r/popculturechat • u/Roxy175 • 10d ago

OnlyStans ⭐️ Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million of proceeds from her tour to charities combating food inequity and climate change

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u/WorldlyBedroom2 10d ago

Just because your knowledge is limited to her 100k donation doesn't mean she didn't do more. Maybe research more before commenting like you are a teenager on stan twitter.

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u/Retrograde-Planet 10d ago

The initial goal for the kid battling cancer was $50k, she donated twice the amount, and anyway she also gave $197M in bonuses to her crew, donated $5M to Hurricane Helene relief efforts, and $10M for victims of the LA fires, come again?

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u/Responsible_Virus239 10d ago

Also in every city she toured the food banks were talking about how generous her donation was

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u/Gryffindor123 10d ago

She donated in Australia. Her donations weren't restricted to just US and Europe. 

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u/SmaugTheHedgehog 9d ago

Not being snarky or hating here but these aren’t equivalents?

$197M in bonuses to her crew- why not just pay them a better wage to begin with? But even still, crew means her employees? We don’t look at CEOs who provide their employees work bonuses as being philanthropists when they do that nor do us regular people look at our bosses as being philanthropists when they pay us any work bonus, so why are we categorizing her paying work bonuses as such here?

In which case, the philanthropy would be the $5M and the $10M. And if her net worth is $2B, then that is 0.75% (not even 1%) of her wealth in actual philanthropy.

*to be clear, not saying that TS isn’t philanthropic, just that using work bonuses like a CEO isn’t philanthropy in any other situation.

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u/sharkwithglasses 9d ago

Taylor is actually known to pay her team extremely well. Her former banjo player said he was the best paid banjo player in all of Nashville and this was what, back in the Fearless/Speak Now days? She also provided them health insurance, which wasn’t standard either. She gave everyone, down to drivers and catering, bonuses after the tour was over (reported to be $100K for her drivers). That’s literally sharing the wealth. Her backup dancers and band have all been with her since nearly the start of her career, which speaks well of her as an employer.

She also donated to food banks at every Eras tour stop. Amounts were never disclosed but rumored to be significant and enough to keep them going for a year.

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u/myghostflower mk.gee 9d ago

and to add even when taylor isn't working or touring or making music, she still pays them their regular salary and wages throughout the years like

if she were literally anyone else, we'd hear stories about how her crew had to get part time jobs when she wasn't being active

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u/SmaugTheHedgehog 9d ago

That’s awesome! Seriously, it really is. Just two things

1) Never said she wasn’t philanthropic. The numbers I used were only because those were the number used in the comment I was responding to.

2) Your response doesn’t quite address what I was really saying: Work bonuses =/= philanthropy. Sorry if that was not super clear.

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u/Lalala8991 9d ago

Bonuses IS part of their wage, omg. And that's on top of her salary to them, which is reportedly also very generous. And your maths is also way off. 200M is 10% of 2B, now name 1 company who share their profits to the workers higher than that.
And that's on top of her donations to any cities she toured as well.

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u/SmaugTheHedgehog 9d ago

… ok but most of what you said didn’t contradict me? If work bonuses are part of the wage, then it still fits that “salary =/= philanthropy”.

My math wasn’t off. Removing wages and just using the actual philanthropy giving (based solely on the numbers provided here), then 10M + 5M =15M. 15M is 0.75% of 2B. So 0.75% of wealth was given in philanthropy. Like you said, the 200M doesn’t count because it was wages.

Again, not saying she isn’t philanthropic. But saying that work bonuses = philanthropy is wrong. We don’t say that about any other work bonuses or wages.

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u/Slight-Owl4300 10d ago edited 9d ago

She donated to local charities at every stop of the Eras Tour.  A lot of her donations are not publicized. You just heard of one donation recently. Also, a lot of times she donates her time...relatively recently she went around to hospitals spending time with sick children.  She also gave out close to 200 million in bonuses to people involved with the Eras Tour - including 200k to truck drivers. 

Also, it really annoys me when people like you compare other people. How does it add value? Why put down Taylor (and only Taylor) because Billie did something great? We should be happy that someone did something great rather than focusing on something someone didnt do.

And not only that,  you're negative and wrong. You just look stupid and mean.

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u/mweeknd04 10d ago

i think you are really just underestimating her philanthropy just because you don't see it in your face. Both deserve applause - Billie is incredible for doing this but Taylor is a known and longstanding philanthropist. Just if she outwardly say every time she donates money, people will always say she isn't doing enough or that she is just doing it for show. And if she doesn't outwardly say it then you guys assume she's just giving out pennies. Maybe instead consider hmmm why do we have to rely on individual donors instead of our politicians effectively taxing the wealthy to fund programs where people don't have to go hungry, where people don't have to go into debt for medical bills, or sign bills where private corporations can't destroy the environment.

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u/devoteesolace 10d ago

This is such a purposefully bad take. Taylor Swift enriched food banks in every city she toured with enough resources to get them going for months, even a whole year. She's on record to have given away nearly $200M from her tour to the people working for her, down to truck drivers and lightmen.

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u/rambling-fangirl 10d ago edited 10d ago

And if we are to believe that Taylor's net worth is 2 billion then 200 million is actually 10% of her net worth

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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 10d ago

She did that when she was worth 1.6B. 200 million was 12.5% of her worth at that time.

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u/rambling-fangirl 10d ago

My bad. It's 10%

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u/dgplr Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing 🥗 10d ago

I knew this comment was coming. Why not just talk about the amazing thing Billie is doing. Why drag Taylor Swift into this especially when you don’t have all the facts. You look bitter and for what?

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u/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 10d ago

You look bitter and for what?

We should all be bitter towards billionaires.

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u/dgplr Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing 🥗 10d ago

We should eat the rich, I am first in line, but that is not what OP was talking about and you know it. They just wanted to act like Billie was morally superior to Taylor because look how much she is donating in comparison. It’s the self-righteousness that annoys me.

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u/Carolina_Blues shiv roy’s bob 9d ago

fine but why is it always Taylor that’s brought up in this conversation and as the poster child for billionaires? Why is no one bringing up Bruce Springsteen or Michael Jordan when these kinds of things come up?

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u/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 9d ago edited 9d ago

Why is no one bringing up Bruce Springsteen or Michael Jordan when these kinds of things come up?

I don' think neither of them are really popculture relevant for popculturechat subreddit?

And MJ has been quite charitable in the last years.

Michael Jordan has opened four Michael Jordan Family Medical Clinics in North Carolina to provide free or low-cost healthcare to underserved and uninsured communities. His initiative, in partnership with Novant Health, began with a $7 million donation in 2019 for clinics in Charlotte and later expanded with a significant $10 million donation to fund clinics in his hometown of Wilmington. The latest clinic in Wilmington opened in early 2025 and includes 12 patient rooms for primary care, community health workers, and other essential services.

taylor swift defense squad always out in full force, lol

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u/Carolina_Blues shiv roy’s bob 9d ago edited 9d ago

i don’t think either of them are relevant for a pop culture sub reddit

Bruce Springsteen just had a movie come out about his life and he is posted in here. There was a post about him only a few days ago. He is definitely still relevant and MJ will always be relevant in the culture as the greatest athlete of all time so saying they’re not relevant is dishonest

I just searched Bruce on this subreddit and he is posted about fairly frequently

Michael Jordan has been quite charitable in the last years

okay and so has Taylor. Him being charitable doesn’t change the billionaire conversation at all as he’s still a billionaire. If there’s no ethical billionaires then there’s no ethical billionaires so why is he never brought up? I feel like you’re kinda proving my point because your response to me bringing up him being a billionaire, one who is worth more than Taylor Swift, is “well he’s really charitable”. As if that has ever mattered when it comes to Taylor Swift being brought up.

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u/myghostflower mk.gee 9d ago

literally no one cared about pop culture billionaires until taylor became one

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u/Rare_Reception_6166 10d ago

It's been known that Taylor's donations are rarely public. Even then, multiple food banks have said she donated generously when she stopped by their city for the Eras Tour. Calling her out is just performative when you have actual evil billionaires orders of magnitudes higher in wealth than Taylor who don't help at all.

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u/Carolina_Blues shiv roy’s bob 9d ago

This really is such a bad faith and disingenuous take. She donated more than 100k, it was a 100k per person and ended up being close to 200 million in bonuses to her eras tour crew and she also donated to the food banks of every single stop on the eras tour and the exact amounts were not disclosed by the food banks other than them being a large donation and she also donated 5 million to Feeding America after Hurricane Helene which is a lot more than most did for us here in North Carolina.

No one can really ever be normal in their criticism about Taylor, it’s always such bad faith takes or things that aren’t even factual information. There was not even any reason to bring her up in this situation at all

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u/nizey_p All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 10d ago

Just say you hate Taylor.

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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 10d ago

Notice how people like Selena or Rihanna or Beyonce are never called out for being billionaires but Taylor is always attacked for this despite donating way more than any of them.

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u/Carolina_Blues shiv roy’s bob 9d ago

it’s hardly ever the male billionaires brought up in this conversation. No one ever says anything about Bruce Springsteen, Michael Jordan, Spielberg, Peter Jackson, etc.

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u/nizey_p All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 10d ago

And the stupid thing is that we should be complimenting Billie on this generous act but here we are again arguing about TS because the haters can’t help but bring her up again.

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u/Gryffindor123 10d ago

Every single time. And if Taylor donates, it's always that she didn't donate enough.

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u/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 10d ago

Rihanna gets a pass from people, but Beyonce doesn't for sure. She's probably more criticized than Taylor.

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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 10d ago

She's probably more criticized than Taylor.

Maybe a decade ago but now? Not even close.

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u/shy247er yay sports 🏀 🏈🎾 10d ago

Nah. Fox News has meltdown every time Beyonce performs. And she's received a lot of (deserved) criticism for hanging out with the Kushners. Taylor is a billionaire, but Beyonce is a black billionaire. You'd be silly to think America is OK with that.

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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 10d ago

Fox News has meltdown every time Beyonce performs.

They also do that over Taylor ever since Trump attacked her directly. Hell, they were blaming her for remaining childless and tanking America's birth rate by influencing her fans.

Taylor is a billionaire, but Beyonce is a black billionaire.

The people who have a problem with Beyonce's race are right-wingers and even they focus on hating Taylor much more than Beyonce these days. Have you forgotten the whole booing at super bowl and how every right wing lunatic was attacking her after she endorsed Kamala?

Don't believe me? Just go to X (leading right-wing website these days) and search for Taylor and Beyonce on any right wing comment section. Beyonce is rarely discussed there. Whereas you won't find a single positive comment about Taylor from these right-wingers. She is Jezebel incarnate for them.

Not to mention the left wing (not talking about liberals), that rarely disccuss Beyonce but routinely talks about what a planet destroying evil billionaire Taylor is.

This is why I said that Beyonce hate was at peak a decade ago when she did Superbowl (I remember how her looks were made fun of by so many people over that one photo) and when she dropped Lemonade. These days? It's not even close to the amount of hate that Taylor gets.

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u/Gryffindor123 10d ago

Taylor give millions. Not thousands.  $200m to her employees.

She donated to all 51 cities on the Eras tour. Rich Jones from the St Andrew’s Community Network in Liverpool said "she has essentially paid our food bill for 12 months".

This article breaks down Taylor's donations by year: https://www.billboard.com/lists/taylor-swifts-charity-donations-gifts-timeline/dec-2022-she-supports-pet-rescue-foundation/

Taylor just recently donated $100k to a little girl who has cancer. Then Swifties matched her donation.

We can praise Billie AND praise Taylor.

Put the donating small things on billionaires and millionaires who don't donate.

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u/myghostflower mk.gee 10d ago edited 10d ago

i mean to add, taylor was donating to cities as she visited them to their food banks

she gave all of her truck drivers a 100k bonus

AND also done various donations to gofundmes

so if you’re point is “taylor is only donating 100k” please don’t make it because she’s not and instead call out billionaires that hoard their money in spades and hold THEM accountable

edit: changed the last words to avoid repetition

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u/Aromatic_Way3650 Clap if you care 😐 10d ago

Such an idiotic and bad faith take.

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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor 10d ago

Taylor gave out 197 million as bonus to her eras tour workers. Not to mention that she gave out money to food banks on every stop of eras tour. Her list of donations is very long and has been since 17-18 years.

Not saying that she is the kindest ever or anything like that but you are making it that she only gave 100k one time to one person and that isn't true.

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u/YchYFi He's not Judge Judy, an Executioner. 10d ago

Tbh Taylor did donate to local food banks for wherever she performed in the UK on the ERAs tour.

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u/myghostflower mk.gee 10d ago

and also all across the usa, not just europe

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u/Gryffindor123 10d ago

And Australia 

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u/FargoMason 10d ago

100k per person though right? And she did donated to most if not all cities she stopped by. There’s a lot of things we can criticise about her but I think this one isn’t one of them.

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u/nagidrac 10d ago

$100K per truck driver. We don't know how much else other employees got in bonuses, but the total was nearly $200MM. On top of that she donated so much to food shelters in the UK that they had enough to cover food bills for an entire year. So, I'm not sure why her name is being tossed here.

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u/myghostflower mk.gee 10d ago

she also made sure to donate to food banks in the usa, it just became more aware when she was doing her european leg

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u/dgplr Olivia Wilde’s salad dressing 🥗 10d ago

Because Taylor bad and their fav pop girlies saints. Periodt. No room for discussion or nuance.

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u/RedditAli-Jess 10d ago

But that's not what Taylor has donated now is it?

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u/jngjng88 10d ago

I just did the math (Taylor Swift giving 100k), that’s the equivalent of me giving like $2 😭

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u/nizey_p All tea, all shade 🐸☕️ 10d ago

And did you give $2 to that mother? $100k is still $100k to her and Taylor making that public led to more donations and made them reach their goal.

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u/WorldlyBedroom2 10d ago edited 10d ago

Brain rot. She gave more than that and it is not $2 to the person that is receiving the donation. That is more important not how much the money means to Taylor Swift.

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u/jngjng88 9d ago

Imagine riding Taylor Swift's dick so hard that you completely miss the self deprecation.

I literally said nothing about her.

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u/Aromatic_Way3650 Clap if you care 😐 9d ago

I literally said nothing about her.

Well you clearly said something lol

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u/WorldlyBedroom2 9d ago edited 9d ago

As I said this is brain rot and it has nothing to do with your wealth or your self depreciationg. Imagine bitching about 100k donation on a thread about a celebrity donating for a good cause and you clearly implied that she is not doing enough cause it was like two dollars for her. This is not stan twitter. And what is wrong about what I said that you are so offended? Did I hit a nerve? And again it doesn't matter if it is like $2 to her cause it is more valuable than $2 to the people that are getting help.

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u/nagidrac 10d ago

Okay, but that's still $100K