Since it's apparently faggoty "share your story" time in this thread:
I first became aware of Nick during the lawsuit between TheQuartering and some freak named Matt who punched him (
their statements after the settlement are still quite funny). Having been a viewer of Lior Leser and Leonard French, I liked his content and became a semi-regular watcher. Just before Weeb Wars kicked off, I subscribed and subsequently very much enjoyed the frequent reading of various motions and mildly inebriated analysis of them. Guests were nice, debates were hilarious, shoes were eaten, armz were photoshopped, so on and so forth. I didn't much care about the US anime dubbing industry itself (still don't,
subs 4eva), but back then I thought Vic's case might turn out to be a major blow to the cancer of #MeToo. Of course, now I understand this to have been naïveté at the level of "if only God-Emperor Trump would tweet about Gamergate," but those were simpler times.
Fast forward 3.5 years. I remained a steady viewer until about this time last year, when Nick's sexual proclivities became odd enough for me to take notice. The first major "huh" was the time Nick told a story about the TSA opening up his suitcase full of "toys," which him and Kayla took on some vacation. His reaction stood out to me. A normal man would recount such a story with, say, embarrassment or even shame. Scratch that, a normal man wouldn't volunteer such a story in the first place. Nick, on the other hand, was almost gleeful when recounting his discovery of the fact that his and Kayla's suitcase full of sex implements was searched, to the audience of, back then, tens of thousands. It's clear
now that, being an exhibitionist, he gets a kick out of shit like that. A year ago, however, it gave me pause.
For many, the balldo seems to have been the breaking point. At first, it was just a meme for me. That is, until Nick started seriously talking about investing in the company. Which happened to coincide with him increasingly talking sex on his shows. Initially, he explicitly declared that the daytime streams would be free of such content and remain family-friendly. But, to borrow a phrase, Nick is a lying liar who lies, so that promise didn't last. During the Darrell "Grounz" Brooks trial, he would repeatedly bring up the balldo to his (often normie) panelists, talk about it at length etc. And this was my "last straw" moment. I just couldn't watch his content anymore without getting irrationally angry every time the drunken faggot would explain to yet another panelist or guest exactly how he stuffs his saggy, middle-aged ballsack into the rubber cage and how many extension rings must be used to achieve optimal penetration of Kayla.
Funnily enough, during the Brooks trial, TheQuartering, being a Wisconsinite, was on to give a layman's opinion on how things are generally done in Wisconsin. Either during this appearance or shortly after, Nick shilled the balldo to him. Here's a timestamped and
fucking hilarious segment from an episode of TISM (a podcast ran by TheQuartering, Count Dankula, and Bearing) where they discuss the balldo for almost 10 minutes. Dame fucking Pesos is guesting. Later, Jeremy even attested to the efficacy and workability of The Balldo™ (via a superchat to Nick, iirc).
And so it goes. My enjoyment of Nick's content both started with TheQuartering, and kinda ended with TheQuartering. I like to think that there's a pleasing circularity to it. Now if only Trump would tweet about Gamergate...