The copyright deadlock is when he'd throw in as many copyright infringing things as possible, knowing that some will demand any monetization earned while others demanded the video receive no monetization. I don't know if it still works, I can't be bothered to actually watch one of his episodes where it's likely to occur.
The real takeaway is it was yet another example of Jim's blatant hypocrisy because he thinks it's fine to steal royalties from artists by using their music while ensuring they cannot be compensated despite him making an entire career kvetching about the mistreatment of workers.
Another week of filler, another week of actual news you can talk about. Last week news hit about Valve being sued in the UK, a great chance to defend Steam (or shit on it, I don't remember his stance on Valve/Steam) and also shit on the big publishers for trying to push their own garbage first party platforms that never work nearly as well as Steam or rarely have the consumer friendliness that Steam does.
Yeah, this was brought up a few times. I imagine Jim thinks "Pink Ransom Note perfectly sums up what a train wreck lesbian I totally am" given his general ego over the years.
It's truly abhorrent and difficult to read. Just because something is unique, doesn't mean it's good.
He had a skit where he would dress up as an aristocratic lady to read internet comments. So, there I guess.
I am pretty sure this was meant to be a degenerate male French aristocrat from the time right before the guillotine, which is oddly appropriate.
This is a bizarre phenomenon in the trans community (and possibly broader far-left) where they always try to make everything they do as visually unappealing as possible. I think it's a similar cope to calling everything you do ironic, because if you make shit ugly as fuck on purpose then nobody can call it ugly as an insult, right??
I think that must have been a retcon, because it was very clearly a French aristocratic dude to begin with, and he definitely had a different name.
That and "traditional beauty" and "elegance" are either bourgeois or white supremacist, depending on which specific ideological puddle they crawled out of. Since "most people" like pretty things, and they're there to change the world no matter what, they "must" get rid of all pretty things.
Duke Amiel Du H'ardcore
I think it's similar to how working out is now white supremacy too. Anything that actually takes effort, discipline or commitment is white supremacy so then you have an ironclad excuse to not do it.
For me at least, the Duke was the beginning of the end of Jim. This was where he fully jumped into truly insufferable territory.
The first time he did it it was kinda funny but quickly got progressively less so as the character kept popping up. Much like this latest character of a colossal lady beast.
I kind of liked the gimmick of there being characters to make certain points as their own little segment. I think if Jim had basically taken the self-awareness that it takes to know that he often repeats certain sentiments and made characters to go with those and just cut away to those characters and use them for a certain degree of visual flair when he says something that he has said several times before and is simply repeating to reinforce that he still holds that belief, it could have actually worked for him and come off as less obnoxious in a way because then you just tune out that portion or skip ahead. You see the Duke and you know that he's bitching about gamers who take themselves a little bit too seriously, because I don't think anyone is going to argue against the idea that some people take video games a little bit too seriously when it comes to trying to prove how "hardcore" they are. The thing is, Jim doesn't have the humility to be laughing with people, only at them.
