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If the sub loss gets bad enough he’s going to pull a Dickers and delete his channel completely to hide from the shame.
Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread
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Jim will delete himself before his channel.
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More likely he just abandons it. Maybe turn monetization back on on his way out the door so he can cut that sweet $30 YouTube check every month. That's a whole Domino's pizza!
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'Ditch>OnlyTrans will be his next move.
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There'd have to be a clear and well established successor to Youtube with similar low levels of effort required from Jim before that happens. He's long since stopped being any sort of trend leader, so he'll just start doing what everyone else is doing. But this complete lack of care and passion is also gonna tell you all you need to know about his efforts. For example, I barely ever see it mentioned that Jim does have a twitch account, still streams on it regularly, and yet it basically plateaued in followers a few years ago, and has been consistently trending downwards on viewers.
This is why I include the low effort part - Twitch requires high levels of consistent effort and engagement, personality and knowledge in the space. It doesn't need to be a good personality, lookit Asmongold, but people want to listen to and watch folks who can hold a convo and maintain interests. the year-long gap in twitch alone should say enough right there, as with his declining viewership. The tail of that chart is about 130ish, and still trending down. Followers started trending down years ago as people started leaving.
Jim doesn't really seem interested in trying, and Twitch is just too high effort of a migration. Anything he does in the future needs to see 'success' off weekly short uploads, or its just too much for him to bother. Luckily for all our collective sanities, that will likely never come to pass, content creation is simply too competitive these days.
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I don't think Jim has ever deleted any youtube content has he? At least not in the past few years. His work is too important and well made (in his eyes) to delete it, rtu said himself that the content he made was shit and he didn't like it. I know Jim has said that he personally doesn't like youtube and would rather just be a writer but I don't think he's ever said specifically that he doesn't like his content, forced to make it yea but I don't remember him saying he was unhappy with the end result. He probably would dislike the end product if he wasn't allowed to steal music and random TV clips and was forced to stay on topic though, you know like actual good youtubers.
I went back and found a few monthly recap posts from 2022 and compared them to the current view counts. Since then most of the videos have gotten around 10k more views. There are a few that got a decent amount more, one got 100k more but that's an outlier. 10k views in two years is basically nothing, I looked up the numbers apparently 3usd/1,000views is the top rate, so at the very most ideal conditions those videos would have made Jim 30usd in two years which ok I guess good guess? But obviously Jim would be looking at much much lower than 3usd rpm because of the type and length of content, probably sub dollar amounts and the amount would drop off even more with time. So yea he might be able to afford a pizza once or twice a week from residual views, assuming the videos are even eligible to be monetised. Also obviously the majority of that 10k would be the month after it was made, realistically he's probably getting single digit views on most of these videos per week. Don't take this as gospel, I don't know how accurate this graph is. But according to an extension called viewstats Jim's view graph is almost entirely flat. According to this extension one of the year old videos I looked at got only 300 views in the last four months. It took that video another 7 months to go from 107k to 108k. 107k december 2023, 108k july 2024 and 108,300 today late october 2024. These videos are basically dead after a month. I checked a more recent video from a few months ago because this graph extension seems to be somewhat community run or something so doesn't work on older videos? In the first month the video got 81,068 views, by the end of month two it was at 82,830. 100 days later and it's now at 85,393. The chart has a very steep vertical line over the first few days that quickly becomes almost completely flat, it's almost a perfect right angle somehow. I've compared Jim to episodic gaming youtubers in the past so I went back and looked at that very same youtuber, his graph is actually better than Jim's. The spike isn't so short lived, it's more of an actual curve, it is also a lot less flat even months after the video is uploaded. But bear in mind I have no idea how trustworthy or reliable this extension is.
Do you think Jim could even get monetised? Is there a single video of his that wouldn't instantly have all of the money sent to 20 different rights holders of the content he infringes on? He might get a few grains of rice a month from the one video that slips through copyright detection but even then it would probably be one talking about drama from 2018 that no one cared about at the time and definitely no one cares about now.
I went back and found a few monthly recap posts from 2022 and compared them to the current view counts. Since then most of the videos have gotten around 10k more views. There are a few that got a decent amount more, one got 100k more but that's an outlier. 10k views in two years is basically nothing, I looked up the numbers apparently 3usd/1,000views is the top rate, so at the very most ideal conditions those videos would have made Jim 30usd in two years which ok I guess good guess? But obviously Jim would be looking at much much lower than 3usd rpm because of the type and length of content, probably sub dollar amounts and the amount would drop off even more with time. So yea he might be able to afford a pizza once or twice a week from residual views, assuming the videos are even eligible to be monetised. Also obviously the majority of that 10k would be the month after it was made, realistically he's probably getting single digit views on most of these videos per week. Don't take this as gospel, I don't know how accurate this graph is. But according to an extension called viewstats Jim's view graph is almost entirely flat. According to this extension one of the year old videos I looked at got only 300 views in the last four months. It took that video another 7 months to go from 107k to 108k. 107k december 2023, 108k july 2024 and 108,300 today late october 2024. These videos are basically dead after a month. I checked a more recent video from a few months ago because this graph extension seems to be somewhat community run or something so doesn't work on older videos? In the first month the video got 81,068 views, by the end of month two it was at 82,830. 100 days later and it's now at 85,393. The chart has a very steep vertical line over the first few days that quickly becomes almost completely flat, it's almost a perfect right angle somehow. I've compared Jim to episodic gaming youtubers in the past so I went back and looked at that very same youtuber, his graph is actually better than Jim's. The spike isn't so short lived, it's more of an actual curve, it is also a lot less flat even months after the video is uploaded. But bear in mind I have no idea how trustworthy or reliable this extension is.
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I'll put this in a different post but it's everyone's favourite time of the week again.
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I completely forgot about the new JQ today and honestly I didn't need to watch it. Yes we all know Bethesda games on release (and even after patches) are buggy leaning into the realm of being too buggy, when people say this they aren't somehow giving Bethesda a pass its admitting the reality that likely due to the engine a lot of these bugs will just keep happening and despite this Jim only mentions game engines once and at the end of the video.
The rest of the video is the same old crap, you can read the title and know what he'll say. The only thing of note is his editor putting in painfully unfunny (but short) skits during the video.
The rest of the video is the same old crap, you can read the title and know what he'll say. The only thing of note is his editor putting in painfully unfunny (but short) skits during the video.
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It depends how much money he really has. YouTube is clearly only something he does out of obligation now, it could only be more low-effort if he didn't upload at all.
I brought it up in a post literal years ago, and I think even then I pointed out how pathetically low his view counts were (this might have been before even the sub-900k video, I think he was playing Elden Ring at the time).
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I mean sub 50k in the first day again so you're not the only one who forgot, I only remembered because I was already typing something about him anyway. I'd assume he's talking about the starfield dlc but it's about as relevant as he is. Saying Bethesda buggy is about as impactful as saying microtransation bad, we all know that and we all agree; so why the fuck would anyone watch a 20 minute video on it?
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This week's Jimqusition is actually an interesting topic. The fact none of us can be assed to watch and it give our own takes speaks to his falloff.
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Like @Moja Zemlja correctly pointed out, there's no reason to watch: we already know the issues with Bethesda games because it's been a meme for nearly 20 years (I never played Oblivion so I don't know if it was as bad as Fallout 3 onward have been).
It's a sorry state of affairs that people are so resigned to the absolute state of Bethesda's games, but given the performance of FO76 and Starfield I think most people are voting with their wallets. Actually, can you technically vote with your wallet when a game is day one on Game Pass?
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I fully expect his fat ass to die from some sort of organ failure before he loses all his subs
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Given that Game Pass has nuked Xbox game sales, I'd say yes.
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Yea the topic might be interesting but it's Jim, regardless of how interesting the topic is you know that this video specifically will not be interesting at all.
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I did watch it but there really is nothing in there that hasn't been said a million times elsewhere, as I said the only notable parts were his editor's unfunny skits and the engine problem (which is likely the cause of the bugs) only being mentioned once. Jim not only brought nothing new to the table he didn't even focus on the relevent talking points.
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Hasn't Prince of Lies Todd Howard confirmed on multiple occasions that the engine is the problem? I don't follow too closely because I don't like Bethesda games, but from what I understand they're still using the same engine from whatever the first 3D Elder Scrolls was (Morrowind?) and it's held together with sticky tape and prayers at this point.
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Creation Engine is built up from Gamebyro which they used for Morrowind, Oblivion and Fo3 but its essentially using a lot of the same core components since Oblivion. Bethesda physics? Its still using Havoc. AI sometimes just acts completely retarded or breaks? Its still using Radiant AI.
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You hit the nail on the head. The outdated creation engine is a big contributer to why all of their games are so shoddy. Following the release of starfeild there had been scuttlebutt saying they were looking at moving to unreal engine for elder scrolls 6, but per recent articles and the fact they would be switching engines halfway through development any such move to Unreal probably is not in the pipeline for another 3-5 years.
In other words their shitbox car for a game engine is probably going to ruin the Elder Scrolls 6 and more games in the future. (Just consume product its greaaat)
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The one 'positive' in all this is I'm actually now looking forward to ES6 to see how much of a shambles it turns out to be. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft shutters Bethesda and absorbs the IPs before they can even get a gameplay trailer out.