LowTierGod/personality

Rage

Dale has long maintained that he does not feel emotions and that some unexplained experience of life left him less prone to impulse than other men. He is, in fact, a person of considerable impulsive anger. It is sadder still that the occasions which provoke this anger are, for the most part, exceedingly petty ones. These episodes occur most frequently in fighting games, but any competitive game will see him, at best, shout verbal insults or make dubious claims that the win was undeserved for some reason. At worst, he will fall into a fit of explosive rage in which he does what was mentioned, throwing his controller, demanding a rematch with the opponent, or banning the opponent from his chat or Discord server, or whatever other space he manages. His rage, alongside his ego, also stands among his barriers to winning in competitive games, since anything that makes him wait even a second leads him to focus more on excusing his impending loss than on trying to prevent it.

He has lately made a habit, during his recent streams, of telling anyone who mocks him over the voice chat in Mortal Kombat 1, Injustice 2, or Street Fighter IV Ultra to meet him in person and fight, and the same has happened when someone has taken his photo in public. It is probably in poor taste to do so, and his complaints should not extend beyond a basic respect for his privacy, but he instead likens himself to a celebrity so famous that people photograph him as they would Bigfoot, though this does not bode well for his future career in acting if he cannot handle even a lighter form of the paparazzi. Needless to say, he undermines his “New Age Black” persona the moment he panders to the very stereotypes he claims to oppose with being so outwardly rageful that he dares people to fight him.

Lust

Although Dale insists that he is “not weak to the flesh,” there are numerous stretches of his livestreams in which he lusts, fantasizes, or openly discusses his sexual appetites without an ounce of shame. One such example occurs when he listens to a song from Ice Spice’s album and drifts into a daydream over a certain lyric. He’ll also regularly ogle the women who pop up on his live streams, and he’ll daydream out loud to his viewers about how sexually attractive they are (or, on occasion, how sorely they lack it). None of this is bad in and of itself, since plenty of people admire female beauty, but what makes it such a pathetic display is that Dale insists on pretending he’s not a skirt-chasing mess who’s drunk in the head with lust, and that he’s no more prone to appreciating a pretty face than the next guy. Admitting as much would require a modicum of humility, which is exactly why you’ll never see it.

His frequent and often memed jokes about having sex with people’s mothers are another example of this tendency (though they stem from a different kind of lust) in which he goes into considerable detail about the specific acts that the person in question supposedly performed that night. Dale has also admitted to being one who will do nearly anything for “love” which goes against the tough-guy, “seen it all” attitude that he so often adopts in his recent streams.

Ego

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It hardly takes a world-renowned psychologist to see that Dale holds an opinion of himself so high as to border on delusion. Though he has admitted to bouts of depression, he considers everything and anything only insofar as it affects himself. Taking the easiest example first, he bans people often and for almost any perceived slight against him and even a comment made in good spirit will offend him when he is in a bad mood, or when he chooses to read it that way. His ego, which is rather fragile, often proves his own worst enemy where success is concerned, for he makes himself plenty of enemies among chat, fellow creators/streamers, and others who would rather not associate with him because of his explosive temper and lack of professionalism, and he does little to hide his contempt for people, who happen to make up most of those out there.

Dale often mocks those who make such statements and argues that he should not have to become a “nice guy squeegee” streamer to gain fans, as though that were even remotely the point. Which is that he need only improve himself slightly in patience and continue being his antagonistic self in an entertaining rather than genuinely hateful manner to find the same success he enjoyed in his early days. Yet he has done nothing to improve himself and arguably has grown worse.

Dale seems incapable of imagining that a person might hate someone and still find him entertaining or psychologically fascinating, since he loves calling his detractors gay for “obsessing” over him. While this may apply during certain periods, there are also times when he calls people trolls or “obsessed weirdos” even though there is no apparent evidence beyond his paranoia and violent temper, and sometimes the claim of trolling only as a way to excuse his loss to someone.

His ego is also the greatest inhibitor to his success in games as well as in life, for like DSP, he will find any reason why his loss was not genuine, and nearly any problem, regardless of his opponent’s culpability, will be laid at someone else’s feet. He will blame lag, an opponent’s choice of character on the grounds that it shows neither taste nor skill, comeback mechanics, taunting, faulty controllers, an unwillingness to defend himself, DDoS attacks, his own choice of character, or your supposed lack of skill despite having beaten him, and the list goes on. Dale will defend his ego by pointing to his popularity and insisting that it alone entitles him to arrogance, never considering (or perhaps never wishing to believe) that his popularity rests on far from good reasons, and that if he somehow believes he has built a loyal fanbase, it has come only through banning so many people that the sycophants alone remained.

Greed

Thanks in part to his $121,000 debt, Dale regards money as the ultimate goal toward which every man should strive, and this leads him to make decisions that, if anything, yield less money over time. He challenges detractors to hand him $50,000 up front if they wish to fight him (the winner does not receive that sum), he bans or times out supporters in his chat, and berates viewers who would become supporters were it not for his toxic attitude, on top of alienating nearly anyone who might toss a nickel at his feet. This overlaps somewhat with his ego, since he will boast about having more money than he actually has to save face with what remains of his audience, even though trolls mock his attempts to save only because he so readily pretends that he is secure and not living paycheck to paycheck on the charity of strangers.

It also goes without saying that this obsession with money has given him the most self-destructive case of tunnel vision, but in practice his ego keeps getting in the way of any decision that might actually pay off. It’s been a common talking point among lolcows that they should capitalize on their infamy and squeeze out whatever benefits they can, whether that’s money or something else, and while Dale has made a few attempts, he refuses to go the extra step, such as not banning people who make fun of him, or honing his acting skills enough to fake being rageful for the streams. Keep in mind that all it would take is an ounce of self-control to rein in his actual rage before it spirals out of hand, and to dramatize it just slightly enough that it comes across as entertaining.

Racism

Dale’s racism is probably the most widely cited reason for his trolling, second only to his rage. He has said on stream that he struggled to fit in with other kids from an early age, and that darker skinned people were consistently the ones who disliked him most. Whether or not this was true, he seems to have carried that sense of being wronged onto the internet, where he attributes any hate from other black people to a crab in a barrel mentality. He has called himself a “New Age Black” and rejected accusations of racism (though it might be more accurate to call him bigoted), and he is often especially harsh toward African Americans in particular, claiming that they have no culture, no unity, and so on. Dale’s rage has also led him to shout racial slurs and other hateful language at whichever race he happens to be fighting, so black people are not the only targets of his impulsivity and his refusal to accept a loss.

Intelligence

Dale’s intelligence arguably warrants its own section, though it is better understood as another facet of his ego, because, like his lifelong idol DarkSydePhil, he will always pretend to be more intelligent than he is despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, evidence that will likely dwindle further as he bans anyone who so much as points out a single flaw in his thinking. In his early days of streaming, Dale worked at stores such as GNC and Goodwill to make ends meet beyond what his channel provided, and although most of those streams are now gone, it would be a fair guess that this arrangement left him at least somewhat more financially stable than he is at present, since he was less aggressive, less prone to banning people from his chat, and was altogether more likeable both as a person and as a streamer.

He has now put all his eggs into streaming, which is hardly a sound financial decision whatever one believes the top streamers earn, given the aforementioned aggressiveness of Dale as a streamer, and given that the general dullness of his streams means that most who would ever donate would do so only because of his rages and not in spite of them, as he would delude himself into believing. On a lighter note, Dale liked to call himself a scholar by virtue of two college degrees in Business and Health, though he has put neither to much use if they exist at all, and he was always the first to praise himself for speaking clearly and commanding a rich and expansive vocabulary, even as he butchered words such as “exhibition,” “dehumanize,” "eviscerate," and “intoxicate,” among others.