I don't usually watch DSP stuff, so when I tuned in to see what he had to say about Kimberlayyyyy I was quite shocked to see him immediately jumping into the game. Eventually I was told by others that it was extraordinarily unusual for him to have a 5 minute prestream. The 15 or so minutes I did watch of him play, up until his first online game, consisted of him very interestedly picking apart the game and detailing every small move the characters made and how you had to be in a certain striking distance to do certain combos. I dunno if he's like that usually, but my headset's broken so I was watching by propping up my phone against my computer screen and glancing down at it while playing EU4. The stream chat at some point during this mentioned his in-depth oral announcement of his every thought and another sub said he was doing it to "stay focused". I'm not sure if he usually does this either, but I remember his other streams being 99% irrelevant bullshit and juvenile white noise, not actually talking about the game.
So that's our biggest piece of evidence so far. Something's gotten him so worked up he's actually concentrating on playing video games.
What bothers me is that his supplied reason for needing money, that Washington tax stuff, seems really good and timely. It'd be an extraordinary coincidence if he conjured it up as an excuse because of this girl. Either he actually did pay his taxes like an adult and then knew of the deadline and repurposed that knowledge as an excuse, or it's just very coincidental timing that this girl comes along while he's trying to scrounge up tax money. I mean, he did do this in Washington before 2017, yea?
I thought it was federal taxes but that's not the case. The WA electronic filing is due the 31st of January. I'm so very sure they have ways of making payment plans or extensions, though. The shit about asking people specifically to donate via Patreon instead of Twitch because Twitch holds it for 2 months ... like, put it on a fucking credit card and pay it off. The one thing you can't put on a credit card is an escort girl, unless you take out a cash advance on credit, which would be stupid expensive.