Monetized Grief: Broccoli TV Is Just the Cult in Disguise

There’s been growing unease among many of us in the Exiters community around the recent defense made by Broccoli TV for monetizing his podcast. He argues that monetization is a form of freedom from cult control that he “deserves” compensation for his “hard work” and that any criticism of this act is reminiscent of cult-like censorship, as if it’s just “BES brainwashing” to question such behavior.

Hello, this isn’t about demonizing all monetization in general. This is about timing, tone, and delicadeza.

We are exposing a system that thrived off the financial exploitation of its members. So yes, when someone from our side begins monetizing the trauma space without collective consent or deep ethical reflection, it raises legitimate concerns. This isn’t BES “poisoning minds.” That is due diligence. Its the responsibility we owe each other after surviving institutional abuse.

Broccoli TV gearing up for another merch drop—because nothing says “healing from cult trauma” like cashing in on it.

What makes this worse is Broccoli’s framing, that to question him is to act like a cultist. That kind of deflection isn’t just manipulative, it’s textbook cult rhetoric. Attacking dissent by labeling it as "may laway pa ni BES" is exactly how the old system kept us in line. When you say people are “influenced by BES” just because they raise concerns, you are not dismantling cult logic. You’re replaying it.

Broccoli may be transparent, but transparency is not a free pass for questionable decisions. It doesn’t absolve the deeper issue, THE COMMODIFICATION of grief.

The exiters community is still fragile. People are still hurting. Turning that pain into branded content even under the guise of advocacy risks turning this space into just another platform for personal gain.

Broccoli TV throws shade at critics labeling them “half-exiters.”.

And it’s not just Broccoli TV. We are seeing a rising pattern of new cults, ideologies, and even spiritual groups circling the Exiters space, waiting to repurpose our wounds for recruitment, influence, and profit.

His monetization, if left unchecked, opens the door wider for others to do the same. Today it's a podcast, tomorrow it could be a new messianic voice trying to "heal" us for a price. DK and Lost were right to reject monetization from the start. What some call support is in reality, a calculated opportunism!

If you want to be rewarded for your advocacy, don’t gaslight the very people you claim to be liberating by twisting accountability into “laway ni BES.” That's not freedom from cult control that's cult control, rebranded.

In short, its not the income that makes it insincere. It is the lack of delicadeza, the absence of community discernment, the being tone def and the premature cashing in on a still-bleeding wound.

We didn’t escape one cult to walk into another. Stay vigilant.