History WebVideo / The8BitDrummer

* ProudToBeAGeek: 8-Bit has made no effort to hide his love of certain video games (i.e., ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' VideoGame/{{Undertale}'', and ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' ), not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.

* CanadaEh: His wife, Chatia, is Canadian, so he throws jokes like this around on occasion when she is mentioned.
* {{Catchphrase}}: When a sub bomb gets dropped, Jerod will tell those gifted a sub to "Take the emotes, spread the love, and rock on."

''(after a long buildup, a woman in the song screams so loudly that she peaks the audio)''\\

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While talking about phones, a viewer quipped "If you want to hear some more music, please press 1." They were promptly timed out by a mod on the grounds of trying to hurry Jerod up (an act that is established to be against the rules, though the chatter admitted this was intended to be a joke and not an actual nudge), but he found the line so funny, he overruled the time-out. He does not ask for a time-out to be undone often.

* BlueIsHeroic: A lot of his shirts are blue, his favourite Pokémon is Vaporeon, he has plushes of [[Franchise/MegaMan Mega Man]], Vaporeon and a blue cat at his kit, his organic cat is called Blue, he loves ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' and Mega Man games and he has a giant photo of an exotic beach with a clear, blue sea on the wall behind him. You'd probably find less blue in a hypothetical collab between Music/BlueManGroup, Music/Eiffel65 and Franchise/TheSmurfs than in his streams.

** More recently, he added an alert for 6969 bits, which plays a Sonic-themed parody of the "Penis music" meme.

* NonIndicativeName: one time, he found dog food that was beef flavor. The ingredients? ...Chicken.

** Has plenty of these, but a standout moment is when a viewer asked him to play the intro theme of British Youtuber, Ali-A. Not entirely seriously, he agreed with another person who said that he'd do so if one were to gift a hundred subs. After playing the Final Destination theme from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' a viewer known for making massive donations bought up his challenge, resulting in said reaction followed by a beg not do do it... He did.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Jerod is about as close as you can get to a real-life Ned Flanders[[note]]Christian, a NiceGuy and lives near Moe's[[/note]], whose worst possible language is God-dang, frick or crap. The only times he's cursed on camera was by accident while on the phone, unaware that the person he was talking to was streaming, and after getting caught off-guard in Smash Bros, which he just laughed off. But should he get legitimately angry, you know something has really ''really'' got his goat. However, he doesn't let this go on for long.

* ProudToBeAGeek: 8-Bit has made no effort to hide his love of certain video games (i.e., [[VideoGame/ShovelKnight Shovel Knight]], [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Undertale]], and [[VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds Them's Fightin' Herds]]), not that there's anything wrong with that, of course.

** Not long ago, he played the Trainer battle music from [[VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokémon Legends: Arceus]], which is all over the place, containing 4/4, 6/8, 13/8 and even a polyrithmic shuffle on the latter.

* ToiletHumour: Occasionally. There’s a chance of the 200 bit alert farting instead of popping, but there’s an even rarer chance of the alert being replaced by a fart sound drenched in reverb. There’s also an eleven minute video of chat breaking Jerod with toilet jokes, with Homyk [[PrankCall calling Jerod just to flush a toilet before hanging up]].

** He missed the second Z in a regular viewer's name for over a year and a half, resulting in a [[RunningGag Running Gag]] where he'd heavily overemphasize it in later streams. Similarly, he got the y and g in another viewer's name switched around for several months, and continued to mix them up by accident even after realising.

** Not long ago, he played the Trainer battle music from [[VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus Pokemon Legends: Arceus]], which is all over the place, containing 4/4, 6/8, 13/8 and even a polyrithmic shuffle on the latter.

!! [=The8BitDrummer's=] streams contain examples of:

** [[AvertedTrope Averted]] during his Smash Bros. streams, where he very frequently wins against his viewers. In February 2021, only two people were able to win against him.

* ExactWords: During a stretch break, a viewer challenged Jerod to do a back flip. When Jerod accepted, he declared "If there is a backflip that happens on this stream, you have to gift 50 subs." [[spoiler: He did not mention who is doing the backflip. [[https://youtube.com/shorts/2w_vZSC1Otw So, he volunteered his cat plushie Mint]] to do the deed.]]

-->'''Jerod:''' Oh '''[[UnusualEuphemism EGGS]]'''!

* NonindicativeName: one time, he found dog food that was beef flavor. The ingredients? ...Chicken.

-->'''Text in video:''' Oh and Jerod, just in case you’re gonna cover this one too, I'm sorry lol.\\

* FourTwentyBlazeIt: A lesser used bit cheer is one for 420, featuring an edit of ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s Game Bro magazine to be "Drum Bro" with Jerod on the cover.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: While talking about phones, a viewer jokingly said "If you want to hear some more music, please press 1." They were promptly timed out by a mod on the grounds of trying to hurry Jerod up, but he found the line so funny, he overruled the time-out. He does not ask for a time-out to be undone often.

* AnimationBump: While his normal Website/YouTube highlights are covers from his streams with fades at the beginning and end and an animated [[TheStinger stinger]], his highlight compilations he used to release were edited by professional, freelance editor and fellow streamer, [[https://www.twitch.tv/hypercole64 HyperCole64]]. As a result, they include a lot more text edits, zooms, sound effects, cuts and added images. Nowadays, Cole works on his Youtube Shorts that retain the heavy edits of the highlight compilations.

** Since Jerod takes song requests from his chat, more than a few people request songs that end up being something else, mostly Music/SiIvaGunner or other "ripping" channels.

-->'''Jerod:''' Here's my opinion on the Pokémon Sword and Shield controversy...\\

** He used to read out ingredients on anything he could find in the drumming room as a practical joke if someone in the chat were to try and make him play while he was talking. At one point, he finished reading one side of a product and moved onto the other side... only to realise that it was a French translation, since he picked up the item in question in Canada.

* CameraAbuse: Jerod accidentally dropped one of his sticks during a particularly fast cover of an Igorrr song, which spun through the air and hit his camera's boom pole/tripod, shaking the whole screen.

** In his earlier streams, his snare sounded much different, the camera angle and the stream UI design was different, he owned a less advanced drum kit, he wore gloves, had a time limit, played [[RealMenLoveJesus in a church,]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking he had Kapchat set light mode]].

** He formerly had a whitelist, where viewers could place the name of a band/musician and Jerod would contact them to ask for permission to play their songs. Afterwards, he dropped this and played whatever he wanted. After Twitch started cracking down on DMCA violations, he went back to playing from bands he had permission from. Despite this, the whitelist has not returned.

* ExactWords: During a stretch break, a viewer challenges Jerod to do a back flip. When Jerod strikes a deal, he declares "If there is a backflip that happens on this stream, you have to gift 50 subs." [[spoiler: He did not mention who is doing the backflip. [[https://youtube.com/shorts/2w_vZSC1Otw So, he volunteered his cat plushie Mint]] to do the deed.]]

* ScunthorpeProblem: When he introduced text-to-speech functionality, he noticed that the voice would read certain messages as [[BluntNo "No"]], which was only supposed to happen if a message contained a banned word. The first time this happened was from someone trying to make the voice say [[RunningGag "Let the bass kick up"]], and when he realized what triggered it to say "No", he removed the word in question because no one was actually saying it. He was then quite perplexed when other messages were also read out as "No", and it took a few chat members to point out why: They all contained "[=The8BitCheer=]" instead of the default bits. He then had to spend some time during the next break adjusting his filter so it would only say "No" to messages containing the entire word.