- Joined
- Sep 26, 2019
He'd likely be even happier if his patreon was inverted, insane engagement, pretty good relevancy, and very little money, hard to say for sure but from listening to his show in the past I can say for sure that what he's described career-wise is not the pattern of someone making it on their own. He's described a bunch of different companies he either owned or had high positions for, off memory, being a screw for adoption, seo optimization, gray market pharmaceuticals, vague communications jobs.if he has family money then maybe the patreon income is completely irrelevant. Maybe its wrong to assume that Dick is even motivated by money at all. Maybe he is actually just pathologically obsessed with being "famous". The term narcissist is thrown around way too much, but he presents as a classic narcissist in the sense that he seems to have built his entire life around an invented character and everything he says or does is in service of furthering the perception that he is this character. He wants to be seen as an effortlessly cool, carefree ladies man. The best times in his life were probably reading twitter comments pumping him up as the guy who was so cool that he drove Maddox insane with envy just by being himself. Narcissism gets worse with age. The older you get the less you can fantasize about your future and the more you have to grapple with the things you have done (or didnt do). This causes panic for people whose constructed identities are so one dimensional, based on unsustainable things like youth and besting your sexual competition. I think this might explain why Dick has never become more than the lolsuit winner and why he has never been able to expand his audience or make new, interesting content. He could actually just be trying to get attention for the sake of it, so he can feel like he hasnt wasted his life trying and now failing to be famous.