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.

[Dr Naomi Hunter]

Horrifying....

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Camera was on the whole time huh?

Every time I see him topless I get a sinking feeling or sense of impending doom. It’s truly horrifying.

 

[Honey's Dead]

I'm pretty sure that a significant portion of that same 2019 audience has a very different view of him now. It helps that he, within the last year, basically told them to eat shit.

Yeah, during his speed run to LOLcow of 2023 he told most of us to fuck off...

Strangely we did, funny that...

For me I am sure its June or July and I have not watched him since then.

I think the only content I have seen since is when Commander in Sneed Josh has featured him on MATI.

To be fair I am surprised he could keep the act up as long as he did.

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

I'm looking forward to the Hobo Nick train-hopping streams soon.

Hobo Shoestring looks healthier!

RIP Hobo Shoestring.

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

Nick's also admitted a couple times that he wanted to write a comic book too, so he's definitely got some jealousy channeled towards Eric July for similarly succeeding where he failed (like DUI Guy with Depp).

He is upset he couldn't do a 100k grift and no one will draw it for him anymore.

I dunno much about his "Lawtube audience." For me, I'm largely ignorant of Rekieta between late 2020, and late 2022, when this thread was moved and he was officially declared a lolcow. I'm the wrong guy to ask about that time period.

He was still popular at the time, but his audience would act like they were in Nick's chat in other streamers' chats, be told to stop saying the n-word (or similar), the cry to Nick via Super Chat about the other person not being 'freeze peach' or banning/timing them out.

They could not restrain themselves in someone else's chat and respect their rules. They were awful.

Wait, what is that about creator commitments? The CEO was asked about that during the earnings call.

@Space Pope,

So, if I understand correctly, any further speculation as to whether he is still under contract, or could ever get another one, might be mooted by the fact Rumble's stated plan to investors is that nobody will have a minimum guaranteed contract anymore?

Because I am in the camp that believes his expired on or about March 1st, and he didn't get another.

With this earnings report, and what the executive said on the conference call, I'm not sure he's gonna be able to fool anybody for much longer. It also might explain why he's been using the word "agreement" instead of "contract."

Also, this might be why Mersh has been losing his shit at Metokur's hat sales more than usual.

EDIT: Elaboration.

It also makes sense that nick acted like they were ignoring him and him saying he hasnt heard back from rumble, etc. The ad plan had to have been in the works for some time and any low tier contracts would have been postponed.

This makes sense from both a business perspective and Nick weasel words. The investment capital they got has a definite end and they needed to use that to subsidise losses as they grew tech and audience. Monetisation is something Nick whinged about before, so he can claim some victory if he is in a 'partner program' or something because these programs have 'contracts' (tick boxes and an 'Agree' button) to 'sign'

IIRC, YT keeps 30% of superchats, unless it's from an Apple device. Then Apple also takes 30%.
No idea about ad revenue.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/72902?hl=en#zippy=,whats-my-revenue-share Rumble seems to barely beat them on rates.
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Yeah it seems to be only 5% different (55 vs 60) but rumble might be charging advertisers a lot less, otherwise they wouldn't bother. I don't know if live streams has ads in the same category as long form videos or not (i have ad blocks). Business insider said long form ranges from $1.61 to $29.30 and I bet your ass that nick would be in the short end of the stick cause of his topics. Stuff like cooking channel, travel, aquarium/terrarium would be a lot more palatable to advertisers.

Rumble also fakes their views so that's gonna bite them in the ass. We'll see if they play straight on this one.

As someone else said '60% of 0...' I would also expect this to be calculated on those 'different views' numbers that Nick told us about even people called BS on the audience for his stream.

Nick is borked if his money depends on what he can bring in for 'advertisers views'. Maybe he will complain about the Rumble Rant feature not being easy to use...

Rumble contract confirmed

Edit to add: and Locals updates

LOL! OK, Nick... When are you buying another expensive painting or going on another long vacation? You have the dosh to do it, right? RIGHT!?

 

[Truly Rural]

Most lolcows have million different excuses for their degenerate behavior because somewhere deep inside a spark of shame tells them things they do are bad. Nick is worse than all of them, he makes no excuses because he honestly thinks things he does are fine.

 

[Swole McPole]

Non-ironically, that one black man hates all other black people and has advised Nick in the past not to trust any of them.

Sing along if you know the words:

 

[marlintan]

That's bizarre because if they don't want to be judged, they should just become an atheist. Christians judging other Christians are well within the boundaries of religion.

The church exists to edify others in the congregation, Nick is just mad that his child is a shit person like himself, and a mature adult tried to edify the child about how people are expected to act in a bible study.

 

[and six goriilion others]

Rumble contract confirmed

I could believe it. But considering how fast and annoyed he jumped at not wanting to disclose further details, even though it was just a joke, I think it's significantly worse than his previous contract.
I mostly believe it, because I can't believe Nick just doing more Locals streams to put up a charade. This motherfucker can hardly be bothered to do any streams unless forced.

 

[Grand Wizard Wakka]

Nick's face has changed a lot. He looks terrible.

Spoiler

 

[Strix454]

So at one point he clearly says that in his "renegotiated" rumble contract he still has a requirement to do a certain number of locals streams.
But at the same time he is currently doing no locals streams at all. Vaguely promising that a whole bunch of them are coming maybe in May. (see 1:45 in the video).

It all seems like bullshit.

He may well still have a contract with Rumble. But its going to be the same sort of "superstar" contract that someone like Mersh is getting. Which is to say he is getting paid proportionate to the tiny audience he is bringing in and the other tiny revenue he brings in to rumble. Which is to say he would be paid very little.

But thing is, I think at this point Mersh has more engagement and a bigger audience than Nick does. Nick's show is effectively dead and there isn't even a road to bringing it back. His locals is even more dead. He can't even get meaningful guests to appear which is a sign that even they know that appearing with Nick now gains them nothing of value.

But I still have doubts if anything Nick said about a contract is true. If he had a contract requirement to do a certain number of locals streams and renegotiated his contract to do them at other times, he would still be doing locals streams rather than vaguely promising to do them someday. Contracts are contracts. You don't just fulfill the terms when you might feel like it.

 

[Dixieland Buckaroo]

Man if they're planning to not pay Crowder and Brand, there's no way this meth (allegedly) head is getting money from them now. What a fucking liar that lies.

If it's true, show us the contract!

Edit: I wonder if shareholders could demand this info from Rumble? I'd pity those poor souls though, that stock is tanking worse than Disney.

 

[Doctor John B. Zyklon]

I don't think he has a contract, or at least, one to be proud of, due to him not bragging about it or having a big show update thing, splooging on about how X has changed, and Y is coming. It has been little snippets that he is cagey about giving.

But if he does, that's fucking funny.

 

[ChromaQuack]

Yeah maybe his contract is "do the rumble switch, shill our hand picked sponsors and we'll take a 10% cut instead of 40%, also you get like $50 per ad read"

I guess it would technically be a contract, technicality nicki wins again.

 

[Balldo's Gate]

So at one point he clearly says that in his "renegotiated" rumble contract he still has a requirement to do a certain number of locals streams.
But at the same time he is currently doing no locals streams at all. Vaguely promising that a whole bunch of them are coming maybe in May. (see 1:45 in the video).

It all seems like bullshit.

He may well still have a contract with Rumble. But its going to be the same sort of "superstar" contract that someone like Mersh is getting. Which is to say he is getting paid proportionate to the tiny audience he is bringing in and the other tiny revenue he brings in to rumble. Which is to say he would be paid very little.

But thing is, I think at this point Mersh has more engagement and a bigger audience than Nick does. Nick's show is effectively dead and there isn't even a road to bringing it back. His locals is even more dead. He can't even get meaningful guests to appear which is a sign that even they know that appearing with Nick now gains them nothing of value.

But I still have doubts if anything Nick said about a contract is true. If he had a contract requirement to do a certain number of locals streams and renegotiated his contract to do them at other times, he would still be doing locals streams rather than vaguely promising to do them someday. Contracts are contracts. You don't just fulfill the terms when you might feel like it.

I don't think he has a contract, or at least, one to be proud of, due to him not bragging about it or having a big show update thing, splooging on about how X has changed, and Y is coming. It has been little snippets that he is cagey about giving.

But if he does, that's fucking funny.

I am sure he got a big new Rumble contract where he doesn't need to stream to Locals for over two months at minimum (he says MAYBE he will do streams in May) and I'm 100% confident that that there is a fat stack of GUARANTEED cash.

Wait, what was that that the CFO of Rumble said?
"minimum guaranteed contracts, and as they come off of contract, the plan is that we don't have to renew those, because as the monetization tools start kicking in, creators will actually start earning that 60% ad revenue, and we don't need to extend those contracts."

What did the CEO say?
"those minimum guarantee costs start declining through the rest of '24 and into '25, which allows us to get towards breakeven in 2025."

Oh no... Balldobros....

Yeah maybe his contract is "do the rumble switch, shill our hand picked sponsors and we'll take a 10% cut instead of 40%, also you get like $50 per ad read"

The entire point of the Rumble contract was that it gave him guaranteed cash. At the end of 2022 he implied that the guaranteed cash (or the guaranteed cash plus the Locals subscription) for 2023 was more than his entire income for 2022. That guaranteed cash is gone unless he was so AMAZING as a creator they decided to make an exception for him.

Maybe he got a contract where he gets tens of dollars a month for doing the Field of Greens thing.

Reminder this is what he looked like while announcing his new bumper contract.

 

[WelperHelper99]

am sure he got a big new Rumble contract where he doesn't need to stream to Locals for over two months at minimum (he says MAYBE he will do streams in May) and I'm 100% confident that that there is a fat stack of GUARANTEED cash.

Wait, what was that that the CFO of Rumble said?
"minimum guaranteed contracts, and as they come off of contract, the plan is that we don't have to renew those, because as the monetization tools start kicking in, creators will actually start earning that 60% ad revenue, and we don't need to extend those contracts."

What did the CEO say?
"those minimum guarantee costs start declining through the rest of '24 and into '25, which allows us to get towards breakeven in 2025."

Oh no... Balldobros....

I'd imagine this was always the plan. Get big names onto Rumble with big contracts, then wean them off to start making money. Nick is now just feeling it. He probably did get a contract, hense he's bragging about it, but it's no where near the money maker it once was.

 

[Goofy Logic]

Despite such poor numbers, Rumble management has a positive outlook. How will they turn things around and how does this impact our friend Nicki?

By not renewing contracts, they get rid of a committed expense. This is a "stop the bleeding" move and means their expenses don't match their income. Trying to spin it as positive isn't very effective.

Rumble is starting to sink and by lying about renewing his contract, Nick is the band playing as it goes down.

 

[Captain Manning]

I could believe it. But considering how fast and annoyed he jumped at not wanting to disclose further details, even though it was just a joke, I think it's significantly worse than his previous contract.
I mostly believe it, because I can't believe Nick just doing more Locals streams to put up a charade. This motherfucker can hardly be bothered to do any streams unless forced.

First of all, he hasn't done them yet. I'll refer you to @polar bear's carrot on a stick image meme here.

Secondly, such "force" could come in the form of him simply needing the money. It's been speculated for months now that times are tough at Casa de Rekieta. Tough by the lofty standards he was previously used to, that is. That $3k a month snack budget needs to come from somewhere. He's also still gotta pay Randazza too.

It's true Nick is lazy, but jumping in the hot tub and making a few lame Steven Hawking jokes to bilk a few more idiots out of $5 a month, or keep the few he still has, is relatively low effort, even for him. It's even lower effort if he has no intent on seriously following through with that promise.

If it's true, show us the contract!

Yeah, have fun waiting on that happening.

 

[Space Pope]

Rumble contract confirmed

I don't believe Rekieta has a Rumble contract. Certainly not a good one.

I think it's safe to speculate that at best he was given a small gesture of good will. Perhaps a free subscription to Field of Greens or a Rumble hat? No matter the truth of his current status, this is the last year he might be getting anything above and beyond what will be offered to every streamer.

I made the joke 60% of nothing is nothing, but let's look a little closer to see the reality.

For the fourth quarter of 2023, revenue was $20.4 million compared to $20.0 million in the fourth quarter of 2022, an increase of 2%. The increase is due to an increase in other services revenue of $3.5 million, offset by a decrease in advertising revenue of $3.1 million. The increase in other services revenue was driven mainly by subscriptions, content licensing, tipping features, and provision of one-time content.

Rumble is touting that their advertising platform is ready to go and will support all the creators yet they are losing ad revenue at the same time they brag about how many new creators and new, not made up viewers are using the service.



Rumble CEO made the call to stick with the 100/0 split since they know ad revenue is falling on their already shit payouts and he's trying to keep creators from publicly protesting.

 

[AnOminous]

I would imagine he's fucking pissed about this, if true. With no minimal guaranteed contract revenue anymore, viewership and superchats are supremely important again. Both of those depend on making content people want to watch, and audience engagement, respectively.

Maybe shidding, farding, pizzing and kooming all over your entire audience wasn't such a great plan. I mean poor Nick, it's not like anyone tried to give this "social media expert" any advice or anything.

 

[Kosher Dill]

I can't believe Rekieta sucked dick for a Rumble contract

I agree, I can't believe it took a Rumble contract to get him to suck dick.