Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread

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For all of those curious to see Jim Sterling the professional wrestler in action he broadcast his debut and first match yesterday on his stream and for all your viewing pleasure here they are.
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Kinda looks like he shat himself and it started seeping through here

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It is pretty cool because this very much shows that talking points, past experiences, and current belief system doesn't matter. The biggest thing that determines if people will listen to you and give you a platform to speak is "Are you good looking or a freakish monster?"

And Jim is fat too.

Edit: It has been pointed out that this implies jim use to be good looking and I am horrified that I accidentally said this.
 
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What sent Jim down this path?
Shortest way I can sum it up is mid-life crisis upon realising he has no prospects except doing the Jimquisition for the rest of his working life.

This also explains his pivot towards wrestling, despite rapidly approaching the age most pro wrestlers would be retiring/moving into acting.

It is pretty cool because this very much shows that talking points, past experiences, and current belief system doesn't matter. The biggest thing that determines if people will listen to you and give you a platform to speak is "Are you good looking or a freakish monster?"
I actually think the opposite is true: Even if Jim had kept his fashy look from peak JQ days he'd still be bleeding subs. His current look distracts from the fact his content has become utterly insufferable and aggressively repetitive; not to mention he's massively reduced his output from multiple videos a week to 1.

TL;DR It doesn't matter if you're a gross genderblob or Gigachad, nobody is interested in hearing the same 3 or 4 topics covered verbatim, once a week.
 
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What happens when Jimbo's numbers get low enough? Has he put any thought into other paths or are we just going to watch him go nuts to 300 people one day?
I don't think he'll ever truly fade from the industry. Kotaku is always hard up for names that'll give them some sort of credibility.

Even if that doesn't happen, he should be fairly well off by now. He can live off his savings and still be a Twitter sperg which, let's be honest, is where his real passion is.
 
The real issue for Jim is when patreon begins to drop. Which is either coming or already started.

Shortest way I can sum it up is mid-life crisis upon realising he has no prospects except doing the Jimquisition for the rest of his working life.

This also explains his pivot towards wrestling, despite rapidly approaching the age most pro wrestlers would be retiring/moving into acting.


I actually think the opposite is true: Even if Jim had kept his fashy look from peak JQ days he'd still be bleeding subs. His current look distracts from the fact his content has become utterly insufferable and aggressively repetitive; not to mention he's massively reduced his output from multiple videos a week to 1.

TL;DR It doesn't matter if you're a gross genderblob or Gigachad, nobody is interested in hearing the same 3 or 4 topics covered verbatim, once a week.


Pretty much yeah I enjoy Jay exci's videos and they're either gender queer or trans or whatever. I also despised most bloodsport politics but enjoyed the bants.

I actually agree with a fair number of jims takes but he doesn't really bring anything fresh or constructive to the table so I don't care. The last time he said something which tangentially got me thinking was his elden ring difficulty video and that was just how bad his take was.

I think the last good video was probably his defence of turn based combat which was maybe 6 years ago roughly. Its certainly the last one I recall actually making me engage positively.

I mean he dresses like a tit but since when was that an issue online?
 
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I don't think he'll ever truly fade from the industry. Kotaku is always hard up for names that'll give them some sort of credibility.

Even if that doesn't happen, he should be fairly well off by now. He can live off his savings and still be a Twitter sperg which, let's be honest, is where his real passion is.
Jim is a quitter. Just look at how he ran away from the USA because no cunt liked him there. I think he will just pull a Dobson, fuck off and cry in a corner at some point....then make a Twitter alt so he can sperg 24/7, die of diabetes at the ripe old age of 45 and the only people that will show up for his funeral will be his collection of rank ass Boglins. On his gravestone will be the words FUCK KONAMI. Konami won't notice that a moldy old Bong has died and will continue to rake in huge fucking profits. Heaven will be forever blocked to him and Hell will not take him. He will be cursed to forever wander the purgitory that is Yorkshire.
 
Jim is a quitter. Just look at how he ran away from the USA because no cunt liked him there. I think he will just pull a Dobson, fuck off and cry in a corner at some point....then make a Twitter alt so he can sperg 24/7
Sterling is a narcissist. He needs an audience and he needs people to know it's him. The only way he's leaving the Industry is in a pine box.
 
he should be fairly well off by now.
A normal person would be, but considering just now anal jim is about cooomsumerism,
i would guess that most of that 10k+ patreon paycheck somehow vaporises into MTX, plastic tat, "fashion" and black-market medication deals before the month is over.
Never underestimate the ability of modern hyper-materialistic soyboys/trannies/e-celebs to burn through unreal amounts of cash for the most insane reasons possible.
Especially ones as fucked up as jim. Coping materials tend to be expensive and the amount necessary to still effectively cope is proportional to how fucked your life is.
The bigger the whole in your soul, the more LEGO, GOBLINS and "cutie programmer socks" you need to fill it.
 
What happens when Jimbo's numbers get low enough? Has he put any thought into other paths or are we just going to watch him go nuts to 300 people one day?
The YT numbers don't actually matter because he gets his income from patreon and has since he went independent, his fans seem to be very die hard so I doubt we'll see any drop in patreon contributions for a long time but I also doubt he's had the foresight to invest his money so that when patreon does inevitably dry up he'll have something to fall back on instead of needing to look for a job as a middle aged, unfit troon.
 
I don't think he'll ever truly fade from the industry. Kotaku is always hard up for names that'll give them some sort of credibility.
To that end it's worth noting that "James STEPHANIE Sterling" has recently gotten a name-drop in The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe - one of the recent fads in streamer/lets play content - for the glowing review Jim Sterling did of the original game. You might have expected this publicity from such an acclaimed title to translate into an increased sub-count, but it seems he's just too obnoxious for new viewers to stomach. Leveraging it into clout to push at the likes of Kotaku and so on would also be a smart move for Jim if he wanted to repair the various industry connections he's damaged and lost over the years, if only for the good sense of mutual job security.
From what I've found he doesn't seem to have bothered much beyond some basic ego-stroking however.
 

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i've been catching up on the thread since i last posted in it and i never expected some quality discussion on roe v wade, unions (particularly in video gaming) in a thread about a has-been youtube primadonna.

what i was surprised to learn about was what happened to totalbiscuit's wife, and the fact he was frittering money on top of medical bills.

i never followed him even when he was big in the late 2000s to early 2010s. i had a particularly nasty gut instinct about him, and i was just a kid back then. his unearned arrogance is plain but it was more that he shared too much in common with people like spoony: they're ultimately unlikable creators who think it's ok to be unlikable, who do not respect the power and responsibility they so suddenly come into. his mental breakdown following the 'are traps gay' question obliterated his image.

imagine going into therapy because you don't know if traps are gay. he was tweeting all about it for days, maybe weeks after the event. i'm not excusing him of his behavior just because of his cancer. he was making everything worse for himself and everyone around him right up to the end.

tb was arguably a worse influence that sterling ever was. he had a habit of trying to talk about technical shit and being completely wrong every time. but because it was tb - because of his sexy bri'ish accent - people took his word as gospel. using enough of 'the right words' to sound correct, even if it's all total garbage; latch on to a nugget of reasonable argument and then piss it away as a talking point that is wholly unresolveable no matter what you do, serving only as a means to generate fervor for your community, rather than do something productive.

as part of the first wave of that new-age consumer influencer horseshit, he did a lot of damage and never deserved the success he got for it. 95 percent (maybe more today) of youtubers just looked on reddit and wikipedia and made a video of exactly what they saw there.
 
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