I skimmed through Fatrick Smellton's show at last year's Hackamania on youtube, and wherever you drop in he's either talking about Aaron, or about five seconds from getting back to talking about Aaron. It can't be overstressed how much his show and his life revolve around Aaron fucking Imholte, the least important person in the world.
Imagine going on stage, in front of a small crowd in a small room , and talking about how much you hate Aaron Imholte for an hour. Then you go home and talk about how much you hate Aaron Imholte on stream for five hours every day. You do that for a couple more years, fantasize about his children occasionally, then you kill yourself, and your body isn't discovered for three months, because nobody gives a shit about you. That's Fatrick Smellton.
Now imagine paying Fatrick Smellton to pretend to be your friend tolerate your presence, so that he can use you as a weapon against Aaron fucking Imholte, the least important person in the world. That's Nick Rekieta.
I used to watch Patrick back in 2008 or so, even when he was "good" (it was alright back then. I was a teenager, and he said nigger, sue me.) his entire gimmick has always been getting attention and viewers by attacking people. When patrick first started podcasting it was a completely new thing, and everyone had like, a few hundred viewers. He would run a bit called "bad podcast of the week" in which he would just pick the most popular podcast that week and drag them through the mud, try to get them on the phone, fuck with them as much as possible.
Beyond that, Patrick's show was always completely carried by the co-hosts, viewers define the eras of the show (or at least they did when there were veiwers) by which co-host was on (hollywood adam era, chef and JB era, Tom Segura era, etc. etc.) In the rare case that he had to do a show by himself, it was aparent, even to him, that it was a obligatory upload, and he would just bitch and not even do segments anymore.
Anyways, my point is, Patrick has always done this, it's how he operates, and around episode 1,000 when no one wanted to co-host on his show anymore because he had burned every fucking bridge he ever had, it became apparent to basically his entire audiance and his numbers plummeted, he tried to do a kind of "local lolcow" thing where he'd just shit on LA or Vegas comedians, depending on where he was at the time, but it was never funny or good, and just came off as mean spirited.
Aaron is just the new mark, before this it was nick starr, or some bullshit comedian no one cares about in LA or Vegas, and when he's done with Aaron he'll find his next mark. These situations always go the same way, he gets close to someone who hate the person he's alogging, they reaqlize he's a shitty friend, unfunny, and probably a fucking creep, and they leave, he rages about it and uses the drama for views, repeart forever.
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