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As much as most of us dont want to believe it, the downfall of KSI has been on going for years now and its just going from bad to worse.
I remember being so hyped for every FIFA video and skit he posted, then listening and chosing sides during the diss track era then counting the days for his Boxing match vs Logan and then looking forward to every Try not to laugh or One question go during Covid.
Those were the best periods of KSI and even tho there were some bad periods too like the Deji vs KSI situation or the gamer stuff controversy it still never was like this.
JJ has completely lost everything that made us care for him and has gone a path I dont think he will ever come back from.
But the downfall didnt just happen now, its been going on for years and I think I can pin point some of the turning points that changed him.
The first turning point and the catalyst for the KSI downfall was the KSI Show. Many have forgotten but this was the first time KSI betrayed the fans.
The KSI Show was marketed and hyped as something big, only to be way more expensive then it was worth, 90% a concert, horribly unfunny and it had misleading advertising as it was said it would not be put up for free only to be put up for free afterwards and was hyping up at least a spar vs Logan only to end with nothing.
KSI did not take the backlash well and instead of accepting it he went and moped around trying to make the audience feel bad for real criticism.
And the fans ate it up, said no problem we will forget about it and this gave KSI the idea to use this as a way to protect himself from backlash.
But here is where the biggest moment and the full start of the downfall happens - KSI gets together with Logan.
Before that they did not care much for each other especially during the build up for their boxing match but after the KSI Show, Logan was able to show KSI something about him that made KSI want to be as close to him as possible.
The bad part is that those things are what make Logan the most hated person on Youtube (even more than Jake) yet KSI seemed to fuck with those things.
His relationship with Logan changed his mindset to: How can get the most amount of money from any situation.
And thats how Prime was created. Through Prime he got closer and closer with Logan, taking many of his mannerisms and doing stuff he normally didnt do.
He knew that Prime wasnt a good product but didnt care as long it made him millions.
Then he went back with boxing and from the start he went with the Logan tactic for the Floyd match - Hype up the fights but dont make actual challenging fights.
Pineda x Swarmz (Wassabi who he made his fans go and attack him for having a concussion and being forced to pull out), Faze Temper and the other guy he elbowed were not fights he should have gone for one by one if he wanted a real test.
It was something Logan would do and he was going with it earning millions and that started to make him cocky. He though he was actually a great boxer for beating up Pineda and Swarmz and after Jake lost to Tommy he thought this is my shot to get one over on Jake.
This is where another big moment happens in his downfall - The build up and loss to Tommy.
They way he was acting during the build up against Tommy was cringe and embarrassing (remember the anime speech that was more cringe than Logans fish and math bit during Logan v KSI 2) and I dont think he was aware of it.
He went in too confident and performed horrendously. I think it should have been a draw but the loss was not undeserved as KSI didnt even try to fight and was doing the weird karate stance that was very embarrassing while constantly going for a clinch.
But the worse part was his reaction after losing where he went on to act like a baby, breaking a TV screen, crying he was cheated, filling an appeal (something he clowned Logan for) and then trying to send his fans to harass Tommy in the streets and on social media.
This is were I started losing faith in KSI and the moment I stopped watching everyone of his videos as this was just not something I wanted to see from him. It looked like something Logan would do and I hate the guy if its not obvious at this point.
In all this period you could also feel that he was not as close to the Sidemen as he was before. They were still best friends but the chemistry was just not the same during Sidemen videos.
The next moment was the end of the Boxing career. After the Tommy loss everyone was waiting for what KSI would do next but nobody could image what actually happened.
First was the 2 in 1 vs Anthony Taylor and Slim he tried to organize that nobody wanted to see only to pull out after a hand injury which later on would end his career as a boxer.
Then was the horrendous decision to try and have a boxing match vs WAYNE BRIDGE out of all people and whats worse he ruined that fight by attacking Bridge and using the John Terry afair as build up which was scummy and idiotic af.
After that backlash he then went on to try and make a fight vs Dillion Dannis only for him to, lets be real, fake an illness and pull out (He was filmed being at a concert the night the fight was supposed to happen while saying he could barley breathe)
After this and him not treating the hand injury seriously enough, his boxing career just ended which after everything before was just anticlimactic as hell.
The next big moment in the downfall then came with Lunchly and Thick of it.
Lunchly was another obvious cash grab with Mr.Beast in a period where he was under a lot of scrutiny for what he was doing.
People normally did not like this and if KSI just ignored it or gave a corporate statement like Mr.Beast did then everything would have been okay.
Instead he went way overboard with It and here is where the DanTDM situation happens. KSI was doing crazy and embarrassing stuff over one tweet.
At the start it was obvious that his ego got hurt by it but as time went one someone obviously told him to start using the hate as a marketing ploy for his new song.
And thats what he did and it just made people more and more angry with him including 90% of his fanbase.
And them the whammy came - Thick of it. This whole song and everything around it fully shows why the downfall of KSI happened.
KSI was never a big time musician but many people still to this day love songs like Holiday, Lighter, Dont Play games, Lamborghini etc (even heard a few of them on the radio a couple of days ago oddly enough)
But Thick of it was a music career suicide song (on the level of Rebbeca Black - Friday) but KSI trying to get as much money out of it didnt care.
His ego was hurt and even he knew that the song was trash but he went on a tear attacking and creating hate drama to get as much money out of the song.
At the cost of that, every song that KSI has put out after that has flopped hard even tho they were not bad songs and nobody treats him like a good musician anymore.
And this is where the final part of the downfall happen - The Misfist x Andrew Tate stuff, Switch to Mr Beast slop content and leaving the Sidemen
After Thick of it his views and rating started going down and he was becoming irrelevant in the youtube space.
To combat this he first tried to revive the Covid era style videos but got little to no success so he thought of the idea to copy Mr.Beast videos as he knows they would get him views with the child audience.
By doing that he basically showed what his priorities are and alienated even more of the fans that grew up with his rise.
While doing this he decided to create fake drama and got Andrew Tate out of all people inside Misfits which meant he really didnt care about anything else except attention and views.
And that was just recently proved with him officially leaving the Sidemen. Its obvious especially with Mo's tweet and the Vidal podcast that he only left them cause he wanted to get more money for himself and its was only a matter of time knowing how much he had changed for the worse compared to everyone else in the group.
All in all im sad for what KSI has become. From one of my favorite youtubers he has become one of my most disliked on the platform.
If before he had me just watching 2/3 out of his last 10 videos after the Tommy stuff, now it will be 0 out of 10. I just cant support him anymore.
In the end Harry was right - The old KSI will never be topped.
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