Prior to a year or even two years ago, it was very subtle to the untrained eye.
His casual demeanor and his speech peppered with “or whatever” and I “guess” sentence enders, suggests that he’s a very low maintenance low expectation kind of guy.
Gestures like repeatedly stressing to viewers: “please don’t donate to me if you can’t afford to” was something that even won favor from me in the early days. I can’t think of another streamer aside from Good Lawgic who went out of their way to regularly communicate that.
Also, while the Kino Casino repeats the claim that Nick celebrated and grifted over the misfortune of others, it seems like a reach of not flatly incorrect. In watching his trial coverage and even post-trial coverage myself, he came off as more unemotional and impartial compared to his counterparts. I don’t recall him openly delighting in anyone’s downfall prior to a year ago.
Perhaps this was the malignant addition to the narcissism (which he openly admitted to), in which he cannot allow himself to be seen as needy, and perhaps the cool detached act that he put up was too exhausting for him to maintain once he’d “won” enough in life to earn him respect in the eyes of JuJu and his own dad.
This is the one thing that I have trouble reconciling: “What was real?” Though, I suspect it is the same question survivors of malignant narcissists ask themselves all the time.
Disclaimer: Nick is a piece of shit who deserves to be in prison.
It’s just with all the “piece of shit” emoting, the subtleties get drowned out.
