HellCastle Better Life Fund

(Hi, this is Brandon [ThirtyVirus] Calabrese and I'm uploading this on behalf of my friend HellCastle because his country does not allow gofundme or PayPal. After this campaign concludes I will transfer the balance to him via bank wire. All statements after this one are written by him)

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So a while ago I made a tweet with a pastebin, explaining my situation in my country called Lebanon where I pretty much have 0 human rights. (https://twitter.com/HellCastleBTW/status/1427781127016681475)

I mentioned all sorts of stuff, like the shortage of food and medicine and fuel, the insanely low quality of life, having only 9-10 hours of electricity a day, lack of proper education and lack of suitable colleges/universities for me, and how it all is affecting me and my family and our mental state, and how it's not easy having to deal with all that all whilst having bipolar disorder and whilst still having to make YT videos for a living (since that's my family's only income currently).

I made that post purely to raise awareness and to give people an explanation on why I've been a gloomy person lately, and why YT uploads might slow down on our channel due to my situation. But in return I got way more support than I expected, and I noticed how a lot of people really wanted to help by donating to me and my family to help with the situation, but at the time money wasn't really able to solve my problems so I refused to take it or start a gofundme.

But since then, I started looking into ways to move out, and the best place to move out to that I could find was Turkey, because it requires no Visa to go to it from Lebanon, and the prices there are pretty cheap overall, so it was the most suitable quick option for us.

I went for a week with my dad only and without bringing any of my stuff with me like my PC, just to search for a house to rent there and see how living there would be like.

After having to deal with a bunch of inconvenient stuff like most landlords being unwilling to rent their house to a Lebanese, real estate agencies lying to us and a bit of racism overall, it went well and we met a really nice landlord who rented us a house that's suitable for me and my family for about 370$ a month!

Now we did calculations and we found out that it would cost around 1k-1.2k$ for me and my family to live there a month. I make around 1k$ a month overall from my YT channel (Since I split the revenue with Tyler, and since adsense started very recently taking 30% flat tax of what I make from YT from US viewers income) and I stopped streaming because the internet and electricity in Lebanon were too unstable to do so, but I will most likely go back to doing it when I'm in Turkey as it's fun and more revenue!

Point being, at the end of the month I may be able to exactly match the monthly costs of living, or I may not, and YT isn't the most reliable thing in the world, some months could be very bad and some could be amazing which can get way too frustrating. I am planning on making more content and more different type of stuff on other channels maybe, but if non of what I've had planned worked out, I would be in a really bad spot financially, and I really don't want to risk me and my family potentially becoming homeless or in similar types of inconvenient situation/discomfort, or having to go back to Lebanon after a few months, when the situation in it has gotten worse, since it only seems to be going downhill in Lebanon and nothing else, especially with all the promises our politicians have been making and false hopes they've been giving us for years.

Anything I get from this campaign would drastically help me in so many ways, either if it was to pay for tickets (Which are about 1.5k$+ in total) or if it was to help paying rent and food in Turkey, or anything really, it would all massively help us in every way.

My plan so far for Turkey is to live there for 6 months to 1 year with my family, and just see how it is, see if I can maybe go to a uni there and study what I always wanted to study which is psychology, or if my big sister can maybe get a job there with her masters degree in chemistry, I was also planning on enrolling my little sister in a school there, but English schools in Turkey are very expensive, and I can't enroll her in a Turkish school out of nowhere since she knows 0 Turkish and would have a really hard time, but we'll see what we can do I guess...

Whilst we're also there, we would all be looking for possible opportunities to go to Europe or US or Canada, whether it's immigration or for education or for work or anything (We could do this whilst we're still in Lebanon too, but this stuff takes an immense amount of time and has a very high chance of not working, and it is also way easier to travel to EU after you've earned the Turkish residency)

If going to other countries didn't work out, and if Lebanon was still in a very bad state, then I guess we would have to continue living in Turkey, which is fine overall and not a bad thing, it just would suck living in a country that really really hates Lebanese immigrants and a country that isn't that great in terms of stuff like LGBT rights and other stuff like that... but I'll of course take what I can get xD

So yeah, overall this campaign is to help me fund anything like plane tickets and costs of living for me and my family (or even getting therapy and enrolling my little sister in a school in Turkey if it went well) and I made it after seeing that lots of people wanted to help financially.

Anything would be so much appreciated, and please don't go out of ur way to donate, like if you are going thru a hard time financially then you really don't have to!

Ty for making it this far and giving my story the time of your day to read it I rlly appreciate it.

And ty for whoever chooses to donate any amount at all, it really means a lot to us...

Also big thanks to thirtyvirus for taking care of making the gofundme and the payment stuff, since gofundme doesn't work in Lebanon or turkey.

I'll keep posting updates about my situation on twitter or Instagram :)