Evilchickennuggets

How can we be sure that these questions are actually going to him, and you're not just making up these responses? Your proof doesn't actually show us anything. This whole thing feels really shady.

Big doubt

Bunch of you are acting like the people making the AMAs have to do it. They don't have to, but if they want to they do need to verify that they are at the protests. It'd be pretty easy for me, as a non-Chinese/non-HK Canadian, to make a new account and act like I'm a part of the protests, or act like I'm a Hong Konger who actually supports what the PRC is doing. Redditors love to pretend to be above propaganda but when mods take steps towards requiring some level of verification, even though they've been doing that for many years now anyway, you guys get upset.

Might not know that they shouldn't do what? Make an AMA on Reddit? No one is forcing them to do an AMA. They're doing it because they want to.

As someone who is not from Hong Kong and has no ties whatsoever to China or Hong Kong, I rely on the news and testimonials from Hong Kongers to get an understanding of what is going on. Living in Toronto, I know a lot of Chinese/Hong Kongers, and they've done a lot to help me understand what is happening from both sides, but they are not at the protests and what they know, they know through family and friends back home. The opportunity to hear from people who are actually at the protests is very valuable but in order for us to have confidence in those testimonies, we need to be absolutely sure that they are actually there, and not somewhere else.

Stop asking for anything less than basic verification. This is how propaganda spreads.

You may have a relationship with Reggie, or you may not. What's a picture going to do? Convince us that you know him? I could go up to a homeless person and offer them some money if they would take a picture with me, too. Not saying you'd do that, but it's not exactly difficult to take a picture.

Is he actually aware that you're selling/donation-baiting his paintings up on a website? How much of the money is going to him, if any? How do we know you didn't just buy his paintings for cheap so you could re-sell them for more while still using his name and his story to sucker people?

I don't know how the mods vet people, but I hope they did a thorough job here. This reeks of exploitation.