you can easily forget about signing up for something and it keeps being taken until you do or your card is cancelled or expired.
If his Patreon account somehow expired and he needed to relaunch, he might get 100 people to immediately re-sub. Most wouldn’t even notice.
He reminds me of one of those Star Wars or Star Trek creators who have nothing but contempt for where their beloved franchise has taken them in recent years, but still watches every single episode because they are practically compelled to do it to stay relevant content-wise.
He said he’s transitioning out of JW content but not a single one of his videos since the “Aftermath” video seven weeks ago hasn’t been about JWs. He’s done six videos, four of which have been sushis in addition to three livestreams. He’s averaging roughly one video a week. That’s OK for the part timers who actually work jobs, but for a full timer like him this won’t cut it in the long term.
Successful creators also tend to be young and buxom or a charming, hip looking guy. Lloyd has never been a good looking man even when he was young and it’s going to be difficult to be an aging man hiding behind a dye job, crazy hoodies and excessive jewelry talking about JWs and how he left over a decade ago. There are going to be younger and certainly better looking people coming out who are more clued in to how JWs operate today. Some are likely going to be Bethelites who actually knew GB members and might actually tell you first hand why Tony Morris left.
What Lloyd should be concerned about is the discrepancy between likes and his actual patron count. His Aftermath video got 1.8K likes, yet he has only 424 patrons plus whatever is left of his YT paying members. So you can say that 1800+ people like him and his content, but 75% of those people don’t donate to him despite his constant pleas to be funded. This is why he’s so dead set on suing for lost wages because hardly anyone really believes he needs the money anymore.