{"id":2285807,"date":"2026-02-17T15:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2285807"},"modified":"2026-02-17T15:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T15:19:06","slug":"james-van-der-beeks-friend-defends-gofundme-after-critic-says-2-6-million-total-doesnt-sit-right-its-ok-to-stfu-when-you-cant-know-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/james-van-der-beeks-friend-defends-gofundme-after-critic-says-2-6-million-total-doesnt-sit-right-its-ok-to-stfu-when-you-cant-know-what\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek\u2019s Friend Defends GoFundMe After Critic Says $2.6 Million Total \u2018Doesn\u2019t Sit Right\u2019: \u2018It\u2019s Ok to Stfu When You Can\u2019t Know What the F\u2014 You\u2019re Talking About\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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James Van Der Beek<\/a>\u2019s friend and fellow actor Mehcad Brooks<\/a> recently used Threads<\/a> (via Daily Beast<\/a>) to slam the backlash over the GoFundMe<\/a> that was created to raise money for Van Der Beek\u2019s wife and children after his death. The campaign raised $2.6 million after revealing the late actor\u2019s cancer battle had left his family \u201cout of funds.\u201d However, detractors emerged on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis doesn\u2019t sit right with me. Not at all,\u201d one user on Threads<\/a> posted about the GoFundMe. \u201cSure, I get it. But thousands of people around the world face this exact situation every…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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James Van Der Beek\u2019s friend and fellow actor Mehcad Brooks recently used Threads (via Daily Beast) to slam the backlash over the GoFundMe that was created to raise money for Van Der Beek\u2019s wife and children after his death. The campaign raised $2.6 million after revealing the late actor\u2019s cancer battle had left his family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2285808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2285807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/James-Van-Der-Beeks-Friend-Defends-GoFundMe-After-Critic-Says.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2285807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285809,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2285807\/revisions\/2285809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2285808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2285807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2285807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2285807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}