Her community service should be working with actual cancer patients so she can see how insulting what she did is.

Her 100 hours of community service should be helping actual patients dealing with what she lied about. Make her sit for 100 hours while people telling her what it's like to ACTUALLY suffer from that illness.

What hurt the most was hearing that people actually suffering looked at her and wondered what they were doing wrong because she was running marathons and looking healthy while they felt horrible and didn’t have energy. That’s the worst part for me.

the fact that her being employed was taken into account when deciding if she should get jail time says a LOT about the justice system

The way she tried to play the victim card by 'crying' in court is absolute psychopath behavior if I've ever seen one.

It’s so frustrating to see the courts say she won’t reoffend bc of her good grades. She didn’t rob a convenience store because she’s a hooligan or poor. SHE LIED ABOUT CANCER ONLINE AND STOLE THOUSANDS IN DONATIONS. And her wonderful resume didn’t stop her from doing that the FIRST time! The only thing that will stop her from reoffending is never giving her access to the internet again.

She didn't even have the courtesy to fake a less severe type of cancer. Pancreatic cancer is very aggressive type of cancer and usually by the time you show symptoms it's too late. My father in law had battled for a little over a year but lost. It was so awful to watch him deteriorate as the days went on. Shame on this woman.

Her: "I didn't do this for attention. I didn't do this for money." Also Her: *Sets up a GoFundMe account and posts daily updates*

went to high school with this girl, real pissed to hear about it when the convictions came to light last winter. glad it’s getting the attention it deserves

Today's Fact: In 2013, a woman from Utah gave birth to her own grandchildren as a surrogate for her daughter, who could not carry a child due to cancer.

Just got out of a relationship with someone who lied for two years about her fight with cancer when she was young. They're insane !

I lost both my parents to cancer. Not only coping with the loss but also watching the people I loved suffer before that was painful beyond anything you can imagine. Still is and always will be. I have no words for how disgusting this person is. This is pure evil. She deserves jail.

i saw a couple videos on her and it's so awful how she made REAL cancer paitents feel bad about themselves bc she was doing so well and having her life together.

Remember, the only reason we know about people like this is because they got caught. Imagine the unreported ones who are smarter, more malicious.

I just saw my aunt that’s dying from cancer today. She ran marathons, ate well, just was generally a really lively person. Today I kept checking her pulse because she looked just like my grandma did when she took her last breath in front of my eyes. This is a horrible thing to lie about.

"what a load of dirty barnacles" That line got me 😂😂😂

Another lie of hers is related to her non-existent hair loss. People were noticing that she wasn't losing her hair so she made a video addressing the issue. She said she was taking a biotin supplement to maintain her hair. The audacity.

As someone who actually went through cancer treatment (Acute lymphoblastic leukemia), it is disgusting to see someone fake such a arduous and painful process as a way to gain clout and money. I hope they come around to actually giving this woman the consequences she deserves.

my classmate has cancer. And she is only 14 yrs old. It's sad to see that some people are that terrible that they are ready to fake anything for money and attention.

I’ve been working/learning in the law enforcement field for around 5 years now (not that it matters), and the only reason why I can think that the prosecuting attorney would request no jail time is because, unfortunately, studies have shown that putting low risk offenders into prison can actually increase their likelihood that they would reoffend, rather than if they utilized alternative sentencing.

Being an actual cancer survivor, I heard about this story at the tail end of my treatment, and I was so disgusted by this. Who in their right mind would pretend to have a horrible affliction, much less a relatively common one like cancer, for any reason? I'm glad there were at least some repercussions, but they definitely should have been less lenient with her sentencing. It sucks to see how far some people will go for a little bit of attention and money, because I can almost guarantee she didn't do this to bring her family back together.

I honestly do not doubt that people defended her based on finding her conventionally attractive

This makes me so angry because I went through cancer at 23 and now 3 years later, I am STILL struggling with the side effects and paying all the bills including my own and people like her are going to make people like me who actually need the money not do any fundraisers. Or if they do, I'm sure a lot of people are going to shy away from donating anymore to help.

Can we take a minute to appreciate the fact that Charlie always gives credit to the creators, and owners of all the sources, clips, and images he uses in his videos? Doing this is so simple, yet equally respectful.

As someone who’s mother went through over a year of chemo for breast cancer, I am disgusted by this. The fact she is not doing prison time is appalling.

Charlie is both the most dramatic storyteller on KZfaq and the most nonchalant one. Wow damn thanks for the likes lol

The reason why the government is so light on the punishment for this type of stuff is because the government doesn’t see stuff that happens online as that serious. They don’t see it as “real” crimes because it’s “just on the internet.” So “what harm could it possibly do?”

I'll tell you right now, this chick will do something horrible again and wind up in jail. There's no chance that someone like this will go on probation for a lengthy time and not do something else.

I can’t believe that she would fake cancer. To reunite her family?! She has everything she could’ve wanted, yet she fakes cancer!? I’m glad some people covered that she had faked it, if they didn’t, she would’ve kept on scamming people and gotten away with it.

I went to high school with her. She was a straight A student, a phenomenal person and was a great friend. All that going for her allowed her to get away with this disgusting lie and NONE of saw it coming. My mom, a medical professional, saw pictures and thought it was suspicious but never said anything because who would lie about such a terrible illness right?

Who wants to bet that her attorney drudged up that story about "getting her family back together" and told her to sell that BS in court as her only "excuse"

That thumbnail fills me with a sense of dread that no other real human being has made me feel since my conception as a human being There’s something sun uncanny about the way her face looks It almost looks like a mask that she’s ready to pull off effortlessly

Holy shit this girl goes to my college and I’m actually in an online employment law class with her currently. Was also in an in person class with her before she started to fake cancer. She’s under probation now, but still enrolled in online class just fine. Also she definitely did this shit for attention. She’s one of those people that feels like the world revolves around only her. Shits crazy.

My mom passed from cancer and my brother passed from leukemia. I genuinely don’t know how someone can be so evil and casual when there are real people out there struggling. I wish her the worst truly

Sickening sickening what does this tell you about our wonderful judicial system

I love starting my morning with a good cup o’ joe and a story from Charlie about a horrendous person

It’s rare for a content creator to get arrested for committing crimes nowadays, I’m glad she was caught

Seeing RWJ being featured on Charlie's channel is the internet having come full circle. What a beautiful moment

Thanks for your enthusiasm and clarity. I pride myself on knowing a lot of quirky sayings and regional idiomatic expressions, but had never heard “what a load of dirty barnacles” until today. I subscribe and abide.

I like how in her apology in court she's pretends yo cry with no tears at all!!!!! So sick of woman in court knowing all they have to do is shed a few tears and they get away with half of what a man gets.

My spouse survived two different unrelated cancers in 5 years. It's dreadful going through the process, and honestly the last thing we thought about was getting public sympathy. We just focused on treatment plans and making sure we did everything to aid in the recovery process. It's really disheartening to learn about people doing this stuff, and lying about it. It's hard enough to go through without having to deal with people not believing us because of people like her.

If not for impersonating a cancer patient, she should at least be in jail for financial fraud.

Bro, seeing RayWilliamJohnson was like seeing a dead relative again wtf.

i have gotten hodgkins lymphoma at the age of 15, and I went through 6 months of chemo therapy, and tbh many of my friends wanted to start a go fund me but I didn't even care about it, all I wanted was just to get out of the hospital, get that stupid picc line out of my arm, and finally being able to do things I wasn't able to do, do things that I was thinking to do even before I had it. it sucks to hear that people can easily get things better by just lying. it makes me so mad

As a 2 time cancer survivor (all before the age of 28)... this shit pisses me off. Going through it fucking sucks. There were tons of complications for me going through it as well. I could never wish on anyone. Then if your lucky to survive, you're stuck with the long term effects (in my case heart damage) and a huge medical bill. I struggled through paying those bills, hell I still am. But is a small price to pay to still be here. These people faking illness, conditions, etc definitely deserve a way harsher punishment when they use these false narratives to solicit money or free things. The slap on the wrist just means they will keep doing it.

She should get a year of community service helping out patients with cancer. Getting their groceries, cleaning, you know - so she can be around people who have the life altering disease she pretended to have.

Imagine waking up one day and being like "ima tell evryone I have cancer" like wtf is going thru peoples heads

Congrats to her for making the family farther apart, Edit: I feel like they protect people like this bc scamming and deception is so common in court and law enforcement, it starts pointing fingers at other offenders.

As someone who had a brother who passed away from cancer and had him document his journey on tiktok, this makes me so angry. She is literally making a mockery of people like my brother. I miss him so much and people like her just use fake illness to garner support. They should lock her up and throw away the key.

I had a patient who came into our hospital with "severe nausea" (had not seen her throw up at all) but the doctors gave her a tube feed anyway. (Her history shows that she's in and out of the hospital for the same thing). She was a "paraplegic" but was able to lift her legs up and stand up, but for some reason they gave her a diagnosis of paraplegia. Fast forward to a week into her hospital admission, another nurse found over a hundred vials of hydromorphone, valium, and compazine, etc all in a giant bag. We found out she was also a tiktok "star" and was asking all the nurses to follow her. A co-worker of mine looked into her account and saw that she was trying to get sympathy/attention for all of her "illnesses". Good news is that the doctors basically kicked her out, not sure if she got in trouble by the law for those drugs found on her. But everyone was positive that they did not leave drugs in her room so it was likely she was getting her friends to smuggle it in.

In Australia we had an evil woman who sold a lot of books claiming that diet had rid her of cancer. She made a shitload of money from her book and was eventually found out. She has been publicly ostracised but still has not reimbursed the money owing, yet she drives a BMW, etc. These are truly despicable people.

This is so sick. I’ve lost people to cancer and one of my good friends had leukemia when we were in middle school. (He’s been in remission for over a decade, but still) faking cancer for any reason is disgusting

My childhood best friend, Hannah, died of cancer at age 20. She was a vibrant, beautiful, funny and caring person. And her loss is felt by everyone who knew her. This is an absolutely deplorable thing to do. Shame on her for faking something so serious and devastating.

As a disabled person it makes me so angry when people use conditions like this. Not only are they taking away from people who actually have the disability, disorder, disease etc, but this also makes it harder for people like us to actually get help because people might not believe us unless we look like we’re struggling visibly or we provide documentation. She should be in jail. How the fuck did she get out of this?

it's sad to see people doing this because my grandparents died of cancer and to see people fake having it hurts especially when their doing it for clout

They took it lightly because that starts to get close to what judges and other officials do all the time. They want they're get out jail free card if they need someday. We need to be looking very closely at these "officials".

Man, it’s rare to be in on cringe news after only 45 seconds of it being posted. What a treat.

No restitution?! The worst part is that people who would have gladly donated to a Go Fund Me for anyone in true need are now going to pass thinking it's probably just another scam. Really despicable crime. She got off way too easy!

‘Good grades in college’ reminds me of ‘I’m a good girl, I play soccer’ from that one girl who stole someone’s credit card information at the drive thru

4:22 This MF just said "what a load of dirty barnacles" 🤣🤣🤣 subbed

Most surprising part of this story is that Ray William Johnson is still making content.

Glad to hear that you can commit crimes and get away with it if you had high grades in school! Im sure if she scammed 39k from the state or feds she wouldnt be getting off because of "high grades."

Remarkable how someone like herself can pull this crap and punishment so small yet I was fired for going to a cancer screening at the V.A.

Both my parents died to cancer (my dad when I was 3, and my mom when I was 9), and seeing this absolute disgraceful human-being faking such a horrible disease for clout and money actually triggered something in my brain. I have never been so angry at a TikToker in my life.

This is really sad when you think about how the money that went towards her could have gone towards people who actually had cancer who potentially died and could be alive now. It feels like she robbed them of that opportunity as well as 40K

There was a big case a couple of years ago here in Australia where some chick faked having cancer and then sold her lifestyle shit, as if eating a good diet or something "cured" her of cancer without chemo or radio therapy. She sold this lie to actual cancer patients and eventually got found out. It was sickening.

Down here in Chile, South America, we had a congressman who ran and got ELECTED to write a NEW constitution for the country, by faking cancer and telling a sob story about it. He was halfway done with his constitution writing job when he got busted and my man only faced a "You're Fired" for it.

This was EXTREMELY local to me and I’m so glad it’s getting coverage.

What shocks me is how somebody could be so morally broken to the point to where you fake having the worst disease in the world, cancer.

This girl is a local where I live. We were all shocked when we found out. I have a friend who ACTUALLY HAD cancer, and Madison would DM her pretty consistently asking her for advice about how to handle cancer. She is so disgusting.

She should be sentenced to being a janitor in a cancer ward, that way she won’t have to interact and become a burden on the patient’s but will still see what she was taking advantage of.

I am sure she won't do this again... until she is caught...

An hour in prison for each dollar she scammed sounds pretty reasonable

4:27 "but she's so smart and pretty your honor! She can't go to prison!"

As a person who knows someone with cancer that lady's behavior is disgusting.

Ray also mentioned she stoled photos of actual cancer patients and presened as her own. Damn that just messed up as f.

Normally I would say that going a bit lighter on the punishment is a good thing, as long as she returns the money, then a slap on the wrist is enough, but the issue in this case is that she can't truly undo the effects of her crime, by faking cancer for donations she gives people reason to doubt any similar fund raisers. Her biggest crime is not against those she stole from, but against those she impersonated.

The Ray William Johnson cameo means a lot more when you realize that he helped kickstart Charlie's popularity, after featuring him in a video way back in the day.

Sentenced to 100 hours of community service while I worked double shifts every single day last year and barely making ends meet. What if she got away with the 40K by committing this heinous crime. Absolutely disgusting criminal that deserves to be sentenced to prison.

I thought he said "Eldritch Police Department". I was like "damn they gettin c'thulu involved this is pretty serious".

Bro, faking cancer to "get the family back together" is literally some Family Sitcom level planning. Like I can just imagine Louis Griffin from Family Guy doing this shit.

For having good notes she should have been given a pretty harsh punishment. Being supposedly smart and doing something this evil.

The worst part is her lying in her statement to the court! Learned nothing.

Ray coming in clutch as the saviour

The fact she is not the only one trying this makes this more disgusting. She's showing she couldnt care less about hurting people She's helping more people do it with every time she's seen online too.

The defense that her good grades and a good job will prevent her from reoffending has to be _the absolue dumbest_ argument. Did she not have those grades and that job while she was scheming and scamming in the first place? If she did, then if it didn't stop her from offending, it won't stop her from reoffending. If she didn't, then that means she chose to offend instead of putting in the effort in the first place. Neither option paints her in a good light.

I question Ms. Russo's claim that her faking cancer was an attempt to salvage her family...it was reported that after the "diagnosis" was made public, her mother repeatedly offered to make her dinner, accompany her to treatments or even just stay with her daughter, but all of those attempts were rebuffed.

Sounds like a perfect match for boogie

Oh man we've gone full circle. It all started for Charlie when RWJ showed his QWOP video on =3. Now, 10 years later, the role is reversed and Charlie is showing RWJ's video.

So many courts and DAs in the last few years have been trying so hard not to convict people, or even Charge them. It's incredibly frustrating.

So many people with illnesses or conditions go to social media both to interact with those in similar situations, and to educate others. It really sucks that people like this (who lie) make it that much morr difficult to take it seriously. You cant even say "im autistic" or "i have IBS" without someone pointing out "flaws" or accusing them of faking cause they might not be sharing everything.

I live near this and I remember the day she got arrested and many ppl I know recognized her from places

didn't do it for fame or money? yet she milked it for money and clout. she deserves real prison time.

3:27 There’s NO Goatman??? My entire life has been a lie…

I literally just discovered last night that an old friend has a very serious case of cancer and I can't begin to imagine what she and her family must be going through; this liar should be ashamed of her despicable behaviour.

inabber posted like an hour long video about this, i still can't comprehend what makes someone do this

Both my parents have dealt with cancer. My dad died from it recently. I’m 15 and I’ve known too many people who have suffered from it. It’s absolutely deplorable that some people have the gall to fake such a serious condition. Truly disgusting.

When you lie about having cancer, you put yourself into the rare position of getting zero sympathy down the road should you legitimately get cancer. If it happens, you're gonna hear a lot of "you got what you wished for. Don't complain now." Also, her community service should be cleaning the bedpans of people with actual cancer so she truly understands what she was exploiting.

Another common scam I’ve been setting a lot lately is using other people images and videos of sick animals in attempt to get money. Most of the time you can tell they’re just reusing other peoples videos because in one video it will say the dogs name is “Lilly” and then you might come across that video again but this time it’s posted by someone else and all of a sudden the dogs name is “fluffy” or something. No where near as disgusting as pretending to have a life threatening illness, but it’s still disgusting to take a picture of some poor persons dog and try and use that for either clout or money.

I mean, how can you not look into her eyes and see the void behind it. She has the eyes of someone unable to empathize with others