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Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing on Black Friday

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Re: Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing on Black Friday

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>If I give you $5, what are you going to do with the money? That’s for us to know and you to find out. We’ll make the announcement soon. This might be throwing people off. My guess is they are going to make some charitable donation.

It is extremely similar to John Oliver's Last Week Tonight spoof religion "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption" for which they asked for cash donations for essentially nothing in return (and then donated the proceeds to charity). Which kinda-sorta follows on from Colbert Super PAC which asked for donations to a Super PAC which did essentially nothing and then they too donated it. CAH are in their right to do "whatever" w…

We were kind of right. The staff spent the money on mostly material things. Some made sizeable contributions to various charities.
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