Look im not here to rain on the parade, but are we seriously making a martyr out of Mundane fucking Matt? Did you forget why the boulder stream happened in the first place? This is a guy who has demonstrated that he will lie to the authorities to go after your nest egg because of the intense burn of his own butthurt. Its funny that PPP brought him back for a "victory" lap but lets slow down with this lionization of the piece of shit that is Mundane Matt.
Time has healed the wound. Matt was a flaggot. Matt got exposed as a flaggot. What did he do after that? Pretend it didn't happen? Play the victim card? No, he just apologized (judge the sincerity of it as you will) and went back to the grind. Since then it's been two years with no drama. He's even shown an ability to take some bantz about his mistake. Matt's fine.
And then there's a matter of scale. Matt is raising his girlfriend's daughter and is supplementing his income with Uber Eats. Yeah, that's kind of pathetic. Meanwhile, Ethan is hooking up with addicts young enough to be his own daughter and apparently hasn't worked a day in his life at a job other than his blog and radio show, if Ade is to be believed. Matt has that weird story about a girl at his church threatening to cry rape if he didn't actually have sex with her. That's weird. Ralph, in a drunken stupor, shared a sex tape with the internet, complete with fat gunt, tiny peen, and stankfinger sniffing. That's weirder. And while all this was happening, Ralph was profiting off jokes about Matt's flaggotry and degeneracy. What hypocrisy.
I wouldn't call Matt a martyr. I even think it's a stretch to say he's having a redemption arc. But when the internet has decided that the man who was burying him for years is a far greater asshole, I think he's due a victory lap or two.
And I say all this as a former fan. WN kooks aside, Ralph had a talent for booking some great guests. What immediately comes to mind is the black Israelites. The Branch Davidians were probably going to be a hoot too. But his repeated addiction-related blow-ups and thin-skinnedness were a huge turn-off, and this time around it was just too much of a dick-step to take him seriously anymore.
The best possible outcome in all of this, and the one I'd really like to see even if it's not the funniest, would be for Ralph to do what Matt did - take the L, apologize, and get back to work on his content, but with the addition of finally getting his fat ass to some AA and NA meetings. "Oh, my audience doesn't like me when I'm sober!" Well, it's now apparent that you never really gave us the chance…
(By the way, has it been confirmed that Ralph has really never had another job outside his blogging and streaming? Surely he did
something for a living between graduating college and starting the blog… did he really just live off mommy's tendies the whole time?)