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.
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.
Did you get an AI to summarize a Kiwi thread, rofl?
That's a hilariously disturbing summary.