That's something I've been pondering for a while now. What reason would millionaire 100% heterosexual totally not a federal informant pedophile shielder Nick Fuentes have to tolerate Ralph's bullshit on his own platform? Ralph has done nothing beneficial for Fuentes or AF. At the same time Fuentes is the supreme gunt guard. Makes me wonder just how bad the dirt they have on each other is. At the same time, when it inevitably all gets revealed, it probably won't be surprising in the slightest.
Im still a bit mystified with Nick signing up to be the Gunt guard general two years ago.
I know Nick and Gunt had some in person breakfast meeting (Gunt wore some AF cap afterward he was so bursting with pride that he met with Nick) Then a month or so later Nick wants to debate Jim and defend Gunt honor, which was a glorious disaster. Nick’s appetite for Gunt seemed to be curbed, and it declined from this point on. After a flurry of initial interaction (the Nick & Ralph buddy comedy was very short lived) it fizzled.
Nick still let Gunt drive his subprime to Florida with baby mama #2 and clown suit to attend AFPAC, but he was sure to keep him at arms length. After this, Nick seems to have Ghosted the Ralphamale as much as possible.
My guess was Nick was hard up for content in 2021 and looking at three long years until the next election. Nick seemed to think he could benefit from lolcow sektor drama and fill a void, but quickly started to fear being overshadowed by the Gunt drama. Nick didn’t have a good grasp on why Gunt was infamous. He does now, but only after he’s stuck with the sektor’s lolcow in chief as cozy “exclusive”.
I always wondered if Nick fell for Gunt pretending he was being courted by Odysee to be Gunt exclusive. Nick was trying to play the big boy streaming platform Cozy CEO and had no idea what he was doing. Gunt brags about all these platforms wanting Gunt exclusive and waving contacts around, and Nick fell for it. Now Nick thinks getting rid of him would be more trouble/danger than letting him keep his channel.
I don’t think Ralph has any specific blackmail on Nick, or anything besides being a bigger pain in the ass (for a short period) if he kicked him. Ralph has never had anything but transactional interactions with Nick. Besides, nobody trusts Gunt with anything sensitive or important, he’s got no real offline friends in the online biz.
Nick going with “keeping friends close, but enemies closer” strategy at this point but it’s terrible optics if he wants to try to pretend he’s got any real political aims or optics. He never thought Gunt would still be a problem in Summer 2023 when he was just trying to fill his 2021 content void. He didn’t take the warnings about the Ralphacancer and turbo leech qualities seriously.
Nick must now realize ignoring Ralph or trying to get rid of him via back channels will never work, but Ralph will continue the “yass master Nick” routine in public as long as he keeps his channel. He’s either going to have to rip that band-aid off in one swift motion, or just keep letting the infection fester beneath it.