Nick was real good about streaming when his probation started and there was jail time hanging over his head.
No he wasn't. He was terrible. He showed up obviously high and had a stream where he ducked out to huff nitrous and came back obviously dazed and with a nitrous-induced vocal range. He didn't even bother taking a few deep breaths to get rid of that.
I'm pretty sure he got tard-wrangled into trying to pretend to work but he did a piss poor job of it to the point he could have been denied his suspended sentence based on his on-stream behavior alone.
Judging by how he worded it, I think what Strix means here is that he was good about turning on a camera, and sitting in front of said camera. Not that the streams were any good. Naturally, they were all shit (props to
@Melty Butter for the written summaries of those streams, and
@elb for the clips, or I doubt very much many people here would even know what went on in them).
Contrast this to where he was "bad" about streaming, by not streaming at all, during the bulk of his criminal case.
The most popular theory is that he covered Karen Read because he was
trying to look good to probation, and stay out of jail. That could very well be true.
But I ALSO think he did it because he's so fucking delusional and arrogant that he thought that he could just cover a trial, and it would be an instant repeat of Depp and Rittenhouse. That he felt he could actually have a grand comeback as the "Law Pope," despite all that happened. That there would be tens of thousands of people in there welcoming him back, metaphorically polishing his knob, and throwing money at him again.
I'm happy he did it because it confirmed that none of that is going to happen. That he's been decisively knocked off his pedestal, and any hopes of a comeback to the point of where he once was are in vain. And I think even he knows it now too (but don't expect him to ever admit it). Every other member of Lawtube had more popular coverage of Karen Read (sans, I think, Joe). His prior success was in large part to having panelists smarter than he is, and not being viewed as a gigantic pile of garbage.
EDIT: Elaboration.