hello um i noticed you made a post about jerma985 recently.
would you mind explaining who he is to me and why he is a meme. i live under a rock and only consume furry/ace attorney memes
of course! jerma is a twitch streamer who does streams playing games by himself and with other streamers, and he’s specifically well known for his incredibly low production value streams, bizarre and disturbing sense of humor, and tendency to produce strange noises and jumpscare his viewers at random intervals.
hes a meme primarily because of his streams where he fucks around in front if a green screen so people can edit him into situations and whatnot, and he’s also just a generally pretty nice if weird guy.
the meme i posted specifically was from a stream where someone in chat said he looked handsome and he immediately pulled the most disturbing face he could. fun guy
those green screen movie night streams jerma does where ppl send in video edits of jerma and stuff like i genuinely think if i saw one of those with me in it i had a fucking panic attack.
Are you familiar with the BaldCoin Halving? You're on Tumblr! Of course you don't know the halving! But you are Jerma fans for sure.
Well. I have a secret to reveal. Jermamites haven't been making compilations out of the bottom of their heart for fun.
We've been doing it for BaldCoins. That's right. We were all mining for BaldCoins.
Every time a person watches a Jerma compilation a miner program runs and mines for a BaldCoin.
There are many rules to mining BaldCoins and I won't bore you with the specifics BUT I will say, since Jerma has initiated the Soft Retirement Protocol, it will now be harder to mine Jerma content for fresh BaldCoins.
After all, once a particular clip has been used in X amount of compilations it stops yielding BaldCoins.
The Jerma economy is going to enter deflation. In order to make good BaldCoins you have to really innovate the way you make compilations.
You're going to want to be the first person to make a video based on the latest Jerma antic.
You're going to go back into the green screen well and find something new to use.
You're going to have to travel back in time and edit streams at an era where Jerma played games for more than 4 hours.
It's going to be hard. I don't know how Cheltie will survive.
Corax is doing the smart thing and making more non Jerma content so when the inevitable happens and we've ran out of videos to make unique compilations from, Corax will have carved a niche as an animator that reviews random things for fun. He'll be like Noodle, except he has a nicer sounding voice, and doesn't act like a dick.
Me? Not sure. There was like five months where I just made Jerma compilations one after the other and I think I lost the muse that compelled me to make Jerma content.
My Jerma archive needs organizing. I downloaded the entire Elden Ring series but upon reflection it's a lot of Jerma playing the game like a jackass and doing much worse than virtually everyone else that played the game. There were Vtubers who don't play Fromsoftware games that played Elden Ring better than Jerma does.
So I need more compilations from Elden Ring and not hours of Jerma brute forcing bosses that people naturally beat in less than 30 minutes.
Jerma says he'll be making some interesting videos but I won't be holding my breath because the last time Jerma said X channel was just going to only have X content it didn't get used for that purpose at all.
Just to make a fine point of what's basically happened as a result of his soft retirement:
Jerma won't play anymore Nancy Drew games (Drew Crew is dead)
Jerma won't play Flavor of the month games (five months after it was popular but still)
Jerma will never complete his obligations on making the Catboy Jerma streams.
Jerma Wrestle is cancelled (barring it doesn't get absorbed by Charlie's wrestling show)
Jerma award shows are cancelled (not enough content produced)
Jerma Holiday streams are probably cancelled.
The Jerma debt will never be fulfilled.
The axe dodge stream is probably cancelled.
Streams where people play Co-op games should be on the table but Jerma acted like it would be a huge inconvenience to play a a co-op games so that's probably also cancelled.
So what's left? Very random things based on the very few interests he still has which is to perform (because he's a theater kid at heart) and do like streams of him reacting to consumerism. Oh an House Flipper. I don't know why but we'll always have House Flipper.
So we're like 12 streams a year now at best.
But I've been through this before. Jontron era gamegrumps, Yathzee19, I'm going all in on Neuro Sama. That Chatbot is peak content.
For now though, enjoy probably my favorite Jerma Compilation edit.