the reason given by Nick is that he was fired for "not achieving goals", which reads like corpo speak for "we just want you gone".
I read it as, "the interest rate went up from a 40-year historic low to a normal amount, and there's less money to be wasted on shit that has no real return." Mind you, that's the entirety of The Escapist minus Yahtzee, and in the modern environment maybe not even him. Feels like a ploy to shutter a liability, which you'll see repeated in plenty of other places.
Does yathzee have the drive anymore to be reborn from the ashes?
He's been coasting for at least five years in this job, so I wouldn't really describe his work acumen as drive so much as "I can do almost nothing and still make a good salary, so whatever."
You can't copyright an art style.
reeeeeetarded take
Mind you, I don't like that it's a thing people can do, personally.
It's why you can make all sorts of fun "George Floyd fucks Anne Frank in the style of Pixar" images on Stable Diffusion.
Try to profit off of them. Go ahead, try. Of course no-one gives a shit if you aren't making money, or if you aren't using it to defame someone.
Every artist that has made a famous comic or animated series has to spend some amount of time dealing with c&ds aimed at people yoinking their style.
These hold up in court, hence why the c&ds oftentimes work to dissuade people from continuing to the point of legal proceedings.
Yes, if you are small enough, you can get away with it. But the moment you gain any notoriety, you will get attention. Disney is the prime case for this - parody is protected, but parody also has certain (boring) stipulations that Yahtzee doing a direct continuation of his old schpiel wouldn't hold.
