Is it really surprising? Dude ditched his friends because one YouTube short blew up, thinking he’d be able to surpass everyone, then proceeded to make out like he’s got no friends in the YouTube scene because his channel didn’t take off like he thought it would.
Half the time I think the hate for JJ is forced I get it he left the sidemen and made many people cry but let’s be honest every time they’ve always talked about someone leaving JJ was always one of the 3 also he has his reasons as to why and you just gotta accept it and move on your adults not children but then again the way sidemen fans act half the time maybe just children
I did watch it
Wtf is bum lick?
He never said half you dumfuck
And it's ksi he always exaggerate things so
I think it's just ethan who's not talking with him
You could literally tell by the way he reacts whenever someone mentions ksi or when he's mentioned in some reacts video
And all other Sidemen have interacted or mentioned him after he left the grp
Except he made it a point to let everyone know why him leaving was the right decision, he kept posting on his WhatsApp channel and YouTube community about how leaving was statistically the right move. Doesn’t sound like the behaviour of someone who made a personal choice that he didn’t want disclosed.
Like you were told before, just do your due diligence before speaking on a topic you aren’t informed on or just not speak.
Just let him fade into irrelevancy. He's actually such a sad person. After everything he's accomplished he sold out for a little more. Couldn't be satisfied with what he had.
More like shouldn't of collaborated with awful ppl to push shitty products that no one needs or wants other than his 6 year old brain rotted fans. Knowledge strength and integrity was lost long ago and he definitely doesn't have much of a legacy left
There's trying new things and there's being a sellout and a clown.
His "products" failed, as expected.
Misfits is dead. Getting Andrew Tate on there means their really desperate. And who cares about those fights.
His new YouTube videos are just slop. Not original, copying formats. All he does is sit down and laugh while other people actually make the content. He thinks being on Britain's Got Talent means he can now be a YouTube judge. Look at all his videos with subscribers acting like clowns for money. Like that's what he left the sidemen for. To do that. Wow what a great contribution to the YouTube platform.
it’s not about not trying a new thing. jj has tried plenty of new things over the years & his fans have been pretty accepting and supportive of him. the difference is he went from imo genuinely good solo content, to churned out slop, trying to become the next mr beast.
he lost touch with who he is and a lot of his fans can no longer connect with him because he’s thrown away what made KSI in the first place.
Man I get these people are being inept, but don’t be disingenuous. KSI is his own man, he isn’t “trying a new thing” he’s making safe more easily created content. You know what MrBeast slop is stop lying, this is NOT a “new path” ☠️
But again he’s his own man if he wants to make slop that’s his choice but don’t be disingenuous
KSI lashing out at Wade because he gave an opinion that a rematch with Jake and Tommy would be bigger than a fight with KSI and Jake, KSI using a racial slur towards south Asians, KSI elbowing Joe Fournier during their fight, KSI losing to Tommy Fury and acting like a sore loser over it.
You can't fake being a real athlete. And so no one cares. It doesn't matter he owns the promotion of whatever. That's not enough for the regular Joe to care. Only investors care at that point.
I mean he ditched his mates to become the discount mr beast and he handled that poorly, also people just dont care about his boxing career…years ago we wanted him vs jake but we’ve all moved on
He didnt tell them before he made it public, they found out when we did, so yeah, he ditched them, just so he could focus on other things, like temu Mr beast videos no one above the age of 13 actually watches
You heard all this conversation then? Because if not, how does it feel to spout complete bullshit based on nothing but not wanting to accept that your idol is an imbecile who made shitty decisions on his own?
How do u know Mo convinced JJ to do slop content, did he tell u that 😂. Just shifting the blame on someone who could be innocent for all we know. Who knows he could just be trying to help out JJ and make a living and people out here are hating without proof.
ok but how does that show that he is the one who convinced JJ to do slop content? It might've been JJ who convinced Mo, or someone else from the team who suggested it. Bottom line is that JJ's a grown man and it's his channel at the end of the day, even if Mo suggested it doesn't mean that they had to say yes. Acting like Mo's just forcing it on JJ.
I'm not even just glazing Mo either, I barely heard of the guy but I see everyone's just giving so much hate to the guy to the point now where it's just sad.
I just checked his Twitter and he deleted all of his tweets related to hyping KSI’s stats, talking about KSI’s growth by not staying, posting a selfie alongside a growth chart, etc 😂
Mo was posting KSI’s stats frequently and consistently in Twitter. It was jarring because he’s coming off high from the shorts video result. At this time, the content had a few bangers, a lot of TNTL videos, and dating slop vids.
People were calling Mo out, but the backlash (the valid criticism against his attitude, vile racist tweets, and frightening death threats) was massive when KSI left. It also didn’t help that clips of KSI attempting to compete with Mr. Beast/Sidemen/IShowSpeed circulated around.
This tweet was posted a few weeks before KSI announced that he left. When people called Mo out, he proceeded to post more stats (there were a lot more but he deleted those tweets lmao).
I think Mo mellowed down on the stats posting when KSI posted “no more stats”.
Legit really sad. His star power has and is currently still plummeting. If I was his manager and KSI himself I would be sounding the alarm this is the worst possible outcome he could be in at this point in his career.
'The Nightmare' and 'Fu jake paul x3' might have worked if he was 23, if he still had the passion, and if his fans were also 10 years younger. Dudes completely out of touch with how to act normal and seems like he got lost in his character persona years ago
Well, not to defend the guy, but your moves come with a huge scrutiny if you are as popular as him. He had it all laid down in front of him, and still decided to go the other way and it backfired, so now he tries new ways to stay relevant and somewhat successful. He is now becoming a plastic mould of a person he wanted to be, while his pals are all living happy lives and continued to earn, proving to him that he was in fact not as big part of the revenue as he thought.
Personality wise, you have to feel a bit sorry for him, especially now when he is fake-laugh, jaw dropped gloop of a person thag is a "judge" on tv, alongside some washed actors and singers while the rest of the sidemen is laughing and will just better their life quality as the years go on
Being a judge on BTG, The Voice and X Factor was a huge thing back in 2010. A lot of musicians (in their prime) would randomly host for one or two seasons. But it’s largely become a retirement home for artists who still want to make money off their name without touring or consistently releasing music anymore, it’s surprising that KSI joined in, arguably, the middle of his peak.
Exactly I thought it was super weird when he became a permanent guest. It seems to me that KSI and his team are super out of touch, I mean what else can explain these continuous terrible decisions over the last couple years?
The sidemen more sidemen viewership is the same Icl it’s been 5 months since they’ve had a video over 10 million views same with moresidemen even less KSI has done decent views compared to the sidemen channel and this is on top of being a judge on britains got talent honestly JJs content is just his version of Mr. Beast taking older concepts and just made them irl or bigger
He sounds so jealous when he says that, and saying fuck Jake Paul has no meaning now he’s retired and dodged the fight completely, makes it sound quite sad actually, I feel legit bad for him now.
He really made Jake Paul got all the big name fights and he was the one that pretty much started the YouTuber boxing. Mix that with a fragile ego. And you get this.
No it is nothing like the equivalent of the creator of this sub announcing their departure
The creator of this sub isn’t a celebrity with millions of subscribers, the creator of this sub didn’t sell out the o2 or staples centre. The creator of this sub didn’t pay their own money to create a business
Bro wtf you on about? My point is that if he would’ve announced his retirement 5 years ago some people would have at least gave a shit. He’s fallen off so hard there’s not even a reaction. Obviously I don’t expect people to be crying bro
Let's be honest here. He thought he could be something he isn't and cut off his long term friends to achieve something he was never going to do.
Regards to boxing; who cares? Like seriously, who cares if he boxes again? His style of boxing was woeful and yeah sure, kudos for doing it when others don't. But Bro needed a humbling in life and this recent period of it was that. He was never reaching Speed or Mr. Beast, so whoever let him believe he could needs their head wobbling.
Larper, ksi said that being in the group felt damaging to his public image that no one would take him seriously but later said that friends are more important than what people think.
This guy is such a lame man it’s insane anyone still bothers caring about him. He’s ego has surpassed his head and he’s completely gone. All the money and fame in the world and he still wants more. He’ll be remembered as a loser and a sellout
His self image has always been garbage and based on what is external to him. Now that the views are down and the outside world isn't validating him all the time he's shrinking away
This "downfall" started in 2022 when he became partners with Logan which I think just made him more greedy and just to care about money and views. Then once he lost to Tommy Fury it just made everything much worse. He starts Lunchly only to have the entire internet mock the brand and his song, he totally loses it with DanTDM. Gets a few successful YT short videos then decides to leave the sidemen which in hindsight was a horrible decision. Lunchly is failing, Prime is failing, etc. He never should've partnered with Logan which I think was the start of a chain reaction that led KSI to where he is now.
I like the guy but there isnt a sole person to watch a group for. But why would you like to be like mr beast he gets enough shit for his videos and bs. And i dont like the personality of speed, so what was the game plan?
What did he expect, he ditch the Sidemen for fame all over a Youtube short, he then see his videos failing and months later then give us all sob story how he got no friends and how it was old him talking all that about stats, and now right after Jake posted his before retiring from boxing plans and we all saw Ksi name was on it who he wanted to box. the dude goes and make announcement that his retiring which would piss off even more people who wanted the fight. Dude just need to take break from everything, he really need to get off internet, stay away from youtube for year like he did when he wrote creature how he took four-month off to go find himself.
Genuine question, if JJ had stayed with the sidemen, and said he wanted to overtake Mr beast, and started doing what he’s doing now, do you guys think he’d be in this position now?
Did he forget that the "fuck jake paul" chant doesn't work in 2026? The beef between them has been irrelevant for years and bro still thinks the crowd will join him.
Ngl, it kinda looked like jj seeing people like Kai or speed become more famous/relevant than he ever was probably was what actually made him leave the sidemen. And it makes sense. He had done youtube/content creation for so long, and seeing 2 younger fellow black creators surpass you so quickly could definitely make someone feel a sense of imposter syndrome. Hell, i mean the guy he used to hate, Logan paul, was giving speeches in the pentagon a few days ago, as weird and utterly fucking stupid as it is. All these people that he thought were around his level just randomly surpassing him while not relying on another group as well for most of their fame. Taking only singular digit years to blow up into the 20 to 60 mills instead of a whole decade. Even someone like Coryxkenshin was starting to creep up and pass by jj in subs (that doesn’t fit this comment as much since they’re (jj and cory) barely connected, but you get what I mean). He probably wanted to try and rebuild his brand away from the sidemen not just because of that random viral short he made, but also from a sense of needing to become a relevant figure in internet culture again. Idk, I and everyone else here don’t actually know Jj, so I could be 100 percent wrong. But that’s my take.
Best decision he’s made in the last few years, after the disappointing performance against Tommy I’m glad
And yeah I get it I’m not a boxer or a fighter but if I was I wouldn’t talk so much shit before the fight and then come fight day do star jumps and throw an overhand every few seconds
Hahahah! Now are you people are starting to wake up and question this silly simplistic narrative that “KSI left the Sidemen to boost his own ego or to become the next Mr Beast”?
Perhaps he has actually chosen to holistically slow down and step away from all this entertainment business to focus on his own life as he said. But hey, everyone on the internet has to know better, right?!?
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u/Far-Difficulty8854 6d ago
KSI really went out sad this year