>>1539097
Oh believe me, people DID shit on JonTron when he shifted gears with his youtube channel, which primarily happened right after he left
got kicked off of GameGrumps. His quality in videos took a nosedive and he never recovered.
Compare this with James Rolfe whose quality went into a nosedive shortly before, then entirely after his (also terrible) movie came out. For a time, people did get behind James and his channel even through this dip in quality, but when it became clear that his wife was pulling a lot of the strings, fucking up the quality, and may have been a huge part in some of the recent failures of James Rolfe as a whole, the internet stopped trying to defend him and instead took the position of making fun of him, while only occasionally enjoying a video he puts out. He has almost course-corrected since then, but he is still making a fool of himself.
Now why didn't Jon get clowned on? Because, unlike James, he never gave up on his ideals. James was really popular on imageboards when he refused to watch that female Ghostbusters movie but THEN he had to give up all the goodwill he had when he was forced to view it by his wife, and then dug himself deeper into a hole by saying it was "good". Then the movie came out, which further cemented James as a cuck by having a cuckolding scene with the black guy and the ginger - this was supposedly his wife's idea, who was on set as some kind of an assistant writer. Meanwhile, Jon was in debates with the likes of Destiny and cleaning house on many, many serious issues and never apologized for his views. Jontron has never made any good videos since his GameGrumps days, but all of a sudden, he stopped needing to. He clearly had other focuses in life, whereas James was just a video games guy, and he couldn't even do that right.
Now JonTron is happily married, has a child, and is seemingly prospering. James can totally redeem himself easily, but he just doesn't have the mindset for it, and his wife is only bringing him down.