Was listening to
an unrelated video about sports media and the line “Your brand is not what you make. It’s how you make people feel while they watch what you make," really resonated with me and I feel it's especially pertinent here given how the mistaken perception of him as a (relatively) wholesome figure was the draw to a large chunk of his audience.
Nick's pre-coom branding was interesting in some ways because his night streams were branding him as an edgyboi, using gamer words, openly drinking to excess and ranting about things in the wee hours of the morning not allowed to be uttered in polite society.
But it's a thin edge to walk, much like Null does himself. A small percentage of the population will seek you out and enjoy your authenticity, but the boldness must still be backed with some credibility and morals that reassure the listener that you can still be trusted as a "good person".
Your post made me think of Louis CK's saga - an A-list sort-of-indie comedian who hosted SNL giving an opening monologue humanizing pedophiles and did specials about lusting over college-aged girls and being okay with kids with peanut allergies dying.
Louis got taken down by old MeToo allegations, reframing edgy & brave frumpy dad humour into a divorced creep that needed to be exiled forever.
CK was canceled from everything, his back catalogue taken down and all his famous friends pretending he didn't exist. He spent many years lying low in the wilderness, eventually started touring in Europe, dated and broke up with a French women. Quietly started doing small unpromoted sets at formerly familiar NY comedy clubs. Gets recorded trying out material about mass shooting victims and gets in trouble all anew because most normies can never forgive him ever again and need to stay offended. Years later, Louis gets to return from exile, but is only really welcomed as a comedian emeritus of sorts by younger colleagues like Shane Gillis, another (very brief) SNL alum who similarly was excommunicated.
Police arrested him when he got home and he was charged with illegally abstracting electricity. They had no interest in the heroin at all. They couldn't be bothered with the paperwork. I'm not sure they even threw it away -- they might have just left it where it wa
I know you are in the UK (and only - with respect - married to a lawyer).
How does potentially illegal search & seizure apply to cases like this with lack of probable cause?
The entry by police was likely lawful, as stated but the unnecessary search of the premise was not.
That being said, if a similar hypothetical search uncovered a gaggle of abducted children, we'd all probably feel quite differently about habeas corpus.
There's no way he hasn't driven drunk with the amount he drinks.
This really gets compounded by the fact that his "profession" is starting to drink at midnight for circus peanuts while his family sleeps, but his kids' homeschooling co-op follows regular 9-5 hours AFAICT. To which he unexplicably has to play morning chauffeur.
I presume this might be blunted somewhat by the exclusive Locals stream deal. Pre-Locals contract and back in the Faran era a year ago, it wasn't unusual for Nick at all to stream until dawn, drinking all the way.
I stopped watching Nick around the time that the Locals streams began, but from clips and Himedall's summaries, it seems Nick now streams 3 hours or less, then does a Locals stream where he shovels ramen/bitches in his hot tub and seems to curb the booze earlier.
"Trials streams are really good for subs growth you guys!!"
drops down 1k sub
There's so much inertia in unsubbing from unwatched channels vs how much agitprop is devoted to convincing users to sub in the first place.
In general, users have to be turned off and motivated to get to the point of manually unsubbing, making drops of 1K subscribers over time all the more impressive.
PLing a bit, but I was researching yesterday how to remove consent for organ donation in protest of government and societal trends. You can imagine how unbalanced the signal-to-noise ratio is wrt signing up vs withdrawing consent, similar to canceling a gym membership or trying to delete a Facebook account.