His “career” has by and large mirrored WT’s. I am old enough to remember when he was posting here and forecasting WT’s ultimate demise. He claimed that 2005 or thereabouts represented the “beginning of the end” for WT, starting a decline they will never recover from and eventually wither away. He got into quite a few arguments when people tried to debate his 1914 2005 prediction.
What started as another “no collection plates passed!” morphed into huge WT shaped donation boxes at every exit. But remember, he’s not “forcing” anyone to donate. If donations fall, he might have to sell off some Kingdom Halls make fewer videos. Then lives wouldn’t be saved and Jehovah would be sad the world would be a sad place.
I believe he learnt the power of his potential grift when he had that virtual baby shower for his oldest daughter. Blankets knitted by grannies and boxes of diapers and other supplies were mailed off to “Mala Engleska” or Little England as he subtitled his address. (I reckon the Sisak Post had a good laugh at the sheer arrogance of a foreigner to subtitle an address in their country after his own). The deliveries had gotten so bad he had to tell people to stop sending him shit that he was going to throw away in a month anyway.
It was shortly after this that he launched his Patreon. Like WT, his earliest followers were primarily from the UK and North America. But as the poor behaviour and the grift kicked into high gear, he started losing a lot of support, particularly in the UK. The organiser of the AposDate that he cancelled for Thailand related that she had roughly half the people decline the invite when they found out who it was honouring.
So he started moving his grift into more developing countries. If you ever stayed on long enough on his livestreams, you’ll notice more than a few donations in Brazilian Real and Polish Zloty. The language gap also works to his advantage when controlling the flow of information.
I believe he’s working where the need is greater going to groups that have had little or no exposure to him and promoting his videos, and letting them know that it is customary to tip. Could be atheist, Portuguese, Spanish or Polish language xJW subReddits or FB groups. A place where his version of facts remains unchallenged. He’s finding that once people discover what he is all about, they are dropping support. Instead of getting cross about it and arguing as he used to, he’s just picking up shop and working seldom worked territory picking up new recruits with little knowledge of his background.
As he himself stated, the internet is forever. Google his name and this thread, the info site, and the Wikitubia page that a certain bitch who might have posted here more than once was “gracious” enough to edit come up in the first page. That’s his long term problem, coupled with the short term problem that his videos aren’t that great anymore and the pay he is getting is not in sync with the actual quality of his work. Even if he gains 30 patrons by the end of the month, roughly an equal amount are exiting.