Well said.

Gatekeepers are part of a conspiracy. Grifters are just "politicians", trying to cast as wide a net as possible, for the sake of popularity, ad revenue, and their wealth.

YOU MIGHT BE A GRIFTER IF...

You making a living off the Gospel, but you aren't a priest or religious.

The Dimonds basically invented the trad grift. And I think they're still the best at it. Part of the proof of their success is that no one really thinks of them as grifters. A grifter that everyone knows is a grifter isn't a very good grifter. The key to a successful grift is to pass it off as genuine.  But if you open the hood, you'll see that they're extraordinarily skilled marketers. 

Utter nonsense.  Dimonds are following their consciences (even if you don't agree with them) and they will never compromise in the interests of revenue.  They make nearly all their videos available for free, and if you do want to order printed materials or CDs, given the prices they charge, I wondered how they could even do it without taking a loss.  If you order in bulk, you can get their apologetics pamphlet for pennies ... and their intent is to spread them around to convert people.  Nor are they somehow "living large", as even Hoyle's lawsuit indicates, but more in a spirit of poverty.  They use nearly all the revenues they make to produce other stuff to put out, and aren't living some upper-middle-class lifestyles ... and they've taken vows of poverty as Benedictines.

You may not like them, but they're not grifters by any stretch.  I think you have grifting confused with the fact that they have made very effective use of the internet to spread their message, but grifters by definition will change what they think or believe to maintain their revenue, which the Dimonds would never do.  Heck, they're spurned and despised by the vast majority of Trads, much less Novus Ordites.  If they were grifters, they'd soften their positions to appeal to a broader base, but they've done the opposite if anything.