I had a Facebook acquaintance (someone I had known online long before FB but never met in person) who was going through some pretty wild health issues and ended up in an assisted living community designed for people decades older because neither of her kids wanted to deal with being her caretaker through recovery (which is fair but still sad). One day she randomly posted sonething like "there is a vending machine in the common area that has Coca-Cola and there are days I just really wish I could get one, but I have no money." Turns out the place she was at gave out tokens for the vending machine so I was able to arrange to get her tokens (and a decent amount, like $25 worth, because I felt a little bad and thought hey, I like the idea of her enjoying 25 Cokes more than having $25 sitting in my Paypal). Got it arranged, got confirmation she was given the tokens and a note saying who they were from. I kid you not, 2 days later she messaged me not to thank me, but to ask if I would buy her a $50 something or other so she had something to do instead of just watch TV. I just left in on read because I was like girl, you never even said thank you and you immediately come to me for more? A month passes and she sends another message asking if I have ordered the $50 thing yet. I ignore it too, and when she asks a third time, I say "hey, I bought you tokens for thr vending machine as a fun little pick-me-up, I was not signing up to be your sugar momma." She sent me back a rude little snippet and then spent days posting about how nobody cares. Never acknowledged my gift. I only told people in our hobby circle if they mentioend they wanted to send her anything, I said "if you want to do it, go ahead, but be aware that she will take it as an invitation to beg for more." That is this dude. Maybe at one point he was producing and actually writing decent content. But when he actually came into a place of need, and people said hey, we can help him out this one time, he saw it as wow, people will send money and not expect anything in return! And his newsletter got craopy and his story got sadder but he eventually burned through every bit of goodwill that existed because the begging never stopped.