This is true. There were plenty of times where I thought he was getting a bit too cocksure of himself but I just shrugged it off. The thing that I couldn't 'let go' was his spending habit. Every time he shows off his purchases it rang my alarm bells. I found it tasteless since it's money he got from his audience and he's flaunting it in front of his audience and every single time it was a useless purchase because he'd either neglect the stuff or replace them soon after. This was before the mustang too. Thank goodness I only did the discord access and it was with the 'exploit' before spectre snitched like a little bitch.
I think that this is basically right:
The streaming earnings are just extra fun money that allow him to go wild in ways that his parents wouldn't choose to enable.
In retrospect it seems pretty clear that the financial windfall Nick got from the trial streams and Depp in particular lead him to spend wildly on things that he wouldn't have been able to get otherwise, That includes the Mustang obviously, but also things like the Jamaican vacations - I don't know if his parents would be willing to foot the bill for that for obvious reasons.
This is compounded by the fact that the relatively minor fame Nick got has absolutely gone to his head. These organized meetups look like excuses to LARP as a celebrity and it's embarrassing.
Apologies for being way behind the power curve here, but is there something Nick has been doing/talking about lately that makes his Locals a magnet for this sort of comment?
Or are these psychos just accidentally finding each other?
Nick's Locals got filled up with people who wanted to support Nick after he got banned from YouTube.
Over time, relatively normal people in the chat got chased out by power users. While months ago it had a reputation as a place for people to thirstpost and for women (and a few men) to post lewds, that is outdated and seems to have mostly stopped. Based on the excerpts that
@Himedall All-seeing Waifu posts, Nick has also dramatically reduced his participation in the chat.
There has seemingly been a drop in the quality of person who posts on Locals. I increasingly notice that the excerpts are filled with people like Still-Life posting violent screeds, current or former drug addicts talking about withdrawal or how their doctor just cut off their Xanax, or just insane people in general.
Still-Life is a frequent poster who has been banned several times by Locals for his threatening posts and keeps coming back. Though in between the threats, you get personal anecdotes like this from him:
--Still--Life-- | Meth shuts down your logical process, one time I cut my shoulder open because I thought there were bugs in it. |
RekietaLaw | @Jenna_c I'd be down to try a lot of crazy stuff if it were legal (or I was in a place where it were legal) but I will never do meth or opiates |
--Still--Life-- | The when I was homeless, I though that I was taken from eath by mind reading aliens and put into a space colony made to look like earth. |