It's funny how he phrases it, "I don't see the channel recovering fast enough without needing to drastically scale down".
This stood out to me too. It's probably the key passage in the entire thread. He needs money now, but he acknowledges that he will be scaling back anyway. The money collected is just to keep him from leaving. Donors are really just funding his attempts to be a player in the Zagreb nightlife. The studio is most certainly gone, Tibor probably as well, and he's just going to cobble together a makeshift studio where he's living. It seems that he already has done that with the last few videos. Wasn't it roughly 6 months ago that he said he signed a lease on the studio space? Lease is up and he expected to be gaining Patrons by this time, not hovering round 400 for the past 2 months.
So he can recover the channel, he just needs to scale down paying Tibor for edits. It seems he has a solution staring him right in the face that doesn't require taking money out of someone else's pocket.
It's simply a matter of having no patience. Grifters gotta grift.
He's just conditioning his donors that his content will be fewer and far between and they won't see the familiar "Ramacro" studio behind him that they paid for. What this does is effectively make all the Patron goals utterly meaningless, as he's already paid at 380 Patrons to travel the world, meet with people for interviews and film what he calls documentaries. Further proof the donations first and foremost fund his lifestyle and the things he actually promised to Patrons are secondary concerns.
His heart is just not into this anymore and he's long since checked out. All it is about now is collecting what he can from this pity performance and plot his next move. I never heard him sound so defeated in that thread. But at 400+ patrons the grift still pays the bills and he's attempting to stem the bleeding and also work a lot less for it.
