#mariahmallad

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention In the past there have been several charity scams by our beloved Momokun, so here’s a summary of all of them: 

1. Vegas Shooting/Hurricane Relief

Explained to the very detail with screenshots in this post. But tl;dr: She posted that the proceedings from a certain set she sold at that time were going to the hurricane relief, linking to her Patreon. Later, however, she changed the story to 'only sales of prints bought through her website were going to be donated', not the earnings she got from patrons' pledges. (She often changes conditions in retrospect to make her scamming/lies less obvious). She also did Twitch streams to reach a set goal of $2500 in donations that were going to go to the Vegas shooting. She even said that, if she didn't reach the goal through donations alone, she was going to use her own money to still get to $2500. Streams didn't go as well as planned though so she kept postponing the streams, hoping people would forget but they didn't. She ended up only donating $1500 instead of the promised 2500$. 2. Save the Wolves

She made a Red Riding Hood themed cosplay to raise money for 'charity' (Save the Wolves). She paid Castle Corsetry to make an exact replica of a costume that's originally made by MyOppa, since the latter didn't take commisions for the next few months and Mariah always wants things on a super short notice. A employee for the organization she was going to donate the money to, said that she allegedly never donated anything. It has been speculated that it had to do with her paying CC extra to get the costume done as quickly as possible. 3. Etika/AFSP

On the 25th of June Etika commited suicide. Mariah immediately jumped on the hype train and made a huge deal out of her own mental health issues and how very much affected by the death of her ‘beloved friend’ (whom she loved so much she didn’t even know he’d been hospitalized prior to his suicide) she was.  So, she chose the only appropriate way to express her grief by shamelessly using his death to push her sales at Anime Expo and claiming to donate all of her proceeds to the AFSP (American Foundation for Suicide Prevention). 

As shown below, she did attent Anime Expo for several consecutive days and sold her products. 

(original text by momokuncosplay whose blog unfortunately isn’t viewable anymore)

There’s been some shady/ shitty things Mariah has said over the past few weeks which I feel weren’t relevant enough to make an individual post about, but still important enough to document. So think of these type of posts as a little bit of a hodge podge of shit Mariah Mallad does.

#1 - Cultural appropriation of African face paint?

During the month of November Mariah started a… thing… where she would post autumny photosets. One set was of a wood fairy. She posted some photos when she was shooting, and caused some people to wonder if her facepaint was cultural appropriation of African face paint.

People responded her telling her they felt, and she made a post on Facebook explaining she actually just ripped it off from another cosplay.

As well as giving a shit apology to someone who was upset by the face paint.

Just an FYI, if you apologize to someone for something you did, don’t say “sorry thats how you took it” with a frowny face. It comes off pretty fucking passive aggressive.

#2 - Mariah Snaps at a Patron

After realizing her discord had been made public by leakers, Mariah promised to make a new one for her patrons. Its been about a month and paying patron still do not have a discord, despite it being a reward. So a patron posts on a public post asking about it, and Mariah disregards his question because he isn’t a patron. The patron actually WAS a paying patron, however stopped their payment for this month for various reasons.

Despite the patron going into a FULL EXPLANATION as to why they needed to unsub, Mariah still treats him like shit and throws it into their face that they aren’t a patron.

This is how she treats her fans. She gives zero fucks about you unless you’re throwing money her way. And if you aren’t, then she’ll be rude as all hell to you, and throw it in your face how you don’t.

#3 - Mariah Ghosts Blizzcon

While she was at Blizzcon, people noticed that Mariah never actually went into the convention center or did… anything with the con. She just stood outside every day and loitered around. Mariah has admitted to ghosting cons before, and everyone believed thats what she was doing with Blizzcon too. After saying how excited she is for NEXT year’s Blizzcon, a Twitter user noted that she never actually went into the con. Mariah’s response was that went and got her badge and that was it. Reason:  She was only there from 1pm-4pm for photoshoots and had no time.

(original text by momokuncosplay whose blog unfortunately isn’t viewable anymore)

About 2 months ago Mariah started multiple charity projects for various different causes. The first being a print set where the proceeds would go to hurricane relief. The second being a charity stream for the victims of the Las Vegas shooting. Tl;dr: she was very slow and very unprofessional setting all of these charity projects up. Two months has passed since her first stating the prints would go to charity and they’re still on preorder. A month has passed with her not continuing the stream to reach her goal.Because of this people have been upset, and also because she kept giving different dates for when she’d continue the stream.Finally, Mariah tweeted towards the end of October that she would try to stream a few more times and if she didn’t meet her goal of 2500 by the end of the month she’d donate the rest herself.

Despite her saying she’d just donate the rest if she didn’t reach the goal, three days later she tweeted that she won’t be able to stream because she has to finish a cosplay for Blizzcon, with no mention of donating the money.

People tweeted at her demanding she donate the money. It seemed as if Mariah kept changing the time for when she planned on actually going through with it. She changed her tune again, and said she’d donate it on November 2nd since thats apparently when she started the “campaign.”

After days of no news again, someone asked when she’d be donating the money and once again she changed it to when she got back from Blizzcon.

It takes about 5 minutes to donate money to a charity online, so I’m unsure as to why she felt the need to push it back for so long.

Finally after a weekend of loitering outside of Blizzcon, Mariah posted she donated the money.

Notice how the amount she raised has changed. First it was 1800, then 1600, and now its 1500 out of 2500. Also in my honest (totally not biased huehue) opinion, I think she waited so long because she was waiting for her Patreon money to come in at the start of the month. I have no doubt she spent what she raisedd and panicked when she realized she wouldn’t be able to donate the full 2500. This would explain why she waited weeks to actually do the donation.

That at least concludes the charity stream. For the prints however… thats still up in the air. As noted in a cap above the prints don’t actually ship out into mid to late November. Even though she has had the prints for over two months now.

In mid October Mariah tweeted that the reasoning behind the $15 charge of the charity prints is because of the costs it takes to make the prints and ship them out.

So if using the highest numbers she provided that means each print will be a donation of $5. So people have been waiting two months to simply pay for shipping and donate $5 to a fund. Not to mention about a month before, in September, she said she may just her own money to ship the prints out in a Patreon post.

Clearly she has decided it would cost her too much to do that out of pocket, even though that would mean MORE MONEY going to the relief fund.

Most people seemed to assume it would be through Patreon because of her choice of wording. In another tweet she claimed that “this set will be more lewd” so that she could raise money, and in the above tweet she calls it a “lewd set.” Its a no brainer that people will think you will have to be a Patreon to buy the charity set.  After some people brought this up she did clarify that there will be select prints available on a separate website for the charity. However, in my opinion, its very clear she was trying to lead people to believe they needed to be signed up for her Patreon.(original text by momokuncosplay whose blog unfortunately isn’t viewable anymore) While making her Bee Keeper Mei cosplay, a fan suggested to Mariah to do a donation for a charity that helps honeybees. Mariah jumped on the chance, and decided the proceeds of the Bee Keeper Mei lewd set will go to charity. At the day of the shoot Mariah announces the charity will actually be for Hurricane Harvey/ Irma relief.

Mariah may raise money and then donate said money directly to the charity, but having already done the shoot and with the shoot being incredibly lewd/ pornographic she will most likely not be partnered with a charity for this, just an fyi to everyone. She will be completely in charge for sending in the money to whatever charity she chooses.

After saying the money will go to hurricane relief, Mariah then goes on Twitter addressing people’s misgivings over it, and claiming that no one else is doing anything to help but she is, implying she is exempt from criticism.

Just a little note from the owner here, this actually pissed me off incredibly. First of all, Mariah was planning the lewd set with Bee Mei before she ever thought to donate to hurricane relief, probably even before someone suggested she do it to donate to the bees. So for her to say she’s doing more than what she was already going to do anyway, is misleading, and almost an outright lie. Second of all, she has no idea what other people are doing, or even what they have been through. There is nothing wrong with people wanting more info about these type of situations, the internet is full of shitty people, so people want to know that she has her ducks in a row. And lastly, she clearly does NOT have her ducks in a row. The decision for the money to go to hurricane relief seems to be last minute, she does not have a charity in a mind despite promoting that the money will go to a charity, she hasn’t stated what percentage of sales will go, when it will be donated etc. Not to mention her history of sending out prints is HORRID, she  is months behind on her Patreon print rewards, so the idea of her running a charity sale for some prints is honestly scary since she has no organizational or even business skills.

She has also not been very clear about how to purchase these charity prints. Hours later she makes a tweet saying if you want the Bee Keeper Mei set, to sign up for her Patreon. This led a lot of people to misunderstanding HOW she will be raising the money. Will people have to pay $50 to get the set and some of that will be donated? Will there be a special tier on her Patreon for just the charity prints? Will it be through another website?

Most people seemed to assume it would be through Patreon because of her choice of wording. In another tweet she claimed that “this set will be more lewd” so that she could raise money, and in the above tweet she calls it a “lewd set.” Its a no brainer that people will think you will have to be a Patreon to buy the charity set.  

After some people brought this up she did clarify that there will be select prints available on a separate website for the charity. However, in my opinion, its very clear she was trying to lead people to believe they needed to be signed up for her Patreon.

Please understand there have been multiple people that brought up how this is sketchy af. Including an ex photographer of hers who claimed she was being fraudulent about it, and then said the reason they stopped working with Mariah was because she did not credit his photos. This led to Mariah spazzing out on Twitter for what seemed like a good hour, as well as making IG story after IG story about how this photographer is “a little bitch” and claiming he is slandering her.

I plan on making a separate post about this, but please know that this photographer has leaked DMs between the two of them that show off her how unprofessional she is with photogs, asking for raws and telling him how to edit herself.

I would say, if you’re reading this and want to donate to hurricane relief by buying her prints, don’t. I’m not saying this because I don’t like her, but simply because she is unreliable. She has no idea how to properly go about doing this, she will NOT be affiliated with any charity so she will be in charge of directly making sure the money gets sent to a charity. She can’t even do her monthly patreon rewards without getting  6+ months behind, I can’t see her a) even sending the prints out to people and b) sending the money to a charity. Your money will be lost into the abyss, do not do it. Instead donate to other charities directly such as:

The Red Cross

Hurricane Irma Relief Fund

Barbuda Relief Fund

Unicef