Mumkey just made a very long post on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/28453854
As I said previously, making stuff about Mumkey for the last week has been more fun and given me more joy than he has with any of the stuff he has produced for the last 6 months - however, I welcome his move away from the Internet if it is causing him this many horrors.
Absolutely, he shouldn't have kept dismissing those with legitimate criticism or worry with "you're all a bunch of Incel 14 year olds with mommy's credit cards" - I mean, unless he got his fiance's audience confused with us. Are his family all 14 year olds too, are his friends, are his former business partners? But otherwise it speaks as a dude who has had a great life crisis and come away from it with a different perspective. True, that crisis was entirely generated by himself but he was never shy about admitting that.
If he feels he needs to make this a part-time thing and get a "real job", then absolutely he should do that. There are many benefits to working a "real" job beyond monetary compensation. First, he talks about medical insurance. If he thinks seeing a doctor and getting the pills is helping, then he should make sure he is able to still do this. Secondly is the act of doing something physical and to which you have not as much of a personal investment in seeing completed. Thirdly, social interactions with people not considered to be "fans" or "haters" - just being around people who you know as well as a friend but that you wouldn't really care if they disappeared from your life, that can be healthy.
Not to get too personal here but I was physically very ill for a while and, as a result of not being able to work and then having a gap in my CV which left me unattractive to employers, I was out of a job. Most of my relationships had broken down, some in very bad ways but most just drifting off and not making contact either due to physical distance, indifference, or by feeling hurt and taking it personally when maybe I couldn't make it to a party, or had to cancel out of 'cause I was just too sick. Getting a job again saved me. I'm around people now who, if I like them or don't, I have to be around them. I have a set time I need to be in work. I have a set amount of work I have to do. None of that really affects my real life, my life outside work, but it does help because it passes over to that other sphere - you have done a hard day's work so now you can play video games, watch a movie, or spend hours dancing around in a monkey mask talking about school shooters.
He also, very cleverly I might add, keeps away from the subject of Liu. It is a matter-of-fact "this is what is happening" post, with appropriate apologies thrown in to former business partners and fans. This makes me think that he has watched the beautiful film produced by our Eerver Lord and taken it to heart. Treat your business as a goddamn business. Businesses diversify and aren't dependent on any on source of revenue. Previously, online was all he had. When shit got rough, he retreated online. Now he has realised how fickle that online space can be. Does he need to apologise to friends and others he has harmed? Absolutely. But his negative experience with the Internet has probably made it so he is going to do this in person.
However, as shown on my autistic analysis post, he is far better off being an online star, at least financially. If he goes to corporations for a job, he will end up as a burger flipper. If it becomes known where he works, he will be harassed both by phone and in person. His new boss, sick of this shit over a replaceable employee, will fire his ass. Now he has 5 years of Internet shenanigans about school shootings, fucking pedophiles and possibly enabling them (her), and so on plus now he has been fired by McDonalds. That is not a good place to be in, far worse than now. I say this, again, from personal experience - we had a dude work with us for one Summer who was part of a series of videos that went viral. Once it was known he worked there, people would come in and imitate him, getting in the way of legitimate business. He wasn't fired for it, it drove him to quit. And this is for appearing in one video that had a very small local impact, imagine how much Mumkey, already known as being "that school shooter kid" is going to get shit.
The solution - get a job where you aren't public-facing. But these aren't easy to get without skills and/or a background check. So he won't get that sort of job. Unless he knows someone, and it is clear he doesn't have those sorts of connections.
Furthermore, once his former online job becomes a hobby and the output lessens (even more so than it has been, the man used to be a machine with putting out content) then Patreon bucks will lessen. He might get banned again. He might find himself having to face real, legal ramifications for his or Liu's actions. And then his hobby becomes a burden.
tl;dr I liked the apology, appreciate his sentiments and how he plans to make things better but I'm not sure how well it will work out for him. Real job = good, but maybe unrealistic and possibly more trouble. Wish him the best but it is a very steep hill he has chosen to climb.
Source: I drank a bottle of wine, I am more verbose than I normally am. Forgiveness prease.
EDIT (because why the fuck not, this is already a novel) - I would suggest to him that he does get a job, back of shop preferably, but more for the fringe benefits it affords (which I mentioned above). Next, spend more time doing solo content. Content that doesn't rely on other people. How much of his shit is collaborative? It doesn't need to be. Still do it occasionally, but have it be, at most, once a week. For your regular content, plan it by yourself, offline. Post it, but make a promise with fans to only respond or interact about it for first few hours after it is posted. While doing this, do all your promotion shit on Twitter or elsewhere. Get an app that schedules your Tweets and spend an hour a week setting those up, don't engage beyond a set limited time. Don't share your personal life online, beyond small inevitable references. Liu can appear on episodes, but never as a regular. Her successor can appear too, but only after you have officially broken up with Liu. Never have a Discord. Liu has had three (at least) since this all went down and all the juiciest stuff has been taken from there (because it always is). Discord is a private conversation that is recorded so that everyone can see it and reference it. It only leads to misery. Yea, so sayeth Jim, Prophet of Metokur - "Nothing good has ever come of Discord. Hey champ, what are you doing?"