Nick got rich off Depp/Heard trial coverage in spring 2022 after hitting it big with Kyle Rittenhouse livestreaming in the fall of 2021
After the wrap of the trial where Nick was burning the candle at both ends, for weeks doing live daytime trial coverage followed by doing his midnight shock jock drinking show overnight, Nick announced one day that he had just experienced the "worst day of his life". There's been lots of speculation what this event was (infidelity from his wife, health scare, being cut off from his family's oil wealth, being disowned by his in-laws, etc). But there's never been confirmation what the event was. Most consider this the beginning of his downfall
Rekieta traditionally takes large chunks of the summer off every year to attend Anime Matsuri in Houston, visit his folks in Florida on family road trips and take vacations alone with his wife. The Summer of '22 was pretty quiet other than his first YT strike shutting his streams down for a week. However, he did do a stream from a hotel room with his wife at an undisclosed resort in Aug '22.
Nick returned to regular streaming in Sept '22. Because of his lolbertarian and freeze peach principles and his past platforming of Josh Moon of Kiwifarms, Nick became embroiled with Keffals, his fake doxxing grifting and his 100k cocaine fundraiser. At this point, Nick had a thread on KF, but wasn't considered a lolcow and had a fanbase on the site. Because of his support for KF and his chiding of Keffals on his show, troons ended up mass reporting his YT channel, quickly accumulating his 3rd strike and a full channel deletion.
Nick starts streaming on Rumble during his YT ban and enjoys the freedom of his shock jock night show without YT censorship. A Twitter campaign by his YT friends leads to his channel being reinstated. Nick, now worried that his million dollar enterprise can be yeeted at the touch of a button, starts to push hard for his fans to support him on Locals and vows to keep Rumble as his permanent home. He promises a secret custom limited time gift to the first 5k subscribers, which he reaches within weeks. Shortly thereafter, he signs a deal with Rumble to do X number of night streams a month with him shutting off his YT dualstream after the first hour or so. He also signs a deal with Locals obligating him to do paywalled subscriber content at 3-5 am EST after his drunken night shows.
The Locals content changes the culture of his show. The chat is full of winemoms, schizos, criminals, sycophants and perverts. Nick starts getting distracted by what's happening in the chat live on air in the fall of '22. His more normie guests become offput by the gross memes that are constantly posted.
In Nov-Dec '22, one of his fans named Mandy, who is a frequent superchatter, suicidebaiter and supposed auto mechanic in Texas posts a grainy picture of her supposed HS boobs in the live chat during one of Nick's exclusive Locals streams, against Locals ToS. Nick only nominally condemns it. This leads to about a month of the wrinkled winemoms and fags in his audience to post their own awful lewds in his 24/7 chat for about a month. Nick encourages the behavior.
Nick and his wife start posting their own lewds in his chat. His wife uploads many boudoir photos in lingerie. Nick and his wife participate in a meme where they pose with a whiskey bottle stuck between their ass cheeks. Nick also posts a photo of him and his wife bareass from behind at the secret resort from last August.
Nick's old WeebWars KF audience hates this new coomer arc. The thread turns on him and becomes a true lolcow hate thread. Rekieta claims to stop reading his own thread for ideas at this point.
KF autists use the bareass resort pic to figure out that Nick attended a nude swingers Jamaican resort last August during black bull week. A schism forms where his old audience alogs him calling him a cuck and a swinger, while his newer winemom schizo audience guard for him. Nick tells his old audience and critics that he hasn't changed at all, the rumors aren't true and everyone can get fucked.
He gets drunk one night onstream and an old fellow alog lolcow called Montagraph shows up in the chat and razzes him. Nick states on-air that Montagraph "loves sucking little boys' penises" and dares Steve Quest to sue him. Montagraph (Quest), a Colorado/Illinois resident soon obliges, hiring a local Wilmar, Minnesota attorney to sue Nick for defamation. David Schneider, a local lawyer, is believed to have taken the case on contingency because of past personal beefs with Rekieta when Nick still practiced.
Rekieta, in full knowledge that he has been served with an expensive lawsuit, goes out and buys a 100k Mustang, then crashes it on snowy roads on the way home from the dealer.
In Dec'22-Jan-23, Nick hires high-priced free speech out of state lawyer Marc Randazza to represent him in the lolsuit. The case was recently heard in the Court of Appeals and is still pending. Estimates vary, but the range of legal fees to Nick so far are between 50 and 150k.
Nick renegs on his promise to provide a custom gift to his OG 5k subscribers due to financial costs due to the lawsuit , despite him being a trust fund baby from oil wealth, buying 100k sportscars and constantly skipping out on work to fly out for vacations.
Nick stops covering as many trials live and often no-shows to the ones he does promise to. In winter '23, during the Alex Murdaugh murder trial, Nick spergs out during live coverage with a panel full of lawyers saying he hates everything law related, always has and would rather be in Minneapolis getting a rub&tug.
He ragequits the rest of the trial and essentially stops doing live trials altogether, which was previously his bread and butter.
KF keeps researching and documenting Nick's descent into lolcowdom. A small LibsofTikTok-style YT channel run by a former fan, ElissaClips, documents Nick's nightly faux pas and an alog community develops on her channel and KF.
Josh Moon of KF takes note of Nick's spiral and starts covering Rekieta on his weekly MadAtTheInternet podcast. Formerly friendly, Null initially expresses concern for Nick and his family, hoping Nick "pulls up".
KF does more research suggesting Nick's friend and frequent guest Drexel groomed the tween daughter of a woman he was dating, later introducing her to BDSM and fucking her once she reached college age to "save her" from other more dangerous doms.
Josh's weekly MATI segments become increasingly critical of Nick, particularly with the Drexel revelations because Null doesn't like him for being a typical jogger and a gross MGTOW
Nick and Josh have a falling out. Nick harasses Null with hours-long calls and texts in the middle of the night to "correct the record", sometimes from Nick's shower. He accuses and gaslights Josh for being too autistic to understand simple social interactions and claims he's intimidated by his own forum. This inflames the KF/Rekieta fan civil war.
Back in the fall of '22, an intrepid Kiwi creates a scraper to record Nick's 24/7 chat of perverts and simps. The archived highlights are posted to KF to be mocked. This effectively ends the lewdposting in Nick's Locals chat and the refugees hide in private Discords. Nick is enraged that Kiwis are "touching the cow" and "harming his business".
With his confession that he hates everything legal and always has, Nick rebrands in Spring '23 to a relationship/variety show/degeneracy channel. He claims "Rekieta Law was never a law channel. Actual lawyers stop appearing as guests and he rarely does day trials. He adopts FNT outcast Camelot as a regular sidekick. Messy drinking increases and he schedules a regular Fun Friday show to be degenerate and drink his face off.
Nick starts no-showing frequently for his own weeknight shows with lame excuses of being "dehydrated" or "sick" or having to make unscheduled drives until 3 am. Despite his obligations with his signed contract with Rumble and Locals. KF starts tracking his superchat totals. Previously on YT's top superchat leaders, Nick now regularly totals only a few hundred dollars a night. Nick says he "doesn't care" because he has the security of guaranteed Rumble income. One night in 2024, his SC revenue was zero $.
Summer 2023 was quiet as Nick always disappears for big chunks of time. He was responsible this year for heading up Anime Matsuri's YT corner. He predictably did no work and it was reportedly a disaster. A lot of the FNT/G&G crew pulled out and reported the ones that did show ghosted him.
With Nick's descent into degeneracy, he's realigned himself with Dick Masterson (who he was a fan of and integral to the launch of his streaming career) and his co-host Vito. Dick and Vito initiated drama surrounding Eric July's ISOM comic books being mid in order to gain attention for Vito's own never-releasing comic. Dick personally emailed the ISOM Christian ministries to inform them of a possible trademark infringement with July's comic, in an attempt to embroil him in a lawsuit. Dick also indirectly sent employees and sycophants to loiter and vandalize July's Texas distribution center and deface his great-grandfather's southern grave.
Nick Rekieta inexplicably involved himself in the drama, talking about how July's work was shit despite never reading it and insinuating that July was committing charity fraud via program where his fans could buy copies of his comic for children. He also defended the blatant harassment from Dick Masterson and his fans towards July. July, thin-skinned & enraged, came on Nick's show to defend the allegations. July later made his own video calling Rekieta a "non-practicing" lawyer. This enraged Nick, who would go on the next night to get drunk and call EJ a nigger on stream for 7 hours straight. Nick never apologized and is widely believed to have been blacklisted by the entire FNT/G&G crew.
Without the old lawyers or the Fandom Menace guests, Nick's shows continued to consist of him drinking alone and seething. Many suspect he's abusing drugs, though unconfirmed. He has a suspect diagnosis of narcolepsy and has a prescription for a stimulant Modafinil that he mixes with booze against medical advice. There's lots of concern from his critics that he admits on stream to drinking to excess from midnight to dawn, then gets in his Mustang at 7 am to drive his oldest child to school.
Nick claims to have lost 50+ lbs over the last year intentionally and appears quite gaunt. He admits to purposefully eating nothing at all because he wants to stay thin and allots most of his 1200 calorie intake to booze. He claims to only eat a chocolate bar and a small bag of Doritos daily. He also routinely advises that everyone else should stop eating altogether as well for health.
In the fall of '23, Nick had a fellow lawyer named Sean Martin/Potentially Criminal on his show. Martin admits to having a KF account. Many disenchanted former Rekieta fans have migrated to Sean's community, where they superchat Nick jokes and Martin lightheartedly pokes fun. On this evening, Nick received a few mild alog superchats with Sean on. Sean in turn made some corny jokes about Nick calling Josh Moon at midnight from the shower. Rekieta in turn flew off the handle & screamed at Martin for 20 minutes straight about how he knew Sean was hanging out with Kiwis and was making barbs at his expense. The struggle session was widely clipped. It also attracted the attention of other drama channels like Kino Casino/PPP/Andy Warski and even Metokur, who started talking on air WTF was going on with Nick.
Near New Year's '23, a KF autist was able to doxx the user Mandy Karevicius who started Nick's whole coomer arc back in the fall of '22 with her HS bobs pick. Through Texas DMV records and an old TF2 account, "Mandy" turned out to be a dude named Daniel Harris
A dude named Daniel Harris who catfished Rekieta and was skinwalking as the online profile of a IRL woman he went to HS with in Louisiana. In the spring of '23, Nick got really drunk one night and proclaimed to Mandy that he would fuck the shit out of her if he wasn't married. He also tried to encourage "Mandy" to come to Anime Matsuri with him&his wife for an implied threesome, but Mandy never showed. It's presumed that Nick's wife saw the simping at the time because he deleted the stream and went hat-in-hand begging clip channels to take it down.
Nick continued his post-stream Locals chats by contract all through 2023, but they essentially devolved to sloppy drunken messy seethe sessions where he eats on camera in his messy kitchen, complains about KF and his haters, complains how hard life is as a streamer, makes promises about changes to his show that never materialize and makes constant vague allusions to how stressed he is, how hectic his home life is, how he hates missing shows but there are constant emergencies, etc. But he never actually states what the problems are behind the scenes.
After the catfishing reveal, Rekieta did a Sober January to prove the haters wrong that his drinking wasn't out of control. He mostly accomplished this by barely streaming at all for the month of January, then being a weasel claiming he only promised not to drink "on stream". He almost made it, but then uploaded a cringy swinger drunken hot tub stream at the end of the month with another couple from the Steel Toe Morning Show (the same host who revealed that Nick drinks whiskey at brunch and pressures others to do the same so he doesn't drink alone).
Eventually it was revealed that his Rumble and Locals contracts were only for 1 year, which expired around Jan '24. All evidence points towards that they've cut him loose because it's March and he's completely radio silent about a renewal. So he told all his old audience to fuck off, he has no guaranteed money, he hates streaming and barely shows up and makes low 3 figures a night when he does.
Good lord, this was almost painful to read. Its just sad to hear how far this guy has fallen. Just goes to show that you should never let your vices get the better of you I suppose.
Thank you for posting this summary here. I hope Nick has a bit of an awakening and gets his life together before its too late.
Near New Year's '23, a KF autist was able to doxx the user Mandy Karevicius who started Nick's whole coomer arc back in the fall of '22 with her HS bobs pick. Through Texas DMV records and an old TF2 account, "Mandy" turned out to be a dude named Daniel Harris who catfished Rekieta and was skinwalking as the online profile of a IRL woman he went to HS with in Louisiana. In the spring of '23, Nick got really drunk one night and proclaimed to Mandy that he would fuck the shit out of her if he wasn't married. He also tried to encourage "Mandy" to come to Anime Matsuri with him&his wife for an implied threesome, but Mandy never showed. It's presumed that Nick's wife saw the simping at the time because he deleted the stream and went hat-in-hand begging clip channels to take it down.
Lol... wow
With Nick's descent into degeneracy, he's realigned himself with Dick Masterson (who he was a fan of and integral to the launch of his streaming career) and his co-host Vito. Dick and Vito initiated drama surrounding Eric July's ISOM comic books being mid in order to gain attention for Vito's own never-releasing comic. Dick personally emailed the ISOM Christian ministries to inform them of a possible trademark infringement with July's comic, in an attempt to embroil him in a lawsuit. Dick also indirectly sent employees and sycophants to loiter and vandalize July's Texas distribution center and deface his great-grandfather's southern grave.
WTF???
Nick Rekieta inexplicably involved himself in the drama, talking about how July's work was shit despite never reading it and insinuating that July was committing charity fraud via program where his fans could buy copies of his comic for children. He also defended the blatant harassment from Dick Masterson and his fans towards July. July, thin-skinned & enraged, came on Nick's show to defend the allegations. July later made his own video calling Rekieta a "non-practicing" lawyer. This enraged Nick, who would go on the next night to get drunk and call EJ a nigger on stream for 7 hours straight. Nick never apologized and is widely believed to have been blacklisted by the entire FNT/G&G crew.
I agree it’s really hard to get the full backstory on how Rekieta went so off the rails over the last 2 years.
No established YouTubers have really touched or acknowledged WTF is happening with Nick except some really small spergy channels with an axe to grind.
The Elissa clips channel posts contemporary clips of what Nick is up to, but the comment section is only inside jokes.
Nick's Kiwifarms thread is too large, fast-moving and full of shitposting to learn the old lore or keep up. The overview post in his thread is perpetually incomplete and getting rewritten.
I personally gave up on trying to stay up-to-date about 6 months ago.
Like most 'Youtubers', Nick Rekieta is buckling under the weight of his newfound 'fame & celebrity'. He appears to be incapable of dealing with his detractors, which makes him do and say provocative things when under the influence of alcohol.
Not everything they say about him is true but there were some sketchy drunk moments, that could have been handled differently. And he's also noticeably losing weight.
Four of the most contentious things that have a lot of circumstantial evidence but not technically confirmed.
Is Nick still monogamous with his wife/a swinger/a cuck/gay?
Claims continously that he and his wife are "monogamous", but he sounds like a lawyer using Bill Clinton technicalities
Went to Hedonism II, a nude swinger Jamaican resort with his wife during Black Bulk week. Confirmed on at least one occasion, possibly more.
Leaked texts from Faran Balanced where Nick talks about his wife's desire to swing
Lots of homoerotic stuff on stream with Camelot (shirts off, drinking "Fight milk", etc), shared a room together in Vegas
rented a Playboy-themed AirBnB in Nashville and performed pole dancing there for fellow YTs
best friend Drex is MGTOW, a groomer, into BDSM and a gross PUA. Drex has said on stream multiple times that him & Nick are more alike than everyone thinks.
Nick tried unsuccessfully to hire a contractor to build him a sex dungeon at his Minnesota home.
Nick owns a St. Andrew's Cross and a sex swing.
Nick brags about traveling with an entire suitcase full of sex toys whenever he travels. He goes to sex shops with his wife when traveling.
Nick lusted over a catfish in his chat, proclaiming he would fuck them if not married. He also invited said catfish to fuck his wife.
Nick is fine with mothers doing OnlyFans
Nick is disappointed his parents didn't describe their sex lives to him in more explicit detail.
Nick is obsessed with the Balldo, a British dildo cage for your testicles. He fucked his wife with it and then did an on-air review.
His wife brought him to a Gay 90s underwear party in Minneapolis for his birthday
Nick constantly brags that he loves to cocktease swingers that try to pick him and his wife up in bars. But he only likes to "talk to them" and always goes home with his wife.
Nick claims he got roofied while partying in Houston a few years ago and completely blacked out, having amnesia re: what happened that night when out with Brittany Venti & crew
Is Nick abusing drugs other than alcohol?
Was very excited and started using THC products when it became accidentally legalized in Minnesota
Talks about gay drugs like poppers with gays in his Locals chat
Has told members of his chat to DM him re: instructions on acquiring drugs
Mixes prescription Modafinil with booze for his "narcolepsy"
Claims he did hallucinogens in Houston or Vegas where he tripped balls for hours and permanently deranged his tactile sensation
Has had a worsening tremor over the last year on camera
Cancels shows frequently for unscheduled mystery drives in the middle of the night until 3 am
Some anecdotes from years ago that his wife was buying drugs from some lowlife in a local bar
Is Rekieta driving impaired?
Nick is supposed to stream from 11 pm CST for 3-5 hours M-F, then do a 20-30 min post-stream Locals subscriber exclusive.
Nick drinks to a stupor most nights until dawn
He claims that his oldest child has some sort of early morning commitment around 7 am every weekday requiring a ride. They used to have a college-aged nanny and his wife theoretically has the ability to drive. Nevertheless, these dawn rides to school activities falls daily to Nick 5 days a week despite the fact he didn't sleep all night, took stimulants and drank to excess. There's unconfirmed speculation that his wife is on a cocktail of prescription drugs herself incapacitating her ability to drive.
Nick claims he drinks all night, then pops a stimulant, sleeps for an hour or two if at all, drives his kid to school, then goes home to sleep.
Though Rekieta has no recorded DUIs, he has complained of a few recent speeding tickets.
While not yet caught, there's really no scenario where he's not driving his kid around under the influence based on his own stated sequence of events.
Does Nick drink off-stream?
Nick the Whiskey Drinking Lawyer started off as a gimmick, then became a crutch. However, Nick claims he only ever drinks on stream.
His kitchen counter is full of piles of alcohol bottles. Which is odd considering he streams and drinks downstairs in his gun vault, similarly filled from floor-to-ceiling with alcohol.
Nick did stand-up last year with Lila Hart at a bowling alley in Minnesota last year. He had brunch the next day with the Steel Toe Morning Show guy, who reported on air later on that Nick was drinking whiskey the next morning and pressuring others to do the same.
Nick did Sober January in '24 to own his haters. He failed the challenge before the end of the month by airing a cringy swingers stream drinking with the Steel Toe Morning Show couple.
Yeah, I read about the balldo thing, but I figured that was more of a joke. They were mentioning the bottle licking thing as well. Either way, he has given enough ammunition to his detractors for him to not make it out unscathed.
There is no story. He pandered to metokur fans, which are all emotionally disregulated drama addicts, that will invent it to get their fix. So now they are fixated on him
Those of us who've been fans of Nick since before Rittenhouse, and some of the audience who've come after, have always understood that his show is a night show. We're there for the fat jokes and dick jokes and for the drunken read-throughs of legal documents.
Despite the claims of internet autists and other cringetubers who are frankly jealous of his success, Rackets never tried to portray himself as a serious attorney, but a lot of the audience he gained during his trial coverage fall into the moralfag / tradcuck / boomercon / unemployed soap-opera bingeing housewife category, and have decided they disapprove of his drinking, swearing and sex jokes.
And because the tradcuck crowd, much like leftists, have never really understood the "if you don't like the content, just don't watch it" principle, this has led to constant moralistic, church-lady handwringing about his behavior, when it really hasn't changed much in the years since I started watching him.
He does talk a lot about his personal life, and he tries to be friends with literally everyone, including some people that the kiwifarms have a serious hate-boner for, like Ethan Ralph. And those things have created a situation where the farms have generated a huge thread about Nick full of completely unsubstantiated claims about his personal life, and this has got worse as it's become increasingly clear that almost none of what they say about him is true.
Since internet autists absolutely cannot tolerate being proved wrong, there's now a whole subset of cringetards actively rooting for Nick's marriage and family to fall apart, in spite of the fact that everything seems to be fine, and bombarding his chats and comment sections with bullshit drama whenever he tries to talk about anything else. He doesn't do himself any favors by engaging with them as often as he does, but it's understandably upsetting to a people-pleaser like Nick to have dozens of accounts in his comment sections actively cheering for his life to fall apart and trying to sabotage his family.
I'm sure all the haters right now are super jealous of a guy who is pulling a fraction of what he once was because he can't stop cancelling shows and is clearly in the deepest pits of alcoholism that is apparent from just his physical appearance.
Every autist who may fit the bill of what you describe is doing less damage than his sycophants who will support him through everything, including rewriting reality and history itself, simply because they are enabling him to keep claiming nothing is wrong while he physically deteriorates due to his extreme drinking.
The fact that you think that "everything seems to be fine" while being able to physically look at him makes every other part of your description unreliable.
The fact that you think that "everything seems to be fine" while being able to physically look at him makes every other part of your description unreliable.
Whatever you say. He still makes the same enjoyable content he's always made, and he's still doing so from the same studio, which indicates he's living at home. He's just as insightful and articulate as he's ever been, which he showed on his stream with Shafer just the other day. Any behind-the-scenes drama you imagine is occurring beyond that is pure conjecture.
Inserting yourself into the personal lives of e-celebs in order to feed your own sense of moral superiority is the most beta-male faggotry imaginable. If you don't like his content, don't watch it. Continuing to bask in what you perceive to be his decline makes you no better than every lonely, unfucked white girl who ever bought a paparazzi magazine.
I don't, I haven't watched it since him and his good friend Ty Beard not only failed Vic through sheer incompetence, but also made jokes about them doing it. You know, the thing that made him massively popular in the first place and he could barely muster a peep about the recent end of, let alone shame for his failing of the man.
Its the fact that I haven't seen him in years that makes his current appearance and mannerisms so staggering and horrifying at just a glance. Because unlike you apparently, I haven't been boiled slowly like a good little frog. So once again:
The fact that you think that "everything seems to be fine" while being able to physically look at him makes every other part of your description unreliable.
But I guess enabling a guy is perfectly acceptable if the alternative means the dang dirty trolls might be right about one thing.
For the record, I watched Nick from the beginning of the Vic saga until recently when I unsubscribed from him on YouTube (and bookmarked his Kiwifarms thread).
he still makes the same enjoyable content he’s always made
Do you ACTUALLY watch him? Because he doesnt “make the same enjoyable content”. He doesn’t have guests, he doesn’t do trials, when he actually gets around to streaming it’s boring as hell and he just drunkenly rambles and spouts off the smarmiest BS ever. No more Friday panels. Unbreaded got played out but there was nothing to replace it. No effort whatsoever and it was obvious. And you reeeeeally notice the absence of superchats. It’s crazy that at least like 30% of his show was just responding to superchats and doing toasts for people and shit, and when that slowed down for him you could really feel the content thinning.
That unhinged, psychotic drunken rant he did a week ago trying to dunk on a suicidal former fan. That was just classic Nick content. Hasn't changed at all.
Rumble Live Viewer and Total View Counts compared to YT are very suspect.
I've seen commentary from people who experimented with closed invitation streams for private events with known IRL viewers estimate their fudge factor may be around 6x.
Though I do agree with you that he still seems to maintain a significant viewing audience considering all the haters and the drama despite his Superchat revenue cratering.
You have no evidence to substantiate your allegations of alcoholism, so I'm going to go with the most logical conclusion, which is that Nick is a lightweight because he doesn't drink as much as everyone seems convinced he does.
Omg the cope. Dude he admits to eating nothing to save his calories for alcohol. He’s got a stack of whiskey bottles on his kitchen table that clearly just exists there. He couldn’t do sober January, he bitched out by saying he was only going to not drink on camera. You obviously don’t know an alcoholic when you see one.
https://youtu.be/VKF6LDXA0_o
this has led to constant moralistic, church-lady handwringing about his behavior, when it really hasn't changed much in the years since I started watching him.
This is essentially the TL;DR lynchpin of the whole Nick Rekieta drama:
His critics feel that both Nick & his content has changed for the worse while Rekieta himself and some of his fans claim he hasn't and was always this way.
His spurned former fans feel he is a hypocrite for LARPing as a traddad Christian lawyer with a loving wife and 5 kids, hustling as a YTuber, drinking casually and making ridiculous law content fun.
They argue
Nick started drinking too much,
it was revealed he is a trust fund brat pretending to be middle class,
he started banning longtime fans with legitimate criticism, reneging on his free speech principles
he was revealed to resent his wife and family for getting in the way of his hedonistic desires, seething that he has to spend Christmases and long weekends with them rather than debauchery abroad
he defamed another lolcow and lies about the defamatory things he said on air, instead pursuing a ridiculous lolsuit instead of eating crow
he claims he hates all things law related and always has, despite this what made his YT career
he seems to have completely abandoned his Christian faith
he continually makes promises to his audience (custom 5k subscribers gift, 24 hr streams, long-form interview series, his own comic book, auctioning knives to raise funds for Vic, YT How-To bootcamp) that he never makes any steps to fulfill
he exhibits tons of narcissistic behavior where he gaslights constantly and can never admit fault or apologize
Some say he's changed. Others say he hasn't. Still more say he was always like this and the Christian traddad thing was always a thin mask.
I'm sure its the pro-lolicon defense force that caused him to drink himself stupid, fall for a catfish, and show off a picture of a bottle squeezed between his ass.
He's been going hard on the alcohol and turning into Ethan Ralph.
Good lord, this was almost painful to read. Its just sad to hear how far this guy has fallen. Just goes to show that you should never let your vices get the better of you I suppose.
Thank you for posting this summary here. I hope Nick has a bit of an awakening and gets his life together before its too late.
Lol... wow
WTF???
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Glad to be of service.
I really need an editor to rein me in.
I was embarrassed when I hit the post character limit.
Nick Rekieta lore is difficult to explain because there's tons of it, but its lots of little stuff without that many big salient points.
It's kind of a IYKYK thing.
I followed RL during Kyle's trial, but only remained subbed after that.
After his arrest I tried to find out what the hell happened, but every video atm are just people celebrating his demise.
Anyway, shocking searching an old thread on this site gives a better rundown than a couple hours video I just listened too.
I agree it’s really hard to get the full backstory on how Rekieta went so off the rails over the last 2 years.
No established YouTubers have really touched or acknowledged WTF is happening with Nick except some really small spergy channels with an axe to grind.
The Elissa clips channel posts contemporary clips of what Nick is up to, but the comment section is only inside jokes.
Nick's Kiwifarms thread is too large, fast-moving and full of shitposting to learn the old lore or keep up. The overview post in his thread is perpetually incomplete and getting rewritten.
I personally gave up on trying to stay up-to-date about 6 months ago.
Did you get an AI to summarize a Kiwi thread, rofl?
That's a hilariously disturbing summary.
Like most 'Youtubers', Nick Rekieta is buckling under the weight of his newfound 'fame & celebrity'. He appears to be incapable of dealing with his detractors, which makes him do and say provocative things when under the influence of alcohol.
Not everything they say about him is true but there were some sketchy drunk moments, that could have been handled differently. And he's also noticeably losing weight.
Four of the most contentious things that have a lot of circumstantial evidence but not technically confirmed.
Yeah, I read about the balldo thing, but I figured that was more of a joke. They were mentioning the bottle licking thing as well. Either way, he has given enough ammunition to his detractors for him to not make it out unscathed.
drunk degenerate jew
Really? Doesn’t he frequently say how him and his wife have only slept with each other??
There is no story. He pandered to metokur fans, which are all emotionally disregulated drama addicts, that will invent it to get their fix. So now they are fixated on him
Those of us who've been fans of Nick since before Rittenhouse, and some of the audience who've come after, have always understood that his show is a night show. We're there for the fat jokes and dick jokes and for the drunken read-throughs of legal documents.
Despite the claims of internet autists and other cringetubers who are frankly jealous of his success, Rackets never tried to portray himself as a serious attorney, but a lot of the audience he gained during his trial coverage fall into the moralfag / tradcuck / boomercon / unemployed soap-opera bingeing housewife category, and have decided they disapprove of his drinking, swearing and sex jokes.
And because the tradcuck crowd, much like leftists, have never really understood the "if you don't like the content, just don't watch it" principle, this has led to constant moralistic, church-lady handwringing about his behavior, when it really hasn't changed much in the years since I started watching him.
He does talk a lot about his personal life, and he tries to be friends with literally everyone, including some people that the kiwifarms have a serious hate-boner for, like Ethan Ralph. And those things have created a situation where the farms have generated a huge thread about Nick full of completely unsubstantiated claims about his personal life, and this has got worse as it's become increasingly clear that almost none of what they say about him is true.
Since internet autists absolutely cannot tolerate being proved wrong, there's now a whole subset of cringetards actively rooting for Nick's marriage and family to fall apart, in spite of the fact that everything seems to be fine, and bombarding his chats and comment sections with bullshit drama whenever he tries to talk about anything else. He doesn't do himself any favors by engaging with them as often as he does, but it's understandably upsetting to a people-pleaser like Nick to have dozens of accounts in his comment sections actively cheering for his life to fall apart and trying to sabotage his family.
I'm sure all the haters right now are super jealous of a guy who is pulling a fraction of what he once was because he can't stop cancelling shows and is clearly in the deepest pits of alcoholism that is apparent from just his physical appearance.
Every autist who may fit the bill of what you describe is doing less damage than his sycophants who will support him through everything, including rewriting reality and history itself, simply because they are enabling him to keep claiming nothing is wrong while he physically deteriorates due to his extreme drinking.
The fact that you think that "everything seems to be fine" while being able to physically look at him makes every other part of your description unreliable.
His streams still routinely get 6-figure view counts on Rumble, and those have gone up, not down.
And if he were really the alcoholic you insist he is, he wouldn't be getting trashed after three glasses of whiskey on those streams.
Whatever you say. He still makes the same enjoyable content he's always made, and he's still doing so from the same studio, which indicates he's living at home. He's just as insightful and articulate as he's ever been, which he showed on his stream with Shafer just the other day. Any behind-the-scenes drama you imagine is occurring beyond that is pure conjecture.
Inserting yourself into the personal lives of e-celebs in order to feed your own sense of moral superiority is the most beta-male faggotry imaginable. If you don't like his content, don't watch it. Continuing to bask in what you perceive to be his decline makes you no better than every lonely, unfucked white girl who ever bought a paparazzi magazine.
I don't, I haven't watched it since him and his good friend Ty Beard not only failed Vic through sheer incompetence, but also made jokes about them doing it. You know, the thing that made him massively popular in the first place and he could barely muster a peep about the recent end of, let alone shame for his failing of the man.
Its the fact that I haven't seen him in years that makes his current appearance and mannerisms so staggering and horrifying at just a glance. Because unlike you apparently, I haven't been boiled slowly like a good little frog. So once again:
But I guess enabling a guy is perfectly acceptable if the alternative means the dang dirty trolls might be right about one thing.
Dramafags are never right, even when they are.
Damn, he really is becoming Ethan Ralph. His fans even use the same defenses.
For the record, I watched Nick from the beginning of the Vic saga until recently when I unsubscribed from him on YouTube (and bookmarked his Kiwifarms thread).
Do you ACTUALLY watch him? Because he doesnt “make the same enjoyable content”. He doesn’t have guests, he doesn’t do trials, when he actually gets around to streaming it’s boring as hell and he just drunkenly rambles and spouts off the smarmiest BS ever. No more Friday panels. Unbreaded got played out but there was nothing to replace it. No effort whatsoever and it was obvious. And you reeeeeally notice the absence of superchats. It’s crazy that at least like 30% of his show was just responding to superchats and doing toasts for people and shit, and when that slowed down for him you could really feel the content thinning.
That unhinged, psychotic drunken rant he did a week ago trying to dunk on a suicidal former fan. That was just classic Nick content. Hasn't changed at all.
He literally kept telling the guy not to harm himself.
LOL. Are you trolling?
In the scale of most beta male faggotry imaginable, I'd say white knighting internet celebrities is right at the top.
I haven't liked his content in a long time and I haven't been watching it.
Rumble Live Viewer and Total View Counts compared to YT are very suspect.
I've seen commentary from people who experimented with closed invitation streams for private events with known IRL viewers estimate their fudge factor may be around 6x.
Though I do agree with you that he still seems to maintain a significant viewing audience considering all the haters and the drama despite his Superchat revenue cratering.
You have no evidence to substantiate your allegations of alcoholism, so I'm going to go with the most logical conclusion, which is that Nick is a lightweight because he doesn't drink as much as everyone seems convinced he does.
Omg the cope. Dude he admits to eating nothing to save his calories for alcohol. He’s got a stack of whiskey bottles on his kitchen table that clearly just exists there. He couldn’t do sober January, he bitched out by saying he was only going to not drink on camera. You obviously don’t know an alcoholic when you see one. https://youtu.be/VKF6LDXA0_o
GO HOME RACKETS, YOU'RE DRUNK!
This is essentially the TL;DR lynchpin of the whole Nick Rekieta drama:
His critics feel that both Nick & his content has changed for the worse while Rekieta himself and some of his fans claim he hasn't and was always this way.
His spurned former fans feel he is a hypocrite for LARPing as a traddad Christian lawyer with a loving wife and 5 kids, hustling as a YTuber, drinking casually and making ridiculous law content fun.
They argue
Some say he's changed. Others say he hasn't. Still more say he was always like this and the Christian traddad thing was always a thin mask.
I'm sure its the pro-lolicon defense force that caused him to drink himself stupid, fall for a catfish, and show off a picture of a bottle squeezed between his ass.