Dev Hynes bashed by the Guardian for apartment fire fundraiser

Some people are just the worst, As we previously wrote, Dev Hynes (better known by his stage name of Blood Orange) lost all of his worldly possessions and his dog in a terrible apartment fire. The mother of Hynes' girlfriend started a crowdfunding campaign to help the singer get back on his feet. Of course, this left the perfect opening for Guardian contributor Holly Baxter to decry rich people abusing crowdfunding for selfish reasons.

In a post that was originally titled "Dev Hynes's puppy sob story has left me burnt out" (get it? Because everything he owned and his pet were literally burnt...F--k), Baxter lumps Hynes' close friends starting a campaign to help him through unimaginably difficult times with greedy folks who want to crowdfund a lavish wedding and the Mamet sisters failed bid for a $32K music video.

Never mind that Hynes had nothing to do with the campaign. Never mind that chipping in to help a friend (or stranger) in need during trying times was just something people used to do. Somehow, in Baxter's mind, Mr. Blood Orange is epitome of greedy Kickstarters.

Yeah, he sure looks awful greedy with his literally zero possessions and his dead pet.

Hynes posted the article to his Facebook saying "This is disgusting. I'm so hurt. I want to go on the record and say i will never talk to the guardian ever again, i want nothing i ever make to be on their website, or in their magazine. Please pull the interview i did recently. I don't want it to come out."

Now, it should be noted that Baxter wrote the piece before Hynes' posted that the whole idea made him "uncomfortable" and, subsequently, shut the campaign down while announcing that he would donate the proceeds to charity.

But the fact that she would blast Hynes at a time like this and clearly make no attempt to contact him (I'm sure he would have mentioned his intentions if she had) is enough to sour anyone on Baxter's piece and the whole "Comment Is Free" column.

Paradoxically, comments have been disabled on the piece (now titled "Why celebrity crowdfunding has little appeal.")