I'll just pass this along, since we're talking about Gator and Ralph being Karens and snaking one another.
In May after the PPP Visits The Rackets Stream arc, Nick Rekieta was in voice chat with us talking about it. Generally everyone enjoyed it despite the problems and--and I know PPP visits this thread so I'll mention it here--Nick has said PPP can come back on
as long as he doesn't use the gamer words again because he liked the interaction and found it entertaining. In any case we were talking about Ralph at the time and his slide into dependency. Around the time we started talking about Ralph flagging down PPP's channel on YouTube, Gator came in. He heard Rackets say that Ralph should stop being a Mundane Matt and admit that he flagged down the channel because PPP told him to in a defiant way, because admitting to it and reminding PPP of it would be funny to him (don't ask, I don't get why it'd be funny). he also said (and he's said this publicly) that he wanted PPP and Ralph to fight because it'd be hilarious to see them both die from heart attacks climbing into the ring.Rackets then gave us a bit of exposition: during Knoxville Ralph was drinking a lot, seemed to be on a downward trajectory, etc. Miami didn't help him either, and Nora divorcing him set him a-runnin' with the alcohol and benzos abuse.
After this point Gator started talking about Ralph's attitude lately and how much of a womanly bitch he was acting with things behind the scenes. He wouldn't go too much into detail but he did say that Ralph was just angry at everyone now, because of the alcohol abuse. Gator also agreed with me that PPP's interest in Dick was magnified by Ralph's vehement defenses and acting like a fucking retard against Jessie when it came to the leaked texts because, as he puts it, "Every time Ralph defends someone he makes it worse. He knows he does and he likes to do it because he gets some more drama to cover." In essence, Ralph does it to cause drama--which we saw in the past with Zoom, Cog, Andy, and others.
Oh, and up until June Gator was telling people in Discord that if they had a problem with Ralph, they were probably justified because of how much of a piece of shit Ralph is to people for content, and to protect his fragile ego. Publicly, he slurps on the gunt juice, but in private he's a lot more open.
EDIT:
Just reminding people of this.
he went from "not being allowed back on" to basically running the website pretty darned fast.