He needs people to send him more money because of his “production values”?
“Production values” means Tibor’s salary. The 540 Patron goal was to ostensibly look into hiring someone full time which he did. But at 140 patrons below this benchmark and likely falling beneath the next benchmark of 380 in the near future, whatever little he’s paying him has to be coming to a point of contention. Now Lloyd’s likely shaming him by relating how much he lost, how he considers him his best friend when all others have deserted him, and how if he left his children might not be fed, etc.
Losing Tibor also has bad optics as to how badly he’s mismanaged this. Tibor is already an integral part of his marketing strategy with those silly t shirts.
So when does bend start to break? I mean, when Tibor signed up to complete his Masters, he couldn’t have been thinking “I’d love to be able to work for Lloyd Evans and need a Masters for him to be able to consider me”.
I’d say it’s starting to break right now. He’s panicking with the new Patreon tiers and and YT memberships. It’s come to a breaking point and from the looks of it, he’s pulling out all stops to reverse the trend.
People notice desperation like a sore thumb and can see when they are being viewed as a cash source.
When you are at this huge a risk of losing your business, you make the time to hit your top tier Patron Zoom. He’s not at risk of infecting anyone, take some cough medicine and smile/laugh through it for 30 minutes.
He just feels this is all owed to him based on past work and feels offended he has to dance round like a trained monkey for tips.