Should teens be asking Tik Tok people and Go Fund Me to pay for their Senior Prom?

[DubiousIntentions]

Two creative West Coast teens made quite the entrance over the weekend when they rolled up to prom in a WWII tank. Best friends Sherman Bynum and Sam Tetro raised money through TikTok and a GoFundMe account for the event at Camas High School in Washington state. Go Fund Me is for people in trouble, not just wanting someone to pay for their prom date. It cost them $1,000 to rent the tank, and more to pay a guy to ride on a unicycle dressed as Darth Vader and playing the bagpipes. If they want a showy prom their parents should pay for it or them from their jobs. Not pandering other people to pay for it. Is this disgusting or cool?

M-3 Stuart Tank

They have their nerve!

Cool, but they should have paid for it themselves or just been like any other promster.

I'm going to have Go Fund Me pay for my trip to Disney World.

[SaoirseS]

I don't know what to think. I'm not at all a fan of crowdfunding. In this case I don't know who to think less of, the kids who had the nerve to start a GoFundMe or the ones who contributed money to it.

[DubiousIntentions]

Doesn't a Go Fund Me request have to give the reason for the request?

[SaoirseS]

I’m not sure, but from what I’ve seen GoFundMe doesn’t limit fundraising to helping people in need. I’ve seen them raising money to send a teenager on a vacation trip overseas, raise money for home improvement, hire a limo for a prom date, and a whole lot of other “causes.” Makes me shake my head.

[DubiousIntentions]

I'm with you on that.

[exitseven]

As c long as they didn't lie and say one of them was dying of cancer and wants to go to the prom it is okay. People don't have to give anything. I personally would never give anyone money because I think that they are all scams.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Fireguy17]

More of the entitled generation.
The sad thig is that they probably will get someone else to pay for it.

[DubiousIntentions]

Well they already did.

[Surely]

I want to restore my old Ford pickup. Think I should ask for funding? Just kidding. Would never have thr nerve to do that!