I eagerly await @NotTheBooks' next monthly update on Digi's Patreon, to see if such a dip will occur.
If not, that basically confirms that their patreon is mostly made up of passive supporters who forgot about the monthly donation or just don't care enough to unsubscribe.
I know it's nearly impossible, but what would it take for Digi to redeem himself in the eyes of his former friends and fans? I'd like to get everyone's thoughts on this.
Casual fans would be happy to just get consistent anime content again. When you consider how fucked YGG is in the eyes of the algo, those alphabet vids are doing pretty well.
Most of the burned parasocial fans are probably just gone. If Conrad admitted he's been making constant mistakes for two years and apologized, then they might be willing to shrug and move on, but the basis for the fandom has been destroyed because it is now much harder to buy into Digi's persona.
Also, even if former fans are willing to see Conrad as morally redeemed, that doesn't change the fact that their content was suffering for a while before they went off the deep end. If they owned all their mistakes
and returned to their earlier levels of quality, they'd get some serious fans back, but not enough to support the channel. If I got pissed enough at a creator to unpatron, then even if they got their shit back together I'd be much slower to give them money a second time.
People like Ben and Gib? Literally nothing. In the first place, I don't believe anyone who really knew Digi ever liked them all that much, and it was such a petty, bitch-ass betrayal that the best you could hope for is them gradually not caring over the course of several years. It would be them cooling off, not reconciling.
Edit:
Ironically using his own advice for Maddox, based on what JonTron said to his fans after the comments on race fiasco; just admit he is wrong and that he will change for the best to what his fans what to see out of him (after 37:57 mark):
There have been so many clips where Digi basically predicts their own downfall, but this one is so on-the-nose it almost hurts:
What Maddox has done is pretty heinous, but he doesn't even appreciate that. He still thinks he's the good guy. He still thinks that all of his actions have been justified, and no one agrees. Not a single person; not even his friends. Not even people who try to work with him because they think that he's an opportunity for them. Even though they are slowly realizing... he's not, because he's not relevant, and everybody on the internet hates him.
[very rational explanation about how Maddox has trapped themselves by becoming hated by his fanbase, as building one from scratch is almost impossible]
Maddox is retarded is what I'm trying to say. Maddox is straight-up retarded; he is very stupid. He does not know how to manage his life. He has completely failed at everything he should be doing, and he seems to have finally reached the point where he is just lashing out in anger, and it's amazing it has taken this long.