Kristen Kimmick is the founding father of Payments Mafia Babes, a Fb group of 1000’s of feminine followers that raises cash for gamers’ charities and obtained 501(c)(3) standing this yr.
“Once I began seeing folks donate, my first thought was, ‘$17 {dollars} isn’t loads. Simply do it, as a result of that is going to go to a great trigger and it’s additionally going to indicate that keenness, that feeling that I’ve been wanting to have the ability to specific for what number of years,’” Kimmick mentioned.
This Payments fan promised to get an Andy Dalton tattoo if the Bengals helped ship Buffalo to the playoffs.
He fundraised for the ink, then donated all of the remaining funds to Dalton’s charitable basis. pic.twitter.com/GIWVBDlnaS
— ESPN (@espn) January 7, 2018
Justin Hutton was the primary to donate to Oishei Kids’s Hospital in November 2020 when Payments quarterback Josh Allen performed one of many nice video games of his life a day after studying his grandmother died. Greater than 27,000 followers, many donating in $17 increments to signify Allen’s jersey quantity, raised greater than $1.15 million in her honor.
“It’s a sense that resonates with not simply the Buffalo fanbase however anyone who type of will get concerned with a zeitgeist motion like that,” Hutton mentioned. “You are feeling good for being part of one thing larger than your self.”
Hans Hansen is a Payments moderator on Reddit who first shared Hutton’s concept on Twitter. He mentioned the donations have change into “a part of being a Payments fan.”
“It began with Andy Dalton, at the very least in my expertise,” Hansen mentioned, “and I believe for lots of people it did. And in the event you’re part of this fanbase, it’s change into anticipated of you virtually.”
