Do you donate to people involved in viral stories?

Reading about Nancy Pelosi’s “Salon-gate” and the fact that the salon owner has now received thousands from Republicans got me thinking: how likely are you to donate to one of these people? The shamed salon-owner, the hero/murderer Kyle Rittenhouse…these viral personalities with Gofundme accounts receiving donations for political reasons…do you donate to these kinds of things?

The last thing I donated to was wildfire relief in California. I don’t think I’ve ever donated to a “viral” cause and I’ve certainly never donated to “spite the other side” (which seems all too plainly to be the motive in many of these cases). I’m just wondering who are the people giving money to these things.