Disney Channel alum Skai Jackson was mercilessly mocked online this week for demanding that fans send her $5 in order to enter a raffle.
The lucky winner of the sweepstakes, who will be announced on Monday or Tuesday, will evidently be awarded a MacBook.
Skai, 21, who shot to fame on the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie, openly confessed on TikTok: ‘Me personally, I do not need money.’
She clarified that the $5 payments to enter the raffle will go ‘towards the prize, and then like I said, if there’s anything left over, I’m doing a second giveaway soon.’
However she still found herself receiving a torrent of ridicule on Twitter, where one waggish user vamped: ‘the disney money has ran out.’
Whoops: Disney Channel alum Skai Jackson was mercilessly mocked online this week for demanding that fans send her $5 in order to enter a raffle where the winner gets a MacBook
Child actress: Skai, 21, who shot to fame on the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie (pictured), openly confessed on TikTok: ‘Me personally, I do not need money’
Skai has been acting in a variety of Disney projects since 2011, including not only Jessie but its spin-off series Bunk’d.
She has also lent her voice to short films and specials for Marvel Rising, an animated franchise of Marvel content that appears on Disney+.
Two years ago she appeared on the Halloween special Muppets Haunted Mansion, based on the world-famous Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland.
In her TikTok update about the raffle, Skai defended her latest sweepstakes, insisting: ‘It is not that serious for a damn $5. It is called a raffle.’
The Sheroes actress went on: ‘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 a ticket might – but it’s a physical ticket.’
She added: ‘You might get five, you put in $5, $2, whatever, and you get a prize. Like, people do raffles all the time.’
As more questions poured in, she declared: ‘Yes, the money goes towards the prize, and then like I said, if there’s anything left over, I’m doing a second giveaway soon.’
Skai shared: ‘So that’s what it’s going towards. I do not need money. Me personally, I do not need money,’ she said with a bit of a chuckle.
‘I am very fine in my life’: Skai, 21, who shot to fame on the Disney Channel sitcom Jessie, openly confessed on TikTok: ‘Me personally, I do not need money’
Nowadays: Skai, who has acted in a variety of Disney products, is pictured last month attending the BET Award Media House at Quixote Studios West Hollywood
Goofing around: However she still found herself receiving a torrent of ridicule on Twitter, where one waggish user vamped: ‘the disney money has ran out’
‘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,’ she maintained.
Twitter users duly began making fun of her, with one quipping: ‘skai Jackson be the main ones telling ppl “I’m booked & busy” but is begging ppl to do $5 raffles to win a “MacBook”? guess that Disney check finally ran out.’
‘Skai Jackson is on TikTok live telling children to send her $5 to her cashapp for a chance to win a MacBook,’ wrote another. ‘She claims she doesn’t need the money, so then why is she charging for entry? This not weird to yall?’
The sentiment was shared by still another social media commentator who opined: ‘she should do the raffle for free if she claims she doesn’t need the money.’
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