But being critical of a company and some of their practices is not encouraging hate. Jim is not out here encouraging people to attack the devs of Naughty Dog or anyone involved in this game to say this is just a lie.
As someone who was a big fan of Jims until his recent video on the ND leaks and me taking some time to reflect on him and the games industry, let me try to explain from my perspective.
Jim is great at calling out companies for shitty things and I usually agree with all of his points.
The problem is though that his videos tend to be pure rage at each subject he covers. This is understandable since the subjects are serious but what he fails to do is to draw any sort of action that people can take to improve things.
Because of this, all he effectively does is whip up his audience into fit's of rage and then leave them to their own devices with absolutely no constructive direction.
He also has a tendency to very rarely point his rage towards the games industries audience. He might do a video where he dresses up and mocks ridiculous comments every now and then or he will take 5 seconds in a video to say don't be shit but ultimately that isn't enough to prevent your audience from potentially taking the wrong messages away from your videos.
I mentioned the ND leaks video he did and what really upset me was that on the discussion of the leaks negatively affecting ND staff, he basically said "ND staff don't deserve to be hurt from these leaks, but ND as a company does so oh well". For someone who has prided themselves on looking out for people, this is a rather disturbing stance to take as it completely ignores the hate and damage it was causing staff, all so he could focus on attacking ND for cruch culture.
Now is Jim one of the main problems in the industry? No, but he plays his part just like Angry Joe does or any other youtuber who makes their living shitting on everything that will get them clicks does.
Again, most of Jims arguments are fine but the manner in which he does it, long term, is probably not healthy for the industry as its just another rage filled youtuber with a following of millions who comes on every week to tell us who to hate with no constructive actions to take.
