Showing off the Arapaima I made! (Pattern also made by me)

Cicada sketches by Vincent van Gogh.

The conclusion most draw from this is typically, Jimmy doesn't have passion for what he does, it's all about popularity and money. This is not inaccurate, far from it, but it goes deeper.

By being so metric focused, Jimmy has an understanding of what is popular (at least at the time he rose to prominence) but no understanding of why. And that failure to understand is a huge detriment because it means that he doesn’t know how to innovate and build outward from his format.

Beast Games is illustrative of this. The Mr Beast video style translates very poorly to an actual reality show. The fact he had to ask other YouTubers how to build fandom is pretty damning. He doesn’t understand why people like things and mistakes hyperbole for excitement.

Jimmy is in an interesting position. Outside of YouTube, his ventures into real world businesses have largely failed. Lunchly was a moldy disaster and Beast Labs is functionally dead. He's like a kid who cheated on his physics exam and is now in charge of a nuclear reactor.

Tianlang Jun giving flirt advice to his nephew

French bonus (je sais que l'expression veut juste dire merci mais je trouvais ça drôle sans contexte)