According to Page Six, "Little Rascals" star Brandon "Bug" Hall defended his GoFundMe on Sunday after netizens urged him to "get a job," telling them he is "going to keep impregnating my wife." The fund for his sixth child, due in under a month, has passed $8,800 against a $2,000 goal, per TMZ.
The comments section is the final boss of every child star's career. "Buy some condoms and get a job" is the harshest labor advice on the internet and the most honest. The industry built a face out of Alfalfa. The face grew up. Now the face is on a crowdfunding page, asking the same audience that paid for 1994 movie tickets to help him get the "last few things buttoned up" before the next baby lands. That is the whole pipeline in one sentence: kid actor, then brand, then fundraiser.
His defense reads like a contractor's change order. The family made it onto "new land" but is "a few materials short of having things working right," which is the language of a man who has stopped being embarrassed. Baby six is under a month away and the plan, per his own words, is scale: keep the birth rate up, keep the donations coming. Six kids is a family. Seven is a business model.
The funny part is the money. The goal was $2,000. The internet donated $8,800 while simultaneously telling him to get a job. The "get a job" crowd did not just mock him, they funded him. That is not a comments section, that is a tip jar with a mean face. Every child star ends up in one of three places: a reality show, a lawsuit, a GoFundMe. Alfalfa picked the one where the public has to pay.
YOUR TURN: Was "get a job" fair, or is the GoFundMe the honest end of the child-star pipeline?
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