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I have to admit everything he lays out makes perfect sense. It does mean that 100% of the movie is a delusion with Jack / The Narrator (who's real name is Tyler Durden) living out his multiple personalities mostly in a hotel room outside of going to some cancer therapy groups.
Tl;dw
Jack is diagnosed with testicular cancer and his psyche cracks at the prospect of losing his balls
Hes not at the doctor to get sleeping pills, the doctor instead refer him to cancer support groups to cope with his ball cancer
Jack invents three new personalities Tyler (masculine), Marla (feminine) and Big Tit Bob (what he fears he may become after his balls are removed)
Jack's real name is Tyler Durden as evident on the plane tickets he gets from his work
There is no Paper Street house (why would a phone company install a working telephone in an abandoned house?)
There is no fight club and no project mayhem. It's all imagined.
Anticlimactic but all the pieces fit. Unless I mis remembered something.
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Half of his points boil down to "There's this recurring theme in the movie, so that means it can't be real" like he's never seen a movie before. The other points just have really obvious explanations (like he has DID so of course his alter could have gone to the house before he 'met' Tyler Durden on the plane).
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The argument of “if it's exposed that a part of the narrators story is an illusion then you can't really trust any of it” is solid though. And look at how weird Tyler, Marla and Bob are and how they go unnoticed by everyone except for Jack and the other Project Mayhem people.
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I think you could make arguments that certain parts/characters could be imagined, but trying to say that essentially nothing happened and everyone was fake (oh, and he has cancer even though the doctor says things that suggest he doesn't) requires a higher burden of proof. Especially when that wasn't the case in the book. Secondary characters being weird in a fictional story about social isolation and ennui doesn't cut it.
The best argument in favor of there being other alter-egos (the crazy journals he finds in the paper street house) is the only thing this guy doesn't talk about in the video essay. He either wrote those as Durden, or there has to be another alter.
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