I've been wondering when this thread would get made. I've been following Nick on and off since 2018, and while I enjoy his content and takes, his handling of this lolisocks catboy controversy was fucking awful. Alot of people here seem to think or be joking that Nick's gay, which I don't think is the case, I think he's just autistic and he's too autistic to admit it. He actually reminds of Maddox quite a bit. Both of them use flamboyant hand-gestures and hyperbole when talking, both of them either respond to criticism with aggression or try to awkwardly laugh it off, and most importantly, both of them will never apologize and never admit when they're wrong, even if the entire planet is telling them they are.
In general, Nick sucks at deflecting controversy aimed at the people he associates with. I don't know if that means he's a faithful friend, or if he's a blind idiot. The Baked Alaska controversy actually mirrors this Catboy controversy 1:1. People started giving Nick shit for associating with Baked Alaska, and Nick responded by basically saying "I don't know what controversy you're talking about, Baked seems like a cool guy with some faults." Then when people brought up specifics like when he disavowed the dissident right, Nick parroted Baked's excuses saying "He made a mistake and didn't know what he was talking about." Most people were willing to ignore that one despite how bad Nick's explanation was, and how much his following hates Baked. The key difference now is that in one example he was playing COD with a washed up right-wing e-celeb, in the other he was hanging out IRL with a degenerate weirdo.
I'm pretty sure what actually happened was Nick randomly found lolisock's dlive stream, saw him wearing catears and saying some edgy /pol/ memes and figured the guy was chill and started hanging out with him. Keep in mind, catboys and traps have been a tongue-in-cheek joke with the dissident/alt-right for years. Nick runs a show and has other shit to do so he never bothers to look into lolisocks past or future streams, and when he hears about "Lolisocks controversy" he just assumes it's the same controversy that he and all of the rest of the dissident right face all the time. He does the IRL stream thinking it's more tongue-in-cheek irony, only to realize that his base doesn't view it the same way. His base along with 4chan, the farms, and breadtube, decide to do what Nick should have done ages ago and uncover the full range of Catboy Kami's degeneracy. But just like with Baked Alaska, rather than distancing himself and apologizing, Nick doubles down and starts going into full damage control mode on someone else's behalf, because he thinks admitting he made a mistake hanging out with someone he barely knew will somehow equate to him being wrong about everything.
Of course if a sextape, nudes, or any fucked up shit with Nick leak then I'll eat my words. It's crazy how many lolcows wouldn't even be on the radar if they just apologized and moved on instead of digging themselves a deeper hole. The funniest part is that one of Nick's biggest grievances with TPUSA was their failure to give a satisfactory answer to his questions, yet when people start asking Nick questions he can't give a good answer to save his life.
