A comedian taught me something unexpected about audience loyalty.
A social post from comedian Marcus Monroe glitched on me.
Maybe it was intentional. Maybe my phone was having a midlife crisis.
Either way, it froze.
Conventional wisdom says people scroll at the first sign of friction.
I didn’t.
I actually tried to fix the glitch like unpaid tech support.
Which made me think:
Maybe online audiences aren’t as fickle as we assume.
Maybe when people value what you bring, they’ll tolerate a little friction.
A clunky sentence.
An imperfect video cut.
Even the occasional “why did I post that?” moment.
It felt like a leadership lesson too.
People don’t expect perfection.
They respond to consistency, trust, and showing up with something worth staying for.
Sometimes we overestimate how quickly audiences leave.
Sometimes the real risk isn’t a glitch.
It’s going quiet.
Brent Garell 
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