Over the weekend, Magic: The Gathering YouTuber Tolarian Community College raised over half a million dollars for Trans Lifeline, a peer-led crisis hotline for transgender people.
The channel’s namesake is a parody of “The Tolerian Acadamy” in Magic: The Gathering, a major university location within the game’s lore. It has become YouTube’s largest Magic channel, the 1st of its kind to reach the one million subscriber threshold.
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The channel’s creator, former English instructor Brian Lewis, has been using his platform as YouTube’s most prominent Magic channel to run annual fundraisers for Trans Lifeline since 2020. In an email sent to Them this week, Lewis states that the first fundraiser in 2020 ended with him raising over $121,000.
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After the fundraiser ended on Saturday, February 15th, Lewis posted to Bluesky that this year’s drive had raised over $564,000 for Trans Lifeline, making it his most successful one to date. He continues by expressing gratitude towards fellow Magic YouTuber Olivia Gobert-Hicks and thanking everyone else who contributed and donated.
We got there! Together, we raised over $564,000 for @translifeline.bsky.social.