He has won in the past through relentlessly restating his view and pushing his agenda until others simply give up in exhaustion. That’s clearly been his strategy again over the past year. Will it work this time?
His strategies have evolved over time. The livestream was his “go-to” solution for so long - Fight back immediately and hit them hard. He just had to respond to the Reddit post within the same day. And it had cost him dearly. He really did expect people to turn on Kim and shout her to the very fringes of the community. People he had counted on in the past to back him unconditionally started thinking for themselves.
As soon as he saw how badly it backfired and seeing that he lost 100 patrons almost overnight, he farmed it out to his goon squad whilst he hid behind the facade of someone supposedly contemplating suicide. That month of February into early March was brutal. His goons stalked the same people with the exact same talking points: “These are consenting adults! Seeing prostitutes is not a crime! And they are called “sex workers” you bigot! And it’s none of your business anyway!”. For the first time this failed. Even his reappearances to insult and intimidate people became instant ratios. The trolls became the trolled and even his goon squad started blocking people. He must have been on wit’s end trying to figure out why this had all changed for him and so quickly.
By April he knew he had a problem that wasn’t going to be solved by setting his goons loose on people. So he saw an opening with Andrew Gold and decided to take it. He was bringing this to the secular media and they were going to tell these former JWs they were being judgmental bigots. The exJWs had adjudicated him as guilty, so he wanted an outsider to tell us how wrong we were. That backfired so badly Gold made two of his own rebuttal videos within the week plus had gotten a forensic psychologist to diagnose him as a sociopathic narcissist.
In May he switched strategies yet again. He was not only going to sue but he was expecting a verdict soon. He said as much. This was a slam dunk case, and at worst he’d be getting default judgments. LeBron with a clear path the the rim. Right, Karlo? Karlo?
He took on the role of public prosecutor during the summer and this lasted all the way to when he went after Jake. He was vicious. Threatened lawsuits, called people criminals, picked fights on Twitter. But he became a caricature of himself. A pathetic buffoon who had completely lost the plot. And he was bleeding badly, no matter how much he tried to butter it up to his remaining supporters.
It was when his Patrons dropped below 50% that he realised what he was doing wasn’t working. He had to drop the act that he was doing alright and people for the most part were still supporting him. In December he created the YouTube memberships. Last month he started outright begging. This represents another change in strategy. It worked for him two weeks ago in giving his long hoped for bump, but at what cost? The end of month Patron drops are still continuing at round -20, and last month he had to really beg and threaten to quit in order to forestall the hemorrhaging.
At this rate he’s going to have to do this every month, and therein lies the risk. It’ll further expose him as the grifter he is if he keeps on saying he’ll shut down if he doesn’t get more financial support. From this point on it will only get more pathetic, especially when he hasn’t improved his content.
He’s really backed himself into a corner with this, and he’s already played the last decent card he had in the New Year.