Disney Star Skai Jackson Defends Taking $5 From Fans For Raffle: 'I Do Not Need Money'

Is Skai Jackson having cash issues?? If not, she might have fooled her followers…

If you comply with the previous Disney Channel star on social media, you could have lately seen a raffle she put up for followers to enter for an opportunity to win an Apple MacGuide Air. Fun, however… there was a catch. Participants needed to cough up $5 every as a way to enter. And they simply weren’t having it.

Apparently, Skai used the raised funds to buy the laptop computer, which might then go to the winner chosen from the raffle. But the factor is that’s not often how celeb raffles are accomplished. Celebs get gifted random stuff, they usually generally cross objects alongside to followers to advertise them. Maybe they receives a commission by the corporate if their promotion is value it — like you probably have Selena Gomez IG numbers. But they don’t accumulate cash from the followers.

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The discrepancy left many social media customers confused. Collecting cash for a prize makes this extra like a lottery. And states revenue A LOT from lotteries. It had followers involved over the raffle’s legitimacy, because it’s not precisely clear how many individuals funded the raffle. To put issues into perspective, a brand new MacGuide Air goes for about $1,200, in keeping with Apple’s web site. At a raffle price of 5 bucks a pop, that might imply that simply 240 followers would want to enter as a way to fund the acquisition… and Skai presently has 8.6 million followers on Instagram.

Was Skai working a lottery to become profitable off her followers??

After a wave of suspicion and backlash, the Jessie star took to TikTookay to deal with followers’ issues. She defended herself in a dismissive video, arguing:

“It is not that serious for a damn $5. It is called a raffle. I don’t know if you guys have been to school before, but I know I’ve been to school, and we used to have raffles all the time where… you put it $5, $2, whatever, and you get a prize. Like, people do raffles all the time.”

Um, yeah. Schools, like states with lotteries, don’t do raffles for enjoyable. They do them as fundraisers. They use the additional cash to pay for classroom supplies, stuff like that. And everybody is aware of that and is OK with it as a result of it’s charity. A TV star isn’t charity.

What about any potential leftover cash? She defined:

“The money goes towards the prize, and then like I said, if there’s anything left over, I’m doing a second giveaway soon, so that’s what it’s going towards.”

Another “giveaway.” Some time quickly. Hmm… Still fairly shady, not gonna lie.

She added, blasting the hypothesis she was profiting:

“I do not need money. Me, personally, I do not need money, and I’m not saying this like I’m a — in a bragging way or anything like that, or in a mean way. I’m just letting you guys know, I do not personally need money. Like I am very fine in my life. I don’t need — I don’t need money.”

Ch-ch-check out the total clip, shared by Pop Crave on Twitter (under):

Disney Channel star Skai Jackson is being criticized for asking her followers to ship her $5 “for a chance to win a MacBook.” pic.twitter.com/6GZ7kEwX5p

— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) July 8, 2023

She later revealed {that a} winner had been chosen, which you’ll see (under):

Thank you sooooo a lot!!! ????❤️ https://t.co/m2JJtKa1bZ

— leijahh ???? (@itsleijah) July 8, 2023

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Still, followers weren’t precisely offered. One consumer wrote:

“So basically all of Skai’s fans pooled their money together to buy 1 fan a Mac? A celebrity is supposed to buy it & the money given goes to a charity.”

Another wrote:

“She claims she doesn’t need the money, so then why is she charging for entry? This not weird to y’all?”

A 3rd identified her former Disney days, and the wealth she presumably accrued from the time:

“Guess that Disney check finally ran out.”

Yikes. See extra reactions (under):

Skai Jackson’s followers asking her why she’s doing a $5 macbook raffle pic.twitter.com/Uwcs3OdmnU

— Liv (@itstilliv) July 9, 2023

Skai Jackson after she provides the mac e-book to her homegworl and took 5 {dollars} from 100,000 individuals pic.twitter.com/iDpvWhbWxj

— HART°????♡???? °???? (@HartDaScientist) July 9, 2023