hate shit like this. youtubers complaining about muh depression is always a thinly veiled demand for money (without work). they know it's effective because their audience is most of the time in a lower, shittier place than them, young stupid and unable to scrutinize the grift. it is a whole the economy of misplaced altruism.
It always hits me when things like this happen, that these people
may talk about how they know Internet fame is a bubble, but
they rarely actually treat it that way. I'm not saying they were making
rich-tier money at their apex, but most of them and obviously Greg clearly thought it was gonna go on forever. They didn't make contingency plans, didn't keep a lifeline on the side, nah just keep churning videos and live your best life. Oh shit you sunk and now you're broke. Time to cry online!
There's doubtlessly countless examples, but one that I followed was Digibro. He was making really good money, enough to fund several friends and a house and trips and
tons of weed for a few years. Then he went into a spiral of stupid choices, from trying to change his content style to, of course, trooning out and pursuing a career as a hobo rapper. Ended up pretty much homeless and getting fucked by some faggot who also pimps out some e-thot for pocket money. In the process, he completely sunk the group projects he had with friends, the ProCrastinators Podcast and an anime review channel called Khanthent.
For contrast, another member of those projects, Nate/BestGuyEver (who by the way moved to be closer to Digi for work, then got hit by Digi's "Imma live in a van and come record the podcasts once a month or so" plans) made some arrangements to keep his former programming job position open in case everything went tits up. And it did. And he's doing OK now because of it.
Or another, when the SuperBestFriends channel broke up, Liam left the public eye and went to finish his studies. The guy is a cucked fag but he did something smart. Matt went onto doing extremely generic content that could be done by anyone, but that does well with the algorithm, so he's doing fine; I like him the least of the bunch, but that was also smart. Pat spent some time and effort before the breakup building a captive and motivated stream audience who'll be happy to watch him decay in his couch forever, so he did that, and he's doing well.
Woolie, however, thought he could keep it going forever and be the main guy, so he formed his own crew, and now he's floundering because he's boring as fuck.
TL;DR: entirely too many Internet people think the party goes on forever, and make no plans on how to stay alive when it ends. Some do.
