She's a c-grade Youtube commentator at best, she started a small beans kickstarter that blew out of proportion, she proceeded to attempt to improve the quality of her videos alongside trying to cash in on her 15 minutes of fame, she keeps up her relvency pretty much based solely on the people that hate her at this point, if the OCD people on the internet could stop obsessing over how wrong she must be for 5 minutes she would go right back to being a c-grade Youtube commentator that no one outside of a few thousand followers would care about.
I watched her early videos, the premise is sound in some cases, but her early stuff was too much just picking examples from TVTropes and talking in a very dry manner. Her video quality has apparently improved, but she still has issues with taking things out of context, and I'm not sure how many of the games she's commenting on are things that she has any real knowledge of. The Hitman thing would be the most egregious example, since there are things to criticize about Hitman's use of female characters (the Saints), but she seems to have gotten all her knowledge of the series from wikipedia articles.
What she really needs is to throw a few thousand of those kickstarter dollars into getting some editors who have thoroughly played the games she talks about who can collaborate and fill any contextual holes she may have missed. I can understand mistakes when you are talking about the 10's of thousands of video games that have come out over the course of history, even avid gamers who have played their whole life like Total Biscuit, Jim Sterling, Angry Joe, JonTron, make mistakes or miss context in games that needs to be pointed out to them. The issue is that she is talking about such a wide variety of series, she really can't be playing or experiencing them all first hand to a degree that would adequately inform her commentary. Some collaborators with prior experience, or who can at least share the research load, would go a long way to improving the factual accuracy of her videos.
Beyond that, yeah, she is pretty much only relevant because the people who hate her seem to obsess over every little thing she says, and are compelled by some kind of cosmic force to post new threads every single time. Hell, I can't even remember the last positive thread started about her, if people would stop trying to cry to the rest of the gaming community everytime she does anything remotely questionable, it's very likely I would have completely forgotten about her by this point in time.
In this at least, Jim Sterling is right, she is a monster created and sustained by the people that hate her, and she is not the next Jack Thompson, no matter how much people keep insisting she is.
