Did you not watch the video I linked to? he does address these criticisms.

The guy likes to focus on the good in people, nothing wrong with that.

Perhaps the author needs to rephrase what they wrote then. It sure comes across as an angry rant, without any journalistic perspective.

Did you perhaps miss his ‘response’ to all the criticism he has been receiving over these videos?

The FBI was involved!!! This is no joke. And it all started after his mom said something to the media. So he probably made up a reason something happened to him to tell her and she ran to the media. The authorities/USOC didn’t know about it until AFTER the mom started talking. It’s a giant lie to a mom gone wrong.

And now the NSA has bugged your urn.

Making a false claim to authorities?

Ryan Lochte is Kaiser Soze.

Ryan: “Mom can I have some more money?”
Mom: “What happened to all that money I gave you yesterday?”
Ryan: “I uh, spent it on hookers and dru...uuuuhhhh....we got robbed! By cops! They had guns!”
Mom: “OH MY GAWD RYAN! I’M CALLING THE FBI!”
Ryan: “Mom wait no...” [CLICK]

It was probably some kind of breaststroking that led to his freestyle story, but the butterfly effect of telling his mother is now causing him to go into full backstroke mode.

9 minutes ago

You’re annoying as fuck.

Let this be a lesson why you should never tell your mother anything.

To be fair, Lochte probably doesn’t know the difference.

A year and a half is a pretty long time to find an audience. It never showed up.

Here is the infamous segment circling around the internet relevant to your first paragraph:

I know people liked his show but I don’t understand why....

They’d take a watch, but not a Fitbit “or something”?

lol