Was that the balldostream? I know there's another clip around 2 years ago where Nick showed off Drexel's balldo on Megan Fox's show
Best indicator would be when Nick claimed he "stopped reading [his] thread" in mid-December 2022. A very lolcow claim to make.
This is around when Nick said this thread took a turn for the worse. Nick's thread didn't really take a serious turn until November of that year, and was declining quite a bit before then. This thread likely would have turned sooner if Nick hadn't already grifted so much goodwill and still held so many empty promises.
Then there was Nick being under fire from a mutual detractor (the trans community) at the time, which might have made people here sympathetic to Nick (and also resulted in Nick's confused LOCALS members thinking KF was initially a trans group).
What NOBODY saw coming was the 9 y/o testing positive for coke. And that's the thing that will dog him forever.
Some saw the signs when Nick had the family medical emergency after the swinger hot tub stream. Even if they didn't know the exact substance, it was on their minds. Here's an example from earlier in the thread:
It's dark but I sincerely hope the medical emergency wasn't one of the kids getting into mommy's pill stash or daddy's secret stash
Nick's descent might sound surprising on the face of it, but Nick's downfall was a long time coming especially with his problems and no signs of improvement.
The people who are seem to be legitimately shocked are people who know little about Nick or used to watch but fell off, people who aren't really paying attention (or just jumping on a popular lolcow). The who are most "shocked" seem to be individuals trying to sensationalize the natural outworking of persistent bad decisions of a longtime substance abusing petty moron for money/attention.
TL/DR: Nick's descent (while certainly interesting) isn't all that shocking. Nick's situation wasn't a freak accident (even the more horrifying aspects). There was plenty of smoke before the fire itself was located and all of this was very preventable, which is why Nick is such a provably bad father, husband, lawyer, etc...