he can't, he's almost 40 and he's never worked a day in his life, he WAS a millionaire who did nothing for it (beyond make videos every once in a while) and just did grabass with friends.
All streamers are terrified, and reviled by the idea of having to get a job, they'd rather die, and Ian was richer than alot of them, and he did even less than most streamers do to get it.
Ian has no skills, no talents beyond meager video editing and saying Nigger Faggot on camera, he'd start at the very bottom of blue collar or retail work, and suddenly having an income of 15 dollars an hour would mentally break him.
This isn’t a defense of Ian, but I agree super hard with you and I think people forget this about ian.
He seems out of touch because he is out of touch. Like, really bad.
Imagine becoming a millionaire in your teens/early 20s. Like holy shit you’re basically just a baby at that age. And his parents fully, fully supported him up until that point.
He’s never had a job. He’s never had to interact in the real world.
Ian is a piece of shit back stabbing snake.
But the better part of me does sometimes think that it could have been different if Ian actually….. didn’t grow up in a millionaire bubble.
he’s learning some real fucking hard knocks about life now that he’s becoming….. not even broke. Just middle class in his 30s.
But it’s almost like a cruel experiment.
Take a kid, make him super rich and addicted to the internet, introduce a slut that ruins him, and then watch him try to cope being functional and middle class 20 years later as the fame and cash is stripped away for him.
Watching a dude that’s never had to live among the common people become common in his middle age then add on that a bunch of weird drugs and therapy brain washing.
I mean it’s like doing a bunch of weird fucked up shit to a lab rat for entertainment.
Except it’s a retard named Ian.