Even though armchair wigger psychoanlysis is cringe I think that because Jet has ego-inserted himself as himself in every season of fishtank I get the impression that he thinks he is fishtank and appraises his own fame and clout based off of that.
Because he's been so insulated for years in the Hyde ecosystem and has basically existed solely within the fishtank community power-tripping on actual neet autists and lackeys like mints he thought he was just going to walk into IRL streaming and be the big dog and irony mog the biggest streamers on kick.
He bought a table at Clav's club for 2k but basically refused to go and talk to the guy, saying stuff like "I'm not gonna beg to collab", so you have to think he imagined that he was going to buy a table there and Clav was going to recognize Jet from across the room and like kiss his ass and give them free bottle service like he's the hottest chick in town or something. Jet had a crashout realizing that he paid 2k to get close to a streamer who literally doesn't know who the fuck he is and thought Sam Hyde was showing up. These IRL streamers couldn't pick Jet out in a lineup of homeless addicts let alone care about collabing with him.
To be fair I wouldn't let some shithead streamer mog me either, but I also wouldn't pay 2k to get close to one. Plus interacting with nobodies like Diamond is far more entertaining than trying to schmooze with kick faggots.
It's very cringe and even worse when people do it incorrectly and derive the absolute worst position from it:
Jet's ego is tied up in Fishtank not as a self-insert but as a surrogate father figure. This is a, semi-admirable, quality he adopted from Sam (like most his other qualities for better or worse. We see this especially in Season 3 and 4 when he started trying to coach Fish on how to try and "make it" outside of the tank, and we saw it in its worst incarnation in his relationship (whatever it may be) with Ellie.
But the key takeaway from Jet's current ego state needs to be that he is in the midst of a quarter life crisis, amplified now by being the sole lead of Fishtank, separated both physically and artistically from Sam. As Jet goes through a minor identity crisis, worried about the future and his image, so does Fishtank, and we can expect to see Fishtank evolve (hopefully for the better) from the immature peepeepoopoo house to whatever may come out of it. The starkest example of this is, as you said, dropping 2 bands on Cavs club, only to get in and immediately figure out, for lack fo better phrasing, that you're getting too old for this shit. Jet sees 30 as a death sentence, he has said this outright several times over the last month, that he believes hes in the best years of his life and once he hits 30 its over. Is this a joke? Who knows, but probably not because many Zoomers I know believe this unironically.
I don't think his schtick was to ironymog anybody, but an earnest desire to grow the Fishtank audience outside of the existing fanbase which he hates (mostly justified, if we aren't being completely honest), but realizing how out of his depth he is, and maybe possibly realizing he doesn't even WANT that audience. In regards to the Diamond thing, that's why we are seeing him willing to go along with her antics more, because he realizes that's indeed who his core demo is, for better or worse. The worst part of all this is, in all likelihood, in 5 years Clav wont exist at the level he does now, these types tend to burn out, but Fishtank will probably still exist, and in that way he does big dog most these streamers, but in the ecosystem of Kick streaming longevity doesn't matter as much as how bright you can burn, no matter how short.
I said in my last carepost that the Chud to Chad challenge is really about Jet, whether it was intended or even realized. Will he grow and learn hard lessons? I think so, but its going to make a lot of people who see him only as a lolcow very angry, but I honestly believe thats part of the point: that the primary growing pain of the post-Sam, post-Rhode Island era of Fishtank is shedding the extremely ornery, extremely vocal, and mercurial hellhouse torturehouse fans. As Jet grows, so must his audience, who going back to the surrogate father figure archetype, need to mature from kicking and screaming children into something slightly more mature.
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