I don’t know, i mean he does have range, but i don’t think I’ve over seen him in a role where i was immersed in the character he was playing more than i consistently see it being Nick Cage playing the character as Nick Cage would play him.
I mean a lot of actors get typecast into specific roles you can’t unsee them as, but Nick is like a character that can’t seem to un-overlay his acting style from the character. Not unlike someone with an accent they can’t hide will always bring something potentially unintended to the character, he brings a ‘this is what this character would be like if we were in a universe where his personality was painted over the intended character’.
Good or bad, i don’t think he has a role where he can leave himself out of it, and i think he would have failed as an actor a long time ago if he was forced to.
I think it’s close to equal parts jealousy and legitimate distaste for rewarding popularity for popularity sake. So much of the toxic behavior of the popular cliche in high school makes it into the environment that it dilutes the legitimate utilization of the platform for making actually good content.
That, and the possibly justifiable hated for what some people are now considering, by extension, ‘good content’ when it all just ends up being reaction videos and meta content about content about content to the point where it’s just a bunch of rich assholes acting like rich assholes and that’s literally the content.
Honestly the worse trend I’ve seen are the channels that are effectively ‘bum fights’ with marginally less crude concepts. Let’s see how humiliated we can make my friends act for a tiny bit of money compared to how much I’m making is not, and has never been, a nice thing to do, and the platform has turned it into a lucrative job.