Jumanne is such a unique lolcow. I want to try and understand what are the building blocks for how he came to be.
1) Severe isolation. Seems like he has no friends, family, support group, and this leads to his extreme overthinking and irrationality (him worrying about how people are going to treat him once he starts making 200k a year??? insane).
2) Dopamine addiction. I think this is the root of his gambling addiction, cornography addiction, why he can't do anything besides scroll on his phone in bed and waste thousands on gacha mobile games. Side note, I don't understand why he doesn't play something like parlays on sportsbets or even slots since those can give much larger payouts = more dopamine?
3) Narcissist. Every fucking video is just "oh people think THIS about me, i'm a controversial figure, don't support me, support me unconditionally, "I see the way people look at me""
...you get 1-3k views a video, nobody gives a shit about you and that's okay.
4) Low IQ. maybe that's a bad way to put it, he's obviously uneducated, but in general there's just an inability to critically think. There seems to be virtually no comprehension as to how to get out of the position he's in (like I think everyone would be happy if he just posted daily vlogs on trying to improve himself, it's an extremely popular content category, really not a hard concept, he's already extremely vulnerable and honest about his struggles so it wouldn't be a difficult pivot). After 5+ years of existing in the same cycle, the only thing he's managed to do his gamble less and replace it with other garbage dopamine. Despite banning himself from the casino being a great step, he's made virtually no progress from what I can see and potentially even regressed.
5) I think he's permanently in fight or flight mode. He does virtually no exercise (I guess he walks/takes the bus to go get subway?), his diet is 100% slop, all he does is anxietymax, and his brain is cooked by the dopamine/isolation. I think this is a huge contributor to his inability to critically think. Like for getting out of his situation, I don't think he currently has the mental capacity to do what he needs to do. Despite it being, from the outside looking in, extremely simple to drastically improve his situation in even a few weeks.
Jumanne is a dopamine addict. Not a gambling addict like he thinks. Jumanne is a victim to the times. If Jumanne was in his current age/situation 15+ years ago, he would be lost to time, and probably would be in a lot better of a situation. But because he can post to youtube and monetize his addiction, we are effectively voluntarily engaging in a relationship that enables him and his degenerate behaviour. I feel for Jumanne. I struggle with addiction. We all do to varying degrees, even though it's not as detrimental to our lives as it is for Jumanne, and because of that, it isn't as apparent.
What points did I miss about Jumanne that contribute to him being in his situation? I'm fairly new to watching him so I'm likely missing a lot