{"id":47882,"date":"2025-01-28T17:21:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/drlupo-gets-emotional-after-raising-over-1-million-for-st-judes-childrens-charity-dexerto\/"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:21:56","slug":"drlupo-gets-emotional-after-raising-over-1-million-for-st-judes-childrens-charity-dexerto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/2025\/01\/28\/drlupo-gets-emotional-after-raising-over-1-million-for-st-judes-childrens-charity-dexerto\/","title":{"rendered":"DrLupo gets emotional after raising over $1 million for St. Jude\u2019s children\u2019s charity &#8211; Dexerto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DrLupo gets emotional after raising over $1 million for St. Jude\u2019s children\u2019s charity DrLupo, Twitter \/St. Jude&#8217;sBen \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo shared an emotional moment with his wife after announcing that he\u2019d finally reached $1 million dollars in donations for St. Jude\u2019s Children\u2019s Research Hospital during 2018. The popular steamer announced the news during a 24-hour charity livestream on December 23, before he was unceremoniously killed by a player called FunkOps on Fortnite. \u201cI don\u2019t even care, FunkOps you enjoy that dude\u201d he said, before his wife came rushing into the room to give him a hug. \u201cThat\u2019s a million dollars in one year. I love you.\u201d The clip below, which was saved by MrsDrLupo, allowed the couple to capture and share their emotional reaction after they had reached their donation goal. The pair have since tweeted about the accomplishment, paying homage to everybody who go involved to help them on their journey. \u201cThank you for being part of something bigger than yourself. Love like this makes the world go round.\u201d Lupo tweeted. \u201cThis is why I stream\u201d. Thank you for being part of something bigger than yourself. Love like this makes the world go round. #BuildAgainstCancer This is why I stream. :purple_heart::heart:\ufe0f \u2014 DrLupo (@DrLupo) December 23, 2018 Lupo and his fans helped raise $356,000 at Florida\u2019s GuardianCon event during back in the summer of 2018, which at the time took him up to $659,000 in donations. On December 21, the streamer had raised $730,000 and now \u2013 since the livestream has ended on December 23 \u2013 that total has eclipsed the $1 million mark. Both Ben Lupo and his wife have been congratulated by many people from the gaming community, fans and streamers alike, with names such as Jack \u201cCouRage\u201d Dunlop, Dennis \u201cCloak\u201d Lepore taking a minute of their time to show their appreciation. Speechless. What an achievement. Thank you for making a positive impact on so many lives. Love ya, dude. \u2014 Jack &#8220;&#8221;CouRage&#8221;&#8221; Dunlop (@CouRageJD) December 23, 2018 Insane, thank you for everything you&#8217;ve done > \u2014 Creator code:fazecloak (@cloakzy) December 23, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DrLupo gets emotional after raising over $1 million for St. Jude\u2019s children\u2019s charity DrLupo, Twitter \/St. Jude&#8217;sBen \u2018DrLupo\u2019 Lupo shared an emotional moment with his wife after announcing that he\u2019d finally reached $1 million dollars in donations for St. Jude\u2019s Children\u2019s Research Hospital during 2018. The popular steamer announced the news during a 24-hour charity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}