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There was a period in the 2000s or so where it was oh so random to say utterly gay shit followed with "no homo."
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.
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Will he show up this time?
FIND OUT! NEXT TIME ON DRAGON BALL-DO!
- Joined
- Apr 15, 2019
Prior year data for comparison would be useful.
That ain't working. That's the way ya do it. Money for nothing. Balldos for free...
Who is modern day Rekieta supposed to appeal to? Salty Cracker and Jimmy Dore do the news thing better and in a timelier manner. He has been exposed as a non-practicing fraud. Any other Law Tuber is going to give a better take on Hunter Biden. I thought Nick was sick of covering politics. What happened to that?
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I put my shekels on him canceling last minute or at least being very late.
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I'll make 2022 my next priority for calendaring. It'll probably be a day or two till I complete it though, but I imagine it'll look pretty impressive compared to this year.
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That's what I'm betting. By a lot. Thank you for your service! o7
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Only 4.9 minutes late.
What the actual fuck is this?
He had "unexpected company" that decided to stay much later than expected, until, at least, 3:30AM. Make of that what you will.
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Do You Know MANdy?
"Mandy" is the catfish Redditor/former TF2 addict who prompted Nick's coomplosion...
PICTURED: A) a claimed picture of "Mandy", likely stolen like many other of "her" photos. B) The catfish's lair, posted by "Mandy".
"You made a bunch of dudes turbo horny. The people who are mad about it have all left locals."
- Nick Rekieta to "Mandy" (likely a man, definitely a catfish)
RECORDED: Nick Rekieta serenading "Mandy" on the night "she" posts some of "her" nudes. This started his Locals' descent into degeneracy, and a couple weeks after, a liquor bottle would appear wedged up his ass.
I would like to give credit to the following users for their assistance in writing this post:
@Himedall All-seeing Waifu,
@AltisticRight,
@elb,
@Captain Manning.
Part I: The "Mechanic", The Janny, and the Non-Practicing Lawyer
"Amanda Michelle Karevicius", allegedly born August 8, 1989 and going by the name Mandy Karevicius, has been a major presence in the communities surrounding Nick Rekieta and "LawTube" for over three years at this point.
@Peace Through Power reported that Mandy made her entrance to what was to later become the Balldo Expanded Universe in September 2020, when she sent this $5.00 super chat to Nick Rekieta:
Over time, Mandy became a top super chatter to Rekieta and associated streamers. More information about Mandy became known. Mandy was born in Israel, grew up in Waco, Texas, and now lives in nearby Arlington (in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area) working as a mechanic - or so it was said. Mandy claimed to have been a Hooter's waitress before becoming a mechanic.
Here's Rekieta riffing on her background in September 2022, when he suggested Mandy start a "Topless Tuneups" business in response to a super chat from her:
Source: @elb clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IhHZr1c8pE
It wasn't just Mandy's frequent paypiggery that gained her status in the inner sanctum of Rekieta fans. She regularly flirted with CGoody (Cory), one of Rekieta's top mods, even in public in the live chats, eventually earning a wrench herself:
"I will SIGN. YOUR. TITS."
By Spring 2022, Mandy had been a prominent part of not just Rekieta's fanbase, but Rekieta's content itself. For instance, in this one stream by Rekieta in June 2022, Rekieta said "Mandy" over 30 times, engaging in an active discussion with Mandy, who was typing in the chat. In the course of the stream, Rekieta confirmed that Mandy was already "sending tit pics to CGoody or whatever".
Rekieta's main goal during this stream was to convince Mandy to attend the 2022 edition of the Anime Matsuri anime convention in Houston, Texas that was to be held in August of that year. Why was Rekieta wanting Mandy to attend Anime Matsuri 2022?
"I will SIGN. YOUR. TITS. I'm done. I'm done with life. Mandy, show up at Anime Matsuri, I will sign your tits." He later pressed Mandy to confirm that she was going to attend, saying he "had to prep Lady Rackets. [...] I'm going to say, 'Lady Rackets, Mandy is going to show up. She's Lithuanian. She apparently has tits. CGoody says they're pretty good. I'm gonna sign them.' I gotta tell her, before she's there."
At the time, Mandy said that she probably wouldn't be able to attend, due to "work". She ultimately decided not to attend, despite the fact that Cynthia, twice-banned from KF and Nick's Locals, claimed that she even offered to pay for her trip.
Earlier this year, Mandy claimed that the reason she could not attend was because she "had no PTO left."
August 2022 rolled around, and Nick Rekieta, coming off the high of his coverage of the Johnny Depp trial, was feted as a king at Anime Matsuri. Here's Nick marvelling and bragging at the size of the line to meet him at the convention while streaming from his room at the Hedonism II swingers' resort in Jamaica, where he travelled to after the convention.
The Locals COOMSPLOSION!
Sadly, it was all downhill from there. Rekieta was ultimately suspended from YouTube in October 2022 (though the suspension was later reversed) and he responded by promoting his content on alt-tech platforms Rumble and Locals. Locals features a chat room opened 24/7 for paying subscribers to participate in, though the page was set up to allow non-paying users to view. It became particularly notorious for its parasocial nature in which fans would compete for Nick Rekieta's attention, which eventually devolved into nonstop thirstposting which Nick encouraged and even participated in himself along with his wife. The thirstposting was kicked off in earnest a couple weeks earlier in October by none other than Mandy.
Mandy posted the photo while Nick was streaming live on Locals on October 26 2022, firing the starter on the Local's thirstposting. Nick encouraged her to post a picture she was teasing, saying "Mandy, if you posted the picture, you could go to bed", before being seemingly pretend-annoyed but actually elated when she posted a topless picture of herself. While leaning over to delete the picture, he said, "First of all, NICE. Second of all, why would you post that?" before adding "Sure, I'll sign them."
(Originally clipped by @elb at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L97KmgiAA8g)
Photos of Nick and Kayla at a nude beach, believed to be the beach at Hedonism II, as well as most infamously a photo of a whiskey bottle wedged up Nick Rekieta's bare ass ultimately made their way off of Locals and onto the wider Internet in mid-November 2022, leading to Rekieta's thread on the site being moved from the Multimedia board to Internet Famous.
Mandy continued posting lewds in Locals over the coming months, though the Locals chat eventually slowed down.
Nick ultimately had an infamous drunken meltdown stream in May 2023 where he slurred out how much he would want to have sex with Mandy if he was not married. He even tried to convince her again to come to this year's Anime Matsuri convention in Houston in 2023, saying "Mandy is GORGEOUS. She's a gorgeous woman. And Lady Rackets would fucking FAWN over Mandy" if she attended. Many people speculated in Nick's thread or the Elissa Clips comment section that this was a euphemism for a threesome, even though he also said "I will never have sex with you or whatever", but this was never confirmed.
(Originally clipped by @elb at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FgoDPP3vEA)
This was one of the few incidents during the past year and a half that Rekieta has expressed any regret for, and actually prompted Nick to admit that he was drinking too heavily on his streams. He said he was going to cut back his on-air drinking, which he did for a very limited period of time. In DMs that leaked to Kiwi Farms in August, a former fan told him that his "going on for nearly two minutes about the things you would do to Mandy if you were single was very clearly not a joke" and that Nick "[comes] off as incredibly sexually frustrated", to which Nick admitted that the incident "was a bad one, and it hurt a lot of people. It probably hurt Mandy, who didn't deserve it, and it definitely was really shitty for my wife."
(A: excerpt of message from former fan PerceptionCheck; B: excerpt of reply from Nick Rekieta)
While Mandy was extremely active in the community, there was one thing she was not active in: voice chat. She was in Locals giving excuses for why her mic didn't work and how she can't use Discord voice chat.
The profile picture
But wait a second... Let's look at that old YouTube profile picture used by "Mandy" a little closer that I used at the top of the post above. Credit to @Not Who You Think for highlighting this part of the screenshot.
Is this what Mandy looks like with clothes on?
Well, no.
I was able to find the original source for the profile picture:
...It's a stock image of a mechanic from Japan.
(Archive)
Part II: Analyzing the October 26, 2022 Topless Photo
The EXIF Metadata
As described above, the topless photo that Mandy dropped on October 26 was deleted immediately by Nick. But she posted other versions of it which were censored with various items overlaid on top of the nipples, which were apparently deemed as acceptable content by Nick.
In one such version, posted in November 2022 and available live on Locals as of the time of this writing with the metadata relevant to this section still attached at the following URL:
Months ago, it was noticed that Locals does (or at least did) not wipe all EXIF metadata, which is saved by most phones when a picture is taken. Potentially, they wipe the GPS geolocation information, but that still leaves a lot of metadata. Many other social media sites (such as Discord) wipe the EXIF data completely, whereas Facebook wipes it, but adds data starting "FBMD".
Unfortunately, it seems that none of the GIF files posted by Mandy have any EXIF data attached to them. However, one of the censored versions of the infamous Mandy picture was posted in JPEG format instead of the GIF or PNGs that she often posted, and it has relevant EXIF metadata.
I suspected that this infamous nude photo was actually a picture of a monitor taken with a phone camera. The quality of the picture is rock bottom along with all of her other photos of herself, but it is low quality in a different way than most of the others.
There is oddness with the lighting, especially at the bottom of the image. that I thought might be the backlight bleeding off the edges of the monitor. In addition, the perspective seems weird. I noticed that this was extremely similar to another picture posted by Mandy, specifically this one:
As you can see, unlike most of "her" other (stolen) images, this one is riddled with stripes of mosaic noise and some bleaching in the periphery. This looks like a bright monitor screen, and the flickering of the screen (usually invisible to our eyes) was captured. Regardless, this image is dubious.
Before going further, it is worth noting some descriptions Mandy gave of her current phone in the Locals chat.
The camera model name is "Nokia 2 V'. The Nokia 2 V, released around 2019, is a Verizon branded version of the Nokia 2.1, a low end Android phone. While a review from Neowin for the Nokia 2.1 from October 2018 states that the camera is "sub-par at best", that is by the standards of 2018, and the included sample photos demonstrate a vastly higher quality than in Mandy's pictures.
(Archive)
Now let's really dig into the EXIF metadata. I suspected something was weird when I saw the reported Field of View value of "161.1 deg", far higher than the typical phone photo.
The following extremely detailed analysis of the EXIF metadata was provided by @AltisticRight.
TLDR: the infamous nude which threw Nick's Locals into the thirstposting craze that turned him into a lolcow was likely a photo of a computer screen taken by a Nokia running Android 9 just after 8pm Central Time on February 27, 2022.
EXIF Analysis
Starting first with the timestamps:
We can see two sets of time here, GPS time which is 18 seconds ahead of UTC and the time of creation and modification.
GPS time (UTC): 2:17am, 28th February, 2022.
Creation time: 8:17pm, 27th February, 2022.
The difference is 6 hours, UTC-6 includes Dallas, the claimed place of "Mandy's" residence.
We can also see the phone "she" was using.
A Nokia 2 V.
The original resolution of "her selfie":
"She" downsized it proportionally to 408x306, likely an attempt to disable any reverse image searching tools.
Here is thetripod camera specifications of the phone:
The front camera is known as the "selfie camera" (right) and the main camera is the one opposite to the screen, shown below on the left.
(f/ means the f-stop, or aperture value.)
MP=megapixels, 8 MP means 8,000,000 pixels.
The native resolution of the photos from the phone's main camera is 2448*3264:
This shows that "she" took the image with the main camera. You may be wondering, what if "she" was just that tech shabby and knows the main camera will produce better results? We can explore the Exif data further.
The f-stop recorded here is 2.0, which corresponds to the main camera.
The Exif data records the field of view (FoV) as 161.1 degrees.
With this data, we can calculate the working distance (WD), which is the distance between the camera sensor and the subject that is in focus. In this case, it was a photo of "Mandy". To do this, we need to calculate the equivalent focal length first using the FOV and sensor size.
FoV usually refers to horizontal FoV, so we first need to know the physical length of this camera sensor. We know the image format is 3x4. The pixel size is 1.12um, the native image is 2448x3264. Horizontally, there are 3264 counts of 1.12um pixels (1 micrometer = 0.001 mm), meaning the sensor size is
With the values for FoV and sensor size:
For working distance (WD):
This means the distance between the phone camera's sensor and the subject "Mandy" was only around 1.32cm, or 0.52 inches.
Have you ever held the phone half an inch away from yourself, phone screen facing away from you, to take a selfie?
Neither have I.
"Mandy's" selfie was just a phone photo of a computer monitor.
So here's what "she" did:
1. "She" found a photo and shrunk it using the image viewer so it can fit on the phone's screen in the camera app.
2. "She" took a photo of the monitor with the phone around 1cm away.
3. "She" then downsized that photo to ant resolution.
This:
Resize:
Snap with phone, and then resize again:
It appears that aside from downsizing, "she" also brightened the image and added more contrast, though the results of phone cameras always differ from model to model.
(4k monitor, so less banding, but you get the point.)
Thank you again to @AltisticRight for providing this analysis.
Part III: The Reddit Heist
"FUCKING HELL,. MANDY" - Nick Rekieta's response to a photo of "Mandy K" which was actually stolen from Reddit
(Another response to a MANdy photo which was actually stolen from Reddit)
We've learned that the infamous picture that prompted the craze of posting lewds and nudes on Nick Rekieta's Locals, ending with a bottle wedged up Nick's bare ass, was likely taken off a still image being displayed on a computer monitor. But.... maybe Mandy took the picture on an old phone or something and the photo was only on her computer or something.... That has to be it..... Right?
No. It is my personal belief that ALL of the photos Mandy posted claiming to be "herself" were actually stolen. And I can prove it for a lot of them. Five of them, to be exact.Consider the following five photos from Mandy posted on Locals. These are among the most suggestive pictures that Mandy posted on Locals. All of them have the weird pixelated quality to them typical of Mandy's photos. Just an old phone right?
All the images are low quality, 4 of the 5 are GIF images, the PNG image is also low resolution (407 x 300) and has the weird pixelated quality as well. Guess what?
All five were posted by a reddit user named "submissivelittletoy" who has since deleted their account, but the bulk of the photos must have been posted in 2016 or earlier because there are forum posts archiving the photos from then, and some of the photos have the date on them.
If you look at https://old.reddit.com/r/eddit6yearsago/comments/wefrzd/6893_turns_out_selfie_sticks_can_be_useful/ and poke around the Wayback Machine link in the post, you can find that a single post from this user, dated August 2016, had 489,709 views on Imgur and a whopping 6,893 Reddit updoots as of earlier this year!
Now, the tell was image #1 in the list above. This was posted with the comment "i dropped my phone on my face" in the thread "Omg Monday nightstream" in October 2022. I will post this one outside of the spoiler since it is the least suggestive image, the woman is fully clothed in this one. It is a crappy 205x154 GIF.
This was the smoking gun. Put it into a reverse image search and it comes right up with the fact that they were posted on Reddit by username "submissivelittletoy" and have been archived outside of Reddit on multiple websites. Below is the original photo. You will note that instead of being a 205x154 GIF with tons of noise/compression artifacts, it is 1280x960 and not weirdly pixelated at all!
In other words, the photos were not taken on old phones at all, they were deliberately degraded, almost certainly in a failed attempt to defeat reverse image searching.
Here is a Wayback Machine archive of the original Imgur album where this picture were uploaded:
Imgur has wiped NSFW content, but as of May 2023 the album had 63,451 views. The archived Imgur albums all had tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of views, including some with just under half a million views.
@AltisticRight was able to take the original photo that "Mandy" stole off of Imgur or some reupload site and replicate the weird "old phone" picture quality almost exactly:
Can you tell which one was Mandy's photo?
Let's now knock down each of the other photos in order. The reverse image search on the picture posted by "Mandy" leads to galleries with the other images posted. These URLS go to a porn site, so it goes without saying they are NSFW and only go there with a locked down browser with adblock or whatever if you choose to do so.
From the gallery, we can knock off the other 4 images, though they are sufficiently different that I don't think they would appear in any reverse image searches.
In other words, in all likelihood, the original poster was Canadian and therefore could NOT be "Mandy".
Part IV: "MKFlower", Team Fortress 2 Addict
Here's MANdy's steam profile.
Steam | Archive
The account is nearly 16 years old, it was made in February 2008. There are a large number of previous names, but only a few of them are preserved by Steam.
It appears Mandy was called out for being a catfish enough to write a sarcastic bio. Let's hope "she" wasn't actually collecting dick pics....
Mandy K is a bisexual girl gamer!
Mandy K appears to have been obsessed with Team Fortress 2 / TF2, accumulating many thousands of hours.
I am not an expert on how TF2 works, but I have a vague understanding that Valve games have tradable cosmetics or something along those lines. According to a third party inventory site for TF2 items (https://backpack.tf/profiles/76561197996483157), the first trade mkflower made was in March 2014 and the last was in October 2020. Mkflower owns 643 items with a real-world value of around $1800 as of the time of this writing, which is enough to place "her" in the top 13,000 of TF2 item portfolios despite not collecting any new items in over 3 years. "Mandy Karevicius" first started paypigging for Nick Rekieta with a super chat in September 2020, the month before the last TF2 transaction.
For instance in February 2019 mkflower purchased "Unusual Cat's Pajamas" for $153.99.
There are archived pages of MKFlower's steam profile, the earliest being from a few months after the account was made in 2008. My thought was that the earliest archive would be male, but nope, in June 2008 it was Mandy from Israel. If this is really is a man, he has been pretending for nearly 16 years.....
(Archive)
In 2009 the bio was edited to say "Yes I'm a girl playing online video games. Get a hold of yourself and stop being rude." Also a part of the group "Cute Girls", described as "For attractive females, and guys who like attractive females."
(Archive)
As of July 2015 "she" accumulated 3119 hours of playtime in Team Fortress 2, that is an average of nearly 70 minutes of gameplay every single day for over 7 years. Is this really someone who isn't familiar enough with technology to figure out how to set up a mic for Discord? When Discord has a phone app that can be installed and you can use the built-in phone mic?
This seems like someone who would be in Discord VCs all day if it was a real woman.
(Archive)
In fact, a review posted says that Mkflower has 5,540.8 hours of playtime as of December 2023 in TF2, and 5456.6 as of the date of the review at the end of 2019.
Doing some math, this implies that Mkflower played an average of 85 minutes of TF2 every single day between July 2015 and December 2019. However, only 84.2 hours were accumulated from 2020-2023. Along with the date of the last inventory change, it seems that Mandy stopped playing TF2 in 2020. My suspicion is that the ubiquity and ease-of-use of Discord made the bisexual girl gamer LARP untenable, and "Mandy" moved to the Rekieta Law community instead.
(Archive)
In conclusion:
Uh oh! Is this another "vault" situation?
Thank you to @Clarence for providing the screenshot of Milo's vault)
"Mandy" is the catfish Redditor/former TF2 addict who prompted Nick's coomplosion...
PICTURED: A) a claimed picture of "Mandy", likely stolen like many other of "her" photos. B) The catfish's lair, posted by "Mandy".
"You made a bunch of dudes turbo horny. The people who are mad about it have all left locals."
- Nick Rekieta to "Mandy" (likely a man, definitely a catfish)
RECORDED: Nick Rekieta serenading "Mandy" on the night "she" posts some of "her" nudes. This started his Locals' descent into degeneracy, and a couple weeks after, a liquor bottle would appear wedged up his ass.
I would like to give credit to the following users for their assistance in writing this post:
@Himedall All-seeing Waifu,
@AltisticRight,
@elb,
@Captain Manning.
Part I: The "Mechanic", The Janny, and the Non-Practicing Lawyer
"Amanda Michelle Karevicius", allegedly born August 8, 1989 and going by the name Mandy Karevicius, has been a major presence in the communities surrounding Nick Rekieta and "LawTube" for over three years at this point.
@Peace Through Power reported that Mandy made her entrance to what was to later become the Balldo Expanded Universe in September 2020, when she sent this $5.00 super chat to Nick Rekieta:
Over time, Mandy became a top super chatter to Rekieta and associated streamers. More information about Mandy became known. Mandy was born in Israel, grew up in Waco, Texas, and now lives in nearby Arlington (in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area) working as a mechanic - or so it was said. Mandy claimed to have been a Hooter's waitress before becoming a mechanic.
Here's Rekieta riffing on her background in September 2022, when he suggested Mandy start a "Topless Tuneups" business in response to a super chat from her:
It wasn't just Mandy's frequent paypiggery that gained her status in the inner sanctum of Rekieta fans. She regularly flirted with CGoody (Cory), one of Rekieta's top mods, even in public in the live chats, eventually earning a wrench herself:
"I will SIGN. YOUR. TITS."
By Spring 2022, Mandy had been a prominent part of not just Rekieta's fanbase, but Rekieta's content itself. For instance, in this one stream by Rekieta in June 2022, Rekieta said "Mandy" over 30 times, engaging in an active discussion with Mandy, who was typing in the chat. In the course of the stream, Rekieta confirmed that Mandy was already "sending tit pics to CGoody or whatever".
Rekieta's main goal during this stream was to convince Mandy to attend the 2022 edition of the Anime Matsuri anime convention in Houston, Texas that was to be held in August of that year. Why was Rekieta wanting Mandy to attend Anime Matsuri 2022?
"I will SIGN. YOUR. TITS. I'm done. I'm done with life. Mandy, show up at Anime Matsuri, I will sign your tits." He later pressed Mandy to confirm that she was going to attend, saying he "had to prep Lady Rackets. [...] I'm going to say, 'Lady Rackets, Mandy is going to show up. She's Lithuanian. She apparently has tits. CGoody says they're pretty good. I'm gonna sign them.' I gotta tell her, before she's there."
At the time, Mandy said that she probably wouldn't be able to attend, due to "work". She ultimately decided not to attend, despite the fact that Cynthia, twice-banned from KF and Nick's Locals, claimed that she even offered to pay for her trip.
Earlier this year, Mandy claimed that the reason she could not attend was because she "had no PTO left."
August 2022 rolled around, and Nick Rekieta, coming off the high of his coverage of the Johnny Depp trial, was feted as a king at Anime Matsuri. Here's Nick marvelling and bragging at the size of the line to meet him at the convention while streaming from his room at the Hedonism II swingers' resort in Jamaica, where he travelled to after the convention.
The Locals COOMSPLOSION!
Sadly, it was all downhill from there. Rekieta was ultimately suspended from YouTube in October 2022 (though the suspension was later reversed) and he responded by promoting his content on alt-tech platforms Rumble and Locals. Locals features a chat room opened 24/7 for paying subscribers to participate in, though the page was set up to allow non-paying users to view. It became particularly notorious for its parasocial nature in which fans would compete for Nick Rekieta's attention, which eventually devolved into nonstop thirstposting which Nick encouraged and even participated in himself along with his wife. The thirstposting was kicked off in earnest a couple weeks earlier in October by none other than Mandy.
Mandy posted the photo while Nick was streaming live on Locals on October 26 2022, firing the starter on the Local's thirstposting. Nick encouraged her to post a picture she was teasing, saying "Mandy, if you posted the picture, you could go to bed", before being seemingly pretend-annoyed but actually elated when she posted a topless picture of herself. While leaning over to delete the picture, he said, "First of all, NICE. Second of all, why would you post that?" before adding "Sure, I'll sign them."
Photos of Nick and Kayla at a nude beach, believed to be the beach at Hedonism II, as well as most infamously a photo of a whiskey bottle wedged up Nick Rekieta's bare ass ultimately made their way off of Locals and onto the wider Internet in mid-November 2022, leading to Rekieta's thread on the site being moved from the Multimedia board to Internet Famous.
Mandy continued posting lewds in Locals over the coming months, though the Locals chat eventually slowed down.
Nick ultimately had an infamous drunken meltdown stream in May 2023 where he slurred out how much he would want to have sex with Mandy if he was not married. He even tried to convince her again to come to this year's Anime Matsuri convention in Houston in 2023, saying "Mandy is GORGEOUS. She's a gorgeous woman. And Lady Rackets would fucking FAWN over Mandy" if she attended. Many people speculated in Nick's thread or the Elissa Clips comment section that this was a euphemism for a threesome, even though he also said "I will never have sex with you or whatever", but this was never confirmed.
This was one of the few incidents during the past year and a half that Rekieta has expressed any regret for, and actually prompted Nick to admit that he was drinking too heavily on his streams. He said he was going to cut back his on-air drinking, which he did for a very limited period of time. In DMs that leaked to Kiwi Farms in August, a former fan told him that his "going on for nearly two minutes about the things you would do to Mandy if you were single was very clearly not a joke" and that Nick "[comes] off as incredibly sexually frustrated", to which Nick admitted that the incident "was a bad one, and it hurt a lot of people. It probably hurt Mandy, who didn't deserve it, and it definitely was really shitty for my wife."
(A: excerpt of message from former fan PerceptionCheck; B: excerpt of reply from Nick Rekieta)
While Mandy was extremely active in the community, there was one thing she was not active in: voice chat. She was in Locals giving excuses for why her mic didn't work and how she can't use Discord voice chat.
The profile picture
But wait a second... Let's look at that old YouTube profile picture used by "Mandy" a little closer that I used at the top of the post above. Credit to @Not Who You Think for highlighting this part of the screenshot.
Is this what Mandy looks like with clothes on?
Well, no.
I was able to find the original source for the profile picture:
...It's a stock image of a mechanic from Japan.
(Archive)
Part II: Analyzing the October 26, 2022 Topless Photo
The EXIF Metadata
As described above, the topless photo that Mandy dropped on October 26 was deleted immediately by Nick. But she posted other versions of it which were censored with various items overlaid on top of the nipples, which were apparently deemed as acceptable content by Nick.
In one such version, posted in November 2022 and available live on Locals as of the time of this writing with the metadata relevant to this section still attached at the following URL:
https://cdn.locals.com/images/chat/2269720/2269720_n4pekpp3uab1ury_full.jpeg (NSFW; censored nipples), the nipples in the photo are obscured by a pair of male nipples overlaid on top. Other versions, such as one with the Rekieta Law logo embedded on top, have been archived on this thread.Months ago, it was noticed that Locals does (or at least did) not wipe all EXIF metadata, which is saved by most phones when a picture is taken. Potentially, they wipe the GPS geolocation information, but that still leaves a lot of metadata. Many other social media sites (such as Discord) wipe the EXIF data completely, whereas Facebook wipes it, but adds data starting "FBMD".
Unfortunately, it seems that none of the GIF files posted by Mandy have any EXIF data attached to them. However, one of the censored versions of the infamous Mandy picture was posted in JPEG format instead of the GIF or PNGs that she often posted, and it has relevant EXIF metadata.
I suspected that this infamous nude photo was actually a picture of a monitor taken with a phone camera. The quality of the picture is rock bottom along with all of her other photos of herself, but it is low quality in a different way than most of the others.
There is oddness with the lighting, especially at the bottom of the image. that I thought might be the backlight bleeding off the edges of the monitor. In addition, the perspective seems weird. I noticed that this was extremely similar to another picture posted by Mandy, specifically this one:
As you can see, unlike most of "her" other (stolen) images, this one is riddled with stripes of mosaic noise and some bleaching in the periphery. This looks like a bright monitor screen, and the flickering of the screen (usually invisible to our eyes) was captured. Regardless, this image is dubious.
Before going further, it is worth noting some descriptions Mandy gave of her current phone in the Locals chat.
- "i have a potato nokia but hey, no contract and 10 bucks a month for 3 gigs"
- "i have the first apple phone and i have a nokia android i take to work"
- "mine is a shit nokia anyway lmao"
- After being asked "what network?": "Verizon"
Code:
File Type : JPEG
File Type Extension : jpg
MIME Type : image/jpeg
JFIF Version : 1.01
Exif Byte Order : Big-endian (Motorola, MM)
Make : HMD Global
Camera Model Name : Nokia 2 V
Orientation : Horizontal (normal)
X Resolution : 72
Y Resolution : 72
Resolution Unit : inches
Software : Dynamo2_VZW-user 9 PKQ1.181105.001 00WW_1_13M release-keysV200.0002.00V030.0000.00
Modify Date : 2022:02:27 20:17:10
Y Cb Cr Positioning : Centered
Exposure Time : 1/20
F Number : 2.0
Exposure Program : Not Defined
ISO : 800
Exif Version : 0220
Date/Time Original : 2022:02:27 20:17:10
Create Date : 2022:02:27 20:17:10
Components Configuration : Y, Cb, Cr, -
Shutter Speed Value : 1/20
Aperture Value : 2.0
Brightness Value : -1.48
Metering Mode : Center-weighted average
Flash : No Flash
Focal Length : 2.5 mm
Warning : [minor] Unrecognized MakerNotes
Sub Sec Time : 858
Sub Sec Time Original : 858
Sub Sec Time Digitized : 858
Flashpix Version : 0100
Color Space : sRGB
Exif Image Width : 2448
Exif Image Height : 3264
Interoperability Index : R98 - DCF basic file (sRGB)
Interoperability Version : 0100
Sensing Method : One-chip color area
Scene Type : Directly photographed
Exposure Mode : Auto
White Balance : Auto
Focal Length In 35mm Format : 3 mm
Scene Capture Type : Standard
Offset Schema : 114
GPS Altitude Ref : Unknown (2)
GPS Time Stamp : 02:17:10
GPS Date Stamp : 2022:02:28
Compression : JPEG (old-style)
Thumbnail Offset : 1056
Thumbnail Length : 4337
Image Width : 408
Image Height : 306
Encoding Process : Baseline DCT, Huffman coding
Bits Per Sample : 8
Color Components : 3
Y Cb Cr Sub Sampling : YCbCr4:2:0 (2 2)
Aperture : 2.0
Image Size : 408x306
Megapixels : 0.125
Scale Factor To 35 mm Equivalent: 1.2
Shutter Speed : 1/20
Create Date : 2022:02:27 20:17:10.858
Date/Time Original : 2022:02:27 20:17:10.858
Modify Date : 2022:02:27 20:17:10.858
Thumbnail Image : (Binary data 4337 bytes, use -b option to extract)
GPS Date/Time : 2022:02:28 02:17:10Z
Circle Of Confusion : 0.025 mm
Field Of View : 161.1 deg
Focal Length : 2.5 mm (35 mm equivalent: 3.0 mm)
Hyperfocal Distance : 0.12 m
Light Value : 3.3The camera model name is "Nokia 2 V'. The Nokia 2 V, released around 2019, is a Verizon branded version of the Nokia 2.1, a low end Android phone. While a review from Neowin for the Nokia 2.1 from October 2018 states that the camera is "sub-par at best", that is by the standards of 2018, and the included sample photos demonstrate a vastly higher quality than in Mandy's pictures.
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Now let's really dig into the EXIF metadata. I suspected something was weird when I saw the reported Field of View value of "161.1 deg", far higher than the typical phone photo.
The following extremely detailed analysis of the EXIF metadata was provided by @AltisticRight.
TLDR: the infamous nude which threw Nick's Locals into the thirstposting craze that turned him into a lolcow was likely a photo of a computer screen taken by a Nokia running Android 9 just after 8pm Central Time on February 27, 2022.
EXIF Analysis
Starting first with the timestamps:
Code:
GPS Time Stamp : 02:17:10
GPS Date Stamp : 2022:02:28
[..]
Create Date : 2022:02:27 20:17:10.858
Date/Time Original : 2022:02:27 20:17:10.858
Modify Date : 2022:02:27 20:17:10.858
GPS Date/Time : 2022:02:28 02:17:10ZWe can see two sets of time here, GPS time which is 18 seconds ahead of UTC and the time of creation and modification.
GPS time (UTC): 2:17am, 28th February, 2022.
Creation time: 8:17pm, 27th February, 2022.
The difference is 6 hours, UTC-6 includes Dallas, the claimed place of "Mandy's" residence.
We can also see the phone "she" was using.
Code:
Make : HMD Global
Camera Model Name : Nokia 2 V
[...]
Software : Dynamo2_VZW-user 9 PKQ1.181105.001 00WW_1_13M release-keysV200.0002.00V030.0000.00A Nokia 2 V.
The original resolution of "her selfie":
Code:
Exif Image Width : 2448
Exif Image Height : 3264"She" downsized it proportionally to 408x306, likely an attempt to disable any reverse image searching tools.
Here is the
| Rear: | Single camera |
|---|---|
| Main camera: | 8 MP (Autofocus), f/2 |
| Video recording: | 1920x1080 (Full HD) (30 fps) |
| Features: | Video calling, Video sharing |
| Front: | 5 MP, f/2.4 |
| Pixel Size: | 1.12um |
The front camera is known as the "selfie camera" (right) and the main camera is the one opposite to the screen, shown below on the left.
(f/ means the f-stop, or aperture value.)
MP=megapixels, 8 MP means 8,000,000 pixels.
The native resolution of the photos from the phone's main camera is 2448*3264:
2448*3264=7990272≈8MPThis shows that "she" took the image with the main camera. You may be wondering, what if "she" was just that tech shabby and knows the main camera will produce better results? We can explore the Exif data further.
Code:
Shutter Speed Value : 1/20
Aperture Value : 2.0The f-stop recorded here is 2.0, which corresponds to the main camera.
The Exif data records the field of view (FoV) as 161.1 degrees.
Code:
Circle Of Confusion : 0.025 mm
Field Of View (FOV) : 161.1 deg
Focal Length : 2.5 mm
Hyperfocal Distance : 0.12 m (this basically means anything that is 0.12m/2=0.06m away from the sensor in focus, the other 0.06m is out of focus, useless information)
Light Value : 3.3With this data, we can calculate the working distance (WD), which is the distance between the camera sensor and the subject that is in focus. In this case, it was a photo of "Mandy". To do this, we need to calculate the equivalent focal length first using the FOV and sensor size.
FoV usually refers to horizontal FoV, so we first need to know the physical length of this camera sensor. We know the image format is 3x4. The pixel size is 1.12um, the native image is 2448x3264. Horizontally, there are 3264 counts of 1.12um pixels (1 micrometer = 0.001 mm), meaning the sensor size is
3264*1.12=3655.68um≈3.66mm.With the values for FoV and sensor size:
For working distance (WD):
This means the distance between the phone camera's sensor and the subject "Mandy" was only around 1.32cm, or 0.52 inches.
Have you ever held the phone half an inch away from yourself, phone screen facing away from you, to take a selfie?
Neither have I.
"Mandy's" selfie was just a phone photo of a computer monitor.
So here's what "she" did:
1. "She" found a photo and shrunk it using the image viewer so it can fit on the phone's screen in the camera app.
2. "She" took a photo of the monitor with the phone around 1cm away.
3. "She" then downsized that photo to ant resolution.
This:
Resize:
Snap with phone, and then resize again:
It appears that aside from downsizing, "she" also brightened the image and added more contrast, though the results of phone cameras always differ from model to model.
(4k monitor, so less banding, but you get the point.)
Thank you again to @AltisticRight for providing this analysis.
Part III: The Reddit Heist
"FUCKING HELL,. MANDY" - Nick Rekieta's response to a photo of "Mandy K" which was actually stolen from Reddit
(Another response to a MANdy photo which was actually stolen from Reddit)
We've learned that the infamous picture that prompted the craze of posting lewds and nudes on Nick Rekieta's Locals, ending with a bottle wedged up Nick's bare ass, was likely taken off a still image being displayed on a computer monitor. But.... maybe Mandy took the picture on an old phone or something and the photo was only on her computer or something.... That has to be it..... Right?
No. It is my personal belief that ALL of the photos Mandy posted claiming to be "herself" were actually stolen. And I can prove it for a lot of them. Five of them, to be exact.Consider the following five photos from Mandy posted on Locals. These are among the most suggestive pictures that Mandy posted on Locals. All of them have the weird pixelated quality to them typical of Mandy's photos. Just an old phone right?
Image #1:
Image #2:
Rekieta responded to this stolen image.
Image #3:
Image #4:
Screenshot for Image #4 has been lost, but the URL to the image itself is still live and available on Locals (NSFW)
Image #5:
Rekieta responded to this stolen image.
Image #2:
Rekieta responded to this stolen image.
Image #3:
Image #4:
Screenshot for Image #4 has been lost, but the URL to the image itself is still live and available on Locals (NSFW)
https://cdn.locals.com/images/chat/2269720/2269720_6kk5ccoulgr2f54_full.gifImage #5:
Rekieta responded to this stolen image.
All the images are low quality, 4 of the 5 are GIF images, the PNG image is also low resolution (407 x 300) and has the weird pixelated quality as well. Guess what?
All five were posted by a reddit user named "submissivelittletoy" who has since deleted their account, but the bulk of the photos must have been posted in 2016 or earlier because there are forum posts archiving the photos from then, and some of the photos have the date on them.
If you look at https://old.reddit.com/r/eddit6yearsago/comments/wefrzd/6893_turns_out_selfie_sticks_can_be_useful/ and poke around the Wayback Machine link in the post, you can find that a single post from this user, dated August 2016, had 489,709 views on Imgur and a whopping 6,893 Reddit updoots as of earlier this year!
Now, the tell was image #1 in the list above. This was posted with the comment "i dropped my phone on my face" in the thread "Omg Monday nightstream" in October 2022. I will post this one outside of the spoiler since it is the least suggestive image, the woman is fully clothed in this one. It is a crappy 205x154 GIF.
This was the smoking gun. Put it into a reverse image search and it comes right up with the fact that they were posted on Reddit by username "submissivelittletoy" and have been archived outside of Reddit on multiple websites. Below is the original photo. You will note that instead of being a 205x154 GIF with tons of noise/compression artifacts, it is 1280x960 and not weirdly pixelated at all!
In other words, the photos were not taken on old phones at all, they were deliberately degraded, almost certainly in a failed attempt to defeat reverse image searching.
Here is a Wayback Machine archive of the original Imgur album where this picture were uploaded:
Imgur has wiped NSFW content, but as of May 2023 the album had 63,451 views. The archived Imgur albums all had tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of views, including some with just under half a million views.
@AltisticRight was able to take the original photo that "Mandy" stole off of Imgur or some reupload site and replicate the weird "old phone" picture quality almost exactly:
Can you tell which one was Mandy's photo?
Let's now knock down each of the other photos in order. The reverse image search on the picture posted by "Mandy" leads to galleries with the other images posted. These URLS go to a porn site, so it goes without saying they are NSFW and only go there with a locked down browser with adblock or whatever if you choose to do so.
From the gallery, we can knock off the other 4 images, though they are sufficiently different that I don't think they would appear in any reverse image searches.
- Image #2:
https://www.imagefap.com/photo/1213757488/?pgid=&gid=11336614&page=0- This "Mandy" picture was actually the top right corner of an image posted by Reddit user submissivelittletoy with weird artifacts added.
- Image #3:
https://www.imagefap.com/photo/1752110543/?pgid=&gid=11336614&page=1- This "Mandy" picture was actually an image posted by Reddit user submissivelittletoy which has been flipped horizontally and then cropped to avoid posting the breast. Weird artifacts added.
- Image #4:
https://www.imagefap.com/photo/1347027748/?pgid=&gid=11336614&page=4- This "Mandy" picture was actually an image posted by Reddit user submissivelittletoy that was flipped horizontally. Probably for the whole reverse image searching thing.
- Image #5:
https://www.imagefap.com/photo/620017250/?pgid=&gid=11336614&page=1- This "Mandy" picture was actually an image posted by Reddit user submissivelittletoy has been rotated counter-clockwise 90° and the breasts have been cropped out.
In other words, in all likelihood, the original poster was Canadian and therefore could NOT be "Mandy".
Part IV: "MKFlower", Team Fortress 2 Addict
Here's MANdy's steam profile.
Steam | Archive
The account is nearly 16 years old, it was made in February 2008. There are a large number of previous names, but only a few of them are preserved by Steam.
It appears Mandy was called out for being a catfish enough to write a sarcastic bio. Let's hope "she" wasn't actually collecting dick pics....
Mandy K is a bisexual girl gamer!
Mandy K appears to have been obsessed with Team Fortress 2 / TF2, accumulating many thousands of hours.
I am not an expert on how TF2 works, but I have a vague understanding that Valve games have tradable cosmetics or something along those lines. According to a third party inventory site for TF2 items (https://backpack.tf/profiles/76561197996483157), the first trade mkflower made was in March 2014 and the last was in October 2020. Mkflower owns 643 items with a real-world value of around $1800 as of the time of this writing, which is enough to place "her" in the top 13,000 of TF2 item portfolios despite not collecting any new items in over 3 years. "Mandy Karevicius" first started paypigging for Nick Rekieta with a super chat in September 2020, the month before the last TF2 transaction.
For instance in February 2019 mkflower purchased "Unusual Cat's Pajamas" for $153.99.
There are archived pages of MKFlower's steam profile, the earliest being from a few months after the account was made in 2008. My thought was that the earliest archive would be male, but nope, in June 2008 it was Mandy from Israel. If this is really is a man, he has been pretending for nearly 16 years.....
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In 2009 the bio was edited to say "Yes I'm a girl playing online video games. Get a hold of yourself and stop being rude." Also a part of the group "Cute Girls", described as "For attractive females, and guys who like attractive females."
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As of July 2015 "she" accumulated 3119 hours of playtime in Team Fortress 2, that is an average of nearly 70 minutes of gameplay every single day for over 7 years. Is this really someone who isn't familiar enough with technology to figure out how to set up a mic for Discord? When Discord has a phone app that can be installed and you can use the built-in phone mic?
This seems like someone who would be in Discord VCs all day if it was a real woman.
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In fact, a review posted says that Mkflower has 5,540.8 hours of playtime as of December 2023 in TF2, and 5456.6 as of the date of the review at the end of 2019.
Doing some math, this implies that Mkflower played an average of 85 minutes of TF2 every single day between July 2015 and December 2019. However, only 84.2 hours were accumulated from 2020-2023. Along with the date of the last inventory change, it seems that Mandy stopped playing TF2 in 2020. My suspicion is that the ubiquity and ease-of-use of Discord made the bisexual girl gamer LARP untenable, and "Mandy" moved to the Rekieta Law community instead.
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In conclusion:
Uh oh! Is this another "vault" situation?
Thank you to @Clarence for providing the screenshot of Milo's vault)
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Can't wait to see how Rackets copes with this information. Good job with the trigonometry @AltisticRight!
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You know the effortpost is top-tier when there's math in it.
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There's an alarming absence of Dark Net hacker forums with top secret Nose pictures of Balldo though.
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i hate how hard i laughed at "drink time"
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Nick's descent into Esoteric Balldoism has apparently been the result of being catfished by a dude.
I mean we already knew he's a faggot so did "she" really have to pretend to be female?
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Wouldn't it be fucking amazing if Monty was Mandy this entire time?
come on now.
thats called being irish, also its pretty hard to get blackout drunk on beer.
from what i can tell in drug forums if you can fall asleep while on Moda it supercharges your sleep, you wake up like you just had 14+ hours of amazing sleep but you only got 2
here's a hot take. i don't believe you can attribute the change to the booze so much as the daxipad riding. if Nick dropped drinking 5 years ago we'd still have the exact same arc of him being a swinger and embracing sex and siding with Vito only he'd be able to form better arguments. The alcohol just adds fuel to the fire though.
someone said that in this very thread last month, thanks Amy Schumer. Also sad you're forgetting Uncle Paul, arguably the best example of a long term pedo bit. Except unlike Vito, the fact that everyone is condemning his actions and its a character created by a blatant CSA victim makes it a lot more acceptable.
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I didn't want to include this in the main post because the demonstration is scuffed (I don't really know how to use Blender and the idea is not to be precise, but merely demonstrate the intuition) but in this clip I try to give an example of how insane a 161.1 degree field of view is.
From Twitter, Cog uses some sort of Motorola, though 3 different models are mentioned: https://twitter.com/GuntHunter1/status/1702685994175058214
They have rear-camera FoVs of around 70 degrees reported in technical specifications.
You can see the vast difference between 70 degrees and 161 degrees.
I have no idea how "Mandy" accomplished this with their phone, but it's what's in the EXIF metadata.
From Twitter, Cog uses some sort of Motorola, though 3 different models are mentioned: https://twitter.com/GuntHunter1/status/1702685994175058214
They have rear-camera FoVs of around 70 degrees reported in technical specifications.
You can see the vast difference between 70 degrees and 161 degrees.
I have no idea how "Mandy" accomplished this with their phone, but it's what's in the EXIF metadata.
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All this gay ass math
meanwhile rachel had it figured out decades ago
meanwhile rachel had it figured out decades ago
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By the way, Rekieta, this blunder could have been 100% avoided by simply not being a degenerate.
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Never really a big OnA guy. Funny thing, though, just searching for "Uncle Paul" turned up like three other pedophiles before the OnA one, if that's the one you mean.
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thats insane, they're connected to so many lolcows on the site and their fanbase is responsible for so much content we post here. its like being a Rekieta law fan but not a fan of alcoholism.