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

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LastTrainHome said:
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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tb did pretty decent content and reviews back in the day though, i remember liking his coverage of the world of warcraft cataclysm beta a lot
still kinda sad about how he died, despite all the memes he didn't deserve it
 
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Chump said:
I mean Jim is one of those cases where you have no physical way to feel bad for him since he has done all of this to himself. I had friends that were really into his show years ago, and I have asked them about if they still follow him. Each person so far has been surprised that he even is still around and what he has done himself. He is defiantly one of the relic from early YouTube like channel awesome or angry joe. It seems like they are all grasping for relevance.
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I think it's the fate of about 90% of big YouTubers. Very very few have what it takes to evolve and adapt their content while retaining a large audience (only two I can think of are Critikal and Pewdiepie) and even if you can stay niche and what you do is well received how long can you really expect people to keep watching? Are people still gonna be turning up in 2040 to watch a 50-year-old Projared talk about SNES games or watch or a horrifically aged Contrapoints musing on whatever the fuck he talks about.

I feel sorry for the creators who are clearly burnt out on doing the same content but get pushback whenever they experiment --not in Jim's case though, because it's his own fault he's boxed himself in-- but at the same time I find it pretty fascinating because I can't think of an old media profession that's analogous; even something like career news anchors move to different networks, can do field or studio reporting, and talk about a wide variety of stories.

The only equivalent I can think of is a band who tries to tour new material but people only ever want to hear the one hit they had 20 years ago, but even then most of those bands just break up and get other jobs.
 
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Traditional Tet said:
It's England where things decline as you go North. They then improve in the lowlands of Scotland, then go back to rural wasteland in the highlands.
The fool you quoted just doesn't know that Britain != England.
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Strong disagree. Some of the nicest places in England are in the far north - Scarborough, Keswick, Blyth, and Carlisle are all lovely. It's the south-east with its hordes of feral roadmen that's the real cesspit of England.
 
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How did he go from looking like a shitty 1984 cosplay in 2014 to looking like an Dahvie Vanity apologist?
 
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Oliver Onions said:
I think it's the fate of about 90% of big YouTubers. Very very few have what it takes to evolve and adapt their content while retaining a large audience (only two I can think of are Critikal and Pewdiepie) and even if you can stay niche and what you do is well received how long can you really expect people to keep watching? Are people still gonna be turning up in 2040 to watch a 50-year-old Projared talk about SNES games or watch or a horrifically aged Contrapoints musing on whatever the fuck he talks about.

I feel sorry for the creators who are clearly burnt out on doing the same content but get pushback whenever they experiment --not in Jim's case though, because it's his own fault he's boxed himself in-- but at the same time I find it pretty fascinating because I can't think of an old media profession that's analogous; even something like career news anchors move to different networks, can do field or studio reporting, and talk about a wide variety of stories.

The only equivalent I can think of is a band who tries to tour new material but people only ever want to hear the one hit they had 20 years ago, but even then most of those bands just break up and get other jobs.
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A good comparison I find would be tv: You don't make the same show for 20+ years with the rarest of exceptions, and YouTubers have to upload far more often than networks do since everything is on-demand and attention spans online are much shorter. So it's a more saturated market with burnout far more likely to hit. In a sense, never taking off and being able to just make it a partial source of income might be the best thing that can happen to most YouTubers.
 
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At least she's trying to pass now. When they first came out it didn't look like they were trying at all. As soon as she didn't change her name because of branding I knew the channel would take a hit. Imagine not watching in a while you click a video and suddenly you see Jim sterling dressed like a woman with no context. Shocked the hell out of me
 
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