The most interesting part to me is the "shows should return tomorrow". No guarantee. No assurance or promise that they will. Almost setting up that he will cancel again.
At this point, I really wonder if he just mentally done with the show and has already checked out. Dealing with a setback by passively quitting would be exactly in character for Nick.
Or else he is dealing with something really serious in terms of his health. That 107 degree fever story where he lost nine more pounds but never went to a doctor made no sense IMO. Losing nine more pounds on top of all his other weight loss seems like something bad happening.
Or else its reached a point where he is so messed up on whatever he is doing that he just can't go on stream anymore some nights.
He's missed quite a few Monday shows recently. I wonder if he gets so fucked up on the weekend that he is unable to do a Monday show.
The other possibility is the checking out thing. Nick Rekieta has a family of 7 and an extremely expensive lifestyle.
His super chat income is currently barely enough to cover what he said was his family's monthly snack budget.
His Locals income is likely dramatically down and considering in his recent post-February talks about how he is FREE to do whatever he wants with Locals now, he very briefly mentioned how he doesn't want people to subscribe until he's finished RETOOLING Locals, which probably gives you an idea about the state of his Locals subscribership that he didn't see the need to pretend it was worth subscribing to.
From what I can gather, Nick was legitimately delusional enough to think he could get a renewed guaranteed money deal from Rumble, and he may well have been as delusional as he was implying on his shows such that he actually thought he had the negotiating power to start making demands.
That's out. The next step is likely to beg his wealthy parents to bankroll his lifestyle. That would mean continuing on making very little on his streams indefinitely with no visible change in his lifestyle.
Think about it. Nick has talked about a $2000 snack budget, as high as $3300 one month. He grosses like $3k, maybe $4k a month now on YouTube, plus whatever he gets on Rumble. YouTube then takes at least 30% out of that.
Nick makes barely more than Ethan Ralph does on his streams these days and on some days makes less. Ralph's mandatory monthly expenses are likely less than Nick's snack budget: Ralph pays $400 a month in rent and owes $1100 in child support for his son, which he no longer bothers to pay in full. In addition to that $1.5k in monthly expenses, Ralph also spends about $4-5 on a couple tortas a day and maybe a few more dollars on some Modelos and cigarettes.
Ralph is ending his streams totally defeated and looking on the verge of tears. On the other hand, Nick visibly doesn't care. He is pretty obviously more aggrieved about the public perception that he lost his Rumble contract than the actual financial cost of losing his contract.
If he needed to rebuild his channel because his financial situation demanded it, he would change his family's schedule to accommodate trial streams where even last year he could make tens of thousands in a couple weeks. But instead he blathers about "retooling" and whines about everything and doesn't bother showing up to his streams. He doesn't appear that concerned.
