《小捣蛋》童星Bug Hall第六个孩子将出生：GoFundMe众筹超目标数倍引争议 本人回应质疑
41岁的前童星Brandon “Bug” Hall曾在1994年电影《小捣蛋》（The Little Rascals）中饰演Alfalfa。11月5日，他在众筹平台GoFundMe发起一个名为「帮Hall-Barnett一家在第六个孩子出生前安顿好」（Helping the Hall-Barnetts Finish Before Baby Six）的众筹，目标2,000美元。据TMZ与The Blast报道，众筹到11月7日已募得超过9,000美元、收到100多笔捐款，数倍于原定目标。
Hall与妻子Jill和五个孩子目前住在阿肯色州乡间新购土地上的一辆露营车里，第六个孩子不到一个月后就要出生。他在众筹页上写道，一家人已经搬到新土地上，但还差几样材料才能把住处收拾妥当，又遇上一笔没想到的电线接入服务费，电话费与露营车用的丙烷也拖欠着，希望在两周内把这些事办完。他写道：「我们都很高兴来到这里，甚至享受这种简朴生活，但第六个孩子不到一个月就要出生了，我真的需要帮忙把最后几件事在孩子出生前办妥。」他还写道：「我不比任何人更值得帮助，但我请求大家行善，能帮多少帮多少。」
消息在社交平台传开后引来不少质疑。有网友发帖质问，既然是自己选择生第六个孩子、又主动离开演艺行业，为什么要由公众来出钱；也有人指出，他募到的钱已经是目标的数倍，而其他有医疗开支等更迫切需求的人还在等帮助。这些质疑帖在X上被大量转发。
Hall本人逐条回应了批评。对让他去找一份「正经工作」的人，他回道：「不。我正忙着建农场、养活我的家人和社区。」他对另一位批评者说，自己经常有工作，是为了给家人更好的生活才放弃了「自己的梦想」。他表示，自己的近期计划是先在两周内把土地上的活干完，再在妻子生产前去找工作做。
Hall在2020年离开好莱坞，此后与家人搬到阿肯色州Mountain View附近约80英亩的土地上过自给自足的生活。他此前曾表示，演艺工作与自己的信仰难以相容，并称自己卖掉和捐出了大部分财物。今年早些时候，他曾在俄亥俄州因一张2024年的交通罚单未按时出庭而被捕，TMZ当时报道了这一消息。
'Little Rascals' Star Bug Hall's GoFundMe Ahead of Sixth Baby Passes Its Goal Several Times Over — and Draws Backlash He Answers Himself
Brandon “Bug” Hall, 41, played Alfalfa in the 1994 film The Little Rascals. On November 5 he launched a GoFundMe campaign titled “Helping the Hall-Barnetts Finish Before Baby Six,” with a goal of $2,000. According to TMZ and The Blast, by November 7 the campaign had raised more than $9,000 from over 100 donations, several times its original target.
Hall, his wife Jill and their five children are currently living in a camper on newly purchased rural land in Arkansas, and their sixth child is due in less than a month. On the campaign page, Hall wrote that the family had made it onto the new land but was a few materials short of having things working right, had run into an unexpected electric hookup service fee, and was behind on phone bills and propane for the camper, hoping to get everything finalized within two weeks. “We're all overjoyed to be where we are, and we're even enjoying roughing it, but baby six is less than a month away, and I really need some help getting the last few things buttoned up beforehand,” he wrote. He added: “I'm no more deserving than anyone else, but I ask in your charity that you help where you can.”
Word of the fundraiser drew pushback on social media. One widely shared post on X asked why the public should pay when having a sixth child and leaving acting were Hall's own choices; others noted that he had already raised several times his goal while people with medical bills and other urgent needs were still waiting for help.
Hall answered the critics himself. To those telling him to get a “real job,” he replied: “Nah. I'm busy building a farm and feeding my family and community.” He told another critic that he has jobs frequently and that he gave up “my dreams” to pursue a better life for his family. He said his immediate plan was to finish the remaining work on the property within two weeks, then take on employment before his wife gives birth.
Hall left Hollywood in 2020 and later moved his family to an approximately 80-acre property near Mountain View, Arkansas, to live off the grid. He has previously said his acting career was difficult to reconcile with his faith and that he gave away most of his possessions and savings. Earlier this year, he was arrested in Ohio for failing to appear in court over a 2024 traffic citation, as TMZ reported at the time.
来源：Bug Hall的GoFundMe众筹页
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图片来源：图：前童星Brandon “Bug” Hall本人资料图（2021年其YouTube视频截图，Bug Hall摄，CC BY 3.0，经Wikimedia Commons），非本次众筹活动图。/ Former child actor Brandon “Bug” Hall in a still from his own 2021 YouTube video. (Photo: Bug Hall, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; file photo, not from the fundraiser.)
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