* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: His ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII'' review has a scene where ''VideoGame/FinalFantasy'' gives birth to ''FFIII'', while her partner ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyII'' cheers her on. ''VideoGame/DrMario'' is watching over the operation, and Final Fantasy's dad, ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Rules Cyclopedia'' later comes in to tell FF how proud he is of her. The first three are represented by their respective cartridges, and the dad is a book.
* BrokenBase: His ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' playthrough was this, due to Jared taking a more cynical approach to the game and not praising it like most people. Either people like it because it's something different than other playthroughs, or dislike it because he comes off as though he's bored and doesn't want to play it.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: "Miss Editor", the former editor of Jared's LetsPlay channel, is loved by viewers for being the OnlySaneWoman and her funny, sometimes sarcastic one-sided "discussions" (As in, she comments on things by adding text that Jared obviously cannot see to the video) with Jared.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** In his "Worst Games of 2014", ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVGroundZeroes Ground Zeroes]]'' is on the list for being an obscenely expensive demo, which leads him to discuss that the ''Creator/{{Konami}}'s'' had a questionable future in recent years, briefly praising ''VideoGame/{{PT}}'', and that Creator/HideoKojima is the only thing keeping the company afloat. In 2015, the company's controversial business practices came out into the open, ''P.T.'' was pulled from the Playstation Store, [[VideoGame/SilentHills the game]] it was a demo for was canceled, and Hideo Kojima left the company. Tellingly, the company was ''#1'' on his "Worst Games of 2015" list.
** Several moments in Jared's earlier videos come off as rather wince-worthy following Jared's messy divorce with Holly in 2019, along with the allegations of infidelity and pedophilia that followed suit (with Holly herself later being accused of the former by Jared):
*** In Jared's first review, of the game ''VideoGame/TwoWorlds'', Jared uses a glitch to skip a large portion of the game due to Jared wanting to finish the game as soon as possible. Jared defends his decision by stating "Yes I cheated, and I'm okay with that because this game cheated me first!"
*** In his review of ''Two Worlds II'', Jared relates to the main character by noting that neither of their relationships seem to ever last.
*** In his review of ''VideoGame/VirtualHydlide'', Jared states he feels betrayed upon learning Creator/{{Atlus}}, his favorite game publisher at the time, was the company that published the game in North America. Jared compares this to finding what appears to be the perfect girl, only for her to [[BadPeopleAbuseAnimals brag about kicking a puppy]]. While neither Jared nor Holly accused each other of animal abuse, many fans would see Jared himself become a BrokenPedestal following Holly's allegations (be it [[RebuiltPedestal temporarily]] or permanently).
*** The final rating Jared gives in his video covering the Intect Interact, ''The Worse Video Game Console Ever'', is "A Broken Marriage out of 10".
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: His "Fate of Nuptup" video, which shows the [[VideoGame/PokemonFireRedAndLeafGreen games]] [[VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl it went]] [[VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite2 through]] before ending up in VideoGame/PokemonXAndY in Pokemon-Amie. A fitting end to the tale of Nuptup.
* HePannedItNowHeSucks:
** He ranked Wii exclusive JRPG ''VideoGame/TheLastStory'' number 8 on his "Top 10 Worst Games of 2012" list. A decent amount of comments on the video itself are of people saying how much they disagree with the game even making the list at all, let alone being placed as being worse than ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'', a game that already had a huge BrokenBase.
** An indirect example, but in his ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' review (which was very positive, he gave the game a 9/10, which isn't a score Jared gives out often), he said the game is "the first must-own game on the Wii U." Fans of games like ''VideoGame/Pikmin3'' and ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' assumed this meant Jared didn't think very highly of those games (both were released months before 3D World), causing a small amount of backlash.
** People got noticeably miffed at his review of ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'' ending in a 4/10, mostly due to the fact that he made observations you'd expect from someone who only played the tutorial level, one example being his belief that the game lacked a dodge function when it's one of the first things you unlock in the main story.
** His ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' review has invoked a mixed reaction too. While some people agree with Jared that the game has not aged well, others argue that Jared's being overly harsh on a game that was acclaimed when it first came out and still has plenty of fans to this day. The fact Jared spends a good portion of the review accusing fans of ''Sonic Adventure 2'' of being people who only like the game because of NostalgiaFilter doesn't help.
* HilariousInHindsight:
** When talking about ''Bombshell'' in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoJX-YWOoZk Worst Games of 2016]] video, he claims that it's almost as if the developers had a character that they sold, but realized they needed to make a game around her...which is [[AccidentallyCorrectWriting almost exactly the case]], since Shelly was originally going to be a DistaffCounterpart of Duke Nukem in ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'', but was cut from the game at the end, and the next game she appeared in, ''VideoGame/IonFury'', was even made on the same engine as ''3D''.
** In his Best Games of 2016 video, he included ''VideoGame/AnotherMetroid2Remake'' -- a well-known fan remake of ''VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus'' -- on the list, going so far as to say he's unsure if Nintendo themselves would have made a game like this. Come 2017, Nintendo announces an '''official''' remake of ''Metroid 2'' for the 3DS called ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'', and this remake also gets high praise from the ''Metroid'' fanbase.
** During his review of ''Drake of the 99 Dragons'', he mocks the idea of a character pulling out more guns when they run out of ammo, instead of simply reloading. [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} Cue Blizzard creating just such a character.]]
** In his video on ''VideoGame/BeyondTwoSouls'', he ended the video by saying that he found Jodie unattractive since she "looks like a boy." Now that the game's lead actor Creator/ElliotPage has since come out as a transgender male, this makes this statement rather chuckle-worthy.
* ItsPopularNowItSucks: Jared has this opinion of things in general, which he even admits during his rant against popular Pokemon in his ''Alpha Sapphire'' Nuzlocke. Many of his viewers believe the entire reason he spent most of his ''Undertale'' review mocking as many aspects of the game as he could was because the game's extreme popularity was what made fans urge him to play it, and he didn't want to give it a chance for fear of joining the masses that loved it.
* MemeticBadass:
** Nuptup the Vileplume is getting this treatment from Jared's fans (and Jared himself to a degree), due to her being Jared's longest surviving Pokemon and being surprisingly powerful, useful, and resilient. Jared even adds a figurine of Nuptup to his shelf later on.
** The result is a Nuptup t-shirt once the run is finished [[spoiler:successfully]], and the Nuptup Clan on ''World of Tanks''.
** Tiger Man. Who else can fight an endless stream of helicopters with a machine gun? Who else can keep shooting even while they're dying? And who else [[CargoShip jerks off to his gun]] while shooting it? Tiger Man, thats who.
* NightmareRetardant: Not only is Jared almost completely immune to the horrors of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', but you'll be laughing along with him.
* OvershadowedByControversy: Jared was a popular video game reviewer, a former member of [=ScrewAttack=] and Normal Boots, and a collaborator with WebVideo/GameGrumps. Today, however, he's better known for his ex-wife's accusations of cheating on her with Game Grumps associate Holly Conrad and multiple fans' claims that he solicited nudes from them while they were underage. Jared managed to recover his goodwill with fans by explaining in a rebuttal video that the affair was mutually consensual between his and Conrad's spouses and that his accusers lied about their age and were cut off before anything sexual occurred. However, it's still difficult to discuss him without circling back to the allegations, and Jared still only retains a faction of the viewership he had bolstered before the allegations went public.
* TheScrappy: Growrp the Pansage, to the point where the chat wanted Jared to kill it off.
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