I think weeb wars broke Nick. He was talking out of his ass to build up his buddy Ty only to get BTFO'd. The only shame he has ever shown has been in relation to superchats about the appeal. The color would drain from his face. Now it's coming to bite him on the ass over the false facade he created during that time. If the rittenhouse trial didn't happen we'd have gotten a much more humble Nick, instead it built up his ego to the point of no return.
I'm sure both factors played some role in what's happening, but I think it was less Ty fucking shit up, and more the false persona Nick adopted during WW that is causing him problems now.
Yeah, Ty's a epic fuckup but... let's face it, lawyers lose cases. That's the way it works. Vic's case was never a sure thing. Nick could fairly easily bounce back from being on the losing end of WW. Indeed, in the immediate aftermath, few people here were actually blaming Nick for the way things turned out (Ty, OTOH, with his rank incompetence, was a different matter). People paid for a civil suit. They got a civil suit. Albeit one managed like ass.
The bigger issue for Nick is how he depicted
himself. If Nick had been open about who he has was from the getgo, would the GFM been as successful? I dunno. Maybe. Maybe not. A big part of me thinks he probably could have swung those numbers
purely on the basis that people are sick and tired of this #metoo shit. Regardless, he went the deception route. He wanted to portray himself as a conservative family man in order to better appeal to Vic's fanbase and anyone sick of SJWs. He's pretty clearly paying for that now. To me, if there's a scam, it's that false persona he adopted. Not that he ran a GFM, and the case was handed off to an idiot Nick probably put way too much trust in and clearly wasn't equipped to handle the case properly.
At no point now or then do I regret donating to Vic's GFM. If nothing else, it was fun to watch all the snowflakes chimp out. That said, I DO regret having any amount of admiration for what we now know is a degenerate coomer and his incompetent family probate attorney. My perception on that front has absolutely changed from where it was three years ago. The valuable lesson here is that nobody on Youtube should even never be taken at face-value.