YMMV / ProJared

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: His Final Fantasy III review has a scene where Final Fantasy gives birth to FFIII, while her partner Final Fantasy II cheers her on. Dr. Mario is watching over the operation, and Final Fantasy's dad, Dungeons & Dragons 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.
• Broken Base: His 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.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: "Miss Editor", the former editor of Jared's Let's Play channel, is loved by viewers for being the Only Sane Woman 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.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In his "Worst Games of 2014", Ground Zeroes is on the list for being an obscenely expensive demo, which leads him to discuss that the Konami's had a questionable future in recent years, briefly praising P.T., and that Hideo Kojima 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, 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 Two Worlds, 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 Virtual Hydlide, Jared states he feels betrayed upon learning 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 brag about kicking a puppy. While neither Jared nor Holly accused each other of animal abuse, many fans would see Jared himself become a Broken Pedestal following Holly's allegations (be it 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".
• Heartwarming Moments: His "Fate of Nuptup" video, which shows the games it went through before ending up in Pokémon X and Y in Pokemon-Amie. A fitting end to the tale of Nuptup.
• He Panned It, Now He Sucks!:
  • He ranked Wii exclusive JRPG The Last Story 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 Final Fantasy XIII-2, a game that already had a huge Broken Base.
  • An indirect example, but in his Super Mario 3D World 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 Pikmin 3 and The Wonderful 101 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 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance 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 Sonic Adventure 2 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 Nostalgia Filter doesn't help.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • When talking about Bombshell in his 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 almost exactly the case, since Shelly was originally going to be a Distaff Counterpart of Duke Nukem in Duke Nukem Forever, but was cut from the game at the end, and the next game she appeared in, Ion Fury, was even made on the same engine as 3D.
  • In his Best Games of 2016 video, he included Another Metroid 2 Remake — a well-known fan remake of Metroid II: Return of Samus — 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 Metroid: Samus Returns, 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. Cue Blizzard creating just such a character.
  • In his video on Beyond: Two Souls, he ended the video by saying that he found Jodie unattractive since she "looks like a boy." Now that the game's lead actor Elliot Page has since come out as a transgender male, this makes this statement rather chuckle-worthy.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: 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.
• Memetic Badass:
  • 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 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 jerks off to his gun while shooting it? Tiger Man, thats who.
• Nightmare Retardant: Not only is Jared almost completely immune to the horrors of Five Nights at Freddy's, but you'll be laughing along with him.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Jared was a popular video game reviewer, a former member of ScrewAttack and Normal Boots, and a collaborator with Game Grumps. 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.
• The Scrappy: Growrp the Pansage, to the point where the chat wanted Jared to kill it off.

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