‘Stop Giving Me Money’: Cr1TiKaL Shuts Down Donations, Urges Fans to Give to Charity Instead

Cr1TiKaL wants you to keep your wallet closed, at least when it comes to supporting him. Charles White Jr., better known online as Cr1TiKaL, MoistCr1TiKaL on Twitch, and penguinz0 on YouTube, has just told his millions of fans to stop donating altogether. He’s not interested in your money. In fact, he’s making it nearly impossible for viewers to give him a cent.

“I’m turning it off,” he announced in a new video. No fan donations. No YouTube super chats. No channel memberships. And on Twitch, where technical restrictions make a total shutdown difficult, White has still found workarounds—even if it means setting donation minimums to unreasonable heights.

Every Monetisation Channel Shut—“Just Don’t Sub”

Cr1TiKaL’s no-donations stance isn’t performative. He’s gone through every available revenue stream his fans use to support him and methodically cut them off. On YouTube, memberships and super chats are gone. On Twitch, he explains, the platform doesn’t let streamers simply turn off its Bits currency or user subscriptions after opting into the partner program.

But he isn’t just shrugging and moving on. “I think I found a solution for Bits where I set the minimum so incredibly high that I imagine nobody’s going to spend that kind of money, I hope,” he said. As for subscriptions, he hasn’t found a way to remove them entirely, but he’s urging his fans: “Don’t sub or anything like that on Twitch.”

“If I could, I would,” he said about getting rid of subs entirely, describing the process as full of “hoops to jump through.” He joked that if it were easy, he’d “give it a strong slap on the ass, tell it good game and goodbye.”

Charity Over Streamers: “There Are So Many Better Options for Your Money”

Why make such a drastic move? For White, “it’s a waste of viewers’ money at a time when they should either be saving it or donating it to good causes.” He doesn’t mince words about the current climate: “Hold onto your money now, more than ever, with how everything’s been going,” he insists, telling his audience to “get your finances in a fucking Full Nelson and you just don’t let those puppies fly willy-nilly, donating clams to a goofball like me.”

Cr1TiKaL has a message for anyone compelled to part with their cash: “If you’re someone who just has all this money and it’s burning a hole in your pocket, you have to donate it. You know, [if] you have this insatiable appetite to just part ways with this money, donate it to a charitable cause instead.” He singles out humanitarian causes, suggesting “charities doing extremely important work in Gaza” as an example. “That would be a significantly better use of that money than donating it to me.”

This isn’t the first time White has tried to distance himself from direct fan payments. “I’ve openly discouraged it for a long time, saying that what I do is free, you don’t need to donate or anything like that, but people do still engage with it.” Now, he says, “it’s time to pull the plug on the ability to even do that.”

White finally admits this overhaul was overdue: “I feel like this is long overdue; it’s something I should have done a while ago, but I had convinced myself I could deliver something of value to people that were paying.” But ultimately, he doesn’t believe that donating during a stream to get a moment’s attention is worthwhile: “That’s just not a good use of your money.”

So, for fans of one of Twitch and YouTube’s biggest names, the message couldn’t be clearer: watch for free and, if you really want to spend your cash, let it make a meaningful difference for someone who truly needs it.