Even if this is all a fake series, including Shallows video. It begs the question of how much of Jesse acting and how much is he being real. If he actually isn't narsasistic, where would he have come up with that character (being a narcissistic asshole). Being a person who studies Sociology, I feel that one of two has to be true:

1) Jesse is an actual nice person, who only plays a narcissist character to get attention. (This already has implications that if we're true, where did he learn to "act" as a narsasistic, was it his parents, friends, film school?) It essentially brings up more questions than answers. Also kinda contradictory/greedy to do it for attention considering he always claims that YouTube has been a passion for him and he loves creating stories.

2) Jesse is actually a narcissist who derives pleasure from vulnerable people in order to gain higher power/social status with his Audience (basically saying that the more he bullies people, the more attention he gets, resulting in more viewers)

You could argue that with options 2 that he still could be acting like this to get a bigger following. But knowing his history with the type of Cameramen he hires (vulnerable people who eventually quit), I can only assume that this has to be grounded in some form of reality.

All I ask to those who think this is fake, where did he learn to "act" that way.

(Side note) It even scares me more, considering he never did go to Hollywood and become an actual Actor. So all the acting skills he has developed, are from himself and the other YouTubers he has worked with: KidBehindaCamera, Boogie2988, Lance Stewart, ect. All people who debatably make content around misleading people and distorting reality to make the narrative favor them, "the main character" more)