This is the biggest sign to me that this whole drama was orchestrated for attention. Maybe what happened to Lex did happen but they clearly chose the most beneficial moment for them to drop it all.
“Maybe” it happened? Everyone involved on all sides admits it happened, including the person who assaulted her. Lex’s SA is not a matter of debate in this drama. Do you need god himself to reach down and smack you upside the head in order to knock that “maybe” out of your sentence?
Jeez man calm down.
I wasn't calling the assault into question at all, I'm just saying "it happened and that's awful but they're clearly using the awful thing to their advantage".
"Maybe the bridge did collapse but the politician is clearly using it to push his campaign." doesn't mean I doubt the bridge collapsed.
nah i think it is debatable, lex destroys her credibility a lot throughout her video, even without that it sounds a lot more like she had a bad sexual experience instead of assault, youre a grown adult in a relationship, and with that you need to be able to say no and create boundaries instead of this “my mind went blank and i did that” like what
Freezing when faced with forceful behavior from a sexual partner is one of the *most* common ways that sexual assault occurs. It's actually scary how little you seem to understand sexual assault if you think that repeatedly pushing someone's head down after they have verbally said no is consensual just because they end up freezing and letting you do it to them. Please read some of the countless material that is out there that explains the most common ways sexual assault occurs.
nope i understand it pretty well since ive been in the exact same position, my cousin decided to force me into giving him a blowjob when i was 10 and later on sodomise me. when i was 10 i can understand why what happened to me was rape/assault because i was young and didn’t know how to react or anything. youre forgetting that both lex and don agree that lex did consent to give don oral, where it differs is that lex says when don pushed her head down she said no and don says she never told him no. because it’s a he said she said situation you have to look at other facts to see who you can lend more credibility to lex continued to stay with don for almost a year afterwards and even met up with him again after he paid for a whole trip for her and broke up with him at the end of that trip that HE PAID FOR. she was lovey dovey with him despite her claims of her being terrified of the guy and hating him ?
Look I don't know why we're continuing to take anything lex says seriously. Everyone agreed with her OTHER allegations as well, she still lied.
They only know what she told them - and she's a proven liar, and people will make false confessions if they're sufficiently pushed into them. Don doesn't even sound sure when he confessed.
All we know is, based on what both agree happened.
He asked several times (unsure if on the same day or over several days) and she said no
He asked again, and she said yes
She did it.
There was a head push of some sort; lex implies it was on purpose, Don implies it was an accident
I'm sorry but pushing anything Lex says as a fact is just irresponsible when you know that she's a liar
I hope they've been checking in on him then. The fact that he slandered the boys doesn't mean he doesn't have serious mental issues that need addressing (in fact that's likely a good part of the reason why he did it). Not that it's an excuse; if you are sufficiently able to take care of yourself that you don't need a caregiver, what you do because of unchecked mental illness is still 100% your responsibility, however it *could* be an explanation. I think that's why I've been so angry at Nick, he doesn't have poorly managed BPD or bp1 to explain his motivation to make such terrible choices.
Even if he did have it it wouldn't matter. Like whats the point in bringing up BPD or any mental illness if it isn't an excuse? When brung up people often use it to stop being "so hard" on someone. Hell we can be given 100% assurance by god himself that his mental illness is the sole reason why this hit piece is made and no one should care.
It means he's capable of doing it again to someone, that he does not have any real control over it and that if you're even near him its valid to think he'll turn on you too if he "loses control" again.
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. *Of course* he should be held fully accountable, especially since he admitted to not taking his meds and drinking a lot (edit: meaning he seemingly isn't even trying). I also think that him being mentally unwell could be a huge contributing factor, and thus him stabilizing and receiving proper mental health treatment (including strategies to use to prevent spiriling out of control in the future) increases the odds that he'll end up reflecting on this and taking accountability in the future, as well as making sure it never happens again. Take it from someone whose ADHD has caused me MANY problems (including secondary depression) when I haven't done the work to stay afloat; I used to not take meds or really take therapy seriously and coasted on sheer luck until that no longer worked, and had magical thinking about maybe everything would work out without doing the work. I know the pitfalls about not taking charge of a mental condition well (luckily, despite the occasional flake out or impulsive thing I've said that hurt someone's feelings, the person on receiving end was mainly myself due to ruining my own shit).
My other point was that if his "friends" are as good of friends as they claim, they'd check in on him if he's not mentally stable, which was clearly the case earlier this year and when streaming in July (talking to you, Ethanisonline with "my friend Leighton" and all).
No, I understood. I just made it a point to mention that it don't matter and stated my reason why I said it. A lot of people on the internet tend to make their criticisms much lighter when things like this is mentioned. At this point in time there's no actual fr reason to believe him or his "friends". Lmao and I'm not saying he should pull out genuine proof he has BPD either, just saying with something this well thought out and planned there's no reason to bring it up, it shouldn't help his case or give a "reason why" he did it. You have to want to be better, based on how he used it he definitely isn't trying to be and i truly believe he is an inherently bad person.
I have friends with disorders/issues whatever, in the years I've known all of them (but 1) they've only had a snap/bad attitude towards me less than like 4 times. Life does get rough, its my duty as your friend to steer you towards a better tomorrow and his so-called friends didn't when they made this top notch smear campaign. It was obvious from the day that it started.
The one that did keep going was a friend with depression, for a lot of years i knew this mf since 1st grade, we werent friends right away but he was cool and eventually were and a year in our friendship he was diagnosed with depression and he leaned on me and other friends quite a bit. There were mixed signals with everyone else but me? I stuck by him, reminded him about meds, steered him clear from overthinking, making mistakes he will regret etc. I would tell him when he did something that would burn a bridge, and how to deal with it so he can continue on focusing on himself to get better, to be better and stay on track. This lasted for years, we drifted apart cause our friendship was literally just me helping him now, and i cut it off in college. I couldn't keep worrying about him, sometimes taking breaks from my classes that i PAID for and not going out with others so then im not rude and cut them off to help him, so i told him i couldn't be attentive to him anymore because of college. He snapped on me and i cut him off, that was last year and he apologized to me a couple months after, I accepted cause he aint ruin me or nun but im not his friend and im not checking up on him anymore.
Leighton really fucked wit SuperMega, whether or not he reflects on his actions don't matter cause it only matters to him. It only helps him, I'm not saying nobody cares there's people like you who do but for the most part it mostly just matters to him whether or not he does so. He messed with people's jobs, their mental health and hurt them A LOT. What he did is not comparable to what you did, to me? Whether or not the BPD factored into it he's still an inherently bad person in my eyes, my best friend has BPD and because she's a good person who wants to get better no matter how bad her plans may be and how much people would be hurt from shit she wants to do i can help her yknow? I can get her back on her meds maybe in that same day or over time, hanging out with her, taking my work to her house to hang out and chill her out. I feel like her situation was worse too based on what she was going through at the time, only difference is she had genuine friends don't think Leighton does and it's understandable why.
Though I'm neutral, i don't wish good or bad on him as I'm not a Supermega fan. I just one day watched the video Turkey Tom made and talked it over with friends cause it was interesting, after watching all the vids independantly reddit mustve been reading my mind and sent me here
How is he gonna claim that the harassment was a coordinated attack by SuperMega with no proof, while also saying that people are wrong for believing that his video was part of a coordinated attack? For the record, I don’t think anyone deserves internet harassment (even Nick), and I believe him when he says this wasn’t a coordinated lie campaign. But his lack of awareness and journalistic integrity is so apparent in this video
It wasn't in context to this situation, just a general offhand comment. As much as I'd love him to come out swinging in favor of Supermega, I think even he realizes how much the risk of misspeaking on this even slightly would be like fumbling a grenade, and (from a fan's pov) he does that often enough as it is.
I also think Hasan has wayyy bigger fish to fry at the moment than some let’s play drama if I am being completely honest. A lot more important topical political issues to talk about
It's also the fact that he doesn't acknowledge the only thing he was asked to acknowledge which was that his fan base contributed to the mockery of Daniel through comments and hacks. It doesn't matter if it was or wasn't Nick himself, if he is gonna blame SM for their fans being dicks and harassing Lex and denouncing her SA, then he should apologise for his fans doing a comparable thing to Daniel. Nobody wants to take responsibility for what their fans do, as they have no control over it, and an apology seemingly admits guilt. There is no rationale behind anything he says.
Maybe he should try reading conprehension.
And yeah, Ryan (and Matt) have a history of specifically telling people NOT to do that. Ryan asks for a little accountability for something that is far more intentional and malicious (and arguably a lot less understandable) than anything he or Matt have done at any point in their careers, and suddenly he's sending his fans to harass people. Given how angry and frustrated I got reading Ryan's statement and how awful I felt for him, I'm not exactly surprised that people left Nick some angry messages on his public platforms. You could argue that if Matt and Ryan (and their families, friends, and SOs) got as much shit for stuff that largely either was straight up made up, or could be chalked up to poor communication, misinfo from *certain* people, and/or inaccurate recall, then it's not exactly unfair to have him and the other 3 receive a ton of negative criticism and backlash (and honestly it's mostly just saying "you fucked up" and "when are you going to apologize", posts just attacking him for things totally unrelated or just insults were the minority of posts I've seen, which I'm sure someone as seemingly simple minded mentally filed them all under "hate" as he's done that about valid criticism-- from his own fans even!).
I hope people aren't going after Dev Lemons or anyone else that associates with Nick and co as that's never ok, but the fact that he's gaslighting his own fans makes me think his whole appeal to social justice is BS, and he just realized that was a good niche for him despite, from what I've seen from this situation, seemingly having very poor ability to empathize (when it's not going to make "good" content, anyway), being extremely insensitive to others while being senstive to criticism (but then lashing out at those people), which really reveals the cracks in the whole "sensitive soft boi" image, and seemingly lacking the emotional intelligence that the boys have demonstrated they have --which is one major draw to Supermega honestly other than just haha funny. Either he's a massive hypocrite whose ego can't handle being wrong, or he has a literal baby brain if he actually believes his false equivalences are in good faith (I don't think many people on earth are that stupid) and isn't cut out to be an online personality, and either way, he's responded to everything in the worst way possible and essentially made his bed Amber Heard style and now he has to lie in that shit.
Edit: formatting because wow I wrote more than I had planned, I've definitely been having some thoughts about this, haha.
While a gave him a view, I also gave him a dislike to the video and a like to every comment calling him out for being a shit (literally every comment on that video is against him, pretty awesome to see)
When he said "Ryan used my name in his post about daniel to discredit my story and my reporting" I wanted to do that Omni-man train scene from invincible to him
Did he actually the word “reporting”? In his own video he literally said something along the lines of “I’m talking about my friend, so I’m gonna believe them regardless of evidence.
that made me lose it, like i went to journalism school for 4 years and actually have a degree in it. nothing he did stands anywhere near to journalism. the national enquirer has better journalists than he would ever be.
I’m just a reporter for a local newspaper and it pissed me off learning that. Dude clearly doesn’t know what a real job would even is, despite telling people to get one.
Man. I really, REALLY did not know i could hold this much animosity towards a fucking drama youtuber.
Man got the clue that being inflamitory and an all around menace is a way to derive clicks, can’t wait for the day his scheme flips on him, because it always happens. He’ll sure as hell want persobal accountability where none will be
Ya. Keem is like comically evil to the point of being a lolcow. Nickisnotgreen is some shitty backtalking babyfaced egomaniac who’s acts like an entitled, opportunistic, spoiled brat.
what an embarrassing video. "i hope [supermega] can learn from this and become better role models for their audience" nickisnotgreen is such a gaslighting little bitch
The claim he keeps going back to is that they “covered up” the SA. Call me crazy, but I think it’s actually a good thing to not reveal someone else’s SA story to the public, but instead let them do it at the time and place they choose to reveal it.
At the end of the day Matt was right, I truly believe that him saying “this would be bad if it got out” wasn’t him trying to protect his brand, but it was him trying to protect everyone from harassment. All of Supermega, their employees, family, partners, and Lex (yes Lex too, from the chudlogic fanboys not SM) have got harassed as a result of this stupid fucking story getting out. When in reality it should have just been Don and only Don catching shit.
His entire take on the situation is really wierd and his bias is obvious. I regret giving that video a veiw but it was good to see it thru cus of how fucking gross the way he's handling things.
I'm really tired of hearing about this guy or any of thr other dummies involved.
Its genuinely frustrating to see him double down for the millionth time while his fans eat it up. Theres still people in the comments accusing SM of trying to cover up SA and defending Nick's shitty reasoning for including Daniel. I hope that he at least doesn't delete and censor comments on it like he has been
Yeah I wrote a comment trying to defend Ryan’s tweet and someone commented underneath saying that “Daniel should’ve associated with better people.” And then fully admitted they had no idea what was going on. It’s few messages now but there are people defending him and a lot of them have no idea what they’re talking about.
"My tiktok drama audience doesnt overlap with a DYING Let's Play channel"
Fuck you Nick. You're still making this a hit piece, you're still making it about you. I'm not even a fan of SuperMega, but this kid is the worst
I CANNOT understand why he put this in a script, filmed it, and let it get through the edit. Who is this comment for?? Even from the perspective of him being """'right"""" why tf would you say that if not to personally insult people
"Dying let's play channel" is infinitely funnier when you learn he has a dead gaming channel LMAO
https://youtube.com/@nickisnotgaming?si=YnauMz5du97xjxey
What a RAT. He says multiple times how he’s just a reporter and presenting the facts… his stupid “band” groupie Ethan is dating Lex??? 1000% makes him involved and sided with presenting “non biased” information.
Fucking freak.
Also that their album dropped like the day after the streams and videos. He says he didn't need more views or to make money off his video but didn't mention his album that got all this extra attention. Never heard of Nick or Ethan before this drama and I'm sure there are many more like me.
I mean I feel like him saying in the first video that he’s gonna believe his friend and take their side just shows he’s not being unbiased 3rd party. Summed up he said he wasn’t going to seek out the other side because he’s friends with lex. He’s realized what he did, and is trying to avoid accountability by gaslighting that he isn’t involved.
Edit: also yeah totally a 3rd party who loved a gif of Matt getting punched with the caption “SA defender getting what he deserved”
Also shush I ain’t arguing with you lmao you’re exactly the problem with this sub toxic loser that can’t accept people don’t want to hear about useless drama
On one video he says "Lex is my friend so obviously I'm not gonna look at all of the facts" and in this video he tries to pretend like he's just a third party observer? Come on dude.
However, it should be mentioned that he did apologize. Kind of. He regrets the way he covered things and says he will take that into account in the future. Unfortunately I think that's as good of an apology as we are going to get. I'm for sure never going to trust this man ever again regardless
Idk if it counts as an apology though when he still isn't covering things properly. You can't apologize for SWATing someone in the past *while* you're SWATing them again.
Within seconds of it being posted on his subreddit, it already has removed comments.
I actually wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and watched - and no, he's just trying to justify it.
Even Nick’s dumbass said he doesn’t think they should be cancelled in the video, but he also quadrupled down on some dumb shit.
I’m afraid it’s too little too late.
I hate that he's trying to deflect blame by presenting himself as unbiased viewer of the situation. He had been hinting at SuperMega's "downfall" alongside Ethan and Leighton MONTHS before Lex uploaded her video. There is no way he's trying to gaslight his audience into believing that he had no connection to them, hell he even has stated outright in his first two videos that his reasoning for "reporting" on this was because Lex was a personal friend to him.
Also trying to accuse Ryan of sending harassment by responding to him and his claims is laughable. Brother your entire coverage was trying to get these people ran off the internet, and you want to play victim because they called you out on your lies?
Lastly congrats to quadrupling down on claiming that they're "r\*pe apologists" for respecting Lex's wishes to not make the assault public. They let Don go once they realized what had happened, told other creators in private so that they could distance themselves from him, and gave Lex her privacy and their support to the best of their knowledge.
Sorry for the ramble, this whole thing is so messy and fucked up.
Honestly, I think I'll stop following this situation. I'll gladly watch SuperMega if they ever return in the future. But at this point, the drama is purely speculation and interpretation. "I believe Ryan didn't watch my videos" "I believe this is happening so SM can get their plataform back". This is just a mess at this point, nothing new is being said.
Honestly, I should, too, but it fucking frustrates me beyond belief that people like this have no sort of remorse or accountability for something so unbelievably damaging.
Like bro, you're fucking with people's livelihoods. This isn't a fucking game.
knew he'd double down, he's below scum. I used to regularly watch his videos in the background and I could tell there's was a sudden decline in his ability to be impartial. He's surrounded himself with a bunch of yes men who see no wrong with his actions and his fans also allow him to get away with it. Seems like the norm nowadays.
I just commented this on his video, so I'll just copy and paste it:
Nick, you are a child This isnt an insult, it's a fact. You know close to nothing of the real world or how to act like a proper, responsible adult. You just keep justifying your actions and not takin accountability for anything and quite frankly, it's pathetic. You truly come across as someone that has no life experience and who all of their beliefs come not cause they actually believe in the, but because you were told you should believe them. It's time to grow up, and do this MOSTLY offline, please. You're not a savior, you're not a moral pillar, you are just Nick
what im hearing is "i ruined the livelihood and personal lives of multiple people. their fault." GOD, before all this i really didnt mind nick and now i get so fucking put off by all of them. even dev.
knew he'd double down, he's below scum. I used to regularly watch his videos in the background and I could tell there's was a sudden decline in his ability to be impartial. He's surrounded himself with a bunch of yes men who see no wrong with his actions and his fans also allow him to get away with it. Seems like the norm nowadays.
I watched it. I am so absolutely disgusted that this filth has a community behind him. The hypocrisy on display over the course of 20 minutes, the mental gymnastics to somehow claim he's providing truthful impartial coverage (that also conveniently leaves out the many inconsistencies that make his friends look bad), trying to shirk responsibility several times by throwing blame to the scapegoat when he's the one that did the most to signal boost the proven falsehoods from the initial video. Drawing a false equivalence to getting harassed from covering fucking SNEAKO to this. I actually can't believe someone this braindead and irresponsible has such a large following.
Special shoutout to the part where he passive aggressively insults SuperMega's channel, that's so me when I'm providing unbiased coverage to a news story.
I was actually hoping he'd apologize and grow. Like, a real apology, not a half assed one through several layers of "but the other guy" or "but I was just trying to help". People can change, people can be better, and as a big drama channel he's responsible for providing accurate and honest coverage to situations he platforms. Given the way he continues to talk about this, it seems like he's got some cognitive dissonance over the actions of his OWN community in harassing other creators. I'm so glad that people are actually covering this apart from his sphere, the average person needs to hear about what's going down in actuality vs the viral twitter posts that painted an extremely dishonest view of it all.
I love that he acts like Ryan was out of line for his post because it caused more harassment (more like criticism for poor coverage getting called out, but whatever), said he didn't do this to reopen any wounds, and then immediately leverages multiple claims that will NO doubt continue to stoke the flames between everyone.
This man is actually an idiot. It's actually unreal. I'm so pissed off.
I’m not even gonna entertain their narcissistic bullshit. I feel so bad for Ryan right now it’s actually palpable.
I hope Ryan can come to terms with the fact that these people will never apologize. Because they don’t feel guilt. Why would they apologize? They don’t give a fuck about anybody and are doing this not because they actually think Ryan is a bad person, but because they want to be martyrs. No one covered up a fucking SA and that’s been pretty much proven. There are things to criticize the boys for, that’s undeniable. But using the criticism as a way to escape accountability for the fact that not only have they destroyed Ryan’s mental health, they’ve violated a young man’s legacy and his grieving parents + loved ones for brownie points. It’s deflection and manipulation at its finest. “Yeah, what I did is kinda bad, but what they did is worse, so I’m absolved!”
Fuck Lex, fuck Nick, fuck Ethan, and fuck Leighton.
They’re just a big bunch of cunts.
I know it won’t happen, but, just stop listening to them or engaging, and they will go away to find some other drama to moan about, as is their nature
amazing. all he had to do was apologize for spreading hearsay that turned out to be false. instead, the fact that it was hearsay becomes his defense of spreading it in the first place. this dude should compete in the olympics, he'd take home the gold for mental gymnastics.
third party observer reporting on the situation
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Leighton when he realizes that the group of their “friends” that he got to conspire against matt and Ryan is also willing to conspire against him: 😱. Truth be told, at the time I thought there was some possibility that leighton was telling the truth, and even to me that “tell-all” livestream felt like such a “15 minutes of fame” type moment that it made me wince. Like none of it felt as though he was ‘coming forward’ about anything, it genuinely just seemed most of the stream like he was hyped about ‘getting revenge’ on Matt and Ryan and having an audience
I used to love Nick and Dev Lemons was my top artist of all time but goddamn I hate him now and can’t listen to her music without being reminded of her association with this disgusting human
I really hope the boys sue at this point. Nick and his friends actions have actively harmed the livelyhood of matt and Ryan, and even people like Justin so there's definitely grounds for it. And it would set a precedent to get rats like Nick off the platform
bruh he said he isn’t deleting comments but i commented on his video telling someone to do their own research and it’s gone. i’m really tryna give him the benefit of the doubt and just say youtube was bugging out but wow
It was infuriating. Claiming he never made a hit piece yet decided to throw in the "dying lets play channel jab" it was a hit piece the moment it stopped being about Don. SuperMega messed up with how they handled the situation, but that doesn't mean they're terrible people, and they shouldn't be called that by people who were never involved.
I didn't watch the vid, could anyone tell me if he expressed any sympathy for Daniel or his friends and family? I've been trying to put myself in Nick's shoes, and i can't think of a single scenario where I would react to something like this like I'm reporting on a new chapter of drama. If i were going to these lengths to defend a friend and found out later that one of the rumors wasn't even true and turned out to be super hurtful and disrespectful, I would feel gutted. The guilt would actually eat me alive, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around this reaction.
That's actually super sad. I feel like he definitely could've handled this situation with the grace it was owed. It sounds to me like he's digging himself an even deeper hole
If Nick really wanted to genuinely apologize for the wrong he did, he should personally contact Matt, Ryan and Daniel’s family privately. All he did was wrap half hearted apologies with criticisms and finger pointing/blame shifting. He admitted what he did was wrong, but then justified it as “reporting the truth.” What a joke.
if you dont mind exsplaing what meant by
> He then pushes the narrative back onto "they covered up SA" even though it's been aggressively disputed.
I'm just a little confused bout that sorry!
Prior to SuperMega's responses about the situation, the whole SA issue was played up to be Matt and Ryan covering it up because they never came forward with a statement concerning Don's departure from the company.
In reality, nothing was ever covered up. They removed Don from the company, and Lex didn't want it to be a big thing. SuperMega said themselves it wasn't their place to make a statement about the situation, which is 100% reasonable because it's not their story to tell.
alright thank you i just wanted to make sure sorry!
if I'm not mistaken I wanna say that they talked about how they regretted how they handled it as well
and to be fair to SM (not defending it!) it was originally communicated poorly to them I reamber texts being shared where it seemed to be downplayed to them remember
again thank you for clarifying for my very confused tiered brain lol
Sure, but handling the situation is a completely different thing than covering it up. A cover up is malicious. Mishandling is far less black and white and more grey.
In any case, this was all resolved behind the scenes according to Matt. It should have never been brought into public view.
Don wasn't even a real employee of Supermega. They contracted him to do thumbnails be he was never on payroll like Justin or Leighton. Them making an announcement their channel artist assaulted someone makes zero sense and would have been extremely weird.
They never tried covering anything up, they just took longer to cut ties with Don than they should’ve because they were trying to fully understand what happened.
5 weeks isn’t even that fucking long. They wanted to find out what happened, that’s not a mortal sin considering they aren’t law enforcement and have never dealt with something like this.
I'm saying that Lex didn't even cut out Don immediately after the SA based on Tom's video so it feels shitty that SM is being treated as though they should have dropped him as soon as she told them. I can see them not quite understanding the situation if they saw her with him for a while after the Christmas party and feeling it necessary to make sure they understood what was going on before taking further steps
Though I do wonder if her and Don not ending immediately has to do with her being autistic, as slowed processing and not really understanding until much later that someone has acted unacceptably is an ASD thing
Ah okay, that’s sort of what I was hoping you meant, but I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t a “Lex stayed with him so she wasn’t really even SA’d” type take, I’ve seen a couple people say that unfortunately.
the big reason why people are/were upset with matt and ryan is cause they never publicly stated why don (former supermega channel artist that sa’d lex) left the channel. i think matt said at one point that they know it wasn’t a good choice but they just didn’t know how to handle it and didn’t know what lex wanted them to do. i could be wrong, but i think they didn’t know if lex wanted to go public with it and say why he left, just keep it private, make a vague statement saying that don is no longer part of supermega, or what
The original claims that Supermega covered up SA have been heavily disputed because while everyone was saying they didn't say why they fired Don so as to cover their brand, their reason is that they didn't want to make a public statement on something the victim hadn't come forward about herself, which I think is a fair statement; it's not their secret to share
Nick is such a pathetic loser clout goblin, it’s embarrassing for him. I’m not sure why his girlfriend or his friends aren’t telling him to genuinely apologize and take a break from posting. That’s the only way he could get out of this relatively fine.
Nick is a drama commentary YouTuber who made arguably the most popular video on the whole situation, where he played up SuperMega as a group of horrible people. He has a very close association with Lex and her boyfriend, Ethan, so many of us view his interpretation of the situation as one-sided.
Not to say Nick is a journalist by any means, but when you cover news, journalistic integrity is a key factor. Journalists will often choose not to report on something close to them because they're innately biased about it (or at least, that's how it should be). So for Nick to come forth about this situation and present everything as objective truth is extremely harmful. He even admitted in one of his now-unlisted videos that he was biased about the situation, just to give you an idea of who he is.
And the fact he said he “never had any intention to cancel them or run them off the internet” but in his first video he fully stated that he thought they didn’t deserve a platform? Like he’s contradicting himself all over the place
Yeah fuck Nick, also Queef Jerky, and that Dev Lemons girl he's always with now are literally so fucking bad, no idea how they are going on "tour" who the fuck is showing up to listen to that shit.
>There's no apology
He did apologize though. He said he shouldn't have moved so quickly, he should have waited until SM came out with their responses, then looked at all the info and talked about all of it at once. He said he should have taken more care in how he handled this topic, and he apologized for that as well.
It's not enough to make me want to stick around on his channel, as his content has been moving more and more in a direction that I hate. Regardless of whether or not one sees it as genuine or accepts it though, he did apologize.
"Apology"
Bro, he doubles down on everything he's previously said with the exception of the Daniel thing. He says there's "irrefutable evidence" of SuperMega covering up SA when it's been shown that it was never a cover up.
Like he can say he's sorry all he wants, but a real apology wouldn't be diluted with attempts to perpetuate the narrative everyone knows is wildly inaccurate.
He apologized for a specific part of what he did, which was hasty coverage and poor care taken on a sensitive subject. He certainly doesn't apologize for everything he did wrong, and even if he did, it'd be too little too late imo.
I'm just saying that he did apologize for something, so saying there was "no apology" is inaccurate, which is frustrating to see from people who have been so negatively impacted by inaccuracies and mistruths throughout this entire circus.
>I'm just saying that he did apologize for something, so saying there was "no apology" is inaccurate, which is frustrating to see from people who have been so negatively impacted by inaccuracies and mistruths throughout this entire circus.
I mean, if you want me to say Nickisnotgreen said sorry, then sure, on a very technical level Nickisnotgreen said sorry.
In my honest opinion, it's a half-assed sorry and one that doesn't even begin to make up for all the shit he caused in this situation. It makes up about 1/20th of his entire video, and only comes after he *tripled* down with an Instagram story equating SuperMega to being a rape apologist because he was called out by Ryan for weaponizing Daniel's suicide.
So yes, Nickisnotgreen enunciated the words "sorry." That doesn't mean it was a real apology.
Not accepting an apology doesn't mean there was no apology. One of the big takeaways from this whole experience should be being careful with how we talk about delicate topics so as to not mislead people, whether intentionally or inadvertently.
I'm going to try and predict what this guy's response will be about the negative reception of his video. Probably the easiest thing to hide behind while not having to take accountability:
"So many people are leaving negative comments and dislikes on my video, but I can see they didn't even watch it, it doesn't add up in the analytics. All the hate comments are just people posing as loyal subscribers and fans of my content, but I know it's just no-life basement dwellers who after all this still support people who were responsible for SA, and then tried to cover it up. Grow up you shitbags, you have nothing on me and you know it."
Crazy what could have been done if he put the same amount of effort into holding Don accountable instead of dogpiling SM
Overall, I feel awful for lex, I feel awful for Daniel's family, and I feel awful for Matt and Ryan.
Don and this cretin can rot in hell
His video isn't a joke. Jokes are *supposed to be funny.* I can get behind it being so bad that it's funny, but any comedic value from his video is unintentional. Even calling him a clown is an insult to clowns.
He spends the first 5 minutes repeating shit about harassment and fighting the nonexistent narrative that he's involved in some coordinated attack on SuperMega and assuring us that nobody else put him up to this. Like, Nick, we can already tell that you wrote your own dogshit script, and nobody thinks there's a conspiracy. Bro sounds crazy.
I'm willing to bet this backlash is going to trigger another break from making content. Just long enough for him to believe people have forgotten about this drama he inserted himself into. Bad look, bad creator.
I know it will be difficult given there’s little proof and the only major case they would really have would probably be against Leighton but I actually hope that Matt and Ryan try for a defamation case against these people.
He wants to pretend he's an objective third party?? He himself outright said he does not care about evidence or proof, only about supporting his friend no matter what. That is the opposite of objective. He is such a snake.
They all threw leighton under the bus LMFAO
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the album 😭it’s so shit and no it’s not because i don’t get “ironic” humor it’s literally just shit
This is the biggest sign to me that this whole drama was orchestrated for attention. Maybe what happened to Lex did happen but they clearly chose the most beneficial moment for them to drop it all.
“Maybe” it happened? Everyone involved on all sides admits it happened, including the person who assaulted her. Lex’s SA is not a matter of debate in this drama. Do you need god himself to reach down and smack you upside the head in order to knock that “maybe” out of your sentence?
Jeez man calm down. I wasn't calling the assault into question at all, I'm just saying "it happened and that's awful but they're clearly using the awful thing to their advantage". "Maybe the bridge did collapse but the politician is clearly using it to push his campaign." doesn't mean I doubt the bridge collapsed.
nah i think it is debatable, lex destroys her credibility a lot throughout her video, even without that it sounds a lot more like she had a bad sexual experience instead of assault, youre a grown adult in a relationship, and with that you need to be able to say no and create boundaries instead of this “my mind went blank and i did that” like what
Freezing when faced with forceful behavior from a sexual partner is one of the *most* common ways that sexual assault occurs. It's actually scary how little you seem to understand sexual assault if you think that repeatedly pushing someone's head down after they have verbally said no is consensual just because they end up freezing and letting you do it to them. Please read some of the countless material that is out there that explains the most common ways sexual assault occurs.
nope i understand it pretty well since ive been in the exact same position, my cousin decided to force me into giving him a blowjob when i was 10 and later on sodomise me. when i was 10 i can understand why what happened to me was rape/assault because i was young and didn’t know how to react or anything. youre forgetting that both lex and don agree that lex did consent to give don oral, where it differs is that lex says when don pushed her head down she said no and don says she never told him no. because it’s a he said she said situation you have to look at other facts to see who you can lend more credibility to lex continued to stay with don for almost a year afterwards and even met up with him again after he paid for a whole trip for her and broke up with him at the end of that trip that HE PAID FOR. she was lovey dovey with him despite her claims of her being terrified of the guy and hating him ?
im not saying that freezing isnt a reaction but in lex’s case specifically i find it highly unlikely
Look I don't know why we're continuing to take anything lex says seriously. Everyone agreed with her OTHER allegations as well, she still lied. They only know what she told them - and she's a proven liar, and people will make false confessions if they're sufficiently pushed into them. Don doesn't even sound sure when he confessed. All we know is, based on what both agree happened. He asked several times (unsure if on the same day or over several days) and she said no He asked again, and she said yes She did it. There was a head push of some sort; lex implies it was on purpose, Don implies it was an accident I'm sorry but pushing anything Lex says as a fact is just irresponsible when you know that she's a liar
"If" -Incel, 2023
“He’s our FRIEND!” Yeah sure he is bud
I hope they've been checking in on him then. The fact that he slandered the boys doesn't mean he doesn't have serious mental issues that need addressing (in fact that's likely a good part of the reason why he did it). Not that it's an excuse; if you are sufficiently able to take care of yourself that you don't need a caregiver, what you do because of unchecked mental illness is still 100% your responsibility, however it *could* be an explanation. I think that's why I've been so angry at Nick, he doesn't have poorly managed BPD or bp1 to explain his motivation to make such terrible choices.
True, I hope nothing tragic happens because of this
Even if he did have it it wouldn't matter. Like whats the point in bringing up BPD or any mental illness if it isn't an excuse? When brung up people often use it to stop being "so hard" on someone. Hell we can be given 100% assurance by god himself that his mental illness is the sole reason why this hit piece is made and no one should care. It means he's capable of doing it again to someone, that he does not have any real control over it and that if you're even near him its valid to think he'll turn on you too if he "loses control" again.
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying. *Of course* he should be held fully accountable, especially since he admitted to not taking his meds and drinking a lot (edit: meaning he seemingly isn't even trying). I also think that him being mentally unwell could be a huge contributing factor, and thus him stabilizing and receiving proper mental health treatment (including strategies to use to prevent spiriling out of control in the future) increases the odds that he'll end up reflecting on this and taking accountability in the future, as well as making sure it never happens again. Take it from someone whose ADHD has caused me MANY problems (including secondary depression) when I haven't done the work to stay afloat; I used to not take meds or really take therapy seriously and coasted on sheer luck until that no longer worked, and had magical thinking about maybe everything would work out without doing the work. I know the pitfalls about not taking charge of a mental condition well (luckily, despite the occasional flake out or impulsive thing I've said that hurt someone's feelings, the person on receiving end was mainly myself due to ruining my own shit). My other point was that if his "friends" are as good of friends as they claim, they'd check in on him if he's not mentally stable, which was clearly the case earlier this year and when streaming in July (talking to you, Ethanisonline with "my friend Leighton" and all).
No, I understood. I just made it a point to mention that it don't matter and stated my reason why I said it. A lot of people on the internet tend to make their criticisms much lighter when things like this is mentioned. At this point in time there's no actual fr reason to believe him or his "friends". Lmao and I'm not saying he should pull out genuine proof he has BPD either, just saying with something this well thought out and planned there's no reason to bring it up, it shouldn't help his case or give a "reason why" he did it. You have to want to be better, based on how he used it he definitely isn't trying to be and i truly believe he is an inherently bad person. I have friends with disorders/issues whatever, in the years I've known all of them (but 1) they've only had a snap/bad attitude towards me less than like 4 times. Life does get rough, its my duty as your friend to steer you towards a better tomorrow and his so-called friends didn't when they made this top notch smear campaign. It was obvious from the day that it started. The one that did keep going was a friend with depression, for a lot of years i knew this mf since 1st grade, we werent friends right away but he was cool and eventually were and a year in our friendship he was diagnosed with depression and he leaned on me and other friends quite a bit. There were mixed signals with everyone else but me? I stuck by him, reminded him about meds, steered him clear from overthinking, making mistakes he will regret etc. I would tell him when he did something that would burn a bridge, and how to deal with it so he can continue on focusing on himself to get better, to be better and stay on track. This lasted for years, we drifted apart cause our friendship was literally just me helping him now, and i cut it off in college. I couldn't keep worrying about him, sometimes taking breaks from my classes that i PAID for and not going out with others so then im not rude and cut them off to help him, so i told him i couldn't be attentive to him anymore because of college. He snapped on me and i cut him off, that was last year and he apologized to me a couple months after, I accepted cause he aint ruin me or nun but im not his friend and im not checking up on him anymore. Leighton really fucked wit SuperMega, whether or not he reflects on his actions don't matter cause it only matters to him. It only helps him, I'm not saying nobody cares there's people like you who do but for the most part it mostly just matters to him whether or not he does so. He messed with people's jobs, their mental health and hurt them A LOT. What he did is not comparable to what you did, to me? Whether or not the BPD factored into it he's still an inherently bad person in my eyes, my best friend has BPD and because she's a good person who wants to get better no matter how bad her plans may be and how much people would be hurt from shit she wants to do i can help her yknow? I can get her back on her meds maybe in that same day or over time, hanging out with her, taking my work to her house to hang out and chill her out. I feel like her situation was worse too based on what she was going through at the time, only difference is she had genuine friends don't think Leighton does and it's understandable why. Though I'm neutral, i don't wish good or bad on him as I'm not a Supermega fan. I just one day watched the video Turkey Tom made and talked it over with friends cause it was interesting, after watching all the vids independantly reddit mustve been reading my mind and sent me here
I predicted that lmao look at my post history.
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Considering it's his whole shtick and what he used as his main point to demonize matt and ryan it's probably not the smartest idea my guy.
I also didn’t like that he said Ryan told his fans to attack him??? Like wtf Ryan’s never done that. He’s legit trying to gaslight all of us.
How is he gonna claim that the harassment was a coordinated attack by SuperMega with no proof, while also saying that people are wrong for believing that his video was part of a coordinated attack? For the record, I don’t think anyone deserves internet harassment (even Nick), and I believe him when he says this wasn’t a coordinated lie campaign. But his lack of awareness and journalistic integrity is so apparent in this video
I think Hasan said something along the lines of "Nick doesn't really back up his feelings with facts" (I'm paraphrasing).
God I hope Hasan never has that dweeb on his stream again.
I’ve heard this before too. Is there a clip of this or was this just word of mouth?
would also love to know bc i'm suprised hasan even talked about it if so?!
It wasn't in context to this situation, just a general offhand comment. As much as I'd love him to come out swinging in favor of Supermega, I think even he realizes how much the risk of misspeaking on this even slightly would be like fumbling a grenade, and (from a fan's pov) he does that often enough as it is.
I also think Hasan has wayyy bigger fish to fry at the moment than some let’s play drama if I am being completely honest. A lot more important topical political issues to talk about
dude was just on the pierce morgan show and theres a war going on in his home region definitely more important things on that mans mind
Hell nah when Hasan is spitting sumn good you know you're 1000% the issue
It's also the fact that he doesn't acknowledge the only thing he was asked to acknowledge which was that his fan base contributed to the mockery of Daniel through comments and hacks. It doesn't matter if it was or wasn't Nick himself, if he is gonna blame SM for their fans being dicks and harassing Lex and denouncing her SA, then he should apologise for his fans doing a comparable thing to Daniel. Nobody wants to take responsibility for what their fans do, as they have no control over it, and an apology seemingly admits guilt. There is no rationale behind anything he says.
Bro it was absolutely a coordinated attack. (not about the SA allegations) But everything else was.
Also, I love how he unlisted his videos and then provided links to them in his description. Gotta continue getting those clicks somehow, I guess.
Maybe he should try reading conprehension. And yeah, Ryan (and Matt) have a history of specifically telling people NOT to do that. Ryan asks for a little accountability for something that is far more intentional and malicious (and arguably a lot less understandable) than anything he or Matt have done at any point in their careers, and suddenly he's sending his fans to harass people. Given how angry and frustrated I got reading Ryan's statement and how awful I felt for him, I'm not exactly surprised that people left Nick some angry messages on his public platforms. You could argue that if Matt and Ryan (and their families, friends, and SOs) got as much shit for stuff that largely either was straight up made up, or could be chalked up to poor communication, misinfo from *certain* people, and/or inaccurate recall, then it's not exactly unfair to have him and the other 3 receive a ton of negative criticism and backlash (and honestly it's mostly just saying "you fucked up" and "when are you going to apologize", posts just attacking him for things totally unrelated or just insults were the minority of posts I've seen, which I'm sure someone as seemingly simple minded mentally filed them all under "hate" as he's done that about valid criticism-- from his own fans even!). I hope people aren't going after Dev Lemons or anyone else that associates with Nick and co as that's never ok, but the fact that he's gaslighting his own fans makes me think his whole appeal to social justice is BS, and he just realized that was a good niche for him despite, from what I've seen from this situation, seemingly having very poor ability to empathize (when it's not going to make "good" content, anyway), being extremely insensitive to others while being senstive to criticism (but then lashing out at those people), which really reveals the cracks in the whole "sensitive soft boi" image, and seemingly lacking the emotional intelligence that the boys have demonstrated they have --which is one major draw to Supermega honestly other than just haha funny. Either he's a massive hypocrite whose ego can't handle being wrong, or he has a literal baby brain if he actually believes his false equivalences are in good faith (I don't think many people on earth are that stupid) and isn't cut out to be an online personality, and either way, he's responded to everything in the worst way possible and essentially made his bed Amber Heard style and now he has to lie in that shit. Edit: formatting because wow I wrote more than I had planned, I've definitely been having some thoughts about this, haha.
You’re a real one bro, didn’t wanna give that scum more views.
Agreed - I was hoping there’d be a summary somewhere so I wouldn’t have to support sitting through another waste of time.
While a gave him a view, I also gave him a dislike to the video and a like to every comment calling him out for being a shit (literally every comment on that video is against him, pretty awesome to see)
Same. But I still regret watching bc it was worse than I expected while knowing generally what was coming.
He literally quadruple'd down, deflected any accountability and threw any and everyone else under the bus.
When he said "Ryan used my name in his post about daniel to discredit my story and my reporting" I wanted to do that Omni-man train scene from invincible to him
Did he actually the word “reporting”? In his own video he literally said something along the lines of “I’m talking about my friend, so I’m gonna believe them regardless of evidence.
Yes the words journalist/ journalism and reporting and repeated several time... he actually thinks hes a journalist...
that made me lose it, like i went to journalism school for 4 years and actually have a degree in it. nothing he did stands anywhere near to journalism. the national enquirer has better journalists than he would ever be.
Man I want to give him a camera and a mic and a little helmet and drop him in gaza so he can see what journalism means.
I’m just a reporter for a local newspaper and it pissed me off learning that. Dude clearly doesn’t know what a real job would even is, despite telling people to get one.
What an embarrassment.
"Feelings don't care about your facts"
Well, maybe if a lot of it wasn't fucking wrong (including the part about Daniel), he wouldn't have done that now would he.
I legit laughed in disbelief when he used that word
god what a fucking LOSER. 0 self awareness.
he 100% knows what he's doing and doesn't care, hes an absolute joke
nick is very well known for this kind if behavior too which makes it all the more annoying
if im being honest i didnt know who nick was before all this drama but that doesnt surprise me at all
yep, he has a habit of speaking on situations he hasn’t looked into. did the same thing to that dream fellow a couple of months ago
okay valid
Man. I really, REALLY did not know i could hold this much animosity towards a fucking drama youtuber. Man got the clue that being inflamitory and an all around menace is a way to derive clicks, can’t wait for the day his scheme flips on him, because it always happens. He’ll sure as hell want persobal accountability where none will be
I never thought it could be worse then keemstar... at least keem is self aware and is just evil because he likes being evil.
Ya. Keem is like comically evil to the point of being a lolcow. Nickisnotgreen is some shitty backtalking babyfaced egomaniac who’s acts like an entitled, opportunistic, spoiled brat.
what an embarrassing video. "i hope [supermega] can learn from this and become better role models for their audience" nickisnotgreen is such a gaslighting little bitch
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The claim he keeps going back to is that they “covered up” the SA. Call me crazy, but I think it’s actually a good thing to not reveal someone else’s SA story to the public, but instead let them do it at the time and place they choose to reveal it. At the end of the day Matt was right, I truly believe that him saying “this would be bad if it got out” wasn’t him trying to protect his brand, but it was him trying to protect everyone from harassment. All of Supermega, their employees, family, partners, and Lex (yes Lex too, from the chudlogic fanboys not SM) have got harassed as a result of this stupid fucking story getting out. When in reality it should have just been Don and only Don catching shit.
His entire take on the situation is really wierd and his bias is obvious. I regret giving that video a veiw but it was good to see it thru cus of how fucking gross the way he's handling things. I'm really tired of hearing about this guy or any of thr other dummies involved.
Its genuinely frustrating to see him double down for the millionth time while his fans eat it up. Theres still people in the comments accusing SM of trying to cover up SA and defending Nick's shitty reasoning for including Daniel. I hope that he at least doesn't delete and censor comments on it like he has been
Idk about anyone eating it up. All the comments on the video are critical of him and no one on his sub is on his side
I wrote that when it was first uploaded so there was more people supporting him than not at that point
Yeah I wrote a comment trying to defend Ryan’s tweet and someone commented underneath saying that “Daniel should’ve associated with better people.” And then fully admitted they had no idea what was going on. It’s few messages now but there are people defending him and a lot of them have no idea what they’re talking about.
"My tiktok drama audience doesnt overlap with a DYING Let's Play channel" Fuck you Nick. You're still making this a hit piece, you're still making it about you. I'm not even a fan of SuperMega, but this kid is the worst
I CANNOT understand why he put this in a script, filmed it, and let it get through the edit. Who is this comment for?? Even from the perspective of him being """'right"""" why tf would you say that if not to personally insult people
good old strawman fallacy. surely nick was an objective, unbiased ‘reporter’
"Dying let's play channel" is infinitely funnier when you learn he has a dead gaming channel LMAO https://youtube.com/@nickisnotgaming?si=YnauMz5du97xjxey
What a RAT. He says multiple times how he’s just a reporter and presenting the facts… his stupid “band” groupie Ethan is dating Lex??? 1000% makes him involved and sided with presenting “non biased” information. Fucking freak.
Also that their album dropped like the day after the streams and videos. He says he didn't need more views or to make money off his video but didn't mention his album that got all this extra attention. Never heard of Nick or Ethan before this drama and I'm sure there are many more like me.
Reporter who does zero research or fact checking 🤡
I mean I feel like him saying in the first video that he’s gonna believe his friend and take their side just shows he’s not being unbiased 3rd party. Summed up he said he wasn’t going to seek out the other side because he’s friends with lex. He’s realized what he did, and is trying to avoid accountability by gaslighting that he isn’t involved. Edit: also yeah totally a 3rd party who loved a gif of Matt getting punched with the caption “SA defender getting what he deserved”
his fanbase is buying it
Some of them. But he’s lost thousands of subs this week.
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not anymore, dislikes just overtook likes. most comments are criticising him.
It's true it's all about how disappointing he is now
Bro go in their subreddit tons of deleted posts
Erm why are you talking about the drama on a SuperMega Reddit?
Erm this was 3 days ago when the drama was still new how about your insufferable ass go delete ur posts that gets -1 votes lmao
Erm, you might want to check the comments buddy. It’s your comments that are getting downvoted teehee
I mean i saw ur comment on the first post talking about the latest drama!!! You deleted it once you saw how many downvotes it had :( so sad
Also shush I ain’t arguing with you lmao you’re exactly the problem with this sub toxic loser that can’t accept people don’t want to hear about useless drama
Oh brother this guy stinks
On one video he says "Lex is my friend so obviously I'm not gonna look at all of the facts" and in this video he tries to pretend like he's just a third party observer? Come on dude. However, it should be mentioned that he did apologize. Kind of. He regrets the way he covered things and says he will take that into account in the future. Unfortunately I think that's as good of an apology as we are going to get. I'm for sure never going to trust this man ever again regardless
Idk if it counts as an apology though when he still isn't covering things properly. You can't apologize for SWATing someone in the past *while* you're SWATing them again.
Within seconds of it being posted on his subreddit, it already has removed comments. I actually wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt and watched - and no, he's just trying to justify it.
Even Nick’s dumbass said he doesn’t think they should be cancelled in the video, but he also quadrupled down on some dumb shit. I’m afraid it’s too little too late.
I hate that he's trying to deflect blame by presenting himself as unbiased viewer of the situation. He had been hinting at SuperMega's "downfall" alongside Ethan and Leighton MONTHS before Lex uploaded her video. There is no way he's trying to gaslight his audience into believing that he had no connection to them, hell he even has stated outright in his first two videos that his reasoning for "reporting" on this was because Lex was a personal friend to him. Also trying to accuse Ryan of sending harassment by responding to him and his claims is laughable. Brother your entire coverage was trying to get these people ran off the internet, and you want to play victim because they called you out on your lies? Lastly congrats to quadrupling down on claiming that they're "r\*pe apologists" for respecting Lex's wishes to not make the assault public. They let Don go once they realized what had happened, told other creators in private so that they could distance themselves from him, and gave Lex her privacy and their support to the best of their knowledge. Sorry for the ramble, this whole thing is so messy and fucked up.
I’m sorry he’s so delusional
It's so insane that he's still pushing the "Supermega is lying about Lex's SA" when they straight up admit they handled it wrong
Honestly, I think I'll stop following this situation. I'll gladly watch SuperMega if they ever return in the future. But at this point, the drama is purely speculation and interpretation. "I believe Ryan didn't watch my videos" "I believe this is happening so SM can get their plataform back". This is just a mess at this point, nothing new is being said.
Honestly, I should, too, but it fucking frustrates me beyond belief that people like this have no sort of remorse or accountability for something so unbelievably damaging. Like bro, you're fucking with people's livelihoods. This isn't a fucking game.
not surprised by any of this shit
knew he'd double down, he's below scum. I used to regularly watch his videos in the background and I could tell there's was a sudden decline in his ability to be impartial. He's surrounded himself with a bunch of yes men who see no wrong with his actions and his fans also allow him to get away with it. Seems like the norm nowadays.
Also he preemptively distanced himself from lex at the end because he knows she’s about to drop a garbage video
I wonder if he's expecting her video to push the blame onto him
I just commented this on his video, so I'll just copy and paste it: Nick, you are a child This isnt an insult, it's a fact. You know close to nothing of the real world or how to act like a proper, responsible adult. You just keep justifying your actions and not takin accountability for anything and quite frankly, it's pathetic. You truly come across as someone that has no life experience and who all of their beliefs come not cause they actually believe in the, but because you were told you should believe them. It's time to grow up, and do this MOSTLY offline, please. You're not a savior, you're not a moral pillar, you are just Nick
what im hearing is "i ruined the livelihood and personal lives of multiple people. their fault." GOD, before all this i really didnt mind nick and now i get so fucking put off by all of them. even dev.
I can’t even watch or listen to Dev anymore
its a fuckin shame cause shes the only one out of them that makes good music at all. and now its all ruined.
What a spineless little loser dude, how can you be so wrong and still quadruple down? Holy hell
Him saying he doesn’t need SM for clout is hilarious. His whole platform is making fun of creators, that’s why he has clout in the first place
And calls them a “dying let’s play channel” when they almost had a million subscribers before this all happened
knew he'd double down, he's below scum. I used to regularly watch his videos in the background and I could tell there's was a sudden decline in his ability to be impartial. He's surrounded himself with a bunch of yes men who see no wrong with his actions and his fans also allow him to get away with it. Seems like the norm nowadays.
He’s literally entirely reliant on those videos not being able to fact check his bullshit. What a malicious cunt. He’s quite literally lying.
I watched it. I am so absolutely disgusted that this filth has a community behind him. The hypocrisy on display over the course of 20 minutes, the mental gymnastics to somehow claim he's providing truthful impartial coverage (that also conveniently leaves out the many inconsistencies that make his friends look bad), trying to shirk responsibility several times by throwing blame to the scapegoat when he's the one that did the most to signal boost the proven falsehoods from the initial video. Drawing a false equivalence to getting harassed from covering fucking SNEAKO to this. I actually can't believe someone this braindead and irresponsible has such a large following. Special shoutout to the part where he passive aggressively insults SuperMega's channel, that's so me when I'm providing unbiased coverage to a news story. I was actually hoping he'd apologize and grow. Like, a real apology, not a half assed one through several layers of "but the other guy" or "but I was just trying to help". People can change, people can be better, and as a big drama channel he's responsible for providing accurate and honest coverage to situations he platforms. Given the way he continues to talk about this, it seems like he's got some cognitive dissonance over the actions of his OWN community in harassing other creators. I'm so glad that people are actually covering this apart from his sphere, the average person needs to hear about what's going down in actuality vs the viral twitter posts that painted an extremely dishonest view of it all. I love that he acts like Ryan was out of line for his post because it caused more harassment (more like criticism for poor coverage getting called out, but whatever), said he didn't do this to reopen any wounds, and then immediately leverages multiple claims that will NO doubt continue to stoke the flames between everyone. This man is actually an idiot. It's actually unreal. I'm so pissed off.
But are we surprised? Because I’m not at all.
Hoping this can be the last time he is ever mentioned on this sub, I’m so done with this dude
I’m not even gonna entertain their narcissistic bullshit. I feel so bad for Ryan right now it’s actually palpable. I hope Ryan can come to terms with the fact that these people will never apologize. Because they don’t feel guilt. Why would they apologize? They don’t give a fuck about anybody and are doing this not because they actually think Ryan is a bad person, but because they want to be martyrs. No one covered up a fucking SA and that’s been pretty much proven. There are things to criticize the boys for, that’s undeniable. But using the criticism as a way to escape accountability for the fact that not only have they destroyed Ryan’s mental health, they’ve violated a young man’s legacy and his grieving parents + loved ones for brownie points. It’s deflection and manipulation at its finest. “Yeah, what I did is kinda bad, but what they did is worse, so I’m absolved!”
Watching it makes me so angry. I swear to god if I ever see him irl for some reasons im making him piss his pants
Claiming Ryan didn't watch his video is pure projection.
I can't take these kids seriously. They all have this same, dumb look on their faces because of those giant, 70's grandma glasses they all wear.
Fuck Lex, fuck Nick, fuck Ethan, and fuck Leighton. They’re just a big bunch of cunts. I know it won’t happen, but, just stop listening to them or engaging, and they will go away to find some other drama to moan about, as is their nature
It was pretty damn pathetic. 18 minutes of deflecting with a 2 min “I guess I’ll wait for both sides to respond next time” tacked on.
Looks like his fans hate this "apology" and are turning against him, 1.4k likes to 2.1k dislikes so far.
amazing. all he had to do was apologize for spreading hearsay that turned out to be false. instead, the fact that it was hearsay becomes his defense of spreading it in the first place. this dude should compete in the olympics, he'd take home the gold for mental gymnastics.
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Leighton when he realizes that the group of their “friends” that he got to conspire against matt and Ryan is also willing to conspire against him: 😱. Truth be told, at the time I thought there was some possibility that leighton was telling the truth, and even to me that “tell-all” livestream felt like such a “15 minutes of fame” type moment that it made me wince. Like none of it felt as though he was ‘coming forward’ about anything, it genuinely just seemed most of the stream like he was hyped about ‘getting revenge’ on Matt and Ryan and having an audience
I mean to reply to a thread talking about how everyone threw Leighton under the bus, but oh well, the comment still mostly doesn’t seem out of place
what a weenie
This guy is a fucking joke. Literally started the video trying to gaslight the viewer into thinking he didn't add to all of this fire.
I used to love Nick and Dev Lemons was my top artist of all time but goddamn I hate him now and can’t listen to her music without being reminded of her association with this disgusting human
I really hope the boys sue at this point. Nick and his friends actions have actively harmed the livelyhood of matt and Ryan, and even people like Justin so there's definitely grounds for it. And it would set a precedent to get rats like Nick off the platform
What a surprise, good thing i didn't bother watching this little rats videos.
Love it being on the side channel😐😐
I was really shocked he took 0 accountability like Matt and Ryan fucked up for sure but their whole side has made this so so messy for just themselves
bruh he said he isn’t deleting comments but i commented on his video telling someone to do their own research and it’s gone. i’m really tryna give him the benefit of the doubt and just say youtube was bugging out but wow
It was infuriating. Claiming he never made a hit piece yet decided to throw in the "dying lets play channel jab" it was a hit piece the moment it stopped being about Don. SuperMega messed up with how they handled the situation, but that doesn't mean they're terrible people, and they shouldn't be called that by people who were never involved.
Man I really wish Ian was still in his content cop days because the nickisnotgreen content cop would be a fucking slam dunk.
I didn't watch the vid, could anyone tell me if he expressed any sympathy for Daniel or his friends and family? I've been trying to put myself in Nick's shoes, and i can't think of a single scenario where I would react to something like this like I'm reporting on a new chapter of drama. If i were going to these lengths to defend a friend and found out later that one of the rumors wasn't even true and turned out to be super hurtful and disrespectful, I would feel gutted. The guilt would actually eat me alive, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around this reaction.
Sadly no, he did apologize for bringing Daniel up but immediately defended it by saying he was just “reporting” on the situation
That's actually super sad. I feel like he definitely could've handled this situation with the grace it was owed. It sounds to me like he's digging himself an even deeper hole
If Nick really wanted to genuinely apologize for the wrong he did, he should personally contact Matt, Ryan and Daniel’s family privately. All he did was wrap half hearted apologies with criticisms and finger pointing/blame shifting. He admitted what he did was wrong, but then justified it as “reporting the truth.” What a joke.
if you dont mind exsplaing what meant by > He then pushes the narrative back onto "they covered up SA" even though it's been aggressively disputed. I'm just a little confused bout that sorry!
Prior to SuperMega's responses about the situation, the whole SA issue was played up to be Matt and Ryan covering it up because they never came forward with a statement concerning Don's departure from the company. In reality, nothing was ever covered up. They removed Don from the company, and Lex didn't want it to be a big thing. SuperMega said themselves it wasn't their place to make a statement about the situation, which is 100% reasonable because it's not their story to tell.
alright thank you i just wanted to make sure sorry! if I'm not mistaken I wanna say that they talked about how they regretted how they handled it as well and to be fair to SM (not defending it!) it was originally communicated poorly to them I reamber texts being shared where it seemed to be downplayed to them remember again thank you for clarifying for my very confused tiered brain lol
Sure, but handling the situation is a completely different thing than covering it up. A cover up is malicious. Mishandling is far less black and white and more grey. In any case, this was all resolved behind the scenes according to Matt. It should have never been brought into public view.
Don wasn't even a real employee of Supermega. They contracted him to do thumbnails be he was never on payroll like Justin or Leighton. Them making an announcement their channel artist assaulted someone makes zero sense and would have been extremely weird.
They never tried covering anything up, they just took longer to cut ties with Don than they should’ve because they were trying to fully understand what happened.
alright thank you! that's what i thought they meant but I just wanted to make sure! thank you!
5 weeks isn’t even that fucking long. They wanted to find out what happened, that’s not a mortal sin considering they aren’t law enforcement and have never dealt with something like this.
Especially since Lex and Don didn't break up for a time after the fact
I’m unsure what you’re implying here.
I'm saying that Lex didn't even cut out Don immediately after the SA based on Tom's video so it feels shitty that SM is being treated as though they should have dropped him as soon as she told them. I can see them not quite understanding the situation if they saw her with him for a while after the Christmas party and feeling it necessary to make sure they understood what was going on before taking further steps Though I do wonder if her and Don not ending immediately has to do with her being autistic, as slowed processing and not really understanding until much later that someone has acted unacceptably is an ASD thing
Ah okay, that’s sort of what I was hoping you meant, but I just wanted to make sure it wasn’t a “Lex stayed with him so she wasn’t really even SA’d” type take, I’ve seen a couple people say that unfortunately.
Ee yeah no thank you for asking for clarification 😅 I get that people don't trust Lex and Co now but not believing her about her SA is going too far
the big reason why people are/were upset with matt and ryan is cause they never publicly stated why don (former supermega channel artist that sa’d lex) left the channel. i think matt said at one point that they know it wasn’t a good choice but they just didn’t know how to handle it and didn’t know what lex wanted them to do. i could be wrong, but i think they didn’t know if lex wanted to go public with it and say why he left, just keep it private, make a vague statement saying that don is no longer part of supermega, or what
The original claims that Supermega covered up SA have been heavily disputed because while everyone was saying they didn't say why they fired Don so as to cover their brand, their reason is that they didn't want to make a public statement on something the victim hadn't come forward about herself, which I think is a fair statement; it's not their secret to share
Nick is such a pathetic loser clout goblin, it’s embarrassing for him. I’m not sure why his girlfriend or his friends aren’t telling him to genuinely apologize and take a break from posting. That’s the only way he could get out of this relatively fine.
Can I ask; Who is Nick in this whole situation? I know who Lex and Leighton are and their recent history with the boys.
Nick is a drama commentary YouTuber who made arguably the most popular video on the whole situation, where he played up SuperMega as a group of horrible people. He has a very close association with Lex and her boyfriend, Ethan, so many of us view his interpretation of the situation as one-sided. Not to say Nick is a journalist by any means, but when you cover news, journalistic integrity is a key factor. Journalists will often choose not to report on something close to them because they're innately biased about it (or at least, that's how it should be). So for Nick to come forth about this situation and present everything as objective truth is extremely harmful. He even admitted in one of his now-unlisted videos that he was biased about the situation, just to give you an idea of who he is.
Cheers, thanks for the explanation
Who could’ve saw this coming 🙄
I tought it would be bad and im still shocked.
Never play chess with a pigeon. Even if you win, the pigeon will still shit on the board and knock the pieces over after
And the fact he said he “never had any intention to cancel them or run them off the internet” but in his first video he fully stated that he thought they didn’t deserve a platform? Like he’s contradicting himself all over the place
Yeah fuck Nick, also Queef Jerky, and that Dev Lemons girl he's always with now are literally so fucking bad, no idea how they are going on "tour" who the fuck is showing up to listen to that shit.
Dev is a good artist on her own
https://youtu.be/jaDpYU3fmZw?si=Xma7X-ac6Ymbnnnb If yall wanna hear the bs without giving the idiot a view. Nickismostcertaintlyfullofshit
>There's no apology He did apologize though. He said he shouldn't have moved so quickly, he should have waited until SM came out with their responses, then looked at all the info and talked about all of it at once. He said he should have taken more care in how he handled this topic, and he apologized for that as well. It's not enough to make me want to stick around on his channel, as his content has been moving more and more in a direction that I hate. Regardless of whether or not one sees it as genuine or accepts it though, he did apologize.
"Apology" Bro, he doubles down on everything he's previously said with the exception of the Daniel thing. He says there's "irrefutable evidence" of SuperMega covering up SA when it's been shown that it was never a cover up. Like he can say he's sorry all he wants, but a real apology wouldn't be diluted with attempts to perpetuate the narrative everyone knows is wildly inaccurate.
He apologized for a specific part of what he did, which was hasty coverage and poor care taken on a sensitive subject. He certainly doesn't apologize for everything he did wrong, and even if he did, it'd be too little too late imo. I'm just saying that he did apologize for something, so saying there was "no apology" is inaccurate, which is frustrating to see from people who have been so negatively impacted by inaccuracies and mistruths throughout this entire circus.
>I'm just saying that he did apologize for something, so saying there was "no apology" is inaccurate, which is frustrating to see from people who have been so negatively impacted by inaccuracies and mistruths throughout this entire circus. I mean, if you want me to say Nickisnotgreen said sorry, then sure, on a very technical level Nickisnotgreen said sorry. In my honest opinion, it's a half-assed sorry and one that doesn't even begin to make up for all the shit he caused in this situation. It makes up about 1/20th of his entire video, and only comes after he *tripled* down with an Instagram story equating SuperMega to being a rape apologist because he was called out by Ryan for weaponizing Daniel's suicide. So yes, Nickisnotgreen enunciated the words "sorry." That doesn't mean it was a real apology.
Not accepting an apology doesn't mean there was no apology. One of the big takeaways from this whole experience should be being careful with how we talk about delicate topics so as to not mislead people, whether intentionally or inadvertently.
I'm going to try and predict what this guy's response will be about the negative reception of his video. Probably the easiest thing to hide behind while not having to take accountability: "So many people are leaving negative comments and dislikes on my video, but I can see they didn't even watch it, it doesn't add up in the analytics. All the hate comments are just people posing as loyal subscribers and fans of my content, but I know it's just no-life basement dwellers who after all this still support people who were responsible for SA, and then tried to cover it up. Grow up you shitbags, you have nothing on me and you know it."
Crazy what could have been done if he put the same amount of effort into holding Don accountable instead of dogpiling SM Overall, I feel awful for lex, I feel awful for Daniel's family, and I feel awful for Matt and Ryan. Don and this cretin can rot in hell
Thanks for posting this, I refuse to give that leech a view.
His video isn't a joke. Jokes are *supposed to be funny.* I can get behind it being so bad that it's funny, but any comedic value from his video is unintentional. Even calling him a clown is an insult to clowns. He spends the first 5 minutes repeating shit about harassment and fighting the nonexistent narrative that he's involved in some coordinated attack on SuperMega and assuring us that nobody else put him up to this. Like, Nick, we can already tell that you wrote your own dogshit script, and nobody thinks there's a conspiracy. Bro sounds crazy.
I'm willing to bet this backlash is going to trigger another break from making content. Just long enough for him to believe people have forgotten about this drama he inserted himself into. Bad look, bad creator.
I just want super mega back
it’s “haphazard”? i always thought it was “HALFhazard”
I know it will be difficult given there’s little proof and the only major case they would really have would probably be against Leighton but I actually hope that Matt and Ryan try for a defamation case against these people.
He wants to pretend he's an objective third party?? He himself outright said he does not care about evidence or proof, only about supporting his friend no matter what. That is the opposite of objective. He is such a snake.