- Joined
- Mar 5, 2018
Why do people even use this exceptional "he's just an entertainer LMAO" argument? No one who's on the verge of crying because Baked Alaska moved to LA and didn't want to have alt-right kids fuck up his chatroom anymore just wants to be entertained, Jim pretty obviously has some ideological motive for going after people and making videos on certain subjects.
Really my main gripe with the guy at this point is that he's a hypocrite who talks out his ass a lot. He'll make fun of the concept of having internet friends but then hang out with Ethan Ralph, a fat manchild who got arrested twice for assaulting a cop (something he made fun of Lindsay Ellis for) 10 years ago every night on his livestream show no one watches. He'll make fun of the concept of fighting for a cause or whatever then passive aggressively bitch about gaming conventions being tolerant of trannies and video games having too much SJW shit in them. His entire internet persona is making fun of exceptional individuals who take dumb internet drama way too seriously but then he'll make a 4 part rant that's 2 hours long about some British faggot no one cares about. He'll respond to people on Twitter who talk shit about him but then ignore someone who has a much larger and more rabid audience then he does.
If he's going to put on this super shitposter act where he never takes anything seriously and makes fun of people for doing dumb shit then the least he could do is not fall into the same sort of archetype of people that he laughs at.
Yeah, I dislike the double standards he obviously has and his audience also holds him to also. A portion of them hold other content creators to autistic levels of scrutiny, yet seem to give Jim's content a free pass in terms of scrutiny.
The difference I think between Jim and a place like KF is that Jim is using laughing at lolcows as a means of self-validation and to make a career for himself, akin to a tabloid TV show host like Springer. Instead of covering cows and occasionally prodding them, he now gets into exceptional shit-flinging matches with them on social media.