Discord.py bot not running client.loop or tasks in on_ready - loops

Question

I've made a python bot for a small project I am doing. Basically all it does is read a specific set of cells in a google sheet, draw a nice little chart and save it as an image, and then send it to a user in their DMs with their discord id.
However, I've struck a bit of an issue. The bot keeps going offline after 3 minutes or so. No biggie, I'll just change it's status to something funny out of a list every 2 mins, I thought. But, no matter if I do it using a client.loop event or tasks from discord.ext, the loop won't run.
The only times when they do run is when the discord bot throws an error (like losing connection when my wifi decides to have a mind of its own), or when the client.loop event regarding the cells that are being watched is fulfilled.
I have scoured the internet looking for the dumb thing I've done wrong, but can't for the love of me find out why. Can anyone help me? The code is below, with some changes as to not reveal tokens or anything.
import gspread
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
from discord.ext import tasks
import time
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import requests
import json
import discord
import random
import asyncio
# Set up the credentials to access the Google Sheets API
scope = ['https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds', 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive']
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_name(r"json location", scope)
# Authenticate with Google and open the desired sheet
gc = gspread.authorize(credentials)
sheet = gc.open("Spreadsheet name").worksheet('Sheet6')
# Get the initial value of the cell
cell_value = sheet.acell('B2').value
#init some variables
parties = [(20, -16, "royalblue", "BIU"), (-10, -33, "navy", "DXC"), (-10, 9, "gold", "ALP")]
status = [
'you make questionable political choices.',
'you lie on your political compass test.',
'you destroy your political career.',
'you spam Neutral/Unsure.',
'you bank on trickle down economics',
'you expand the government',
'you storm the Capitol',
'you claim you did not have sexual relations with that woman',
'you take secularism as more of a suggestion',
'you change the definition of morally ambiguous'
]
#define some defs
def political_compass(economics, social):
#this thing really is superfluous now but I cba to remove it
return (economics, social)
def plot_result(result, parties=None):
#plot things in a square graph and such
x, y = result
fig, ax = plt.subplots()
ax.scatter(x, y, color="black")
if parties:
for party in parties:
ax.scatter(party[0], party[1], color=party[2], label=party[3])
ax.set_title("TITLE")
ax.set_xlim(-50, 50)
ax.set_ylim(-50, 50)
ax.axhline(y=0, color="black")
ax.axvline(x=0, color="black")
ax.annotate("Economic Left/Right", (35, 0), (0, -5),
textcoords="offset points", ha="center", va="top")
ax.annotate("Progressive/Conservative", (0, 45), (-5, 0),
textcoords="offset points", ha="right", va="center")
if parties:
plt.legend(loc="upper right")
fig.savefig("political_compass.png")
client = discord.Client()
#tasks.loop(minutes=2)
async def status_change():
cur_status = random.choice(status)
print('Current status is: Watching '+cur_status)
await client.change_presence(status=discord.Status.online, activity=discord. Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.watching, name=cur_status))
async def sheet_check():
global cell_value
await client.wait_until_ready()
while not client.is_closed():
time.sleep(1)
current_value = sheet.acell('B2').value
if current_value != cell_value:
print("Cell value has changed from", cell_value, "to", current_value)
cell_value = current_value
# Grabbing info
discord_id = sheet.acell('C2').value
eco_val = float(sheet.acell('D2').value)
soc_val = float(sheet.acell('E2').value)
print(discord_id)
print(eco_val)
print(soc_val)
# make the graph
result = political_compass(eco_val, soc_val)
plot_result(result, parties)
# Upload the image to imgur
client_id = "ID I WON'T SHARE"
image = open("political_compass.png", "rb").read()
headers = {"Authorization": f"Client-ID {client_id}"}
response = requests.post("https://api.imgur.com/3/image", headers=headers, data={"image": image, "type": "file"})
if response.status_code == 200:
response_json = response.json()
print(f"Image uploaded successfully: {response_json['data']['link']}")
else:
print("Failed to upload image")
# Send with discord bot
user = user = await client.fetch_user(discord_id)
await user.send(f"Here is your Political Compass result: {response_json['data']['link']}")
await user.send(f"Additional message")
await user.send(f"other additional message")
t = time.localtime()
current_time = time.strftime("%H:%M:%S", t)
print("Message sent at " + current_time)
await asyncio.sleep(10)
#client.event
async def on_ready():
print(f'Logged in as {client.user}')
await client.change_presence(status=discord.Status.online, activity=discord. Activity(type=discord.ActivityType.watching, name='myself in the mirror.'))
channel = client.get_channel(CHANNEL ID)
await channel.send('Hello, World!')
print('He has awaken')
status_change.start()
client.loop.create_task(sheet_check())
client.run('TOKEN THAT SHOULDNT BE HERE BUT IN A ENV FILE I KNOW')
Thanks in advance for helping.
I tried calling status_change through client.loop and through discord.ext's tasks but neither has resulted in status_change being run on startup and then continuously.