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Just your average encounter with the Angel of Darkness itself.
"I thought I had experienced the worst already, but this... destroyed me! A nightmare where hundreds of thousands of people are wanting to see you, and then, when they finally do, it's at the lowest, darkest point of your life, and they don't even know it!"
Jaiden, "Why I Don't Have a Face Reveal"

Most of Jaiden's content tends to range between either silly and quirky or sobering and personal, but every once in a blue moon, she'll put forward something that'll send shivers down your spine.


  • "Why I Don't Have a Face Reveal" has striking, sketchy visuals, and the descriptions of Jaiden's struggles with an eating disorder are often quite apparent. It's terrifying because of the Vocal Dissonance where Jaiden describes battling these disorders in a very matter-of-fact way, while going into very realistic detail about the kinds of things that anorexia and bulimia will do to a human body.
    • Jaiden putting on a fake smile at VidCon 2016, where she has to lie about how nice she feels while hiding her paranoia.
    • Her eating disorder represented by a shadowy image of herself, complete with a bar over her eyes saying things like "YOU WANT THIS" and "THIS WILL MAKE YOU BETTER." It's a horrifyingly accurate visual representation of the ways in which a disorder like hers ends up overtaking a person's control over their actions and desires.
    • Her descent into depression after her appearance at VidCon 2016 is accompanied by her avatar plunging into a sea of blackness, accompanied by a high-pitched screeching. Jaiden's voice also breaks a few times, showing the real emotion she feels thinking about it.
  • "I Attempted a Pokemon Platinum Nuzlocke" has three big ones.
    • Her encounter with Giratina. It grabs her and splits her apart into two individuals. One of them falling into the abyss while the other is left trying to catch her. But then she blinks and is left holding the Master Ball to catch Giratina. The entire sequence is rendered in a glitchy manner.
    • When she challenges the Elite Four, before the first three fights, we see glitches similar to her Giratina encounter happen again. Each one with blaring audio distortion, and flashes to Jaiden's Pokémon dying. A Freeze-Frame Bonus for the first instance of this before Aaron's fight shows Togekiss impaled on rock spikes. Later, Bertha's Rhyperior is shown holding Quagsire and Garchomp's limp bodies by their heads, while it stands there with glowing red eyes while Bertha herself grins maniacally. Finally, as Jaiden is about to enter Flint's room, it cuts to her Scizor, Torterra, and Magnezone, all weak to Fire types, just look on in horror as a giant flame engulfs them. In-universe, these moments show that the Jaiden that won was an alternate timeline version of her, as in reality, she originally wiped out against the Elite Four, but her chat urged her to continue. The video ends with her defeating Cynthia, but not feeling like she earned it.
    • In the Bertha one, there's a Freeze-Frame Bonus of said Elite Four member with Giratina's face.
  • "The worst thing that's ever happened to me", which describes her experiences suffering from stress-induced hives, can hit a little close to home for people familiar with having a chronic or difficult-to-diagnose illness. The fact that several doctors couldn't figure out the cause and could only provide temporary relief, every time she thought it was gone it would come back worse than ever, the pain became so unbearable that her family had to rush her to a hospital two nights in a row, and at one point, she WISHED FOR DEATH. ...Imagine if doctors didn't find a cure within a few days.
  • While it's played for Black Comedy, Jaiden's horrified reaction to the idea of boiling Ari and Tofu's eggs in "My Birds Laid Eggs" is juxtaposed with an Imagine Spot of a Mad Scientist Jaiden throwing the eggs in a boiling pot with a massive Slasher Smile on her face.

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