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Jerma985
File:Jerma985.jpg
Jerma at TwitchCon 2017.
Personal information
BornSeptember 22, 1985 (age 36)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupations
YouTube information
Channels
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Years active2011–present
Genre
  • Variety
Subscribers807,000 (Jerma985)
553,000 (2ndJerma)
Total views217 million (Jerma985)
191 million (2ndJerma)
Associated acts
100,000 subscribers2013
Twitch information
Channel
Years active2016–present
GenreGaming
Followers751,781
Last updated: December 13, 2021

Jeremy Elbertson[1] (born September 22, 1985), better known by his online alias Jerma985 or simply Jerma, is an American YouTuber, live streamer[2] and voice actor.[3] He is best known for his "borderline surreal" engagement-based livestreams on Twitch.[4][5]

Early life

Jeremy Elbertson was born on September 22, 1985, in Boston, Massachusetts[6] and lived there until 2018, when he moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.[7]

After graduating with a B.S. in Communications and a 2.6 GPA, Elbertson immediately went to work as a freelance wedding photographer,[8] along with having brief stints as a substitute teacher.[9]

Career

Pre-Newgrounds

Jerma previously owned a now defunct website, "jermanet.com". It contained video and audio clips, largely from his college years. The website can be found on the Wayback Machine, but most of the archived website contains broken hyperlinks and it is regarded as incomplete.[10]

Voice acting

On April 17, 2005, Jerma created a Newgrounds account. He largely frequented the Voice Acting Club board of the NG Forum "Clubs & Crews", where he discussed voice acting work with other members.[11] The only piece of media appearing on his now abandoned profile was voice acting work on Shaun McGlinn's, "Salty Swamp," where he plays Loke the Village Idiot, along with other numerous characters.[12]

Jerma created a voice123 account on May 5, 2005, containing numerous voice samples.[3] On March 3, 2006, Jerma announced on the "Voice Acting Club" board that he, along with his friends, would be creating a Detective Comedy titled "Chase Fairbanks: Undercover Idiot." Whether or not if anything came out of this is unknown.[13]

YouTube

Jerma created his YouTube channel, Jerma985, on June 11, 2011.[14] His content primarily focused on the video game Team Fortress 2, which he used to help raise money for the non-profit organization Camp One Step.[15]

On October 8, 2011, Jerma announced that he was partnering with Machinima.[16]

In March 2014, Jerma released the first "Jerma Rumble," an annual production which used the WWE 2K games to make "crazy" characters and watch them wrestle in-game.[17] In August 2016, Jerma released a live-action wrestling sketch as that year's Jerma Rumble.[1] In 2015, he played multiple low quality Grand Theft Auto rip-offs through the Apple app store, which is to date his most-viewed video.[18]

Twitch

While Jerma had occasionally streamed on Twitch, then known as Justin.tv, since 2011, he did not fully transition into Twitch streaming until 2016.[19] He primarily streams video games (such as The Sims) while interacting with viewers in the chat.[20] After transitioning to Twitch as a main platform, he became well known for his "unconventional streams" and green screen performances, which fans used to edit comedic videos.[21]

On September 21, 2019, Jerma hosted a real-life "robot carnival" stream that used viewer-controlled drones, allowing members of the live stream chat to control the aim in carnival games such as ring toss and dunk tank.[22] In March 2021, Jerma hosted a real-life archaeology and geology stream with a paleontologist from the Nevada Science Center.[23] It was on this stream that he "unearthed" Grotto Beasts, a fictitious card game from the 1990s based on Pokémon.[24] This was an elaborate stunt that his fans played along with and in actuality, the cards were produced in collaboration with multiple artists.[25][26]

In August 2021, Jerma began his real-life Sims-inspired "Dollhouse" streams, which he described as his "biggest project yet."[27] The first of three streams was aired on August 18 and began with a prerecorded video of Jerma choosing his outfit. The streams allowed viewers to control Jerma's movements similar to the way one would control a Sims character: keep him fed, happy, healthy and energetic.[28] The Dollhouse series is notable for its high production value[29] as well as the level of control that viewers were allowed to have over the events of the stream.[30] These streams used a combination of visual effects and a real set.[31]

He has collaborated with other content creators, such as Ludwig Ahgren.[32]

References

  1. ^ a b "A Twitch streamer let people control his life like The Sims, including when he peed". Polygon. Retrieved December 15, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ^ "Twitch streamer forgets how chairs work with amusing fail". Dexerto. January 1, 2020. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Jeremy Harrington | Voice over actor | Voice123". Voice123. Retrieved December 16, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Twitch Streamer Jerma Is Letting Fans Control Him In 'Sims' Streams". UPROXX. August 20, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  5. ^ Guerreiro, Guilherme (September 1, 2021). "Press Play to Start: What the emergence of "IRL" streams on Twitch means for gaming". Daily Trojan. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  6. ^ Jerma985. ""@jlincoln88 hell ya, I'm south of Boston. Im at the derby shoppes all the time with Burgah boy hah. Small world"". Twitter. Retrieved December 15, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  7. ^ "Just a reminder. I'll be house hunting in Vegas this week. No streams til Thursday. See ya sooooon". Twitter. Retrieved December 27, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  8. ^ Jerma985 - What Jerma did after college, August 31, 2019, retrieved December 18, 2021
  9. ^ Spencer, Maxwell. "Elbertson takes teaching tricks to Twitch as Jerma985". The Rubicon. Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  10. ^ "Jerma's Student Videos, Audio clips, and Animations". web.archive.org. March 13, 2005. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  11. ^ "Jerma". Newgrounds.com. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  12. ^ "Salty Swamp". Newgrounds.com. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  13. ^ "Voice Acting Club". Newgrounds.com. Retrieved December 18, 2021.
  14. ^ "Jerma985 - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  15. ^ ""Tip of the Hats," a TF2-themed charity event, is the most fun Overwatch fans will have all week". InvenGlobal. October 4, 2018. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  16. ^ Vlog - Partnership and TF2 Server :), retrieved December 18, 2021
  17. ^ Says, Panyue (March 13, 2014). "Pro Wrestling Is So Much Better With Sonic And Gabe Newell". Kotaku Australia. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  18. ^ Pocket-lint (October 2, 2015). "This guy plays all the bad iOS GTA clones so you don't have to". www.pocket-lint.com. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  19. ^ "Chat will control Jerma in his upcoming "doll house" streams". WIN.gg. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  20. ^ "Probably Shouldn't Have Checked On Caramel". Kotaku. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  21. ^ "Twitch Streamer Creates Backyard Carnival Using Twitch-Controlled Robots". TheGamer. September 23, 2019. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  22. ^ "Twitch Streamer Jerma Lets Chat Control His Life In IRL Sims Game". ScreenRant. August 19, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  23. ^ "A Twitch Streamer Unearthed Cards From A Fake '90s Pokémon Ripoff, And Fans Are Pretending The Series Was Real All Along [UPDATE]". Kotaku. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  24. ^ Molke, David (March 9, 2021). "Streamer nutzt den Pokémon-Hype für geniale Fake-Show und alle machen mit". GamePro (in German). Retrieved December 27, 2021.
  25. ^ Osborne, Mary (March 10, 2021). "Why The Internet Is Losing It Over Grotto Beasts". SVG.com. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  26. ^ "What is Grotto Beasts? The 'very real' '90s monster card company owned by Jerma". Dexerto. March 7, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  27. ^ published, Mollie Taylor (August 19, 2021). "IRL Sims stream controlled by viewers goes as well as you'd expect". PC Gamer. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  28. ^ "Twitch Streamer Jerma Is Letting Fans Control Him In 'Sims' Streams". UPROXX. August 20, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  29. ^ "Twitch Streamer Jerma985 is Playing a Weird Version of IRL Sims". Game Rant. August 21, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  30. ^ "Twitch Viewers Control Streamer's Life, Sims Style". Kotaku. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  31. ^ "Twitch star Jerma goes viral with IRL 'Dollhouse' Sims stream as viewers control him". Dexerto. August 19, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
  32. ^ "Ludwig hits back at Dream fans after Content Creator of the Year award drama". Dexerto. November 20, 2021. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
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