The thing with Jim is, all the fairly awful things he says can easily be passed off as - ‘just a joke!!!’ ‘clearly i am Joking,,, don’t be so sensitive it’s my sense of Humour haha!!’, but he is possibly one of the least funny people I’ve ever come across.
Like he’s genuinely not a humorous person, on a deep metaphysical level. I’ve watched his content on and off for years and years and I’ve never once found him funny or charming. Some people actually can pull off the sarcastic jokey piss take persona, they say objectively terrible things but there’s such an obvious jokey vibe that it doesn’t feel off putting or hurtful.
Not with Jim though. And that clip of him saying he doesn’t like Margo is such a great example. It doesn’t feel like a funny tongue in cheek moment. The fact that Sarah’s mum follows it up by cuddling the baby close and telling her she loves her reassuringly says it all. The moment felt sinister and even Sarah’s mum who obviously knows Jim better than I, an internet stranger does, felt uncomfortable. She isn’t smiling or laughing with Jim because Jim isn’t funny.
I’ve said it before, I am not Tanya’s biggest fan, but the singular greatest thing she ever did for herself was to divorce Jim and to do so before having kids with him. He’s so uncomfortably self absorbed, even beyond the standard influencer level. Jim lives in a world where everything has to orbit around him and suit his needs, wants and desires 24/7. He’s subtly controlling and has quite a mean streak, but in a weak whiny ‘I’m a nice guy’ sort of way that probably makes you feel like you’re going insane.
I feel like most women have dealt with a guy like this at some point, the ‘I’m only kidding around!!! Don’t be so sensitive!!!’. But again, he doesn’t have the imagination or charm to be a genuinely funny person. He uses humour as a cowardly veil for this selfish and thoughtless words and actions.
He uses constant off hand mean jokes to put people down and subtly assert his dominance and status. That podcast someone posted on here the other month where the guy from Viral Tap discussed working with him validates this. This was literally a comedy panel show where some roasting and mutual pisstaking would be expected. But even this guy picked up on the fact that, to reiterate my point for the umpteenth time, Jim. Isn’t. Funny. He’s just arrogant, blustering and fairly insecure.