Eric July "Responds" (By "Not Responding")
Body language and tone says a lot more than he does in this video. He's somewhere between sad, furious, and annoyed that he has to squelch it. He however made the right move. He was even stupidly honest about it being a smart financial move. He does fuck up a bit when talking about "being expected to absorb the hits" or whatever. He's moping, and I get it's for a pretty good reason but its one of those things he needed to edit out or cleaned up. He definitely should have had a script.
In some places he legitimately seems like he's about to cry - You can tell Nick's drunken rant just devastated him.
Here's something interesting:
- "I already spoke to Rekieta" - On Twitter, he said he'd do this later, so he's contradicting himself.
- "We'll speak again when heads cool." - He's returned to the "narrative" he set up beforehand.
This tells me everything. They already had whatever counts for their conversation and won't be having another later unless its in 10-20 years.
They are done. In all likelihood he saw the
realllly bad clips after he posted to Twitter - when the folks who thought he was ignorant to what was said blasted him with a million "NIGGER" clips. This probably made him push up the time to talk to Nick, and it probably was less of a "talk" and more of a
"Dude, I'm gonna publicly squelch this, but don't ever talk to me again"
Eric's not stupid. He and Nick won't be interacting from here on. There's no need for "cool heads" to prevail. Nick has lost the remainder of Eric's respect, and the battle. Eric won't talk about it, which means Dick can't really farm Nick for the drama anymore. And that's just sad - Nick is just Dick's puppet now. And if Dick - a pathological psychopath - can't farm him for drama, Dick will drop Nick like a bad habit. Left slowly going mad from alcohol, Nick will then fade into obscurity, as his good grace from the geekdom side fade away. So long as Eric just stays quiet on it, he wins in the end. Nick will lose (or has lost) all clout with them.
As for the future.
Nick is done. His modern content is terrible, uninteresting and just sad to look at. His audience will take a death drop from here. He's just another one of those YouTube guys who had it all, then exploded in spectacular fashion. I'd recommend an early retirement to get help with his alcoholism. Not a hiatus, full-on retirement because a return wouldn't play well without the one thing people associate him with.
Let The Saga of the Fall of Rackets be a lesson for all.