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(TSR Investigates) A Homeless Woman Accuses Influencer GloJays Of Using Her For Clout

<p><span class&equals;"style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir&equals;"auto">Social media influencer GloJays is known for giving wads of cash to strangers&period; Yet one woman says it’s all for clout&period; Zipporia Tullis&comma; a homeless woman living in Georgia&comma; says he set up a GoFundMe page and raised over &dollar;20&comma;000 on behalf of her and her five children&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir&equals;"auto">But he decided not to give her the money&period; However&comma; in a <&sol;span>TSR Investigates<span class&equals;"style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir&equals;"auto"> exclusive GloJays claims he gave Tullis &dollar;3&comma;500 of the money but refused to hand over the rest of the funds after she turned down employment assistance and bashed him online&period; <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span class&equals;"style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir&equals;"auto">So&comma; does GloJays owe Zipporia the money no matter what&quest; Should Zipporia be happy with the &dollar;3&comma;500&quest; The Shade Room investigates… <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story begins back in June&comma; when Zipporia was panhandling for money at a Union City&comma; Georgia Walmart&period; That day&comma; she was approached by a man who gave her &dollar;500&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That man ended up being social media influencer GloJays&comma; and Zipporia says this was the beginning of an elaborate scam&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"qEZwjfEE-SM" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" dock&equals;"&num;dock-slot"><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Behind the scenes of their seemingly feel-good scene&comma; which was filmed by GloJay&&num;8217&semi;s team&comma; she says she was told to look &&num;8220&semi;sad&period;&&num;8221&semi; Zipporia can be seen telling him of her story&comma; how she was kicked out of her housing situation in 2020&comma; how her father had passed last year from COVID-19&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;My father was really all I had&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m just trying to get back on my feet&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she told him in the video clip&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The moment GloJays starts peeling off dollar bills to give her&comma; she can be heard saying &&num;8220&semi;this is a scam&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;This ain&&num;8217&semi;t no scam&comma; this is all you&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said as he handed her the cash&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The video of the scene is amongst dozens on GloJays social media pages&comma; where he boasts two million followers on TikTok and over 400&comma;000 on Instagram&comma; all within the last seven months&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Zipporia&&num;8217&semi;s clip alone was seen by over 13 million people&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;95163" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-95163" style&equals;"width&colon; 1092px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-95163" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;08&sol;Screen-Shot-2022-08-03-at-10&period;22&period;00-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1092" height&equals;"672" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-95163" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Zipporia Tullis&comma; left&comma; pictured with GloJays&comma; right&comma; in a viral video that has garnered over 13 million views on TikTok&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>But the feel-good story didn&&num;8217&semi;t end there&period; She later learned he had set up a GoFundMe on her behalf&comma; with the funds to be used for housing&comma; clothing and food for her children&comma; and expenses towards a vehicle according to the fundraiser&&num;8217&semi;s description&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The fundraiser raised over &dollar;20&comma;000&comma; with the funds going &&num;8220&semi;directly to her when the fundraiser is over&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the organizer wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;Everything on that &lpar;GoFundMe&rpar; page was linked to him&comma; it was never linked to me&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she told TSR Investigates Justin Carter&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She said she did receive about &dollar;3&comma;500&comma; most of which went towards hotel rooms for her and her children&comma; with the room costing her about &dollar;100 per night&period; She added that she had already owed the hotel about &dollar;500&comma; so she got almost a month&&num;8217&semi;s worth of stay at the hotel from the funds GloJays provided her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Zipporia said he eventually asked her for a picture of her ID card to send her the rest of the GoFundMe donations&comma; however days went by and she did not receive another penny&period; Relations between the two quickly began to sour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;95164" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-95164" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-95164" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;08&sol;Screen-Shot-2022-08-03-at-10&period;32&period;32-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"616" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-95164" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">GoFundMe description for Zapporia&&num;8217&semi;s fundraiser&period; &lpar;Courtesy of GoFundMe&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;He never really wanted to give me the money&comma;&&num;8221&semi; she said&period; &&num;8220&semi;&lpar;He&rpar; took it&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>For his part&comma; GloJays told TSR Investigates that he would never just pull up on someone and give them &dollar;20&comma;000 without stipulations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;You have to be doing something&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;Working or something&period; No one has pulled up on you and gave you &dollar;3&comma;500 like I have&comma; no other stranger did that&period; Regardless of if they raised if for you&comma; gave it to you&period; No one has gave you the amount that I have&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>GloJays added that he also approached Zipporia about several job and housing opportunities&comma; just days after posting the video&period; He says she stopped responding to people and that she wasn&&num;8217&semi;t interested in the help&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked if he believed she was a professional panhandler&comma; he responded in the affirmative&period; TSR Investigates questioned Zipporia on claims that she&&num;8217&semi;s not really homeless&comma; to which she said she&&num;8217&semi;s living out of a hotel&comma; and if she doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have money&comma; she gets put out on the streets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;95165" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-95165" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-95165" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;08&sol;Screen-Shot-2022-08-03-at-10&period;34&period;13-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"619" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-95165" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">GloJays &lpar;pictured&rpar;&period; &lpar;Courtesy of TikTok&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>She went on to say that she cannot work unless there is childcare&comma; that she cannot go to work and leave her five children unattended&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reactions online were mixed&comma; with some coming to Zipporia&&num;8217&semi;s defense and other&&num;8217&semi;s to GloJays&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>GloJays said that in every other case&comma; he has provided 100 percent of the funds to the person in question&comma; sometimes more&period; He said he canceled the campaign after she began bashing him online&comma; and took it as a personal affront that he would finesse someone for just &dollar;20&comma;000&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When asked where he gets his money from&comma; which is then ostensibly used to help people&comma; he said he has done really well in trading&comma; making about &dollar;400&comma;000 on Netflix stock &&num;8220&semi;when it started to plummet&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added that he has no intention of giving Zipporia any more money&comma; and has no plans on offering an apology&comma; either&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;95166" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-95166" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-95166" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;08&sol;Screen-Shot-2022-08-03-at-10&period;36&period;09-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"670" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-95166" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">The social media influencer boasts two million followers on TikTok&period; &lpar;Courtesy of TikTok&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;She can take it to court&comma; I don&&num;8217&semi;t care&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; &&num;8220&semi;Do your thing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>A quick investigation into GoFundMe&&num;8217&semi;s policies shows that all funds raised must be used in relation to the fundraiser&&num;8217&semi;s description or goals&comma; 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