- Joined
- Mar 21, 2023
She was not a regular cast member or participant in the community until she had idea of having her own channel around the end of Depp
It's minor quibbling. And your recollection of Nick lore is more extensive than mine.
But my recalled version of events was that Nick was pushing hard pre-Locals lewdposting for Kayla to be a more regular feature in his content as a husband & wife team at the time similar to Aaron & April.
For weeks or months prior to the lewdposting and eventual total disappearance of Kayla from the backlash, Nick regularly mused on-air how he wanted to merge church & state by hosting his partner and marriage online. I can't recall the exact descriptors, but he praised his wife's personality and thought she was a hidden gem that was well suited for YT commentary.
Thus I feel like her brief YT channel creation was at Nick's behest in order to get her more familiar and comfortable with appearing on camera and making content.
The videos on her channel were more in the style of Shorts. I recall one where she was waxing poetically about a dead tomato plant in a hanging basket. There was another "Kids say the darnedest things" style one about one of the youngest boys.
As mentioned, we hear very little from Kayla directly, so we only hear Nick's versions of events for the most part wrt agency.
But my impression at the time was that Kayla's YT channel, while only featuring herself in short form family content, was always a ploy by Nick in a larger campaign at the time to get his wife on camera, and more specifically his liveshow, more frequently.