It's not uncommon to see Internet personalities use their platforms on social media to raise money for various charities. For instance, in March 2021 Jirard Khalil hosted a multi-day Twitch livestream event called Preserved Play, which raised $114,000 for the Video Game History Foundation (VGHF). The VGHF is a non-profit that operates a games preservation library and assists in archiving media, which is a subject close to Khalil's ten-year-old YouTube show The Completionist. This isn't the only event he runs, but Khalil said becoming a G4 host will open up more opportunities for himself and his colleagues.

Khalil and fellow YouTube alum Gina Darling were announced to be joining G4's revival last month, and both have already taken part in various events as members of the network. One such event was G4 Summer Meltdown on June 27, in which dozens of Internet personalities got together and streamed their hijinks to raise money for the Pablove Foundation; a non-profit benefiting pediatric cancer research. Game Rant spoke to Khalil and Darling about their individual charitable ambitions, and how working with G4 can help.

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On top of Preserved Play, which debuted this year, Khalil and his company That One Video Gamer (TOVG) have also run an event called IndieLand since 2018 that raises money for dementia research in honor of his late mother Kaaren. However, despite currently having around 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube and a storied history of working with companies like Nintendo, Khalil said it's a struggle running events because a lot of companies he wants to work with either don't respond or say TOVG isn't "big enough." Darling has similar concerns with setting up charity streams herself.

Being a part of G4 gives creators access to one another — in fact, Darling expressed her interest in joining the upcoming IndieLand event this September, and Khalil said he's "definitely going to bug" his fellow G4 hosts to add to its guest list. More importantly, G4 provides them access to help setting things up behind the scenes and a name people recognize from its initial televised run between 2002 and 2014. Khalil said having G4's support has changed a lot of conversations, and Darling is also optimistic about what can be done with this partnership.

"I'm proud to be a part of G4 because I know it will open many more doors for us as creators to be able to help more people. I feel like when people hear G4 wants to be a part of something, it's an automatic yes."

Khalil said he isn't aware of any big events currently being planned by G4 in the vein of IndieLand, though G4 reportedly took a "huge" interest in helping with events its hosts put on during Pride Month. "I can't begin to tell you how wonderful it is to have that confidence," he said. "To have a team who's like, 'yes, and give us the other side of the table to carry with you,' that means so much."

Even if the duo were not able to speak to big events in the works, both would love to use the platform provided by G4 to raise money for a number of causes. As a Lebanese American and the youngest of five children born to an immigrant father who "came to the States with nothing, but said he was coming to become an American and take over the world," Khalil wants to do more tragedy relief drives. He points to the explosion in the Port of Beirut on August 4, 2020, saying he felt helpless to assist his family even while raising some money. "People are suffering all over the world, and I'm just a fat guy with a beard. If I can do that, we can do anything."

Darling similarly wants to be part of more efforts to help the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, saying it has been "really hard" for them over the last few months due to a surge of violence and hate crimes in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. She said she has been working with some people behind the scenes already, aiming to do things as simple as spreading awareness for AAPI issues, or, "Raising money to help walk our elderly as they're going grocery shopping."

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However, Darling said one of her biggest goals is to provide gaming consoles and PCs to children's hospitals across the world. She has been involved with similar endeavors before, such as working with the non-profit Heart and Armor Foundation to provide PlayStation 5 consoles to military veteran families as part of an advertising campaign for the Amazon Prime Video movie Tom Clancy's Without Remorse. Darling "grew up in a hard family" and wants to spread the same "joy of video games" that once helped her imagine herself being whoever she wanted.

"If it did that for me, I want to do that for children who are going through hardships we can never imagine. If I can provide even five minutes of relief and joy, I want to be able to do that."

Khalil and Darling speak to the family growing around G4's revival, including original hosts like Adam Sessler and Kevin Pereira as well as newcomers like Alex "Goldenboy" Mendez and WWE Superstar Xavier Woods. Because G4 is known for its outlandish challenges as much as its elevated focus on video game culture, Khalil said the more the revival's cast grows the more people can expect events putting 110 percent into "crazy stuff" to raise money.

Darling describes herself as "full chaos," wanting to test the limits of G4's challenges and skits. She said she once waxed her nose hair for charity, and feels the limit of what she'll do is "very blurry here." Meanwhile, Khalil points to a previous experience in which actress Jamie Lee Curtis waxed all the hair off his arm, but not before lovingly looking in his eyes and apologizing. "It was incredible, a great experience to say the least. Raised a lot of money for charity, that's how it works."

G4 is supportive of each creator's individual passions, according to Darling, who said the network isn't forcing its host to participate in certain events and that, "They want us to do what makes us happy too." Whether that be doing something unconventional as a livestream segment or raising money to support communities worldwide, Darling said G4 wants to understand and benefit its talent. "They don't know it, but I live here now," she said of the office, to which Khalil added, "There's a closet with Gina's name on it that used to be where the broom was."

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