They don’t want gratitude. They just want to give what they can and not be accosted by the asker.

And his assessment is totally right. Those that need help are happy to recieve anything. Those that are trying to scam you get angry and sometimes violent. I’m sure there’s a subsection dealing with some mental illness that both really need help and react poorly, but as a general trend this is true.

Overall people are missing the point of the meme. This is about elected officials offering non-solutions and pretending they solved something. Not the actions of a literal individual