Trivia / Jreg

• Acting for Two: Jreg plays almost every character on jris channel. Those not played by Jreg are usually one-off roles or cameos.
• Approval of God: Jreg absolutely loves the fan art jris show about personified ideologies get, and even shows them off on jris channel.
• Ascended Fanon:
  • Realicide is confirmed in the "Anarchist Infighting/Centricide 6.5" video to be occurring at the same time as the Centricide series as Anarcho-Pacifism mentions Egoism has gone to do something else.
  • ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) is a The Mental Illnesses fan character created by u/ifshebreath_sheath0t. She's the less-hyper twin sister of the canon character ADHD. Jreg, on jris official Reddit account, declared the character canon.
• Creator Backlash: Downplayed in that while jre isn't angry about it, jre has expressed disappointment that the r/Jreg subreddit is mostly left libertarian leaning as opposed to a united ground, and is hopeful that r/anticentrism has a more diverse political audience. Jre has acknowledged that the subreddit leaning authoritarian would have likely gotten it banned however due to reddit rules.
• Creator Breakdown: The entire channel from the end of Centricide onward seems to have been perpetually in this, maybe. A large focus of the channel is Greg's attempts at "normalcy" while describing jris (potentially untrue) struggles with either Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder, or a combination of the two and his bleak outlook on society as it attempts to drown out its lack of stable frameworks with stimulus and meaningless noise. Again, there is absolutely no way of verifying whether this is all a gigantic Kayfabe meta-ironic art project jre's doing or if jre's actually chronicling what going on in jris head. Notably, on April 18th, 2023, jre released a video called "How I Cured My Mental Illness", which is either an actual recording of Jreg having a hypomanic episode and ranting about jris view of the world or a completely scripted act, like jre claims at the very end of the video.
• Creator Recovery: As of this video essay, Jreg has demonstrated that jre's finally starting to escape the schizopolitical loneliness jre's been living in for years now by fostering a genuine supporting and loving community around jrimself like jre always advocated for, and intends to tone down jris usage of meta-irony as a shield against loneliness and depression going forward.
• He Also Did:
  • Guevara is also a spoken-word poet, which jre has a separate channel for.
  • Presumably done as a school project back when Guevara was in university, Greg co-wrote and starred in amateur short film Antopia.
• Meaningful Release Date:
  • The first episode of The Mental Illnesses came out May 8th. May being Mental Health Awareness month.
    • May is also BPD awareness month. On May 8th, 2007, the National Education Alliance for Borderline Personality Disorder (NEABPD) organized Congressional Hearings to educate legislators about BPD. BPD is the most prominent mental illness in the first episode.
  • "Laugh Track", a Schizophrenia-focused episode, coming out on World Schizophrenia Day. This is acknowledged in the video description.
• Meme Acknowledgment: "Anarkiddy" being heard as "Anarkitty". Eventually leads to Ancom ( now transformed into Ansyn) getting a new hoodie with animal ears.
• Real Life Writes the Hairstyle: Jreg began growing out jres hair and facial hair for the second JrEra. Although jre still continues to play Centricide characters in one-off shorts. This means Centricide characters, who have only been portrayed as clean-shaven, have inexplicably grown facial hair. This has led to moments like Libertarian's fake mustache being placed over Jreg's real mustache.
• Rule 34 – Creator Reactions: Parodied relentlessly in Please Stop Sexualizing Me. ^note Regardless of whatever jris views may be, Jreg is likely savvy enough to know that asking people on the web to stop sexualizing jris characters/jrem will have the opposite effect from both jris queer fans and even authright fans who do it for shock humor.
• Shrug of God: In line with the show's anti-centrism and for comic effect, this is the only way Jreg appears capable of expressing jris thoughts on anything relating to it.
  • Especially of note is his "I am a [viewpoint]" series of videos. They are all completely minimalist (no musical numbers, no outlandish costumes, nothing), and they're all presented as earnest videos where jre just straightforwardly talks about jris viewpoints and the evolution thereof. However, they all present mutually-exclusive viewpoints from one another, from claiming to actually be a centrist, to a progressive, to a Marxist-Leninist, to an identitarian, to a libertarian, to just an anti-centrist.
  • Jre also took up a sponsorship with Young Americans for Liberty, an American libertarian organization. Whether this actually reflects Jreg's views or not is ambiguous once again, given that Jreg is 'Canadian', acts oddly during the sponsorship segment and claims to support it as the organization will fight for jris right to be addicted to cocaine. While jris fans remained confused, the YAFL found the sponsorship humorous nonetheless regardless of what Jreg actually believes in.
• Trolling Creator: Practically the poster child of this trope at this point. Jre uploaded 6 videos within an hour proclaiming that jre was 6 contradictory political ideologies in a completely earnest tone, made jris discord server publicly accessible for anyone on the internet which effectively turned it into a warzone, made a very serious video about how unsure jre is about the future of the channel, and released a video a week later stating jre's going to quit Youtube, only to upload another video an hour later stating jre's just suddenly changed jris mind and then guilt trips the audience because of how tired jre is of making videos. A few months after the discord dilemma, jre made a livestream where jre singlehandedly "purged" individual members of jris server, before deleting it altogether.
  • When, practically overnight, Jreg blocked an entire subcommunity of fans shitposting on Twitter, it became a meme, however when a few weeks later several fan artists who had been dedicating their time to making Centricide fan content and had never gone out of their way to harass Jreg were also blocked, the fandom found that jre’d taken things too far. When asked about it, Jreg explained that jre simply wanted to distance jremself from other people's reinterpretation of jris work as to not copy their ideas, and that jre’d done it because internet fame was slowly becoming too much for jrem to handle.
  • Jreg also uploaded a video claiming jre was stopping the Centricide series before it was completed...only to reveal in the final minute of the video that this was all just a set up to drop the trailer for the final installment.
• Word of Gay: Ancap and Libertarian are confirmed to be married in the Centricide 8 director's cut, but it's never mentioned in the official series or deleted scenes.
• Word of God: Jris video on the Jreg community appears to be the only sincere statement jre has given out regarding jris fandom and the direction of the show. In it, jre has expressed gratitude for being able to inspire fan content, help people become more aware of their politics, and discouraged older people from attacking youths that might make "cringey" fan media and follow obscure ideologies when inspired by jrem.