Generally speaking, I am most interested in seeing if/how Nick comes to terms with his hypocrisy. After all, Nick's hypocrisy is the beating heart of what makes him more interesting now than he ever was. There are plenty of people doing worse things, but those people generally aren't falling from grace. Nick Rekieta is. Its his own fault for letting the mask of safety/sanity/stability that he's worn for so long finally slip. I'm just trying to gauge how
much of a hypocrite he is.
For your consideration:
During all this KF has accounted for economic factors (seemingly based on the social currency of familial ties), recreational/prescription drug use/abuse, spousal involvement, professional/personal connections established during his Youtube career (and their own conduct), etc... All told, nothing too interesting when compared to other trainwrecks, just a predictable decline that is still ongoing.
Then, of course, there's the man himself Nick Rekieta, who is the most responsible for his current predicament. Nick himself is not that interesting as a person. I would guess that is why most people liked his show. He appeared to be a
safe/sane person in an
unsafe/insane world (the last 5 years have been crazy). To the audience, Nick was presenting as a family man with passable morality who disliked the same people they did while attempting to refrain from curse-words (demonstrating that he's not perfect, but trying to be a better man and therefore making himself more likeable). This is likely why some could still tolerate the participation of Drexel or the Simpcast crew on occasion since it could make him seem safe and saner by contrast (though Nick's audience should have questioned this association already). He mostly read through legal documents, which Nick also considers "boring" by his own admission.
Note: going forward I will not be using the word "boring" in a strictly negative sense. Nothing wrong with being boring. Some people like boring and that's fine.
Most of the good advice from KF involves him going back to his more boring self because
it worked. The biggest boosts he got were a handful of exciting trials that happened to fall within his wheelhouse of legal review, but that is due to the subject matter, not necessarily Nick himself. It shouldn't come as a surprise that more people care about Johnny Depp than Nick Rekieta. The collabs with other lawtubers at this time also served as a networking opportunity to grow his audience, and other lawtubers could pick up the slack on commentary where Nick was lacking.
Nick's Youtube persona itself had nothing to offer that was unique to him except the illusion that he actually cared about his audience beyond a monetary transaction and his own ego. Nick doesn't even take his own advice. Like Jordan Peterson telling someone to clean their room (picture related). By the way, Jordan's response that "nobody said it was easy" is also dishonest. He markets it as one of the easiest things to do and therefore the best starting point for personal improvement. I digress.
Sure, Nick has
tried to be an interesting guy, but with little to no success. Nick
verifiably attends racy swinger events so he can...
claim to go home and have monogamous sex with his wife? Nick
verifiably gets a hot new car so he can... immediately hit the ditch? Funny stuff. He does have money, but if the most interesting thing about you is your bank account; you're not an interesting person.
So, an overall safe/boring guy with an overall safe/boring/successful channel is (in reality) a huge hypocrite who is also prone to oversharing because he wants to rebrand the show to be more about his hypocritical personality? That seems interesting. His attempts at deviant behavior, regardless of success, are such a bad look for him and watching him try to spin it in his favor is also funny/sad. Now he's possibly telling the same people whose dead pets/relatives he may have raised a glass for to "fuck off". Nick openly shares that his loving wife takes him to gay bars and on swinger vacations. Nothing unheard of on the internet, but hypocritical behavior nonetheless for Nick.
TL;DR Nick such an uninteresting person overall that the most interesting thing about him is not his degeneracy, but his hypocrisy and his inability to acknowledge it. This makes areas where he has been inconsistent, lied, or omitted relevant truths worth investigating/discussing in determining how long he has been this way.
