For YMMV pages of Jerma985's works:
- Accidental Innuendo: "That's why I use the strap on...!"
*beat* "...on my wrist..." - Archive Binge: Jerma's been at it for over 10 years now. There's plenty of content on his now-defunct original Jerma985 YouTube channel, plus his stream highlights on 2ndJerma, plus his full streams on Twitch. Don't forget the plethora of videos featuring him on channels like Ster's too!
- Awesome Music:
- All of Jerma's beatboxing; he does it as a joke, but he's actually really good at it! Some highlights include his Jingle Bells remix and his "Giant Enemy Spider" song. A compilation can be found here.
- Jerma's song for STAR_ at the end of "Lethal League - Dinner or Song?"
- Jerma's Pirate Marching Band by PiPsteer, a remix of Jerma's pirate song joke from "Garbage Guardians". It's so good that Jerma officially used it as the intro theme to Jermemeia.
- See That Headshot by JerryTerry is another remix that is Youtube-era Jerma bliss.
- All of Jerma's beatboxing; he does it as a joke, but he's actually really good at it! Some highlights include his Jingle Bells remix and his "Giant Enemy Spider" song. A compilation can be found here
- Base-Breaking Character: B. F. Bugleberry. Many fans see him as a Love to Hate character, but there are also plenty who genuinely despise him due to his incomprehensible speech and weird stream segments.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: At the end of the Byeah fight in Jermania 2014, the winning Byeah is run over by someone who the resultant segue into GTA IV footage reveals was another Byeah, who declares himself "the only Byeah that matters" and is never seen again.
- Crosses the Line Twice: While playing Scorn, the protagonist must put a small, baby-like creature in a pod and watch as it gets crushed to harvest its blood. Horrific. Jerma playing the Austin Powers theme song during this sequence? Hilarious
- Discredited Meme: The "When the imposter is sus" meme has started to become this, partly due to the general decline in popularity of Among Us and partly due to Jerma admitting that he isn't a fan of it.
- Parodied and Enforced with a New Year's themed Jerma Rumble consisting of old twitch chat memes generated through the year, with the winner being the only one allowed to be carried over into the New Year; All others were banned and then brutally murdered by Jerma. The reigning champion was Baldcoin.
- Ensemble Dark Horse: There are several minor characters from the Jermaverse who have become considerably popular with the fandom. Notable examples include The Egg, Glue Man, and Mr. Green. Burgah Boy may also count as one for older fans.
- Fan Nickname: "The Sus Guy" for Jerma, referencing an Among Us-themed photoshop of him with a Slasher Smile. The nickname originated from people who knew the meme but not Jerma's content before catching on with fans in an ironic sense after Jerma expressed his bewilderment at seemingly being subjected to Parody Displacement.
- Friendly Fandoms:
- A large overlap exists between Jerma fans and Vinesauce fans, on account of Jerma's streaming style being pretty similar to Vinny and Joel's and due to Jerma being friends with the two.
- Criken's fanbase also overlaps with Jerma's a fair bit, due them both not really taking games that seriously, as well as several collab streams.
- Harsher in Hindsight: In several videos, Jerma laughs too hard and exclaims "Ow my chest!" or "I'm gonna pass out!" While this was amusing in the past, it became a bit more sinister when Jerma began experiencing chronic chest pain in 2020 that hindered his ability to stream, which was likely related to his previous laughter-induced pain.
- Heartwarming Moments:
- Jerma's public reunion with Ster was one of these for long-time Jerma fans. The two had a falling out in 2017, which Ster unfortunately made known during his own stream. The two seemed ice-cold towards each other for over an entire year; Ster would occasionally make spiteful remarks about Jerma, while Jerma would calmly and wistfully say he missed his friend. Fortunately, the two eventually appeared together on Jerma's stream for a short skit, confirming they'd made up! Apparently they'd made up shortly after the falling out, but had kept it a secret so they could do a surprise reunion stream together - things got pushed back and they kept forgetting, while Ster continued to bad-mouth Jerma to hype it up, which made the beef appear more and more legitimate. Jerma and Ster's reunion was certainly a sigh of relief for the fans.
- The 2019 JermAwards brought in a much larger audience than Jerma expected, an audience who showered him in love and donations. He was in utter disbelief nearly the entire time, sometimes on the verge of crying, and it was a truly Heartwarming stream.
- During one stream, Jerma read a chat comment regarding the watcher struggling with depression, and asked what could be done about it. He then took the time to not only respectfully address the question, but then went on to speak about how how he deals with such things and his genuine motivations for doing what he did, and encouraging the watcher (and the rest of the stream) to seek out accomplishment by helping others, no matter how small the gesture may be.
- He Really Can Act:
- Contrasting his usual fare of making silly voices for the sake of comedy, the voice he uses as the announcer at the start of "JERMANIA 2014!" actually manages to sound grandiose, yet proper for the scenario.
- While his voices are usually exaggerated and goofy, watching enough videos shows that Jerma has a very good range, and he has provided professional voice work for the games Galactic Phantasy and Apotheon.
- Jerma's voice for Spamton has received much praise, as he's not only a natural fit for the character, but adds a filter to Spamton NEO that makes him sound even more menacing.
- Contrasting his usual fare of making silly voices for the sake of comedy, the voice he uses as the announcer at the start of "JERMANIA 2014!"
- Hilarious in Hindsight: During "JERMANIA 2014!", Pac-Man and Sonic team up to take down Gabe Newell. Just a couple weeks later, Pac-Man was confirmed as a playable character alongside Sonic in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS.
- Not only that, but in Pac-Man and The Ghostly High School Reunion, there's a bit where Pac-Man asks to be in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS. Cue people asking if Jerma was psychic.
- The many comparisons between him and the Scout came to a head when Scout's name was revealed to be Jeremy.
- The plot of "Castle Griffinsteed" (heir to a dark fortune descends into a cursed castle and eventually confronts their own evil ancestor responsible for the curse) is almost identical to the plot of Darkest Dungeon, which came out only a few months later.
- Jerkass Woobie: Jerma develops into this In-Universe as the streams go on. He grows increasingly greedy and cruel as power corrupts him, murdering Santa Claus and enacting a purge on the memes, but he's being manipulated to act increasingly insane as Twitch Chat eggs him on. He's despised and ignored by his (fictional) family, who view him as a worthless failure, witnesses all of his new friends die on the Hot Air Balloon, and is beaten to a pulp by the Green Screen, only surviving because of Super JEX.
- LGBT Fanbase: After jumping to Twitch, Jerma has developed a downright massive one, to the extent where "gay people talk about big Jerma streams like they're the Superbowl" is a popular joke online. Much of this stems from the campy, elaborate nature of Jerma's content and the lack of any prominent "dudebro" elements. This section of his fanbase further increased in size after he explicitly called out transphobic chat members and voiced solidarity with the LGBT+ community.
- Love to Hate: Definitely B. F. Bugleberry. He is by no means a good character — he's not very funny, charismatic, or appealing to look at. But there's something about him that is so ironically hilarious and stupid that he remains a fan favorite.
- Memetic Badass:
- The Green Screen from Jermania 2018, thanks to delivering the best performance of any character in a Jerma Rumble. Not only did he win, but he currently holds the record for most eliminations in a single Rumble at a whopping 10, meaning he eliminated almost half the contestants. When Jerma tried to redo it for a more fair fight, the Green Screen itself crashed the game, and resisted almost all attempts at putting him in his place. Jerma had to throw a Game-Breaker of a character at him to stop him, and it almost didn't work. Thanos comparisons were quick to come.
- Other wrestling badasses include Gabe Newell, whose amazing performance and dramatic quest for glory captivated the hearts of many, and Dr. Oetker, who is currently the only wrestler to have ever performed a double-elimination.
- Memetic Mutation: Has its own page
- Memetic Psychopath: Jerma in-universe since around late 2017, with fans playing him up as a bloodthirsty sociopath while he himself chimes in by killing characters in-universe. It's only gotten stronger over time with gags such as the meat grinder clip, Jerma's fascination with vehicle accidents, and the memetic "Red Sex" photo of Jerma that got posted on reddit as a "every serial killer's faces combined into one image" hoax that gained significant traction.
- Moral Event Horizon: The infamous "meme slaughter" stream, where Jerma killed 29 innocent sentient beings because he found their jokes to be old. He later restored them to life, but only because chat forced him to.
- Never Live It Down:
- "JermaCraft", a short-lived Minecraft let's-play that Jerma did in the early days of his channel before cancelling it after 10 episodes. It lives on as an in-joke and copypasta in the community, and several entries during the Green Screen stream used it as a punchline.
- Losing to Pinwheel in Dark Souls.note
- Nightmare Fuel:
- The Magician from Jerma Rumble Live Action. He looks about as silly as all the other wrestlers, but then he starts pulling their organs out of his hat.
- When it isn't being depressing, the stream of The Sims is this. The Sweets family lives a miserable life in poverty, with some additional fear sprinkled on top of it as they have a child. Eventually, the parents die in two freak accidents, with their daughter actually watching her mother and a family friend burn to death. This causes her to create a fantasy world in order to escape her extremely traumatic reality.
- The end of the video "Patch Notes", which starts out as a rather mundane video in which he reacts to patch notes for various games. Then he reacts to patch notes for... Himself. And he doesn't like what the update has in store for him, but is unable to stop it from downloading, so he decides to unplug the ethernet cable. It's then revealed that he has various cables installed in the back of his neck, which he starts pulling out trying to find the ethernet cable, increasingly desperate as the download continues. Inherent disturbingness of that concept aside, it starts off fairly comical. He unplugs a cable line, and then a phone line after receiving a spam call, finally hitting a switch that makes him sneeze, much to his confusion as to why he even has that. But then he pulls out the HDMI cable, which makes him go blind and start to really panic. After that, he pulls out the RCA cables, going deaf, and the Special Effect Failure of pulling out one of the ports instead of the cable only makes it worse. This leaves only the ethernet cable, which he's desperately trying to remove as the download finishes... And the last few seconds of the video imply he failed.
- Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Bugleberry obtained a lot of new fans and love after the cauldron stream, especially after the reveal that Bugleberry is the one who creates the Jerma characters. It got to the point that chat sided with Bugleberry when Jerma called in to bully him!
- The Scrappy: B. F. Bugleberry has fallen to this. Among hardcore Jerma fans he is just a Base-Breaking Character, but you can't argue with numbers: Bugleberry's appearance on the Halloween 2019 stream caused the viewership to drop by around 4,000 people. The Youtube video of the same segment, Bugleberry Teaches You A Lesson, is also one of 2ndJerma's least-viewed videos.
- Special Effects Failure:
- Lampshaded in Jerma Rumble - Live Action when Jerma is killed by Demon Lord Zeraxos with a stock fireball effectAnnouncer: He just threw a shitty CG fireball at Jerma!
- Some of the censored pictures in “The Photos Are In” can be seen to actually be not so explicit, such as a photo of Jerma full frontal actually has him wearing blue shorts, or a photo allegedly of his butthole actually being of a loaf of bread. Granted, one might find that a relief.
- Lampshaded in Jerma Rumble - Live Action when Jerma is killed by Demon Lord Zeraxos with a stock fireball effect
- Tear Jerker:
- The end of the first Sims 4 stream somehow manages to cross into this despite being blatantly ridiculous. Despite the fact that they're horrible mutants, Jerma's husband dying at his wedding and him numbing himself with liquor is depressing in a Crosses the Line Twice kind of way.
- The first half of the The Sims stream is pretty depressing. The Sweets family lives in squalor, is often way too depressed to function, and Caramel's parents often argue in front of her. Arthur eventually dies in a house fire, which further impoverishes and depresses the family. As if it couldn't get any worse, Jane eventually dies in another house fire, causing Caramel to seek out a fantasy world in the form of a carnival as a coping mechanism until eventually, her grades slip so bad that she is shipped to military school.
