I think the people who regularly watched Nick back in the day are more likely to say that he was at one point genuinely Christian, and then changed over the course of time. Regardless of whether he was genuinely Christian or not, this is going to be true, since people aren't quick to admit that they were fooled.
I never regularly watched Nick but have been aware of him since the Maddox shit. I am not the Christian trad dad demo. However, originally I did think he must be the real deal because of the background info -small town lawyer, Minn, five kids, wife, nice house.
It seemed really odd to me a small town lawyer with five kids to support would be fucking around online so much, but whatever. Maybe he got very very lucky with some civil case settlement? Small town lawyers running a solo-practice stay very busy, they don’t have time for the BS Nick engaged in. Their “social time” totally intersects with their business and political life where they have many interpersonal relationships with the other attorneys, judges, local police, court house staff, local politicians, etc..
Then it came to light he actually has a large trust fund and never really practiced law and it all made perfect sense. His “small town lawyer” was a just another role he tried to play but it didn’t work out. I’m sure now this was due to the work ethic, interpersonal skills and relationships it takes to run a successful solo practice in a small town. Nick is not capable of any of that shit.
Now, I think the Christian stuff was somewhat authentic for many years because Nick got a lot of positive feedback for being a Christian. He got a nice wife. His wife’s family thought he was great. His parents were pleased with wholesome Nick and the grandkids. I’m sure his church likes Trust Fund Nick too. The Rekeita’s could have afforded to be well tithing members. It all would have given him status and ego boosts. The Christian sphere lays out a set of values and code of conduct and if you follow it your status rises and respect is given.
I think the life he built in Minn was good enough, until it wasn’t. No doubt porn and the internet fed into this. Being a stay at home parents to five kids started to burn him out. Not a lot of “me time” with five kids. His wife’s life was revolving around kids when Nick decided he needed an erotic lifestyle to be satisfied.
Suddenly the life he built was too provincial, too strict, old fashioned, not cool, not hip. He didn’t need the approval of Scandinavian prudes when he had Dax and Depp trial watchers paying him for toasts. He no longer wanted the approval or respect of his IRL community and family. The parasocial online stuff was way easier and more ego gratifying.
I also think Nick is bizarrely vain for such an ugly guy. Maybe it’s from porn? But that post by
@Not Who You Think with great receipts was very informative for me as a very casual viewer like me. I think his nerd incel days and porn really did make him start viewing relationships with women as transactional. It probably makes him feel more in control, comfortable and powerful to have this perspective since he’s got the trust fund and Kayla and April do not.
It seems very depressing that you could be in your 40’s, married for 20 years with five kids, and still have the priorities of a horny 19 year old with too much time on his hands.
The way Nick talks about porn, masturbating, sex toys and sex twice a day makes him sound like a sex addict, not a guy with a healthy happy sex life and solid marriage. It sounds like he has a huge void in his life and he’s tried to fill it with the wrong shit; sex, drugs and online attention.
Maybe his posturing about monogamy was true at one point, years ago when Kayla was his trophy, and he worried about losing her? I also think Nick is a control freak in relationships, but esp ones with women, so the Christian monogamy reassured him that he will always be Kayla’s only option. But after e-fame, YT money and twenty years of marriage Nick now feels monogamy of depriving him all the cooming he deserves.
Kayla got plastic surgery, boob job, coke whore diet, tattoos, watched porn, went to Hedo2, etc… She tried everything to please Nick and be what he wanted but what a doomed endeavor and I’m sure it psychologically broke her years ago which is why she’s the anorexic dead eyed zombie we see today.
Their marriage is fucked if ranking in the sexual market place is a top priority. Nick is very concerned with how other people view him and needs what he perceives as a trophy wife. Kayla probably fit that bill very nicely for years. I’m sure she was one of the prettiest wives at their church. But Kayla couldn’t compete in Nick’s new online world where the sexual marketplace is filled with ethots, porn stars and 22 year old hookers in Vegas.
Nick might have really had some Christian morals and principles at 35, but by 40 he had bought into the BS Dax was selling and had evolved beyond pedestrian Christianity with the help of psychedelics, porn and his genius brain. He thinks he’s got way better options at 42 than he had at 32, and is only taking full advantage of these options (whores, drugs and booze) like any
rational high value vapid, narcissistic, shallow man should.
Nick’s comments about prenups, high value male/females and American Beauty make me think the only reason he still pays any public lip service to monogamy and being married is due to being married and not having a prenup. Kayla, surprisingly, listens to his streams so I think he’s careful of what he says on this subject because of her and some degree of public perception. Selling her on swinging, hookers and now having a live-in girlfriend was a good work around to get what he wanted without the cost of a divorce.
