#sequentialprophet

I think that the story Max Caster is trying to tell has two major themes, both of which have connections to his actual life.

The first and most obvious is: When do you quit your life's dream, if you keep failing at it?

He says it in the most recent promo itself. He's the only one that believes in himself at this point. On one hand, it seems incredibly delusional. He's losing every week. Badly. As the camera guy himself points out, he hasn't won since the last presidency- when he was still part of The Acclaimed.

On the other hand...isn't Working Hard and Never Giving Up one of THE traits of being a babyface in American wrestling? I think that's one of the reasons people have started actually chanting for him. The camera guy says they never chase down losers like this but how can they not, when Max is one of the most interesting things on the show right now?

This isn't the first time he's "failed" at wrestling, either. The newest album released on his bandcamp are tracks he wrote 2017-2019, during what I guess we could call his first Flop Era. He'd had a string of bad luck at the time. A serious knee and jaw injury from slipping in the ring, and getting dumped by his gf, led him to spiral into a truly dark mental space.

And what seemed to help lift him out of his severe depression actually WAS his egotism! He is very self aware about the fact that his narcissism is a coping mechanism lol. (He raps about it in his Quarantine Demo album).

Which is why this line:

I got dropped on my head, it hurts. I lost again, it hurts. Every day I wake up HURT, and I tell myself that I'm the best.

is so poignant to me. Convincing himself that he's the best is the only thing that keeps him going in life.

But! I think there is a second, more hidden meaning to this video! Something I have privately coined "The public hellishness of Max Caster's existence."

Within the first minute of the promo video, directly after taking what is possibly his most embarrassing loss yet, Max Caster:

-Is chased down by the cameraman

-Therefore cannot avoid leaning over to throw up while on camera

-Is then catcalled by several female security guards and called out to by a well meaning fan, despite clearly being in distress

I don't think that last part was scripted, but BOY does it tie into the complaints he's made about being objectified in his more recent music. Like, admittedly, when I first heard those complaints I kinda rolled my eyes because oh, the super sexual super hot guy is getting objectified now? You don't say! But having seen what must be a fraction of the weekly bullshit he has to put up with, I get it now! It fucking sucks to be reduced to that when going through it!

And speaking of going through it- imagine if YOUR repeated, embarrassing failures at achieving your dreams were broadcast worldwide for people to laugh at. I don't think that the cameraman talking to him as a cameraman, or Max reaching to pull the boom mic into the frame, were a coincidence. I think they are deliberately calling attention to the camera, the artifice of television, which Max is trying to escape from.

And if you think that's a reach, this is the album cover for Streaming on Max, which was released at the very start of his current storyline.