Blamo2000
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Sometimes I wonder if he spends money on getting fake subscribers to slow the bleed.
Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread
- Thread starter José Mourinho
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It specifically excluded youtube-active accounts (or, indeed, accounts which did anything at all,) a fact which this thread continues to ignore despite multiple people pointing it out.December is almost over wasn't Google supposed to start purging inactive accounts?
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Yeah, I don't think people understood that even if you haven't logged into your account in 15 years, but you uploaded a single 10-second video of your dog farting in 2006, your account is going nowhere.
The number of accounts which met the criteria for the chop was probably surprisingly small.
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I mean the views speak for themselves. He's slowly teetering towards sub 100k per video at 750k supposed subs.
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It is going the way of all channels past the peak with a host who can't acknowledge that it's over.
Must be painfull to have happen but I don't have any sympathy for Jim he could have course correction bit felt hrt was where it was at, & that the alphabet people would save him not knowing that
TheRaptorJesus
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Thats a pretty good ratio these days. Subs mean nothing when they aren't pushed out or people sub to far too many channels to keep up with anything. I sub to like 30 and could honestly drop a few to being dead. When you realize people have like 200+ subs, its no wonder shit gets lost.
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He'd probably still be going strong if he never trooned out and kept the wrestling shit to a minimum.
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Oh I knew that the purge did not affect accounts that had even the smallest amount of content uploaded to YouTube. I guess me and several other people overestimated just how many accounts who subscribed to Jim didn't have any content on them whatsoever, accounts that belonged to people who merely watched YouTube and didn't try to contribute.
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I think the thing is, if you're wiling to make the effort to make a YouTube account to subscribe to people in the first place, you're probably also the kind of person who would at least try uploading something to YouTube for fun, or maybe you had a video you wanted to share with irl people so you stuck it up on YouTube. I know of a couple normie friends and family who have accounts, one just has really old FIFA clips automatically uploaded from Xbox, and the other has some random dumb phone videos made in high school to share with the friend group.
The other thing to consider is just because about 5/6ths of Jim's subs don't watch his content, that doesn't mean they're not active elsewhere on the site. Given the absolute state of YouTube's homepage, and how fucked up the UX is on platforms like Playstation, it's extremely possible to use YouTube every single day and never see one of Jim's videos even when you're still subscribed to him (and the fact he only uploads once a week won't help either).
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Or even just straight up apathy. I've got creators who I've all but dropped as people I watch, who I'm still subscribed to, who grace my feed regularly. But since I'm looking for a video to watch and not to do account management, I'll just ignore 'em and not even go through dealing with unsubscribing. I imagine most people are the same way.
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This will be a factor, but I think most people are watching on platforms that de-emphasise your subscribed content because they want to drive engagement across as many sources as possible. I think the biggest factor in zombie subs for active accounts is a shift in where people are watching YouTube. I couldn't find up-to-date stats because the site wanted me to pay (fuck off lmao) but even 3 years ago it looked like this:
I imagine the number for desktop has only dropped further, meaning probably 10% or less of YouTube traffic is now coming from desktop/laptop (i.e. browsers) which is the only place it's still fairly easy to see your subscribed content.
If you're ever unfortunate enough to open up the YouTube app on mobile you'll see it's a total fucking mess, rammed with ads and shit you don't care about, and even though it has a Subscriptions section, it's also such a muddled mess I'd guess people using YouTube on mobile either search for the exact thing they want or doomscroll shorts instead.
Platforms like Playstation/Xbox are similar, you'll get the odd subscribed video here and there but mostly you'll be spammed with stuff loosely related to your interests in order to feed the algorithm.
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A salad? That fat piece of shit made a salad?
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Nah, I'm pretty sure that christmas dinner was a potluck among friends. Look at the overlap of multiple dishes having plain roast/boiled potatoes for example. So someone else probably brought the salad because its all they know how to 'cook'.
I completely forgot that it looks like a fucking birthday party though, with the hats and the tablecloth.
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Is it so fucking difficult to coordinate this shit? Ill make the ham, you make the potatoes, you make the salad and you make the dessert. There done.
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This is why I think creators should have at least a part time job or they should take all their earnings and invest it into something else. I also wonder how many of them just get burnt out rather than just trying to have fun.
If he was still having a blast doing videos his viewership would be higher. Not everyone unsubbing does it to spite him or because they disagree with him politically. If he wasn’t sad and gloomy all the time but came across as excited, more people would tune in. Heck if he was funny and genuinely happy, people who he’d describe as transphobic would tune in.
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If you’re earning £10k a month then that’s retarded advice. I’d advise all creators not drive away their audiences and, most importantly, not to troon out and become a massive sex pest.
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It's not retarded advice when you consider how retarded the average YouTuber is. Jim makes $10k a month and that dumb motherfucker is still renting.
Easier said than done. Even good creators get burnt out eventually, and no one is capable of doing the same thing forever, so when your YouTube career is over (and it will end for 99% of them) you are going to have a really tough time re-entering the workforce in anything other than entry-level jobs like stacking shelves or flipping burgers if you have a 5-10 year gap of no real work experience (very few irl employers consider 'acting like a tit online' to be an impressive merit).
Even if they don't want to get a part-time job, a smart YouTuber would either invest, like @IAmNotAlpharius suggests, or they'll diversify their brand into other things they can fall back on if/when YouTube is over.
Anyone putting their entire life solely into their YouTube career, even if they're making bank at the time, is setting themselves up for absolute disaster in the future.
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This advice goes beyond content creation and into genuinely everything. People seem to take for granted that if they develop a skill, it both will, and should be, never supplanted, their success should never be allowed to regress. When in reality, trends and expectations shift. Some people like to claim this is a modern manifestation, but it really isn't - the speed of new things arriving changed perhaps, but history is replete of tales of people who learned a trade and failed once they were old and stubborn as the expectations tools and techniques of the trade changed.
Same goes for programmers who put their ass into learning stuff that's completely irrelevant today, languages and tools and such. Same goes for authors and artist who tried to make careers of fleeting trends in writing and media. Same goes for factory workers who took for granted that being smart enough to not put their hands in the crusher and diligent enough to not get drunk before work would mean a lifetime working whatever line, only for the gizmos they built to become irrelevant and the whole business chain to go out of business. Same for the office drones, accountants and finance people who found most of their work replaced by digital tools. Same for the executives and CEO's who learned to engage in styles of business that aren't relevant anymore, who started up companies who's services became irrelevant and therefor unsold. Every single layer of every single profession out there has the constant looming fact that the work you do will change, and if your not willing to adapt and compete on that leading edge, you will eventually be made irrelevant in the economy.
The best thing you can do is learn to learn, and never turn your nose up at trends and shifts in your industry. You don't need to be a complete [thing]bro and immediately try to make your life about every little shift, but always remain curious, open, and try things. If you hear about a new tool, technique, or piece of software in your field, spend a few hours checking it out and giving it a chance. Odds are it'll be a novelty or a nothingburger, but if it does turn out to be a major shift or trend, you won't be completely in the dark. AI's the one that a lotta people seem to be rejecting on ideological grounds, refusing to even touch it, even if they're in fields where it could be a big deal like programming or business documentation/analysis. Another one is additive manufacturing for engineering/industrial people - its easy to sleep on them as lol 3d printers, but they are starting to look extremely promising for a few applications.
If most people are ignorant to something that starts becoming a serious trend or expectation, but you have at least a basic understanding of it? You're set up to have some serious options when things start shifting, rather than being fucked over by the rising tide.
Jim's a perfect example of the opposite of all the above, actively refusing to even entertain other stuff. He uses a nearly fifteen year old format, rehashing ten year old arguments from a mediocre surface level, and I'd bet fucking anything that his editing and filming setup is identical to what he was doing in 2013 - he's added to the stock footage folder, but he's probably using a newer version of the exact same editor software "because its what I'm used to" and he never explores any of the new tabs or functions because he's too busy trying to get this done, and he dismisses the idea of changing his format and process to try and keep up with newer trends like immediate/rapid reporting on gaming news because he's already just so busy with his old process that he doesn't have time - disregarding that actually putting work into your processes and how you do things is how you save that time in the long run.
Jim's whole way of running things drives me up the fucking wall, if y'all couldn't tell. He's stagnancy incarnate.
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More like they're vegetarian/vegan and couldn't bring a real Christmas dinner dish.
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Nah, if there's one thing I've learned about 'real' vegetarian/vegans in my life is that they will never, EVER, pass up the opportunity to try and show people "Just how good vegan cooking can be", they're the ones who pull all the stops. A vegan who shows up with a salad as pathetic as this hastily assembled, romaine and packaged baby tomato sad excuse for a salad would immediately be identified as a fraud who ubereats mcdonalds when they think nobody is looking.
A real vegan woulda done something like a tofurkey brisket.