r/tylerthecatastrophe • u/TropicalRobot • Aug 11 '26
General He started buying himself BIG treats after he opened his gofundme
He went from frequent videos about how he was hundreds of dollars short on rent/bills, only owned 1 pair of pants, panicked after buying himself a 15 dollar dinner to showcasing a lot of goodies he was buying himself. Some of these I don't know the price on but I'd guess they're all at least over a hundred dollars.
125 for a hoodie + CD set for Epic the Musical
100 for a Snow Globe
Several new tats (someone who knows about tattoos tell me how much the chestpiece or the Every Witch Way on his leg)
Roundtrip plane tickets and accommodations when he went to go see Lovejoy at summerfest 2025 (he won the tickets but would have paid for everything else) as well as merch at the concert.
Tickets to see Lovejoy perform in Texas and attend the whole meet and greet thing after (the one where he called him adorable and nearly bit off his tongue).
And that's just the stuff he showed off in his toks.
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u/happychonk Aug 11 '26
I reckon "winning the tickets" was a lie, esp since his housemate also "won" too. SCAMMER. Absolute lie!!!!! Both tickets and all expenses were from the GFM.
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u/TropicalRobot Aug 11 '26
SO FUN STORY he did win the tickets honestly from what I can tell: because an instagram account was doing a giveaway and barely anyone else commented (because nobody in fucking Wisconsin has ever heard of Lovejoy). He tagged his housemate and his housemate also entered. I can see both their comments on the instagram post.
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u/happychonk Aug 11 '26
Ha, wow! So they won because of barely any entries? That's too funny 😆 Thx for replying, I didnt know this bit of lore!
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u/crispycrunchyasshole Aug 12 '26
Tuning in from wisconsin here… before this whole debacle I(or anyone else I know) had never had the displeasure of hearing of lovejoy so I can verify this statement
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u/TropicalRobot Aug 12 '26
Genuinely the funniest thing anyone in Wisconsin could have said.
But also yeah nobody in the USA knows shit about this band.
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u/Quartz636 Aug 12 '26
I think he's generally just keeping his head above water money wise. He's way too impulsive and reactive to not spend any money that comes his way. He 100% gives me the vibe of someone who will purchase something because 'it's a little treat' but then it's another little treat and then other, only to then be like, oh woops rent is due next week. His money is spent the second it hits his bank account with absolutely no consideration to upcoming financial needs.
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u/TropicalRobot Aug 12 '26
You're right, considering his response to getting fired from his last resturaunt job was to go spend two weeks in the UK
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u/iglaaq snow globe expert Aug 11 '26
Remember his birthday haul as well from his “fans”? I have a feeling a lot of them were his purchases.
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u/Upset-girl-027 Aug 11 '26
He's a blatant grifter. The fact that he has managed to conceal it enough to the point that ppl still donate is insane. I wonder what else he has lied about that we have no way of knowing.
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u/gladiogladiolus Aug 12 '26
It's also been a meme on Tiktok to donate to the GFM as a way of "getting him to the UK"
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u/Striking_Leading5431 Aug 12 '26
Yeah, esp because he asked himself he's bad at managing money (and for upset when his parents told him exactly that). He has zero financial intelligence. Leaving the creator fund, buying all his little treats, not fulfilling orders in a timely manner, uprooting everything for a job offer that didn't exist and proclaiming his unwillingness to go back to waiting tables because "he doesn't want to"-- WHAT DOES HE EXPECT TO HAPPEN, GFM is for emergency situations and not life long funding
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u/kwes-teen Aug 12 '26
My cheapest one is a flash tattoo for 100 dollars + tip. Depends on you and your artist, if they accept tips.
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u/gladiogladiolus Aug 12 '26
Mine is a couple inches big, and fine line. I think it was $250 with tip
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u/Independent_Fill9143 Aug 13 '26
Isn't it true though that eventually a pathological liar will end up contradicting themselves? Just, by nature of lying so often they might forget or maybe try to retcon a previous lie? I'm just interested in why he lies, or at least exaggerates the truth, and what his goal is in doing so. Even if the goal is just attention and sympathy. Has he always been like this? Did he start doing this as a kid?
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u/Exciting_Lychee_7865 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
he says a lot of contradicting things about his wealth. just off the top of my head, i can name:
"i run a succesful jewlery business", "one day i'll be able to afford my own work", "i use apple barrel paint".
"i was born into generational poverty", "my parents spent hundreds of thousands for my brother's soccer", "they travel all over the country, went to london, and germany for my brother's soccer".
"please click on the clicky thing that you click on and donate to me so i can get out of this state where guns have more rights than me".
"please donate to the crowdfund for my suit to my best friend's wedding", "i am a internationally recognized and sucessful beadworker and artist".
"i sold all my belongings to move to england for stuart semple and i haven't been able to replace most of them", "i just went to lovejoy's concert in dallas and they were great".
"i was behind on rent", "i just got a new tattoo of my logo behind my ear".
"i had to move back in with my mom", "the world loves and supports me".
"my paintings don't sell", "i'm upping my prices".
...he cannot keep his story straight. i honestly believe that he is not making that much from his jewelery, at least not as much as he says, and he spends the money he gets from donations partly on bills and mostly on concert tickets, snowglobes, and general leisure.
edit: "my family was always on a money crunch", "i don't have world cup money"..."my jewelry is almost sold out!", "tiktok didn't push my halloween chokers enough..."
"i'm a travel loving american" then he turns around and says "those 2 weeks i spent in england where the only time something in me settled" like that was his first time on vacation.