This is such a fucking asinine defense I see people use all the time for Ian. “You’re just mad because he doesn’t use slurs anymore, chud!”
Sure, I’m not laughing at this man because he claimed to have learned empathy at 30 and his videos are failing because he acts like a whipped dog in all of them, I’m angry because he doesn’t say the n word anymore. Perfectly sound logic.
If they do divorce, Ian is going to have a psychotic breakdown at some point. I don’t think he’s going to an hero but he’s definitely going to lose his mind.
He’s tied to Anissa to an absurd degree, more than even the most dependent partners. She controls how he acts, how he dresses, what he does on YouTube, how he thinks about himself, she has some degree of influence over almost every aspect of his being. In just a few short years he’s completely given up all agency over his life and career and he’s convinced himself that it’s all fine and he’s just matured and become an empath.
It’s going to break his mind if and when she walks out on him, because he doesn’t have the willpower to do it himself. He’ll have to start thinking for himself again for the first time in years.