I swing between Leigh being as bad as Nick and him just accepting his fate in life as many continuously abused people do, he 100% has changed from the man in the very first videos they produced but how much of that is this ‘banter’ they insist they have for the camera, but that’s often what an abusive relationship is projected as to the outside world.. the abuser gaslights their victims into thinking it all just fun or in Nicks case it’s all for the camera but the vitriol that spews from him (especially when he’s liquored up) is real you can tell by the tone and the facial expressions.
He is constantly chasing a life style he cannot afford so ends up ducking and weaving to try and keep up the appearance of wealth. He has the pressure of a very successful and wealthy brother to keep up with who had exactly the lifestyle he yearns after, a stunning apartment in LA, rich, and I imaging lord of beautiful LA friends with the same style. Yet another reason Nick courts ‘friends’ who are more affluent than him so he can cling onto their coattails and experience that lifestyle for just a moment.
But when in their own he reverts to type where saying he’s just ‘working class’ and will not dress up or act different when going somewhere fancy .. yet he did exactly that when on the cruise with the rich crew he very much tried to appear that they belonged in that bracket.
But it would seem some are seeing the light, after all you can’t keep up an act for long, and they are very much out of their depth in That circle, they arrive at friends without hostess gifts, they never send thank you gifts after, we never see them sending birthday snd Christmas gifts to them yet they always receive gifts from them, they never pay for a dinner out happily letting their friends pick up the tab but we never see them reciprocate (plus they eat like normal humans if someone is picking uk the tab) they seem to be being sidelined a bit now, not invited to stay at Stacey’s, the invites are drying up and the others seem to be building their own friendships outside TLG control and that must be killing them to be left behind.
Oh lord the list is endless now I have started thinking …