Imao he was faking it for the attention, Nick has obviously done extreme damage to his body in which he can never recover from but he knows what sells and has used an enormous amount of energy learning to orchestrate the narrative in his favour so people feel sorry for him. He’ll be fine since I think he’s intelligent enough to not push himself to far. Or if he does die he’s based and he knows he won’t make it but might as well reap the rewards while he’s on this weird humiliation/ attention whore conquest. The man is a legend in the making.
I think a lot of people make the mistake of presuming that because Nick is self aware and intelligent that it equates to him being in control. Which he is absolutely not. Nick may have intelligently swayed his eating disorder to be profitable but he’s no more in control of his eating disorder than Amberlynn or Chantal Marie. He just has the intelligence and self awareness to market himself in a more likable and profitable way. And he even deludes himself I suppose sometimes into thinking he’s “two steps ahead” and he may be in a lot of ways.
I’m sure he knows the YouTube game like the back of his hand. But even super intelligent people are not immune to the horrible, horrible world of mental illness that is eating disorder. Nick is smart, but his mental illness and eating disorder is the same as the fat fucks in death fats forum and he’s deff not in control of it.