My personal opinion is that it definitely has a cult element. I agree with many of the points
@Time 4 Guillotines made..
The platform and the MATI streams are congregating a group of people that have some things in common, and spending time together on the forum and the stream while praising Josh becomes important for some of them, some spend many hours there.
Josh encourages the members to bond and befriend each other:
That bond then keeps them complying with his rules and mood swings. Because being banned means losing those friends.
We’ve seen the other day how Agenda Poster didn’t dare to say shit because he clearly spends a lot of time on the forum and it’s important for him to not get banned.
He also has people who stood up in his defence, so he is well and truly entangled in the grasp of the community. Consequently he submits to the supreme leader even if he is publicly called a tumour by Josh. That’s not normal behavior and countless other kiwi farmers exhibit this very same behavior.
At the same time Joshua asserts dominance and keeps the pack under control. Most of the users also donated at some point and they frequently praise him and ass kiss him.
He also successfully misleads them about blatantly obvious things, they are so brainwashed that they don’t work out how Josh is a lowlife pond scum with bitchy mood swings and zero integrity, they readily ignore his hostility, ignore his past history of degeneracy and lies, etc.
He can’t do no wrong because he is Null.
We can call it a cult or call it a strange community, or a club, defining the same thing in the end, as the elements of a cult are very clearly visible imho.
Just my take
