What was the bigger reason for his downfall, the failure of the AVGN movie or him simply having a kid?
I tend to have thought in the past that it was the filming of the movie that killed the momentum of the web series, but looking back he was still putting out good content in 2013 and 2014.
It seems instead like it was when the movie released did the slow but steady downward spiral occur, maybe deep down he knew the movie was a piece of a shit and with all the hard work and money he spent on it, as well as knowing he'd never have another chance to make another movie, permanently killed his passion for the whole thing and it became something he does for a paycheck, nothing more.
I really wish the guy would just hang it up already instead of continuing to burn through his goodwill, but I guess he has no day job to go back to.
On the flipside to that, maybe it was just because he had a kid, his priorities changed and he grew up, the man child act was always going to feel stale and false once you actually have a kid.
What a sad fate though for someone who reached such highs though, it's really pretty heart breaking.