I really didn't grasp the term "AGP" when seeing it discussed on KF for a long time. I saw it as it being stated that this is a kind of fetish (like drag queens) where they're getting off on being a perceived as a sexual object, whereas before they lived their lives like pretty much all not in shape average facial or ugly men, more or invisible to the populace. That concept didn't really fit with Troons like Jim Sterling because as anyone with eyes can see he still looks revolting, even worse he's not even funny anymore in a "We're laughing with you" way. Fat Funny guys can get women, being entertaining is part of charisma.
Seeing Post Troon Jim really made me understand what this AGP psychological impairment is. Jim wants attention good and bad. This is certainly not the only place on the World Wide Web that displays how damn ridiculous Jim's shtick has become.
That whole part in his Hogwarts Rant where he's proclaiming how he gets compliments all the time for his wig and gaudy makeup. He wants you to look at him, he wants you to notice his manboob cleavage. He doesn't care how you ultimately perceive him, just as long as you do.
Actual normal women who are not in shape would not be caught dead wearing ridiculous shit Jim wears frequently outside of maybe Halloween. Women get so self concious if they're a mere 30 pounds overweight. I truly think the garbage XXXL clothing Jim makes his costumes out of must have been purchased from a "Spirit of Halloween" store.
It really makes me see the whole 9 yards of this transgender craze. For the most part True and Honest Transgender people just want to live their lives quietly. Then you've got the Troons, and I'm starting to conclude their whole obsession and how they've more or less hijacked the whole LGBT community is from them being bored and depressed weirdos who melted their brains from watching RuPaul's Drag Race.
The mistake was letting TQ+ in. The identity politics have always been the main crusade for T and they let the rest in while LGB were busy fighting for same-sex marriage and tolerance and coexistence. Now we have retards like Kevin Gibes and Jim doing all they can to not coexist and drive a wedge between the LGBTQWERTY and the rest of society, fucking over all those efforts at coexistence others made while dictating to the older generation what they have to be ok with.
My theory is there's a fetish we're ignoring. A fetish for being LGBT, these are straight cisgendered men who have a fetish for invading spaces they aren't welcome, be they LGBT or women's and pretending they belong. They've fetishized being gay like they're teenaged white girls writing fanfic.
I haven't looked into ol' Jimbo in a long time, but looking through his channel one thing that immediately stood out to me is how his old pre-transition video thumbnails always focused on the actual games, while the newer stuff has his fat face all front and center.
It's an interesting metatextual parallel with the actual content of his videos.
It's almost like he could go back to his old content, look at how it's formatted and presented to the audience and figure out part of the reason for his subscriber losses by working backwards.
Oh wait he did that and the answer was transphobes. I must be seeing something that's not there.
I think it's Jim misunderstanding the whole "I'm here for Jim and his opinions, not the game" thing we used to and still do see for gaming YouTubers.
What that really meant is people trusted Jim's takes to be consistent relative to their own and enjoyed his style of content enough to wait on his reviews for games over just rushing to the first review released to have an opinion dictated to them. Instead Jim decided he had an audience that'd watch any slop he put out, not realizing that while he could be late to the review or slightly late to the news, he still needed to put in the effort and stick to his format, as that was what people were there for, his style, not literally him.
Jim isn't MandaloreGaming who can be 20 years later to a review and get nearing or over a million views despite a merely monthly release schedule, and that's if we're generous. This is because people find MandaloreGaming's style engaging, his commentary and jokes amusing, and he's stuck to a consistent style that works without deviating other than to improve it, nor has he allowed his quality to slip up. He also genuinely is interested in video games and making his videos. All while MandaloreGaming has yet to hit 800k while Jim is dropping below that value.
MandaloreGaming knows why people are there, and he sticks to it. Jim doesn't, and assumes his presence on screen and audio is the primary drawing factor.
I watched Jim Sterling back around the Digital Homicide and Fuck Konami sagas and liked his content because of how surreal and nonsequitur it could be and I distinctly got "this guy is an effeminate fuck and is fucking with you because of it" vibes from him. So when I heard he trooned out, not gonna lie... I sincerely thought that was just another joke, like he was taking the piss out of his audience. Like he knows Gamers™ don't like troons and deliberately played up being trans in some overlong multivideo bit.
But no, he's serious. What the fuck? Did Jimbo forget the punchline?
You were never laughing with Jim, you were laughing at him. It was never a joke.