I have actually noticed that I used to see their videos recommended to me after watching a game trailer along with quite a lot of unsavoury other vids (if I have to see one more video about how women are tuning the gaming industry I swear YouTube!) and I haven't seen their videos recently at all - I couldn't tell you when exactly that started happening but it wouldn't surprise me if YouTube stoped recommending them around the time they came out
All good. I encourage you to check out some of their other content, while a lot of their output is criticism of the industry they also have videos of games they enjoy. Jim's persona isn't for everyone, but I think it has a place and more voices like theirs are needed.
On socialblade the views are basically trending along a similar plot that they were before, so it seems like the algorithm doesn't appear to be impacted by subs that much.
Surely you can't know what current subscribers think without like properly surveying subscribers. It may be many more have not noticed or are transphobic but not enough to bother unsubscribing rather than not caring.
I haven't subbed to a new channel in a long time, but have liked videos recently on unsubbed channels. This seems to force the unsubbed channels to surface more often than the ones I'm interested in.... Looking at the front page it's about 50% subbed channels if I scroll, but about 30% if I just look on the first page.
Especially since there's like a goddamn banner for it too.
I mean they responded to my post about them misgendering by doing it even more so I don't think they cared
This is 100% what I see, at least before, because of the whole "gamers rights" angle that both have. I just assume there's a big chunk of people who had no idea what they were getting with Jim until they came out.
Wait, people expect their subs to be on the main page?
I have never liked Jim's videos for a number of reasons, but that's maybe the biggest reason; why would I want to hear someone whine about the same thing every week, it's not like their analysis is any better than what I could deduce on my own.
Yeah I can't fairly compare YongYea and Jim, they both complain about the same thing every week, but YongYea is just an utter moron, I don't how anyone with a brain in their skull can bare to listen to his stretched-to-fit, poorly written, and extremely redundant script for 10+ minutes.
Do they? The same Jim that said a couple of weeks ago that they hate that they turned talking about video games their job?
I'm saying that I don't see how the subscriber drop has anything to do with their content, what's the problem exactly?
Aye and like forums where you can edit make it easy to correct misgendering with no fuss. Its less effort to edit pronouns than editing to say you misgendered.
Sighh whyyyyyy!?!!!
Your purposely misrepresenting what was said, and they still love gaming, they have really liked a few things lately including Returnal, and have been streaming games more.
Well... i see whats the problem. people expect the main feed to be for that. The main feed focuses on the most recent. if you binged something, and missed 2 episodes of a sub because you where not interested in the topics, the main feed will start to not show you the next ones, but the thing you binges. thats how it is meant to work.
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Because those channels are having mild to moderate positive growth vs James Stephanie's which is seeing negative growth. It also doesn't help that the algorithm doesn't promote LGBTQ+ content because it often gets flagged as adult or gets demonetized, so this actively works against LGBTQ+ creators.
Understandable given that this is probably what you're used to seeing
That part wasn't aimed at you more of a general thread thing. Genuinely sorry I didn't make that clearer.
The "change my mind" meme?
Everyone just happened to be tired at the same time when James has been doing the same thing for over a decade?
For those downplaying how much of the recent downturn of subs is due to James Stephanie's coming out, here's a helpful graph:
I mean I'll take it over the "JSS is always the same so everyone unsubscribed because of that and not because people are bigots"
It's literally insane. There is definitely a discussion to be had about the quality of James Stephanie's content and how positive-negative it is, but also...this is the same conversation people have been having since forever! How many Jimquisition threads have we had in the past where people would come in and rag on James Stephanie's stuff calling it negative and excessive?
Yes let's ignore all the obvious issues the gaming community has because everywhere has issues
