When you think of Twitch, you might picture someone playing video games with their face in a little box in the corner of the screen. You might not imagine a bizarre live event with real production value that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to create.
But that's exactly what the streamer Jerma985 is making a career out of: huge, elaborate, surreal shows that are pushing livestreaming as a form to strange new heights. And hundreds of thousands of viewers are tuning in on Twitch.. He'd scripted and directed it, but there was an element of the unplanned and unexpected.That evening, an announcer's booming voice welcomed viewers to a stadium in suburban St.
A team of clowns in full face makeup — and baseball uniforms — ran out onto the field, and a mustachioed magician with a baseball bat stepped up to the plate. There were unicycling outfielders. There were Mario Kart-esque traps and sabotages. And so many players got thrown out for trickery and bad behavior that the umpire himself had to take an at-bat or two.
The man underneath all that padding and the umpire's mask? Jeremy Elbertson, better known as Jerma985."When that show is over, I am covered in shaving cream and sweat," he told NPR."I'm a disgusting mess of a person."
LOL.
NPR writing about Jerma feels like a fever dream, but a fever dream I don't want to wake up from
Now this is epic
We are taking part in Jerma history
oh my GOD my DAD is going to kNOW WHO jermA IS this is INSANE
HELLO?
'Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to episode one of Jermacraft, The series where I play Minecraft! This is going to be a single player let's play, and when I say 'let's play' I use that term... pretty loosely, because I am an idiot in this game.
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Gyeettt your- .. dude, you said, get cidar on Mr beast getting lashed. Rude. concomitant
You could say hes the giant rat that makes all of the rules
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