Yeah, I'll admit you're right. Everything I've seen and heard suggests that he feels inadequate, and he builds up these fake Social Media edifices to make himself feel big. Even his friends like MariaAngelaGrow admit this.
But sometimes my zeal for truth gets me going on such Quixotic errands. It bothers me that some REAL Traditional Catholics -- even a couple priests -- actually follow his blog to see what all the hoopla is about, and they get sucked in. He does have a few hundred REAL followers, unfortunately, and that's not good. (The blind leading the blind?)
Now he's in full damage control mode, claiming that a ton of his accounts were hacked and that's why he has a plethora of non-English and pornographic followers on all his Social Media properties.
I got the message loud and clear, too -- most of it was bolded, CAPS, and/or underlined. He was having another full-blown episode.
I've been on the Internet for 20 years and I've never had an account hacked. Maybe he should pick a better password than "password", "abc123" or "eagle".
Oh well. Everyone is given different levels of intelligence...
1. He is preying on ignorance. I know how Twitter works. Just getting your Twitter account hacked does NOT give you thousands of fake/foreign Twitter followers. It's easy to follow people; not so easy to make them follow YOU. They only follow you if A) they are truly interested in your channel or B) they are doing some kind of follower-swap with you.
And it doesn't take that long to unsubscribe (on Youtube) and unfollow (on Twitter). I also know how hard it is to get followers. You don't "accidentally" get hundreds and thousands of whores and random people following you. So why does he have them, and why isn't he un-following them? Obviously he likes the numbers. And this is precisely what others have said.
Others, who follow his blog, have said that he actually justifies this practice (buying/trading for fake followers) because it gives his apostolate a higher profile, and some of those whores on his list "might just convert" when they see one of his posts -- "you never know". Yeah right.
I also heard that it's common knowledge (hey, I didn't know it!) that Eric Gajewski has an actual OFFLINE apostolate among the prostitutes. Even though he's a single male layman. That's real prudent! What is he going to do, hear their confessions? Preach to them? If he was serious about this "vocation" of his, he would have joined a real seminary and become a priest. I call BS.
Is he putting himself in an occasion of sin, or is he (how shall I say this delicately) inadequate as a male? The whole "I'm the Great Monarch with 300 million pageviews on Facebook" shows that he's somewhat less than sane.
Wow...the Trad world really has its share of characters. With all the negative publicity, I'm surprised the Trad movement is as big as it is!
His sites are certainly to be avoided. We can find end-of-the-world news and information a hundred other places -- I would know. I never go to his sites, and I'm always informed about the latest news in the Catholic and secular world.
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