Nicholas Robert Rekieta / Rekieta "Law" / Actually Criminal / @NickRekieta - Polysubstance enthusiast, "Lawtuber" turned Dabbleverse streamer, swinger, "whitebread ass nigga", snuffs animals for fun, visits 🇯🇲 BBC resorts. Legally a cuckold who lost his license to practice law. Wife's bod worth $50. The normies even know.

[WelperHelper99]

Exactly.

Some people here have disagreed with me, but I truly they thought they were getting a legal show. I think they were (unstandably) impressed with the view numbers he was pulling in during live trial coverage, and wanted in on that action. Same with the Superchat figures he got during Vic. During Weeb Wars, he was one of the top Superchat earners on YouTube. Most of the content he did pre-Rumble was legal stuff.

Did they renew them? Will they renew him? I dunno, but if they did/will renew him, I don't think it's sustainable with his current mind rot and work ethic. Rumble's stock is looking pretty rough.

This might be a controversial point, but I almost want to say YouTube's rules helped Nick overall. It forced him to avoid acting like a complete jackass, and to play to his strengths (even if, in hindsight, he's not a very good lawyer). Being able to operate in a more laissez faire environment seems to have invited complacency and a belief his personality was more important than subject matter.

You're not wrong about YouTube. Most of the time their ToS is gay, but in Nick's case it kept him from getting wasted and wiggering out all the time. At least back then he stayed on track more

 

[waffle]

The way Nick was talking about the requirement to start on YT and shift over makes me think rumble wants him mostly as a funnel for new viewers onto the platform. I don't think they care so much about his super chats or what he talks about nearly so much as his overall view count.

 

[Marchesa of the Vast]

This might be a controversial point, but I almost want to say YouTube's rules helped Nick overall. It forced him to avoid acting like a complete jackass, and to play to his strengths (even if, in hindsight, he's not a very good lawyer). Being able to operate in a more laissez faire environment seems to have invited complacency and a belief his personality was more important than subject matter.

Who knew that rules enforcing pro-social behavior even when you want to stick a bottle up your ass publicly would have such a benefit! Amazing how a massively successful company would have some idea that maintaining standards is beneficial. Where was such knowledge! It couldn't have been thousands of years of tradition laying out that sometimes you do what you don't want to do in order to avoid catastrophe.

Wow!

I wonder if there was a set of moral and social codes that Nick freed himself of similarly that could have helped him avoid turning into a coomer goblin.

A burning question for Nick to ponder over as he makes more veiled drunken homoerotic threats to Josh.

 

[Strix454]

I think Nick has been relying on the offer of a parasocial relationship to keep people subbed. After all, $5/month isn’t much even for NEETs and wine moms — hell, Spectre can swing it if he walks instead of taking the bus for a few days.

Nick's original plan a year ago was to trying to sell them a parasocial relationship based on adult-oriented porny content that could not be done on regular streams. He explicitly tried to create a platform around his female fans sharing their photos with him and tried to also encourage a sort of absolutist free speech content on the forum. He wanted people like Still Life and Carimarchet on locals.

But minus the degeneracy and minus the photo-sharing, Nick honestly had zero interest in locals. Even if he had been able to keep up his original ideas, I think he would have eventually grown bored with it and it still would have ended up being what it is today.

$5 isn't much for locals. But people are getting almost nothing for paying it. They get access to an empty 24-7 chat room and they get exclusive streams of Nick talking almost entirely about Nick in his kitchen in the middle of the night while he eats.

What he could have done different was not stream on youtube and make locals the place where the show went to after Rumble was done. Feature main content on locals. That might have worked. But I don't think it would work now.

 

[TheButcherknight]

No. That's different. It is line-crossing harassment. A non-practicing lawyer told me so. It is interfering with his business, but he does not want anyone banned.

(He really does.)

I think you owe sean / potentially criminal a drink after he had to listen to this be screamed at him for 20 minutes

 

[Pippa's Greasy KB]

The way Nick was talking about the requirement to start on YT and shift over makes me think rumble wants him mostly as a funnel for new viewers onto the platform. I don't think they care so much about his super chats or what he talks about nearly so much as his overall view count.

Why are you even 'speculating' over this? He already said both. They want the carry over and they want the superchats. He even called himself the superchat expert and said they wanted him for that. He said this before he went balls to the walls with the alcohol so I don't think he had any reason to lie about this. We also already covered in this thread about how rumble admits they read their own view metrics completely different from youtube and do it in such a way that makes it look good to investors. All of their metrics can be faked but money can't.



So first thing he tweets after promising a show and not showing up is getting MATI.

 

[AncientPhosphur]

Gunt officially passing the torch to Balldo.

Sic scriptum est et sic erit

 

[Pomniman]

Hey fags enough with the discussing this fag movie. The movie is a dumb jerk off about how Hollywood writers think everyone in the suburbs is miserable and anyone masculine is secretly gay or they’re a pedophile, it’s not that deep. Now can we get back to discussing the non practicing lawyer who has a glass and bottle almost semi permanently attached to his shaky hands and rants about a Balldo?

I'd love to get back to making fun of him more directly, but there's no new material to work with until he recovers from his liver failure food poisoning enough to lazily fire up another stream. That or he makes the news by wrapping his car around a tree or being involved in some sort of murder/suicide.

Like Dick "I liked the gay parts" Masterson.

The producers were going for the whole "homophobia comes from repressed homosexuality" thing.

Honestly, that's probably the least objectionable thing in the whole movie. It's overwrought, but the Colonel Fitts character is at least somewhat believable. You can argue that Fitts tried too hard to confirm to societal expectations. It turned him into a violent (and ultimately murderous) asshole. It is heavily implied he is neglectful/abusive towards his wife.

Dick seemed poised to agree with that, but then Nick took him on a wild ride about how fucking underage girls is "life improvement." He dialed up the non-conformity to a point where even Dick seemed visible uncomfortable.

That's funny to me. If it were just Nick monologuing, it would be uncomfortable.

You almost feel bad for Daxipad in that conversation because he wanted to keep it light but Nicki's reverence for this gay little 90s movie is pretty much religious and even someone like juju was uncomfortable about how into it this drunken subhuman homunculus he'd accidentally created with his facebook group was. It was almost a "my god, is this what my fans think I'm like?" moment of horror for him.

 

[waffle]

Why are you even 'speculating' over this? He already said both.

Because why would I believe balldo man? He lies about everything all the time and his brain is so fried that his ability to accurately notice anything is questionable at best. I don't think he was better enough the that we should believe him, he's never been a master of social cues.

 

[Pippa's Greasy KB]

Because why would I believe balldo man? He lies about everything all the time and his brain is so fried that his ability to accurately notice anything is questionable at best

And as I already said, they can bullshit almost every metric they have except the money. They have practically admitted as much. Even their brag tweets shows fucked up numbers if you start comparing their various stats with each other. What you speculated isn't even a mystery. He also said it as much in addition to the superchat expert thing. The two things don't contradict each other. How tf are you disbelieving him on this part of the contract and then believing the other part when you think he's a liar?

 

[waffle]

And as I already said, they can bullshit almost every metric they have except the money. They have practically admitted as much. Even their brag tweets shows fucked up numbers if you start comparing their various stats with each other.

The idea would be something like engagement builds engagement. I agree that that doesn't necessarily mean money, but it sounds like we agree that rumble is atleast a little fly by night and not necessarily a hive of business acumen - so I'm thinking they may just have a half baked plan.

I sort of think that he may not get renewed, or isn't getting the terms he expected. My thought would be that there is no way Nick drove the traffic expected with his Murdaugh trial meltdown and subsequent total stall-out on trial streams. That was in the spring, right?

-edit- My real point is I don't believe that Nick even really knows what rumble wants because he's the kind of guy who can't tell when they're telling him something to pump his tires versus when they're talking about what's important to them. He brags about superchats during the negotiations, they tell him they're great and they love it, but they really need those new viewers. Then Nick tells us they loved his superchats because he only hears the compliments. Rumbles course of dealing with other people like Crowder shows that they value the mid-shiw switch because it gets people off yt and on to rumble, at least in their mind.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

So I just remembered that Nick's rumble contract was signed on Dec 6 and starts on Jan 1. Anyone find it strange that Nick is being silent on this?

It's been mentioned before, but Nick's sudden half-assed commitment to Saturday make-up streams is a more recent indicator that even he acknowledges that his performance in fulfilling his contract obligations for the previous 11 months has been unimpressive and sub-par.

But minus the degeneracy and minus the photo-sharing, Nick honestly had zero interest in locals. Even if he had been able to keep up his original ideas, I think he would have eventually grown bored with it and it still would have ended up being what it is today.

Nick's Twitter slapfight addiction is another physical demonstration about how he truly feels about his Locals.

He'd rather spend his Labor Day weekend Bible camp raging at random alogs than chat with his loyal paypigs.

 

[Potatoherder]

The whole selling point of Nick was thrown out of the window when he let his truecrime audience atrophy. That is what Rumble wanted. They saw 30k+ viewers peaking ever 100k and tens of thousands in superchats.

I sort of think that he may not get renewed, or isn't getting the terms he expected.

If he gets an rumble exclusive then he got a good deal. If he is still on cutoffs then he managed to get more or less than what he has now. Adjusted for his lack of success if Rumble isn't retarded. If there are neither he flat out got kicked to the curb and got a token amount if anything.

As for Ralph... Nick better get Kayla to clean him up because Ralph is getting back into shape. If you go on stream and look worse than Ralph you have issues.

 

[Pippa's Greasy KB]

The idea would be something like engagement builds engagement. I agree that that doesn't necessarily mean money, but it sounds like we agree that rumble is atleast a little fly by night and not necessarily a hive of business acumen - so I'm thinking they may just have a half baked plan.

I sort of think that he may not get renewed, or isn't getting the terms he expected. My thought would be that there is no way Nick drove the traffic expected with his Murdaugh trial meltdown and subsequent total stall-out on trial streams. That was in the spring, right?

Trial streams was never part of the rumble deal. Nick said he believes trial streams are his money makers and wants to keep it on youtube and said rumble was fine with that. Keep in mind that ALL of this (trial stays on yt, yt rumble switch, superchat expert) was said in 2022 right after he got perma banned from yt, just after the keffals and duncan mcleod drama and he was still 'high' from the depp trial success and being a martyr from being banned off yt. People were still not considering him spiraling off yet. The ass pics only started after he got on rumble and locals contract (confirmed but not signed) and started promoting locals hard.

 

[waffle]

https://youtu.be/H1N9RzqosEQ?si=tFIlVMJN9y5mSeKt

I feel like we've all been sleeping on this clip. If Nick is taking his provigil whike drunk right before bed every night, sleeping two hours and waking up all geeked out and "ready" to drive it badacially proves the dieing of substance abuse theory. It also directly contradicts his claim that he doesn't do this like two weeks ago.

Edit

Trial streams was never part of the rumble deal. Nick said he believes trial streams are his money makers and wants to keep it on youtube and said rumble was fine with that. Keep in mind that ALL of this (trial stays on yt, yt rumble switch, superchat expert) was said in 2022 right after he got perma banned from yt, just after the keffals and duncan mcleod drama and he was still 'high' from the depp trial success and being a martyr from being banned off yt. People were still not considering him spiraling off yet. The ass pics only started after he got on rumble and locals contract (confirmed but not signed) and started promoting locals hard.

Just because we didn't notice the spiral at the time doesn't mean it hadn't started. He started going off the wagon no later than the first Jamaica trip, which was well before the YT ban. We were just being to charitable, and frankly people were school-marming about his drinking well before that. I don't know if that was warranted or not, it'd be hard to really say with a fair mind at this point.



As far as trial streams, I know those weren't part of the rumble deal them selves, but I think we all agree that they were the prime driver of traffic to his night show in the last couple years. My position is not that rumble cared about them per se but that they will be pissed that he shut off the pipeline without building a new one. If trial streams ended and then he got some other anime rube to sue somebody in Weeb Wars II and that drove piles of traffic they wouldn't say word one about it.

 

[DumDum Did Nothing Wrong]

Man 2 years ago this happened. Look at what cooming has taken from us. #neveragain

 

[John Andrews Stan]

Only registered users can send superchats on Rumble. So yes, those are a key incentive in the breadcrumb trail to converting visitors to registered users.

 

[Mordecai "3 Finger" Brown]

I feel like we've all been sleeping on this clip. If Nick is taking his provigil whike drunk right before bed every night, sleeping two hours and waking up all geeked out and "ready" to drive it badacially proves the dieing of substance abuse theory. It also directly contradicts his claim that he doesn't do this like two weeks ago.

The October 2022 "How I take Provigil" clip was strange.

AFAICT, Nick doesn't explain WHY he's taking Modafinil immediately before going to bed.

I believe he alludes in either this clip or another from the same Locals stream that he missed his morning trial stream earlier that day and slept past 1 pm CST, presumably during the Darrell Brooks Waukesha parade trial.

So it's possible that he was dosing with Provigil at bedtime in hopes of being able to break his narcolepsy and be able to wake up to trial stream by 8-9 EST.

Given this was Oct '22, presumably he didn't have the same dawn co-op driving obligations (he doesn't even have the Rustang yet).

It also doesn't make sense to take Modafinil AFTER drinking all night for its synergistic benefits of being able to get drunker.

I suppose it's also possible that Nick was taking Provigil at dawn simply because "the label says to take it in the morning".

Edit: typo

 

[AnOminous]

I suppose it's also possible that Nick was taking Provigil at dawn simply because "the label says to take in in the morning".

Any set of warnings would also probably include this:

This drug may also make you dizzy. Alcohol or marijuana (cannabis) can make you more dizzy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs alertness until you can do it safely. Avoid alcoholic beverages. Talk to your doctor if you are using marijuana (cannabis).

https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-16962/modafinil-oral/details

I guess Balldo Man just took that as a cocktail suggestion.

 

[Strix454]

AFAICT, Nick doesn't explain WHY he's taking Modafinil immediately before going to bed.

The whole point of taking Modafinil for narcolepsy is that you take it in the morning to stay awake. Taking it before you go to bed would make you not sleep and stay awake. If you were to combine Modafinil with alcohol, you get something like a speedball. The two chemicals push the brain in opposite directions.

If he is taking Modafinil before he goes to bed,, he is using it for non-medical purposes.