Jim Sterling / James "Stephanie" Sterling / James Stanton/Sexton & in memoriam TotalBiscuit (John Bain) - One Gaming Lolcow Thread

[TheBeanz]

It literally would have taken 5 mins to reshoot the intro and outro
(since I know he does both in one continuous take)
But fuck it's not like the guy only makes one vid a week for his job or anything

It's worse than that, it's just a note that shows up on screen! All he needed to do was look at it twice before he put it into the software

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

It's worse than that, it's just a note that shows up on screen! All he needed to do was look at it twice before he put it into the software

I'd honestly chalk more of the sub death up to this sorta shit. His production quality, isn't, and the other gaming news out there at least puts more effort into it than him. They're either producing work of his quality in hours, and getting by with quantity, or just doing it better than him on the same timeline.

Seriously, why would I want to wait for Monday when Yong Yea has already done on the spot takes of the recent news, and Hoeg Law has done deep dives into what something might mean, while The Quartering is giving me my dose of fat angry fucker in the gaming sphere.

You ain't obsolete cuz of yer tits mate, yer obsolete because yer shit at yer job.

 

[Jasper2K]

Well Jim looks more like a woman than his wife does. A little role reversal. I'm sure the wife wears the pants anyways.

 

[Pixelated T-Rex]

The endless whining about the loss of subscribers is both funny and sad at the same time. It's almost as if the audience who wants to hear about videogame industry stuff and reviews might not also have a colossal overlap with the audience who wants to hear about Stephanie's gender shit constantly. When you shift your focus away from a big, broadly reaching issue to something way more niche, that's bound to happen.
But no, Stephanie. You're right. It's the viewers' fault

 

[No Exit]

This scenario reminds me of a horror movie review channel I used to watch. The guy's name was Nyx or something (I'm sure he probably gets mentions in other threads now) and he was a decent, funny reviewer. He had the emo goth skater look/vibe and I thought it was just a style choice.
Eventually he starts trooning out so hard he turned into a Narcissa-like ghoul and I legit couldn't watch his channel anymore because he became so hideous. While Jim is still years away from hitting that look (for obvious reasons) I can see why people would drop him even if they like to pretend they're trans friendly.

I think Jimmy girl forgets that video is a visual medium and that you don't want to assault your viewer's eyes with hideous colours and ugly men in wigs.

 

[3holeDonkeyPunch]

Seriously, why would I want to wait for Monday when Yong Yea has already done on the spot takes of the recent news,

Tbf yingyang will literally just read an article and stretch it out for 10:01 or 13:01 depending on the algorithm by pausing, making exclamatory statements and so on. There's almost never anything he puts out that goes beyond an audiobook of the news you've already read.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

Tbf yingyang will literally just read an article and stretch it out for 10:01 or 13:01 depending on the algorithm by pausing, making exclamatory statements and so on. There's almost never anything he puts out that goes beyond an audiobook of the news you've already read.

Sure, and its nice when I'm just looking to catch the latest news while prepping food or doing chores. Never said it was great, but its better than Jim screeching over the same old concept for ten minutes to get to the algorithm limit. At least Yong's stretching it out while its still relevant.

 

[Oliver Onions]

The endless whining about the loss of subscribers is both funny and sad at the same time. It's almost as if the audience who wants to hear about videogame industry stuff and reviews might not also have a colossal overlap with the audience who wants to hear about Stephanie's gender shit constantly. When you shift your focus away from a big, broadly reaching issue to something way more niche, that's bound to happen.
But no, Stephanie. You're right. It's the viewers' fault

Even then, I think most people could stomach the trooning, (just have the video on as background noise so you don't have to look at him/Justin's shitty editing,) and skip the gender rambling intros, but what do you have after that? Jim covering a single news story for the entire week that dozens of other channels have already went over, more succinctly, and including a bunch of other stories with it.

Add to that the fact at this point you could easily create an AI bot to pump out Jimquisition scripts by feeding it the old ones because he says the exact same things every week and that's why I unsubbed from him long before the troon arc.

There is nothing that Jim offers now; his only USP is for the people who want to marvel at a freakshow, and I have a lot more fun doing that on here than his channel.

 

[Kulee Baba]

This lazy hack is shitting on The Avengers game that flopped long ago.

Here's a competent e-celeb (Kritical) who negatively critiqued the game at launch a half year ago.

Here's a Good Gaming critic who wrote a full beat by beat Post Mortem two months ago.

To play Devil's Advocate I get that this is a slow period for gaming as games tend to get released towards the end of the year. But lambasting Avengers at this point without any true critical analysis is just absurdly lazy.

 

[Pixelated T-Rex]

Even then, I think most people could stomach the trooning, (just have the video on as background noise so you don't have to look at him/Justin's shitty editing,) and skip the gender rambling intros, but what do you have after that? Jim covering a single news story for the entire week that dozens of other channels have already went over, more succinctly, and including a bunch of other stories with it.

Add to that the fact at this point you could easily create an AI bot to pump out Jimquisition scripts by feeding it the old ones because he says the exact same things every week and that's why I unsubbed from him long before the troon arc.

There is nothing that Jim offers now; his only USP is for the people who want to marvel at a freakshow, and I have a lot more fun doing that on here than his channel.

Yeah, I think it's the particular way in which the trooning out has happened. It's very loud, it covers over the original subject, and it frankly seems to an outsider like a coping mechanism that's suddenly metastasized. There's a significant difference in the way Stephanie is handling this versus the PhilosophyTube woman. She just seems to want to get on with her life as a woman whereas Stephanie wants everyone to know about their hormone pills and how great it is to be cool gendertrash, or whatever. It really looks to me like Sterling got so fed up with the way their life was going and with how much personal investment they'd put into an industry they ultimately felt alienated by and resentment towards, that they latched onto this as something to solve their problems and give them the insta-cool social clout that comes with being nonbinary or trans online nowadays.
Stephanie should do whatever is going to make them happy, but I'm pretty sure their viewership wouldn't be suffering quite so much if they'd treat their transition as a personal issue that's happening in the background as opposed to the garish focus. Garishness has always been Sterling's style, though.

 

[Gamepad]

Yeah, I think it's the particular way in which the trooning out has happened. It's very loud, it covers over the original subject, and it frankly seems to an outsider like a coping mechanism that's suddenly metastasized. There's a significant difference in the way Stephanie is handling this versus the PhilosophyTube woman. She just seems to want to get on with her life as a woman whereas Stephanie wants everyone to know about their hormone pills and how great it is to be cool gendertrash, or whatever. It really looks to me like Sterling got so fed up with the way their life was going and with how much personal investment they'd put into an industry they ultimately felt alienated by and resentment towards, that they latched onto this as something to solve their problems and give them the insta-cool social clout that comes with being nonbinary or trans online nowadays.
Stephanie should do whatever is going to make them happy, but I'm pretty sure their viewership wouldn't be suffering quite so much if they'd treat their transition as a personal issue that's happening in the background as opposed to the garish focus. Garishness has always been Sterling's style, though.

Jim is supposedly "non-binary" while still throwing every single offensive female stereotypes around the moment the transition happens.

I ain't going to deign using pronouns if you're going to act like an incel's definition of a woman.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

There's a significant difference in the way Stephanie is handling this versus the PhilosophyTube woman. She just seems to want to get on with her life as a woman whereas Stephanie wants everyone to know about their hormone pills and how great it is to be cool gendertrash

Both of them are MEN. Neither the fat trash man nor the breadtube man will ever be anything else.

 

[Oliver Onions]

Yeah, I think it's the particular way in which the trooning out has happened. It's very loud, it covers over the original subject, and it frankly seems to an outsider like a coping mechanism that's suddenly metastasized. There's a significant difference in the way Stephanie is handling this versus the PhilosophyTube woman. She just seems to want to get on with her life as a woman whereas Stephanie wants everyone to know about their hormone pills and how great it is to be cool gendertrash, or whatever. It really looks to me like Sterling got so fed up with the way their life was going and with how much personal investment they'd put into an industry they ultimately felt alienated by and resentment towards, that they latched onto this as something to solve their problems and give them the insta-cool social clout that comes with being nonbinary or trans online nowadays.
Stephanie should do whatever is going to make them happy, but I'm pretty sure their viewership wouldn't be suffering quite so much if they'd treat their transition as a personal issue that's happening in the background as opposed to the garish focus. Garishness has always been Sterling's style, though.

I can certainly understand that perspective, but as a once long-time viewer of Sterling he always had a tendency to front and backload his videos with Shit Nobody Cares About, the only difference is now it's trans-flavoured instead whatever other pet cause it was fashionable to ride the coat tails of at the time; either way you just learned to tune it out until he got to the fucking point.

The trans stuff is particularly obnoxious though, I agree, but that seems to be the rule rather than the exception for such people, presumably because they're trying to convince themselves as much as their audience.

 

[Infernal]

Also i feel like another reason their viewership has went down is because they just don't put that many videos out anymore. Youtube's algorythm will bury you unless you upload at a regular rate, it's a big problem with much smaller channels failing to get noticed.

And Jim doesn't seem to upload anything that not his weekly show now, a while back Jim still uploaded Industry Bullshit, Jimpressions, Boglinwatch, even did a few reviews, making fun of bad steam games or bad playstation store games, and now Jim stopped uploading anything that's not JQ.

I recall one reason he stopped covering bad steam games etc. is "they don't get views" combined with Jim feeling i guess like videos like that not being worth the risk of another "defamation lawsuit" and for some reason he abandoned covering bad games other than shouting about AAA titles on Jimquisition.

Even now it's more used as a platform to be a breadtuber. Jim really really wants to be Contra/PT/Thought Slime/Hbomb or more importantly, Jim's good friend and fellow "stunning and brave trans woman" Laura Kate Dale.

But here's the thing Jim... Breadtubers don't have a lot of subscribers either. Thought Slime only has 200k. Shaun has less, Three Arrows has even less than that. Even post-bleed you already have a bigger platform than them.

Breadtubers stay afloat via e-begging on patreon/ko-fi and on twitch. That and they actually upload often and don't just talk about the same thing over and over. Even Thought Slime takes a fuckin break from talking about how Capitalism is bad and that the state is "illigitimate at it's core" to talk about horror movies.

Vary your fuckin content a little and actually upload often enough for Youtube to not down list you and you'll be fine. Also breadtubers don't care about subscribers. They know they have to e-beg from other troons and cucks. Accept it.

 

[Corn Flakes]

I can certainly understand that perspective, but as a once long-time viewer of Sterling he always had a tendency to front and backload his videos with Shit Nobody Cares About, the only difference is now it's trans-flavoured instead whatever other pet cause it was fashionable to ride the coat tails of at the time; either way you just learned to tune it out until he got to the fucking point.

The trans stuff is particularly obnoxious though, I agree, but that seems to be the rule rather than the exception for such people, presumably because they're trying to convince themselves as much as their audience.

Sterling book-ending his videos with bullshit is nothing new, yeah. And it's not like his videos were research-heavy either. He's no Ahoy. His stuff has always been about providing just enough context on whatever subject he's talking about that he can then give you his opinions on it. The problem for him is that he hasn't had an original thought in ages. Remember: he had been losing relevance LONG before trooning out. His opinions are nothing new (TotalBiscuit arguably got them across far better than Sterling himself did), and in Current Year that shit is just pedestrian, it makes him look like he's just hopping on the bandwagon whever he goes. Add to that his very low production rates and he's still just going to keep circling the drain.

 

[Beautiful Border]

But here's the thing Jim... Breadtubers don't have a lot of subscribers either. Thought Slime only has 200k. Shaun has less, Three Arrows has even less than that. Even post-bleed you already have a bigger platform than them.

I think that partially goes back to your first point. Shaun uploads maybe four or five videos a year, and Three Arrows hasn't uploaded in over six months. When Breadtubers actually upload content on a regular basis (Vaush for example) they do tend to get decent views.

The real issue is that Jim basically wants to chase a new audience (left-wing political content) at the expense of his old one (video games), essentially betting his career on the hope that he can make new fans as fast as he's willing to lose his old ones.

 

[Cuscuta]

making fun of bad steam games or bad playstation store games, and now Jim stopped uploading anything that's not JQ.

The old Best of Steam Greenlight series had loads of random shit, as well as loads of unintentional comedy gold, reacting to bad/stupid games dredged up from the piles of shovelware on Steam. That was genuinely fun content to watch back in the day, in my opinion, and when Jim actually did video reviews of games, I found his opinions often aligned to my personal preferences in games, so I would watch his videos for first impressions/reviews that might be games I'd want to check out later.

Here's the problem though.... he simply doesnt make gaming content anymore.

It's entirely content about the latest politics/controversy SURROUNDING games or the game industry. Nothing about the games themselves, no gameplay, the funny reactions to random nonsense on Steam are long gone. As a result, I unsubbed from his channel quite awhile ago. But no, I'm sure it's just "TWANSPHOBIA!" that's driving people away Jim. Not the fact that you don't even make the content that got you a fanbase in the first place. The only people left are the ones who are diehard fans/simps, and the kinds of people who actually ENJOY watching a knockoff gaming-breadtuber with a good side of random sexual deviance and gender sperging.

 

[MidUSA]

Sterling used to upload daily reviews of crappy steam games, which were genuinely enjoyable.

Him stopping with those coincided with the JQ's getting increasingly more repetetive and beating the same horses to death. Leading me to unsubscribe I think, two years ago or so.

 

[No Exit]

Jim is supposedly "non-binary" while still throwing every single offensive female stereotypes around the moment the transition happens.

Yeah, it's how you know he's a real troon.

Sterling used to upload daily reviews of crappy steam games, which were genuinely enjoyable.

I liked his steam reviews at first but they got really repetitive. The games he reviewed all looked kind of the same and had the same problems. I know that was the point of the videos but it didn't make them any more engaging.

 

[Pizdec]

Jim is supposedly "non-binary" while still throwing every single offensive female stereotypes around the moment the transition happens.

I never understood that, cause if he wants to be NB he only has to do one fucking thing: Nothing. You don't need makeup, you don't need pills, you don't need a fucking shitty looking wig. You just only need to do nothing. It's obvious to anyone with a brain that Jim is only doing this as a shield from people who want to shit on his content for being stale as fuck and nothing new since the Romine brothers sued him.

He's admitted to knowing people want to sue him until he dies from the stress of it all, and rather then realize it's not best to egg people on, he told people to go ahead and try. I would not be shocked to know someone else is suing/sued him, and now he wants to use his non-binary-finary powers to combat against people who would try to in the future, cause it's not gonna look good on law Twatter when you're suing a tranny who said something you don't like.