What a difference a year makes.
I've mentioned it a few times, but there's also the AM streaming trajectory.
Two plus years ago (not sure the exact year given KickVic & COVID, Nick claims that his AM streams are a print money button with his highest single day superchat totals, with weebs throwing money at him faster than he could read them.
In 2022 after Depp & pre-AM, Nick was still bragging that AM streams were uniquely financially profitable for him above all else and how much he looked forward to them.
Then comes summer 2022 and Nick picks up an inconveniently timed channel strike for the AM weekend (can't remember if it was for a clip of violence in a bodycam video or from a Fuddbusters stream).
Nick gets locked out of his YT for the con (and investing zero effort into developing alt tech alternatives at this point in time). Nick doesn't stream and collects no revenue. Legal Mindset and Kurt do an awkward live.
Nick bitches incessantly how stupid and unfair it was for YT to handicap his most profitable event of the year, robbing themselves of their cut of the revenue. He may have even argued that YT was breaching their fiduciary duty to maximize revenues.
Over the months to come in Aug-Dec 2022
- Nick attends and streams secretly from Hedonism II
- Nick gets a third strike and a "temporary" permanent deletion of his channel after feuding witn Keffals and Duncan MacLeod over "MAPs belong on the wall" comments
- Nick starts streaming to Rumble
- Nick establishes and heavily promotes his 24/7 Locals chat
- Nick starts the drive for 5k subs for his custom secret "gift"
- Nick's YT gets reinstated
- Nick signs exclusive deals with Rumble & Locals
- Mandy posts ancient bobs, wine moms follow suit filling chat with wrinkly lewds from daughter's bedrooms, gay guys join in, Nick & Our Wife start posting bottle and boudoir pics. Lady R subsequently disappears when called out
- Nick's previous Hedonism II summer trip is identified via autism
- alogs start amassing in Elissa Clips' YT comments (and with Clairebere for a short time before she gets doxxed and DFE)
- Nick challenges Montagraph to sue him over pedo accusations. Monty lawyers up with surprising competency and serves Nick with a defamation suit
- Nick runs out and buys a Mustang anyway, promptly crashing it on the drive home from the dealer
- Nick dicks around with self-representation, playing games and insulting opposing counsel and late filings before actually retaining Marc Randazza weeks after he claimed he actually did
- Nick starts e-begging for trial crowdfunding on GSG, raising 10k on the first day, then embarrassingly running out of gas by Day 2, plateauing at 12k
- Coomalot somehow gets Pippa Pipkin on his stream after Nick was denied by management. Coomalot subsequently later shitposts that some random thot in his house was actually Pippa. Shitstorm between Coomalot and simps ensues. Nick wrenches himself into the conflict, shitting on V-tuber management and fans for weeks on his platform.
- Nick is in charge of YT corner at AM 2023. Nick predictably does no work. Anna, TSWG, who also was involved in planning, pulls out, along with the FNT crew minus Nerdrotic.
- Nicholas Rekieta, whom a year ago squealed at the injustice and economic suicide on YT's behalf from keeping him from cashing in on AM '22 streams, doesn't even bother to stream at all at AM '23.