Longtime Nick Fan, here.
I haven't read much of the thread, but that Discord message in the op from "CoolFriendlyGuy" is a crock of shit. He's a good writer and he makes his lies sound believable for the most part, but the claim that Nick shit himself is what unravels the entire narrative.
I have noticed that all liberals have an obsession with piss and shit. It's a good rule of thumb that whatever they accuse you of, they are guilty of themselves. Maybe the guy did know Nick, and if he did he is definitely projecting his high-school insecurity onto a guy who was way more popular than him and probably better in every way. More likely he didn't know Nick at all, and is just an actual Marxist, if his repeated use of the word "fascist" as an insult is anything to go by. Calling everything they don't like "fascist" is a historical communist tactic, dating all the way back to the 1930s.
Anyhow I'm not a fan of the Catboy stuff, but Nick is distancing himself from it nowadays and it was always ironic to begin with. If you have to wait until you have someone absolutely perfect to start a political movement, it's never going to get off the ground.