For years, Latasha Kebe — known to her more than 1.3 million YouTube subscribers as Tasha K — built a career turning other people’s private lives into public content, monetizing their pain, and collecting ad revenue from the attention that controversy generates.
It worked. The audience grew. The money followed.
Then in 2022, a federal jury found Kebe liable on three claims tied to false statements about Cardi B: defamation, invasion of privacy, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. The award totaled roughly $3.9 million. Her appeal failed. Kebe filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2023, and a structured repayment plan requiring about $1.2 million over five years was approved in March 2025.
And now, days before her 44th birthday, Tasha K has turned to the internet for help. Specifically, she is asking strangers to give her $3.5 million.
PSA WINOS 🚨 My Birthday Wish🙏🏿
Thank you to the 15,000 Winos that streamed live with me across every platform tonight! My birthday week is just getting started, and so many of y’all asked where to send gifts.
Let me be clear, the only gift I want is to get out of bankruptcy…
— Tasha K (@UNWINEWITHTASHA) March 7, 2026
The mechanism she chose: GoFundMe. The same internet attention that made her. Being asked, now, to absorb the financial consequences of what that attention cost someone else.
What $3.5 Million Looks Like
Tasha K says she is making court-ordered payments of $20,000 per month from her own income. That is $240,000 per year. Using the $3.5 million balance cited in her fundraiser, she would finish paying Cardi B in late 2040 at that rate alone.
On the first day of the campaign, Tasha K said she had raised nearly $10,000 across GoFundMe, Cash App, and Venmo. The GoFundMe page alone showed approximately $8,400 as of Tuesday, March 10. Against a $3.5 million goal, that is less than 0.3 percent. The number does not change the shape of the debt.
Tasha K acknowledged the gap without flinching. “I don’t have $3.5 million sitting in cash, but with the help of my community we can accelerate paying this off so I can finally move forward and focus on creating, reporting, and entertaining without constant interruption,” she wrote in the campaign description.
The words “creating, reporting, and entertaining” are doing a lot of work in that sentence.
The Same Engine, Reversed
The business model that generated this judgment was straightforward: find information about a celebrity, publish it on YouTube, and collect ad revenue from the outrage the content generates.
A federal jury found that in Cardi B’s case, the statements at issue were defamatory and invasive — including false claims about sexually transmitted diseases, drug use, and prostitution.
Now she is running a fundraising campaign using the identical engine. Controversial content about a celebrity — herself this time — was published to social media, generating attention and a parasocial community response that she is asking to translate into dollars.
She is also monetizing the campaign itself. A Kickstarter launching today, on her 44th birthday, will offer supporters branded wine glasses, shirts, and other supporter perks. In her latest posts, she has also floated mentorship classes as part of the push. The woman who built a career selling access to other people’s drama is now selling products and access branded with her own.
What Cardi B’s Lawyers Are Doing Right Now
While Tasha K’s fundraiser asks supporters to help her “close this chapter,” the chapter is being reopened in a Florida bankruptcy court.
Cardi B’s legal team has asked the court to require Kebe to provide additional financial records — including income from YouTube and other social media accounts — to test whether prior disclosures were complete and whether repayment terms are being followed. The March 2025 settlement also bars Kebe from making “derogatory, disparaging, or defamatory” statements about Cardi B or her family.
The legal geometry here is striking. She is publicly soliciting donations from strangers while a federal court simultaneously demands a fuller accounting of every dollar flowing through her finances. Those two things are happening in parallel, in real time, and anyone considering donating is doing so while that examination is ongoing.
Cardi B testified during the original trial that she felt “extremely suicidal” and “defeated and depressed.”
The $3.9 million award was not framed solely as economic loss. It included punitive damages — an amount specifically designed to punish conduct and deter its repetition.
What the Comment Section Already Knows
The reaction to Tasha K’s campaign has split exactly as expected. Supporters frame it as a matter of loyalty to a creator they believe in. Critics frame it as asking the public to subsidize a court’s finding of wrongdoing. A third camp simply points at the numbers and says nothing.
The case has become one of the most closely watched defamation fights involving online celebrity commentary — in part because it showed that the financial consequences of viral falsehoods can outlast the videos, the appeal, and even a bankruptcy filing.
The campaign is also unfolding alongside a birthday-week business push: Tasha K’s D.C. birthday events were being promoted as sold out, even as she urged supporters to donate and buy into the next layer of perks.
The question the campaign leaves open — and that $8,400 on the GoFundMe page alone did not answer — is whether the community that watched her build a platform on other people’s business is the same community that will pay for what that business ultimately cost.
Or whether they were always just the audience.