I like all the optimism here! So, let's discuss a timeline of events
As we all know, Warski has stated that The Guntfather is taking a 2-3 week hiatus. without internet. First off, I don't believe that last part. I think what has happened is Gunt turned off the stream because he knew there was going to be a pillstream. What do I mean? Remember the election night and other times ralph got shit-faced, where he just gets up and ends the stream? That's what's happening right now. With all the shit that's been going on lately; patreon ban and ade drama, his renewed fight with The Farms TM, having to wake up at 10-11 (in the morning?!?!) just to do a second show to have ends meet, and the Guntling and child support inc, I think he's just temporarily pulled the plug on his online persona, so that he doesn't cause another pillstream with all these things + his mom's death weighing on him. The theories of psych ward and detox are stupid. They're optimistic theories, but nothing but theories. Guntylockes doesn't have enough self-awareness to do either of these things as they would change his life for the better.
When is he going to return? That's a mystery! There's several factors going into that, that's why I'm going to say between 1-5 weeks. Let's go over the factors!
1)Pillstream potential - If I'm right, then Gunt won't return until the chances of him doing something stupid decreases. But the key thing to remember, and why Null finally created this board, he always does stupid stuff. This has the risk of increasing time.
2)His tiredness of the show - As Pho and many others have pointed out, it's clear he fucking hates doing the show. Dying audience, having to do 2 shows now, and now his patreon is gone. He's likely going to use this as a break to recharge. As people have said before, if he only did 3 shows a week instead of 5, the quality of the show would likely improve since he isn't scraping by every night for content. Then again, doing some actual prep work would fucking do wonders! His prep work is almost exclusively pulling up tweets and tucker clips last minute. This has a risk of increasing time.
3)His dying audience - Ralph knows his audience is dying. He'll blame deplatforming, while that's only a minor cause. The true reason is that he puts on a boring, oversaturated show. If Gunt is smart (which he's not) he'll recover his mental health fast and return as every week away will shrink his audience further as they will move on. But self-preservation and complex thinking aren't what the gunt is known for. This has the chance to decrease the time
4)Life insurance - This is a major one. The big thing is if Gunty is getting life insurance for Sandra. While the majority of it will be going to drugs, a major payday could have him delay the show for weeks since now he has all that epic money to blow (and blow he will!). He could stay away for a few weeks longer since he doesn't have the complex thinking to consider Number 3. I'd say this has the biggest chance of increasing time.
5)Pantsu's insufferability - Cmon, we all know that Pantsu likely isn't pleasant to be around. Doesn't she have autism or assburgers? It's pretty much assured that she's bi-polar. Being around her during all this would probably be miserable. She could drive him up the wall crazy and extend the timer, or he could get tired of her shit and return to the show early as a way to escape from her shit.
Now, like I said, that's a potential to change the timeline to 1-5 weeks. Personally, I'm thinking 3 weeks.
The next question is, what can we expect when he gets back? Well, that also will vary! Best case scenario for Gunt would be he gets all over and comes back recharged, to the same sized audience, and brushes off everything that comes his way. But, as we all know, that's not going to happen. I think we'll get 2-3 weeks of drama where people prodding him will really set him off and it'll be even more clear that he doesn't want to do the show anymore. There's the question if there will be any consequences to shutting down Maker's Mark Sunrise after only a week when it was supposed to be a 1 month exclusive. If Gunt returns to a much smaller audience, there'll definitely be drama as he'll blame Ade and The Farms TM, for everything that's happened that MADE HIM take that hiatus.
I think he won't change a thing like getting sober, cutting out toxic people in his life like pantsu, and if anything, his self-destructive behavior will just get worse.
We will see....we will see....