Regarding the Patrick situation:
It's been obvious for a while that there has been resentment toward Patrick from people in AF - Jaden McNeil has been making snide comments about him for months now. For example, I remember
lding similar views to Nick, he is very careful and calculated in what he says and doesn't really talk about political issues in the edgy and offensive way that Nick does.
Immediately after Nick was banned from Dlive, he demanded that all of his supporters delete their Dlive accounts, delete the app from their phone, and stop watching streams there. After he was banned, Dlive refused to pay out his remaining balance, so he is currently suing them. Despite all of this, Patrick continued to stream there, which make sense considering there are not many places these people can stream without getting banned - why voluntarily leave a platform you are not banned from? I'm sure behind the scenes, Nick and the other "groyper generals" had a problem with this.
Donations and viewers are the core reasons that there has been resentment toward Patrick, even prior to the bannings. The "movement" has a finite audience, and the more streamers there are, the more the viewership/donations are split up. More streamers = less viewers per streamer. Aside from Nick, Patrick had the most viewers and donations by far. This is why they each had their own timeslot. Patrick has spoken about this before, basically they all agreed to be considerate of other AF streamers and not stream at the same time. This is why Patrick streams before Nick, then Jaden/Beardson stream after him. This
chart from the SPLC hit-piece a couple months ago shows how much they received in donations, and Patrick is #2 behind Nick. Nick and Jaden are buttbuddies, so I assume Jaden was the main one behind the scenes crying to Nick about Patrick
someone in Jadens chat saying something "unoptical", to which Jaden would ban them and accuse them of being a wignat and tell them to go watch Patrick. Beardson has also recently started making comments about him, especially after a bunch of "groyper generals" (Beardson, Franssen, Jaden, Nick and Vince) were banned from Dlive. Patrick was only temporarily demonetized, probably because despite ho