- Joined
- May 29, 2021
I had a post made by my @Xarpho account that I found it hard to believe that Nick was always some combination of massive degenerate and complete loser (with a segment from The Dick Show, seen here); my reasoning based on that in the late 2010s he was much more put together (sober) with my reasoning based on the fact that Nick just isn't a good enough liar to pull that off for as long as he did.
In some ways, he always seems to have been a degenerate and a loser. Its almost certain he was a lifelong porn degenerate with a whole bunch of fetishes. Its almost certain he didn't try in school at all, went to a bad college and then found it very difficult to adjust to working a full-time job after college.
His parents or others tried to put him back on track by sending him to law school and setting him up with the infrastructure of a law firm. But as best we know, he eventually stopped going into work and probably started to more seriously drink in a bad way. Hanging around the house all day doing nothing and drinking tends to wreck people fast.
My theory is that Nick's turning point into total self-destruction was when he started making big money from streaming. Everything that previously restrained his behavior was gone. This is another not unusual thing. For alot of people if they got total freedom and a ton of money, they would crash out on sex and drugs just like Nick did.
The other thing that put Nick into a death spiral was his wife either enabling him or the two of them enabling each other. A married couple making a joint decision to go into full-on hedonism is another of those things that leads to people crashing out really fast.
The final thing that did Nick in was age. Middle age is not a great time in life to take up hard drugs and alcoholism. If you watch him over time, you can almost see his gradual cognitive decline. He isn't the guy he used to be mentally at all anymore. He has lost several steps and is a shell of what he used to be.