So have we all come to a census on what’s going on with Jon, her shitty, low-effort (more than usual) edits and videos yet?
I can only speculate, and indeed, I will!
I suspect there was some issue between Jon and Anna about him either being underpaid or overworked, mostly I suspect she has made a few too many inappropriate demands. I don’t even mean sexual harassment type-stuff (which she’s capable of, we already know), but based on her mobility and health, I’m sure she’s asked him to do stuff that an actual caregiver should be doing. I don’t even mean a trained medical professional that she has to pay because they have actual licenses to maintain, but an informal caregiver, like a family member or friend would be, to help with basics like making sure she wakes up and takes her medication on time, assistance with changing a bandage, administering sponge baths, or other low-level, quasi-medical care.
An elderly neighbor of mine recently had surgery and the dr called me to make sure I was willing to help her with certain, small tasks while she was dealing with the immediate aftermath of the surgery, in order to prevent blood clots and infections (nothing like assistance with toileting or standing, which Anna could potentially have issues with due to her size under regular conditions, let alone while in compression). It’s small stuff, but it’s still intimate, and if you can’t afford a professional to do it for you, you’d have to ask someone you trust, and Jon is the only person she has nearby. Tracie lives in another state and Anna has no one else in her life outside of Jon.
I think it probably also bothers him and/or his fiancée that she calls him her “friend” all the time. He’s not her friend, he’s her employee. A long time ago, I needed help with something, and I asked my manager for help (spoiler, he was a terrible manager) and he said, “go ask one of your friends for help.” I just stood there looking dumb because I held my tongue instead of telling him that my coworkers are NOT my friends, and we should not be referring to our professional colleagues as “friends” so casually in the workplace. I wonder if there was a conversation about this, sometime around the Disney visit where they went to the magic show or whatever it was. Have we seen Jon since then? Or any evidence of him even being behind the scenes?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he had put in his notice to quit, and she brought him to the magic show as a last-ditch attempt to win him back. She has to buy people’s friendships, we already know that, but while you can buy subservience, you cannot buy loyalty.
Even if the money Jon earns is worth putting up with Anna’s bad behavior, the money will run out sooner than later. YouTube and social media Influencing is not a long-lasting career. Very, very few people are able to work as entertainers of any sort for the many decades of a regular work-life, especially not with the level of pay that would be required to then have a staff that needs to be paid as well. She’s not Paul fucking McCartney who is still fucking touring as of like three months ago. Anna is not the fifth beatle, and even if she maintained her popularity, she’s going to hit a wall with her ability to make content, let alone stay the fuck alive, very soon, and Jon’s gotta know that better than any of us, since he is the person she spends most of her time with, and it is 100% unfiltered Anna, which must be pretty awful.
