I still maintain that "Alone in the Void" was the end of old Digi, as I mentioned in my first post in this thread. Looking back at it, it was obviously not your run of the mill "sad-bro" rant and there was going to be drastic change, we just couldn't know what exactly he was going to transform into yet. Maybe at that point, he wasn't "losing it" yet as much as he was willingly throwing it away to look for something different. The video is almost suicide-note-like in hindsight. Could have been for the better, could have been for the worse. We see the results now.
"Alone in the Void" is a lesson of the dangers of remaining socially stagnant; since Digi didn't attend college, a lot of his 20s were spent solely working on his Youtuber career, but very little on himself; no education, no real-life skill development, no real long-term friendships (besides transient ones) with anyone else who wasn't a fellow creative type who in turn had their own Youtube careers to work on and couldn't live with him forever in Virginia Beach and none of the hard trial-and-error with dating that all men go through, as Conrad only got fangirls that dug his e-fame.
Digi didn't really have a ritualized experience, such as college, that would led him graduating from childhood to adulthood in his 20s. Despite his criticisms of the perils and pitfalls of college and promoting the idea that everyone just should get a job until they ready for it (this from a dropout who couldn't even work at Target for a few weeks), something like college or even something like a trade or experience in something that isn't just wagecuck hell in retail could have matured him in a matter of a few years and made him ready for the life of an self-employed creator on the internet. It might explain the trooning; most men accept that their own masculinity is a complex thing to get a handle of but they continue to engage with it; he just tapped out with the depression and the weed and decided to become a little girl to avoid adult responsibility. He was totally out of his mind to believe that any woman would just accept that and join him in the long-term.
The surroundings of Digi's home is like something out of a Chris-Chan video, if Chris was actually self-aware and successful; a room full of cheaply-made in China plastic junk but which requires a large amount of time and money to acquire, with anime posters covering all of his room's walls (and it is quite a large room). It's the room of someone still in Middle School, not a grown man in his late 20s. Having anime DVDs and even figurines is one thing, but good grief, one's room can't just be filled with that, put your toys away. Shame he would sell it all away at a garage sale at Riley's behest (so they could travel in a
RV Prius and burn through Digi's savings).
The curious thing about Digi being a millennial is that he escaped the fate of many of his generation in being able to find money and fame online, while many went either unemployed or worked soul-destroying wagecuck jobs or unpaid internships for indifferent boomers, often immigrating within their own state, country or even abroad to seek employment elsewhere. At least his downfall has happened now at a time of both great prosperity (Pandemic aside) and a huge demand for labour from the once-content boomer employer caste. I believe it's not entirely too late for Digi to reshape his life if he's not content to remaining a failed rapper, there is money and demand out there for someone who spent their lives becoming so well-knowledgeable in anime (look at how the Chinese are trying to copy anime atm).
Still, his fans were to get another solid three years out of him, perhaps his finest ones, considering the amount of highly experimental "After Dark" material he would release (particularly his raps that were actually good, the rants and biting criticisms of the anime industry and its fanbase).
For anyone interested, many describe this following video as the prequel to "Alone in the Void", with Ben Saint and Davoo explaining why they are leaving Digi and Vic's house:
"Ben & Davoo Goodbye Show - Digibro & Others",
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