Nicholas Robert Rekieta / Rekieta "Law" / Actually Criminal / @NickRekieta - Polysubstance enthusiast, "Lawtuber" turned Dabbleverse streamer, swinger, "whitebread ass nigga", snuffs animals for fun, visits 🇯🇲 BBC resorts. Legally a cuckold who lost his license to practice law. Wife's bod worth $50. The normies even know.

[Niggernerd]

There is no redemption arc. When he says anything reflective or mentions mistakes, he is engaging in displacement apologising.

I made some mistakes = I shouldn't have become friends with Aaron or I shouldn't have tried to please my wife by swinging.

Anytime he puts up an apology you can feel the "even if I didn't do anything" eye rolls.

 

[Sharpeteer]

Nice work! Potentially Criminal had the best lines.

Each of my videos takes about 2-3 hours of editing per minute of the final video, not counting pre-production. And I think you were doing way more complex work than I do, so I can't imagine the time you dedicated to this project.

I enjoyed it very much!

I'm glad to hear you liked it. I agree that Sean's lines are probably the best, and that "felted" scene still gets a smile out of me despite me having stared at this for as long as I have. See I'm not funny, but Sean is naturally funny (fat jolly guys usually are), especially when he's sperging out because he didn't play closer attention to catch his own cameo - that freakout has to be one of my favorite things to ever come from him, and I will cherish that clip for a very long time.

As for time spent, lets just say I started the whole process shortly after finishing the last one. Now in my defense, the first half of that time I was mostly working on it off and on whenever I wasn't busy working IRL work. But the past couple months I put quite a bit of time into it. Also that's not to say somebody more competent and talented would take that long - I'm just an idiot that only knows enough about Davinci Resolve to do this, and that's it. Lol

I swear, Sharpeteer's videos on the Lord Balldo saga will be Rekieta's historical legacy. In years to come, it'll stand up there with archetypal mythical stories like Beowulf and King Lear, but Sharpeteer's renderings will be how the story is remembered.

Oh sure, there are many who did the groundwork in creating the historical record, and that work will always be critically important. But when they endow the first chair in Balldo studies, it'll be in a literature department and they'll be watching these videos.

I have a huge amount of respect for those here that do all the "groundwork" by monitoring and archiving everything the Balldoman says and does. I don't think I would ever be up for such a task, but hopefully these three videos brought something worthwhile.

There's Beowulf, King Lear, then there's Lord Balldo - he betrayed and killed all his friends to marry a man, only for his new friends to betray him too, and constantly be pestered by his gay mistress.

This is fucking incredible.

I also never realized @Captain Manning's background was the bottle up the ass. Fucking DEAD.

It took me a little while to notice it too. At least it's way less haunting than the real photo.

 

[dustnight]

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"Life doesn't always work out as smoothly as you want it to."

well well well...

 

[Gobermental Supervisor]

Anytime he puts up an apology you can feel the "even if I didn't do anything" eye rolls.

Every apology he gives has a ", but" with an excuse.

 

[Melty Butter]

I'm intrigued by the psychological dynamics at play when content creators experience a public downward spiral, yet maintain a devoted following despite clear misconduct.
What cognitive mechanisms enable such steadfast loyalty in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary?
Does this phenomenon have a name?

Last night proved to me that Nick will have a medium-successful comeback. This is a counter view to many people here who enjoy the "it's never been so over' refrain. That's a fine perspective, and often funny. I just don't think it's accurate.

The instinctive love for him from a few dozen people last night was unsurprising.

I'm not going to write a long defense of my view bc time will prove the answer but the short argument:

• No one ever gets canceled unless they cancel themselves
• Americans love a comeback
• Nick has among the most loyal fanbases around. His Locals subs proved it. Many will be back.
• The political mood supports it. See Trump's comeback. Like Trump, Nick is something of a trustfund populist that people love despite their better instincts.
• Nick's always possessed self-deprecating humor (that hides a gigantic ego until it doesn't). That serves a comeback mission well.
• Nick's not Ralph despite the many parallels.

Instead of Ralph, a more accurate parallel might be Destiny. Besides looks, they share a fiercely loyal fanbase, edgelord history (sort of), sexual scandals, sexual orientation issues, and known drug abuse. (I'd also argue that they both hate women but that's another issue.)

Destiny rides out his scandals with honesty about his vices and a good work ethic. Nick can easily achieve the former. It's the latter that's in question.

 

[Melty Butter]

Sorry to doublepost but they're vastly different topics. Kayla's mom posted this on FB yesterday. It seems revealing. Dan Sletta upvoted.


"We even stop talking to each other at times". Yikes.
Nice work, Nick. These people housed your children for seven weeks!

 

[Peace Through Power]

Destiny rides out his scandals with honesty about his vices and a good work ethic. Nick can easily achieve the former. It's the latter that's in question.

Nick can be honest about his vices? Easily? I don't know who you're trying to convince here

 

[crab fucker]

I'm not going to write a long defense of my view bc time will prove the answer but the short argument:

• No one ever gets canceled unless they cancel themselves
• Americans love a comeback
• Nick has among the most loyal fanbases around. His Locals subs proved it. Many will be back.

Counter-narratives are fine and all but I think this third bullet-point here is a big problem in your theory of him having a comeback. His locals fanbase is not particularly loyal, not moreso than any other fanbase. He has a handful of noteworthy retards in his locals that defend and try to spin his every action, but it's a handful. His locals is practically dead most of the time because he pissed off and alienated so many of his previously loyal fans on there. At this point it would take him ten whole years to gain enough locals subs to possibly get another 5k gift promised and undelivered on there.

His fanbase is basically crumbled, any friends he has that would come to his defense are slowly sloughing off, and multiple members of his own family might be done with him after this most recent shitstorm. I think Nick is too narcissistic to actually do it, but I would consider this story ending with a gun in his mouth to be more likely than him having a comeback.

 

[George Boon]

Last night proved to me that Nick will have a medium-successful comeback. This is a counter view to many people here who enjoy the "it's never been so over' refrain. That's a fine perspective, and often funny. I just don't think it's accurate.

The instinctive love for him from a few dozen people last night was unsurprising.

I'm not going to write a long defense of my view bc time will prove the answer but the short argument:

• No one ever gets canceled unless they cancel themselves
• Americans love a comeback
• Nick has among the most loyal fanbases around. His Locals subs proved it. Many will be back.
• The political mood supports it. See Trump's comeback. Like Trump, Nick is something of a trustfund populist that people love despite their better instincts.
• Nick's always possessed self-deprecating humor (that hides a gigantic ego until it doesn't). That serves a comeback mission well.
• Nick's not Ralph despite the many parallels.

Instead of Ralph, a more accurate parallel might be Destiny. Besides looks, they share a fiercely loyal fanbase, edgelord history (sort of), sexual scandals, sexual orientation issues, and known drug abuse. (I'd also argue that they both hate women but that's another issue.)

Destiny rides out his scandals with honesty about his vices and a good work ethic. Nick can easily achieve the former. It's the latter that's in question.

In order for a comeback, you actually need something to comeback with. Nick has no content to give his viewers, sure you got the small number of Locals subscribers, but there is no way he can financially sustain himself with them.
You mentioned Destiny, but do you know why his fans keep coming back through his scandals? Content. Tiny always has something to show them that keeps them there, that makes them donate and subscribe. What does Nick have to show? Maybe one comeback stream to do a little dance, but then it's at best back to pre arrest. Boring streams of him yapping about nothing, bleeding viewers (even less viewers to bleed now).

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

Sorry to doublepost but they're vastly different topics. Kayla's mom posted this on FB yesterday. It seems revealing. Dan Sletta upvoted.

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"We even stop talking to each other at times". Yikes.
Nice work, Nick. These people housed your children for seven weeks!

I like how the old grandmas on facebook are a consistent leak of vaguebooking. Doesn't matter which lolcow.

 

[Peace Through Power]

Counter-narratives are fine and all but I think this third bullet-point here is a big problem in your theory of him having a comeback. His locals fanbase is not particularly loyal, not moreso than any other fanbase. He has a handful of noteworthy retards in his locals that defend and try to spin his every action, but it's a handful. His locals is practically dead most of the time because he pissed off and alienated so many of his previously loyal fans on there. At this point it would take him ten whole years to gain enough locals subs to possibly get another 5k gift promised and undelivered on there.

His fanbase is basically crumbled, any friends he has that would come to his defense are slowly sloughing off, and multiple members of his own family might be done with him after this most recent shitstorm. I think Nick is too narcissistic to actually do it, but I would consider this story ending with a gun in his mouth to be more likely than him having a comeback.

A lot of his loyal locals fans have given up on him since the summer too. ThePromisedOnePS had even a rant where he denounced Nick. He used to make 4 hour livestreams defending Nick

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You can buy this track from flotheproducer.com or get a free (shittier bitrate) one from YouTube.

 

[AnOminous]

Heck, he was trashed.

He's such a worthless drunk he had weeks to get ready for it and couldn't manage to be sober even for a few minutes. What a complete asshole. Basically showing up plastered to a virtual wake (even if you're Irish you're supposed to wait until the actual wake to start getting drunk).

See I'm not funny, but Sean is naturally funny (fat jolly guys usually are), especially when he's sperging out because he didn't play closer attention to catch his own cameo - that freakout has to be one of my favorite things to ever come from him, and I will cherish that clip for a very long time.

While I am fond of throwing around phrases like fat fuck, fat bastard, fat son of a bitch, fat motherfucker, literally any insult that involves a fat person has "fat" in front of it, there are some synonyms reserved for those you don't want to insult. Portly. Stout. Falstaffian, even.

Every apology he gives has a ", but" with an excuse.

"I'm sorry for that shit I did that was YOUR fault!"

Textbook narcissist cuckpology.

What does Nick have to show? Maybe one comeback stream to do a little dance, but then it's at best back to pre arrest. Boring streams of him yapping about nothing, bleeding viewers (even less viewers to bleed now).

He barely even streams at all and when he does he loses subs as people wonder "why am I even subbed to this utter faggot?"

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

In order for a comeback, you actually need something to comeback with. Nick has no content to give his viewers, sure you got the small number of Locals subscribers, but there is no way he can financially sustain himself with them.
You mentioned Destiny, but do you know why his fans keep coming back through his scandals? Content. Tiny always has something to show them that keeps them there, that makes them donate and subscribe. What does Nick have to show? Maybe one comeback stream to do a little dance, but then it's at best back to pre arrest. Boring streams of him yapping about nothing, bleeding viewers (even less viewers to bleed now).

In 2024 he'd average 80-100 dollars a night, sometimes as much as 120-150 dollars, at least when he'd actually stream and not close the stream after 5 minutes because the cocaine gave him a nosebleed. Drama streams like the Cokestream, SEAN SEAN, or Eric July of course got way more. He'd get about this much in his most active period of streaming post-arrest, although his initial few return streams got more superchats because more people were paying to call him a junkie cuck. If he droned on about Trump'n'gunz for 5 nights a week and Kayla got a job, and somehow laid off all drugs, superchats to pedophiles, and anything but the occasional sip of cheap liquor (lol not happening), they'd have enough money for the family even without the trust fund. Especially if he sold the Balldomobile and stuck the money somewhere reasonable.

The sad fact is there's enough balldowashers out there who want to listen to a suspended lawyer, cokehead, and child abuser ramble about topics he knows very little about and clearly doesn't care. Like there was one superchatter who'd regularly dump $50-60 on his streams and make up over half his earnings per night. It's absolutely insane and mindboggling why people would waste money like that, but they just do.

Now if you're a lazy drunken cuckold addict who craves fame, are you REALLY going to get a 9-5 job you hate or are you going to push through 15-20 hours of streams for about the same wage? So yeah, the only way Nick doesn't keep streaming is if he's too much of a pussy to show his face, he dies, he goes to jail, or a court bans him from the internet (which he might be given the prospect of hacking charges).

 

[MySonDavid]

I think Nick could have a comeback...if he said and did all the right things. Not a redemption, mind you but a comeback. This would involve publicly acknowledge his fuck ups without hedging or equivocation and either getting back on track with the legal stuff or just sticking to being a lukewarm cultural streamer. The whole process would basically be one of gaslighting an almost entirely new audience into thinking he is someone that he isn't and convincing them that the past is the past and he's never going back there when that new audience finds out about this whole saga, which I believe is possible to do.

I do not believe Nick will do the things necessary for such a comeback. I think he is doomed to continue failing because he is, at the end of the day, a massive retard and gay-faggot. I am looking forward to the day when this bountiful bovine fucks up again and embarrasses himself publicly for my amusement.

 

[Folgers Can]

There is no redemption arc. When he says anything reflective or mentions mistakes, he is engaging in displacement apologising.

I made some mistakes = I shouldn't have become friends with Aaron or I shouldn't have tried to please my wife by swinging.

My point, hence the "poor attempts to mimic what a redemption arc is supposed to look like." If a genuine one were to ever hypothetically occur, it would have to begin with his plausible explanation from his direct personal knowledge of the precise chain of events that made that >5000 ng/mL happen. Naturally, he will never get around to that necessary prerequisite and will instead cling to the vain hope that everyone will simply forget.

 

[There She Glows]

I think Nick could have a comeback...if he said and did all the right things. Not a redemption, mind you but a comeback. This would involve publicly acknowledge his fuck ups without hedging or equivocation and either getting back on track with the legal stuff or just sticking to being a lukewarm cultural streamer. The whole process would basically be one of gaslighting an almost entirely new audience into thinking he is someone that he isn't and convincing them that the past is the past and he's never going back there when that new audience finds out about this whole saga, which I believe is possible to do.

I do not believe Nick will do the things necessary for such a comeback. I think he is doomed to continue failing because he is, at the end of the day, a massive retard and gay-faggot. I am looking forward to the day when this bountiful bovine fucks up again and embarrasses himself publicly for my amusement.

One barrier to building back an audience is that his voice is legitimately irritating to listen to now. I was never a Nick Fan (mostly Null interviews and some of the Rittenhouse trial streams) but playing back the tapes from before to now the difference is night and day, nasally and whiney. Maybe I'm overstating it as an issue but the drugs and booze have permafried his brain.

 

[Oh Darn]

He's an absolute idiot because even massively underclocking it and mining crypto with it would have made it at least pay for itself in its useful lifespan. Instead he paid enough for a whole computer for something he had absolutely no use for.

Just an absolute dipshit. No wonder he's broke.

Every sad-sack mediocre salesman PRAYS for a cuck like Nick to walk in. He’s exactly the kind of moron who will believe that because he’s paying a lot of money for something it means it’s betterer.

For all his family’s oil money, they are textbook nouveau riche retards.

 

[john marston]

Last night proved to me that Nick will have a medium-successful comeback. This is a counter view to many people here who enjoy the "it's never been so over' refrain. That's a fine perspective, and often funny. I just don't think it's accurate.

The instinctive love for him from a few dozen people last night was unsurprising.

I'm not going to write a long defense of my view bc time will prove the answer but the short argument:

• No one ever gets canceled unless they cancel themselves
• Americans love a comeback
• Nick has among the most loyal fanbases around. His Locals subs proved it. Many will be back.
• The political mood supports it. See Trump's comeback. Like Trump, Nick is something of a trustfund populist that people love despite their better instincts.
• Nick's always possessed self-deprecating humor (that hides a gigantic ego until it doesn't). That serves a comeback mission well.
• Nick's not Ralph despite the many parallels.

Instead of Ralph, a more accurate parallel might be Destiny. Besides looks, they share a fiercely loyal fanbase, edgelord history (sort of), sexual scandals, sexual orientation issues, and known drug abuse. (I'd also argue that they both hate women but that's another issue.)

Destiny rides out his scandals with honesty about his vices and a good work ethic. Nick can easily achieve the former. It's the latter that's in question.

Ehhh. Hard to say, for every one or two wine moms defending Rekieta, at least on Xitter, there's like 3-4 people shitting on him. My guess is that he'll have a small audience of loyal people who would defend him no matter what, but almost everyone does. The problem Rekieta has is that he's too egotistical to ignore the haters, even when it benefits him. So every stream will eventually devolve into a back and forth between himself and haters. Even some of his mods have turned on him.

It won't joever for him, and he probably will be more successful than Ralph, just because he's not living alone in a Mexican hovel. He has enough resources to spare himself from that fate, no matter how retarded he is.

As for the Trump comparison, Trump came back largely because the Biden/Harris Administration did such a shitty job running the economy and because most Americans saw that he was being unfairly targeted by the Court System. If the Dems had run the economy even half-way decently or had left Trump alone, he wouldn't be President right now. So this is a PSA: No Kiwi Nerd fuck with Nick or we'll get an actual comeback.

 

[Chazzed Up]

Last night proved to me that Nick will have a medium-successful comeback. This is a counter view to many people here who enjoy the "it's never been so over' refrain. That's a fine perspective, and often funny. I just don't think it's accurate.

The instinctive love for him from a few dozen people last night was unsurprising.

I'm not going to write a long defense of my view bc time will prove the answer but the short argument:

• No one ever gets canceled unless they cancel themselves
• Americans love a comeback
• Nick has among the most loyal fanbases around. His Locals subs proved it. Many will be back.
• The political mood supports it. See Trump's comeback. Like Trump, Nick is something of a trustfund populist that people love despite their better instincts.
• Nick's always possessed self-deprecating humor (that hides a gigantic ego until it doesn't). That serves a comeback mission well.
• Nick's not Ralph despite the many parallels.

Instead of Ralph, a more accurate parallel might be Destiny. Besides looks, they share a fiercely loyal fanbase, edgelord history (sort of), sexual scandals, sexual orientation issues, and known drug abuse. (I'd also argue that they both hate women but that's another issue.)

Destiny rides out his scandals with honesty about his vices and a good work ethic. Nick can easily achieve the former. It's the latter that's in question.

Nick to date has never apologized or taken accountability in any kind of meaningful manner, in line with his narcissism. A comeback usually involves acknowledging, without cope or assigning blame to others, what you did. He has as recently as like a month or so ago said he wishes he and April were still together. Very repentant, lesson learned for sure!

He will never create content again that anyone except a small group of mentally ill fanboys will consume. He does not cover court cases or news. His show will continue to be him fighting with other personalities or ranting about his life problems. It will basically continue to be a vlog a la RTU. He does not have the work ethic to create content with effort anymore and has demonstrably proven that. At any point in the past year he could have been doing content people wanted to watch, but it was drunkstream after drunkstream.

You're right that he isn't Ralph - he's actually worse than Ralph because he has no self awareness that he needs to do better. Ralph isn't without self awareness so much as he simply does not aspire to better therefore the situation he's in isn't really much worse than the life he'd probably have lived without the internet, in a trailer park with multiple baby mamas. The fact that Nick the trust fund baby/lawyer is even within the general realm of failure that Ralph is in speaks volumes as to what a fuckup he is.

As far as honesty about his vices, being honest that you use substances is not the same as being honest that it is a vice, i.e. a problem. He's said himself he looks forward to being able to drink unrestricted again. The odds of him, an addict, doing so responsibly are basically 0.

Nobody un-does being a lolcow. I think Mumkey Jones is the only one I can think of whose life wasn't permenently fucked by some bad sexual/substance abuse choices, but he was significantly younger than Nick at the time that went on.

 

[Thugnificent]

I'm intrigued by the psychological dynamics at play when content creators experience a public downward spiral, yet maintain a devoted following despite clear misconduct.
What cognitive mechanisms enable such steadfast loyalty in the face of mounting evidence to the contrary?
Does this phenomenon have a name?

Same reason you see people defending scummy game developer practices or carrying water for insurance companies. Mental illness.