Attila cannot stay out of headlines these past few weeks – last week, they cancelled the entirety of their European tour after landing in Germany, and less than 48-hours before their first show. The band claimed that lines were crossed and a third-party company was extremely unprofessional, and decided to cancel the tour after that.
Screenshots of an email from an unnamed Attila staffer were posted by festival organizers that detailed the band had cancelled over a “non-existing problem.” A portion of the email read, “Their bus supplier provided a perfectly workable solution for them to start the tour as planned, but the band made up their mind and one-sided made the decision to cancel the full thing, without speaking to us nor to their own manager.
Both their management and us have been trying to get a hold of the band throughout the day to discuss and work out a solution for a non-existing problem.”
Now, Attila is garnering more attention for frontman’s Chris Fronzak‘s X activity, and the fact that he actually put his money where his mouth was.
On August 1st, popular YouTuber (and sort of philanthropist) Mr. Beast posted to X that his long-term project, TeamWater, was active again – a project that provides clean water within certain major urban areas within Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania was now live again. Mr. Beast first started this initiative in 2023 : “TeamWater is now live!
$1 = 1 year of clean water for someone in need. During August me and countless other creators are going to be attempting to raise $40,000,000 to give 2,000,000 people clean drinking water for decades each!!!
Donate here pretty plz http://TeamWater.org.”
Fronzak later quoted on the announcement, claiming that Mr. Beast‘s previous efforts were unsuccessful: “I see a lot of discourse about this, but NO ONE is mentioning the fact that Mr. Beast went to Africa & built 100 wells in 2023 & they all failed 1 year later due to lack of maintenance. I believe everyone should always help other people, but this idea already failed?”
Mr. Beast then responded directly to Fronzak, stating: “That’s literally a flat out lie. We recently had the 100 wells audited because of these false rumors (which erodes trust in philanthropic efforts and is not cool) and the wells are working…”
Fronzak then hit Mr. Beast back with: “Okay! Send me the audit that shows that ALL 100 wells are still working today and I’ll send $5,000 to your new water project.”
Then, Mr. Beast followed up with a post to X, not quoting or mentioning Fronzak, which said: “People desperate for ad revenue have falsely claimed that the 100 wells I built for people in need don’t work anymore WITH ZERO PROOF! So I sent someone to EVERY SINGLE WELL to get video proof of them all still working over a year later. Checkmate liars. Proof – https://beastphilanthropy.org/i_built_100_wells_in_africa/all-well-projects”
After that had been uploaded to X, Mr. Beast went back to the thread with Fronzak and told him: “Check my new tweet. Literal video proof. Go donate ????.”
And, as a man of his word, Fronzak put his money where his mouth was and donated $5,000 to Mr. Beast‘s TeamWater initiative: “This is amazing, thank you for providing clarity. I am a man of my word, so as I promised, here is proof of my $5,000 donation! I genuinely hope you hit your goal and everything succeeds smoothly.”
#TeamWater claims that $1 gives one person clean water for a year. Some of the highest donors so far are YouTube and Google – matching what Mr. Beast had raised on their platforms – as well as people at Shopify and TikTok, and Logan Paul and FaZe Banks.
You can find out more about the project here.
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