I feel like Jim was in his element as a livestream guest. I actually discovered him via the Sons of Kojima (DSP detractor group from the 2010s), not knowing anything about him, and immediately realised he was in another league, like in juxtaposition to the spergs on that podcast (their implosion was very funny). Also noticed pretty quickly that Jim is a lazy fuck. The dude was great in the bloodsports era. The Diogenes felting was legendary; also Corinne and Ralph. Dude was witty. GG definitely blackpilled him, but not fully.
Something definitely changed after Covid, the election, his health and Kirk, though. Within months he's gone from audibly sobbing over a man's death and talking of his switch to Christian values, to recently laughing about dead kids across the sea, and going conveniently silent when people point out that this doesn't align with his supposed newfound Christian values. He obviously has the time to make videos and stream. I've done essays, man; his videos were basic and retardedly easy to make. Didn't even have background music. But he's choosing to rot on social media instead, and waste his potential.
That said, gun to my head, I do think he's probably ill. To lie about something this elaborately (medical papers, showing his walker, etc) is way too much effort for a lazy shit. I think the health issues, the brushes with death (myocardial infarctions and TIA strokes) and whatever maelstrom of estrogen-laced pills they're giving him may have just irrepairably fucked his mind and hormones into a shell of what he was. It's sad as fuck, but I try to remember him as the dude who laughed at lolcows.
That said, I can definitely see why some would be skeptical of him.