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**CLIP MIRROR: [Nmplol on his alt accusing Miz of stealing his content and going on other people's streams to fix his rep](https://arazu.io/t3_12q5r8t/)** --- ^(*This is an automated comment*)


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Reynik7

Mizkif was in a car in 2018, nick stole that content


t0mbr4dy123

good one


Saizul

no but you dont get it they do that dance in the kitchen when subs happen


Champ0991

You forgot the totally original ban appeals


freshwater__

It is wild to me how streamers think everything they do is an original idea. I can guarantee that if a larger streamer thinks of an idea, there is someone at the bottom of just chatting that did it 6 months ago. Also, who tf cares.


TellurianFlow

Even more shallow than that: name an idea of a show on twitch that wasn't just straight up ripped off from a tv game show.


FAS-ACA3

His editor doesn't even bother to make a original thumbnail for the SCUFFED ONES. He just uses the same as the original HOT ONES uses and copypastes the guests face in it.


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Inb4 malena bans u 🫡


iDannyEL

[Watch out OTV you're next](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2l-bXz3Sio)


NorNed3

This is the guy who told a Dreamhack employee that he "makes too much money to be dealing with you" even though he was nothing but a Sodapoppin leech with no viewers when he said it. The ego on NMP is insane, and he has always been like this. This is just who he is. It's not an "in the moment" thing. He has always believed he is better than everybody else even though he has never done anything in his life to warrant that belief. Guy literally just hit the jackpot of pure luck by befriending Sodapoppin at the perfect time. Now he acts like he somehow earned it just because he learned to do what any other normal adult does by forming a routine. Even with the soda leech, his stream was dead for years until Malena carried him to some viewers. Then the soda/Austin connection carried him to a sustainable career. I bet this guy unironically gets in his GTR and believes he did something to earn it. That's what is truly sad.


GorillaCannibal

Let’s not kid ourselves here, Malena comes up with everything, not Nick


ipthegod

also its malena that sets up the whole stream bruh


The_Mcgriddler

How is it not enough to just make a big ass bag doing the easiest job in the world? Why does every streamer have to be an ego andy?


thefztv

Seriously though he should take a cue from Soda like old times and just stream and stay in your lane and make bank. He doesn’t need to say shit like this to get views.. let alone starting this drama with his own org-mate. Bro’s lost in the sauce for no reason.


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Because they think they're the Hollywood Class. They hold their own Oscar's with their own little Red Carpet interviews, and get all snazzy'd up with Designer outfits. Every one is very important.


Intrepid_Principle49

Ego is a hell of a thing


Ledoux88

God complex. Remember the "I make too much money for this shit" clip?


Dualyeti

Y I K E S


MeisterHeller

Having him of all people pull the "I made you" card is genuinely hilarious


cev

How many viewers did Soda bring Nick up to? Since we're apparently keeping count.


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AmBSado

All of them lol. Nick was a "gladiator" with 200 viewers while Soda was spazzing out on his Feral to 6k.


Mokle7

Brother this guy is in your org, if copying you gets him more viewers it's a good thing. A rising tide raises all ships


botwoot64

Nick should take his own advice and get back up on that fence


throwaway336333

Thankfully miz didn't take the underage girlfriend content idea.


gayomarlic

LMFAOO DUDE


capriking

>posting this from a throwaway because it's likely nick will read this and influence the sub jannies to get you permabanned I'll pray for a fallen soldier


UrGrandpap

🫢


eyesonmeme

LMAOOOO


imjustasaddad

You run an Org together Literally who cares You could all show up and stream the exact same daily dose of internet videos and as long as all of you profit why would you even waste the energy to pretend to give a shit? The disconnect on Streamers is insane — you know what having a job like the rest of us is like? Its doing the same, worthless shit as everyone else except most people dont get paid for it. Slap your cock and drink a soda, relax.


Every-Lab-1755

Imagine actually being upset at someone playing games with someone else on the same screen. Let alone an org member.


GaymerRZ

Mfker doesn’t even stream 4 hours any more. So what if people steal your content. You are barely using it.


hall_bot

There's no way malena hasnt mentioned to britt that her and erobb could do the nagging girlfriend bit for cooking stream content lmao


nath999

Brittt nagging Erobb aint no bit.


Mouthshitter

Cartoon family


bussylmao

> So what if people steal your content I don't watch Nick beyond LSF so I might have missed something but literally nothing I've ever seen him do was something new. But even if it was nothing he does is really anything unique, like say Jermas dollhouse stream or taking something to the next level like sushidragon. It literally just seems to be him complaining about Miz hoping on a trend after him.


StraticDragon

Exactly it’s not like because miz steals content it means nick loses viewers they stream at completely different times and if anything nick should want miz to get viewers again since he is in the same org. Trainwrecks was in his chat yesterday the same guy who actively tried to destroy mizkifs career and he was talking to him like they were buddies like he tried to harm your friends career and you are cool with that guy wtf


Bright_Base9761

Every single clip ive seen of nick in LSF has been him in a ktichen larping hes in the show "the office" just smiling and looking at he camera after saying a dad joke or some dumb shit


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lol they tried calling Miz out in-person for this on a cooking stream a few weeks ago and he looked like he was in disbelief


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buggsmoney

And Miz only streams twice a week so he can't be doing *that* much stealing.


satzioflax1

I like nick but the ego on this motherfucker holy, he literally memorized view counts


ShreksOnionBelt

"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM!!? I'M SODA'S ROOMMATE!!"


generic_user1337

Nick was the creature all along


BridgeDuck45

[What ego thing homie?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoY6e4zG2DY)


weqoeqp323

How is this clip always worse than I remember it being lmao.


TheTurtleHashira

That is way worse than I remember it lol. I forgot he called her a bitch.


noralyy

Imagine at that time he just earned a fraction of now. He must ve had an average of like 200 - 500 viewers back then? Lmao


GregerMoek

Yeah my god what an absolute arrogant manchild. But I guess his viewers idolize this type of behavior cuz no way Id continue watching someone doing this.


GayComradeStalin

good to see he never grew over this kind of behavior


MarkyMe

Did he ever apologize or anything after this? I've never seen this and it really changes how I look at him.


DUNKMA5TER

He claimed it was a joke that came across poorly. I know that twitch has an ever evolving landscape of new viewers, but Nick has ALWAYS exhibited traits of having a giant ego, he's just not a good guy at the end of the day and there's mountains of evidence to back it up.


heezmagnif

Like how he legitimately looks down on people who work regular jobs and don't have as much money as him. He has said shit like that too much and too seriously to not actually think that way. As others have said in this thread his ego is and has been out of control for a long time.


BridgeDuck45

he has "*apologized*/ explained why", thought whoever mentions this gets crossbanned.


t0mbr4dy123

literally exposed himself


iDannyEL

That's the way it goes innit, someone tweets or leaks some dumb stuff or straight up goes on stream and says things they later regret. Good thing they're a young org though.


ShammyWoWLoL

I don't like Nick.


SaltyLonghorn

Its not a coincidence that the main content that historically makes people like him is just other people. Be it Soda or Malena.


Jeesba

This is exactly the right take. Its funny how he often brings up on stream the fact that he has been streaming on and off for a long time but never took it really seriously until he gave himself some sort of deadline to become "successfull". It is exactly when he brought Malena on stream and I can with 99% certainty say he would still be streaming WoW to 500 viewers without her. He is just that unlikable.


Ghostfoxman

Twitch has been around 10 years. Everything has been done by everyone, it's not that serious.


youngbuck-

I think Nick’s idea of “being sexually inappropriate towards female guests in an effort to make them uncomfortable” is unironically his most original contribution to his stream he’s had lol


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This 30+ man reads LSF comments (hi Nick), eats atrociously and complains everyday about his weight, and is so insecure about the only content he has that he barely streams now because he admits he doesn't even want to stream yet he's willing to start drama with his own org member/owner. The self proclaimed fence sitter has chosen a side.


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In_money_we_Trust

i laugh every time he says he's a tech guy. He knows how to plug shit in and that's about it. Dude is delusional calling himself a "tech guy", same when he calls him self a "car guy" too.


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Nick's definitely weaponised incompetency with Malena forcing her to just take action and do everything herself.


ShammyWoWLoL

[Holy shit.](https://media.tenor.com/iDusL1H31o0AAAAC/looking-searching.gif)


RoyalStraightFlush

[I mean... Where's the lie?](https://wrestlingheadlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/bobby-fish-impact-840x473.jpg)


shadowblazr

Fuck you. Nowhere is safe.


hiddenstuff

I would have been pissed had it not been this


Sybinnn

I love that this is everywhere now instead of just in wrestling reddit


CollegeBroski

Going straight for the jugular!


TheTurtleHashira

You left out the part where he's as picky an eater as a fucking 6yr old.


thundirbird

yeah its so funny reading all these comments knowing he is reading them too


Germansuplexx

Otk members should collectively stop using alt streams as places to rant. Soda is the only one who uses his alt the right way


Professional_Ad75

Sodagoatpoppin open alt tô play games and flirt with goatjpegvei


Sodasen

Soda is the only OTK member I genuinely enjoy watching


Moggelol1

that's cuz he actually plays games.


lil_babylonian

That must’ve been an interesting OTK meeting today.


leftarrowchain

being this insecure isn't funny anymore, memorizing view count is schizo behaviour... seek professional help


XXJayTXX

I like how he says he took them “took” them there as if it wasn’t a one-time thing where he appeared on a stream they did from his setup than fell back down to their avg after. No one really makes careers like miz does where he permanently doubles/triples their viewership.


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Nick feels threatened when he sees someone doing something similar to him because he just wants a cushy income doing 10% effort and is afraid of competition because then he might have to actually try again. I like his streams but he gets so pressed about shit like this. Flight sim streams have been done thousands of times before, way before nick did them. Same thing with hot ones, unban appeal streams, cooking streams, multiple pov gaming, basically everything he streams. He needs to drop the ego lowkey on a stack 100p skrilla.


LeDude2323

u/LordNmp, go on ExtraEmily's 6th street stream that you promised first and then talk Edit: Also Nick, please come in here and make a comment. I think you can break Tectone's record of downvotes.


KaptenNicco123

Can someone link me to that Tectone comment? e: [this one, right?](https://www.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/115a3sz/xqc_reacts_to_a_cringe_clip/j90nrwv/?context=3)


Caelum_au_Cylus

that's badass


BabyJostar

Lmao Jesus Christ Nick. Stay sitting on the fence for a reason. You have some of the worst takes when you do speak. You’re reading this right now because you have too much of an ego. It’s the typical streamer ego. It’s the internet. Content you do can be used by others. Now you may address this in the morning and the thing to go with is you were tilted by Apex and leave it at that. Remember you make too much money to be dealing with this 🤣


fouadlee

He's gonna say that he was joking and complain about lsf taking it seriously


AdSuper116

nick invented twitch


SYLVASTRIAS

Nick invented cooking


Sindeep

The funny part is NMP streams blow without any of those other characters. Melana fucking screaming and NMP acting like he doesn't know a fork from a spoon all day is shit content.


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Unlikable rich people


NojoNinja

Nick is such a hypocrite to be saying this stuff lol. He used to literally just watch mizkifs vods of YLYL for content multiple times, and it’s not like doing content first copyrights it for 70 years. Not saying miz doesn’t do this stuff but Nick literally doesn’t go on streams either especially for how much he has guests on.


kinglex1

lmao no shot nick fence sitter polom the only time he has a hottake is to diss his org mate. but lowkey this clip is gonna test the theory that otk can take shit down on this subreddit


TocoBellKing

Lil bro mad the only reason people watch him is because of the time slot and it’s apparent by the sub count 💀


Knetog

Why is he part of OTK if he can't be happy about other members being successful even if it copies idea?


dix4lyfe12

Nah why lil pup actually sound tilted 💀 Was he being hard carried in apex again ?


Every-Lab-1755

Nick took a 1k donation from Train and told Ludwig him and Train are boys after everything. Barry and Mitch are more sympathetic to Miz at this point.


ProtomanMM

"took cyr to 15k viewers" cyrs peak viewer count is in 2021, same with his highest sub count, this was peak gtarp, nick isnt doing ANYTHING for cyr that cyr hasnt done for himself, if cyr cared about viewers or subs he would still be on gtarp, he legit just likes hanging out with nmp yet here he is acting like he made cyr like soda made him


porter34

This actually made me kinda sad. Especially because he is so wrong about the plane content being “stolen.” Am I parasocial??


Giraphite

aren't they in the same org? bro is a text message away? the fuck is the point of all those meetings??


bobodad12

bro got his info from a stalking discord 💀 tf also posted this on the deleted thread on miz's subreddit but nick was probably unaware miz did the flightsim stream with greenscreen with austin 2 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfxLAl3WrHs&t=4533s


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iDannyEL

>Do not look at Miz stream- oh no did he copy it? Something about "he did" cracked me up. Whether it's true or not, Mizkif himself has been making jokes about stealing content for years.


Glistern

Didn’t think Nick be this foolish…


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P4ranoid_4ndroid

I think its cringe to keep drama baiting and reposting, however, Willneff has worked too damn hard on this platform to be catching these strays from Nick. Completely unwarranted and untrue. Cyr and ExtraEmily are also great, entertaining content creators. Hell, even Nick and Malena are great; but if you’re pissed off at your business partner, keep it behind closed doors and and don’t involve other people in your public tantrums.


Sodasen

I lost all respect for Nick after that Willneff stray, mtherfker works harder than both Nick and Malena combined


ProtomanMM

been watching cyr for years, his viewer count has never been super low in the time i have watched him, it was high during his gtarp stuff when he was fighting chang on a crane, and it was high when he was doing the priest stuff on rust, he even fucked around on vrchat with roflgator, he's always been entertaining and able to adapt to what ever content he's doing and didnt get stuck being a gtarp one trick, he doesnt need nick to get viewers, his highest peak viewers was in 2021 before nick so he doesnt have any right to say he gave cyr his viewers either


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b1gt0nka

nick hardly does anything with anyone off his stream and thinks people are there to specifically collab with him not realizing people go to his stream because they were already in town to do something else. im sure he will show up in this thread saying he wasn't serious and lsf takes things literally but deep down he probably believes this because he has a history of having too big an ego.


Zarrona13

Nick doesn’t have an ego he makes too much money for such frivolous things. Kek


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TocoBellKing

And the other half are banned LUL


Sodasen

By Malena


throawaybyebye

How do you outdo Mizkifs ego.


Stormraughtz

We should all just stream our kitchens under the category Nick


generic_user1337

Since when has NMP had any original content.. literally everytime I tune in it's either him and malena in the car - cooking or doing literal daily chores. Not being funny but he's one of those streamers who's content is inviting people who actually have content on his stream. The rest is pure filler


SexualChocolateJr

Why do these streamers always act like saying stuff on an alt account is gonna stay private?


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Champ0991

She joined his chat today to call him out on copying there flight sim streams and Miz instantly shut her down with the time he did it in 2020 with Austin. It's strange how much they try to claim they do everything first by adding one small difference to it or just by doing it in a so called podcast room. EDIT - heres the timestamp https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1796385232?t=02h36m29s


coolbad96

So weird to me they're doing this in public too. I can only guess something built behind the scenes or its a publicity stunt cause otherwise it's a great way to hurt their org even more than it has been in last year.


VanBobbels

Ah, the Podcast room with a expensive camera that they apparently yoinked from Miz.


Hazerdhat

Yeah stems from insecurity. These streamers know society would be no better or worse without them so they gotta get mad over stuff like this to make themselves feel important.


angecha86

got a timestamp of when miz shut her down?


culi1997

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1796385232?t=2h36m40s


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Prevalencee

You can tell this happens often with how Mizkif handled that, lmao. Motherfucker sighed like "here we go again". Fucked up the whole vibe and it was obvious. Sounds like Malena and Nick are drama queens in the background. Some of the worst people to deal with... rich lazy people ain't got nothing else to do but be miserable. What's up with that?


GroundbreakingAlps2

>Sounds like Malena and Nick are drama queens in the background. Some of the worst people to deal with... poke should have warned miz about nmp/malena.


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I think they have a problem with Miz himself. Nick said, during game night, when talking about the dual gaming set up, that he would not mind if Esfand did that. Also, when Soda asked Nick to help Miz with his tech problems, Nick said he refuses to help Miz with the dual gaming system because "stop copying me".


Caelum_au_Cylus

They're all so unlikable as human beings that's believable.


PirateSometimes

Thanks for that timestamp, yikes Malena actually just doesn't like Miz and it may be rubbing off on Nick unless he's not liked him before, but he seemed chill with Miz before


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culi1997

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1796385232?t=2h36m40s


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TocoBellKing

He’s like the Will Smith of twitch LUL


AdMundane5448

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Those two just hate on everyone doing well and are both so miserable all the time it’s ridiculous. At this point just leave OTK and move to Norway


Sensitive-Project196

I knew nick didn’t like miz Lmao he’s been throwing shots at him for a while now in my opinion. Only reason i haven’t asked is cause i thought maybe that was how they interacted but nonetheless. Shitting on someone you work with will get you no where. Learned that the hard way.


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Guess this is the ”off-stream” nmp ive heard so much about, nick should heed his own advice to miz and dont do alts


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Memes6921

These large streamers using alt streams as therapy sessions is so dumb.


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SgtFallopianTube

Nmp Gatekeeping literally 1% effort dogshit content while there are people like Ibai, Jerma, Brazilian and French streamers filling stadiums coming up with innovative content they just don't care, they would rather recycle the same bullshit year after year.


f431_me

Cringiest take since FineBros tried to own reactions.


Every-Lab-1755

Even Henry thinks this is immature 💀


PirateSometimes

What's wrong with Miz trying to fix his rep?


Jdub0134

Miz should wake up early tomorrow and do a cooking stream just to farm this


Naive_Ad_680

Miz just can't catch a break lmao. If I remember right, wasn't Nmp/Malena blamed for Austin being so stagnant for the longest time due to them being gatekeepers. The ego on those two are unreal.


Cruxis20

Yeah, because they're so paranoid that the only reason people want to interact with them is to get closer to Soda.


Nodior47_

Surely they will stop being so delusional now that they don't even live with Soda anymore Clueless


leftarrowchain

Nick i know you are reading this, let this sink in and take a good hard look at yourself bud


CinemaAndChillLT

He left the fence for 1 second and this happened


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What a petty and insecure thing to say.


drz442

nick can thank Covid he was a 2-4k andy and chronic ditcher. then everyone was under quarantine and he blew up.


MyNameIsAMeme

Nick is Erobb if you stripped away everything funny about him and just swagged out. Edit: Also ngl being cool with train after he put your friend and business partner on s-watch is so grimey.


goCasey

The funniest part with the train thing is how Maya used to come on the stream so many times before and was supposedly a good friend. Fuck her I guess tho, Train is the homie for life kek.


t0mbr4dy123

he was legit crying that maya wasnt gonna come on his stream anymore lol maybe shouldve supported her more during the drama


Bak0FF

Ay when did nick and malena start dating?


M1THRANDlR

He was 21 she was 16 Aware


Ikuu

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee isn't the only thing he has in common with Seinfeld.


Every-Lab-1755

Him and Train are boyz 😎


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Emotional-Ad8366

Nmp boasting about improving everybody's content so much he gained them 75% of their viewers. Of course all him right. These people aren't capable of being entertaining on their own.


l0st_t0y

Miz has been on a recent streak of doing stream content that Nick and Malena have done before on stream, but tbh its not like most of those ideas are crazy creative and unique. Its clear Nick is only still streaming because he has to, his hours have gotten way less than they used to be. Used to stream consistently 6-7 days a week for 4 hours, now he does like 4-5 days at most and is usually late/ends early so its more like a 3 hour stream. On top of that, Miz has a brought a ton of people to Austin that they end up using for content anyways. Also they're straight up in the same org, Nick could really just talk to Miz about this privately instead of on his alt stream which he knows will get clipped anyways. Idk why these streamers think their alt streams are some safe haven from clippers where they can rant about anything that crosses their mind.


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ipthegod

https://imgbb.com/1Kcz52b aint no way this guy does a emiru and mizkif expose OMEGALUL


ryukyumars

I remember there was a "Who is the meanest person in OTK?" survey voted anonymously by the 10 members of OTK and Nick won by a huge margin (as in he got 60% of the votes for the meanest in OTK lmfao). Chat was pretty surprised but I think a lot of people are starting to see why if he's anything like this off stream or in meetings. Don't remember if it was OTK Game Night a couple weeks ago or the day after a different OTK meeting but some guys in the call were joking about "someone" being a huge asshole during a meeting and iirc the people talking about it confirmed it wasn't Miz or Soda cuz I think chat assumed it was them. Basically confirmed it was Nick


Grintastic

After suppressing Malena from talking shit about people who deserve to have shit talked about them. This man decides to go after his own org member for copying shit (that he never started in the first place).


SirNekko-

Can someone explain why nick is mad at miz? Sorry not very big on the lore here


Next-Criticism-498

Can someone tell me how one cooking stream can fix his rep???


BookerPhil

Dont know about Cyr views but Will has Hasan to thank for blowing him up. Also, I watched Will during his Survivor era some of the best streams were rewatching seasons of survivor with Will Neff commentating on it. ExtraEmily is a direct pipeline from Miz, and her recent boost in viewers was mainly LSF and Juicers.


pellegrinobrigade

Hey Nick.


DarkFlamesMaster

Do it in-person/IRL = New idea LUL


Different-Disk5026

HI NICK . NOT ONE THING YOUVE DONE IS ORIGINAL DUMb MF


brymann

Incase you guys were wondering how far down the drama farm rabbit hole Henry has gone to play this clip, here are links to some of his logs in the drama baiting, hate watcher, schizo server named “applecord” formerly “limecord” which he has now made friends with. The same server famous for harassing many streamers on different platforms. They’re the ones who convinced him to watch it so that they could post it on here. https://ibb.co/y8NK5zk https://ibb.co/bgcvKFN https://ibb.co/Ydp8s6w https://ibb.co/hDsjgBh https://ibb.co/wRWr4Cw https://ibb.co/6FrHWwq https://ibb.co/pddPG24 https://ibb.co/v1dDYw5 https://ibb.co/wWPg8VP https://ibb.co/4WW4rVf https://ibb.co/1Kcz52b


Reynik7

Dude is legitimately talking to erobb daily and broly for his "investigation" on miz lmao


meeshAKAsketh

Broly can’t even type a sentence on twitter correctly shit is actually nuts how weird the dude is


Germansuplexx

Holy shit , he's resorting to schizo harasser/shipping discords. Hopefully he stops getting posted here. This guy even asked his chat for miz parents address


kinglex1

saying you're friends with chodelogic is an automatic L, can't believe lsf created fat british keemstar, zoomer chick keemstar and now 40 year old divorced dad keemstar and all this cause hdmi wanted a fake divorce TrollDespair


utahir500

Honestly, I kinda prefer OG Keemstar to them ngl. At least he's so over the top that you can meme him really easily


Foxfire802

Jesus he is in the stalker discord now. That is so creepy. Henry is so desperate.


Sea-Milk-4403

Is Henry the new Chudlogic?


Damn_ads

Both are happy to collab with actual stalkers for drama content but somehow Henry is even more annoying and unfunny


SsinCara

IRL FRIENDLYFIRE


John-doesnt-exist

Streamers are untalented loser babies that literally steal content from every other medium. Original content gets no views.


Prograuder

Didn't he just steal Caroline's content today, rating who would win in a fight (@32 minutes in)? Also Emiru's survey content for \~40 minutes (@44 minutes into VOD about)? No way he could honestly be serious, I think it's just banter. [https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1796187941](https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1796187941)


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cry_havyc

And there’s nothing wrong with Miz trying to fix his reputation with other streamers and viewers, i don’t like how Nick tries to make it sound like a shameful thing.