I am feeling inclined to weigh in, and explain why I never once liked the guy, from when I first started to tune in during the #KickVic era.
Forget Balldo contraptions, forget Juju, forget Vito, forget his rapid descent into overt coomerism and scornful acknowledgement of the early fans that propped him up to fame.
I never liked Nick Rekieta from the moment he started to trade jabs with Ron Toye, the creepy little remote-wielding gnome.
Furthermore, I would like to summon
@Captain Manning for his opinion on this:
I have a fairly vivid recollection of when Nick published several hours-long cope streams dedicated to Ron (before Vic's first loss prior to appeals, or shortly after Beard & Harris filed for appeal), in which Nick dissected either public statements uttered by Ron the snack tray cuck, or gave an alcohol-fueled commentary on his DMs with Ron.
These were a germinal version of Nick's current PillStreams, and again, I have a fairly vivid recollection of how ardently and furiously Nick tried to paint Ron as something of a monstrous man, devoid of any morals, of any respect for his fellow men, or for any love for women, and how, in Nick's own words, Ron was "the worst man Nick had ever met".
These cope streams were interspersed by loud shouting and autistic banging on the computer table.
While my opinion of Ron Soye is as low as anyone else's on here, I would like to offer this important detail:
You see, this is the same exact time frame in which Nick and Ralph were still in amicable terms. The same time frame in which Nick expressed open appreciation of Ralph, and showed open contempt for people who asked him "Why would you associate with an immoral, deadbeat, alcoholic, misogynistic revenge pornographer?". This, mind you, was when his façade of upstanding Christian family man was still in full force.
Say what you want about Ron Soye, and how pathetic he looked during deposition, or how much of a scumbag he is for having perpetrated lies on Vic and effectively terminated any future job prospect for the guy in the anime voice acting industry. Ralph has more evil in his pinky finger than Ron the snack tray cuck has in his entire being. A fact that was well known to anyone in the Sektur at the time.
Balldoman's moral crusade against the bad actors in #KickVic just fell flat on me, at a time when he had open relationships with far worse men than Ron, despite Nick's apparent ardent indignation for the likes of (admittedly) a fairly unpleasant man such as Ron.
It's my opinion that, at the time, it was plainly visible for anyone to see the signs that Nick calls upon righteousness only when it suited him, because in the way he associated with people far worse than Ron, and did not repudiate the men that his fake persona would have dictated he did.
Call me Nosetradamus if you want, but the signs were all there for everyone to see. And this is the reason why I never liked Balldoman.
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