this has gotta be THE most unhinged youtuber meltdown 🪱

talking a bit about nerd city and the reddit NFT situation
in-depth commentary videos at @DAngeloWallace

[yeeyeeyeeye]

Man, I remember when Nerd City was really well respected on YouTube. His video on how Jake Paul's videos violated the FCC's terms on advertising to children was great and well informative. In that video about YouTube's demontization system, he specifically made a point about how the system surpresses LGBTQIA+ creators. Sucks to see him become the very person he would've criticized several years ago.

[firefang]

For context on the "cat owner" bit, the podcast he co-hosts with 3 other youtubers (of which he is objectively the worst host) has a discord server where people were posting pics of their pet cats. He got ass mad because every time he tried to shill his NFT's there, people would spam cat pics to clog up the chat and detract from his shilling, so his response was to ban anyone who posted more than 1 picture of a cat lmao.
Also a meme in the discord was to make fun of him talking about his NFT shilling by responding in baby talk, he would talk about how everyone needed to mint tokens of his project (acronym of which is DAP) asap, so people kept responding to his posts with "dappy want mint mint" and this seems to have been the catalyst for his public meltdown here

[yourwife]

‘I’m letting the liars know I found their little liar’s club. Holding it accountable, one might say.’
The way I know he was laying on his stomach, kicking his feet, and giggling like a school girl when he wrote this.

[justhearmeout]

Not Nerd City losing an argument to a cat photo 😭😭😭

[crispeggies]

"did the parasitic worm in your brain become as stagnant as your subscriber count? clearly something must not be working" is cold af 💀💀💀

[QT.-wp]

"I'm not owned! I'm not owned!", he insists as he slowly shrinks and transforms into a corn cob

[coricognitions]

"cat owner" "Marxist mob" "woke" "word salad" I know these are all pretty common insults but they're especially common on Fox News right now. I think he fell right down the rabbit hole.

[kittycat]

Did his gf break up with him or something?? This is some divorced dad ass behaviour

[karendaniel]

This feels like it's mental health related. Had a friend act like this once, found out she had stopped taking her meds.

[daveykinqy]

Being told “tell your wife you love her” from MahNameJeff420 is so fucking funny. the fact he replied to any of these with the seriousness he did is baffling

[SkiggsMoDiggs]

The fact he just keeps freaking out and repeating "Marxists" and "Liars" is like a Danganronpa character breakdown 😭😭😭

[HectoGames]

6:32 this one’s so telling. He probably just spent years during quarantine browsing increasingly far-right forums and got brain rot.

[sarura]

dude i remember back when nerd city was so well respected in the community, and i never hear about him now

[Gamingturtle]

5:42 is so beyond brutal "Tell your wife you love her or something." the casualness of "or something" i was cackling

[averyeml]

Lmao him basically saying “it’s not sunk cost fallacy because I’ve sunk a bunch of cost into this and if I keep doing it, it’ll work” is incredible

[Pinkgobi]

I used to be a HUGE fan. HUGE fan. I watched his Jaystation video a dozen times.

The fact that he has had a downfall so severe that he is coming off as hysterical in the YOUTUBER DRAMA subreddit, a subreddit known for being insane and reactive, is so crushing. It hurts bro. It's like when granny starts to not recognize you.

[mysteriousginge]

Using Marxism as an insult and then going on to say "it can never fail as long as I add value to it" is honestly poetic.

[redminus]

Man, what a wild nosedive. Their older videos are still legendary, in particular they'll still always deserve credit for being one of the main channels to draw attention to the extremely horrendous "daddyofive" situation some years back. Somehow they managed to thread the nearly impossible needle of treating it with the seriousness it deserved, while staying in character and keeping it entertaining (or maybe "engaging" is a better word).
IMO the weirdest part of all this is that as NFT projects go, it didn't really seem that bad. The times I saw it explained, it looked like it was basically being used as a Patreon-style membership token, rather than the usual "investment" scheme NFTs are known for. It still begs the question "why not just use Patreon" or whatever, but for a channel that also made its reputation on analyzing the inner workings of social media etc, it seemed at least like some kind of on-brand experiment.
Having said that though, I recall the teaser/announcement of it being received VERY badly on Twitter. The Nerdcity account's reaction was roughly as hostile and defensive as all this reddit stuff, with some clapback about how everyone was being incurious and jumping to conclusions. At the time I had hoped that maybe they were doing a bit, perhaps working on some kind of NFT analysis video and doing their own project so they could look into the data first hand.
In the end, I guess not.
RIP

[LilFeralGangrel]

Years back Nerdcity made a video about youtube's bias against LGBT people in the algorithm, now he's a cryptobro who constantly rages about "woke" people.

He lived long enough to become the villain.

[thetrueone]

HI HELLO! i'm the person who uploaded the cat pic responding to NerdCity's "cat owner spotted" message. it's became an inside joke now to have a cat pic occasionally when talking about nerdcity on the sub.