YMMV / Star

• Archive Binge: As of now, he has over 450 videos in his main Youtube channel alone. His alternate channel has over 200 videos too. Then there's also his Twitch channel. Then there are his countless shenanigans with Jerma985 on his own channel...
• Crazy Is Cool: Half the humor of his TF2 videos stem from STAR_ and his friends doing things absolutely no one else would consider... and it working.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The "Jerma Is Mad" videos are a mild example. STAR_ trolling Jerma is somewhat funny. Jerma devolving into over the top insanity is endlessly funny.
  Jerma: Let's put cigarettes out on my dick!
• Die for Our Ship: Played for Laughs by the fandom in regards to ashlelang, STAR_'s wife. In the video "The Three Triners", which featured STAR_, Jerma and ashlelang, the majority of the comments compliment STAR_ on having a good time with his wife... and some girl.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Jerma985, mainly due to his fantastic chemistry with STAR_, great sense of humor, and fun personality. STAR_ himself is impressed by his ability to pull great humor from mundane things.
  • Ma3laa, a professional TF2 player who defies stereotypes by being laid-back and fun loving. To wit, when he ended up getting super pissed at STAR_ and Jerma during "The Diable 3 Incident" for being annoying, almost everybody took his side on the matter.
• Fountain of Memes: Many of STAR_'s old TF2 videos are still quoted to this day.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The "jerma is dead to me" joke became this after Ster admitted on a stream in 2017 they weren't friends anymore. Zig-zagged when the two revealed the falling-out was a set-up for a reunion joke stream.
  • Ster's entire video catalogue is significantly harder to watch with the revelation that the sheer amount of abuse he got from viewers when he didn't please them gave him honest-to-god PTSD - especially since all he wanted to do was make genuinely high quality videos, but all anybody asked from him was the bazillion low-effort live commentaries he had been posting for years.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • STAR_ was very supportive of the Pomson 6000 when it first debuted, despite admitting it was somewhat overpowered. He ended up later gaining a worse opinion of it (partly because the Pomson was nerfed) using it again when illustrating his least favorite loadout (Pomson, Gunslinger, and Wrangler).
  • In this video, made in 2011, STAR_ rants about how horrified he is by Sweet Genius. Three years later he made a Basically video of it.
  • After 17 minutes of struggling in "TF2 Worst Loadout Challenge", STAR_ claims he's not good at rocket jumping. As of 2015, he became one of the most well-known TF2 rocket jumpers, with tens of thousands of kills on his Strange Market Gardener.
  • In "Moron Medic", Jerma makes STAR_ say all sorts of complicated things in order to activate his Kritzkrieg. Several months later in "Ask Nicely For Kritz", Jerma is begging STAR_ to just ask for Kritz normally.
  • In the 'New Pyro Update' April Fools video, STAR_ shows off two (fake) new weapons for the Pyro. One of these, the 'Exorcisers Exhaust', was an axe which allowed the Pyro to run faster when holding it, but also made him take more damage as a tradeoff. A little over a year later the Powerjack was modified to do pretty much the same thing.
• Ho Yay: Jerma and STAR_ are often jokingly shipped as a couple by fans, especially thanks to their bickering. It came to a surprise as many thus when it turned out STAR_ has a wife, and mass panic when STAR_ jokingly claimed "Jerma is dead to me" in the description for "Taunt Kill Bullies". Some have even taken to posting Jerma/STAR_ fanfiction in the YouTube comments.
• Memetic Badass: Of the Memetically Spooky sort, Chef Ron Ben-Israel is the scariest man/creature in television.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • STAR_'s weakness to mini-sentries.
  • Y'know, don't... say... sw-swears...
  • "Watamigonnaget" when unboxing a crate.
  • "Jerma versus STAR! Jerma versus STAR! Everybody wants to see this happen!"
  • From Diaper Teleporter: Saying "Like a Diaper" after sentences like "It'll come when you least expect it" or "This tank has gone way past its expiration date."
  • If the video contains either Jerma or STAR_ angrily ranting, expect to see comments dubbed it "Jerma/STAR_ is mad part X".
  • Jerma/STAR_ fanfiction, as seen in Ho Yay.
• Signature Scene: "Jerma is Mad pt.2", particularly the first 30 seconds, was more or less what put both STAR_ and Jerma on the map, and you'll be hard-pressed to find a TF2 fan who can't quote the best lines.
• "Stop Having Fun" Guys: Completely inverted. Despite his talent, STAR_ is a very silly gamer, often using goofy weapons or deliberately stupid tactics just because he feels like it. But when he enters "try-hard mode", he's scary.
  • Zigzagged by his viewers. In reaction to this video of him doing amazing as a Demoknight in 6v6, some proclaimed Demoknight to be "the new meta" while others complained that STAR_ was setting a bad example for competitive games.
• Tear Jerker: "What happened to the old STAR_?" is all around hard to watch, but there's a specific scene four minutes in that breaks people. Ster, who is widely known for being a mix of silly and stoic, begins to explain how anxious he would be every single time he made a video, and the memories cause him to crack and start crying.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Ster got a lot of fan backlash when he moved from TF2 content to Overwatch content. Some fans understood that he had burned out and wanted something fresh, but a very vocal segment was outraged and felt betrayed or disappointed. It got so bad that it factored into Ster's eventual Creator Breakdown (which he has since recovered from).
• Win Back the Crowd: There was a period around 2017 where Ster was quite grouchy and unpleasant, with detractors pointing to an incident where he insulted a stream donator for a prolonged period, and another where he went nuts over somebody simply mentioning him in a Team Fortress 2 video. Coupled with confirming the end of his friendship with Jerma and a video where he called out a bunch of crude commenters without acknowledging his own poor behavior, and he ended up on the bad side of quite a few people. After a few quiet years, things started looking up. For starters, Jerma and Ster revealed that they had made up behind the scenes and implemented the development into a stream joke. Then Ster finally uploaded another "Basically" video, which was a big hit with fans. After that, he uploaded "What Happened to the Old STAR_?", in which Ster explained that he had been suffering from severe depression, not helped by all the recent hate (especially concerning his non-TF2 content), which was part of why he had been so unpleasant. These steps helped Ster to gradually regain his public standing and sympathy.