So I watched both 'specials' and I can't remember which one it was, but it has a guest constantly harping on about how Jim is 'SO HEALTHY. SO HEALTHY AND HAPPIER THEN SHE HAS EVER BEEN. STEPHANIE IS SO HEALTHY' and I'm wondering why the hell they insist on using the word healthy unless its a roundabout way of saying Jim isn't fat. Since if they said Jim isn't fat everyone would be laughing at them.
Painful realizations leading to coping through provocations to give an excuse for venting.
Painful realizations - Jimmy is now 40. He does some introspection. No meaningful friends to fall back on, morbidly obese, no savings, no meaningful property, no trade skills, fucked up love life (not up to date on this, is he still with that women who supposedly trooned him out?), no aspirations or dreams. Nothing. Take away his Youtube account and you have nothing, like the man never existed. He knows this is his impact on the world and it stings. Could it be that he wasted his most productive and energetic years of his life on becoming an e-celeb instead of creating something lasting in the real world? Ofcourse not. It's not his fault, it's everyone elses. The guy who mocks or laughs at him somehow has more influence on his life than he himself. If only those ugly trolls would just go away then his life would be back on track. Except it wouldn't. He'd just have no one to wake him from his delusions.
Coping - Pretty much your garden variety SJWism. He realized that he would never make for a good succesor for TB. Not that it would amount to anything because Twitch Streamers and Vtubers have effectively replaced all game journalism. What else there is to do for a man who all can do is talk shit and look ugly? Look even uglier and used it as an excuse to talk even bigger shit on everyone while parading a victim... of his own life choices.
Provocations/Venting - No matter what, keeps telling yourself how your life is awesome. You didn't lose subscribers, they were all probably nazis or bots or dead accounts. Keep shitting on everyone and everything everyone enjoys while parading how you're on top of your game and how your life has never been better. Keep gloating obnoxiously while having a provocative look on your face as if you're fighting the good fight. New Harry Potter game released? Make it about the evil TERF lady and how it "personally" offends you. Keep making weasel arguments how he constantly gets death threats, harassment and how everyone who disagrees with him is -ist salad.
I could've probably structured it better so TL;DR:
Jimmy hits 40, his life sucks, blames everyone else and latches on anything to make it about himself with "woe is me" narrative. Shit on everyone who disagrees. Derive false moral gratification.
I can understand Sterling not liking his own body. Because who would when you're a such a fat ugly bastard?
What I can't understand is why he decided to troon out instead of going on a diet.
Because he's a lazy fat ass who only knows how to run his mouth.