Why A GoFundMe For Lady Gaga's Dog Walker Has The Internet Seeing Red

Lady Gaga has carefully built a rep for being inclusive and caring — but some fans are wondering if she's doing wrong by a famously loyal staff member. 

Back in February, Gaga's dog walker, Ryan Fischer, was shot and badly wounded by a gang of assailants who dognapped two of the pups. One attacker shot and wounded Ryan at close range as he clung to the third dog (per KABC). Per the outlet, a distraught Gaga offered a $500,000 reward for their safe return and called Fischer "forever a hero." Two days later, a woman turned the dogs in to the police, claiming to have found them. In fact, she was part of a group of five criminals who were arrested for robbery, attempted murder, and related crimes (via NPR).

The dogs came through the ordeal unhurt, but Fischer was a different story. Emotionally traumatized and suffering from "long bouts of depression and doubt and self-pity," he decided to take a cross-country journey as a healing process "while seeking out communities that support the process of growing through trauma," as he wrote in an Instagram post. But his travels were cut short when his 1991 Ford Falcon broke down. Low on funds and with nowhere to live, Fischer set up a GoFundMe page for donations toward a new van and travel expenses. 

As of this writing, Fischer's GoFundMe page had raised an impressive $28,000 of the $40,000 he's seeking. But these generous folks are sharing their opinions along with their money.