A JoJo story:
As I have mentioned before, I was a member of JoJo's Patreon, and I'm mentioned a number of times in his videos in regard to P.O. Box packages. I never asked for anything, because it's my nature not to, but in September of last year, in response to an incident in one of his videos in which he had planned to but was unable to go to Boma, I suggested on Patreon messaging that if he wanted to, he could join me for my ADR at Boma on 9/30 or 10/3. I was going to WDW for the 50th and had booked reservations for those two days and I stated that I would be glad to sponsor him doing a review of reopened buffet there. I had expected that he would politely decline or be non-committal, so I was pleasantly surprised when he responded eleven days later with, "Okay cool! That would be awesome I think I should be available". However, it wasn't a commitment and I would have been fine if he backed out for any reason. On 9/28, I tried to confirm if we were still on or not. He replied, "And on 10/3 could potentially Dan join? I’m not sure yet if I can just cause of the 50th anniversary". So again, that would be fine if he found he couldn't go.
On 9/30, he sent a message a little after 11am asking the dinner time, but unfortunately, while I was at Epcot that day, I had trouble checking Patreon messages. Apparently, it wasn't showing me any new messages. Since I didn't see any message from JoJo, I interpreted it that he wasn't going to join me that day and as a result I planned not to go to Boma myself. I finally saw a little before 4pm what he sent earlier and I replied with 5:05pm as the time. Since I didn't know if he would see it and come or not, I hightailed it from World Showcase to my car in the parking lot and then on Boma. He didn't show and I sadly accepted it as terrible bad luck.
On 10/1, the 50th anniversary, I saw JoJo at MK at spoke to him and asked him if he would be joining me on 10/3. He was non-committal, which made me sad if it wasn't going to happen, but I accepted that it was a busy time for him and it would be understandable. He told me that either way, he would let me know. On a side note, it was the third time I had met JoJo in person when he was not on the clock working for Disney and the third time I would have had the opportunity to be included in his vlog. When JoJo introduces people in his vlog, he first asks them if they would be okay with being in the vlog. He never asked me. By the third time, I realized I must not meet the visual standards of his vlog.
So then on 10/3, I had not heard any reply from JoJo about Boma, but since that meant he might show up, I went there and sat in the DAK lobby and watched the doors to see if he would show up, which he didn't. Being stood up is awful, especially for me. Really awful.
Here's the kicker. I finally get a message on 10/7, four days later, stating, "hey john sorry I got caught up with family matters". That was the complete message. We all know how he uses the "family issues" and there's no mention of rescheduling for a future trip. What was painful for me was that a person, any person, would think of me as being so insignificant that I didn't deserve a timely response and the minimum respect that would be given to any stranger on the street. Considering that JoJo records encounters with random strangers, I could see him on his vlogs respecting them, but for me, nothing.
When JoJo and Mel broke up at the end of the month, it was a terrible situation for what happened to Mel, but the timing was good for me, because it proved that it wasn't just me, that he would treat his gf bad also.
The Boma incident was the final straw for me.