Jim's had very trans positive views for years and has gotten abuse for it as well. Back when they were doing the steam greenlight and other steam travesties there were a number of horrific games that they covered from the perspective of trans positivity. The Podquisition has Laura Kate Dale on it and she's openly trans. I've followed Jim from The Escapist and my own political journey. If you look at their really early stuff they're calling out stuff more from a consumer protection perspective. Something that while alive, TotalBiscuit did as well. It's just that John had rather crappy views and jumped on the gamergate bandwagon while Jim continued to criticize games with a different perspective. Jim was rather mainstream to a degree within gaming circles and was not particularly too "different" from TB in a lot of gamer's minds, only that sometimes they'd just say some "SJW shit, but otherwise has good consumer protection views."
James Stephanie Sterling has been doing this gig a very long time, I've been following their work since 2009. The ebb and flow of views happens, but subscriber count is quite different, the subs count didn't particularly drop when there were slower news periods, the views might've taken a hit though. There's an argument to be made that the stagnation of the channel came from the change in upload frequency, where once they were uploading almost daily videos on stuff, doing steam garbage and news briefs, the Jimquisition has always been the core where most views happened. It's also not just the subscriber count but also various people spewing vitriol at them for coming out. You're trying to push an additional narrative that tries to handwave away the transphobia inherent in our society by stating that this decline has to be something other than just transphobia when the person who has the most vested interest is saying they know what it is and provides proof of it.
Jim's had very trans positive views for years and has gotten abuse for it as well. Back when they were doing the steam greenlight and other steam travesties there were a number of horrific games that they covered from the perspective of trans positivity. The Podquisition has Laura Kate Dale on it and she's openly trans. I've followed Jim from The Escapist and my own political journey. If you look at their really early stuff they're calling out stuff more from a consumer protection perspective. Something that while alive, TotalBiscuit did as well. It's just that John had rather crappy views and jumped on the gamergate bandwagon while Jim continued to criticize games with a different perspective. Jim was rather mainstream to a degree within gaming circles and was not particularly too "different" from TB in a lot of gamer's minds, only that sometimes they'd just say some "SJW shit, but otherwise has good consumer protection views."
James Stephanie Sterling has been doing this gig a very long time, I've been following their work since 2009. The ebb and flow of views happens, but subscriber count is quite different, the subs count didn't particularly drop when there were slower news periods, the views might've taken a hit though. There's an argument to be made that the stagnation of the channel came from the change in upload frequency, where once they were uploading almost daily videos on stuff, doing steam garbage and news briefs, the Jimquisition has always been the core where most views happened. It's also not just the subscriber count but also various people spewing vitriol at them for coming out. You're trying to push an additional narrative that tries to handwave away the transphobia inherent in our society by stating that this decline has to be something other than just transphobia when the person who has the most vested interest is saying they know what it is and provides proof of it.