These last two streams were super cringe. Just lost a ton of respect for this guy. I was expecting him to at least address the most powerful claims, i.e. the ones about the $70k car and lying about the $500k, and the one about him shutting down funding for AF congressional campaigns. If these claims are true he's a grifter and a thief, and this gay-ass nigger rap stream where he cries like his dog died with sunglasses on and doesn't say anything was weak as fuck. Very sad I actually agree with most of you now that this shit is over -- he has surely lost any high quality fans he had, now he might have a slowly rotting corpse of 14 year old incels but AF is probably done for. Very sad honestly, I trusted this guy.
I've been a lurker on Kiwi for a couple years, but I registered to quote the above for emphasis and weigh in with my two cents.
I am going to try and stay objective as I can but with the whirlwind of claims and topics there is too much hearsay to say much of anything is definitive at this point. I'm going to address things from a general perspective. I'll be referencing the Kino Casino video and Nick's streams/telegram.
01. Someone here is clearly lying
Nick, Jaden, Simon, or a combination of all three. This begs the question of motivation and what each party stands to gain from lying.
02. Simon's motivation
This guy doesn't strike me as particularly bright - I don't care how virtuous your pursuit of AF goals were, getting paid minimum wage with a wife and two children is insanity. However, he does strike me has a humble, noble, and in a state of good spirituality, unlike Nick. I don't know much about Simon but I think his affect suggests he is being truthful.
03. Jaden's motivation
I think Jaden is earnest in his interest in stepping away from AF, and he did so with a cordial "stepping down" post on Telegram. I believe he took the high road when all this started. However, Jaden being so close to the situation may have an axe to grind and has fired some shots below the belt against Nick. Simon and Jaden's stories seem to line up and paint a picture of behavior we've actually already seen from Nick ie Patrick Casey, and others. Nick is the one instigating all of this, and I don't think Jaden has much to gain from this situation either. I don't know if Jaden is lying, but I think embellishing some aspects are present.
04. Nick's motivation
Nick freely admits he's an egomaniac and narcissist. It would seem to me, he's the only one that has much to gain from airing out the dirty laundry. Viewcount, people talking about him, attention, traffic to cozy. As an avid listener of Nick since the groyper wars, I am led to believe Nick sees this as a competition and an opportunity to "crush an enemy" with a scorched earth Machiavellian approach - aka destroy, do not wound. In his eyes, the end justifies the means and is willing to do anything to hurt these people who he know longer sees as allies.
Am I underestimating the motivation of Jaden/Simon? The pattern that I believe to be reoccurring is people around Nick end up having a fallout with him. What am I to believe? Nick's words saying that all these other people are the problem? He's the victim time and time again because of disloyal friends? Who is the common denominator of these friendship fallouts? I was literally defending Nick on other boards two days ago, because like the above quoted poster, I believed this dude. I trusted him. Politically speaking Nick has top tier opinions, and I wouldn't take that away from him, but as of Feb/March, he's really cranked down on the "women problem" and gotten a little more careless with his rhetoric. I've found myself often disagreeing with some of things he's said on his show quite frequently which was not the case since the groyper wars. I gleaned Nick wasn't going to church every Sunday because he made a big deal about going for Easter and his late night Sat streams/general schedule but the hearsay from Jaden/Simon about Nick blowing off meal time prayers and scoffing at Catholic prayer circles was salt in the wound. In defense of Nick, being a young millionaire with a huge fanbase that "rely" on you can really fuck with your head and from a psychological standpoint I think that one ingredient of many that's going into his recipe for erratic behavior which is my last point:
The two streams of him listening to nigger "music" and looking simultaneously butthurt and smug looks a lot to me like someone crying out in pain as he strikes back. I don't think these streams had the effect the thought they would.
Other random thoughts:
- Nick getting his 500k back a year ago is big if true
- Using his money to threaten frivolous lawsuits to bury Simon (and others) is big if true and would raise some serious questions of Nick's morality
- One thing I noticed before all this drama was his "Praise god" Telegram post was implying he just found out he's off the no fly list. A mere three hours later he's on a plane? Sus
- The fat retard in the top left of the Kino Casino literally has boobs and sounds gay. He's really reveling in the downfall of Nick which is poor posture and I don't like him.
- Same thought on bearded guy. Didn't have a lot to say because I think he was drunk.
- Claims of view count manipulation are big if true, but I actually side with Nick here. He hit 30k on Dlive during Nov 2020 election results. Are we questioning Dlive metrics too? Him getting 5-8k peak is not unreasonable. Outside analytic websites show cozy is getting a lot of traffic.
- Nick got owned by KaiClips. Nick's rhetoric on inceldom and women is teethe grindingly cringe. We need to encourage young white men to date and have children, not hate women you fucking faggot. Nick bitches about women in politics then constantly props up Michelle Malkin, Wendy Rogers and Marjorie Taylor? How does that make sense?
oh and hey Nicholas:
I am not choosing a side here (yet) because it's still evolving, but this is looking pretty fucking bad for you, Nick. Character isn't who you are when the decisions are easy, character constitutes the choices a man makes when things are tough. Like you said on your show the other week about humility, this whole drama is an opportunity for you to eat a slice of humble pie, bro. Privately repent, privately settle things with Jaden and Simon, then the three of you come together publicly and you apologize. Own your mistakes, correct course, reexamine your ethics, and fly low for a little while.