Seeing someone take the easy path, and do better, thats a normal level of jealousy
I can't see where the jealousy comes from.
Doug Walker has done well for himself, but his life isn't extraordinary. He's married, lives in Chicago, adopted a few animals.
Despite his wealth, he lives a rather simple life that isn't unobtainable. It takes hard graft, no doubt. But not an impossible life goal.
The jealousy around DSP is just baffling to me. Like Walker, his life isn't unobtainable or extraordinary. He married, lives in a condo in a part of Renton that's going downhill, and leases a Toyota.
If anything, DSP has the more realistic life because he went into debt several times and has fuck all to show for it.
Is it really the easy path?
Walker's life has been under a microscope the second he became famous. He's likely stopped wherever he goes, he's been made fun of because his wife is obese, he was targeted by the less successful members of Channel Awesome and was subsequently dog piled on as a result. Despite saving the channel, it still took a loss it won't recover from.
While the things that happened to DSP are 99.9% his fault, he's a laughing stock. He likely can't go anywhere without being made fun of, can't walk the mall without someone snapping a pic of him, which likely (contributed to him hermiting himself or gave him the excuse to do so more than he already was)
Not for me, thanks. It's just not worth it.