I think Elissa is just making an excuse. She bent the knee way too quickly based on what she's saying. I don't think she's Noseguarding so much as she's protecting the wahmens. It's a little disappointing and as some have pointed out leaves a lot of opening for someone to swoop in and usurp her position as the main Rekieta Clipper if she starts hiding or refusing to clip various content due to personal qualms with doing so. As I said before the best move would have been to make him DMCA/strike it and then she could remove it but use the fact that he took action on her to Streisand herself into multiplying her viewerbase. I think she's smart enough to realize that, so there's probably an alternative motive at play.
I'm actually not interested in fighting with you or anyone else who are "on the same side" .... the 3D chess on identities is just stupid.
Here's the issue: Elissa is no strategist. She works 8-12 hour days stocking shelves. She lives on Michael Long's parent's property in an actual trailer.
And your comment here is exactly right. (Except it's not for Mandy. I doubt Elissa gives 0 fucks about Mandy.)
All receipts available upon request...
I've spent months telling Elissa that she survives by Nick's grace. She does not transform her clips and she's gathered an increasingly rabid group of dissenters in her community for which, we all know, he reads constantly. Meanwhile, she's unmonetized. (That's very odd considering 1) her views and 2) Nick's partner woman at YT who he loves - *ahem*.)
In fairness, Elissa has financial issues (I've helped, btw). She has no computer - she does her entire channel all via her phone. Impressive, actually.
Nick's striking her would be insanity for him, right? But, atp, I wouldn't put it past him.
He's still smart, though. Instead, he's trangulating. Elissa doesn't trangulate. She's hanging with bottom feeders like Thermo, Nova (who likely did edit the reupload or Elissa did), Koolfrog, Spectre, Madcore Mofo... and sometimes Divinity Said, CatnipDave, and Tim of Tams.
Instead, she loves that she can DM with Nick. She buckled immediately to his wishes. (Also to be fair, she gets a ton of views on his Locals streams which are behind a paywall. He could cut that off without much effort, likely without a strike.)
And, yes, Faran offered to sell her monetized channel to Elissa. I was happy to front the funds - it wasn't much - with a small payback, over time, favoring Elissa bc she needs the money and is doing good work with little resources.
She ran away from that so damn fast, and burned bridges. Insanity. Even Faran detractors would be totally cool with Elissa buying a channel so she could be properly monetized for her work. Hell, when Faran was selling her channel, her detractors (THERMO!) offered to buy it.
Btw, I also took the recording of the Nick v Monty audio for which she got 6K views and fed it to her.
Elissa would have been good to keep the clip up and dare Nick to strike her. Mandy will be fine. The uproar if Nick went after Elissa would eclipse anything that happened with Divinity v Faran.
She should know who her community and friends are.