I actually enjoyed Jim's Squirty Plays more than his weekly JQ content. Sure he was mostly playing absolute trash but he seemed to be having some fun laughing at how bad the games were. But that was also before he fully started hating video games and still had a sense of humor that wasn't just talking about his totally not a fetish.
The Squirty Plays could be fun sometimes, but I tired of them quickly because (similar to the problems Retsupurae eventually ran into) there's only so many ways you can make fun of a poorly coded asset flip.
I agree but I don't think the problem is that the JQ can't succeed on modern YouTube, the problem is the JQ isnt the JQ anymore.
The JQ certainly could be successful on modern YouTube, especially with the following Jim already had, but Jim isn't willing to make the effort to make it great again. He's like a selfish child who only wants to do something if he gets to do it exactly how he wants, and throws a tantrum (i.e. calls everyone transphobes) when people suggest he should maybe try something else.
In his defense the Game Industry is still doing a lot of the shitty things he used to call them out for so theres a reason for his repetition.
The repetition isn't the issue as much as the fact that it's
verbatim the same thing he says every single time and, as I say, he never offers a solution to what he's bitching about. You could literally copy-paste the script from one Jimquisition into another and I guarantee nobody would notice the difference.
There are plenty of other channels who also retread the same topics (Luke Stephens loves to shit on every live service flop, and rightly so) but they do it in between covering other stuff, and when they do come back to the topic it's to explore it from a new angle (discussing the seasonal updates in Suicide Squad, for example). Jim's modern content is so repetitive that there's no point watching even if you agree with him because you already know what he's going to say.
He might even be able to get away with the tranny costume if he just stops making it his whole personality. Jim was always wearing faggy costumes thats nothing new, its part of the JQ.
I agree, the visual element of the JQ has always been little more than window dressing. As long as he didn't harp on about trans rights in the script nobody cares what he wears to work because most of us played his videos in the background any way.
The problem is troons are physically incapable of not mentioning the trooning out because they only do it for attention.
