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

[Dirty Diamond]

It doesn't just suck for people who don't care about wrestling, either. No actual wrestling fan likes it. His promos suck ass, he's as good in the ring as literally anybody you pick up off the street who isn't in a wheelchair, and he's fat and ugly and his wrestling outfit looks awful. The only people who "like" his wrestling are him and his fans who don't actually watch wrestling but slavishly support everything he does regardless of merit or quality. There's a reason he's only ever wrestled for tiny indies nobody's heard of.

ETA:

Spoiler: wrestling sperging

He is very proud of the spinning heel kick as he shows it off multiple times in the highlight reel you showed off on stream yesterday, but it looks like absolute shit. To show what I mean, here is a very shitty cap of that move from the stream because I'm not fucking going through Jim's actual videos to find a higher quality screengrab:
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He gets about as high as I could, a completely unathletic man who has never trained wrestling before. Also note that his opponent's knees are bent, as he squats down to make the kick look like it's hitting higher than it otherwise would - that kick is chest high at best, and I promise literally anyone who can stand on two legs can do a spinning heel kick that high with little to no practice.

As a comparison, here is a highlight video of actual pro wrestler John Kronus doing that same move over and over. Note how much higher up he goes and how much better his form is than Jim's. He doesn't get it right every time but when he does get it right (0:45 is a great example) you can see just how much better it is when someone who isn't a fat retard does it.

I suffer from boneitis and even I can still do that shit.

 

[Oliver Onions]

His promos suck ass, he's as good in the ring as literally anybody you pick up off the street who isn't in a wheelchair

I disagree, the average person could probably wrestle better than Jim even with his current 'experience'. I don't think we can over-state how clearly out of shape Jim is: his back is fucked, he is morbidly obese, (and doesn't carry it well, unlike other fat pro wrestlers) and I can tell just by looking at the way he moves his joints are an absolute shambles from years of neglect and carrying around that gunt. He's been wrestling for several years now and I see no marked improvement in his physical abilities or athleticism, which tells me he probably spends the rest of his non-wrestling time sat on his arse.

It is patently ludicrous to think a man in Jim's physical condition could do pro wrestling, so I'm not surprised he refuses to acknowledge how terrible he is. The fact he's willing to do it at all is proof he's completely detached from reality.

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

Robert Kingett is quality. Blind gay man, I'd look at his personal website but it brings all kinds of malware notifications from the old PC. Took a gander in his past work after seeing that "advocating for ethics in journalism will never make you a completely good and mature person" line, and there is some amusing stuff such as his HuffPo article "This Is What Happened When I Dated A Black Trump Supporter" which has charming lines like:

"I tell him that it’s a place for black people to eat wings, because I want him to get angry at me and toss me out of his car."
"He asks me why a clearly smart man such as myself didn’t vote for Donald Trump in the 2016 election. I ask him if he knows what irony is. He says that he has many kinds of irons at home."
"“global warming?” he gasps. “I can’t take that dear.” He kisses me and races to his car, glad to be away from a climate change believer. I can’t contain my joy."

For those who want to see more progressive approved racism:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/this-is-what-happened-when-i-dated-a-black-trump-supporter_us_5988e3f3e4b030f0e267c6d8 sit

Also possible cow sighting:


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I have actually met this stuttering oil driller blind fag, my former line of work made it possible (can’t power level much further but I was involved in psychiatric pharmaceutical sales). He is a stereotypical npc.
He spent the last few years bitching and moaning that the normal avenues of publishing like audible and such weren’t woke enough or whatever meet his high standards and has apparently deleted his twitter over the Musk buyout. He was also demanding people make anything they do on the internet be blind accessible no matter how complicated it made even tweeting a photo. He basically killed his own writing career when it would have been easy for people to blindly (heh) gobble up his content without actually reading it because he hits so many check marks.
It was so frustrating to have to actually speak to him because his stutter is so bad you can wait a full minute for him to finish a sentence.
His friends are all munchasens by internet peeps with multiple fake personalities or the much reviled chronic pain crowd, including a bucktoothed blind tard who gave up an apartment to go live in a particularly disgusting nursing home with her 600 lbs girlfriend. She had dozens of videos of her growing more and more obese and playing with dolls and fostering cats in a place where greasy retards would mistreat them, while her girlfriend with the elephant man arms, multiple layers of jiggly fat smiled on.
She started off anorexic, like a tarded Winona Ryder with huge teeth.
My fav part of her terminally online presence was people convincing her she’s Mexican and oppressed when she’s a pasty pure European Spanish person with porcelain skin. Larping as a spic brought me much laughter.
Another one fakes her multiple personalities with each “alter” getting a turn writing on their Wordpress blog.

She and many others disappeared during the initial wave of the fake pandemic but all the same knowing these facilities well it’s probably just some retard destroyed her laptop or stole it.

 

[breadandcircuses]

Again, his proto fascist old persona with the red and black as a heel manager, hyping himself up as much as his client would work wonders in an indy promotion.

And he'd never have to get into the ring, either. Just strut around the ring in a slimy manner, distracting the ref, and whalloping the face with a cane.

Maybe even getting on the announcers table to gloat about how good his stable of miscreants are, despite the fact everyone knows they cheat.

But he wants to be in ring instead of playing ro his strengths, and every promotion suffers for it.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I've explained this before but I'll explain it again: if you pull up the Jimquisition playlist and start from the first episodes, they're a pleasant listen while coding or playing video games. I played through Subnautica and No Man's Sky listening to them basically on loop.

However, at a certain point, he starts doing wrestling bits. In the beginning, this is easy to avoid because it's just the outro. Then it's at the start and the end. At a certain point, this starts becoming more effort than it's worth. The wrestling shit spreads like a cancer, and they are sprinkled into the actual heart of the video.

I basically received Pavlov Conditioning where I'd hear specific phrases that precede the wrestling content, and my brain would fire a panic response to alt+tab out and skip ahead of the wrestling shit because I knew it was coming up and I didn't want to hear a single second of it. Now, there's more bad episodes than good episodes and I don't bother trying to scan the playlist because there's better content to binge listen while working.

I really cannot stress this enough. It was this video that started the actual observable decline in engagement.

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Item number 122 is the Wrestling promo video (which will change as this post gets older, but as of writing).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlRceUcRZcK0E1Id3NHchFaxikvCvAVQe

Look into it for yourself. It's worth noting that only a few months before this video came out, he was routinely hitting over 500k viewers and his Anthem video got over 1m. In the weeks leading up to this and after it, they never break 500k again, with three exceptions:

• Cyberpunk in December 2020, which was a topical game review (real content).
• Shittiest Games of 2020 new year special (his most successful video series historically).
• "I Can't Believe a Developer Tried to Kill my Channel" on Mar 2021 (dabbing on flaggers and the litigious is an old tradition of his and his most successful video ever is about the DigiHom lawsuit).

That's it. His videos now rarely break 200k. It all goes back to the wrestling shit. It sucks. Everyone knows it sucks. Except Jim. Even when he lists reasons in his Under 800k video why people unsubscribe, he acknowledges his videos are lazier and shittier now and gives that as a fair reason to unsubscribe. He talks about 'politics' but dismisses it as a legitimate cause. He does not even mention the wrestling - he still refuses to acknowledge it.

The whole wrestling shit tanking his viewership isn't just exclusive to the Jimquisition, if you look on his twitter account you'd never guess his primary source of income was a weekly series about video games. It might be an outdated understanding but I was always told that having a strong social media presense helps a lot with bringing in viewers to YT so lets go to his twitter and see what we can learn.



His header is a picture from a wrestling match, its not obvious but the profile picture is from before a wrestling match. His bio in order is a cringey declaration of being non-binary, he's a critic (of what?), pro-wrestler, a writer for something, and co-runs a wrestling promo, his links are his website and his patreon. Only by going on his website do you get any idea of what his actual job is, but by his twitter you'd only be able to guess that he was solely in the wrestling business.

This has also been the case at varying severity for years as well even predating this video, but with a cursry glance there was a lot more talk relevant to JQ back then as opposed to now where the majority of tweets are either thirst selfies, transphobia or wrestling.

 

[Artificial Stupidity]

So his harry potter review has nothing about the actual game it's just a cry session about how his choices as a boglin with grease tits hates jk Rowling and everyone who played or bought the game.
He's become a victim and won't knowledge his gay wrestle wrestle stuff is what made people bored of his content.

 

[Maude Snew]

midwit

Being generous here, I'm sure his brain looks like one of those old cars people use for shooting practice from all the pain killers he takes for his back and the titty skittles. He's like an uglier, fatter, britisher Lowtax just wasting away but luckily he was too repulsive to ever produce offspring.

 

[Strangolapreti]

Ok I finally checked the bestiary and saw the Special sub 800k special.
I disliked the video and moved on, it's not worth to even feel anything over it.

The writing is decent and passable, but not really that much remarkable, I wanna also add that there are a few amounts of clear disconnections between names and entries due to the fact that Jimmy doesn't seems to have researched about some of the italian jokes/references in the game, nor noticed the fact that a lot of the game's graphics are slightly altered sprite the stuff you get free on rpgmaker, with only the undead sassy witch entry being painfully unfunny and the others just mediocre....

I also have to give a special, honorary mention goes to the tanuki entry:

Rotund trickster, always seen carrying his tail over his shoulder. Hang on, I'm getting a note passed to me. Oh. Actually it's not his tail. Probably best you look this up yourself.

Which manages to make an unfunny joke about the BIG BALLS animals, that also fails to work anyway because it doesn't treat itself as a encyclopedia entry and is rendered worthless by the fact that there is a better tanuki joke by having a playable character of said species named "I miei coglioni", which is the italian for "my balls".
Let's see if I can make a better joke and entry than Sterling, by spending 5 minutes searching about them on wikipedia.

The sole magical canine known to hybernate: at the begining of november, most of these yokai sleep inside their dens, only to wake up after a full month of rest, stronger than ever.

 

[Slur Generator]

To the algorithm stuff, I think there's probably truth to both sides: YouTube definitely does actively bury certain content, but if your videos are good they will succeed regardless of if YouTube fucks with your SEO. In Jim's case, I wouldn't be surprised if YouTube is actually boosting his visibility as a 'trans' creator talking about woke shit, but the reality is his content sucks so even the people who care about topics Jim covers would rather hear about it elsewhere.

Jim's modern content is on par with a YouTube atheist circa 2005: an angry midwit ranting at the camera and regurgitating points he heard somebody else make. What about that is supposed to appeal to an audience in 2023?

The algorithm was suppressing LGBT stuff for a while because it "mistakenly" marked it as sexual in nature. So they had to lobotomize it.

 

[Franz Joseph]

It is patently ludicrous to think a man in Jim's physical condition could do pro wrestling, so I'm not surprised he refuses to acknowledge how terrible he is. The fact he's willing to do it at all is proof he's completely detached from reality.

Jim Sterling is a great example of the current state of modern professional wrestling.

 

[Runescape Sperg]

I gotta agree with Josh
he really does look like the average B*itish woman

The only way I was able to sit through the 800k sub special MATI without feeling sick is that I pretended Jim was an average British woman and not a tranny.

 

[Johnny Clyde Cash]

Had the chance to finally watch through the MATI riff on the 800k special, and there's one point in particular that Null brought up that I want to shine more light on, because I feel like it gets to the heart of the matter regarding people finding the 'new Jim' so off-putting.

One thing I want to make clear to people who may not be familiar with Sterling or were never long-time fans of his is that the dude was never perceived as 'normal'. Back around 2012-2015 when I used to watch his Jimquisition series every week, he stated many times in his videos that he considered himself to be bisexual. So the idea that former fans of his simply don't want him to pursue his happiness through his sexuality is nonsense. Him being openly bisexual wasn't a problem for me back then, nor was it seemingly a problem for most of his viewers, and I bet most of his fans would let the nonbinary stuff slide too were it not for one thing: his oversharing.

Me personally, I unsubscribed from Jim and stopped watching his content all the way back in 2015, so I can't weigh in on his content becoming 'too political', or the wrestling promos consuming everything, or even his coming out. But there is one thing I can definitely point out as being off-putting even when I was an unabashed fan of his: the dude overshared. A lot. He would fellate Saint's Row dildo bats on camera. He took a Willem DaFoe doll and shoved its head into one of his fleshlights. One of his opening skits was reading out loud a scat fanfiction of Dead Space. For some people these may just come off as wacky bits, but for me personally it stops being a bit if I know he gets off to it. It's uncomfortable to say the least, and watching the new Sterling videos it's clear that this problem has only gotten worse. Again, haven't watched his videos since 2015, but I'd wager they were getting worse in this respect well before he came out.

Jim trying to hand-wave the harsh reactions his fetish-flaunting receives as people being transphobic is dishonest. He's always flaunted his fetishes on-camera, it's always made people uncomfortable, and on some level he knows and just doesn't care. Let me suggest that if you deliberately push people's buttons and do things that make other people uncomfortable, such as oversharing what gets you off, that you should clutch your pearls a bit less when other people do the same thing back by deliberately choosing not to use your preferred pronouns. Your audience isn't an extension of your sexuality and none of us are obligated to play along and find this sort of stuff endearing, funny, or heaven fucking forbid relatable in any way.

Jim wants to paint this picture that he's being persecuted for 'being himself', and he is in a sense, just not in a way that lets him be heroic. Most people could overlook someone being nonbinary or even trans, but nobody likes an oversharing degenerate.

 

[Smug]

I gotta agree with Josh
he really does look like the average B*itish woman

Fack off, the whole 'British women have bad teeth and the British have shit cuisine' thing could be 100% true, and I'd still consider the average British woman with the gapped-toothed 'London look' and all to be leagues above the wigged lard-ball faggot in question.

 

[Oliver Onions]

I'm just catching up with last night's MATI stream and I got to the bit where Null is talking about Jim's intro song. Fun fact, I know where Jim found it.

It was played on an old episode of Ricky Gervais' radio show about 20 years ago, during a one-off feature where they showcased indie bands and chose their favourite. I know this is where Jim heard it, because it's also where he lifted his entire comedy persona and the way he interacted with Jonathan Holmes (strange naked guy in the YMCA bathroom in the 800k video) back in the Podtoid days.

 

[FIVE STAR DAYS]

Why the fuck would someone with his physique, who complains constantly about having a fucked back, wrestle? Surely that's not doing him any favors? Wouldn't it be a better idea to lay off the McDonalds, do more exercise - nothing crazy, just start off by going for walks, maybe hit some weights, do some stretching exercises etc - and quit the wrestling, at least for a few months?

Oh yeah, and I found this. I'm guessing this is what he meant when he said he was back to writing.

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[Zetsubou]

Fack off, the whole 'British women have bad teeth and the British have shit cuisine' thing could be 100% true.

It's less about their teeth and baked beans and more the orange fake tan skin, size 26 yoga pants and the voice.

 

[Oliver Onions]

What is he screeching about with the original team not getting credited? Did Retro not handle the remaster? And either way, why would a team care about getting credit for a game they made 20 years ago when a remaster comes out, unless they also worked on the remaster?

A more cynical man might suggest Jim is just looking for any reason to criticise what is otherwise a perfectly good remaster of one of the best games ever made.

 

[A Sunset]

Average nu-sterling fan
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“Dav Waldron“ looks about like I expect.


Fat-faced soy golem, face shining with oil and baby-soft from estrogen, autistically holding up his turtle with a dead-eyed stare. Apparently showing his real face on YouTube because of said autism.

Dav wants badly to fuck this.




“Oi, I’m Dav. You wanna see moi turtle? Can oi please fuck yoo, hulking ogre?”

This is the new face of Jim Sterling’s audience as he hurtles his content, and his life, into the abyss. Fat, autistic tranny-chasers who show their turtles in their profile picture.

 

[Nigor]

I'm just catching up with last night's MATI stream and I got to the bit where Null is talking about Jim's intro song. Fun fact, I know where Jim found it.

It was played on an old episode of Ricky Gervais' radio show about 20 years ago, during a one-off feature where they showcased indie bands and chose their favourite. I know this is where Jim heard it, because it's also where he lifted his entire comedy persona and the way he interacted with Jonathan Holmes (strange naked guy in the YMCA bathroom in the 800k video) back in the Podtoid days.

Looked it up

"I was looking at the woman's knob" lol foreshadowing

 

[Law]

He's got the empty stare of a madman who's got nothing to lose.

That's just the "trans joy".