History WebVideo / Jreg

** The extremists are all ideological caricatures-Authoritarian Left is a HuskyRussky who threatens his opponents with the gulag, Authoritarian Right is ANaziByAnyOtherName who gleefully supports genocide, Libertarian Left is a StrawLoser who alternates between doing large quantities of drugs and assaulting opponents while screeching that they are Nazis and Libertarian Right wants to privatize all government functions, own private nukes and has several child sex slaves.

** The extremists are all ideological caricatures-Authoritarian Left is a Huskie Ruskie who threatens his opponents with the gulag, Authoritarian Right is ANaziByAnyOtherName who gleefully supports genocide, Libertarian Left is a StrawLoser who alternates between doing large quantities of drugs and assaulting opponents while screeching that they are Nazis and Libertarian Right wants to privatize all government functions, own private nukes and has several child sex slaves.

Many of Jre's videos are oversimplified parodies of political science that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and memes. Thanks to PoesLaw, some people have mistaken the videos as genuinely advocating for the political ideologies that the videos make fun of.

Many of jris videos are oversimplified parodies of political science that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and memes. Thanks to PoesLaw, some people have mistaken the videos as genuinely advocating for the political ideologies that the videos make fun of.

** It is impossible to verify whether or not Jreg is an legitimately extremely mentally ill person with a dispassionate outlook on society who attempts to the void in jris head where a framework should belong with noise or if jre is just doing some kind of gigantic act as a way of expressing jris thoughts.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Jreg plays almost ''every'' character on jris channel. Those not played by Jreg are usually one-off roles or cameos.

The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/flavacrava JrEg]]'' [=YouTube=] channel is operated by Greg Guevara, who is a satirist, artist, Ottawan mayoral candidate and content creator who makes sketch comedy and music videos. The satire is often political, focusing specifically on extreme and obscure political ideologies.

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In Centricide 6, [[spoiler: Jreg reveals the true leader of the anti-centrist movement is {{JReg Gaming}}, the NamesTheSame SitcomArchNemesis of the channel. However, it ends up being subverted when Jreg admits jre only used {{JReg Gaming}} as a means of delaying Radical Centrist until Tankie can arrive.]]

** [[CommieNazis Nazbol]] takes this UpToEleven. His social and economic views make Authleft and Authright dislike him, he's not a centrist since he embodies extremist viewpoints and he's technically a coherent ideology even if strange, so he rejects the Wacky Ideologies. Probably for the better though, as a future where he was chosen as world leader due to Jreg enabling anti-centrism too much has him create an omnipresent totalitarian state. He does join up everyone for the final fight though, where it's hinted one of the reasons the ideologies fear him is that he'll make sense as indicated in a BadFuture episode where he took over.

** UpToEleven with Absolutists (aka Absolute Monarchists).

The ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/flavacrava JrEg]]'' [=YouTube=] channel is operated by Greg Guevara, who is a satirist, artist, and content creator who makes sketch comedy and music videos. The satire is often political, focusing specifically on extreme and obscure political ideologies.

* ArcNumber: 4. 4 quadrants of the political compass, a 4 sided shape. 4 colours are used to [[ColourCodedForYourConvenience colour-code]] the characters (red, yellow, green and blue. Black and gray are ''not'' colours). 4 Extremists representing the 4 corners of the political compass. 4 Moderates representing the 4 corners of the Overton window, also a 4 sided shape. 4 ideologies inhabiting Ancapistan (Ancap, Libertarian, Minarchist, and Hoppean). 4 letters in Greg, Jreg, and Nazi. Jreg is possessed by the ghosts of 4 notable extremists, each representing a different quadrant. 4 ideologies in Centricide 4.5 wear a NiceHat (Nazi, Tankie, Ancap and Libertarian).

* YouCanPanicNow: In "Do NOT See Joker!!!!", Liberal Media warns the viewer of the movie ''Film/Joker2019'', saying it glorifies violence. He predicts that an incel will shoot up a theater because of it. When weeks pass and ''Joker'' becomes a box office success, [[spoiler:Liberal Media decides to put on a clown wig, grab a gun, and take matters into his own hands.]]

* CompanyCrossReferences: Schizophrenia, being a FourthWallObserver, references ''Centricide'' two times.

--->"...if people start off as anarchists and end up uh disliking you know disliking liberal democracy because its uh devolved into a corrupt oligarchy that only benefits the wealthy unlike a good country like Russia..."

* StylisticSuck: The fact that the entire series is made by one person in an apartment with a crappy green screen only makes the comedy better.
-->'''Jreg: (in the description of "Centricide 1")''' [[TheyCalledMeMad They told me I could never make a series in my room all by myself.]] They were absolutely right and it was a mistake.

** Jris [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dptwqG_qqAI appearance on]] [[PropagandaMachine Russia Today]] was mostly Jreg doing his usual Anti-Centrism bit, but Jre also made some brutal digs by way of [[SarcasmMode sarcasm]]:

*** When discussing anarchism, and he calls out the fact that they [[ManipulativeEditing removed the part attacking Russia]]:

'''Note''': This page refers to both Jreg the ''Centricide'' character and Jreg the YouTuber. This page assumes the character goes by he/him while the YouTuber goes by jre/jrem.

Jre's also a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgoSa7nzjo&list=PLGALsgF3LJjxyENrze17HHLCYUx1sDhLS musician]] with a couple of originals, parodies, and web series-specific songs under his belt. Both jris main web series, ''Centricide'' and ''The Mental Illnesses'', feature musical numbers.

* BecomingTheMask: In his video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsuSveDAlpI "Post-Irony, Meta-Irony, and Post-Truth Satire,"]] Jreg brings up a hypothetical case of someone initially pretending to be homeless ironically, finding themselves enjoying the lifestyle, and starting to live on the streets because of it as an example of post-irony.

Many of the videos are oversimplified parodies of political science that try and explain various ideologies through visual compasses and memes. Thanks to PoesLaw, some people have mistaken the videos as genuinely advocating for the political ideologies that the videos make fun of.

He's also a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgoSa7nzjo&list=PLGALsgF3LJjxyENrze17HHLCYUx1sDhLS musician]] with a couple of originals, parodies, and web series-specific songs under his belt. Both his main web series, ''Centricide'' and ''The Mental Illnesses'', feature musical numbers.

In 2021, he [[MeaningfulRename rebranded himself]] as ''[=JrEg=]''[[note]]Pronounced "Junior Egg"[[/note]], marking the beginning of the second [=JrEra=] and the move away from political content. After the conclusion of ''Centricide'', ''[=JrEg=]'' began a new series about personified mental illnesses appropriately titled ''The Mental Illnesses''.

* TenMinuteRetirement: On July 22, 2020 Jreg uploaded a video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzPGtRF5fTs "I'm Quitting YouTube"]] and cited reasons like stress from being a public figure, problems with family and friends, and lacking motivation, saying that it won't be like others where he'll return in an hour or so. Exactly an hour later, he uploaded [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vg9SIsSTnM "I'm Returning To YouTube"]].

* ButtMonkey: When they collab fellow Canadian Poltical Youtuber J.J. [=McCullough=] often plays this role, who as a moderate conservative is often mocked and (jokingly) abused for being the type centrist that [=JrEg=] despises.

** In the video [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTA0yTrUA0Y "Political Ideology Tier List,"]] Jreg ridicules the idea of an ideology whose only trait is being against something, despite the fact that his ideology is Anti-Centrism, an ideology whose main trait is opposing centrism.

* InTheFutureHumansWillBeOneRace: His "Race Accelerationism" video.
* LoadsAndLoadsOfRoles: Jreg plays almost ''every'' character on his channel. Those not played by Jreg are usually one-off roles or cameos.

** His channel intro video is this combined with TrollingCreator, featuring himself constantly contradicting and interrupting himself and ends with him curled into a TroubledFetalPosition and swirling on screen with the extremists at the corners of the video a fire consumes the background.
** The ''Schizopolitics'' videos feature Jreg speaking into a microphone for an extended period of time. The videos contain themes of frameworks, politics, and schizophrenia explained in a mind-boggling, surreal manner. Little explanation is given by Jreg as to what's the purpose or meaning of these videos.
* MrFanservice: Parodied in multiple videos where he disparages people for making pornography and then proceeds to [[spoiler: strip down to his underwear and showing off his 8-pack abs.]]
* MultipleChoicePast: One of the examples of Jreg being a TrollingCreator was him uploading a series of videos outlining his unironic political beliefs and how they influenced his satire-the issue being each video differs on what his views are (centrist, progressive, libertarian, identitarian, Marxist-Leninist or unironic anti-centrist) as well as details of his personal background (for instance, the Marxist video has him claim to be a distant relative of Che Guevara, the identitarian one has him claim he is of a mixed European background and the progressive one has him claim to be of Jewish descent) and motivation for making his content (some of the videos have him DoingItForTheArt, but the libertarian one has him claim he's OnlyInItForTheMoney and each one has him claim that ideological standpoint informs his takes).
** His other channel averts this, and it's clear he had a conservative background years ago, but it's never revealed if that past is indicative of him today.
** Centricide 6 shows what seems to be his actual DNA results, and he's 50% Jewish and 50% Basque (A Spanish-French ethnicity). While said genetic chart was actually for [[spoiler: Nazi, who is initially horrified but decides to become a Jewish fascist instead,]] It's most likely Jreg's actual results.

* PoesLaw: Be careful while watching his videos. You will definitely run into this all the time while watching his videos. Remember that he's a satirist.

** What ''are'' Jreg's actual political views? He plays this as the biggest RunningGag in his channel especially when he released a 6 contradictory videos that while framed as sincere, were about him being a centrist, anti-centrist, Marxist, Identitarian Nationalist, Progressive and Libertarian at the same time. His other channel, however, notes that he had a conservative background years ago with Christian groups that may or may not reflect what he believes today.
** Being the SpiritualSuccessor of the political views question: what ''are'' Jreg's actual mental illnesses? A question prevailing many since ''The Mental Illnesses'''s inception. The only one Jreg's confirmed is depression. For a long while, it's been a running joke that Jreg's schizophrenic. He mentions it jokingly in many videos. Same with ADHD, Schizotypal PD, and BPD, the latter of which he claims to be diagnosed with in his channel's trailer video (the seriousness of which is debatable). People wonder which disorders Jreg is writing from a personal point of view, but it's unlikely he'll reveal them. The [=JrEg=]/Junior Egg character in ''The Mental Illnesses'' claims to have ''every'' mental illness.
* SelfDeprecation: Jreg is not averse to taking potshots at his own content, his status as a [=YouTuber=] or his own political leanings (wherever they may fall Jreg has made fun of them).

* ShownTheirWork: Behind all the silliness, Jreg clearly knows quite a bit about a number of political philosophies, even fringe ones like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_International_Posadist Posadism]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National-anarchism National anarchism (though he refers to it as anarcho-fascism)]]. Several of the videos he makes involve discussing these fringe ideologies in depth in ways that, while PlayedForLaughs, are largely accurate.
* TakeThat: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFMaX6ZS_vU The Worst Possible Political System || Hell || Negative Politics]]" was designed as a way for Jreg to come up with the most unbearable political system that maximizes the suffering of those in it without collapsing the society that practices it entirely... only by the end that he realizes that he is basically describing [[spoiler: modern Neoliberalism]].
** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6u1Cgw4v5Q&t=0s A Message From America's Future]], future Jreg warns his past self not to wreck America by voting for the 'old, senile, decrepit pedophile' in the 2020 presidential election. Present Jreg fails to act on this advice because when he considers each point he determines [[EvilVersusEvil they apply to both candidates]].

* AntiVillain: It goes without saying that the Extremists are of the WellIntentionedExtremist variety type because despite being genocidal or willing to resort to violence really quickly, they do want what's best for a select group of people and are genuine in their beliefs (Except arguably [[TokenEvilTeammate Nazi]]). Ancap skirts the line more into NobleDemon in Centricide 4 [[spoiler: due to acknowledging that his unrestrained capitalist beliefs can kill millions like the authoritarians, but refuses to engage in any further purges or aggressive behavior outside of his domain.]]

* AsHimself:
** In-universe, Jreg is Greg Guevara with 4 spirits possessing him. He's formally debuts in ''Centricide'' in episode 6, "Identity".
-->'''Greg Guevara''': Hi, Greg Guevara here. I started off by playing Jreg as a character [[BecomingTheMask but I can no longer differentiate where he ends and I begin]]. Soon, Anti-Centrism will be my entire artistic identity. I'll stop making songs and poems and I'll just become an ideolog. Won't that be fun?
** This reaches its apex in Centricide 7 "Greg Guevara", where Radical Centrist tears apart the fabric of reality to speak to Greg Guevara the content creator.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: When the Impossible Ideology Monsters attack, Panafricanism is its first victim. Homofascism [[LampshadeHanging feels like he should've seen that coming]].

* TheDogWasTheMastermind: In Centricide 6, [[spoiler: Jreg reveals the true leader of the anti-centrist movement is {{JReg Gaming}}, the NamesTheSame SitcomArchNemesis of the channel. However, it ends up being subverted when Jreg admits he only used {{JReg Gaming}} as a means of delaying Radical Centrist until Tankie can arrive.]]

* JustJokingJustification: In Centricide 7, "A Joke", Jreg explains that all his videos are just a joke, as it's funny to image a capitalist teaming up with a communist, or to have people guess what he is and getting it wrong. It's all just one big, very serious, joke.

* NoFourthWall: A lot of the videos have a pretty thin fourth wall, but Centricide 7 ends up being this completely, with the rabbit hole of videos largely being [[spoiler: Greg Guevara musing on his overall creative process and his relationship with his audience and the work he has created.]]
* NoSongForTheWicked:

* OurSpiritsAreDifferent: Usually, when a human dies, their soul passes on. But when their will is strong enough, their spirit lingers around. Spirits are also able to combine into "mega-spirits." Ghosts can only possess blood relatives, which is how Che Guevara was able to possess Greg Guevara, also allowing Kim Il Sung, Julius Evola, and Ayn Rand to possess him too by combining into one mega-spirit.

* PrivatelyOwnedSociety: Anarchist Right wants this and forms this in ''Ancapistan'', which even gets the place a song.

* RejectedMarriageProposal: If you go to Centricide 7.4, Jreg will ask you if you'd marry him. Centricide 7.4B is called "No", selecting it makes him start talking about how this was not intended to be this long, then start saying he doesn't want to do this anymore repeatedly.

* SexIsEvil: Subverted. Post-Left seems initially taken aback by the revelation that all the leftist Anarchist ideologies are also a polycule, complete with ominious music, only to reveal that quey are totally okay with it, and the resulting off-screen orgy [[spoiler: helping to stabilize queir physical and mental state and reassume queir original form as Ancom for the finale and the battle against Accelerationism.]]

* StylisticSuck: The fact that the entire series is made by one man in an apartment with a crappy green screen only makes the comedy better.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Downplayed, but in Centricide 4 [[spoiler: Ancap realizes he doesn't want to be a purge happy fanatic and realizes his ideology unintentionally kills more than what Authleft and Authright could ever hope to do. After leaving the Extremists and rescuing Libertarian, however, the two still decide to come up with various illicit ways to get money.]] By Centricide 4.5 [[spoiler: he's acted on this by finding Ancapistan which while a hellhole, doesn't wish to attack anyone that avoids crossing it.]]