“But… the videos! Those are valuable! Lloyd wakes up sooo many!”
I knew this would happen the moment Kim stepped forward. Lloyd has “helped”, but with a non-negotiable condition: He’s getting paid, and it had better be at his expected levels. Lloyd has always shied away from actually helping people who watched a video and wanted to talk to him - either by email, social media or by phone. He claims he’s busy working one week out of the month and if you’re lucky he’d farm it out to someone to reach out to you. Even then you’d be getting a sermon about how great Lloyd is and would not it be wonderful if he’d have you on for an interview to discuss your crisis? He’s even snapped at people who asked him for a link to one of his own videos, telling them his time is valuable and they need to do their homework. Imagine a counsellor at a suicide hotline with the same attitude.
Based on January’s begging tweets and his leaked Patrons videos, we can see where his heart really is. “Get me to 500 patrons and I’ll stay, but I really deserve more. 620 if you want me to keep Tibor.”
You can make the weak argument that Joel Osteen has helped people come closer to Jesus and has saved marriages.. But even these greedy evangelists are generally held to a code of ethics. Running off to Thailand like he did broke several circles of trust. Not only has he lied to his wife for years, but he spoke directly into the camera addressing the community and deliberately misled them about his “mental health break”. He even lied about being in COVID lockdown, thus the reason for cancelling his UK meetup.
You can’t take anything useful from a profiteering liar. It’s always going to be how he can extract something from you, be it an interview for content, or joining as a patron. He’ll always be this way.
