Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his company's credit card — 'I’m going to be working until I’m like 94,' refuses to set up GoFundMe or put up crypto coin to help repay massive bill
Mighty Mike Play's dad is trying to figure out how to pay back the $118k his son accidentally spent on YouTube ads.
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| Factor | Weight | Score | Contribution | Where it came from |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corroboration | 0.35 | 0.39 | +0.135 26% | 1 independent org on the story. Tier-3 aggregators never corroborate — they can show something is circulating, never that it is true. |
| Source trustleads | 0.25 | 0.80 | +0.200 39% | Tom's Hardware is the highest-trust source on this story. Trust is taken from the best source, not averaged. |
| Pickup rate | 0.20 | 0.00 | +0.000 0% | One counted organisation, so there is no spread to measure — nothing has picked this up to set a rate. |
| Freshness | 0.20 | 0.90 | +0.180 35% | Halves every 10 hours from the newest item on the story. This is the only factor that rewards a story for nothing more than being recent. |
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What happened
Mighty Mike Play's dad is trying to figure out how to pay back the $118k his son accidentally spent on YouTube ads. He also warned against fundraisers made in their name, since they aren't making one yet.
How this story arrived
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- 01 Tomshardware first seen Father loses job over 9-year-old spending $118,000 on Minecraft YouTube ads using his compan
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