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

[Cat tit bingo]

How long till the new " limited edition" boglins that are a good representation of Jim's current career start appearing in videos.

 

[Kier Starmer]

What a hypocritical cunt really. So be Jim and rant on about exploiting others yet exploit actual friends. Justin has been a ride-or-die for him for at least 7 years and I think Laura K buzz is somewhat behind this too. Basically, Josh is a dying cow and between the 3 of them Josh was the weakest and Justin is actually likable, when I heard him years ago he was normal as well.

So Jim earned from Jan 2022 - Jan 2023 - $158,484 or £131,815. So if Jim is paying Justin $7,800 annually then he is not even paying him 10% of his Patreon earnings and this is Patreon he probably has other revenue streams. An editor for a successful studio or company gets salaried as it is easier to bookkeep and it is cheaper. He should have been paying him easily $32k - $40k.

So Jim is nothing without his videos, it's how he feeds his ego but that is how he gets the Patreon. I don't like his editing but Jim owes his "success" to Justin the problem is Jim is too greedy yet he will harp on Communism and how evil capitalism is whilst feeding into the system.

His story does not add up though and I think he fears Justin will talk to others exposing him. The financial abuse thing makes no fucking sense and I will not entertain it, you just don't wake up and be like "oh I am 100k down!" I think this is tax-related and if he is naturalized he still has to pay US taxes. In the UK he has to pay BOTH. It's an enormous amount too. In the UK that Patreon has to be declared and since he has made over £130,000 most likely over £150,000 then he is paying 45% of that. That is a whopping £67,950 or $81,719, which is just on the UK side IF he is a resident.

He is doing some fucking around and finding out because he has probably been audited and this is where the $100,000 comes from. I am an accountant and tax-wise this is a nightmare because of the nature of his residency and his US citizenship. I cannot remember honestly but I remember us having this conversation about his citizenship years ago. Usually too if the nature of the claim is complicated IRS or HMRC will call for an audit because it speeds the process up and they can get experts in. Jim the last few years has been playing a dangerous game for years.

But quick to play the victim you greedy fuck fucking troons. Always the same play.

 

[Motataio]

Since we’re here, I might as well get something quasi-related off my chest that I’ve carried for a long time. It’s been dredged up by all this, and I feel I need to get it out.

I’ve never mentioned what I’m about to talk about publicly before: I’m a previous victim of financial abuse. For many years I was in a situation where I did not have control of my own money. I was denied access to bank accounts, what money I could spend was monitored, etc. I was essentially a resource where my agency was not a concern. My value consisted of what money I could bring in, which was never seen as enough.

It’s very easy to take advantage of me, really. I’m too willing to believe in my own incompetence and glom onto someone who is “better” than me. I’m very easily gaslit, and I’m terrible at self advocacy. The short of it is that after I actually got myself out of this abusive relationship, I was left with over $100,000 of debt that had been building up without my knowledge, consent, or control.

Contrary to what some people love to claim, I’m not “rich.” That was never true to begin with (the Patreon figure is never reflective of what I take home after failed transactions, fees, taxes, paying the people I work with, etc), but I can’t emphasize enough what I lost - everything. My grandparents meant the world to me, and everything they ever left me has been lost on this as well. I never wanted to say anything about it, as desperate as it got, as devastating as it was. I can’t tell you why - Phee offered me a list of reasons why an abuse victim doesn’t speak up. I could probably just throw a dart at it.

Thanks to several hugely lucky breaks, losing everything I had, and a massive amount of accounting and sales help from my husband and Conrad, I have somehow clawed myself out of the woods. Those “Gays Can Do Whatever They Want” shirts may have quite genuinely rescued me!

That said, I’m still recovering both materially and emotionally. More than the money, being solely responsible for the consequences of what someone else did to me has been a level of pain I can’t adequately describe.

Wait... husband?

I refrain from checking this thread for a while and now Jim's apparently divorced and in a poly relationship with an alleged "husband"?

I'm not sure if I should pity him or just laugh it off, frankly.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

After skimming through Jim's post earlier I was ready to come to the Farms to defend Jim or at least play devil's advocate but the more I read it the less and less sympathy I feel for him. I don't think he's actually lying about anything but its all so self centred and lacking introspection, sure you give Justin all this flexibility with his work but when do you actually give him the audio to work on the video? I've seen Jim tweet about stuff on the sun/monday that then gets mentioned in the video even times to fully believe that he does this shit last minute and that is stressful, don't blame Justin wanting more money for that.

I could go on but I'm sick of Jim honestly.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

I don't think he's actually lying about anything

Never trust trannies. EVER.

 

[Dr George Whitebread]

Most of his videos I've seen recently like the Hogwarts Legacy/800k special I have seen have been edited or simply credited by known lying journalist Laura Kate Dale. No doubt the personal connection there is what makes their working relationship, for lack of a better term, work. Not sure of the personal relationship with Justin. It's very easy to think Jim and Dale have gone off script and Justin is in the middle of this. Jim could be twisting the truth rather than telling lies, as he's learned from the best. Troons that claim they'll literally die if they don't get everything they want.

Dale's working relationship with Jim seemed to start with podcasts and the like ever since the trooning. Smells like "I don't want to play with you any more" shit to me.

 

[Kier Starmer]

fucking knew Jake was a factor in this bullshit.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

Also, Jim states he's been left with $100,000 in debt without his knowledge or consent...
1. He's in the UK and he doesn't know the currency here?
2. How do you get left in debt without knowledge or consent? Did he give Justin the login to his bank account and not have the ability to log in himself?
3. No, the Hogwarts Legacy video was not difficult to make
4. How long until all the people he's thanking in this are the next ones to be thrown under the bus, claiming harassment/abuse/etc?

Edit to add: It's funny that Jim still has his description on the website.

ABOUT | The Jimquisition

www.thejimquisition.com

Justin McDaniel​

He/They. This ADONIS of a person is a graphic designer, video editor, podcast producer, game developer, and should probably not be allowed to write his own bio...
... but here we are!

I think the debt was from his landwhale cuck queen exwife from Mississippi? Thats the only long term relationship I can remember.
People assumed Jim and Justin fucked but Jim is like most red-blooded males, he likes "gash" and pints wid da lads.

No idea how many twinkies his fat exwife must of eatten whiles fucking black men to get 100k in the hole. Also makes sense his quick exit to TERF Isle, harder for debt collectors to get ya across the pond.

 

[Thin Privilege]

The editor's side of his firing, as pulled from his now private twitter account. Was shared on imgur and posted in the subreddit thread for Jim/Steph's Patreon update.

Spoiler: Justin's Side of the Story

As many of you now know, I am no longer working with James Stephanie Sterling in any capacity. They've recently posted a statement on their Patron, listing the reasons why, or at least their side of it. Complaints of emotional and financial abuse from me. I truly sound like the most ungrateful employee in existence who worked for the most righteous and innocent person ever created. I'm sure they worked very carefully on that statement as well.

I've also been thinking about this statement I would need to write. For the last week, I have waited for them to write a post saying that I was no longer working for the show. I had no idea if they would attempt professionalism, or begin complaining about me to others the exact same way that I apparently abused them. It appears like the latter.

I started working with James Stephanie Sterling in a full-time capacity in March of 2017. I agreed to start at $1500 a month, because it was the average income I was making at a retail job, at the time. The reason they offered me the job was because that retail job was constantly changing hours, and they'd be messaging me for help with projects and I'd have to say no. So when they offered me the position as "Art Director", they said the goal was paying to have access to my skills whenever they needed. They told me, when I started, about how there would be "growth". Notably, they told me that every year I would be getting a raise.

That's not how they came to word it over the years. Originally, I didn't even edit the Jimquisition and related podcasts. I was asked to simply be on standby, and whenever they needed help with a project, I could jump on my computer and hop to it. I would create strange little images, make physical props like the Cornflakes Homunculus mask, and various graphic design works like redeveloping the website. Whenever they weren't asking me for help, I kept myself busy trying to come up with more ways to contribute.

Eventually, after editing a few podcast episodes when Laura was out, I asked if they would like me to just take over editing those. Might as well, since I was hired to be on the clock regardless of work. Once that happened, I began editing all of those, including Spin Off Doctors and eventually Boston's Favorite Son. The podcasts had a reputation for them constantly interrupting each other (mostly due to the lag), which immediately stopped when I began editing as I would spend long hours moving audio to make it sound as legible and natural as possible.

After some time, I asked if they also wanted me to edit the gameplay videos (Jimpressions), and soon the Jimquisition. Within two years, I was editing almost everything, in addition to whatever else they asked me to help with. Many of those things did not involve "work" at all. After their separation with their ex, I was frequently their go-to driver. I drove them all around the state (and other states) for wrestling shows, many of which I would also film and record for them. I would drive them to doctor's appointments, getting their citizenship completed, and more. I was getting paid for full-time hours, so why not?

That "full-time" job began being described less as full-time by them, the more things were added to my workload. Namely, when the time would come around to discuss my expected raise. The first year was straightforward, with a $100 bump to $1600 a month. It's not a ton of money, but it was more than I had been making, and at the time I was splitting finances with my then-wife. The next year, however, started a new trend of their always being "a reason". There was always a "reason" for why I couldn't get an increase in pay. Finances with their ex from the split were messy, surprises with taxes being dropped on them, and of course, moving across the country.

I did not complain, at first. I understood the reasons, I knew they were dealing with stuff. Sure, it didn't stop them from making extravagant purchases for themselves, but I tried to look past that. They were my friend, so of course they were gonna look out for me. This is James Stephanie Sterling, champion of the people! They wouldn't intentionally exploit me. So I waited another year for discussion of a raise, but by this point my own life had taken a turn, and I was going through my own expensive divorce, full of "fun" financial surprises.

At the end of 2019, they told me they were leaving Mississippi for Philadelphia, PA in February 2020. They asked if I would like to come along, stay in their place for awhile as I got setup in my own place. The plans were not to stay together long, but who could expect a global pandemic to start right as you move across the country. It was a scary prospect for me, as someone who has lived in Mississippi their whole life, but they gave me some reassurances. They could stay with me for free, and once we get setup they would catch up on my raises, as well as adjust my income for the increased cost of living. Philadelphia is noticeably pricier to live in than the majority of Mississippi.

So I packed my bags and got ready to move.I kept finding ways to help out. I looked up moving companies for them, all of which cost thousands of dollars (the cheapest I found at the time was $1500, and would take over a month to bring the stuff from Mississippi to Philly). I told them they could save money, and we could rent a Haul and drive it up ourselves. Which is... sort of what happened.

We rented the Haul, but they flew up early to appear at a wrestling show. So I loaded all of my stuff, and everything they owned, into the uHaul myself and drove it across the country. I felt like saving them possibly thousands of dollars should help balance out the non-cost of me staying in their place for a few months.

It wasn't until August of 2020 that I was finally able to move out. During which time we switched to a new apartment building (since they had gotten an apartment without actually having it checked out, and had many issues), which meant breaking the lease to move into a more expensive place. I managed to find a place that was... not great, but it was cheap and I could afford it. Besides, they were gonna increase my pay after all! Once I moved out, the "reasons" began again. They just couldn't afford it, after all. I had just moved into a "cheap" apartment that was still over half of my income, grocery and utility bills on the rise, but "they" had the financial issues.

I was stressed out. I just signed a lease for a place, and becoming increasingly low on money fast. My ex-wife was making sure every financial burden we had together went onto my shoulders if I wanted a simple divorce, and I became stressed out fast. I vented about it to a then "mutual" friend. Someone I was told I could trust, repeatedly. I was freaking out about how I could afford to do this, if I had made a mistake, and just being angry in general. They proceeded to tell my boss everything I had told them.

I was asked to come over to talk, where I was scolded for discussing this stuff behind their back. How dare an employee talk about their work-life and pay, am I right? They told me they would catch up on my yearly raises, and that be the end of the conversation. That was also the last raise I ever got. No more yearly raises, no cost-of-living increase. I got $200 more, and I should be grateful. After all, I only work two days a week.

That last thing came out of nowhere. See, apparently, they decided sometime ago that the only work I do was edit the Jimquisition and Podquisition, and therefore I was paid more than enough. I was not a full-time employee suddenly, but a part-time worker. An "ungrateful" one at that. And I wanna break down that logic for a moment, since that is what they highlighted in their own statement:

$1800 a month, for two days of work. Lets say, on average, there are four weeks in a month. So eight "work days" a month. That's $225 a day, or $28.13 (rounding up) an hour. The assumption is for an eight hour work day, though it was rarely only eight hours of work. But lets leave it at that. $28.13 an hour is decent pay.

The starting rate for video producer is on average $25-35, so sure. Not the $30-40 they claim, and that doesn't include that as an independent contractor I had to pay my own taxes from that, but it still "sounds" good.

If I was only working two days a week. See, if I was only getting paid for editing those two things and those two days, that means that literally everything else I did for them was unpaid. None of the other podcasts, none of the gameplay videos, and certainly none of the trips taking them everywhere in the past. Those were all "freebies" suddenly. Because that's the thing that James Stephanie Sterling didn't think about. I was either:

1. An underpaid full-time worker: $11.25 an hour ($1800 for four weeks, 40 hours a week), or
2. A decently paid two-day worker who wasn't paid for a lot of their work.

That hurt. I was already hurt by the betrayal of trust from a "supposed" friend, and even more so from someone I was ensured I could depend on when making the biggest change in my life. I pushed on. Even as my new life in Philly was getting complicated with new additions that added an assload of stress and brand new financial burdens, I didn't complain to my boss. They were struggling too, after all. It became harder to swallow when I'd go back to their apartment to help them with work (apparently unpaid if it wasn't a Sunday or Wednesday), and there would be some brand new expensive purchase in their place. Some new giant statue, expensive furniture (that I assembled for them), a bigger TV, etc.

So yeah, I was upset. I was freaking out about how I was going to keep affording groceries every month, keep paying the bills, and dealing with the other financial surprises that kept popping up. Every now and then I would mention some new stress to my boss, and they'd say "I'll send you a little cash to help out". I gladly took it, cause I had no choice, but I would've preferred to be paid what I was promised.

The message they got recently was from two ex-friends. I won't go into details on them, because they deserve their own respect of privacy. But yes, I complained to them about my job too. I complained about my work, I complained about my pay, I complained about Steph. I was tired, stressed out, and I once again trusted people who said they could be trusted. I learned after awhile that, they weren't the people I thought they were. And apparently, a year after us all blocking each other, they have decided to start sending messages to people I know complaining about me. And namely, telling my boss everything I said about them

Well, since James Stephanie Sterling has decided that me talking about this two a handful of people in private deserves a public response smearing my name, let me tell you who THEY are: James Stephanie Sterling is a hypocrite. They have likened themself as someone who fights for the "defenseless" and battles capitalism on a daily basis. This does not include their own employee. They're a

"champion of free speech", who has multiple times made me delete tweets because they were worried "it made them look bad". The Jimquisition has proudly stated that people deserve to be treated with respect and properly credited, even as their work was "I" and my work became "we". As episode 300 and 400 of Podquisition passed and everyone got called out for their help... except the person spending his night untangling their nonsense.

And for someone who was "deeply offended' at the idea that I was "badmouthing them behind their back", they seemed to have no issue doing the same to others.

Whether getting angry at Laura and Conrad for talking over them constantly on the podcast, or the way they talked about Phoenix's kids (which deeply made me uncomfortable, but I tried to go along). Apparently it's fine to complain to me, but how dare I have my own frustrations! How dare I have my own issues and stress!

Yes, the money they make from Patreon isn't as much when it finally gets to them. Taxes and fees cut that down, as well as paying people for their help. It's still more than I was making. At no point was James Stephanie Sterling worried about how they were gonna afford to eat. How they were gonna be able to pay rent. No, they didn't have to worry about that... just their "employee"

Last Monday, I typed out a letter explaining to them I was quitting. I was tired of the way I was treated. I was tired of being left on read and frequently ignored (whether it was about work or just trying to have a conversation and stay friends with them). A friend of mine calmed me down, and say I should take a moment to breathe, and wait to talk to them later. The next day James Stephanie Sterling called to fire me.

I have never slept better than I have since that phone call.

For the first time in years, my stress has plummeted, and I am free. I've been staying with family recently, after moving out of Philly due to the rising costs, and have been putting back the majority of my paychecks in anticipation of this day. I no longer have to deal with their anger management on sets (pouting, throwing things around if something broke the flow of filming, etc. No more hearing them complain about how hard life is for them while they fill their house with toys and move countries just to date people.

And maybe even best of all. I never have to type the name "Bobby Kotick" into Google Image Search ever again.

TL;DR: Sure sounds like a boss taking advantage of their on-call contract employee. The line between a friend and employee became blurred much to Jim's advantage. Had him doing odd jobs like driving him to wrestling events and building furniture for his apartment. Shit they later claimed were not a part of Justin's paid work. Lots of convenient excuses about why Justin was not getting raises.

As someone who doesn't care about the trans shit this is a terrible look for Jim. How can you spend years ranting about greed when behind the scenes you're doing this? They come off as the type to cry poverty when in reality they earn a lot but spend on so much unneeded shit *cough* Boglins *cough*. Everything Jim complains about, a divorce, taxes, moving, etc., Justin too had to deal with. But he wasn't making $120-$130,000 per year.

 

[Cyberfunk]

Well look at that, the fat manchild that complains about companies mistreating their employees did that and more to the only employee he had. I hope Justin's side gets shared around everywhere, this brings a new look into Jim's life that in hindsight is not too surprising but didn't have many people bringing light into it before.

 

[None Drunk Username]

I've sperged about it on this site before, but I cannot stand they/them pronouns and trying to read a giant textwall with a lot of that filled me with autistic rage.

It's nice to have someone so close to Jim confirm that he's an insufferable manchild. I mean we all knew that, but it's still nice. I hope this blows up and causes much drama because frankly Jim deserves it, especially since he's happier than he's ever been and totally not mentally ill or anything.

Edit: So I don't double post. I looked at the reddit thread and while some are on Jim's side, a surprising number is on Justin's side. Most seem to think they (as in both of them, fucking pronouns) are both wrong and should have just gotten some sort of contract to avoid shit like this, but that's probably asking way too much from someone like Jim. Here's an archive: reddit autism

 

[Invincible Wheel]

Capitalism is when you get paid for work So I won't pay my workers for their work

Landchad mindset

 

[Prince Vegeta]

Slightly OT. Against my expectations, Yahtzee boarded the HL hate train in almost as a deranged fashion as Jim in his latest Zero Punctuation.

Spoiler: ZP Opening transcript

Yes, Nick, I promise not to get us demonetised in the first thirty seconds. So, as I’m sure you know, Hogwarts Legacy is based on the work of JK Rowling, who is a massive TERFy C-word. As such, reviewing it puts one in an awkward position online, as the feeling in some circles is that even acknowledging it is giving oxygen to her and her horrible C-word opinions. But damn it I have a job to do and I feel bad for the no doubt hundreds of ground-level people on the dev team who probably think she’s a C-word as much as any of us at this point, so how about this: I’ll review the game strictly on its own merits, but start out by affirming as clearly as possible that I think JK Rowling is a – we’re past thirty seconds now, right? Cunt. Does that offset things enough? The game’s set in Victorian times and none of the Harry Potter characters from the books appear in it, so if it’d make you feel any better you could just squint and try to convince yourself it’s an adaptation of The Worst Witch. Or Neil Gaiman’s Books of Magic. Or the Spellcasting 101 series. Or Discworld. Or any of the other ten million things that came up with the idea for a nerdy schoolboy wizard BEFORE JK Rowling got her sallow TERFy hands all over the concept.

I couldn't go beyond that. Even if he's joking, which I feel he's not.

 

[Marche]

Workers of the world unite

 

[Cap-tan]

My prayers go out to Justin. It doesn't sound fun being in the Sterling house. He seems to have at least learned something from the experience.

I'd say his post sheds some new light on Jimmy-boy, but it really didn't mentioned anything I didn't already know. Except maybe that the wohusband has kids and Jim is making inappropriate comments about them. Is this the pedo kind of comments or just "them kids are smelly fucks"?

 

[Null]

From what I learned from Jim:

• The last few videos have been noticeably less obnoxious with the pan+zoom because Jim was doing his own editing again.
• Jim touts his editing is better than Justins.
• Despite this, he insists on getting someone else on doing his fucking editing even though he does it better and by his own admission it only takes a few hours to do it.

Who the fuck was financially abusing him?? The woman cucking him??? $100,000 of debt! He's never even mentioned this before.

He also claims he's not rich. If you take $11,000 and deduct 7% for Patreon, 33% for business expenses (OBSCENE and probably twice reality), and then another 33% multiplicatively for income tax (likely twice his actual), he's still making $4600/mo. Doing four videos a week. And he can't find time for his own editing. Nobody is giving him money for the fucking podcast or wrestling shit. This is $55,200/yr after taxes, which is firmly above average in the US. Now factor in that he is an expat and will have a $110,000 deduction for not living in the US. He also mentions that his merchandise "saved him" so that's money on top of what I mentioned.

He also mentions the cornflake homunculus again. I take this as direct confirmation he listens to me because I am the only one that brings up the cornflakes homunculus in the history of ever.

Here's the good advice for Jimbo, from a true red-blooded American crapitalist.

• Do your own editing.
• Stop using stockphotos. Stockphotos are for soulless corporate websites. Corporates are crapitalists and thus bad and evil, so don't use stock photos. Every single time there's a space for a stock video, there's space for a more relevant screenshot, footage from the video game, or just footage of Jim at the podium talking and playing with a dildo or something.
• Justin's pan+zoom technique is literally nauseating. For the love of fuck, stop putting motion effects on NEWSPAPER HEADLINES because I CAN'T FUCKING READ SHIT FLYING ACROSS MY SCREEN. There is almost ZERO reason to use PAN AND ZOOM. Just delete the effect from Premiere! GET RID OF IT!!!!! Forbid new editors from using it, ever!
• Never mention wrestling in any context ever. If you feel like adding a clip of something wrestling related, simply do not do that.

If he followed this advice, the channel will actually gain subs. I bet money. I bet $2000 to whatever LGBTQIAP+ charity of Jim's choosing that if these four principles are followed, you will see a positive subscriber growth in two months.

P.S. Justin, despite being the Pan&Zoom King, has a very reasonable and easy to follow explanation of how Jim wasn't paying him enough. Never forget, every time you watch a Jimquisition, you are supporting the systemic abuse of a poor editor.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Tranny is an abuse piece of shit, more news at 11!

 

[Cabbagerolls]

Jimbo, after pontificating about Muh Capitalism for years, is revealed to not pay his only employee a livable wage. You can't try to spin that into him abusing you, you fat Dollar Store Bobby Kotick.

 

[Trigger Me Timbers]

Here's the good advice for Jimbo, from a true red-blooded American crapitalist.

• Do your own editing.

Silly Null.
If he did that then when would he have time to go to wrestling events to grope spandex clad cis women infront of a room full of people? Or go to Leeds to have true and honest “lesbians” hit on him?!

Also have you tried editing whiles on a fist full of SSRI’s? It’s super hard to find stock photos and click Key frames when your brain is having 50% of its synapses zonked.

 

[Foghorns at a Funeral]

The fucking irony, of a socialist activist leach not paying out what he owes to a prole. Funny how every Stalin wannabe turns in to Henry Ford when they have to foot a bill.