He’s obviously been inflating his patron numbers with false accounts because it’s simply impossible that the number hasn’t gone down further since his interview with Andrew Gold. Good, I hope it’s costing him a lot in fees to prop up the number.
I am not saying Lloyd Evans AKA John Cedars is doing this or not, but IF he were doing this, Patreon still takes a cut of the money. It would be comical if Lloyd had 50 or so fake accounts just to make it look like he has more subscribers. I heard it is possible to have fake accounts (as in the tens of thousands of "robot subscribers") for YouTube as well. I've never looked into it as I don't care about such things, but nothing surprises me.