What is it with cuckolds lecturing others about masculinity
The cuckolds who lecture about masculinity mistakenly believe they are highly evolved/enlightened males that have transcended social convention, morality, and sexual norms in general. An extension of the "you just can't handle my lifestyle bro" cope when confronted as a way of making their sexual deviance seem enlightened, desirable, and even an act of power since they
chose it.
The reality is they are just weak "men". Slaves to their own degrading passions.
I'm working on the more complete backstory of Nick and his channel. It will put things like this to rest. I am starting back in 2017 and working forward.
You may find this helpful. Nick went into more detail during a stream on November 26, 2022. The gist is the same as what's in your OP but there are a few more details:
Nick was able to address how he has changed over time. For example, not swearing was "cute" but not Nick and implied to be bad because it wasn't "authentic". Nick started talking about relationships a lot more because of people like Drexel, Legal Mindset, and Branca telling Nick that he doesn't understand the dating market and that "triggered" Nick.
The turning point, according to Nick, was a discussion with Drexel and Lead Attorney where Nick said that women don't complement men on their looks (
link to YouTube stream).
Nick claims that after that women really responded to his message and he interpreted this as validation for his insight on relationships. The stream Nick referred to was in August 2022 though and Nick was already oversharing by that point in addition to female engagement boosted from the Depp trial. Given how highly Nick values positive feedback from black people (including feedback pertaining to his wife), it is more likely that it was validation from Lead Attorney that gave Nick more confidence.
Nick ends by saying that the show is made for his own entertainment.
Nick also noted that during his 5-year celebration stream someone made a comment (which he pinned) that Nick should focus on the theme of his show, which was law. Nick denies this and claims that the law aspects of his show are circumstantial and "it hasn't been a law show for the last three years if not longer" (so, at this time, since at least 2019) and claims that the show was really about him. If true, Nick sincerely believed that people watched the Rittenhouse, Depp, etc. trials because of him.
Nick also says that he gets honest when he drinks, which hurts any "I didn't mean it, I was drunk when I said it" excuse. Nick's advice to lawtubers was to develop their own show/persona outside of law topics to keep it from being boring. Nick's brand is himself, and if people don't like it, they can leave. Nick can only do what Nick wants to do.
Nick calls their cat Ninja a "fag" for not coming over, and then goes into how his numbers are three times the income when he is doing a show he likes. Nick also describes a show where he wasn't into it and made no money. Nick then describes how there are times when he's been into it and made less because the audience was "too engaged" (viewer count stayed up).
Mandy interrupts and Nick changes topics.
So yeah, not exactly new, but there are some more details there from Nick as to how he changed and why.