When the show ended wayy too soon and you start watching from season 1 again

“When Team Fortress 3 comes out I’ll be getting that too.” Fantastic.

Jerma accomplished so much in his first year of life

Jerma being 26 when this was recorded is something i cannot fathom compared to now

Jerma’s accent was so bostonian back then

19:10 One Guy singlehandedly saves jerma's whole entire career over ten years ago, it's crazy how deep this lore goes

I absolutely love that after making two pretty normal TF2 gameplay videos his third upload ever was playing a weird obscure PC game while pretending to be a grandpa and doing diarrhea sound effects. Proof that he was always like this.

the thumbnail looks like one of those "detective outsmarts suspect into accidentally spilling the beans" videos

god he's literally never changed i think hes a vampire

It's funny how Jerma is obviously a little nervous and unsure about the whole video commentary thing in his first video, and then like 3 videos in he just went complete performance mode and decided to speak like an old man for an entire video. Not only that but it actually worked, people instantly connected with him and it was the first "bit," he was known for in any capacity.

It's hilarious man his voice bits haven't changed much

Wait wait wait holy shit. That heavy getting backstabbed by him at the start was me wtf

He has retired back to servers, his original habitat

Can’t wait for team fortress 3 to crumb out

3:58 stuff like this always gets me. "I want to thank most of the subscribers, I think there's about 12 of you now." Which of those 12 people did jerma NOT want to thank? lol

"If it wasnt for my real life friend, these videos would not exist" Bless his real life friend for making a amazing KZfaqr (and twitch streamer)

being able to hear jerma talk about how he wanted to be able to do this stuff as a profession and also about how he wanted to have fun with it and his community while knowing he was able to make that happen is really cool to me

Oh, that guy. I know him from playing in servers.

The contrast when it switches between regular tf2 commentary and him doing the voice on the fish game is so funny

"Hold on I have to diarrhea" He was just so poetic back then. *sniffles* Gosh I miss him *sobbing*

This Jerma guy is pretty cool. I wonder when he'll release his next TF2 video

NO WAY THIS IS SICK THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS

Imagine being one of the people there for his 750 subscriber face reveal. Feels like a historic moment

The Jerma famine (2023-current), also known as the Jermamite famine or the Drought of Jex, is an ongoing crisis in the KZfaq and Twitch communities where afflicted users are suffering the effects of a widespread scarcity in new Jerma985 content Just raising awareness ❤

I hope the mac and cheese watch along stream is EXACTLY like his tf2 commentaries

Damn, I forget I was 11 when I first started watching Jerma. This really takes me back

3:09 omg the first fall joke

10:27 Grandpas minecraft speedbuild edm goes hard

Jerma985: Year One is my favourite Frank Miller comic

"when team fortress 3 comes out" oh how naïve we were

Please continue doing this. I really enjoyed seeing Jerma’s growth all in one year. It was really interesting. 2 specific moments I found very touching, and props to you for watching a years worth of videos and adding them, where he explains sniper the sniper tutorial and when he shouts out his sister. I thought both were very thoughtful

This Jerma guy is going far! Machinima is such a great partner! Good luck and congrats on the 450 subs dude!

Its so crazy that jerma's personality never really changes that much over time. He was always just naturally funny

oh yeah, remember when Jerma was fckn JACKED!

Dazza the minute you uploaded this I went I seriously need to watch it cuz I have just been watching ur content nonstop for the past couple of weeks

Holy crap what a wicked throwback, this is nostalgic and its not even THAT old 💀

"I'm getting kinda old." -25 year old Jerma in 2011 Oh god, it's been the retirement arc this whole time.

My God. I've been trying to remember the game from my childhood, Insaniquarium, for so long. This whole time there was a Jerma vid

this video is a big inspiration and motivation to me. love jerma and all you jermamites

I can't wait for Jerma's face reveal when he hits 500 subs!!

I can’t believe this is his first year. As we know now, by 2011 he had already committed so many atrocities.

Such humble beginnings.This was an interesting look into his early videos. I especially find it interesting how much of his humor was already present this early on, though some of the more 'Tuber-y moments are a bit hard to watch, lol. That was just the time, though. Thanks for making this, Dazza

Its funny, i got into STAR_ back in 2011 when i was originally a fan of him. I became a tf2 gamer for years because of it, it was only until the “jerma is mad” series that i learned about jerma and got into him. Much love to them both

"Jerma, what the hell are you doing? Why are you shooting people with a shotgun from a thousand feet away? And it's purely for harassment." -Jeremiah Elbertson, pre-massacre

It's like an in memoriam haha ;_;

Thanks for this video Brings back a lot into perspective and shows how anyone can grow

I remember in 2010 I started playing TF2 and I absolutely sucked. And for a year I was just getting trounced every time I even attempted to play. I had just about given up but I decided to get on youtube and look up some guides to play my favorite class the Engineer. That's when I found Jerma's gameplay videos and I was locked in. He was goofy and funny and just a great speaker. He didn't do a lot of 'This is how you play' it was more of the 'Hey come sit down and let's play together.' energy. His fun attitude made me smile and it gave me the courage to keep trying. 13 years later I still play TF2 (off and on) and I still suck. Thanks Jerma for all the great memories and laughs. Especially when he died to Pinwheel.

Jerma aged 214 years in 13 years and now he spends most of his time in Ludwig's stasis chamber.

Thank you Smokin JoJo Davis for that sick intro

Damn I hate being parasocial but this retirement hurts. Jerma was the one person that I would always know was a truly good person even only seeing him through the lens of a camera.

Finally, the No Life Nerd Supercut

I remember when I first started watching him I was like wow he's 28 that's so old. Now I'm 26 😭😭😭

I remember watching Criken and Bedbannanas's videos way back when "with the asdfs" was a series and i got recommended his gta4 videos. I remembered that "Byeah" bit for years, even into when i watched Jerma's streams without knowing that was his. I honestly don't know if that was in his first year, but it was my first experience of jerma, and it was so long ago it might as well be

it never crame out...

I wonder if any of the kids he taught when he was a subtitute teacher watches his videos

35:59 Judge Holden

Reverse Twink-Death In all seriousness is anyone getting a tad nostalgic and sad now that every Jerma channel (including the 2nd official one) is posting best-of’s (he fell into the meat grinder 😔)

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. You're gonna see lots of fails, your gonna see lots of triumphs, at least I'm hoping, so go grab yourself a nice hot cup of coffee, hot cup of coco. I got apple cider right here freshly brewed. Let me take a sip, ah that's some good cider!

so.... he was always unhinged

I felt like he was already everywhere in the internet when his videos first came out, like he had millions of views on his videos but before that already like 300k and I thought for a while it was strange why he didn't have a millions sub already because it was at 700k at the time for a while when for a few years everyone would always watch his videos.

57:50 JFK playing TF2:

I first subbed to jerma after he had released 2 videos after finding his first TF2 spy video (after going on KZfaq and typing in "TF2 how to play spy") and it has been absolutely insane seeing how Jerma has changed over the years.

Thank you for making this! It's really interesting looking back on this period of KZfaq history, and a lot more convenient when it's compiled like this rather than having to sift through everything the *slow* way. I'd love to see more early Jerma edits.

He was on so many drugs it’s a miracle he’s still with us

Real ones remember him from playing in servers

This is an awesome idea for a video compilation

that time Willem Dafoe hacked Jerma and started playing Insaniquarium, good times

Imagine being one of the original 12 jerma subscribers

Thank you, watching through this right now to gather evidence on his infamous “985” murders.

Oh shit, I know this guy from playing in servers!

2011 TF2 hits different

It's going to be so difficult seeing him actually retire... He's only gone into his soft retirement and the content has been scarce 😭I can't fathom the day he actually retires. I mean we're going to have a catalogue of a 10+ years worth of content to look back on, which is not bad at all. It's bittersweet watching one of your favorite content creators steadily going into retirement when they've given you so much joy and entertainment for years. I mean he's pushing 40, he's getting older. All things must come to an end eventually. Godspeed Jeremy, and thank you for everything you've done

Incredible being able to remember watching all of these for the first time. Thanks for making this!

8:19 real life definition of a CHAD

Ah, the good old days. So proud of our boy

1:01:10 jerma saying Bolshevik is crayz 1:03:24 he's BEEN andy

that montage in the beginning made me nostalgic even though i didnt even watch jerma back then

This is a great homage~! Love the content Dazza~!

This vid reminded me of the first time I tried to do a let's play on some other channel I had as a kid. The channel is long deleted and I now regret that I didn't try to keep going, but I was fucking terrified then lmao Now I know that any attempt of me to start anything like this would be futile in the face of the KZfaq algorithm.

21:25 Funniest bit Jerma ever did. He joined Machinima just to land this joke. A man of true dedication.

youre so awesome for putting this together

I used to watch him back then. I thought he quit youtube until he showed up again in 2020.

machinima partner with a v-log....

3:25 damn Jerma hood pass

I'm so glad you're making a compilation like this, jerma's earlier videos are definitely some diamonds in the rough, you can just feel the age in how hard they are to binge in comparison to his golden eras

When his first TF2 payload video came up I had whiplash.... I feel so old but it's nice to see these videos again 🥹

This is so encouraging to me. Hope I can look back on my beginner content in a few years like this

Still waiting for team fortress 3

Please continue making these. Such a great view into the beginnings of Jerma. I certainty would love to see a compliation of his third and fourth year on youtube. Definitely some of his best on his original channel.

season 1 was the setup for later seasons character and foreshsadowing to Jerma's schizo psycho killer tendencies

He definitely gets better over time but even back then he was a great commentator.

God, I miss The Egg and Burger Boy so much.

cant wait for season 2

TfF3 sill crum out any day now just you wait

21:46 MACHIMIMA. OH MY GOD, I HAVENT HEARD THAT NAME IN YEARS

Where's my 6000 dollars Grandpa?

usually theres stuff that makes you age 10 years but jerma talking about the gta 5 trailer JUST coming out DEaged me 10 years. that game has always been out what do you mean there was a time where it only had a trailer

Holy fucking shit jerma was *JACKED*

(Does Mario impression once) “I’ll never do that again, I promise”

He sounded so innocent back then