Nick's decision tree, post-Depp trial, has been pretty awful.
- Come off the biggest case of the year, maybe the decade, and what do you do? Go on vacation, for like a month. Don't stream on the road.
- Meanwhile, channel gets struck.
- Can't stream from Matsuri.
- No Alex Jones coverage.
- When finally unsuspended, follow that up with weird Caribbean update with Kayla.
- Ignores the "3 strikes and you out" thing (he admits he didn't think it would happen to him on his Viva interview, post strike), dips toes into the Keffals Kerfuffals, a Community Guidelines minefield.
- Tops that off with a stupid throwback to IBS with a (ex?) Pokemon streamer about Keffals for whatever dumb reason.
- Channel yeeted.
- During all the above, no build up to follow on Rumble, only a minor one to locals.
- Tries to rebuild on Rumble, trash talks Youtube. Actually does ok on his first week or two.
- Twitter gets nuked. Has not bothered to update alternatives (since Dick M's old verified.af died), does so for like a day on poast or something.
- Doubles down on Locals, which is fine for income, but does not expand the audience.
- Encourages subscriber lewds on Locals, a grey area in their community guidelines. Maybe some discord fuckshit too.
- Wife and himself post "clapping liquor bottles between cheeks" photos.
- Wife posts lingerie lewds on locals.
- Defends and doubles down on defense of said postings. Claims this is who he is and has been. (Which may be the truth, but it is not the image he had cultivated as a character on youtube.)
- Brings on wife onto stream and locals to defend attention whoring behavior.
- Balldo mini review on Locals. (An item even Drex would not use.)
- Tries to negotiate a exclusivity contract with Rumble, and he turns down their (likely) six figure offer.
- Does manage to get youtube unbanned, but then has poisoned the youtube well with most loyal watchers. Still potential for banning there.
One could argue he's trying to course correct in the last week, but the stack of stupidity into lolcow-dom is pretty deep. I'm not sure his ideologies and bullshit "muh mentals" disorders will allow him to dig himself out of this hole. But hey, it's happened with a few people, and it'll be fun to watch, either way.
Edit: added Balldo, how could I forget?