Since Nick drama has been boring for months and his thread has devolved into talking more about Aaron, I will use this time to make a brief cheat sheet post for anyone who wants to catch up on months of Nick drama without going through thousands of pages. It will also keep me informed because I can't be arsed to sit through this thread day after day.
Please correct me if I've made any mistakes, but the timeline we find ourself with post-arrest and post-child testing positive for cocaine possession is:
• Nick pleads guilty to a very favourable sentence, which would involve a stay of adjudication (i.e. stay out of trouble for a yet-to-be-revealed period of time), for the felony third-degree drug possession. The two other charges (possession of a firearm with a controlled substance and child endangerment) were dropped, as were the charges for his wife and his girlfriend (see below). He is not a felon yet and sentencing is scheduled for April. His kids have also been returned to him.
• While he might smugly gloat that he's bested the system, his entire reputation has been irrevocably destroyed. Everyone will forever remember him as an alcoholic and cocaine addict whose daughter, despite his claims to the contrary, tested positive for a metabolite only found upon ingestion of cocaine.
• He seldom streams, and when he does it's often impromptu. He prefers being a guest on streams hosted by friends.
• Despite this, he is not a hermit who has fled the Internet, and he is appearing in the YouTube chat of (and sending as much as $100 to) Patrick Melton on a daily basis. Melton is an obsessive hater of the former Qover (polycule) member Aaron Imholte, so much so that he has made sexual comments about Aaron's children; despite repeated insistence from both Aaron and those close to him, he is gleeful in talking about Aaron's kids being fucked and laughs at superchats about his daughter starting an OnlyFans when she is older.
• In collaboration with Melton, he attempted to embarrass Aaron by revealing his google search history, which fits the definition of computer hacking.
• After years of being tight lipped about his Jamaican trip to Hedonism II, he confirmed that he went to Jamaica in leaked DMs with a former mod, Kalea, and revealed he gave $1000 to a woman at the resort who claimed to be pregnant (whether this was to cover pregnancy expenses as he claims, was used to pay for an abortion or was simply a scam by con artists, we'll never know)
• He also confirmed that he was indeed in a relationship with April Imholte (née Anderson), telling a panel that included Melton that Anderson was "[his] girlfriend at the time." He is still very likely in regular contact with her, and despite his attempts to pretend he has not been in contact with her, she was present for a Zoom hearing months ago and was sitting in the room where Nick regularly streams. Like with Hedonism, he seems to take joy in heavily implying the obvious without outright admitting it.
• He is still being sued by Steve Quest, a.k.a. Monograph, for defamation per se for his 2022 comments explicitly calling Montograph a pedophile. Even as recently as last month, he reiterated his belief that Montograph is a pedophile. It was also revealed in December that he took out a $300k loan against his house which is believed to have been used to pay his attorney Mark Randazza (edit: while this is still a possibility, the mortgage could also very likely be for legitimate construction he was doing on his house, as in 2023 he talked about the construction of a "sex dungeon" in his house).
• Likely due to his many legal cases, he has been forced to downside. His second property was sold and half of his primary estate was sold. The second house was believed to be where April was living.
• Finally, Nick Rekieta - the man whose channel and firm is called "Rekieta Law" and who spent years providing analysis of legal documents and cases - is no longer allowed to practice law for not keeping up with the Minnesota bar's Continuing Legal Education rules.
Remember, I am writing this for people like Ana Kasparian who like to peruse this thread or show to friends, who aren't spending hours and hours combing through discussion. Again, if I've left anything out of gotten something wrong, please let me know.
edit: oh yeah he may also be doing whippets, although he denies this.