing and manipulation that we went/go through in school is disgusting. Not only do we barely learn anything actually useful for adult life, but our parents pay taxes all fucking day for this shit.
*They say dictatorship's over.*
100% agree with you. It's crazy how so few people see it that way because I've thought this for years and could barley find anyone that felt the same way.
My school was also socialist. I know how it is
I would be furious. “Others would feel left out”, I hate that. Arbitrary use of power.
Please keep making content like this, the species needed to get called out for this. I did the math when I was younger, complained to my mom, and she told me I never had to participate again and no child should even be suggested something like this
In middle School, we had to a sell a worth of 150$ in chocolat bars, i ended up eating half of them and keeping the money of the ones that i actually sold. Got away with it because the company gave up asking me to give the money back. Finnessed ayy
@@O-Tomic Not even that good, i was just fat
Oh my god. I remember this during Middle School. There was this guy named "Mr. Money" who basically did pretty much the exact same thing that Ian described in this video. Bro I remember at the time that I was so excited by all of the rewards that were being displayed to us, and how they basically wanted you to do these fundraisers going door-to-door. However I never bothered to actually do the fundraisers because I quickly forgot about them.
Looking back on this now, I'm surprised this is even legal. This is very exploitative and manipulative for all the wrong reasons, as this is the modern day child labor. The only reason why I think my school did this is because we are one of the worst states when it comes to education funding (teachers can barely make a living here), so clearly they were desperate to make money. Still comes to show how shady these "fundraisers" are. This is clearly unethical, and I'm disgusted.
Now of course there are some fundraisers that were actually kick ass. For example in high school there was a chocolate bar fundraiser that extracurricular activities would use to help fund some of their essentials and other activities. These were just very simple and were nowhere near as manipulative. You pretty much just spend 1 dollar and you actually got a decent quality chocolate bar. It was a win-win for both sides.
@@morxemplum Yeah we do those 1 dollar chocolate bar fundraisers to pay for field trips and such so the price per student is much cheaper than it normally would be.
Im in my final year of middle school and we've just been offered a mini fridge for 60 sales. The same mini fridge is on amazon for like 10 dollars.
You from Oklahoma?
When I was in elementary school, we had Mr. Money come there but our prizes were literally rubber ducky keychains that had different designs on them like with sunglasses, soccer outfits etc. Then we also had the limo lunch. The people that had stayed at school still had to do school work like they were shunned for not doing the fundraiser. The people only went to Pizza Hut and came back to school. This was even in the school year book. Me being kid wanted these things but my mom always said no and looking back I'm glad that she did 😂
Ian could force children to work at a slime factory for 2 weeks and only just pay them in one gram of slime and then get away with it by calling it *a fundraiser.*
One time I took all the money my grandma had been sending to me for years and gave it to the school acting like I sold cookie dough in hopes I would get a $50 bike. I probably gave them $500. I didn’t get anything. My dad still doesn’t know
That's gotta hurt
You couldve gone to walmart and got a better bike than advertised for half lol
ahaha girl i could get you a bike ahaha
@@associate8265 bro stop
Imagine being the kid who "randomly" got a tub of oatmeal raisin cooke dough
Oatmeal cookies are delicious tho 😔
Id like to be that kid
Oatmeal raisin is questionable but oatmeal raisin cookie dough sounds good af
@@weezypeezy508 oatmeal cookies are absolutely delicious, but oatmeal RAISIN cookies are vile.
this is how you create serial killers and it would be totally the companies fault.
When we had one of these in my elementary school in the 1990s the prize was literally pogs. Honest no foolin POGS.
Ayyyyy my favorite youtubers all in one place
Pog?
Is that a polite Canadian way to say "piece of garbage" or am I missing something here?
Same here and then 3 months later my school banned pogs because it was considered betting lmao
Poggers.
BRO I PULLED UP TO A CICI’S PIZZA IN THE HUMMER LIMO IN 3RD GRADE CAN’T BELIEVE IM A VICTIM
NOT CICI’S 😭
whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy you poor soul
but was the cici’s free or did you have to bring money lmao
This was never a thing in my school in the UK. I genuinely can’t believe this is an actual legal practice in the US?
well coppa is cracking down so hopefully it won't be for long but yes, this is absolutely a thing that is exclusively marketed toward children 5-13
Seeing iDubbbz play with his dog was wholesome, Fiona is a treasure
wholesome XD
If you sell 800 cookie dough you can get a signed picture from iDubbbbz's dog
@@TornBase wow. Where do I do it?
Imagine taking advantage of small children by waving dreams in front of their stupid impressionable faces for cheap labor.
in sweden we used to have something similar called "jultidningar"(translates rougly to christmas magazine). where basically you got a couple of magazines of things people could buy and you would then walk around in the neighborhood going door to door selling stuff. my friend worked really hard on that and managed to get enough points for an xbox 360 wich was amazing because his mom was poor and would never be able to afford that. while yeah its pretty much child labor. its not like it was mandatory and if you worked hard for it you could get legit good stuff.
I feel like Ian is shining light on something no one talks about because we all forgot about it until now.
Yes
I remember selling chocolate to help with flight costs for the school band trips, and not getting anything lmao