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

[BrunoMattei]

Probably the one with "oh, I am still subbed to him". I would say, Google purging dead accounts, but they will start doing it only in December this year

Oh, they're purging dead accounts? I thought it was just for Gdrive? Nice. All the fucking cows that have ancient accounts as subs are in for a rude awakening when that goes through.

 

[robobobo]

Guy still makes more than my full-time job in patreonbux, has simps fawning all over him, and the better part of a million subs; I'd hesitate to call him failing when he's doing well better than the majority of random youtubers. He's definitely heading downhill, but more tellingly I think the raw financial numbers don't touch on just how much of a fucking wreckage his life seems to be at this point. I wouldn't trade places with him on a bet; more income and some asspats from twitter idiots is not remotely worth being horribly obese and wracked with mental illnesses while chugging down horse estrogen and telling everyone I'm a uwu pretty girl. Raw money and viewers-wise, he seems to be doing fine, but Jesus Christ. At what cost?

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

Its also age restricted, Jim blames Zelda fanboys mass flagging the video (which they probably did) but I think he earnt the age restriction all on own by being vulgar and disgusting.

Retard on retard violence. You love to see it!

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I have to openly wonder and my apologies if this has already been asked and explained: why is there a slow drip of people unsubbing?

Are there a thousand people every couple of days that randomly find a Sterling video in their subs and realize "Oh shit, I'm still subbed to this moron? Better fix that!" Or possibly they could only endure so many of the same anti-capitalist, pro-commie, gay wrestling banter, and endless bitching about the same companies over and over and over again until they've had enough? They could only endure 499 rants about Nintendo or Activision but on the 500th rant they said "Okay, that's it, that was the last straw, I am done!"

The slow drip of unsubscribing is a weird phenomenon to me. When cows make assholes of themselves on this scale you see a LARGE drop of subscribers over roughly a 48 hour period stretching to maybe a week long marathon of people unsubbing like for example the Fine Bros. or Pro Jared.

Due to how YT reports changes in subs, the only time we know there's a drop is when 1000 people have left. So it's probably 100 or 200 people leaving every day, and it doesn't get reported until there's 1000, so it just looks like a group of 1000 people are unsubbing every few days.

As for why, I'd say it's partly the algorithm. Jim and other people have mentioned their videos being buried in the past, and the trans shit is supposedly one of the things YT buries. So you probably only have a percentage of his followers actually seeing the videos, getting pissed, and unsubbing each time.

Also, people have their limit. You might not like Jim, but find him inoffensive to you personally until that shit builds up and you finally go "Yeah, I'm done with you".

 

[Corn Flakes]

Due to how YT reports changes in subs, the only time we know there's a drop is when 1000 people have left. So it's probably 100 or 200 people leaving every day, and it doesn't get reported until there's 1000, so it just looks like a group of 1000 people are unsubbing every few days.

As for why, I'd say it's partly the algorithm. Jim and other people have mentioned their videos being buried in the past, and the trans shit is supposedly one of the things YT buries. So you probably only have a percentage of his followers actually seeing the videos, getting pissed, and unsubbing each time.

Also, people have their limit. You might not like Jim, but find him inoffensive to you personally until that shit builds up and you finally go "Yeah, I'm done with you".

Reminder that Youtube has a habit of randomly unsubscribing people. It's not just right-wing channels that get that, any channels that run afoul of the algorithm (by, say, being highly foul-mouthed and sexual within the first minute of a video) also gets hit by that effect.

 

[Matt Damon]

Reminder that Youtube has a habit of randomly unsubscribing people.

I hear this constantly but despite having plenty of subscriptions over the years, I've never once experienced it personally.

I'm really on the fence as to whether it's an actual thing or a cope from butthurt Youtubers.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I hear this constantly but despite having plenty of subscriptions over the years, I've never once experienced it personally.

I'm really on the fence as to whether it's an actual thing or a cope from butthurt Youtubers.

It happened to me three times in the past three years or so. Once with Skill Up, then Upper Echelon, and the most recent case was Project Farm of all channels.

All that said, I do think bot/compromised accounts being banned/removed from the system is likely a larger contribution to Jimbo's decline.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Its a few days after the fact but Jim is still seething and unable to cope with the fact that his video got age restricted, I was hoping to wait for him to stop being such a mardarse about it to post it but this seems to be on going. There's a lot of dumb takes from Jim's followers too if anyone wants to go have a look for themselves.


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After this point the YT twitter account responses to Jim and says they'll do a manual review of the video.


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Heavy foreshadowing for his next JQ. From here on he's been told that the age restriction is staying and he should read YT's policy.


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Now unlike Jim I didn't call the Youtube's policy team a bunch of cunts and actually read their age restriction policies and to the surprise of no one he's breaking their policy on vulgar language.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Jim. Here's a super quick piece of advice from someone that is overworked and wants to just finish their tasks for the day. If the task is the say whether or not a video does not contain content that might age gate it, you only need to watch as much of the video as it takes to land on the first instance of content deem-able as worthy of age gating. Don't need to watch the entire 30 minutes, when the first 2 contains enough to say "age-restrict".

 

[AngryTreeRat]

I have to openly wonder and my apologies if this has already been asked and explained: why is there a slow drip of people unsubbing?

Are there a thousand people every couple of days that randomly find a Sterling video in their subs and realize "Oh shit, I'm still subbed to this moron? Better fix that!" Or possibly they could only endure so many of the same anti-capitalist, pro-commie, gay wrestling banter, and endless bitching about the same companies over and over and over again until they've had enough? They could only endure 499 rants about Nintendo or Activision but on the 500th rant they said "Okay, that's it, that was the last straw, I am done!"

The slow drip of unsubscribing is a weird phenomenon to me. When cows make assholes of themselves on this scale you see a LARGE drop of subscribers over roughly a 48 hour period stretching to maybe a week long marathon of people unsubbing like for example the Fine Bros. or Pro Jared.

It's only a bit more or less than 100 people a day. That's not much. That's easily less than his daily views. They likely are front loaded on new uploads. At this rate a mix of people seeing him going "oh, right I don't watch him leave my feed", people being pushed over the edge, or someone watching him for the first time in years and getting grossed out and unsubbing. There are also the slow trickle of deleted dead accounts bleeding him and countless others. Honestly, I think this is the standard bleed everyone his size suffers, he just isn't making the gains to overcome it.

To compare TotalBiscuit, a literally dead channel, bleeds off around 3k people a month, but only shows in 10k increments every few months due to only being able to see that resolution of subscribers, since he was once over 2 million subscribers and is down to 1.96 million, and YouTube only shows the first three digits past a certain point. He also likely has 0 new subs. Jim simply has less subscribers so we can see it faster, and he's active so we talk about it.

We really shouldn't even be discussing his sub loss, it's his lack of gain that is more surprising.

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

@AngryTreeRat wrote:

To compare TotalBiscuit, a literally dead channel, bleeds off around 3k people a month, but only shows in 10k increments every few months due to only being able to see that resolution of subscribers, since he was once over 2 million subscribers and is down to 1.96 million

This fact is both astonishing and lulzworthy.

There is no benefit to being subscribed to Totalbiscuit's channel (no new uploads), yet it still has a vastly greater number of subscribers than Dim Jim Stirling has, had, or is likely to ever have.

As for YouTube purging subscribers, this is most likely to happen to people who max out their number of subscribed channels.

I think it also depends on whether you interact with the channel at all after subscribing (although I base this on that twat Mundane Matt chimping out on Twitter that he had subscribed to some animator whom he had suddenly decided to do a collaboration with and was now missing from his sub list, so "Team Youtube" needed to Do Something.

Bearing in mind that I'm talking about Mundane Matt, it's probably just as likely that he subscribed to the guy on another account or something.)

 

[Illuminati Order Official]

Now unlike Jim I didn't call the Youtube's policy team a bunch of cunts and actually read their age restriction policies and to the surprise of no one he's breaking their policy on vulgar language.

I hope that from now on some vengeful cunt at youtube will be manually reviewing single one of his videos in search of some f-bombs.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

I didn't have "litigation arc" on my Jim Sterling 2023 bingo card but here's hoping.

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[Arthur Morgan]

I didn't have "litigation arc" on my Jim Sterling 2023 bingo card but here's hoping.
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Jim, you dumbass, it doesn't matter if it's a piece of fine art, it's still a dude with his dick out. Hell, they censor that shit on TV all the time.

I know his lawyer is just going to tell him he's an idiot, but it'd be fucking hilarious if he tried to pursue this as a way of getting people behind him for "ending youtube's draconian practices!"

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

Jim, you dumbass, it doesn't matter if it's a piece of fine art, it's still a dude with his dick out. Hell, they censor that shit on TV all the time.

I know his lawyer is just going to tell him he's an idiot, but it'd be fucking hilarious if he tried to pursue this as a way of getting people behind him for "ending youtube's draconian practices!"

Did Jimbo show any proof that his video was flagged by Zeldafags or did he just pull that out of his arse when he got rated 18+?

(I can't find it - Newpipe doesn't respect 18+ ratings so it's just mixed in with the other schlock)

Maybe we'll get lucky and he has a greedy lawyer who's just itching to try his hand at international litigation. One can only hope.

 

[King Dead]

I didn't have "litigation arc" on my Jim Sterling 2023 bingo card but here's hoping.
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I mean, you could always just open up your video editor, pop a blur on Adam's junk, and then reupload to get the age restriction removed, right? Fifteen minutes of effort and you're squared away (assuming there wasn't more stuff that the guy failed to mention in his reply).

But nah, go file a lolsuit instead, that'll be a much better use of your time and money.

I think that YouTube's demonetization/age restriction rules are pretty ridiculous and getting worse by the year, but never forget that it was Jimbo's side that was pushing to get things they didn't like demonetized (thanks Carlos Maza, you trust fund faggot). They're only complaining now that it's biting them on the ass.

 

[Moja Zemlja]

Did Jimbo show any proof that his video was flagged by Zeldafags or did he just pull that out of his arse when he got rated 18+?

(I can't find it - Newpipe doesn't respect 18+ ratings so it's just mixed in with the other schlock)

Maybe we'll get lucky and he has a greedy lawyer who's just itching to try his hand at international litigation. One can only hope.

No but I'm willing to believe him on it, from my experience YT's auto moderation only kicks in when there is either a sudden spike in reports or consistent reports.

 

[Tanner Glass]

No but I'm willing to believe him on it, from my experience YT's auto moderation only kicks in when there is either a sudden spike in reports or consistent reports.

Alternatively it could just be Nintendo.

It's not uncommon for brands to be aggressive in removing content they think is bad for the brand (see - streaming/LPs of any SQUENIX or Atlus game). Nintendo certainly would not like a weird fat gross tranny anywhere near page 1 when someone types "Tears of the Kingdom" into Youtube's search.

 

[Cyberpunk Panatela]

Alternatively it could just be Nintendo.

You have a point, although corporations tend not to be so indirect - they're more likely to use DMCA takedowns or revenue claims than obscenity complaints to get rid of material they don't want up.

I watched a few of Sterling's uploads yesterday and I agree: fuck him, he deserves whatever he gets.

He also tells really obvious lies (worse than before, I mean.)

Examples:

1. Kotaku is some kind of independent publication - Dude, Kotaku belongs to Peter Thiel, who is obnoxiously rich (Unless he's sold it on to some other rich fucker and I don't know about it). Kotaku is not some underdog which deserves rooting for.

2. Jim Sterling does not care if he doesn't get review copies of games and would rather not receive them. Oh, man, is this dishonest if you know his history.

Back in the day, when Sterling was still doing what he was paid for (reviews of games), Konami(I think) stopped sending him review copies. Jim was so frantic to find out whether he was on their shit list that he implored everyone gaming related (Including Totalbiscuit, despite him being an unspeakable Gamergater, lol) to contact Konami and ask them.

There's a copy of the tweets resulting from this somewhere near the beginning of this thread (first few pages, IIRC).

Sterling has always been a hypocrite, but now he is a disgraceful hypocrite.

Also, what's all this derogatory talk about "Gamers™" in his recent videos? Is this some allusion to Gamergate or something else? It just sounds generally retarded.

 

[Layton Mysteries]

YouTube has removed the age-restriction. Despite this, Jim is still comlaining and trying to threaten legal action, saying that this is going in his "growing folder of evidence."

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