God damn, IV8888 really is just abandoning whatever principles he had left at this point. Is it really that scary to get a real job again?
Well, his youtube channel is 17 years old, but lets be real the content people actually watched his channel for didn't start till about 15 years ago(yeah that mean Barry has been gone far longer than he was a part of this dude's youtube channel). So factor in 15 years of not needing a day job, being an "e-celeb", having an audience, and so on.
Remember, his wife quit her job in 2013 so he could do youtube shit and basically act as customer service, then she handled his "man-can" crap which was just loot crate but with "manly" shit in ammo cans, and that was around the same time Eric quit his job at the pawn shop(considering the state of his channel the past few years, yeah it's no wonder she wanted a divorce). This guy has basically been a useless bum with a camera for the past 13 years and done fucking nothing to actually push his career forward.
Hasn't upgraded his content creation(no slow motion cams, no 4k, nothing), does the same sit and talk in front of a camera bit multiple times a week(it's cheaper than actually filming shooting shit at the range of course), and now looks like a fucking mess. He hasn't done any real collaboration with anyone in years, doesn't seem to have any industry contacts.
He's been a lazy bum for a fucking decade while shit changed around him and now he's in his 40's with a huge gap in his resume with his last real job being working at a fucking pawn shop over a decade ago. Yeah, he's fucked himself to the point of needing to put the fries in the bag.
Compare him to someone like Ian from Forgotten Weapons. Just visibly Ian has been networking like a mad-man, obviously has industry contacts, can collaborate with other content creators, has been upgrading the equipment he uses to film his content, and that's just all of the shit we can see without knowing what's going on behind the scenes.