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Me neither, my Roomates a Sony guy and when I told him I was probably gonna pick up God of War when it releases on PC he was like “nice I’m glad you get to play it.”
I’m convinced any “outrage” is entirely ironic.
Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread
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Me neither, my Roomates a Sony guy and when I told him I was probably gonna pick up God of War when it releases on PC he was like “nice I’m glad you get to play it.”
I’m convinced any “outrage” is entirely ironic.
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I have no doubt there are some people actually livid this is happening, because there's nowt as queer as folk, but they're such a tiny minority of speds he may as well do a Jimquisition on that one nutter who was convinced Silent Hill 4 was a metaphor for circumcision.
SpaceCow
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A post a few pages back really got me thinking... Jim really did believe that by adding wrestling and genderqueer nonsense to his videos that he would be increasing his audience.
So, thinking of it like a Venn diagram, he thought each circle he added would just increase the amount of people interested in his content. But of course it doesn't work like that. Splitting your content into two things just repulses people that hate one or the other. Splitting it into three? Well, good luck finding THAT audience, Jim.
There are situations where Jim's line of thinking would have worked... for instance, there are concepts he could have added to "Video Game Rants" that would have just added "flavor" to his videos (like his fascist dictator schtick from years ago). But those concepts first and foremost must not be off-putting. A fat, gay man in a gross spandex leotard misses that mark by quite a distance.
So, thinking of it like a Venn diagram, he thought each circle he added would just increase the amount of people interested in his content. But of course it doesn't work like that. Splitting your content into two things just repulses people that hate one or the other. Splitting it into three? Well, good luck finding THAT audience, Jim.
There are situations where Jim's line of thinking would have worked... for instance, there are concepts he could have added to "Video Game Rants" that would have just added "flavor" to his videos (like his fascist dictator schtick from years ago). But those concepts first and foremost must not be off-putting. A fat, gay man in a gross spandex leotard misses that mark by quite a distance.
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Now, let's breathe in, breathe out and try not get too radical here. That would be some actual content.
Speaking of content, there's new Jimpression https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAPOAQuVxw
I can't archive or even watch it right now.
It's sorta like the Alex, the spongebob theory guy, even if the series has turned into a meta-commentary ARG on the phenomenon. If you try to transition what content you make, or make one video that's really popular but never reach it again, you'll inevitably end up with videos you make as algorithm maintainers, shitposts, things you don't care about, etc as performing over millions of views, while everything else gets shit-all attention.
Absolute worst case hell-nightmare-scenario is that no one subs to you since they outright hate your normal content, don't give a shit about your personality or likes, and everyone just name searches you every week or so. Happens most often with animation channels once they drop projects or finish series.
If you are actually passionate, keep your head down and push forward, most of your old fans will leave, but a small loyal portion will remain, as well as your reputation. You'll eventually be able to rebuild your sub base using a springboard of your old popularity. There's nothing inherently wrong with this, changing content because you don't like it any more or want to swap it up is a understandable desire, and anyone trying to stop you is probably 11, or a dickhead.
However, there are three primary behaviors one should always avoid doing if you're changing content, the nuker, the mocker, and the complainer. These will make your change much harder and breed resentment among your old fanbase, and if you were part of a fandom, a great way to paint a target on your back. They are also dickish in nature, so just don't.
The nuker is the simplest, and to be perfectly honest, the one I hate the most 99% of the time despite it being probably the least offensive to most. You nuke your old content, you blacklist it, you remove it, whatever. You no longer keep it up, attempt to archive it in any form. Any questions about the old content are given a nonresponse, avoidance, ignore, or feigned ignorance. The worst examples of these will have the nuker taking down archives of their content, and outright attempting to "distance themselves from their earlier work". Usually made even more pathetic is the fact that this content is usually what made them popular in the first place. More than any other behavior, this will cause people to accuse you of being a "leech" that jumps around fandoms and trends to gain popularity. An example could be Wubcake, who nuked their pony content and requested it not be archived.
The mocker is occasionally hard to spot from ribbing and light hearted roasts over people who ask you to do your old content. The mocker is usually ashamed of their earlier works, themselves for making them, and are generally now leftists who get mad over the "whitewashing" of a cookie, or a crazed nazi schizo convinced jesus talks through their toilet. Anyone who says their old content was cool gets a snide comment and a ban, they usually have "disclaimers" and a whole lot of other bullshit added to their old content to make it clear they hate it now. Just plain ol' dickfucks, if you send them a donation on stream while asking them about old content, expect some shitass speech before they ban you from the chat. Ironically also the least secure about their new content, tries to make their old shit look bad in comparison to their newer stuff. Often IS a nuker, but nukers aren't always mockers. Jello's long-ass comment over a 10 second joke in a video he made over half a decade ago could count as a concentrated example of this.
Finally, the complainer. The simplest, and usually suprisingly the most tolerable (still actually unbearable) in it's pure forme. They just complain about how their subs are dropping, how they aren't getting many views, how much the algorithm hates them. Subtly or not-so subtly shames people for leaving their channel, and how people don't check out their content. Usually comes off as sad and somewhat sympathetic, at worst comes off as a bastard who feels entitled to success. Often mixed with the mocker, and is the most obnoxious example of these traits if they are. Sterling falls somewhere in the middle of the scale.
If Jim didn't complain about the sub loss, I actually think it wouldn't be as bad right now.
Also yes, I know, EL GRANDE MUCHO TEXTO.
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Is Jim calling me a goblin? I’m sick of his sly digs at me.
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Yes, that is the often case. People with genuine gender dysphoria tend to be androgynous in appearance and from a young age and express a disinterest in the things associated with their sex. That's really big difference between the transtrenders and actual trans people. Transtrenders transition to feel good. While actual trannies do it to feel normal. Supposedly legitimate trans people transition much earlier, often in their early to mid twenties. While transtrenders do so spontaneously and much later in life. I have a FTM friend, they don't talk about how much they'd love to have a dick or gender europha. They instead talk about how uncomfortable they are having a vagina. But even for real trannies, sex reassignment surgery only works for an extreme minority. So it's a real fucking shame that it's been glamorized and any other alternative is actually bigot-backed trans-erasure.
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He thought he could be a YouTube "personality," but his attempt at building a parasocial relationship his audience failed.
The poorly done dictator shtick worked because it kept him from revealing personal information. I remember when he first included his "wrestling" and it completely changed my opinion of him.
I went from casually watching his videos to realizing he was a lolcow. The lack of self awareness in showing the "wrestling" was astounding. That caused me to stop watching his videos.
Thankfully, Chris raped his mom, which got me checking out the farms. Watching Jim be a lolcow is way more entertaining that his content ever was.
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And he got banned for "misgendering" Jim.View attachment 2661998
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Never change, Reera Jannies. Never change.
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I remember when I stopped, too. I watched him casually too, thinking "This guy's a disgusting creep, but he's right about pay-to-win mechanics". I think he was already licking huge dildos at that point. It was seeing how NeoGAF constantly huffed his farts that really made me question him. I had already been feeling like he was ignoring or denying the realities of how games need to be funded, but knowing that the worst losers at GAF fully supported him told me his opinion wasn't worth anything.
Jim made all of his biggest and most off-putting changes after I stopped watching. But knowing what he has become just makes me feel vindicated in my decision.
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Fuck you Jim, you will never be able to pressure everybody into thinking your degenerate ilk are real women.
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I swear, what the fuck are enbies anyway. Forgive me for being so fucking internet-levels of dumb but ARE enbies? I didn't grow up in a generation that fostered these clowns.
Might be a blessing coming from the usual suspects of troons nowadays.
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Non-binaries (people that claim they aren't either male or female but rather some made-up sexual identity quackery)
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I actually used to enjoy Jim's videos back when steam greenlight was a thing and steam was flooded with unity asset flips. That shit was actually comedy gold. But then that dried up and he started doing the stupid wrestling shit. I stopped watching when he got more and more into non-gaming politics. Thankfully a good bit before he went *completely* off the fucking deep end.
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A lot of porn games from jimpressions lately, wonder if this is becaus his humiliation induced dopamine rush form his ""gender trash"" flaunting is starting to die down and he needs his hits
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If he was smart (and not lazy), he would have kept the three things separate instead of forcing them all into one video.
RedLetterMedia are, as always, a good example: They divide their content into different shows, because analytical discussion of niche films has a different audience to contemporary film reviews or laughing at B-movies, though I'm sure there is a lot of crossover since it's all film-related. If they tried to cram Nerd Crew, Best of the Worst and re:View content into one episode of Half in the Bag, though. it would be a total clusterfuck.
If Jim wanted to do his political/gender shit and his wrestling crap he could have made separate channels or at least separate shows, but he knows JQ is the only reason anyone knows who he is so he used it as the vector to force this other shit on people who are there for one thing only, and that never, ever works (just look how popular Nostalgia Critic's sketch comedy insertions were).
OT: Right that's 3 porno games in a row now, can we call this more than a coincidence yet??
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I swear I'll never understand how people like Jim can go from having tantrums about "realistic depictions of women, oversexualization, pandering to the male gaze," and all that other moralism they spew and then turn right around and play games that crank all of it to eleven like the words had never crossed their mouths. If it weren't for double standards and all that, I suppose.
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Even then I think his channel had the same problem it has today, its sheer repetitiveness. Jim has always only had a handful of topics that he would talk about at any one time, and the fact the Jimquisition is a weekly show meant he would often talk about the same things over and over again to fill up time. Even at his best he was only enjoyable in small doses.
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Also can be because stuff like this drives views. I don't think Jim is unavare of subscriber bleed.